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Re: Advice on SF Bay summer sailing
Originally Posted by crstophr View Post
I had no idea that the currents would persist long after high or low tide. Are there many accidents happening due to sailors being pushed into bridges, islands, and rocks? What are your thought processes as you near one of these areas? How do you judge the effect of the current visually?
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I agree, I looked carefully at the chart and the only submerged rock is on the west side and is 26ft below MLLW.
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Originally Posted by jblumhorst View Post
Watch the currents -- learn to read the chart in the back of the tide book. On a day with big tides, the currents around Treasure Island can wreck you in dozens of places on the Bay. For example, the towers on the Bay Bridge or the rocks at the east end of Treasure Island. Currents are a big deal here, and an important part of local knowlege.
Fair winds,
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Originally Posted by puddinlegs View Post
The rock is on the SF Bay chart.
Do you mean the shoal at 039 49.7391 N 122 21.4354 W? I suppose that might be a rock, but even at the lowest tide it would be well under the keel of any boat I am likely to sail.
Re: Advice on SF Bay summer sailing
The rock is on the SF Bay chart.
Re: Advice on SF Bay summer sailing
Originally Posted by jblumhorst View Post
Watch the currents -- learn to read the chart in the back of the tide book. On a day with big tides, the currents around Treasure Island can wreck you in dozens of places on the Bay. For example, the towers on the Bay Bridge or the rocks at the east end of Treasure Island. Currents are a big deal here, and an important part of local knowlege.
Fair winds,
Judy B
Sailing windy SF Bay
Re: Advice on SF Bay summer sailing
I had no idea that the currents would persist long after high or low tide. Are there many accidents happening due to sailors being pushed into bridges, islands, and rocks? What are your thought processes as you near one of these areas? How do you judge the effect of the current visually?
I guess I had better hang out S of the bay bridge for a while. It's hard to see all the boats out in the slot and not think "THAT! is where all the fun is! I'm going out there." I won't be getting near the golden gate anytime soon. This Sunday I'll be out practicing reefing and heaving to.
About wind forecasts... I've found and book marked most of the web based pages and installed just about every sailing/wind app on my phone and tablet.... I understand they all pull data from the same general set of computer models. I'm confused about how much trust I can put in what they're telling me. My surprise that day was in part because sailflow was calling for 9-12 and in reality it was more like 25. As a newbie I would have not gone out if I'd known wind would be like that. Now... I'm glad I did because it was a good lesson and helped get me over my fear of higher winds.
What about the various models? WRAMS 2km, WRAMS 8km, NAM 12km, and GFS 0.5... it appears that most sites and apps are using NAM 12km or GFS 0.5. But when you compare them to WRAMs... the predicted speed difference is huge.... and I'm wondering is there is a particular model that you trust more? why?
Re: Advice on SF Bay summer sailing
The thing to remember is to be vigilant. There is nothing the same about the wind and water they're dynamic. In the morning the breeze usually comes out of the North and then moves around to the West as the day kicks in anywhere from 5 to about 18 MPH. Around 1:30 you best be already reefed back. That's when the breeze can turn to wind (Wind is technically about 32 MPH). I have seen it pick up to 40. Of course the weather reports can give you clues but don't rely on them. I have ignored them plenty of times and had a wonderful sail when all the believers stayed home because of promises of rain.
Better to hug the North shore going out, beware of breakers (and surfers) on the South shore going in or out. The ships are annoyingly quick and most dangerous, the ferries and pukes can be as well so count on giving way regardless of law in some circumstances.
On mellow days stay in the gap toward the mouth where the real breeze is. On rough ones, avoid it. Richardson bay gets you out of the wind for an anchor or lunch. 'Cyclone alley' (by Sausalito water treatment plant) can slow you up as the breeze comes at you on all points. This can make getting back to the gap a pain.
It seems odd that green sailors and many wind-boarders like to hang out beneath the bridge so avoid that when crowded. Be advised of a rock to the West by NW of Alcatraz.
I have never seen a better sail than SF bay. Sailed it often with the MMBA over the years. Maybe I will again and see you out there.
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The skipper of Yachtsea said that he couldn't see the surfers initially as the height of the swells blocked his view. Had he known that waves were breaking there, he said he wouldn't gone inside the South Tower.
A Quick Guide to Sailing the Bay in Summer:
"Be as far west as you want to be before 2PM" – Richard Spindler (Editor, Latitude 38)
Everything you have read so far will help you understand the Bay's summer weather patterns. Your biggest consideration is your boat's and your own capabilities. There are multiple races held every Saturday and it is a good idea to understand where thier "usual" turning marks are and to recognize boats who are racing (if you see a whole lot of boats close together, going in the same direction, chances are it's a race). Nothing worse than being on Port and twenty or more J boats closing in on Starboard ("Frogger" anyone?). If you look out across the Bay and see boats either on the Marin or Oakland side and nothing in the middle – chances are it's blowing nuclear in the "Slot".
A Little info on tidal currents: Something like 90% of all the river water in California and Oregon south of Grant's Pass drains through the Bay – That's a lot of water! Thanks to PG&E, Irrigation, Salmon, Delta Smelt and the Sierra Club, the water flowing through the Delta is consistent throughout the summer and the current prediction models are pretty accurate (I use "Local Knowledge" and "Tide Tool"). This extra water flow makes the ebbs about two times stronger than the floods. These can easily flush a small boat out the Golden Gate. Become proficient at calculating current set and you will be OK.
We have two tide cycles a day on the Bay. The tidal currents are out of phase with the tides themselves. At the Golden Gate, there still will be major current even when it is a high or low tide for the following reasons: Assume that there is a rising tide at the Gate. The flood migrates up the Bay, into San Pablo, Suisun Bays and then into the Delta. When the Gate is at high tide, water is still rushing into the Bay in order to create the high tide further upstream. Sacramento and Stockton are about the only places I know of where slack current happens close to high or low tide. When the tide ebbs, an interesting phenomena happens. Part of the ebbing river water splits off and heads south joining the flood in the South Bay. That's right, there are times in each cycle where one side of the Bay is flooding and the other is ebbing. Look for tide lines and the color of water. Brown is ebbing river water (except when it is flooding the South Bay) and clear, green is ocean water which flooding in from the Gate (which also floods into the South Bay). Yes, it is complicated. A fun field trip is a visit to the Corps of Engineers Bay Model in Sausalito. Even more fun is to hear one of Kame Richard's tidal current lectures and demonstrations.
How do you sail in this stuff? Understand and pay attention to the current tables. Read the "signs" of current. The tide tables themselves are only interesting if you go into really skinny water. Generally speaking, the deeper the water, the more current you will experience. The San Francisco side of the Bay Bridge has lots more current than the Oakland side. There are no "boundary layers" on bridge piers or buoys. The current will take you right into them, or Alcatraz, Red Rock, Angel Is… Really work on identifying and calculating current set. Look for changes in color and tide lines. For maximum current relief, you need to be in 10 feet or less depth.
One of the other reasons that makes the South Tower such a joy is that the South Bay can be ebbing south of the Tower when it is flooding north of the Tower and vice versa. Also, the ridge in the Presidio forms an natural amphitheater which "pulls" some of air in from the Gate. Racers know that you can sometimes ride a lift if you are really close to the shore alongside Chrissy Field. This lift becomes a wind shift at the South Tower and is responsible for the "demon" If you are wanting to go outside the Gate, your best strategy is to sail over to "Hurricane Gulch" on the Marin side and short tack along the cliff on the north. Better wind and an eddy usually forms there. Returning, we like to be at center span on Starboard Board. This gives us a straight shot at the finish line at either GGYC or StFYC. Any closer to the South Tower and we have two gybes in that last mile.
Good luck and have fun sailing the Bay!
Re: Advice on SF Bay summer sailing
Originally Posted by puddinlegs View Post
No, the surf inside has nothing to do with the south tower demon. The STD is more about swirling winds, etc as you leave the lee of the south tower coming back into the Bay. Typically you're under spinnaker tooling along thinking life is good and you're close to being home, then WHAM!!!! About 30 seconds or so of a large puff that knocks the unaware and complacent on their ear. Been there, done that as have many many others. Latitude 38 has had a number of great pictures over the years of the south tower doing its thing to boaters.
Re: Advice on SF Bay summer sailing
Originally Posted by crstophr View Post
I'm looking for a bit of advice and perhaps encouragement on sailing in summer conditions on the SF bay. Back in December I bought an old Ranger 23 (short rig) and have been getting out on her about twice a month. I am brand new to sailing and this is my first boat. No lessons but I've been out with folks a few times prior to buying my own boat. I have avoided going out in any kind of small craft advisory and with one exception have managed to avoid winds much over 10-12kts as it's been fairly light winds over the winter.
Last weekend (Sunday) the forecast was 9-12 kts and I was sailing S of the Bay bridge and we had little to no wind. As we crossed under the bridge heading north near the city the wind started building and I looked out ahead and thought "damn, that's a lot of whitecaps, and gee the water sure looks crazy". Then we were in it. Waves from every direction, strong winds, and stronger gusts. I was suddenly way out of my comfort zone. We took some spray over the nose a couple of times and we may have momentarily hit 30 deg of heel. The boat seemed to take it all in stride. It never really tried to round up. I was tense and kept on for a few minutes before tacking back towards the bridge and heading back to calmer water and home. Looking later at the recorded wind graphs online gusts may have been hitting 30.
1st lesson for me is that it's time for decent sailing shoes. Sliding across the deck wasn't cool.
I'm trying to get a sense... is this what sumer conditions are likely to be on the bay? This weekend is calling for winds 15-25 and I'd really like to go sailing but I'm not 100% sure of my own abilities. We have a single reef in the main we can take advantage of with a single line system that I have yet to even try out.
How much wind is "too much stay home" wind for my little boat? Does small craft advisory always mean stay home? How often will these conditions happen over the summer?
What's your advice for a newbie sailor on the SF Bay in the summer?
The weather forecast is not very good at the detail of wind strengths. However, they invariably get the big picture right. Two GOOD indicators of wind strength to check are the height of the marine layer over the peninsula hills (higher, and spilling over the hills means strong winds) and the temperature difference between the bay area and central valley. The more the DIFFERENCE the greater the wind. Last weekend it was cool in the bay and warm inland.
I think my key advice would be to have a sail plan that works when the winds are strong, and be able to use it routinely, second nature. Practice reefing and un-reefing. When it's blowing 35 is a bad time to find out that the reefing line is too short or something.
You didn't say if you're sailing alone, but if you are being able to heave-to is really useful, especially to put a reef in or just have a snack
Finally, a dependable engine is worth it's weight in gold.
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Re: Need advice from cruisers
I'm aboard a 33 Morgan OI, love the boat, it's fantastic, sails very well, has lots and lots of storage space, relatively large cockpit, and the only regrets I have is not doing this many years earlier.
DON'T walk away from the pension - you'll need it. I've been saving and planning for this trip to the sunny south for more than a decade. I wish I would have made the trip a decade earlier. Now, at age 72, there are some things that are a bit too difficult to do, but fortunately, in the cruising community, there are lots of wonderful folks that are willing to help when you get in a bind. Of course, I do the same for them as well.
In contrast to others, I would NOT suggest selling everything, jumping aboard the boat and sailing off into the sunset. Instead, try living aboard for a couple weeks, then go for a couple months, etc..., and see if this is truely the lifestyle you wish. For many, it's not the way to go. It takes a lot of moxy to live aboard, and there are lots of things to consider, especially when you get older. Healthcare, good dental care, etc..., they're all very important factors to consider. For example, I cracked a tooth on the ICW in norhtern FLorida, saw a dentist in Palm Coast. Nice guy, wanted to sell me dental implants and dentures - cost $22,000. NAH! Still have the cracked tooth, but I'll baby it along until I get back to Maryland in April.
My best advice - take your time, think things over carefully, then make the decission.
Good Luck,
Need advice from cruisers
Thank you everyone for the excellent responses. I think I have a pretty good idea what needs to be done. I'll consider this a dead thread. You folks are amazing!!
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At which time I could try to convince her to dump the house? Of course, she knows nothing about any of this at the moment. Just wondering how most women out there would feel about this scenario?
You dump the house when you both realize that it's just not supporting your goals anymore. You move aboard (or she meets you in Hawaii and joins you aboard) and after a while you realize that you don't miss the house. That's when you let it go. But there's lots of ways to achieve that: you can put your stuff in storage and rent the house until you're sure living aboard suits you both. Expensive? Not compared to peace of mind, the sometimes very real sadness of parting with some sentimental things, and much cheaper than repurchasing everything if it doesn't work out.
One other thought - seasickness is one of the few things that gets better as you age and your sensitivity decreases. Depending on when she last tried sailing, might be worth another go.
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Cruisingdad has it right. People get excited about the idea and start thinking non-stop about it. Truth is it's not as complicated as we make it. Past 5 years we are now over 30,000nm and leaving Puerto Rico now for Colombia and then South Pacific. We departed Lk Mi out the St Lawrence in 08 with little planning and have not looked back. You learn most as you go but... a couple suggestions
I think one of the most important aspects is to learn as much as possible about the mechanics and electrical systems first. Personally I am not so "mechanical" but in the past 5 years I have learned a lot, usually with the help of other cruisers. The way things breakdown in a never ending fashion can be most frustrating. I am very careful about maintenance, even to a fault, but still there is no stopping the crap from failing.
Understand your diesel, the alternator and the charging/inverting system. Actually as I am typing I realize I could go on and on. Bottom line learn everything you can during this "wait Period" about your boat and it's systems. Being a good troubleshooter and fixer guy will do more for your cruising life then you can currently imagine. Welcome to the "club"!
Learn to do your own repairs. Learn your systems. Maintain your standing rigging and bilge pumps. Invest in a solar panel.
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We have just begun our cruising lives .
It got to the point that it was time to go , no more ifs , and, or, buts
There were things I still wanted to do to the boat , so it was either stay home and work on the boat till the money ran out or just GO !
We chose GO !
We have been living and cruising aboard our Gypsy since July , with one trip home for maintenance and minor repairs . We are headed home for Christmas then its a cruise to Key West .
At some point you say "ITS TIME TO GO !"
Need advice from cruisers
I'd just like to describe my situation as its probably a little unique. My wife probably wouldn't be coming along on this trip as she's never been crazy about sailing (believes she gets seasick so, she does). I will probably be going with a friend. I plan on flying home whenever convenient. And her fly to me wherever and whenever possible. I'm thinking it wouldn't be hard to get her to live aboard in a location like Hawaii. At which time I could try to convince her to dump the house? Of course, she knows nothing about any of this at the moment. Just wondering how most women out there would feel about this scenario? Of course this isn't too fair of a question to post on this site as most of the women are sailors and would jump at the chance to go. But, just thought I'd ask.
Jeff of Gypsea
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Try to time your departure so the last six months or so are live aboard, that gives you time to do a shake down cruise AND a break down cruise.
For example, move on board in June, and depart in October or so.
Save some of the upgrading for while you are out and about on the way down south as there are great deals to be found on the way, and some of the 'stuff' you think you must have now will be things you've found you can live without.
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Wow. What a great thread. I have nothing of importance to add but thanks to the OP for asking and everyone for replying!
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Wow. What a great thread. I have nothing of importance to add but thanks to the OP for asking and everyone for replying!
Re: Need advice from cruisers
Let me put it this way.
There were probably 300 boats in the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor in 1970 preparing to go "cruising". Every week one or two had to put off their trip because something had broken or wasn't done. By mid 1972 only three had actually left.
Almost everything that was holding up everyone was really something of little importance or could be fixed, replaced, painted, varnished or rebuilt ANYWHERE (even at sea in many cases), so why not go? You do not need a working radar to go sailing, you do not need to convert from a 110 volt A/C refer to a brand new 12 volt system to go sailing, you do not need the newest, fanciest chartplotter to go sailing, though of course any or all of these things may make your life easier.
At that point, watching our friends' dreams fade into oblivion I set a date, no matter what.
We left and as we sailed through French Polynesia, only one other boat got out (we were there 9 months).
It is always hard to make that first long distance jump. Even if you've done it before, especially if you are quite comfortable where you are; it can be a big step.
So I'd suggest you just set a date, weather permitting, and go for it. After 4 years you should have all the important stuff done. The rest can wait for a lovely anchorage where you can cool off from your labors in the crystal clear warm water (as if you're going to want to work then....).
Good sailing!
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The traditions of these Africans make up the rich Gullah-Geechee culture, and their lives are the focus of
Lowcountry Africana
, a free Web site that launched last Saturday with research guidance and records.
Its Lowcountry Lives link serves up life stories (hosted on project partner
We Relate
, a genealogy wiki) of Lowcountry ancestors. Right now, stories cover slaves from Drayton family plantations and their descendants.
An online Research Library has a reading room (which links to off-site articles), resources for teachers, and links to free African-American databases on the historical records site
, another Lowcountry Africana partner (most of Footnote's records are by subscription or pay-per-view).
The Search Records link takes you to the Lowcountry Africana Community in the
database (also hosted by We Relate, AfriQuest will launch June 19 with a range of user-contributed records).
There, you can browse records or search by name, place and/or keyword. Matches link to source information and images or transcriptions. For example, the 1871 Freedman's Savings and Trust Record listing for Ceasar Smith linked to a transcription showing his birthplace, residence, age, occupation, family members' names and more (naturally, you still want to find the original record).
The records also include bounty claims (shown below) and other documents from Freedmen's Bureau field reports, as well as wills, estate inventories, Southern Claims Commission records and papers from Drayton family records.
You can submit your own records to Lowcountry Africana, too (click Help on the
Submit Items page
for instructions).
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Tuesday, 01 April 2008
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Monday, 31 March 2008
Does Genealogy Make You Smart?
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American Mensa
—the 50,000-member association for highly intelligent people—is making genealogy the focus of its Sept. 12-14 colloquium in Salt Lake City.
Tracking Granny's Granny: The Genealogy Quest
, "Mensans" (who qualify for membership by scoring in the 98th percentile or higher on an intelligence test) will attend sessions on photos, genetic genealogy and online research. They'll also take a field trip to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints'
Family History Library
Registration is open to the public, so folks of humbler intellect are welcome, too. Me, I'd probably be unable to shake the feeling I'm back in sixth grade and just finished my long-division worksheet dead last. Maybe a Mensan, after completing his own family tree in record time, would help me defeat my brick walls.
On the other hand, I wonder which came first: the genius or the genealogy? All that ancestral research and reading and analysis is bound to prod your brain into forming new synapses and becoming sharper. Maybe even Mensa sharp.
If nothing else, perhaps sitting long enough in a roomful of certifiably smart people will make some of it rub off.
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Monday, 31 March 2008 12:44:32 (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Friday, 28 March 2008
Favorite Sites: Ohio Heritage, Tenement Tour, Animated History
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I wish I had time to thoroughly examine all the cool sites I come across every day (or maybe I should say, I wish I were more resistant to the temptation to surf).
So instead of bookmarking and then forgetting about today's finds (and later on, wondering why my Favorites list is so darn long), I'll share a few:
Ohio's Heritage Northeast
digital collections from universities, colleges, and public libraries in—guess where—Northeast Ohio. I found a
photo of Bolivar Road in Cleveland
, which is the street where I believe my ancestors lived in 1917.
ower East Side Tenement Museum
: The museum has been around for a few years, but I just took the virtual tour of a few of the preserved apartments. An
encyclopedia focuses on the neighborhood's historical residents
, with terms such as
(associations of Eastern European Jewish immigrants from the same hometown).
Growth of a Nation
: This 10-minute animated movie, complete with a voice-over reminiscent of my 7th-grade history teacher, nicely sums up the United States' progress from 13 Colonies to a country with 50 states.
Now, to go clean out some of those Favorites ...
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Thursday, 27 March 2008
Lowcountry Slave Genealogies Released March 29
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Lowcountry Africana
Web site will launch this Saturday with groundbreaking research on genealogies of slaves on Drayton family plantations in South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas and Barbados.
Researchers from the
University of South Florida Africana Heritage Project
and descendants of slaves who lived on the plantations collaborated to compile and interpret the records. The
Magnolia Plantation
Foundation of Charleston, SC, sponsored the project and free genealogy wiki
helped develop the site.
Many of the records came from
Drayton Hall Plantation
(shown below in about 1880), also in Charleston, which holds the family's papers.
Lowcountry Africana will focus not only on Drayton plantation records, but also on those from throughout the former rice-growing areas of the coastal Southeast, which gave rise to the
Gullah-Geechee culture
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Wednesday, 26 March 2008
See Vietnam Wall Names Free on Footnote
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's latest addition lets you search—free—for those whose names are etched into the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.
The site has added
an interactive exhibit
with a database of names linked to photos of each engraved name. The images are from a 460-foot photograph of the wall, consisting of 6,301 separate images "stitched" together.
The Wall bears 58,320 names of armed forces members who died or went missing while serving in the Vietnam War. (Names may be added on Memorial Day each year as the Department of Veterans Affairs receives additional information.)
You can search for a name or browse by a category, such as branch of service and hometown. You'll see a photo of each matching name. Click a match for details, including the person's hometown, rank, specialty (such as maintenance or field artillery), decorations, religion, marital status, birth date and death date and cause.
You also can click View on the exhibit's main page to see the entire stitched-together photo—then zoom in and move around. (As you might expect, the image takes a l-o-o-o-o-ng time to load.) Hover over a name, and a window pops up you can click for details on that person.
The black granite Vietnam Veterans Memorial was constructed in 1982 after its creator, 21-year-old architecture student Maya Ying Lin, won a competition to design it. A few years ago, I was one of its 3 million annual visitors. I most remember the solemn quiet—in contrast to the atmosphere around other memorials on the National Mall—and the sound of pencil scratchings as visitors made rubbings of names.
Most of Footnote's digitized historical records are available with a subscription or on a pay-per-view basis, but the virtual Wall exhibit is among the site's free offerings.
Click Comments, below, for additional tips on searching the database and viewing the Wall.
Genealogy Web Sites
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Wednesday, 26 March 2008 15:43:25 (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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RIP Phone Book, 1878-20??
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Phone books can be great resources for confirming locations of your recent ancestors, but those big yellow doorstoppers are dying a slow death, the
online newsmagazine
They've come a long way since the
first phone directory
, a one-pager listing all 52 telephone subscribers in New Haven, Conn., debuted in 1878. (The
describes many more mentionable moments in phone-book history.)
The hefty, floppy books were created as vehicles for companies to sell advertising, and last year, 615 million directories were printed in the US, creating revenues of $13.9 billion, according to the Yellow Pages Association. But more and more cell phones are unlisted, and many people turn to the Internet to find phone numbers—especially people under 30. (For example, the last time I used a phone book was when the electricity in my apartment went out and I couldn't find the number I needed
by text messaging Google
For more phone fun,
has many old pictures of telephone books, and some are listed for sale. You can browse by country, state and city.
Genealogy fun
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Wednesday, 26 March 2008 15:19:10 (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008
And the Telly Goes to ...
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Roots Television
show Psychic Roots—featuring
Family Tree Magazine
contributing editor Sharon DeBartolo Carmack interviewing
Psychic Roots
author Hank Jones—has won a coveted Telly Award!
Telly Awards
, in case you hadn't heard, "honor the very best local, regional and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions, and work created for the Web."
Three other Roots Television shows won, too—a nice feat for the genealogy-focused online television channel's first year. Today, on
"Telly Tuesday,"
you can watch them all.
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 15:05:10 (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Monday, 24 March 2008
Donated DNA to SMGF? You Could Get a $19.50 Profile
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If you've participated in the
Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation
's (SMGF) DNA study, you may be able to get your genetic genealogy test results for just $19.50.
SMGF's collaboration with the DNA-enabled social networking site
has provided an avenue for SMGF to release the DNA profiles in what study director Scott Woodward calls a "compelling, confidential" way.
To be eligible for the offer, you must have ordered an SMGF participation kit prior to Oct. 23, 2007, and returned the properly completed kit to SMGF postmarked no later than Dec. 31, 2007.
If that's you, you'll be able to access your mitochondrial (mt) DNA profile (with genetic information passed from mothers to their children), along with the pedigree information you submitted to SMGF, online through Genetree.
You'll need a free Genetree basic membership to view your profile. It'll take about two weeks for your request to be filled—
get instructions for obtaining your results on Genetree's "unlock" page
The SMGF study started in 2000 at Brigham Young University's Center for Molecular Genealogy, with researchers collecting blood samples and pedigree charts at genealogy conferences. The goal? Build a database of DNA and corresponding genealogical information.
Several years ago, the project outgrew the university and moved to SMGF, where the database now contains nearly 100,000 DNA samples and more than 6 million corresponding genealogical records from people in 170 countries.
You can
search SMGF databases
and contact potential relatives through the site, but until now, participants didn't receive their test results.
On Genetree, which launched in beta last October, you can create profiles for yourself and deceased relatives, add DNA test results or order an mtDNA test ($99 or $149), search for relatives, share memories, build a family tree, and invite relatives and friends to participate.
Genealogy Web Sites
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Monday, 24 March 2008 09:55:15 (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Jury ends another day in anti-freeze poison deliberation
(Cleveland) - The jury will continues deliberations Wednesday morning at the Justice Center trial of Holly McFeeture. They adjourned for the day Tuesday just after 4:00 p.m.
The Old Brooklyn woman is accused of poisoning her live-in boyfriend Matthew Podolak with whom she had two children in July 2006.
McFeeture is accused of spiking Podolak's ice tea with antifreeze. She is charged with aggravated murder.
The defense called just two witnesses Monday before the jury received the case.
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text: ...or really one night, I did this strangest thing under my bed covers. :-DI had this roll of masking tape, and you just won't believe what I did with it 8-)I would take it and peel it off the roll fairly rapidly and right at the place where the adhesive was pulling loose there would be this glow. I generated light from a roll of tape.Then today I read this........ Weirdhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_sc/sci_scotch_tape_surpriseTape measure: X-rays detected from Scotch tapeBy MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer Malcolm Ritter, Ap Science Writer NEW YORK – Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape.It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers.Who knew? Actually, more than 50 years ago, some Russian scientists reported evidence of X-rays from peeling sticky tape off glass. But the new work demonstrates that you can get a lot of X-rays, a study co-author says."We were very surprised," said Juan Escobar. "The power you could get from just peeling tape was enormous."Escobar, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, reports the work with UCLA colleagues in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.He suggests that with some refinements, the process might be harnessed for making inexpensive X-ray machines for paramedics or for places where electricity is expensive or hard to get. After all, you could peel tape or do something similar in such machines with just human power, like cranking.The researchers and UCLA have applied for a patent covering such devices.In the new work, a machine peeled ordinary Scotch tape off a roll in a vacuum chamber at about 1.2 inches per second. Rapid pulses of X-rays, each about a billionth of a second long, emerged from very close to where the tape was coming off the roll.That's where electrons jumped from the roll to the sticky underside of the tape that was being pulled away, a journey of about two-thousandths of an inch, Escobar said. When those electrons struck the sticky side they slowed down, and that slowing made them emit X-rays.So is this a health hazard for unsuspecting tape-peelers?Escobar noted that no X-rays are produced in the presence of air. You need to work in a vacuum — not exactly an everyday situation."If you're going to peel tape in a vacuum, you should be extra careful," he said. But "I will continue to use Scotch tape during my daily life, and I think it's safe to do it in your office. No guarantees."James Hevezi, who chairs the American College of Radiology's Commission on Medical Physics, said the notion of developing an X-ray machine from the new finding was "a very interesting idea, and I think it should be carried further in research."


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PHOTOS: Work on new Goodyear blimp progressing
(Akron) - Goodyear is hard at work on the construction of its newest airship.
This week marks an important milestone in the company's plans to replace its current fleet of blimps. Workers are installing an envelope over the aluminum and carbon fiber framework of the first of its new-design airships.
The airships are supplied by German zeppelin manufacturer ZLT Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik and being built with Zeppelin and Goodyear teams at Goodyear's hangar in nearby Suffield.
Compared to the current fleet of Goodyear blimps, the new airship models will be longer, faster and more maneuverable. The envelope being applied to the new airship is made of polyester with a DuPont™ Tedlar® film. As it is stretched over each metal truss, the envelope is attached. When complete, the helium-filled envelope will have a volume of 297,527 cubic feet.
"This is a major project that requires the dedication and skilled handiwork of these combined teams of airship experts. The result will be the only Zeppelin model airship in North America. It represents a strong investment in Goodyear's airship program, helping to ensure that Goodyear will remain at the forefront of aerial broadcast coverage and support," said Nancy Ray, Goodyear's director of Global Airship Operations.
Upcoming construction milestones, according to Ray, include the attachment of the airship's tail fins and passenger gondola –scheduled to happen this year. In early 2014, key steps will be the crew training, airship certification, installation of the electronic video boards and eventual christening.
For more than 87 years, the Goodyear blimps have appeared at the most watched news, entertainment and sporting events around the world. The blimps also heavily support local and national charities, and community emergency response programs.
Goodyear owns and operates three airships in the United States.
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During World War II, the Soviet Union was invaded by Nazi Germany which resulted in the death of over 25 million Russians, but, for some inexplicable reason, many young Russians appear to have a fascination with Nazism in the first decade of the 21st century. There are thousands of skinheads who wear Nazi regalia and ape the racism of those who killed their grandparents. A group of skinheads in Russia have been implicated in the murder of at least 21 people of various ethnic backgrounds. They are currently charged with the murder of two Uzbek citizens in Moscow, but the investigation appears to have found links between this group of skinheads and the killing of 19 other "individuals with non-Slavic appearances."
After the skinheads were arrested some of them began confessing to the murder of other people who are from non-Russian backgrounds. They boasted to investigators they murdered a Kazakh man and proceeded to chop up his body and bury them in the courtyard of the apartment building.
An outsider can only suspect the Russian education system has failed to offer students awareness of the dangers of Nazism and the impact of the German invasion on the Russian people. There apparently is a serous void among Russian youth in understanding the brutality of Nazism in their own country.


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Brad Craig
Won SEC 200 breaststroke championship with 1:55.53 mark... Swam to a career-best 53.13 seconds time in the 100 breast at SEC Championships... Earned Honorable-mention All-America status as an individual at NCAA meet with 10th place finish in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 53.16... Earned honorable-mention All-America status twice as a part of 9th-place 200 medley relay (1:25.96) and 10th-place 400 medley relay (3:08.56)... Earned 12 individual wins including sweeps of the breaststroke events at LSU, Kentucky, South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia... Led UT in 100 breast, 200 breast and 200 I.M.
Earned nine wins on the season ... Scored in 200 medley relay, 100 breaststroke, 200 breaststroke and 200 I.M. against Louisville ... Swept the 100 and 200 breaststroke against Louisville, at Kentucky, against Virginia, at Florida and in the Tennessee Invitational ... 100 breaststroke time of 53.64 at the Tennessee Invitational ranks fourth all-time at UT ... 1:55.49 mark in the 200 breaststroke at the Tennessee Invitational is second in the Big Orange record books ... Took fifth place in the 200 breaststroke at SEC championships ...Placed ninth in the 100 breaststroke at the SEC championships ... Finished 22nd in the 100 breaststroke at the NCAA championships
SEC Freshman Swimmer of the Week Award for his performance against Virginia, when he won the 200 breaststroke, took second in the 100 breaststroke and finished third in the 400 I.M. ... SEC Freshman Swimmer of the Week Award when winning the 200 breaststroke and placing second in the 100 breaststroke against Florida ... At the NCAA Championships, earned a season best 54.20 in the 100 breaststroke ... placed 10th in the 200 I.M. (1:47.93), eighth in the 100 breaststroke (54.71) and third in the 200 breaststroke (1:57.18) at the SEC Championships ... At the Texas Invite, finished 12th in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 1:58.88, 17th in the 400 I.M. with a time of 3:56.06 and eighth on the 400 freestyle relay
Three-time Olympic Trial qualifier in the 100 and 200 breaststrokes and the 200 I.M. ... Michigan Div. 2 State record holder in the 200 medley relay, 200 I.M., 100 breaststroke and 400 free relay ... 2007 National Junior teammember ... named Michigan Div. 2 High School Swimmer of the Year ... Named Swimmer of the Year twice in the Saginaw Valley Conference ... 16-time All-America ... coached by Betsy Kolm of Barracuda Swim Team.
Born Jan. 10, 1989 in Midland, Mich. ... Parents are Brian and Maureen Craig... Brother Drew is a freshman backstroker at UT
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'With the game tied, the Sabres scored off a turnover by Raycroft to take a 5-4 lead with 5:19 remaining. Daniel Paille dumped the puck into the Toronto zone and Raycroft stopped the puck behind the net and fired a pass up the left boards. Pominville though knocked down the clearing attempt at the half wall and centered the puck to Briere, who fired the puck past Raycroft, who never regained solid position in the crease.'
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I'm getting ready to start on my armor. I've done a lot of reading around and you all have some AWESOME ideas. I'm going with aluminum flashing and fiberglassing the back to give it some strength. Any tips for someone who hasn't used f/g before? Thanks.


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I will give my personal opinion here. Demand for teachers in China is relatively high and on daily basis the demand keep increasing due to the increasing demand for English proficiency as a requirement for hiring Chinese for jobs. The demand is for Persons who are native english Language Speakers or those with good western accents. This placed a lot more pressure on Parents to make sure that their wards get the best out of Education by insisting their wards are taught English Language. As a result of Chinese One Child Policy, Children get the highest attention from both parents due to the fact that they the only children at home. To the extent that some parents hire teachers to teach their Children one-on-one basis. There is a myth out there which deters others from venturing. I will also not just put it out there that the there is no incidence of cheating or scams these are evils in every society but it is good to note here that it is rewarding to be a teacher in china. It is only individuals who are in a hurry to make money and will not take time to recruit the teaching offers due to desperation that get cheated. It is also a fact that guanxi ( Social Connections) is a necessary social capital in china in order to succeed.
I Visited China 2 years ago on an internship program organised by a chinese company, where I got addicted to Mandarin and I wanted to learn it. I therefore returned to china again just to learn the language then I met a lot more agents who paid me like 130 RMB ($21) and as a student, I managed it till I completed and applied to my masters in World Economics on Chinese government Schorlarship which I got and had another teaching job paying me so well. I wont put the figure out there but if anyone cares to know, they can check up on line or better still, ask any friend living in china.
You need to visit china first and tour the place, know the people well, establish good contacts and be ready to learn. then you can come back again to make it big afterall it wont cost much. sometimes good connections could even get an individual all that is needed to comfortably stay in china without going through all the forth and back experiences I had.
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Police Chaplains Told to Stop Invoking Jesus
For the past seven years Pastor Terry Sartain has ministered to police officers and their families in Charlotte, N.C. Whenever the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Dept. invited him to deliver an invocation, he prayed in "the name of Jesus."
But not anymore.
Volunteer chaplains in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Dept. will no longer be allowed to invoke the name of Jesus in prayers at public events held on government property.
Major John Diggs, who oversees the chaplain program, told television station WSOC that the policy is a "matter of respecting that people may have different faiths and that it is not aimed at any one religion or denomination."
Sartain, the pastor of Horizon Christian Fellowship, told Fox News Radio he was scheduled to give an invocation at a promotion ceremony. Before the event, he received a telephone call from his superior major.
"I was told chaplains can no longer invoke the name of Jesus on government property," Sartain said. "(He said) if I could refrain from that during the invocation he would appreciate that."
Sartain said he was surprised by the telephone call. The pastor said he's prayed "consistently" in the name of Jesus at past police department events without any issues.
"I'm very sad about it," he said. "I'm a pastor and Jesus is the only thing I have to offer to bless people – his life and his person."
"It brings about a very real concern about where we are heading as a nation," he said. "I serve a God who loves people unconditionally, who died for their sins on the cross, who wants to reconcile himself to them and love them where they are at – and now I'm told I can't bless people as a result of that."
The police department said he could still pray – just not to Jesus.
So to whom was the Christian minister supposed to pray?
"That was my question," Sartain said. "If I'm going to pray – what should I pray?"
He said the police department wanted him to deliver a "secular prayer."
"Even when I wasn't a Christian – in my past – I didn't even know what a secular prayer was," he said. "Why even pray if it's to the one who's in the room? That could be anybody."
Sartain said the new policy has put him in a difficult spot.
"You don't want to compromise your faith," he said. 'At the same time you want to honor those who are in charge over you."
So Sartain asked the police department to withdraw his name from consideration for future public prayers.
"I didn't really need to do that as a chaplain," he said of the public prayers. "I still wanted to have the influence with the police officers and their families."
At least some people in the Charlotte area support the decision to remove the "Jesus-centric" prayers.
"It's past time when they should've made a policy," ACLU member Jim Gronquist told WSOC. "It's improper to mix up religion with the function of state agents, and as long as they're state agents, they should not be able to do that."
Sartain said it's apparent that "Christians for the most part are targeted in these days that we exist in."
"As Christians in the United States of America – what we are saying as believers – is we want the same rights and privileges as everybody else," he said. "Let the playing field remain level."
Todd is the author of "Dispatches From Bitter America." Here's what Sarah Palin said about the book: "It's especially relevant because Todd lays out in detail the Obama Administration's war on religious liberty…Todd sheds light on this and other "fundamental transformation" acts using homespun humor and Twainesque irony." Click here to get your copy!
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'"You need to earn your ice," Rivet said. "Right now I don't think I'm playing up to my capabilities. I need to be better. I need to be better to help this team. It was an eye-opener [Tuesday] night. I pretty much got sat for most of the game. If I have the opportunity, I'm going to be better next game."'
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The operation used undercover male police officers, who approached male suspects and attempted to elicit conduct for which a punishment of lifetime sex offender registration could be imposed. During the operation, police officers used derogatory, anti-gay language. After the operation, the police made a special request that prosecutors not show the defendants any leniency and instead prosecute them for indecent exposure, which would require lifetime sex offender registration. A total of nineteen men were arrested. After details of the operation became public, the chief of police retired amid controversy, and the city agreed to adopt new police practices. However, the district attorney continued to prosecute the defendants.
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By Shelby O. Mitchell
Respondents to this year's survey of spending trends vis-a-vis architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) firms reveal a cautious optimism about their partnerships.
On the bright side, the number of projects for which cities, counties, townships, special districts, and states hired outside expertise — and the amount they invested in consulting services — last year remained about the same as in 2009. Nearly 90% of respondents reported hiring an AEC firm over the past year. Of those, 69% expect to hire firms for as many or more projects in the coming year.
However, most seem tentative about their budgets. While slightly more than one-third (36%) expect to spend the same amount, another third (30%) expects to spend less, and only 19% anticipate spending more.
Based on the types of services the firms are providing, infrastructure managers are preparing for the future.
* New question in 2011
More of you than at any time over the last three years are hiring consultants for long-term planning. Responses to our annual survey of AEC hiring trends include:
Source: PUBLIC WORKS
While design is still the clear leader, accounting for 92% of respondents' recent work, there's been a significant surge in planning compared to building (see chart below). The shift began last year as public works departments felt the impact of the housing crash and resulting decline in tax revenues. Though public works departments are not alone in experiencing shortfalls, it appears some projects that were shelved are now back on the table.
The Nonresidential Construction Index (NRCI) Report has tracked the same trend. The quarterly survey of construction industry executives is published by FMI, a management consulting and investment banking firm. Last fall, the report predicted spending on public construction projects would slow because of "sharp declines in state and municipal budgets [in 2011]."
The second quarter 2011 report was more optimistic, with panelists starting to see more bids coming in and projects on the boards. Their biggest concern with public projects is funding, as politicians continue to debate infrastructure spending levels. This report may indicate even more conservative times are to come. Although their livelihoods depend on it, 87% of panelists believe in paying down the federal deficit even if it means cutting infrastructure spending.
While they await approval of construction budgets, managers can tap federal financing for planning efforts.
"These are tight times for many communities, and public agencies may feel pressured to put aside planning efforts in addition to building," says Mike Matichich, global technology leader, Financial Services for the engineering firm CH2M Hill. Programs like the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Sustainable Communities Regional Planning Grants (which we'll cover in depth in our September issue) and the U.S. Economic Development Administration's Planning and Local Technical Assistance Programs, provide vital seed money for long-term improvements.


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If you're tired of the same old fare, mix it up with this collection of menus chock full of new flavors for the holidays.
A Turkeyless ThanksgiivngBe thankful on Thursday for some new serving ideas. Contemporary ingredients turn up in Greens with Roasted Corn and Pepper Salad, Blue Corn Bread Dressing, and sautéed duck, yet this whole menu is grounded in tradition, moving smoothly from Mushroom Turnovers to Mincemeat Charlottes. It's familiar enough to feel friendly, but adventurous enough to impress even the most jaded palate.
Hawaiian ThanksgivingAdd some Hawaiian flair to your Thanksgiving table with these island-inspired Turkey Day recipes.
Delta Roasted Turkey ThanksgivingDitch your usual cooking method this year and try a two-temperature method that guarantees a crispy outside and super moist inside for your main dish. Pair with delicious sweet potato cups and Grand Mimosas for a festive midday holiday meal.
Just-Us Thanksgiving MenuThis easy—yet impressive—menu features traditional ingredients in innovative ways. The star is turkey tenderloins stuffed with a savory mushroom filling and sides include a Roasted-Corn Bread Stuffing and frozen Apple and Ice Cream Pie.
Thanksgiving on the BeachFood photographer Shelly Strazis shares recipes and planning tips for an incredible Mexican-inspired Thanksgiving meal.
Thanksgiving with a Korean TwistThanksgiving in Korea, called Chusok, celebrates the new rice harvest, and dessert is always made from the new crop. Fuse American and Korean traditions by serving Maple Roasted Turkey as the main course and Pumpkin Rice Pudding for dessert.
Hold the TurkeyKeep tradition—no turkey required. Pork loin stars in this classic Thanksgiving meal complete with cornbread dressing and roasted vegetables.
New Flavors for the HolidayFor a change of pace, give this Italian-inspired menu a try. It features beef tenderloin rather than traditional turkey and polenta instead of mashed potatoes.
Cajun-style Turkey FeastServe an economical, efficient and sure-to-please menu flavored with great Cajun spice. This casual menu of Cajun Turkey with Dirty Rice Stuffing, Roasted Turnips, Sweet Potatoes, Apples, and Dried Cranberries, and Pumpkin-Streusel Cheesecake will make guests serve up seconds.
A Southwest ThanksgivingDenver chef Sean Yontz's Thanksgiving feast balances traditional Thanksgiving flavors with fresh Latin twists. Chiles heat up sweet potatoes in Chile-Spiced Sweet Potato Tamales and give mashed potatoes an extra kick in Chipotle-Corn Mashed Potatoes. Mexican cheese gives new life to cauliflower and green beans while a Guajillo-Tamarind glaze transforms the classic turkey.
Spice Up ThanksgivingHere's a quicker, spicy alternative to Thanksgiving–Jerk Turkey Cutlets with Cranberry-Habanero Salsa. This main dish is particularly great for small gatherings; the cutlets cook quickly and serve four people. We guarantee no one will say, "Turkey again?" after this meal.
Fresh Flavors for ThanksgivingChange the pace of Thanksgiving dinner with updated Southern family classics like Grilled Bourbon-Cranberry Turkey Tenderloin. Old-school dressing is converted into fluffy Pecan-Buttermilk Dressing Cakes and traditional green bean casserole replaced with Sweet-and-Sour Green Beans.
Small Kitchen, Big Thanksgiving FeastThis traditional feast is big on style and flavor, but features time- and space-saving tricks.
Dine Outside On Turkey DayDon't pass up the chance to enjoy Thanksgiving supper outdoors if the weather is nice. Fill a big table with platters of Two-Alarm Deep-Fried Turkey, bowls with Cranberry Compote, Classic Parmesan Scalloped Potatoes, and your family's must-have sides, breads, and salads. Part of the fun to this get-together is standing in line, plate in hand, waiting your turn to serve yourself. Settle around the outdoor tables, enjoy dinner, and remember to save some room for Sweet Potato-Pecan Cupcakes With Cream Cheese Frosting. Serves 8.
Southern California Thanksgiving MenuTurkey Day gest a SoCal twist: It's on the grill with lots of sunshine!
Casual Texas Thanksgiving MenuChef Maiya Keck of Marfa, Texas, shares her relaxed feast with family and friends.
New Traditional Thanksgiving MenuPut the spark back in Thanksgiving with seven fresh recipes we promise will mingle beautifully with your family's time-honored dishes.
A Smokin' Good ThanksgivingJoin this family in their deliciously untraditional tradition.
Host A Unique Potluck ThanksgivingIf you're the ring leader of a turkey day gathering, choose a fun flavor theme to help guests select a recipe to bring. Italian Thanksgiving, anyone?
An Asian-inspired ThanksgivingBring bright Asian flavors to your dinner table with a fun-filled holiday menu.
An Inspired Vegetarian ThanksgivingThis vegetarian menu can take center stage at any Thanksgiving table. You'll never miss the meat.
Thanksgiving by the Sea MenuThe perfect feast starts with seasonal favorites and just a dash of creative coastal flavor. The secret is in the clever additions–and making enough for seconds.
A Seaside Feast MenuGather around the table for a Thanksgiving dinner that is big on coastal flavor but simple to prepare.
A Diner Thanksgiving MenuTired of the same old holiday thing? Shake off tradition with this fun, casual menu.
Deep South Meat 'n' Three MenuConsider this our upscale version of the classic, Southern-style blue-plate special (complete with blue china!)
Texas Meat 'n' Three MenuThis Texas-inspired meal includes the perfect blends of spices and pungent flavors to bring you an unforgettable, crowd-pleasing feast.
Lowcountry Meat 'n' Three MenuLove an authentic lowcountry meal? Then this meat 'n' three is a must-make this holiday.
Warm and Rustic Texas Thanksgiving MenuClassic flavors with a rustic Texan twist make for an elevated Thanksgiving menu. We can't wait to get our hands on that Pumpkin Cheesecake Tart!
A Side-Centric ThanksgivingAward-winning cookbook author Deborah Madison's Thanksgiving tradition is to buck tradition! Instead, each year she creates a new menu featuring the beautiful produce native to her home in New Mexico.
Thanksgiving Sideshow MenuWe don't want to dismiss the turkey on Thanksgiving Day, but after a helping of these flavorful sides you may not have any room for it!


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|I didn't do anything special to get my girl to accept the vet touching her all over. I took her there from the time I got her here from Germany. All the office girls come and pet her and get kisses. She even gives my vet kisses when he is done. I did touch her all over as a puppy, look between her toes, under the paw at the pads, look in her ears, look in her mouth, look under her tail on an everyday basis at any time of the day I thought of it. Due to that my vet loves seeing her. He knows her so well that he knows her thresholds for whatever he is going to do. She is never restrained because she doesn't have to be. I sit in front of her and talk to her and he gives her the vaccinations or whatever and she deals with it as long as she can see me. I gave her autoimmune shots for 18 months by myself without anyone helping. I just put her in a sit, gave her shot in the loose neck skin, and then gave her a treat. The only thing that makes her nervous is if she sees the needle. My vet knows this and keeps it covered with his hand when we go. I got the shot ready, laid the syringe down, then called her over for the shot. After the shot and treat I would show her the syringe and let her see me throw the needle in the sharps bin and it didn't bother her as she would see the needle leave (in her mind).
No Touchy!
So today was another vet visit with Pike, and it came to my attention that he HATES being held for long periods and especially protests when his face is being held. The vet said it's something I need to work on because it's incredibly hard for him to do examinations while Pike is spazzing out. One of the first times it took him 10 minutes just to hear his heart because he kept squirming and whining and would not sit still! Pike generally is very calm in new situations (except for walks as I've posted about earlier) and has even fallen asleep during puppy class orientation with lots of puppies barking and squirming around. (We were all sitting while the trainer went over some things). So it's only when he's being held on to and confined.
So I guess my question is what should I be doing to get him to be calm and relaxed when being held around both body and head? The vet said treats but told me to be aware that he could be distracted only by the treats and may not realize I'm holding his head with my hands which would defeat the point. Wondering if anyone has succesfully got their dog to get used to be handled especially at the vet.
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Programs you will need (both from a command line):
- rsync (a *nix utility that comes with Mac OS X and can be installed for cygwin)
- ssh (PuTTY for Win32 works fine)
- Build the doxygen documentation on your computer, making sure the warning file is empty at the end
- Open a command line terminal (all commands take place in the terminal)
- Assuming your ASL sources are stored at ~/opensource/, execute the following rsync command:
rsync -az --progress ~/opensource/submission/adobe/documentation/html/ cmsprod.corp.adobe.com:/iwmnt/us/main/opensource/WORKAREA/default/ ; echo "rsync done."
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- When the rsync is complete, ssh to cmsprod.corp.adobe.com with your LDAP username and password
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- Execute the "asl_deploy.sh" script. If you get any errors OTHER THAN notifications saying a file is the same/similar as one that already exists, the update will not complete.
- After about 10-15 minutes you should see the public web site updated.
#!/bin/bash rm dummy.txt cd /iwmnt/us/main/opensource/WORKAREA/default find . -print > /user/USERNAME/dummy.txt chmod 644 /user/USERNAME/dummy.txt /usr/iw-home/local/AdobeUtil/Deploy/content-deploy --target=P --deploy-ID=opensource --file-list=/user/USERNAME/dummy.txt echo "done."


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Hi all,
Was thinking of taking the trek up to NYC on the Saturday (the 19th?) during the NYC ComicCon.
Anyone else from TDH going?
If so, anyone up for a TDH lunch?
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Hi all,
Was thinking of taking the trek up to NYC on the Saturday (the 19th?) during the NYC ComicCon.
Anyone else from TDH going?
If so, anyone up for a TDH lunch?
man, if i was moving up there a month earlier I would totally be down man. have a blast!
I'll be there by myself on fri & sat, and with kids and wife and fam on sunday "kids day"
see you there.
I'll be there friday and Saturday. I'd be up for somethng if I'm not working at tv time (I'm on the volunteer crew)
Is it the 19th of April???
:skull El1te
It's friday the 18- sun the 20th
I was thinking of an informal, unofficial, TDH Lunch at around 2 pm on the 19th during NYCC at the "Landsdowne Road" Irish Pub/Restaurant located at 599 10th Avenue, not too far from the Javits Center.
The Pub seems reasonably priced, and you can find info here:
Let me know how is going to NYCC and if youre interested?
I might be there! Work is my nemesis....
Man I wish I could go! I have Tekkoshocon the weekend of the 11th and I dont think i can go to another con that close :( grrr
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I'll be at NYCC, but I planned on being in costume most of the day on Saturday. I don't know if I'd be a problem by walking in there in armor.:p
I'll be there!!!
I'll probably be in costume on saturday too jimmy, haha, so don't feel too awkward.
yeah OSK i'm down for a lunch... i'm 18 tho so i dont know how well they'll like me in a pub lol.
Prepare to get stopped for pictures. Unfortunately my beskar'gam isn't ready yet but I might come dressed as a sith lord on Sat (thats going to play well on the subway). Looking forward to seeing everyone who's attending.
Looks like I cant make it up after all folks. Sorry!


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During the past several years, American leaders have urged the Pakistan government to seriously engage the Taliban within its borders. A series of Taliban blunders such as invading provinces they promised not to attack and suicide bombings have resulted in the Pakistan army's new aggressive actions against their enemy. The Pakistan government has placed a bounty on the head of Baitullah Mehsud, leader of the Taliban in northwest tribal regions. There are also air strikes which have led to claims that dozens of "militants" have been killed. There is evidence the Pakistan army is employing military strategies borrowed from Americans such as bombing villages in which alleged Taliban leaders are residing.
There is no doubt a significant segment of the Pakistan population has grown weary with Taliban excesses such as suicide bombing. But, military action in itself will not destroy the Taliban or other militants. Pakistan needs a powerful economic development program together with one which creates an effective education system that provides for poor children an opportunity to obtain technological skills leading to good paying jobs. Air strikes help, but schools and jobs are much more effective in defeating the Taliban.
Bounties may gain media attention, but as a Taliban commander told a reporter: "We are like a suicide squad. Mujahideen(holy warriors) do not care about head money. Our mission goes on." Reading and writing and arithmetic will always out bid bounties.


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/// City of Los Angeles Files $10 Million Suit Against Time Warner Cable
The city of Los Angeles is suing Time Warner Cable for nearly $10 million in allegedly unpaid franchise fees, a backlog that stretches back to 2010. In a complaint filed Friday with the United States District Court for the Central District of California, city attorney Mike Feuer charged Time Warner Cable with bilking the municipality to the tune of $9.7 million, a sum that includes $7.19 million in unpaid 2010 and 2011 franchise fees and another $2.51 million in delinquent payments from the previous two years. "Time Warner Cable has derived billions of dollars from its cable television franchise in the city of Los Angeles, yet stubbornly continues to flout its statutory obligations to compensate the city … fully for this privilege," the complaint reads, before going on to note that the cable operator generates "more than $1 billion in revenue every two years from the residents of Los Angeles, a sum dwarfing the fees it is required to pay the city in return." The city's attorneys said that the unpaid franchise fees and Public, Educational, Government use fees represent millions that could be put to use to pay firefighter and police officer salaries and maintain parks and libraries. While the charges in the suit are characteristically byzantine, the city's central argument would appear to boil down to the "precipitous and wrongful withholding" of contractually owed monies. Feuer's office seems particularly enraged by the fact that the operator underpaid by as much as $5.22 million at the end of the city's 2010-11 financial year, which only served to "exacerbate the City's well-publicized fiscal crisis." The defendants cited in the 24-page complaint are Time Warner Cable, Inc., Time Warner Cable Pacific West, Time Warner Cable Enterprises and the Time Warner Entertainment Advance/Newhouse Partnership.
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Welcome to the forum!
Some educational what?
I'm coming by from Tennessee and glad to be here with you folks. I look forward to some educational discourse,
Welcome to the forum!
Some educational what?
Welcome Randy from down in the swamp. Enjoy..
Welcome aboard! Glad to have you here with us.
Welcome to the forum, glad you're here! New guy buys cigars.
Buys cigars? How about previously owned? Slightly used? I've gotta make a run my the bus station.
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True, he's not offering to cut whole departments, but neither was his opponent, nor was his opponent offering budget cuts of any kind. In the end, all budget cuts affect my bottom line because ultimately as a taxpayer, it's my money they're taking for the budget. If they cut the budget at all, it means less of my money will be taken in the future, and I like that.
there were a lot of things i liked about ron paul, but he lost me with his 1930's type isolationist ideas.
Quote from: kathyp on April 27, 2009, 12:53:44 PMthere were a lot of things i liked about ron paul, but he lost me with his 1930's type isolationist ideas. His approach is not so much isolationist as it is to be "friends" with the rest of the world, and have business trade with other countries, but stay out of regional politics. Iow, his focus is on defense, not offense and to be friends, not saviors.
his focus is on defense, not offense and to be friends, not saviors.
isn't that what the carter years, and to some extent the clinton years, were about?i don't have a problem with not being a savior. i think our actions should be in our own best interest, or not at all.
after the USSR broke up and the cold war was supposedly over, we started doing peace and love stuff, much of it with the UN.
i suggest that we act in our interest, and a good first step would be to pop a couple of subs in the ports of somalia and blow them the rest of the way back to the stone age. when they are behaving themselves, we can send the subs back with some food.
Quote from: reinbeau on April 26, 2009, 10:42:19 AMQuote... and yet, here he is finding ways to cut the budget without major impact... sure seems like an improvement to me.Oh, yea, that's right, he's taxing those evil rich people to balance things out. Great plan. Why bother making money, if Barack is going to take it from you?Right, and the alternative is to do what, tax the poor more?
Quote... and yet, here he is finding ways to cut the budget without major impact... sure seems like an improvement to me.Oh, yea, that's right, he's taxing those evil rich people to balance things out. Great plan. Why bother making money, if Barack is going to take it from you?
... and yet, here he is finding ways to cut the budget without major impact... sure seems like an improvement to me.
Have you taken stock of our current economic situation?
We're in the crap we're in because Joe the Plumber doesn't have the money to pay the mortgage...
I fail to see how taxing him more would help. But then again, I'm also not the financial "genius" that GWB who got us into this mess after inheriting a huge surplus and soaring economy is.
Perhaps your plan is to just keep racking up more debt for someone else to pay sometime in the future...
I suggest that if you ever want your party to win another election
And I'm really sure that having to pay an extra percent or two of your earnings is really going to prevent anyone from going ahead and making an extra $250,000. :roll: Oh yeah... they also get a break on their taxes already because SS stops at $97,500, everything over the top of that doesn't get taxed for Social Security.
QuoteI do think the fear of our new president is hillarious though.It's great you are so easily amused - but after all, it's about feelings, isn't it? We can't let fact and logic cloud our view of feeling good.
I do think the fear of our new president is hillarious though.
Riiighht... because all this fear mongering is REALLY about facts... LOOK OUT, THERE'S a BLACK MAN BEHIND YOU! ROTFL!!!! :lau:
Right, and the alternative is to do what, tax the poor more?
Oh, no, I haven't, I'm clueless, I'm sure you've figured that out :roll: :roll:. I should just shut up and let Obama spend my children's, my grandchildren's, my great granchildren's....etc. future.
Ah, another Bush Hater who can't see past the fact that there are many, many players in this game, some of whom have D's after their names.
a typical liberal tactic, presenting an argument that wasn't made and then arguing the nonpoint. Snip of the rest of no point.
I suggest you don't make assumptions you have no clue about. Who said what my party or what I believe in, other than you? Snip more pointless ramblings and assumptions.
Now, since you are all knowing and all seeing, just what is my income bracket? Hmmm? Since you haven't a clue, I'll give you a little hint - my husband is a truck driver for a local construction company and I teach Pilates. Trust me, our income isn't anywhere near $250,000. :roll: :roll: :roll:
It's great you are so easily amused - but after all, it's about feelings, isn't it? We can't let fact and logic cloud our view of feeling good.
And then you pull the race card. This has nothing whatsoever to do with his race. So, now, I am changing Godwin's Law. Used to be Nazi would draw a thread to a close on the internet - now it's the race card. You lose. And I'll roll my eyes a bit more for you. :roll: :roll: :roll:
It's pretty obvious to anyone that's not so clueless that they didn't realize this thread was about how our current president is cutting the budget.
i love the gwb squandered a soaring economy and huge surplus. gwb made plenty of mistakes, but that was not among them. the surplus was a projected surplus, but the projection was already in the crapper by '99 when the recession was looming. gwb inherited a recession. did he over spend? did he do the TARP thing which i think was a huge mistake? yup. does that make it a good idea for obama to spend more than the total of all other presidents and initiate social programs that we will never be able to pay for? don't think so...
as for wealth, please tell me what wealth, job, or opportunities are ever provided by poor people. you may not like wealthy people, but every day you should add them to the thanks in your prayers for the taxes they pay and the industry they provided. the more wealthy people there are, the more wealth making opportunity there is for all of us.
redistribution of wealth has never created more wealth. it just makes all but those in charge equally poor.
why on earth are liberals so hung up on race?
the guy is an idiot. he'd be just as big an idiot if he were white. actually, he's not an idiot. he's a dangerous ideologue, but that has nothing to do with race either.
How is our president cutting the budget, besides the defense dept, which is one of the very few constitutionally allowed roles of federal government?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090425/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_spendingObama: Give me ideas on tightening federal beltBy PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON – Think you can do better than your federal boss? President Barack Obama wants to know how.Obama on Saturday announced a plan for federal workers to propose ways to improve their agencies' and departments' budgets. The president said employees' ideas would be key as his Cabinet officials try to cut millions from the budget and trim the deficit."After all, Americans across the country know that the best ideas often come from workers, not just management," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address. "That's why we'll establish a process through which every government worker can submit their ideas for how their agency can save money and perform better. We'll put the suggestions that work into practice."Obama's pitch comes at the end of a week focused on federal spending. On Friday, Democrats in Congress neared a deal on Obama's budget proposal and inched closer to passing a bill that would result in some $500 billion in deficits.To confront that perception, Obama earlier in the week ordered officials to identify $100 million in savings to achieve over time — a relative pittance against the broader plan, his aides later acknowledged."Earlier this week, I held my first Cabinet meeting and sent a clear message: cut what doesn't work. Already, we've identified substantial savings," Obama said. "And in the days and weeks ahead, we will continue going through the budget line by line, and we'll identify more than 100 programs that will be cut or eliminated."Obama said his administration would make $2 trillion in deficit reductions in the next decade, a pledge he has made repeatedly during his first three months in office. He also said he wants to re-evaluate priorities in the capital and urged Congress to pass legislation that would force lawmakers to pay for new policies and avoid large deficits. He also told agencies they could keep a part of the money they save."So much of our government was built to deal with different challenges from a different era," said Obama, noting that he took office facing a $1.3 billion budget deficit."Too often, the result is wasteful spending, bloated programs and inefficient results."
So you're joining the ranks of the people who are so clueless as to not know what this thread was about? Go back and read the first post. Obama is cutting spending...
Since no one seems to be able to go back and read the start of this thread, here it is again for you again:
Um...read the title, then the article. I'm sensing it was started with just a little smidgen of sarcasm. Imagine a person with emphesema who can't breathe getting basically useless tiny gasps of air. At least that is how I'm seeing it.
Quote from: SgtMaj on April 27, 2009, 11:47:55 PMSo you're joining the ranks of the people who are so clueless as to not know what this thread was about? Go back and read the first post. Obama is cutting spending... These are the figures I could find:2010 United States federal budget - $3.60 trillion (submitted 2009 by President Obama) 2009 United States federal budget - $3.10 trillion (submitted 2008 by President Bush) 2008 United States federal budget - $2.90 trillion (submitted 2007 by President Bush) 2007 United States federal budget - $2.77 trillion (submitted 2006 by President Bush) 2006 United States federal budget - $2.7 trillion (submitted 2005 by President Bush) 2005 United States federal budget - $2.4 trillion (submitted 2004 by President Bush) 2004 United States federal budget - $2.3 trillion (submitted 2003 by President Bush) 2003 United States federal budget - $2.2 trillion (submitted 2002 by President Bush) 2002 United States federal budget - $2.0 trillion (submitted 2001 by President Bush) 2001 United States federal budget - $1.9 trillion (submitted 2000 by President Clinton) 2000 United States federal budget - $1.8 trillion (submitted 1999 by President Clinton)Where are the cuts in the budget?


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if your not giving your driving license to purchase, its not right stuff. its behind counter
dont shoot me but if eating honey worked there wouldnt be billions being made on allergy meds. you can start hives as i did last week or just buy some localy, maybe a farmers market and try it. i got stung 8 times and i love it
i bought them from a local supplier about hour drive from here. just do a search on virginia bee supplies and you will find it. i bought bees out of state and just received them last weekend.I suffer bad from allergies. ive tring everything and only thing that helped was clariton D 24 hour. plus you need to keep your windows and doors shut and leave AC fan running all the time to filter the air all day from pollen, just dont forget to change your filters
AC is my business :-D. also make sure you buy the good kind of filters (pleated). will keep air cleaner. yes fresh air is good, we cant open anything for a couple months. you are more than welcome to email me for for questions and/or suppliers in stuff, we have to be carefull of advertising on forums (rules) email@example.com get me wrong, please try anything you can, if it works great. I guess you can try pollin from a health food store. not sure


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Jaidyn wrote:What do you as Buddhist believe in, if anything?
Jaidyn wrote:What role does belief play in Buddhism and is it different from the concept of faith. The goal of Buddhism is to finally and fully experience the reality and thereby se things as they are, but does belief play a role along the path? What do you as Buddhist believe in, if anything?
Hanzze wrote:Do you believe that?
Hanzze wrote:Yes, that is it's danger. We might grow faceless while developing such believes that it is possible to develope insight without the step of believe.
Hanzze wrote:Yes, and there is no problem with it, if one is aware of it.
Hanzze wrote:The danger is just when one believes that he know. It is also called ignorance of ignorance or the heedless Mr. Asati. A self made prison for undcountable existences.


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Keith Center to host civil rights film festival, Oct. 13
DETROIT (Sept. 29, 2010) – Wayne State University Law School's Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights is proud to host the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education's inaugural RightsFest, a one-day, pan-ethnic, civil rights film festival from 3:30-7:30 p.m. on Oct. 13 in the Law School's Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium.
In conjunction with the Rosa Parks Institute and the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee of Michigan, the Korematsu Institute will present three movies that address civil rights issues: Of Civil wrongs and rights: the Fred Korematsu story; Mighty times: the legacy of Rosa Parks; and USA vs. Al-Arian.
Following the screening, Korematsu Institute Director Ling Woo Liu will moderate a discussion with the following panelists: Imad Hamad, Michigan regional director, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; Peter Hammer, director, Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights; Karen Korematsu, daughter of Fred Korematsu and Korematsu Institute co-founder; and Anita Peek, executive director, Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute.
"We are honored to host this inaugural film festival," said Peter Hammer, Wayne Law professor and director of the Keith Center. "Stories and narratives are powerful. These documentaries bring to light important issues in the history of the struggle for civil rights. It is an exciting opportunity for residents of the Detroit community and beyond."
Of civil wrongs and rights: the Fred Korematsu story
Eric Paul Fournier's Emmy award-winning film about Fred Korematsu's heroic resistance to the U.S. government's Japanese American internment camps during World War II and his 40-year fight that turned a civil injustice into a civil rights victory.
Mighty times: the legacy of Rosa Parks
Robert Houston's Academy Award-nominated film about Rosa Parks' act of defiance against segregated buses and the ensuing Montgomery Bus Boycott that overturned an unjust law and continues to inspire social justice advocates today.
USA vs. Al-Arian
Voted best film of the New Orleans Human Rights Film Festival, Line Halvorsen's film explores the arrest and two and a half year solitary confinement of a Palestinian-American professor accused of providing material support to a terrorist organization.
For more information, visit http://korematsuinstitute.org/programs/events/rightsfest/ or http://keithcenter.wayne.edu/.
The Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights
The Hon. Damon J. Keith's life has been dedicated to fighting for justice and opportunity. The Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights, made possible through generous gifts from individuals, corporations and foundations, will allow that work to continue at Wayne Law. The Center will help the Law School attract and retain outstanding students, support and strengthen its faculty, enhance programming, and promote civil rights in one of the most culturally rich and diverse cities in the United States. Ground was broken for the building on May 17, 2010, and the building is set to open in fall 2011.
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