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Editor's Selections: Public Restrooms, Black Death, Social Cooperation, And Resilient Ecosystems
Part of my online life includes editorial duties at ResearchBlogging.org, where I serve as the Social Sciences Editor. Each Thursday, I pick notable posts on research in anthropology, philosophy, social science, and research to share on the ResearchBlogging.org News site. To help highlight this writing, I also share my selections here on AiP. The range for selections [...]Keep reading »
On the Curious Motions of Syphilis and Lyme Disease Bacteria
December 28th, 2013 | 5
The bacteria that cause syphilis and Lyme Disease have something extraordinary in common: they manage to propel themselves through their environment in spite of the fact their tails are located inside their bodies. For bacteria, they're also unusually shaped and active. In this movie, you can see the bacteria that cause Lyme Disease moving like [...]Keep reading »
Missing Nitrogen May Be Vanishing in the Tubes of Giant Bacteria
Off the coast of Mexico's Baja Peninsula lies a dark, still, deep place. It is called the Soledad Basin, and in it lies a garden of bacteria so large you can see them with your own eyes. A 250-m high ridge on the edge of the Soledad basin traps water inside. No strong currents disturb [...]Keep reading »
Archaea Are More Wonderful Than You Know
January 12th, 2013 | 15
In the 1970s, an obscure scientist named Carl Woese (pronounced "woes") was working on something apparently rather mundane: finding a way to classify bacteria. Though that may seem a straightforward task, bacteria had stubbornly resisted all previous attempts. The traditional method — looking at differences in appearance, structure, and metabolism and sort of eyeballing it [...]Keep reading »
The Dark Bacillus Crystal
December 20th, 2012 | 3
In this photograph are elegant, microscopic agents of death. They are crystals made not of minerals, but of protein, and are found not in vugs, but in guts. Bug guts. They are Cry protein crystals made by the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis. You may know them better as Bt toxin. Bt toxin has gotten a lot [...]Keep reading »
Mycoplasma "Ghosts" Can Rise From the Dead
As the titles of journal articles go, it's hard to find one more elegant, enticing and — notably, if you've been in the business long — succinct than "Gliding Ghosts of Mycoplasma mobile". Jules Verne short story? Steampunk Western? No. This was the title of an article in "Cell Biology" back in 2005. But the [...]Keep reading »
Classic Artful Amoeba: The Seafaring Killer Bacterium
Blogger's Note: As I'm on vacation this week, today I present a post from the archive at theartfulamoeba.com. This post originally appeared on my blog on Feb. 14, 2010. Enjoy! Vibrio cholerae is a bacterium of surprising adaptability, tenacity, and Olympic-class swimming ability. Cholera bacteria can swim in both freshwater and saltwater (a feat most [...]Keep reading »
Legionnaire's Disease at the Luxor: What Causes It?
January 31st, 2012 | 6
In July 1976, a convention of members of the American Legion — a veterans' group — was meeting in Philadelphia at the Belleville Stratford Hotel in honor of America's bicentennial. Soon, 221 attendees would be sickened and 34 dead of an illness it was believed no one had ever seen before. Swine flu was suspected, [...]Keep reading »
A Bleeding, Breathing Billboard Starring Serratia
Just days after Sci Am published my story on the "bleeding" bacterium Serratia marcescens, a friend sent me this video, in which the marketing department behind the film "Contagion" up north apparently decided to go super-geek and cook up something delightful. Science as art, my friends. Way, way cool, boys. In addition to Serratia, which [...]Keep reading »
Serratia marcescens: A Tale of Bleeding Statues, Cursed Polenta, Insect Liquefaction, and Contact Lens Cases
Over on the news side today is an article I put together for Scientific American Online on some mysterious, ubiquitous, and sometimes-deadly red bacteria that are probably at this moment living in your shower grout and contact lens case. Plus, when slime molds eat them, their plasmodia turn red like flamingoes eating shrimp turn pink. [...]Keep reading »
Cow-like Mealybug Home to Sexy Symbiotic Machine
If it goes around on six legs, it doesn't get much dowdier than the mealybug 1. Powdery, bovine, and frightening if you find them binging on your gardenias, these wax-shedding roving syringes are one of many mosquito-like parasites that plague plants. Yes, sexy, mealybugs are not — unless you look inside them. There, you will [...]Keep reading »
The Food Fight in Your Gut: Why Bacteria Will Change the Way You Think about Calories
September 12th, 2012 | 7
There's a food fight in your guts. Not the Tater-Tot-chucking, spoonful-of-mashed potato-flinging, melee-in-the-cafeteria type of food fight. Rather, your intestines are the site of an ancient and complex war between your own cells and trillions of bacteria—a war over what happens to your food as it moves through your body. Some of the bacteria form [...]Keep reading »
The 4 Billion-Year-Old Story of Obesity
October 30th, 2013 | 3
In light of the upcoming celebration of ghosts, ghouls, and of course, the stomach ache-inducing over-consumption of candy, I thought I'd revisit this piece I started earlier this year. And if you eat too much this Halloween, really you're just acting naturally, so enjoy! Once upon a time some amino acids got smooshed together and [...]Keep reading »
What's eating us?
As #SciAmFood week draws to a close, we've heard a lot about the food we consume, from not getting enough to astronaut nutrition (and getting too much) to tricking your brain about what it's getting. But what about the things in our food that consume us? We humans do not live a sterile life, no [...]Keep reading »
The top 10 life-forms living on Lady Gaga (and you)
January 4th, 2011 | 8
A new truth about Lady Gaga's health has recently been revealed. She is covered in other life-forms—"her little monsters" you might call them. Contrary to statements otherwise in the media, these life-forms have nothing to do with Lady Gaga's meat bikini. (For those who need the extra explanation, Lady Gaga is perhaps the most popular [...]Keep reading »
Pimp My Virus: Ocean Edition
December 22nd, 2010 | 3
Image: The starfish-shaped EZ-open structure of mimivirus, above, and the gray DNA-containing nucleocapsid inside, below. The nucleocapsid has plenty of room to breathe and a concave depression, not unlike the dimple on the Death Star, that always faces the "starfish". From PLoS Biology. In 1992, scientists sampled the water from a cooling tower in Bradford, [...]Keep reading »
Science Cafe spreads understanding of bacteria over beers
Sophia Kathariou is the kind of scientist who can turn food-borne bacteria into great dinner conversation. The associate professor of food science and microbiology at N.C. State University in Raleigh, N.C., spoke about her work Thursday night at Mitch's Tavern, a longtime haunt for professors and students alike. The talk was one of Sigma Xi's [...]Keep reading »
Fighting bacteria with weapons from fungi
April 19th, 2014 | 3
In order to survive, organisms produce small molecules known as 'primary metabolites' which help it to grow, develop and reproduce. Examples include nucleic acid used to make DNA, amino acids to make proteins, and simple sugars. Once the organism is established it will often start to produce 'secondary metabolites'. Secondary metabolites are not vital for [...]Keep reading »
The pathogen detectives: sourcing the post-earthquake cholera outbreak in Haiti
April 6th, 2014 | 2
Natural disasters such as earthquakes can have far-reaching effects beyond the damage caused on the day they occur. The 2010 earthquake in Haiti damaged the already limited sanitation systems leading to areas without adequate toilet and washing facilities; perfect for the spread of infection diseases. Sure enough 9 months following the quake there was an [...]Keep reading »
Fighting Cholera With Mass Vaccination
When studying bacteria it is quite easy to get fascinated with them as a laboratory specimen while forgetting the huge impact they can have in real life societies. I find the PLoS journal of Neglected Tropical diseases redresses that as it covers work with bacteria and parasites from the front line. My previous post from [...]Keep reading »
Innate immunity: the first line of defence
March 16th, 2014 | 6
The very first line of defence against any invasion of the human body is a set of physical barriers between the inside of the body and the outer world. Defence systems like the skin, tears and the stomach lining might not sound very impressive until you start to think of what happens when they don't [...]Keep reading »
69th Carnival of Evolution: Darwin's Day Edition
March 1st, 2014 | 6
Welcome to the 69th edition of the Carnival of Evolution! As February 12th was Darwin's birthday, this is a Darwin's Day carnival edition. To start with there's a celebration of all things Darwinian at Synthetic Daisies, and a letter to the man himself for his 205th birthday. Darwin didn't know it existed, but nowadays the study [...]Keep reading »
Bacteria in space!
February 16th, 2014 | 5
Where humans travel, bacteria will follow. If people are in space for any amount of time, bacteria are sure to thrive there so it's good to know that there are already researchers looking at how the environment within spaceships affects bacterial populations. Work done on planktonic colonies of bacteria has shown that they can become [...]Keep reading »
Categorising bacteria in purple and pink
When confronted with a new bacteria there are a series of simple tests that can be carried out to give a rough idea of the properties of the bacteria you are dealing with. One of the simplest and most useful tests is known as "Gram staining" which is a process of staining cells either purple [...]Keep reading »
Dawn attack: how plants anticipate pathogen infection
Like animals, plants are susceptible to infections from bacteria, viruses and fungi. While animals have a wide variety of immune cells and in some cases an interconnected immune system plants must rely on other methods to fight infection. A recent news bulletin from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute lists a range of exciting ways plants [...]Keep reading »
Swirling and whirling: the movement of spherical bacteria
Research on bacterial movement tends to focus on the rod-shaped bacteria. With the aid of small waving flagella, each bacterial cell can push itself in the direction it wishes to go. They can also move in groups, forming large swarms that ripple and slide their way across Petri dishes. Spherical cells had always been assumed [...]Keep reading »
Happy New Year – the blog retrospective
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Last year, my New Year's Resolution was to try for a child with my husband. As I'm currently typing while trying to entertain a three month old baby I think I can safely claim that as one of the most successful New Year's Resolutions I've ever made. I've been blogging at Scientific American for well [...]Keep reading »
Rock-Eating Martian Microbes?
February 28th, 2014 | 3
A recently published study of a 30-pound martian meteorite found in Antarctica suggests the presence of indigenous carbon-rich material, ancient water erosion, and a number of tiny structures that resemble the sort of features that we see rock-eating microbes leaving in basaltic glasses here on Earth. This rock, Yamato 000593, appears to have formed 1.3 [...]Keep reading »
Astrobiology: We are the Aliens
February 6th, 2012 | 4
A funny thing happened recently on the way to Mars. A few days after the successful launch of NASA's behemoth Curiosity rover with its Mars Science Laboratory instruments on November 26th 2011, a somewhat muted piece of news came out admitting that the strict biological planetary protection rules had not been adhered to quite as [...]Keep reading »
The FDA's Action on Agricultural Antibiotics Is Overdue—and Utterly Insufficient
December 11th, 2013 | 3
Most of the meat on our dinner plates comes from cows and chickens treated with a battery of drugs that helped them grow quickly in dismal, cramped conditions that would otherwise make them sick. The drugs are blended into their food and water without any requirement for a veterinary prescription. The U.S. Food and Drug [...]Keep reading »
Fact Check: New Girl Episode Is All Fun and Games until Someone Gets Legionnaires' Disease?
November 27th, 2013 | 3
The popular Fox television show "New Girl" provides laughs each week, but last night it veered a bit off course with its Thanksgiving episode. [Spoiler alert ahead – stop reading if you haven't seen the episode yet and plan to do so.] When Jess (Zooey Deschanel) and the gang decide to spend a "back to [...]Keep reading »
Hospital-Based Infections Could Be Moving to Doctors' Offices
When patients check into a hospital, they expect doctors there to fix what ails them, but one in 20 patients seeking care at hospitals contract a health care–based infection. Those infections escalate care costs to the tune of billions of dollars. And many of them–one in five–are part of the scary alphabet soup of superbugs [...]Keep reading »
New View into Our Guts Reveals Microbiome's Murky Links to Health
What is living in your gut? It might depend less on your diet, exercise habits, weight and sex than you think, according to new findings. Our health is tied to trillions of organisms that live in and on us. But the extent of their impact has only recently come into focus. And scientists are just [...]Keep reading »
Drug-Resistant Superbugs Kill at Least 23,000 People in the U.S. Each Year
September 16th, 2013 | 3
Each year, more than two million people in the United States develop antibiotic-resistant infections, and at least 23,000 of them die as a result, says the first-ever national snapshot of the issue. That toll only rises when other conditions exacerbated by these infections are included in the count. Because it's difficult to attribute a death [...]Keep reading »
Gut Reaction: Human Colon Replica Demonstrates How E. coli Contaminates Groundwater
Scientists are great at growing E. coli in the lab. They know exactly under which conditions various strains thrive. Unfortunately, there is only so much that can be learned from the bacteria's behavior in an ideal, isolated and ultimately unrealistic environment. That is why a group of researchers at the University of California, Riverside, decided [...]Keep reading »
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found in Sharks and Seals
Bacteria, viruses and parasites from land animals such as cats, cows and humans are sickening and killing sea mammals. Scientists have been finding a daunting number of land-based pathogens in seals, dolphins, sharks and other ocean dwellers that wash ashore dead or dying, according to an article by Christopher Solomon in the May 2013 issue [...]Keep reading »
Hurricane-Riding Microbes Make a Home at Cruising Altitude
January 29th, 2013 | 3
Sample a hurricane's air from a plane high in the stratosphere and, in addition to the expected water and grit, you'll find an abundance of microbes. Swept up from land and sea by the tropical cyclone's power, the skyborne bacteria persist in the atmosphere for days—and some may even thrive there. A new survey of [...]Keep reading »
Breath Test Could Sniff Out Infections in Minutes
January 11th, 2013 | 4
Bacteria hiding in the lungs might not be able to hide much longer. Although traditional tests can take days or weeks to culture to determine the presence of certain harmful bacteria—such as those that cause tuberculosis—a much more rapid technique for detecting lung infections might be on the horizon. Researchers have developed a test that [...]Keep reading »
Common STD Grows Resistant to Treatment in North America
January 8th, 2013 | 4
The most commonly acquired sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the U.S., chlamydia and gonorrhea, are usually cleared out swiftly and easily with a dose of oral antibiotics. But one of these infections is growing bold and finding ways to evade treatment. More than 321,000 cases of gonorrhea are reported each year in the U.S. alone—and [...]Keep reading »
No Shots for the Octopus, Its Immune System Doesn't Remember
September 28th, 2013 | 1
Flu season is almost upon us, so millions of us are already rolling up our sleeves to get the annual shot. This jab is formulated to introduce our immune system to this year's circulating strains of the virus so that it will remember how to make the specialized antibodies to fend it off the viral [...]Keep reading »
Biological Decision Making: The Strange Connection Between Cows and Bacteria
Are cows more likely to lie down the longer they stand? This apparently simple question turns out to have an unexpected answer. The study, by a team of Scottish sustainable livestock systems researchers, won the 2013 IgNobel Prize for probability and has left many people puzzled about the mysteries of cow behavior. Unlike horses, cows [...]Keep reading »
Human Cheese and the Microbial Superhighway
Cheese is a fascinating model for studying the intersection of human and microbial cultures. My project with Sissel Tolaas explores these connections through the process of making cheese using microbes sampled from the human body. Here is a short film for the project featuring interviews with microbiologist Benjamin Wolfe, cheesemaker Seana Doughty, anthropologist Heather Paxson, [...]Keep reading »
Fractal Bacteria
June 9th, 2013 | 2
Bacteria are single celled organisms that can do amazing things in multicellular groups, with complex coordinated behaviors emerging from the interaction of genetic networks, chemical environments, and the physics of cell growth. Last year I wrote about the work of Tim Rudge and Fernan Federici and their incredible images of bacterial growth patterns. Their paper, [...]Keep reading »
Bacterial Encounters at the Salton Sea
The Salton Sea is California's largest lake, stretching 35 miles along the San Andreas fault about 150 miles east of Los Angeles and 200 feet below sea level. It is surrounded by harsh desert as well as productive agricultural land irrigated by water from the Colorado River and draining back into the Sea. The Salton [...]Keep reading »
Bacteriophone: Microbial Wallpapers
I take a lot of photos of bacteria on my phone, and sometimes I use those pictures as my phone's wallpaper. These photos are meta-phone bacteria wallpapers: photographs of bacteria that I collected off the surface of my phone (h/t to Nick for the microbial inspiration). To sample the phone's microbiome I simply placed it [...]Keep reading »
Seeing Bacteria
I got a really fun early Christmas gift yesterday, Moyasimon 1: Tales of Agriculture, a manga series about a boy who can see microbes. His skills lead to some exciting fermentation-related adventures at his agriculture college. I learned a lot about miso, sake, and meats that ferment underground! The microbes are super cute, and it [...]Keep reading »
Smelling Bacteria
July 19th, 2011 | 3
Bacteria make a lot of smells, mostly ones that we'd rather not think about. The hundreds of volatile compounds that bacterial cultures produce can signal many things, although I'm probably one of very few people who associate the smell of warm E. coli with pleasant lab memories rather than some kind of a hygiene disaster. [...]Keep reading »
YouTube SpaceLab top 60 Global Finalists Chosen!
Take a look at what some clever American teens have come up with as an idea for an experiment on the International Space Station! The 60 global finalists for the YouTube.com/SpaceLab competition were announced Tuesday, January 17th. Recall from my post in November, that YouTube challenged 14-18 year-old students to design a science [...]Keep reading »
When Sleeping Turns Deadly and Other Strange Tales from Scientific American MIND
The July/August issue of Scientific American Mind made its debut online late last week. Here I divulge some of the more surprising and useful lessons from its pages. Dozing Dangerously Sleepwalking is one of the strangest phenomena I have ever witnessed. Despite its name, it doesn't resemble any other kind of sleep I've seen. To [...]Keep reading »
What's Worse Than Fecal Transplants? This Gal.
July 19th, 2013 | 4
Have you caught wind of the latest in medical technology: fecal transplants between friends? The latest commentary (and funniest to date) is a piece by Steve Mirsky in the August 2013 edition of Scientific American telling us to just get over the ick factor "because everything" in life, medicine, and yes, fecal transplants, "is disgusting." [...]Keep reading »
Bacteriography – SciArt needs a Kickstart to Escape the Lab
Bringing sciart to the public isn't always an easy task – and the growing (culturing, har har) field of bioart is some of the toughest art to showcase of all. It's harder than hanging a painting without using nails, as many contemporary galleries insist, leading to those dangling chains from ceiling braces. Bioart, the field [...]Keep reading »
One Man's Poo is Another Man's PhD
Scientists collect crazy things. I'm not talking thimble-crazy or frog-themed-crazy. That kind of tchotchke barely ranks on the crazy scale. The collections I'm talking about are things like bellybutton lint, whale vomit, and human poo. You mean raw sewage?! Yes, sort of… but straight from the source. Fresh, unadulterated. Yup. And to supersize the irony, [...]Keep reading »
SciArt of the Day: Fermented Fashions
What happens when you take a bag of sweaty hockey gear and throw it in a vat of beer for a week? I'm not sure (although I'm sure this must have been tried before), but a researcher and an artist at the University of Western Australia are trying their own fermented fashion experiment. Using a [...]Keep reading »


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Since the first issue of Electronic House back in the early 1980s, we've harped on the importance of prewiring. With the right low-voltage wiring in all the right places, your home will be ready for any cool electronics or home systems you want installed—now or in the future. It's always good to be prepared, right?
How Long Does It Take to Install? A basic distributed music system takes just a day or two to prewire; prepare for up to several weeks if you want other systems.
Why Do I Need It? By prewiring your house, you can keep many electronic components hidden away in an equipment closet or elsewhere. Proper prewiring also enables you to add new equipment to your system without having to fish cabling through the walls.
Best Time to Prewire? You'll save time and money by prewiring your home during construction or renovation. Fishing wire through walls and floors that are already finished can cost twice as much (or more) as it would to have the wiring installed while the walls are open and exposed.
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CALGARY, Alta. -- The 18 Wheels of Christmas trailer pulled into the Calgary Food Bank Dec. 18 carrying 26 skids totaling 24,250 lbs of food donated by companies and individuals in the Western Canadian transportation industry.
The centerpiece was a Christmas tree made entirely of baby food purchased with cash donations made to this year's campaign.
Another 1.5 skids of baby food was donated by Heinz Canada and Save-On-Foods. Two cheques for $3,550 were also donated to the Calgary Food Bank.
This year marked the tenth that the 18 Wheels of Christmas campaign has been held.
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Calaveras County, CA ...San Andreas, CA... PATV is located in San Andreas, CA. We are a non-profit organization which helps facilitate the local studio and air original community programming to your home. The mission of Public, Education, and Government (PEG) Access Television in Calaveras County is to provide the people in the County with fair and reasonable access to cable television channel(s). The goals for PEG Access Television are to promote free speech, foster diverse points of view, encourage communications, create opportunities, encourage artistic expression, expand educational access, and promote participatory democracy in order to strengthen the spirit of the communities and enrich the lives of our residents and visitors...
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SACRAMENTO, CA ...Caltrans is asking cities and counties throughout California to submit applications for projects that promote biking and walking that will vie for a share of $360 million in federal and state funding from the state's new Active Transportation Program – the nation's largest. "Today's transportation system is about more than just highways," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty. "Active transportation projects are a good investment and will help achieve mobility, safety, and greenhouse gas reduction goals for California." The program will receive about $120 million annually, so the $360 million figure announced today represents three-years of funding. Last year, Governor Brown signed legislation (Senate Bill 99, Chapter 359 and Assembly Bill 101, Chapter 354) creating the ATP, which distributes funding for human-powered transportation projects and programs. The new program replaces a patchwork of small grant programs with a comprehensive program that is more efficient. Another benefit is that funds can be directed to multi-year projects to make greater long-term improvements to active transportation.
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San Andreas, CA ...The Calaveras Unified School District Board of Trustees will hold their regular meeting on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at 3304 Highway 12, San Andreas, CA. Current Board Mmebers are, Karan Bowsher, Evan Garamendi, Gregory Gustafson, Zerrall McDaniel and Sherri Reusche. Mark Campbell is the Calaveras Unified School District Superintendent. The Mission of the Calaveras Unified School District is to provide all individuals with the tools needed to become lifelong learners who responsibly participate in our diverse society.
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San Andreas, CA ... Calaveras Highs School Earth Club is hosting an opportunity to safely recycle your outdated or broken electronics on Saturday, May 31.The fundraiser will be at 350 High School St. San Andreas, CA from 9 am to 1 pm.
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Physicians for Social Responsibility High School Scholarship Essay Contest Finalists
Posted by: Andy_Johnson on 04/20/2014 12:26 PM
Sacramento, CA ... The Sacramento Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility is pleased to announce the finalists in its annual High School Scholarship Essay Contest, open to high school seniors in Sacramento and surrounding counties (Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Nevada, Placer, San Joaquin, Solano, Sutter, Yolo, and Yuba). The prompt for this year's contest is a quotation from the late South Africlan leader and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Nelson Mandela, who said, "Education is the most powerful weapon that you can use to change the world."
A total of 185 students entered the contest this year. The finalists were chosen through a rigorous screening process.
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Jay Joseph Genovese September 21, 1952 - April 13, 2014.
Posted by: Andy_Johnson on 04/20/2014 12:01 PM
Angels Camp, CA ... Jay Joseph Genovese, 61, said his final "Goodbyes" to friends and family at his home in Angels Camp, CA on April 13, 2014. Born Sept. 21, 1952 in Monterey, CA to Matteo Genovese and Elizabeth Schwartz, Jay's passions were fishing and food best shared with friends and family and a good helping of laughter. The adventures of Jay and Susie, his wife and partner of 33 yrs., took them from the Sierras to the Napa Valley, a cattle ranch in North Fork, NV, to fishing in Seward, AK, to Monterey and back home to the foothills of the Sierras. He was a "Man to ride the river with": a good man and a generous friend. In lieu of services, please plant some poppies in a place that will surprise you, make you smile and remember him.
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Calaveras County Chamber of Commerce 2014 Scholarship Golf Tournament
Posted by: Andy_Johnson on 04/20/2014 11:39 AM
Calaveras County, CA ...The Calaveras County Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce their 2014 Scholarship Golf Tournament present by Mark Twain Medical Center will be on Friday, June 27th. This year's tournament will be held at beautiful Greenhorn Creek Golf Course in Angels Camp. Once again the format will be a four-player scramble with a 1PM Shotgun start. Registration is $100 per player or $475 for a team. Sponsorship opportunities are available, starting at $100 for a hole sponsorship. Tickets can be purchased separately to the Banquet/Dinner/Dance that follows....
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Central Sierra Connect Broadband Consortium 2014 Regional Broadband Summit on Thursday, April 24th at the Black Oak Casino
Posted by: Andy_Johnson on 04/20/2014 11:16 AM
Tuolumne County, CA ... Central Sierra Connect Broadband Consortium cordially invites you to attend our 2014 Regional Broadband Summit on Thursday, April 24th at the Black Oak Casino Resort Conference Center, in Tuolumne County. We've put together a very informative program centered on broadband and featuring experts in the field. Technology advancements and innovations have enhanced virtually all aspects of our daily lives. We continue to see progress made in: communication, education, healthcare, entertainment, etc. and, for the most part, the price of admission is high-speed internet access, commonly referred to as broadband. Lack of availability of broadband services in rural areas such as the Central Sierra foothills leaves a significant number of residents, businesses and visitors unable to fully utilize all the internet has to offer. In addition, overall usage is growing as more of us connect to the internet, add devices and users engage in increasingly sophisticated online activities requiring additional bandwidth. We will directly address the situation at our summit and provide a forum for dialog, discussion, networking, policy planning and creation of potential solutions.
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Stanislaus National Forest Receivs $525,000 for Rim Fire Infrastructure
Posted by: Andy_Johnson on 04/20/2014 10:57 AM
Sonora, CA...The Stanislaus National Forest (STF) has received funding totaling $525,000 to repair and replace range infrastructure damaged or destroyed in last summer's Rim Fire. There were 14 grazing allotments and 7 permittees affected by the Rim Fire. Each permittee has maintenance requirements for which they are responsible including fences and water systems. However, when fire or some other damage occurs the Forest Service is responsible for getting these improvements back up to standards, then maintenance responsibility returns to the permitees. Some permittees have volunteered to help with some of the repairs. Over 30 miles of Forest Service range fence will be replaced. Twelve livestock water troughs will be replaced, which also benefits wildlife such as deer and bats.
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Spend Easter At CAMPS At Greenhorn Creek
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/20/2014 07:50 AM
Angels Camp, CA...Sunday, April 20th, 2014. Kids Easter Egg Hunt 9 AM. Brunch Served from 9:30AM until 3PM. Champagne Brunch Buffet. Fresh Seasonal Fruits & Strawberry Basket. Homemade Pastries...
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Refuge Easter Services at 10:30am
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/20/2014 07:35 AM
Angels Camp, CA...Easter Sunday Service will be Family style 10:30am. 1 Peter 1:17-25 And remember that the heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favorites. He will judge or reward you according to what you do. So you must live in reverent fear of him during your time as "foreigners in the land." For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors...
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Celebrate Easter With Brunch Sequoia Woods
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Easter Services At Chapel In The Pines
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Grace Hills Covenant Church Easter Celebration
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/17/2014 01:19 PM
Angels Camp, CA...Please join with us as we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ - the victory of God and the hope of the world. Grace Hills meets at Bret Harte High School in the Multipurpose Room each Sunday at 10am. All are welcome, and encouraged to attend...
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Murphys Covenant Church Easter Service
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Shop Local! Sierra Hills, Angels Food & Sierra Hills Natural Food Markets. Weekly Specials April 16 - 23, 2014
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/16/2014 09:51 AM
Murphys & Angels Camp, CA... Sierra Hills, Angels Food & Sierra Hills Natural Food Markets have been part of the Calaveras community since 1935. High Quality, Great Customer Service and Great Hometown Prices. Happy Easter! As always, we have everything you need for your Easter Festivities! We are open 9 - 5 on Easter Sunday.
Celebrate Earth Day win $25 Bring in your own grocery bags and enter in a drawing to win a $25 gift certificate.
We will be giving away five $25 gift certificates good at all three of our markets. Contest starts Wednesday, April 16, drawing will be held on Earth Day, April 22. Winners will be notified by phone and posted on facebook. Why use Reusable? Over a lifetime, use of reusable bags by just one person would save over 22,000 single-use bags. In Calaveras County that is almost one billion bags! Approximately 14 million trees are cut down every year for U.S. paper bag production. A plastic shopping bag can take anywhere from 15 to 1,000 years to decompose. Paper bags produce more than double the air pollution as plastic bags in landfills. Plastic bags are a true menace to our ecosystems. Barely recyclable, almost all of the 400 plastic bags used per second in the state are discarded. Once discarded, they either enter our landfills or our marine ecosystem. Located at both of our markets, Re-Planet Recycle Centers offer full CRV (California Redemption Value) for your glass, cans and plastic. Open Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 am - 4:30 pm Closed 1:00- 1:30 pm for lunch & major holidays
Click Above For Their Weekly Savings. Do you know you can now text your deli orders to the stores? For Sierra Hills Market the number is 209-753-7115. For Angels Food Market the number is (209)-753-7331. Now that is easy!! Senior Days now Tuesdays and Wednesdays! Save 10% When you buy 4 or more bottles of liquor or wine. Remember we already have the best prices on liquor and the biggest local wine selection.
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Join Ironstone For Easter Brunch
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/15/2014 12:34 PM
Murphys, CA...Nestled against the Sierra Foothills, in the heart of California's scenic Gold Rush Country, Ironstone Vineyards will surprise and delight you with a winery that places as much emphasis on the natural beauty and history of our surroundings, as we do on the quality of our wines...
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Watch a Movie This Week at the Best Theatre in the Mother Lode...Angels Six Theatres!
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/12/2014 09:09 PM
Angels Camp, CA...Angels 6 Theatres in historic Angels Camp is the best place to see a movie in the Mother Lode. Click Below for full schedule.
Check Out the Latest Movies at Angels 6 Theatres Above!
Murphys Hotel Easter Brunch April 20
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Warm Smiles & A Free Coffee with Every Fill Up At Angels Trading Post!
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/06/2014 02:29 PM
Angels Camp, CA...The Angels Trading Post recently underwent a facelift with new signage, facade and more. Stop and say hi and top off your tanks today! Angels Trading Post has everything you need to keep you Hopping when you visit our area. Great Prices on Gas, Drinks, Sodas, Java City Coffees and more. They also accept E.B.T. cards.and have great prices on tobacco products. They are open everyday from 5am to Midnight!! Stop by and see the Singh's today at the corner of Hwy 49 & Hwy 4.
Fallen Marine Lance Cpl. Gavin Brummund Memorial Tree Replacement Ceremony
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/19/2014 06:58 PM
Arnold, CA....Members of the Arnold and surrounding communities gathered to pay homage to fallen Marine Lance Cpl. Gavin Brummund and celebrate the beautiful new Dogwood that was planted to replace the one that vandals uprooted. Murphys Nursery graciously donated a replacement tree Arnold Ace Home Center donated a memorial bench. That will take up permanent residence next to the new Lance Cpl. Gavin R. Brummund Memorial Tree. In addition to local residents some local veterans groups attended including the Patriot Guard, Local Vietnam Veterans Chapter, and from Amador County members of the Top Cop Challenge attended and are spearheading a reward for the arrest and conviction of those who vandalized and destroyed the original tree. Gavin's parents Greg Brummund and Debra Morris were on hand and participated in planting the new tree....
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The Easter Bunny Is Alive, Well & Delivering Flowers
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/19/2014 02:36 PM
Calaveras County, CA....Yesterday we happened to catch the Easter Bunny in Arnold out delivering flowers and cheer in the area. Blooms and Things will deliver throughout the county and almost anywhere. Stop by their beautiful Angels Camp location or call and get beauty and smiles. Happy Easter....
The 9th Annual Slush Cup High Sierra Championships Is Tomorrow!!
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/19/2014 07:38 AM
Bear Valley, CA...Come on out and finish up the season with the 9th Annual Slush Cup. This is a dual GS fun race where you race head to head with other competitors. You get to pick your opponent for the qualifying runs and then are paired with racers of approximately the same time for the finals...
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President Obama Offers Easter and Passover Greetings
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/19/2014 07:14 AM
Washington, DC...Hi, everybody. For millions of Americans, this time of year holds great meaning. Earlier this week, we hosted a Passover Seder at the White House, and joined Jewish families around the world in their retellings of the story of the Exodus and the victory of faith over oppression.
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Join The Calaveras County Association Of Realtors A County Wide Candidates Night
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/18/2014 04:34 PM
Stop By The CHS Thrift Stores For 50% Off All Framed Art!!
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/16/2014 08:37 AM
Angels Camp & Arnold, CA...On Tuesdays, both of our CHS Thrift stores offer a 5% Senior Discount to those who are 55 years and older.
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Kent Snyder of Mokelumne Hill. 1940 - 2014
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/15/2014 06:08 PM
Mokelumne Hill, CA..On April 11, 2014 Kent Barton Snyder, Jr. of Mokelumne Hill passed away at his home. He was 74. A native of Oakland, he was the son of Kent Barton Snyder, Sr. and Virginia Wallace Stypes, born May 26, 1940. He was a truck driver and transportation officer for Calaveras County Behavioral Health. He loved gardening as a hobby....
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Mr. Frog's Wild Ride Benefit for Feeney Park April 19 (Today)
Posted by: Andy_Johnson on 04/02/2014 10:36 AM
Murphys, CA ... It's hard to beat a springtime bike ride through the Gold Country – temperatures are mild, redbuds bursting with their purple flowers and fiery orange poppies punctuate the lush green hillsides. It might just be the perfect way to cruise the foothills and take it all in at your own pace. Luckily there's Mr. Frog's Wild Ride on Saturday, April 19, 2014. Mr. Frog's Wild Ride is designed to give you just that opportunity, while supporting a great Calaveras County resource as well. Starting in Feeney Park, 300 Pennsylvania Gulch Road, Murphys the course opens at 7:30 am, all riders must begin by 9 am. The fee for the event is $45 for the 50K, $55 for the 100K until April 5, 2014 when prices go up by $5. Riders will receive fresh fruit, pastries & delightful, delicious surprises at Rest Stops along the route, SAG Support,Traffic Control and Tech Support in the morning from Mountain Pedaler of Angels Camp. Register online or print mail-in registration. Must be received by April 16th, 2014
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Neil Simon's Hilarious Farce, "Rumors" Now Playing and Celebrating 20 Years of MCT (Closing Weekend Don't Miss It)
Posted by: thepinetree on 03/22/2014 07:53 PM
Murphys, CA...We had the honor last night to take in most of MCT's 2014 Opening Night. Neil Simon's "Rumors" had the crowd in stitches for most of the evening. The cast put on a great, great show for the start of their 20th season. Below are a few photos and some short video clips. You can still catch an opening weekend performance Sunday at 2pm in Murphys..
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Are You Ready For The Relay For Life?
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/18/2014 10:14 PM
49er Motors Service Center Grand Opening Sale
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/18/2014 08:16 PM
Angels Camp, CA...Grand Opening of service center sale!! Staring Monday we will launch the Grand Opening of our service center with a special that everyone needs that you cant beat anywhere! Watch for our ad right here on thepinetree.net this Monday. Until then take a look at these great specials in honor of our Service centers Grand Opening!
2006 Toyota Tundra Double cab SR5- Lifted, Low Mileage, Automatic, Power windows and locks, CD, Nice truck and did we mention it was a TOYOTA? Clean Car Fax with lots of service records, Come down and see this beauty today!! ON SALE $17,949 VIN-5TBET34156S544543
2007 Ford F150 4x4, Crew Cab, Very Nicely Maintained, Cd, Power windows and locks, Tow package, Bed Liner, Premium wheels and tires. Banks system and more! You wont be disappointed in this one!! ON SALE $18,949 VIN-1FTPW14547KC51594
2011 Subaru Legacy H4 PSEV Limited. This is one beautiful car, One Owner, Clean Car Fax with lots of service records. This car looks and drives like new. Leather heated seats, Sattelite radio, nice alloy wheels with almost new tires, This LIKE NEW Subaru has MANY options and is ready to go home with you today!! ON SALE $17,949 VIN-4S3BMBJ60B3249301
2011 Toyota Camry LE, 1 Owner Clean Car Fax, Many service records. This shows pride of ownership. Power windows and Locks, Tinted windows, Great Gas Mileage and much more. Dont let this nice,Clean, late model Camry pass you by.. ON SALE $12,949 VIN-4T1BF3EK5BU214573
2002 GMC DURAMAX DIESEL 6.6L, 4X4, XCAB, 2500HD, SLE, leather, dual power seats, auto, tow package, running boards, alloy wheels, sliding rear window, all power options! Tons of power!!! We have just completed TONS of work including Heads, Injector pump etc to ensure that you have a great running truck!! ON SALE BELOW COST $13,949 VIN# 1GTHK29142E122497
2005 Nissan Sentra 4 cyl, Clean Car Fax, Great Gas Mileage, Clean cheap Nissan. Power windows and locks, CD player, what a great commuter!! ON SALE $7949 VIN-3N1CB51D85L594792
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Gasoline Consumption Up 1.6%, Diesel Up 6.8% in Fourth Quarter 2013
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/18/2014 05:16 PM
Sacramento, CA...Sacramento –California's gasoline consumption rose 1.6% in the fourth quarter 2013, faster than any quarter since 2004, associated with relatively low prices during that period and an improving economy, according to data released today by California State Board of Equalization (BOE) Member George Runner. "It's a good sign for our economy and jobs when Californians put more gas in their vehicles," said Runner. "I hope we'll see continued growth in activity and travel when lower gas taxes take effect this summer."
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"Got Dogwoods? We Do!!!
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/18/2014 05:10 PM
Murphys to Markleeville – "The Schedule" – April 18 to April 26
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/18/2014 04:42 PM
Angels Camp, CA...."The Schedule" is published every Thursday by the Ebbetts Pass Visitors Center and includes everything happening from Murphys to Markleeville. For more detailed info visit
The Schedule
. Please come by and pick one up or contact the Visitors Center at
to have your event included in "The Schedule."
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Hwy 108 Sonora Pass Open For Easter Weekend
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/18/2014 12:37 PM
Tuolumne County – The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has removed the winter snow, cleared the debris and made the necessary repairs to open State Route 108 over Sonora Pass on Friday, April 18, 2014, at 12:00 p.m. (noon). The diligent work of Caltrans crews enabled the opening of the pass in time for the beginning of trout fishing season in the Eastern Sierra, which begins on Saturday, April 26, 2014....
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Ebbetts Pass Opens Early....In Time For Easter Weekend
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/18/2014 12:32 PM
Alpine County – The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has removed the winter snow, cleared the debris and made the necessary repairs to open State Route 4 over Ebbetts Pass on Friday, April 18, 2014, at 12:00 p.m. (noon). The diligent work of Caltrans crews enabled the opening of the pass for motorists who utilize this route....
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Traffic Update....Lanes Blocked By Accident on Tuolumne Road/Nugget Blvd
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/18/2014 12:29 PM
Sonora, CA...Crews are working a non-injury accident on Tuolumne Road/Nugget Blvd. CHP is reporting lanes blocked. Please use caution in the area....
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A Quote From Our Favorite Brief Resident
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/18/2014 12:26 PM
"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up." Mark Twain
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Coldwell Banker Action Realty Is Ready To Serve
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/18/2014 11:42 AM
Arnold, CA... Your Neighborhood Experts! At Coldwell Banker Action Realty we don't expect you to know your way around the market, that is why we are here. We do everything we can to guide our customers in this ever changing real estate market. We listen carefully to our clients needs and goals and won't quit until we have found the perfect property for them or the perfect buyer for our sellers. Personal service and exceeding expectations are the basis of our relationships. Your referrals are our best compliment. Whether you are new to the market or an experienced investor, we have the expertise, proven track record, and resources to help you achieve your real estate goals.
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Wedding Gown Sample Sale at The Clothes Mine in Angels Camp
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/18/2014 10:32 AM
Angels Camp, CA...The Clothes Mine in Angels Camp is having a sale on in-stock wedding gown samples! During the month of April, enjoy 25% off of the original prices of the beautiful gowns we carry. Casablanca Bridal Diamond Collection is the only exception, and the sale is valid only in the Angels Camp store. For bridal, advance appointments are recommended, though walk-ins are always welcome. Visit us in historic downtown Angels Camp! We're open from 10am-6pm daily, 890-7532. (Closed Easter Sunday.)
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Enjoy The Fun In Bear Valley As The 2013/14 Season Goes Out In Style
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/18/2014 09:29 AM
Bear Valley, CA....Bear Valley is wrapping up the 2013/14 Season this weekend with a full slate of events. Enjoy the ride, races & Easter Celebration! Enjoy the FUN on the last day of the season on April 20th! Easter is always tons of fun at Bear Valley so be sure to make plans to join us. Easter Sunday will be the last day of the season so bring the kids and come enjoy one last day on the mountain. Lots of fun activities on Sunday. We kick off the morning with Easter Bag Decorating (so you don't need to bring one, but you can), followed by our fabulous Easter egg hunt....
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Memorial Service Tomorrow For Susan Elizabeth Walker Johnson 1928 - 2014
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/18/2014 09:17 AM
Murphys, CA...Susan Elizabeth Walker Johnson passed away April 6, 2014. She was born in Palm Beach Florida September 8, 1928. She was a resident of Calaveras County since 1967 and an active member of Murphys Covenant Church. She is survived by her husband Earl Johnson of Murphys, sister Lorraine Brown of Covington Georgia, son Brian Walker of Murphys, Grandson Brian Walker Jr. and Great Grand children Wyatt and Jacob of Nevada, Grand daughter Leila Walker -Richard and Great Grand children Lily and Oliver of Louisiana. She will be greatly missed...
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Calaveras PATV's 2014 District Three Candidates Debate
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/18/2014 08:40 AM
San Andreas, CA....Below is the Calaveras County PATV's District Three Candidate Debate that was recorded this week. Featuring Supervisor Merita Callaway and Challengers Mike Borean & Michael Oliveira. Steven Crane is the moderator.
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Calaveras PATV's 2014 Sheriff's Candidates Debate
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/18/2014 08:25 AM
San Andreas, CA....Below is the Calaveras County PATV's Sheriff's Candidate Debate that was recorded this week. Featuring Sheriff Gary Kuntz and Challenger Pat Garrahan. Steven Crane is the moderator.
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Arnold Library Patron Appreciation Day Celebration
Posted by: Andy_Johnson on 04/17/2014 03:38 PM
Caltrans Road Report For April 20 - 25, 2014
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/17/2014 08:46 PM
Stockton, CA...The latest and greatest road report to keep you abreast of all the upcoming Caltrans repairs and delays in our areas and throughout District 10. The complete report is enclosed....
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This Week at the Arnold CHS Thrift Store Adoption Center – LOVEY!
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/17/2014 08:20 PM
Arnold, CA...Stop by Calaveras Humane Society's Thrift Store Adoption Center in Arnold, located in Meadowmont Center next to Big Trees Market (Phone 209-795-GIVE). We will be open THURS.–SAT., 10 am-5 pm. Over the course of the last couple of months, the Arnold Adoption Center has been closed a few times, but we're happy to report that we will be open this week. Come on in! The kitties would love to meet you.
Click on Photo to view more of our cats at www.KittyCATalog.org
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Law & Justice Candidates Night April 29
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/17/2014 04:25 PM
San Andreas, CA...With a focus on law and justice, candidates for sheriff and the two superior court benches will gather for a questions and answer session at the San Andreas Town Hall on April 29. Two half-hour sessions for the judicial candidates will be followed by a one-hour Q&A session for the sheriff contenders. This event will begin at 6:00 PM with meet and greet hour. Candidates for other county offices will also participate in this segment which includes no-host wine, beer and sodas. The Q&A sessions begin at 7:00 PM....
This event is being sponsored by the Calaveras Economic Development Company and the County Chamber of Commerce. Voters may submit questions for the candidates in advance to
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Brummund Tree To Be Replaced and Rededicated April 18 At White Pines Park.
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/17/2014 03:49 PM
Arnold, CA....(Update....Murphys Nursery has graciously donated a replacement tree and a re dedication ceremony will be held tomorrow afternoon. The public is invited to arrive around 2pm and some Sacramento TV Stations are expected to arrive about 2:30pm) Our earlier story....White Pines Park Committee's Ginny Kafka was cleaning and checking on the restrooms last weekend and and noticed something very wrong. The Dogwood tree that had been planted in honor of fallen Marine Lance Cpl. Gavin R. Brummund had been torn out and thrown on the roof. Everytime she has cleaned the restrooms she has watered the young tree and watched it grow. Lance Cpl. Gavin R. Brummund was killed on June 10th, 2010 by a remotely detonated roadside bomb in Afghanistan. All of Calaveras County mourned his loss and for anyone who was a resident or in the community during the week after his death will remember like it was yesterday the thousands who lined the roads to honor his family and him as they returned to the county....
Pictured above is the uprooted tree on the roof of the restroom building at the park, L Cpl. Gavin Brummund, Son of Debbie Morris and Gregg Brummund, who was raised in Arnold CA and graduated from Bret Harte High School in 2006. The above image was taken by AP photographer David Guttenfelder of Gavin during a firefight with the Taliban in the battle for Marja in Afghanistan. This photo made numerous appearances in the national press. Below that is a photo of Gavin that was displayed at his service at Frogtown.
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Happy Easter & Time To SUP, Kayak & Canoe With SNAC
Posted by: thepinetree on 04/17/2014 03:10 PM
Arnold, Murphys, & Sonora, CA...Stop By this Weekend For USED Kayaks, Canoes & SUPS! Spring has sprung with a great selection of mint condition used Kayaks, Canoes & SUPs at SNAC Arnold! Right now we have a current model Tahoe SUP 12' Rubicon in perfect condition for $250.00 off retail at just $1050.00 (retail is $1299.00)! This is the same model Shawn's been paddling all winter - it has great durability, speed & stability and it's super light - weighing in at just 31 lbs. It has an optimum weight capacity of 250 lbs. Last weekend we had two mint condition Hobie Outback Mirage Drive Pedal Kayaks dropped off by a couple who took great care of them. It's hard to tell they've ever been used! One is Papaya color & the other is Ivory Dune. This year's model Outback runs $1999.00. These two are for sale for $1475.00 each! Buy them both & save another $100.00 per boat!
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2014 Junior Miss Calaveras Pageant and Junior Frog Jump Saturday, May 10
Posted by: Andy_Johnson on 04/17/2014 12:49 PM
Angels Camp, CA ...The Junior Miss Calaveras Pageant and Junior Frog Jump will be held concurrently on Saturday, May 10 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the Altaville Melones Fire Department in Angels Camp. The 2014 Jr. Miss Calaveras Pageant has six young ladies competing this year. Brianna Navas, 12, of Murphys, daughter of George and Beverly Navas, Emily Bolton, 13 of Vallecito, daughter of Cory and Catherine Bolton, Alara Bowsher, 14 of West Point, daughter of Michael and Karan Bowsher, Ashlynn Maddeax, 13 of Angels Camp , daughter of Carrie Graham and James Walker, Kylie Kitchell, 14 of Altaville, daughter of Joseph and Tina Kitchell, and Claudia Loomis, 13 of Altaville, daughter of George and Joan Loomis. They will compete in the following categories, Written test, interview, speech and ticket sales. Two other awards will presented as well but are not part of the scoring. Miss Congeniality and Miss photogenic.
Pictured from left to right: Brianna Navas, Emily Bolton, Alara Bowsher, Ashlynn Maddeaux, Kylie Kitchell, Claudia Loomis
photo courtesy of Cherry Tree Photography, Tammy Middleton
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Everything Is Everything
What is meant to be, will be
After winter, must come spring
Change, it comes eventually
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I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth
Who won't accept deception, in--instead of what is truth
It seems we lose the game
Before we even start to play
Who made these rules? (Who made these rules?)
We're so confused (We're so confused)
Easily led astray
Let me tell ya that...
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Everything is everything
Everything is everything
After winter, must come spring
Everything is everything
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I philosophy
Possibly speak tongues
Beat drum, Abyssinian, street Baptist
Rap this in fine linen, from the beginning
My practice extending across the atlas
I begat this
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MCs ain't ready to take it to the Serengeti
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Develop a negative into a positive picture
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[Verse 3]
Sometimes it seems
We'll touch that dream
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And the ones on top, won't make it stop
So convinced that they might fall
Let's love ourselves and we can't fail
To make a better situation
Tomorrow, our seeds will grow
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my favorites are the Split Peep Soup and The Very Hungry Caterpillar!
Too cool. I really like the Goodnight Moon diorama, too, can't believe you didn't win with that one. The details are great.
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Just letting you know that I featured this today on my blog :-)
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The KDevelop team released its first beta version of the development environment for KDE and Qt programs.
The final version of KDevelop 4 is still a long way off. The developers explicitly assert in their newsgroup that the software in its current state is "in no way feature complete" and that are "still bugs and missing functionality." Nevertheless, the software is stable enough to present to a wider user base from which constructive feedback is sought.
KDevelop 4 offers at the least some new help to C++ programmers. The beta automatically resolves missing include directives and writes forward-declarations for typed classes and functions. A blog from developer "zwabel" gives a practical usage example.
Aside from such small but good every day examples, KDevelop 4 includes a fully integrated CMake build system and linkage with the Subversion and git version control systems. Integration with the Qt GUI designer, with which graphical interfaces can easily be combined, is unfortunately still in a startup phase. A number of bugs were fixed since the last alpha and the user interface made a bit more attractive to new users "to lower the entrance barrier."
Source code for the beta is available at the KDE Download site. The development environment itself consists of the KDevPlatform and KDevelop packages, with the former to be installed first. Both packages require KDE 4.2.0 or later. Kubuntu users can download the single kdevelop-kde4 package from the Kubuntu Experimental Archive. Mandriva users can find the beta with the KDE 4.2 packages and openSUSE users will find it hidden in the KDE 4 Extra-Apps repository.
KDevelop 4 from KDevelop.org was completely reworked from its aging pre-version and was made compatible with Qt4.x and KDE 4. A project homepage table compares KDevelop 3 with KDevelop 4. Zwabel's weblog mentioned earlier and apaku.wordpress.com give insights into, and screenshots of, the new beta release.
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bumGenius! | What's so Great about Bum Genius!?
So we've been doing retail for over 2 years and getting product from Bum Genius was virtually impossible for a while, because #1 They are a young company and #2 Apparently parents go crazy over these cloth diapers, so naturally we wanted to carry them in our store. So I finally get my hands on a shipment of bumGenius! diapers, specifically bumGenius 3.0 one size cloth diaper. At first glance, it looks like a great product, very similar to the Happy Heineys diapers we already carry. It's a pocket diaper with two inserts. There are three differences I noticed right away. #1 The bumGenius! diaper shell looks like a skinnier fit than Happy Heineys, not quite as bulky. #2 The inserts were actually adjustable, whereas the Happy Heineys inserts are not. They just give you an infant size and a toddler size. #3 You get your choice of using two diaper inserts at once or just one. I guess the purpose is if you have a baby with a regular poop schedule, you put the extra insert in before he poops. I don't know how easy it is to predict this, but nevertheless, the diaper works with one insert as well. It looks great, but what's the big deal with these diapers anyway?
I spoke to a mom last weekend that just raved about these diapers. She told me that the fit on them was perfect, never had a leak. She loved the ease of washing the diapers, just sticking in two fingers to pull the insert out of the pocket, in the laundry bag and that's it. For poops, simply empty the diaper into the toilet, or better yet, purchase the spray attachment that cleans the poop right off before the initial wash. This may save you from odor as well.
Money: These diapers absolutely save you on money in the long run, which is just what we need in these economic times. The bumGenius! diapers cost less than $20 each and they grow with your baby from newborn to toddler. Start with 30 and you're set for your baby's whole diapering life! When you think that a pack of Pampers costs $25 and muliply that by 25 packs per year (one box every other week) and you've paid for the diapers in less than one year.
Environment: Do your part for the environment with cloth diapers. Here are some facts from the RealDiaperAssocation.org website.
- In 1988, over 18 billion diapers were sold and consumed in the United States that year.4 Based on our calculations (listed below under "Cost: National Costs"), we estimate that 27.4 billion disposable diapers are consumed every year in the U.S.
- The instructions on a disposable diaper package advice that all fecal matter should be deposited in the toilet before discarding, yet less than one half of one percent of all waste from single-use diapers goes into the sewage system.
- Over 92% of all single-use diapers end up in a landfill.
- In 1988, nearly $300 million dollars were spent annually just to discard disposable diapers, whereas cotton diapers are reused 50 to 200 times before being turned into rags.
- No one knows how long it takes for a disposable diaper to decompose, but it is estimated to be about 250-500 years, long after your children, grandchildren and great, great, great grandchildren will be gone.
- Disposable diapers are the third largest single consumer item in landfills, and represent about 4% of solid waste. In a house with a child in diapers, disposables make up 50% of household waste.
- Disposable diapers generate sixty times more solid waste and use twenty times more raw materials, like crude oil and wood pulp.
- The manufacture and use of disposable diapers amounts to 2.3 times more water wasted than cloth.
- Over 300 pounds of wood, 50 pounds of petroleum feedstocks and 20 pounds of chlorine are used to produce disposable diapers for one baby EACH YEAR.
Fashion: The bumGenius! diapers come in several pastel and bright colors to keep your baby's rump looking cute as ever.
Not Your Mother's Cloth Diaper: Thank God, you don't have to worry about diaper pins and waterproof covers on top of cloth diapers, making the cloth diaper process tedious, arduous, and just plain gross. bumGenius! diapers are easy to clean, easy to change, and easy to live life with. Just try a couple of them, and we know you will love this diaper.
Daycare Moms: It may be impossible to use cloth diapers when your baby is in daycare, but you can still take advantage of these on the weekends and at bed time, so don't be afraid to just try a couple of the bumGenius! diapers. Who knows? You might like them better than disposables, and may even be able to convince your daycare provider as well!


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By Barry Wilner
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SOCHI, Russia – Like old times, Russia is dominating Olympic figure skating.
Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the United States compete in the team ice dance short dance figure skating competition at the Iceberg Skating Palace during the 2014 Winter Olympics on Saturday Sochi, Russia.
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Yulia Lipnitskaya ,of Russia, waves after competing in the women's team short program figure skating competition at the Iceberg Skating Palace during the 2014 Winter Olympics, Saturday, in Sochi, Russia.
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The host nation's disappointment over not winning a gold medal in Vancouver will fade quickly if its skaters' performances in the new event of team figure skating carry on throughout the Sochi Games.
Fifteen-year-old Julia Lipnitskaia had the look of an Olympic champion on Saturday night, dazzling the home crowd with a near-perfect routine in the women's short program. Then it was Russia's backup pair, Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov, earning cheers as they routed the field in the free skate.
With only the men's and women's free skate and the free dance left to contest in Sunday's finale, Russia has 47 points to Canada's 41 and the United States' 34. Italy has 31 and Japan has 30.
With her countrymen chanting her first name, Lipnitskaia put on a mature presentation that had fans stomping their feet and showering the ice with flowers and dolls. Her flexibility and rapid rotation on her spins and jumps were reminiscent of Tara Lipinski when she won the 1998 Olympic gold.
And Lipinski, who was the same age at those games in Nagano, was on hand to see it.
"I have been saying the whole year that she is a dark horse," Lipinski said of Lipnitskaia – yes, the names are nearly the same. "I loved the energy and the fight in her."
Lipnitskaia easily outskated far more experienced competitors Carolina Kostner of Italy, who is in her third Olympics, and Japan's Mao Asada, in her second. The moment wasn't too big for her in any way.
"My trainers told me people would cry," she said. "They told me they would be clapping to the music. But I didn't think the spectators would be so loud. But it helped me to perform really well."
Just like her comrades.
In the new event, Russia has finished no lower than third in any of its four disciplines. The nation that for decades held a stronghold on figure skating medals as the Soviet Union and then as Russia – 51 in all – appears ready to hog the podium again after winning just two in Vancouver.
There was nothing ghastly about the performance of Stolbova and Klimov to music from "The Addams Family." Stepping in for world champs Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov, who won the short program, Stolbova and Klimov had the audience in the Iceberg at Sochi's Olympic Park on its feet well before they finished their routine.
"We feel a great amount of responsibility for our country and, of course, (had) the fans on our side," Klimov said through a translator. "We did believe we have to be ready for that and do our best."
It was a good night for the Americans, too. The team was seventh heading into Saturday, but thanks in great part to world champion ice dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White, it got back into contention for a medal. The 2010 ice dancing silver medalists quickstepped to the rescue by winning the short dance.
"We don't feel like we're trying to carry any sort of burden or load," White said. "We're counting on the whole team to pull through together and I think that's what makes us such a strong team."
But not nearly as strong as the Russians, led by a teenager who doesn't look her age.
Lipnitskaia's flexibility on every move, combined with her speed, not only enraptured the audience, but impressed the judges to the tune of 72.90 points.
"We are different," Lipinski said. "Even though I was young, I remember I wanted to show I could skate with the big guns."
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