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Mallory, because she is insane and brilliant, decided to do a DUI series over at The Toast. I've been hit by someone wasted behind the wheel, so I wrote about it. This was a hard one but I'm happy with it: http://the-toast.net/2013/09/05/dui-series-hit-by-a-car/
Published on The Toast!
Published on The Billfold!
Places I Didn't Live: House Hunting In Oakland, Calif. I think, had I written it a little differently, it could have been alternately titled, "The Trillionth Essay On How Expensive SF Is." Subtitle: "I Hate Everyone."
Got pulled onstage at iO and made the audience laugh.
A very belated April Fools…
I totally forgot to post the Yelp April Fools' joke I did this year, which I am very happy with. Things got busy, I guess.
Conceptualized the joke with a couple of my coworkers and then wrote the copy for the landing page and the script for the video. I also co-directed the video with our production guy, Bryan Porter, which was a first for me. Very fun indeed.
I present… my baby: http://www.yelp.com/footmen
Response to my last essay on The Bold Italic
Title: What Is The San Francisco Dream? Wonderful art by Helen Tseng.
I wrote about my experience of moving to San Francisco after college to pursue a writing career and then winding up at a tech company because I ran out of money. It's getting trolled pretty hard, and normally I would just roll my eyes. But it seems a lot of people think that my definition of "hustling" means I'm pro-gentrification, as well as some cutthroat bitch who thinks all art should be made for commercial purposes only, which is so far from the truth that I feel compelled to pull back the curtain a bit and address some of the negative comments.
First, I should clarify that I absolutely do not think I have more of a right to live in San Francisco than anyone else. It's tragic that people who have lived here long before me and have worked a lot harder than me can't afford to stay here any longer. The fact that you can't be something like a social worker and also live comfortably in this city is disgusting.
The social injustices and the economic disparities of San Francisco are so vast and complicated. There was no way I could have adequately or appropriately discussed any of these issues in a 1,500-word essay that's illustrated with super cute designs. So I didn't.
Instead, I wrote a personal narrative speaking specifically about the people in my "tribe": the under-30 creative kids who moved to the city after college, like I did, with the puerile expectation that the "starving artist" life will be romantic and also somehow affordable, like I did.
Okay, so here comes the part where some people are going to penalize me for sounding probably very smug: I think those people, who came to San Francisco to make art and didn't figure out that they can't live this idle existence, floating around and leisurely making things with no real focus, and then have the audacity to be mad about rent prices, should leave. I'm sorry, but I think the space those people take up should be filled with someone who is willing to work just a little bit harder (and be a little less of an asshole).
When I ran out of money, I didn't get mad. This city is really expensive! And when I realized I couldn't live here and just dick around, writing in my journal and for free on other people's blogs, it was truthfully a rude awakening. I had to decide if I needed to move somewhere else, or if I wanted to see if I could make it work in SF. I really wanted to stay in the city, so thus began my hustling.
I managed to get hired as an editor/copywriter at one of the better SF startups. Not my dream job, but I turned it into something that's as close to my dream job as I can make it. Turns out it's fun, and it's also helped me improve my writing skills as well as figure out what kind of career I really want and what kind of person I want to be. Some people call this being a sellout, but I don't agree. Yelp has a lot of integrity and fully supports me in my freelance endeavors. I'm proud of the work I do for them. I'm also happy because now I'm able to write things that don't make me any money without having to worry about my rent.
I don't think my job/situation makes me "better" than any of my peers. But because I realized how relatively easy it is to find work that's fulfilling (be it at a startup or somewhere else), I also have zero patience for wannabe creatives who endlessly complain that they are so unhappy they can't figure it out.
I'm not sure if this attitude is a "my generation" thing, a San Francisco tech culture thing, or both. Regardless, I'm not the only one who openly finds entitled, self-deprecating people to be totally exasperating, so I'm a little confused as to why I'm being dismissed as a brat on TBI.
Maybe I'm a little insensitive towards my peers' struggles, but it's because I've never been handed anything – even though I'm white and thus inherently privileged, as so many commenters pointed out. On the contrary, my upbringing really set me up to fail at life, so I'm really proud I've been able to pull myself up from the depths of shit that rained on me for so many years. And I have no qualms letting everyone know I'm really proud of myself, which some may call smugness, but quite frankly, I don't care. I feel empowered by my sense of self-satisfaction.
All that said, I acknowledge that luck has also been on my side these last few years. There are countless people who do everything right and are still priced out of the city. That fucking sucks. In fact, I'm one of them now: my boyfriend and I are moving to Oakland in hopefully the next week because we can no longer afford our SF apartment. ("Good riddance!" said everyone unoriginally in the comments.)
So. Anyway. It's typically unwise to respond to haters publicly, but I was so bothered by the implications that I'm classist and racist, like I high-five a Mitt Romney poster on my bedroom door every morning or something. I guess first and foremost, I'm just anti-laziness. Is there an -ist word we can assign to that?
Published on The Bold Italic!
I have a piece about living with cancer up today on The Bold Italic. I'm particularly excited about working on this site because the essays all get a beautiful, one-of-a-kind design treatment. This one was done by SF illustrator Brad Amorosino. Hope you take a look!
This is one of those blog posts that addresses the obvious fact that I haven't updated my blog in a while, and nothing more. I'd make a promise to the greater internet to do better, but… no, actually. I won't do that.
Things I've been doing besides not updating my blog:
– Being the creative lead on this really huge Yelp project that I'm super proud of, even though it's not done yet. I am very excited to unleash it in a couple of weeks.
– Turning 26.
– Learning how to ski and being goodish at it.
– Working on a book proposal for my agent, as I have been doing for the past nine months.
– Deciding, on the nine-month mark, that I didn't like my proposal at all, and then deciding to totally scrap it and start over with a new idea I haven't thought of yet.
– Visiting mortgage loan officers and real estate agents with Nate because we are buying a house in Oakland this year.
That's all for now. I'll be back to post the shit out of that really huge Yelp project I was just talking about. Maybe before then too — who knows! Until then.
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25 Things You Wish You Could Ask On A Friend Date. My favorite thing about this piece is that my friend/writing partner/favorite person Eve emailed me answers to my questions. I'm posting them below…!
1. Firstly and most importantly, are you going to post ugly pictures of me on Instagram and then pretend like you think said pictures are funny in a flattering way? If you won't be able to resist, tell me now so we can make this a casual fake friendship. I'd like to know in advance to not invite you out when there's a possibility I might drunkenly and messily eat a hot dog while sitting on the dirty ground. Likely, after I ask you again how Instagram works for the 8th time and make you show me which buttons to push, exactly, to post said terrible photos of yourself.
2. Are you a musician, photographer, writer, or someone who publicly exercises any other form of creative expression? If so, are you any good? If not, do you mind if I lie and tell you I absolutely love whatever it is you're "creating"? Yes. There are good days and bad days. Yes.
3. Are you a different person depending on who you're hanging out with? Will I be forced to watch basketball with your sporty friends? Or worse, will you force me to eat some raw/live culture food when we meet your hippie friends for lunch? And if that's the plan, will you be dramatic about it if I opt to just get a burrito and catch up with you later? I used to be that way, but I've grown out of it. And if you see it happening in a bad way, I'm counting on you to call me on my shit. Organized sports can fuck off, and hippies need not apply. Of course not.
4. On that note, who is your best friend? Will we be competing for your attention? Please know I'm in it to win it. I co-sleep with my laptop, and competition could get fierce.
5. How cool will you be if I poop in front of you? This won't happen often but sometimes we'll be at a bar or a party with only one toilet and I'l be in an anxious mood. If I'm in this kind of mood, I need you to pretend like we're doing coke in the bathroom so I can think no one thinks I'm gross. I will walk you to the Bloomingdale's bathroom three blocks away at any time of day in order to disguise your poop anxiety, and I will sit in the children's corral and watch an episode of Dog With A Blog while you do battle.
6. Can we have inside jokes, but not so many that our conversations will start to feel false and scripted? Yes, because, circle of life.
7. Will you occasionally order food for me when we go out? Sometimes easy decision-making is exhausting for me, especially if it's a Friday and I've spent my entire work week telling other people what to do. I need to trust that you won't fuck me over and order something with mushrooms in it. If you will for me and/or if you'll tolerate me also not ordering and asking the waiter to do it while also kind of hitting on them and you won't judge. For future reference, no eggplant, eggplant is uninspiring.
8. Do you have better taste in music than me? The answer to this is probably yes, because I still listen to Rilo Kiley as earnestly as I did when I was 17. So I guess the better question is, when you find this out, will you not judge me harshly for it? I won't judge you, but I will secretly maintain moral superiority, because what better gauge of a person's ethical mettle is there? This will go on until you catch me pretending to know something I don't, and then game over.
9. If we discover we like the same physical activities, will you join my gym? Because I would hate that. We can go on a bike ride or swim laps on some weekends, but beyond that, I need my space. Gyms are for suckers.
10. How close are you with your family? I feel like the kind of intimacy you share with your family, particularly your siblings, is the best way to gauge how good of a person you are. Oh, for the record, my siblings don't talk to me. Anything they need, all they have to do is ask.
11. Can I be friends with your significant other? I would never call them to hang out without you or anything lame like that, but if we happen to be trapped in an elevator together, I'd like to not feel compelled to kill myself. Yes, please! My ultimate dream is that when you and my hypothetical future significant other get trapped in the elevator, you won't stand there awkwardly making small talk while your asshole alarm goes into DefCon 1 which you won't tell me about until after we violently break up, but instead compliment each others shoes and then talk about that one time you were wasted and saw Prometheus, and then maybe bring up The Giants so the two of you have a secret bond of your own.
12. Will you read my things that I publish on the internet and laugh and cry at all the right spots? Yes.
13. How will you handle it when I start calling you obsessively? I get super excited when I meet someone I could potentially become close with; I won't be able to fight the urge to see as much of you as humanly possibly. Will you be flattered by this (you should be), or will you make it weird? Also, know that I may show up on your front doorstep uninvited, but I will bring cookies! It's cool, and you bake delicious cookies. Just know I sometimes I have to disappear.
14. Just how far can I take my shit-talking with you before it makes you nervous? Until it sends me into a I-hate-everything-nothing-is-right-no-one-loves-me spiral, then I'll need to take a step back.
15. Are you comfortable sitting in complete silence together for long stretches of time? Sometimes.
16. Will you be available to give me immediate feedback when I text you title ideas for my unsold, unwritten memoir at 3 in the morning? Yes.
17. Can we buy each other beers and not keep track of who owes who more money? If we're friends long enough, everything will probably even itself out. And if it doesn't, no one will die so it's fine. YES!!! The ultimate expression of friendship.
18. Can you tell me really funny jokes, and then not make fun of my super loud, bellowing laugh? I know it's startling and embarrassing, especially when we're out in public, okay? I can't help it. I might make fun of your laugh, like maybe once or twice, but it's not a veiled way of me telling you to shut the hell up you're embarrassing me – it's because it's awesome.
19. When I rattle off my lists of reasons as to why I think Matthew McConaughey is an underrated actor, will you actually listen to me? It's not good enough that you just don't mock me. I need you to make a genuine effort to understand. No. I will see Mudd, though.
20. If I don't feel like going into great detail with you about my sex life with my boyfriend, will you make a conscious effort to not make me feel like a boring loser? I'm rarely interested in having a Sex and the City moment with any of my friends, and I'm tired of feeling bad about that. Ew, stop it. I will make a case for what a fabulous cocktail a Cosmo is, but that's about as much as I can take of that.
21. Are you comfortable telling me when I'm being ridiculous, selfish, or otherwise annoying? Because I try my best, but sometimes I will need you to tell me to get over myself so we can skip away, hand-in-hand and resentment-free, into the sunset. I will try. No one wants to feel like an asshole, and when you tell your friends and lovers they're driving you batshit crazy, you feel like an asshole.
22. What is our friendship's Facebook presence going to look like? I need to know if you plan to tag me in posts that reveal our plans to get stoned and eat a stale bag of Halloween candy from Walgreens while we watch my Felicity DVDs on mute. See question 1.
23. Will you become friends with my friends? Because I think I'd like that, so long as you guys don't hang out without me. Yes if your friends are cool. No if they're not.
24. Will one or more of my friends fall in love with you? Because I think I'd like that too – it shows I have good taste in people. Yes.
25. On days when I am attempting to work on a piece of difficult writing, crying and ravaged by insecurities and self-doubt, will you be able to lovingly say, "Oh shut up, Becky. You are being stupid" in a way that makes me feel better about everything? I'm sorry if admitting my neediness up front is off-putting, but I can't help myself. I'm excited to maybe be your friend. I will try!
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what a good friend looks like.
Can I just say that – while I don't want to dwell on this and falsely give the impression that I think about these things past the initial two seconds, when it really stings – the mean Thought Catalog commenters on these kinds of posts just make me roll my eyes so far back I'm afraid they will get stuck in my head. Oh, you would never want to be my friend, weird person leaving asshole comments behind an anonymous internet moniker? Good, seriously. That means I'm doing something right.


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An Israeli flag appears on a bag promoting the selling of dresses. I didn't see actually any doll walking in the street with this kind of gadget, but it seems that it won't be long till each Israeli patriot will have at least one of these bags (and then the Arabs will make bags with their own flags:)
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GOP future hopes to win Conn. Senate seat grow dim
HARTFORD -- With the election of Democrats Richard Blumenthal and now Chris Murphy, Connecticut Republicans may have missed their best opportunities in years to win a seat in the U.S. Senate.
It took more than 20 years for a Connecticut incumbent to leave the U.S. Senate before Blumenthal won in 2010, taking the seat that opened with the retirement of Democrat Chris Dodd after 30 years. Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Democrat-turned-independent, will have served for 24 years when he retires in January.
Given Murphy's age -- he's only 39 -- and Blumenthal's strong popularity in the state, Democrats say the duo might endure for as long as their predecessors.
"This may go on for the next 30 years," New London state Rep. Ernest Hewitt said. "No doubt in my mind."
Hewitt, a Democrat, said he believes the GOP's candidate for the past two Senate elections -- wealthy former wrestling executive Linda McMahon -- is to blame for hurting the Republican Party's future chances. McMahon spent nearly $100 million from her personal fortune on the two races, prompting state GOP chairman Jerry Labriola Jr., to suggest the day of the self-funding candidate may be over in Connecticut and how it's time to "get back to basics" when picking the next Republican candidate.
"There's a bad taste in people's minds right now. Linda McMahon helped put a bad taste in people's mouths because she tried to buy an election. Period," Hewitt said. "And you know what the most beautiful part is? They didn't buy it."
A message left seeking comment with McMahon's campaign was not immediately returned.
Republican Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton contends that the 2012 and 2010 opportunities for Republicans to win an open seat were "not really great opportunities" when examined closer.
"Nobody was going to beat Dick Blumenthal. Rob Simmons was not going to beat Dick Blumenthal. I don't see it because Dick Blumenthal has access to assets and dollars that Rob wouldn't have been able to compete with, as much as I like Rob," he said of the former Stonington congressman who lost the GOP's endorsement to McMahon in 2010.
In 2012, with President Barack Obama leading the ticket in Democratic-leaning Connecticut, Boughton said he had reservations about any Republican being able to win Lieberman's seat.
"I don't necessarily think these were layups. I don't think the Republicans can delude themselves into thinking they were layups," he said.
Besides those particular challenges, Boughton said there are not enough Republican donors in Connecticut to support a traditional candidate for the U.S. Senate and raise the $5 million to $10 million needed to run a competitive race.
"It's easy to say, 'Well, we shouldn't run any more self-funders.' OK, show me the folks who are going to be able to raise that kind of money in Connecticut and be able to provide the assets and resources to be successful because I don't see it," he said. "Our donor base is shrinking and I don't think we're really in the position to say that unless we can find somebody that's a really, really good fundraiser. And I don't see one on the bench right now."
He said the GOP needs to start thinking about what Republicans believe in and what they stand for and how best to share that message with the public, both in Connecticut or nationally. Or else, he said, "we're going to have a lot more long nights on election night."
Simmons, who maintains he would have been a strong challenger to Blumenthal, said he believes the state Republicans have lost two opportunities by not tapping experienced candidates like himself and former U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays, who lost both the endorsement at the GOP convention and the primary to McMahon this year.
He said he believes the GOP will now have a difficult time finding good candidates to run in U.S. Senate races. Blumenthal is up for re-election in four years.
"It's clear that the Republican Party, here in the state of Connecticut, is divided somewhat along ideological lines in how they pick a candidate to run for public office," Simmons said. "And that division creates problems for the party and that division is not healthy. We have to be able to put together coalitions of people to be successful because ultimately you have to get more votes than the other person and that takes coalition building."
Murphy, however, said he doesn't believe 2012 will be the last hotly contested U.S. Senate race in Connecticut for a while, especially if the GOP picks the right type of candidate.
"Each one of these Senate races has national implications and Connecticut remains a state that is willing to vote for Republicans. But you've got to be a Republican that sort of speaks to the middle in order to win Connecticut," Murphy said on Thursday. "When those Republicans present themselves at the state level, they can cause trouble for Democrats. But that was not the case in the last two Senate elections."
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Credit exchanges for Massive games are inimitably useful mechanisms - the notion behind them seems counterintuitive, and we've certainly enjoyed some amusement at their expense. But - if you're a person that thinks of your own time as the prime currency and the various manifestations and products of that time as inherently fungible, it makes a lot of sense to resort to brokers of strange currencies. If somebody takes advantage of your exchange itself, though - if they purposefully manipulate the intangibility of the product you sell - it must be a pain explaining to normal people exactly what it is you do.
I've been looking forward to Mario Golf: Advance Tour for quite a while, in large part because we've got a number of airline flights coming up and I need something to think about besides my untimely demise. It also uses Nintendo's Wireless Adapter, which I don't own, but it's nice to feel that I'm halfway there.
The way clubs connect with balls is virtually identical to Toadstool Tour on the Cube, which I enjoyed quite a lot, outside of the occasionally odd ball physics. For the longest time I was content to blame myself for these inversions of sensible behavior, blaming myself for the faults of others being a passtime I cleave to with great enthusiasm. At any rate, just as in the sometimes inexplicable Cube version you have your choice of automatic and manual shots, complete with power variations and various spin options. Putting is a little less ornate, but it's fine.
You have probably heard that the game uses a sort of RPG metaphor, which I was initially very excited about. Look at the Super Mario role-playing games for a hint at why - viewing the acknowledged structures of that genre through the template of the ridiculous, fungus-obsessed Mario context was (and is) illuminating. I have kind of a fetish where transposition is concerned, so it's possible that the game simply strokes some personal nub. It does set my mind to spinning, though, envisioning the contours of the golf/role-playing nexus.
The game's by Camelot, so you will be struck initially by the similarities to Golden Sun - but I really must say the RPG "story" mode doesn't turn my crank. It's really two separate games, like one genre with another genre perched atop its head. In practice, it is an exhausting, serpentine menu system which obscures actual play. You level up, and you talk to boring girls in iteration X of Japanese Exposition Theater. I don't care, and if I wasn't desperate for alternate versions of the courses I'd simply forget about it altogether. Luckily, while the game starts out with an almost unbearable about of inane dialogue, that hasn't been my experience farther in.
Even without indulging in that mode, though, there's plenty of game available at the outset for people without the stamina to endure mundane exercises - and the play is very satisfying. To use more than one GBA you're all going to need cartridges, which is unfortunate - but you can also play multi modes just by passing the device around, and that works fine. There's a healthy selection of these modes, as well: Stroke, Match, competitive and co-operative Doubles, Skins, a mode called Club Slots which randomly determines your equipment, as well as a Near-Pin challenge that makes for a quick competitive round. There's another one, called Go-Go Gates, which is this version's "Ring Attack" but feels like a combination of Golf and Croquet.
I guess it speaks well of the game that I can discard half of it and still be satisfied, but that's pretty much what we're talking about. The Golfing portions of this Golf game are excellent, and belong in your pocket.
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Monday, 27 January 2014
Panettone Pudding
January is almost at an end. In Italy, these last few days are known as 'i giorni della merla', the days of the blackbird. According to the legend, blackbirds used to be white until a particularly cold snap at the end of January one year forced a blackbird and her young to take shelter from the freezing weather in a chimney. When they emerged at the beginning of February, they were completely black and have remained so ever since. 'I giorni della merla' are thus traditionally the coldest days of the year and surprisingly, it does often seem to be the case. It's been a relatively mild winter so far both here and in northern Italy and yet the forecast for the next few days in both countries warns of plummeting temperatures, ice and snow.
If the 'blackbird days' do deliver again, then this panettone pudding is just what's needed - warm, rich, creamy and comforting, its spicy vanilla scent pervades the whole house as it's cooking and it comes out of the oven beautifully puffed up with a golden top. Perfect for fending off the cold.
I'm entering this into the Tea Time Treats Challenge, with the theme of Eggs, run by Karen of Lavender and Lovage and new host this month, Janie from The Hedge Combers.
RECIPE - serves 2-4
100g panettone
200ml double cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
1 egg yolk
1 tablespoon caster sugar
Pre-heat the oven to 160°C. Grease a small, ovenproof dish with butter.
Roughly cut the panettone into chunks and arrange in the dish.
Measure the cream and milk in a jug, add the egg and egg yolk, together with the sugar and vanilla and whisk together until combined.
Pour this over the panettone and leave for about 15 minutes so that the panettone can soak up the creamy liquid.
Put into the oven and bake for about 35-40 mins until puffed up and golden on top.
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Well I scrolled through 9 or so pages of this section and I saw a topic about the best U.S presidents but nothing about favorites. The two can be very different because I like some presidents that I personally think may not be in the top 5 best of all time but I just really like them.
My list would be:
1. John F. Kennedy
2. Franklin D. Roosevelt
3. Bill Clinton
4. Abraham Lincoln
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) LaMichael James awaited the kickoff, determined to regain the momentum for the 49ers after they quickly lost all of a 28-point lead.
``We need a boost,'' he said. ``That's what I was thinking. I was thinking I got to take it to the house.''
He didn't get all the way there, but close enough to set up the decisive touchdown - going 62 yards before Colin Kaepernick's 38-yard pass to Michael Crabtree with 6:25 left - that helped San Francisco reach the playoffs with a 41-34 win over the New England Patriots on Sunday night.
``We faced adversity,'' James said. ``Nobody flinched.''
Now the 49ers have at least a wild-card berth with a 10-3-1 record, knowing a win against division rival Seattle (9-5) next Sunday clinches the AFC West title.
The Patriots (10-4) already had locked up first place in the AFC East with a chance to improve their chances for a first-round bye. They began the day in second place in the race for the two byes but fell behind the Denver Broncos (11-3). The Houston Texans (12-2) hold the top spot.
``We haven't thought about that yet,'' Tom Brady said. ``What's in our control is winning football games.''
Doing that on Sunday night seemed almost impossible after the 49ers rolled to a 31-3 lead on Kaepernick's 27-yard touchdown pass to Crabtree five minutes into the third quarter. Only one team in NFL history had won a regular-season game after trailing by 28 - a 38-35 win by the 49ers over the New Orleans Saints on Dec. 7, 1980.
But with 25 minutes left and Brady at quarterback, the 49ers weren't comfortable.
``Tom is a good quarterback and we knew some adversity was going to come and they were going to make plays sooner or later,'' linebacker NaVorro Bowman said.
They did - time after time - until they had tied the score at 31 on Danny Woodhead's second touchdown, a 1-yard run with 6:43 remaining.
Woodhead began the comeback with a 6-yard touchdown run, Brady scored on a 1-yard sneak on the first play of the fourth quarter and then threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to Aaron Hernandez less than three minutes later. And when Woodhead scored again, the Patriots had their fourth touchdown in 14 minutes, 16 seconds.
But two plays later - James' kickoff return and Crabtree's catch - the 49ers were back on top. And this time they stayed there.
David Akers made it 41-31 with a 28-yard field goal with 1:56 to go, Stephen Gostkowski kicked a 41-yarder for New England with 38 seconds remaining and San Francisco sealed the win when Delanie Walker caught the onside kick.
``We just spotted them 28 points,'' Brady said. ``We fought hard, but you can't play poorly against a good team and expect to win. We can't miss plays that we have opportunities with.''
For Kaepernick, a second-year pro starting just his fifth game, it was a chance to remain calm even as the big lead disappeared. He finished with 14 completions in 25 attempts for 216 yards and a career-high four touchdowns.
``This is my 17th year of football,'' he said. ``I've been playing since I was eight years old. So, to me, I am going to go out there and I'm going to throw to the guy who is open and you try to keep football simple so your mind can be clear when you're on the field.''
It was clear enough for him to throw a short pass to Crabtree then watch him race by cornerback Kyle Arrington for the go-ahead touchdown. That gave the team that had allowed the fewest points this season enough to beat the team that had scored the most.
``We can win a shootout,'' said Crabtree, who had 107 yards receiving. ``Whatever it takes, that's our motto. ... We feel like we can do anything, sky's the limit.''
New England, which had won seven straight games, lost for the first time at home in December in 21 games. The Patriots also had won 21 in a row in the second half of the schedule before San Francisco somehow regrouped late in a game it seemingly had clinched long before.
The 49ers forced four turnovers, matching the number of giveaways the Patriots had at home all season.
``I don't think they faced a physical defense like us all season,'' said San Francisco cornerback Carlos Rogers, who intercepted Brady midway through the first quarter and ran 53 yards to the Patriots 5.
The 49ers were leading 7-0 at the time on Kaepernick's 24-yard touchdown pass to former Patriot Randy Moss. Gostkowski's 32-yard field goal made it 7-3, but San Francisco scored on Kaepernick's 34-yard pass to Walker and David Akers' 20-yard field goal for a 17-3 lead at intermission.
``Everything'' went wrong in the first half, Patriots wide receiver Wes Welker said. ``A lot of bad football.''
Frank Gore then recovered Kaepernick's fumble and ran 9 yards for a touchdown. Two plays later, Aldon Smith intercepted Brady's pass and Kaepernick struck on the next play with his 27-yard pass to Crabtree for a 31-3 lead with 10:21 remaining in the third quarter.
Still plenty of time for Brady.
``I had a feeling we'd be able to come back,'' he said.
But when the Patriots tied it, a poor job by the kickoff team proved costly.
``I did as much as I could to help the team win,'' James said.
It was just enough.
NOTES: The 49ers allowed 520 yards after entering the game second in the NFL in fewest yards allowed, 275.5 per game. ... Welker had five catches, giving him 100 and making him the first player in NFL history with that many in five seasons. ... Gore led all rushers with 83 yards on 21 carries. ... Brady was 36 for a career-high 65 for 443 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions.
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Sandy: Haiti fears food shortages after hurricane
Staff, BBC News
Fears are growing of food shortages in Haiti, after the strong winds and heavy rain of Hurricane Sandy caused extensive crop damage.
Aid workers and officials are also warning that flooding could lead to a sharp rise in cholera cases.
Sandy is blamed for some 70 deaths in the Caribbean. Of these more than 50 were in Haiti.
In Jamaica and Cuba, which took direct hits from the hurricane, the clean-up is also continuing.
Sandy, which was a category one hurricane when it clipped Haiti last week, brought heavy rain and flooding.
At least 54 people died in what Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe called a "disaster of major proportions".
Haiti was hit when it was already down. At least 20,000 people have been made homeless by the storm.
But the astonishing truth is that a casual visitor to Haiti probably wouldn't even notice this new wave of misery; that's because hundreds of thousands of people were already living in flimsy shelters after their homes collapsed in an earthquake two years ago.
There is concern that floods and unsanitary conditions could led to an increase in cholera cases…
(31 October 2012)
It's global warming, stupid
Paul M. Barrett, Bloomberg Business Week
Yes, yes, it's unsophisticated to blame any given storm on climate change. Men and women in white lab coats tell us—and they're right—that many factors contribute to each severe weather episode. Climate deniers exploit scientific complexity to avoid any discussion at all.
Clarity, however, is not beyond reach. Hurricane Sandy demands it: At least 40 U.S. deaths. Economic losses expected to climb as high as $50 billion. Eight million homes without power. Hundreds of thousands of people evacuated. More than 15,000 flights grounded. Factories, stores, and hospitals shut. Lower Manhattan dark, silent, and underwater.
An unscientific survey of the social networking literature on Sandy reveals an illuminating tweet (you read that correctly) from Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. On Oct. 29, Foley thumbed thusly: "Would this kind of storm happen without climate change? Yes. Fueled by many factors. Is storm stronger because of climate change? Yes." Eric Pooley, senior vice president of the Environmental Defense Fund (and former deputy editor of Bloomberg Businessweek), offers a baseball analogy: "We can't say that steroids caused any one home run by Barry Bonds, but steroids sure helped him hit more and hit them farther. Now we have weather on steroids."
In an Oct. 30 blog post, Mark Fischetti of Scientific American took a spin through Ph.D.-land and found more and more credentialed experts willing to shrug off the climate caveats. The broadening consensus: "Climate change amps up other basic factors that contribute to big storms. For example, the oceans have warmed, providing more energy for storms. And the Earth's atmosphere has warmed, so it retains more moisture, which is drawn into storms and is then dumped on us." Even those of us who are science-phobic can get the gist of that.
Sandy featured a scary extra twist implicating climate change. An Atlantic hurricane moving up the East Coast crashed into cold air dipping south from Canada. The collision supercharged the storm's energy level and extended its geographical reach. Pushing that cold air south was an atmospheric pattern, known as a blocking high, above the Arctic Ocean. Climate scientists Charles Greene and Bruce Monger of Cornell University, writing earlier this year in Oceanography, provided evidence that Arctic icemelts linked to global warming contribute to the very atmospheric pattern that sent the frigid burst down across Canada and the eastern U.S…
(1 November 2012)
Hurricane Sandy: why have the British media ignored Caribbean victims?
Roy Greenslade, The Guardian blog
I am glad I'm not alone in scorning the media overkill on hurricane Sandy. My colleague Michael White has rightly noted the over-the-top coverage and scores of commenters to our live blog have been underwhelmed by the attention paid to a storm simply because it struck the United States.
That last point is the most telling of all. Hundreds of people die from hurricanes in other countries every year without the western media appearing to notice.
I concede that all news is local. So the American newspapers and TV news outlets can be forgiven for concentrating so much attention on a storm that is ravaging the country's eastern seaboard. But why do global TV outlets, such as CNN, think what happens in the US is important enough to warrant beaming to the rest of the world as its main news item?
More significant still, why have British media assumed that it should be the leading news story of the last couple of days?…
…Sure, they speak the same language, but note how little attention has been paid to the fact that hurricane Sandy is having a devastating effect on Canada. Yet coverage of that country's plight has been virtually nil thus far.
…But is it not insensitive to realise that we pay greater attention to its problems – and its storm victims – rather than those elsewhere? In a world shrunk smaller by digital communications, we cannot say that we do not know what happens in other countries.
Commenters to the live blog have provided many examples of our oversight. For example, GilbertTheAlien counted 65 Guardian articles on hurricane Sandy, but only eight of these referred to its effect on the Caribbean.
Yet just consider the figures: 69 deaths in total, including 52 people in Haiti, 11 in Cuba, two in the Bahamas, two in the Dominican Republic, one in Jamaica and one in Puerto Rico…
(30 October 2012)
Hurricane Sandy's effect on Caribbean (photos)
Staff, popdecay
Hurricane Sandy's toll in the Caribbean amounts to at least 69 dead, thousands homeless and few funds available to rebuild. Yet, the Caribbean carnage remains largely behind the scenes as media spotlight focuses on the US.
Sandy took the lives of 52 people in Haiti, 11 in Cuba, two in the Bahamas, two in the Dominican Republic, one in Jamaica and one in Puerto Rico.
In light of the difficulty to rebuild in some of the impoverished areas of the Caribbean, especially Haiti, the United Nations will be appealing for emergency aid.
"Haiti is trying to get its house in order, but each time disaster strikes, the progress is interrupted," head of the UN's office for the co-ordination of humanitarian affairs Johan Peleman told The Guardian. "This country is exposed to devastating consequences by each storm. With every burst of rain, entire mountains are washed away."
Haiti was the worst hit
Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas took direct hits as Sandy approached them as a Category 1 and 2 storm. However, the majority of deaths and the most extensive damage fell upon Haiti, already devastated by the 2010 earthquake. The storm passed to the west of the country, but dumped more than 20 inches (51cm) of rain in 24 hours, causing rivers to overflow.
The damage is especially significant there because the country already had about 400,000 homeless since the deadly earthquake. Now 200,000 more had been added to the list because of Sandy. During the storm nearly 17,800 people had to move to 131 temporary shelters.
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The former mayor of Wadsworth and minority owner of the defunct Arena Football League's Columbus Destroyers wants U.S. Rep. John Boccieri's job.
The former mayor of Wadsworth and minority owner of the defunct Arena Football League's Columbus Destroyers wants U.S. Rep. John Boccieri's job.
Jim Renacci, 50, a Republican and owner of a financial services business in Wadsworth, filed papers with the Federal Election Commission on Monday to run in 2010 for congressman from Ohio's 16th Congres-sional District, which in-cludes all or parts of Stark, Wayne, Medina and Ashland counties.
Boccieri, a Democrat who lives in Alliance, won the seat last year, after the retirement of longtime Republican congressman Ralph Regula.
"I'm running for Congress because we can do better," Renacci said in a statement. "We can do better than bailouts and stimulus packages that have left us on the verge of bankrupting this generation. We can do better than Cap and Trade legislation and a government-run health care scheme that will mortgage the next generation's future."
Renacci has a wife and three children.
The Medina County businessman and accountant, who has a minority interest in the Oakhill Manor Care Center in Washington Township, said he has taken an active role in trying to revive the Arena Football League, but he said the league has ceased operations due to flagging ticket sales and sponsorships. Renacci said he will unload his ownership in the Destroyers, so he can focus on running for Congress.
Besides Renacci, Jeffrey Blevins of Wadsworth, a member of the Libertarian Party, also has filed papers stating his intent to challenge Boccieri.
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Town supervisors said residents can expect more of the same in 2008.
Gov. Eliot Spitzer and President Bush have had their annual say on the state of New York and the country, but Brighton Supervisor Sandra Frankel wants local residents to know that the state of her town is full of optimism and hope.
Frankel delivered her State of the Town address Jan. 23, highlighting the Green Brighton Task Force and townwide technological advances that will help move Brighton forward in 2008.
"Last year, I came to you with a mandate: That we as a community must take immediate action to acknowledge the effects of climate change and global warming, reduce fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, seek alternative energy sources and take steps to decrease our dependence upon foreign oil," Frankel said of Green Brighton. "My call to action challenged the community to rise up and meet this critical need of our times and the response was immediate and intense. From this mandate, an idea was planted — and as in all things 'green,' it quickly and vigorously sprang to life."
Frankel noted the early success of the task force, which recently held a kick-off event at Town Hall that brought out more than 200 people. About half of those people signed up for a "10 percent challenge" to try to lower than carbon footprint by taking part in more environmentally-friendly activities like carpooling or turning off lights when they leave a room.
Frankel also spoke about new technological projects that will start this year, such as a GPS system that will be installed in police cars that provides real-time location of a vehicle to a 911 call center and the continued enhancement of the new town Web site.
While he didn't hold any formal address, Pittsford Supervisor Bill Carpenter also said things look good, adding that the town is in a period where they're able to "hunker down and not come out with any big initiatives." Carpenter highlighted the town's fiscal responsibility, for which it recently received praise from Moody's Investors service, an international company that specializes in credit ratings, research and risk analysis.
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Following the earlier photoview of the Fairphone FP1, the past weeks I spent a good amount of time with this kind of exotic smartphone which is a so called "social project" by Fairphone. Being an Android smartphone first, the FP1 is aimed to be a smartphone designed and produced with minimal harm to people and environment. Following its successful crowdfunding campaign back in May last year, the first 25,000 Fairphones were shipped December. The said main motivation for developing the Fairphone was "to develop a mobile device" which "does't contain conflict minerals and has fair labor conditions for the workforce along the supply chain". Therefore is the phone body itself, as well as the battery, sporting information where the phone was assembled. This is part of the transparency Fairphone wants to provide its customers.
The HardwareThe FP1 is running Android 4.2 and is powered by a MediaTek MT6589 quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU at 1.3 GHz. It supports dual-SIM quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE and dualband UMTS/HSPA+ at 900/2100 MHz but lacks LTE.
Furthermore it comes with WiFi b/g/n at 2.4 GHz (but no 5 GHz), Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, Bluetooth 3.0+HS and Bluetooth 4.0, an FM radio and AGPS. The 4.3" IPS touchscreen with Dragontrail Glass supports a media core qHD (960 x 540) resolution. The primary 8 megapixel autofocus camera on the back comes with a BSI sensor with flash LED, while the front facing 1.3 megapixel camera has a CMOS sensor. The FP1 features the Android typical sensors like a light sensor, G-sensor, E-compass, proximity sensor and gyroscope. However, NFC is not onboard.
The FP1 comes with 1 GB RAM and 16 GB flash memory which can be expanded with a microSD memory card. All this measures 126 x 63.5 x 10 mm and weights 170 g, including the 2,000 mAh Li-Ion battery.
The phone itself is pretty much a typical Android phone. It features touch sensitive but unfortunately not illuminated menu buttons bellow the screen with the Home, Back and Settings keys. On the left, the FP1 features the typical volume rocker. On the top, it sports the power button, micro USB port and 3.5 mm stereo headset jack. Interesting enough, the device doesn't come with a charger, USB cable or stereo headset. That's because Fairphone expects that most customers have this parts anyway and therefore it protects the environment.
While the device body is made of plastic, the battery cover is made of aluminum, featuring a "First Edition" note outside and a thanks on the inside.
Software and ServicesThe Fairphone FP1 comes pretty much with the stock Android Holo UI but there are some differences. While the app drawer looks like Android, there's no menu button on the homescreen to call it. Instead you either have to press the left or right border to get it overlayed, including some quick icons which can be customized. That's quite unusual and is unfortunately not working within apps but only from the homescreen.
Furthermore, as the first screenshot above shows, comes the Fairphone FP1 without any preinstalled Google apps but asks the user to do so. This means that neither Google Play, nor Gmail, Google Maps, Google+, etc. are preinstalled. That's quite unique and allows the FP1 user to run a vanilla Android device without being locked into the Google eco-system.
Bellow a screenshot of the app drawer before and after the download of Google apps. On the left without the Google Play icon, on the right with the Google Play icon which provides full access to Google Play.
Also installed now are Gmail, Google+, and other Google related apps but not all. Apps like Google Maps, Google Play Music, Google Play Movies, etc. are still not installed and have to be manually installed from Google Play.
Another unique Fairphone FP1 app is the so called "Peace of Mind" app which is also a homescreen widget.
This function "disconnects" the FP1 from the world and turns the device to silent; at the end it's the airplane mode with a countdown.
Other than the described apps, the Fairphone FP1 comes without any further surprises.
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If you just take the hardware specs and the price, the media-core Fairphone FP1 is definitely to expensive for what the phone is. But that's not what the Fairphone is about. It's a kind of "fair trade" project and the approach is the right one. By itself, the phone looks pretty standard but not to bad, even if it's not a design highlight. It might be a little bit thick and heavy, especially the weight is something I dislike; but it nevertheless could be my every day phone without any problems. It's rock-solid manufactured and I like the material-mix of plastic and aluminum, even if I don't like some design elements like the white frame, black body and silver aluminum. That's a little bit too much.
But all the other specs are ok, even if the lack of LTE and 5 GHz WiFi bother but I was quite surprised how well the MediaTek MT6589 quad-core CPU powered the device. With average use, I haven't seen any lack of responsiveness or snappiness.
Much more surprising was the user interface, especially the homescreen menu implementation. While I always value new ideas, it's way too difficult and cumbersome to get to the app drawer. A straight implementation on the homescreen would be preferred. Other than that, the only surprise is the fact that the FP1 comes without any Google apps preinstalled. This is indeed quite unusual but the way the FP1 allows to upgrade to the Google experience is well done - and it safes memory. Apps you don't want or need don't have to be installed and therefore users are pretty free to decide how they want to use the phone.
All together, the Fairphone FP1 project is an interesting approach and some parts of this approach I would like to see adopted by first tier manufactures. There are good reasons for this project, which successfully raised the money for the initial batch of 5,000 phones and sold all 25,000 of its initial production back in November. While the Fairphone FP1 is currently not available for order, a second production run is planned for 2014. The first production run was available for preorder for 325 Euro.
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Foreword: Patrick has asked me to write something for this Blog. As this is a "Green" blog and the posts are (generally) about "Energy" and all that sort of stuff, and so far there has been a bit of a "scientific" air to the tune, I guess I better write about something involving energy and try to sound technical then. This blog also has "Green" in its name and content, so what I write should be "green" right? Having given that a good ten seconds consideration, I decided that the green angle can be either the Irish connection or, if you like, a euphemism for the degree of cop-on a person has, which ever you're havin' yourself! Here goes then:
When people first conceived the idea of a wheelbarrow humanity was young and inexperienced in the laws of thermodynamics, consequently their efforts were somewhat awkward causing a great waste of energy. See diagram below.
As the human race – ("race" get it) became more mature, and of course when mankind's greatest invention was invented (that would be the wheel), the whole conceptual design and implementation of wheelbarrow principles took a great leap forward.
With all this technological advancement it was possible to achieve the same, or even more effective, motion with much less effort and therefore much less wasted energy. "Conservation of Energy" was a stated principle rapidly becoming ubiquitous in the vernacular.
We now move forward in time to the scientific age (sometimes called the industrial age), where we see the ultimate development of the wheelbarrow. The design now features many sophistications which have been fully optimised allowing the friction losses to be reduced to almost nothing, thus facilitating Energy Conservation. People also have learned to use the wheelbarrow in more effective way thus further amplifying the energy saving principles. You will observe a good example of this in the diagram.
From start to finish the humble wheelbarrow charts the development of science through the ages, and adequately illustrates the principle of conserving energy. I must now conserve some energy and stop all this typing. In fact I must replace some energy by having my coffee and jaffa cakes.
That ends this very brief dissertation. I hope you have been able to understand the scientific and design principles outlined in the above paper and that you have enjoyed this little discussion as much as I have.
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Every few years I get sucked into a tennis event, and this year I've become QUITE taken with the US Open.
One of the things I enjoy about tennis is that the players are so obviously bonkers. I mean this in a good way, as I'm actually quite fond of loons, especially loons who I get to watch on television in HD. As far as I can tell, tennis is a sport comprised entirely of Ryan Millers, only THESE Ryan Millers aren't even socialized. These poor people don't even have teammates to keep them grounded.
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Having watched all the praised heaped on Ben Affleck for the two films he's directed, it's not unreasonable for Matt Damon to think, "Hell, I could do that." And so he will.
"I am coming closer to a directorial thing, yes," Damon told Vulture. "I've got a few things that I really want to direct, and one I'm actually going to start at the first quarter of next year... John Krasinski's in it."
"It" in this case is "Father Daughter Time: A Tale of Armed Robbery and Eskimo Kisses," a script by Matthew Aldrich, about a man who goes on a cross-country crime spree with his young daughter in tow. Damon will also be serving as producer, and we can only assume he'll have the good sense to cut down that title.
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Damon, of course, worked with Krasinski's wife, Emily Blunt, in this year's overlooked "Adjustment Bureau," and they're both from the greater Boston are and hardcore Red Sox fans, so life on the set should be easygoing enough.
And, man, is Krasinski due for a decent film role. Right now he's creeping up on Kristen Bell for the title of Worst Transition From TV to Film. "Leatherheads," "License to Wed," "It's Complicated" and "Something Borrowed"... pretty much every live-action film hes been a part of since gaining fame on "The Office" has been a failure of one variety or another. Tragically, the best non-"Office" thing he's been involved in are those great New Era ads he does with Alec Baldwin


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This is a general weekly listing. Please sign-up with the UWctf mailing list for weekly updates and meeting information. mailman.cs.washington.edu… What they do: Batman's Kitchen is a UW Capture-the-Flag (CTF) team. They compete in CTF competitions locally and internationally and hold regular meetups at the University to practice breaking/hacking stuff and learn about computer security topics. CTF is a sort of computer security competition. Common topics include web exploitation, reverse engineering, forensics, and more.
How to get involved: Newcomers who have no experience but just want to learn are totally welcome. Come visit, and you'll learn a ton.
Batman's Kitchen meetings are generally on Wednesdays at 6:00 PM in CSE 203 (UW Seattle). Usually there will be a speaker from the local Seattle computer security industry to come in to talk about something. Sign up for our mailing list to know the topic ahead of time, or to be aware of any scheduling or room changes.
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Sales of Intel Ultrabooks are reported to be failing to take the hefty bite out of the notebook market that Intel was hoping and Taiwanese suppliers blame Europe's lack of appetite for Intel's slim yet powerful MacBook Air pretenders.
Intel was hoping that its Ultrabook products would account for around 40 per cent of laptop sales in 2012, but that estimate has now been revised downwards to 20 per cent.
It's because these so-called Ultrabooks are not setting alight a fire of passion in the pit of Europe's souls. On the continent, we prefer 15-inch laptops, or so reckons Digitimes' weirdly specific Taiwanese supply chain source.
And therein lies the problem: there are no 15-inch Ultrabooks on the market. Enter Acer, which the sources also suggest is about to rock out a 15-inch Timeline Ultra to appease the European and American markets.
How much is that Ultrabook in the window?
It's not just that though, Ultrabooks are also proving to be rather more expensive than planned, more often tipping over £1,000 than not; but prices are expected to come down as the year progresses.
We reckon that AMD could be the solution to the great Ultrabook pricing problem though - a bit of competition never hurt anyone, did it Intel?
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Why I am Leaving MLB
The recent New York Times editorial/open letter from a former Goldman Sachs employee appears to have opened the floodgates to those seeking to leave behind a no longer fulfilling employment. However, RSBS was still shocked when the following letter arrived in our inbox the other day signed simply, Bud S.
TODAY is my last day at MLB. After more than 40 years at the organization — first as a minority owner of the Milwaukee Braves, then in bringing the Seattle Pilots to Milwaukee and renaming them the Brewers, and now as commissioner — I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its identity. And I can honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it.
But this was not always the case. For instance, over more than a decade I made sure that steroids not only entered the game but also redefined it. By looking the other way while Sammy, Mark and Barry launched bomb after artificially powered bomb, I ensured that baseball once again excited the ordinary American that had been lured away by the corn syrup sweetness of NASCAR and the NFL.
I knew it was time to leave when I realized I could no longer look players in the eye and tell them they could continue to juice.
How did we get here? The organization changed the way it thought about owners. Ownership used to be about overcharging fans, merchandising everything from jock straps to girly colored hats and looking the other way while players shot 'roids in the locker room. Today, if you treat the team as your personal piggy bank (and use its assets to pay off the divorce settlement with your crazy ex-wife) you will lose the team and the money from its lucrative TV rights.
There used to be three quick ways to become a leader among owners: a) Execute on the organization's "axes," which is MLB-speak for persuading your fans to buy tickets or other products that we are trying to get rid of because they are not seen as having a lot of potential profit. b) "Hunt Elephants." In English: get your fans — some of whom are sophisticated, and some of whom aren't — to buy whatever will bring the biggest profit to MLB. Call me old-fashioned, but I don't like selling my clients a product that is wrong for them. I prefer to sell them at least three. c) Find yourself sitting in a seat where your job is to trade any washed-up, aging slugger for much more than he's worth. Adam Dunn, anyone?
Today, though, many owners display an MLB culture quotient of exactly zero percent. I attend postseason merchandising and ticket sales meetings where not one single minute is spent asking questions about how we can help owners or hose fans. It's purely about how we can make this a "September to Remember." If you were an alien from Mars and sat in on one of these meetings, you would believe that an owners' success or pocketbook was not part of the thought process at all.
When I was a minority owner I didn't know where the bathroom was, or how to tie my shoelaces. I was taught to be concerned with learning the ropes, finding out how to charge more for cheaper hotdogs, understanding the process of selling the same volume of beer at three different (and increasingly more expensive) prices, getting to know our players and what motivated them while making sure they had a safe place and a helping hand when injecting steroids in their asses.
My proudest moments in life — owning a Brewers team that posted one of the worst winning percentages over a ten-year period in the history of baseball, joining other owners in colluding and then helping pay the $280 million settlement, overseeing the worst All-Star game in the history of baseball — have all come through focusing on profits and passing the prices on to the fans. MLB today has become too much "the fan experience" and not enough about soaking the suckers. It just doesn't feel right to me anymore.
I hope this can be a wake-up call to the owners. Make your fellow owners the focal point of your business again. Without fans you will not make money. In fact, you will not exist. But fans are simple-minded sheep who will do whatever you want so don't worry about them. Get the culture right again, so people want to work here for the right reasons: steroids and making money for the owners. People who care only about making fans happy will not sustain this organization — or the trust of the owners — for very much longer.
Bud S.


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Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story had an incorrect Capitol office telephone number for Rep. KC Becker, D-Boulder, who represents House District 13 and is House Majority Leader. The correct number is below
Local legislator contacts
The Colorado General Assembly has 100 members. Twelve of those lawmakers represent districts that include parts of Boulder County, southwest Weld County, the city and county of Broomfield and southern Larimer County.
Their state Capitol telephone numbers and email addresses, according to the Legislature's website:
House District 10: Rep. Edie Hooton, D-Boulder. Capitol phone: 303-866-2915; Capitol email: email@example.com
House District 11: Rep. Jonathan Singer, D-Longmont. Capitol phone: ; 303-866-2780; Capitol email: email@example.com
House District 12: Rep. Mike Foote, D-Lafayette. Capitol phone: 303-866-2920; Capitol email: email@example.com
House District 13: Rep. KC Becker, D-Boulder. Capitol phone: 303-866-2578 ; Capitol email: email@example.com
House District 33: Rep. Matt Gray, D-Broomfield. Capitol phone: ;303-866-4667; Email: email@example.com
House District 49: Rep. Perry Buck, R-Windsor. Capitol phone: 303-866-2907; Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
House District 63: Rep. Lori Saine, R-Firestone. Capitol phone: 303-866-2906 ; Capitol email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Senate District 15: Sen. Kevin Lundberg, D-Berthoud. Capitol phone: 303-866-4853; Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Senate District 16: Sen. Tim Neville, R-Jefferson County. Capitol phone: 303-866-4873; Capitol email: email@example.com
Senate District 17: Sen. Matt Jones, D-Louisville. Capitol phone: 303-866-5291; Capitol email: email@example.com
Senate District 18: Sen. Stephen Fenberg, D-Boulder. Capitol phone: 303-866-4872; Capitol email: email@example.com
Senate District 23: Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins. Capitol phone: 303-866-4876; Capitol email; firstname.lastname@example.com
More Information:
• Colorado General Assembly website: leg.colorado.gov
• Colorado House Democrats: cohousedems.com
• Colorado House Republicans: cohousegop.com
• Colorado Senate Republicans: coloradosenaterepublicans.com
• Colorado Senate Democrats: coloradosenate.org
The Colorado General Assembly, the formal name of the state Legislature, got its four-month-long 2017 regular session underway Wednesday.
Opening-day ceremonies included House Speaker Dickey Lee Hullinghorst — a Gunbarrel Democrat who held the top leadership position in that chamber but couldn't seek re-election from House District 10 because of term limits — turning the speaker's gavel over to Rep. Crisanta Duran, a northwest Denver lawmaker named by fellow House Democrats to fill that post for the coming two years.
Rep. Jonathan Singer, D-Longmont, noted the transition and Hullinghorst's leadership in a Tuesday night Facebook posting, saying Hullinghorst's "tough as nails, strategic, cunning and caring approach is something I'll never be able to match.
"Speaker Hullinghorst was my mentor when I was first sworn in 5 years ago when Democrats were in the minority. I don't know if I've ever learned so much so quickly as I did sitting next to her that year," Singer wrote.
"In 2015, Majority Leader Hullinghorst became Speaker Hullinghorst. Our meetings got a little less frequent as her time got gobbled up by the even more demanding issues and a sometimes obstinate Senate. But if I needed help, or if it seemed like I might be getting a little too outside the box, I could count on a visit to her office," Singer wrote.
"While most of the bills we passed didn't have her name front and center, she was the fastidious shepherd. In between school finance, transportation, fracking fights, and standing up for equal rights, she was able to find time to run her own bills on county tax fairness, school safety, and finding ways to help our state invest in schools and roads without raising new taxes," Singer said.
Duran gave one of Wednesday's opening-day speeches, as did as House Minority Leader, Patrick Neville, R-Castle Rock; Senate President Kevin Grantham, R-Canon City, and Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman, D-Denver.
While no one from Boulder County's legislative delegation will hold the top Senate or House leadership positions in this year's session, Boulder Democratic Rep. KC Becker is taking over the House majority leader's post, which is the No. 2 leadership position in that chamber.
Becker is the latest Boulder County lawmaker to be chosen by her fellow Democrats to fill the majority leader's job of managing House floor work as bills proposing new state laws — or the repeals or revisions of existing laws — are debated there. Her predecessors as majority leader in recent years include Hullinghorst, in 2013 and 2014, and then-Reps. Paul Weissmann, of Louisville, in 2009 and 2010 and Alice Madden, of Boulder, from 2005 through 2008.
As for other area lawmakers with key positions in the session:
In the House, where Democrats have a 37-28 majority of that chamber's seats, Singer is chairman of the House Public Health and Human Services Committee. Rep. Mike Foote, D-Lafayette, is chairman of the House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee and vice chairman of the House Finance Committee.
Rep. Lori Saine, R-Firestone, is House Republican caucus chairwoman, while Windsor Republican Perry Buck, whose district includes Mead, Berthoud and Estes Park, is House GOP whip. That position's duties typically include counting likely votes and trying to persuade fellow party members to support that party's position on proposed legislation.
In the Senate, where Republicans have an 18-17 majority, Sen. Tim Neville, R-Jefferson County, whose district extends into southern Boulder County, is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and vice chairman of the Senate Business, Labor and Technology Committee. Sen. Vicki Marble, a Fort Collins-area Republican whose district extends through southwest Weld County and into Broomfield, is vice chairwoman of the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee. Sen. Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, whose district includes most of Larimer County outside Fort Collins, is one of the three Republicans on the six-member Joint Budget Committee.
Sen. Matt Jones, D-Louisville, is the deputy Senate minority leader for conservation, energy and climate change.
John Fryar: 303-684-5211, firstname.lastname@example.com or twitter.com/jfryartc


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3 of My Favorite Herbal Tea Mixes
I realize you probably came to this website looking for hibiscus tea, but on the other hand, maybe you're already a hibiscus tea fan and are looking for some variety, just like me!
I love almost all kinds of tea, especially herbal and flower teas, and I'm always looking for new brands and new tastes to try out.
These are three of my favorite herbal tea mixes. Not all of them are caffeine free, but I have marked each so you won't buy the wrong thing by mistake. I've also added steeping instructions.
1. Davidson's Earl Grey Tea with Lavender
Davidson's has the best loose leaf tea bar none, as far as I'm concerned, and their bulk prices are great too.
This Earl Grey loose leaf tea is the classic English black tea infused with bergamot, but what's special about it is the added lavender flowers. They give the tea a flowery note and a delicious scent. It's a perfect afternoon tea, and it goes well with high tea, cake or cookies.
How to Steep Earl Grey Lavender Tea:
- Put a teaspoon of tea into a tea pot or preferably, a tea infuser.
- Pour 1 pint or more of boiling water over the tea and into the pot.
- Cover the cup or pot and steep for 5 minutes.
- Remove tea infuser.
Note: this tea contains caffeine. It's also a strong black tea; don't overbrew it and let it get bitter!
Buy Davidson's Earl Grey Lavender Tea at Amazon
2. Traditional Medicinals Organic Raspberry Leaf Herbal Tea
These tea bags contain 100% organic raspberry leaves. So, technically, this is not a mix, but I love it so much that I wanted to include it.
Raspberry leaf is a special tea that is, I'm not kidding, a godsend to women. I'm not saying men can't drink it, but they won't get the benefit of its special properties!
For hundreds of years, women have used raspberry tea to help alleviate menstrual cramps and labor pains and strengthen the uterus. And best of all, it tastes great, not at all medicinal. In fact it reminds me of black tea, even though it's caffeine free. You could drink this with a bit of honey, but it's tasty enough to drink plain.
How to Steep Raspberry Leaf Tea:
- Put the raspberry leaf tea bag in a tea cup or pot.
- If you're using a larger tea pot, put two tea bags into the pot.
- Single tea cup: pour 1 cup of boiling water over the tea bag and into the tea cup.
- Full tea pot: pour 1 pint of boiling water over the tea bag and into the pot.
- Cover the cup or pot and steep for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Gently squeeze tea bag to get the last bits of raspberry goodness out.
- Remove tea bag.
Note: this tea is caffeine free.
The manufacturer of this tea, Traditional Medicinals, recommends drinking 3 to 4 cups between meals.
Buy Traditional Medicinals Raspberry Leaf Tea from Amazon
3. Davidson's Herbal Cranberry Orange Tea
I know, I know, it's another Davidson's tea. But they are so good!
This mix of flowers and fruits is perfect if you want to drink a healthy herbal tea that's full of Vitamin C. The tea contains organic cranberries, chamomile, rooibos, rosehips, hibiscus and orange peel, with sweet orange essence for extra flavor.
As a fellow enthusiast wrote on Amazon,
"You can feel a touch of sourness of the cranberries and hibiscus flowers, the refreshing taste of the orange peels, and the pleasant taste of the camomile."
I couldn't have put it better myself. You can also combine this tea with pure hibiscus tea if you want to make a tea that's a little fruitier and sweeter than plain hibiscus, but still has all the wonderful health benefits of hibiscus tea.
How to Steep Cranberry Orange Tea:
- Put a teaspoon of tea into a tea pot or preferably, a tea infuser.
- Pour 1 pint or more of boiling water over the tea and into the pot.
- Cover the cup or pot and steep for 5 minutes.
- Remove tea infuser.
Note: this tea is caffeine free.


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The new wind projects account for about 30 percent of the entire new power-producing capacity added nationally in 2007 and will power the equivalent of 1.5 million American households annually.
"This is the third consecutive year of record-setting growth, establishing wind power as one of the largest sources of new electricity supply for the country," said Randall Swisher, executive director of the AWEA, which represents more than 1,200 member companies.
"This remarkable and accelerating growth is driven by strong demand, favorable economics, and a period of welcome relief from the on-again, off-again, boom-and-bust, cycle of the federal production tax credit for wind power," he said.
But, Swisher warns, the production tax credit and tax incentives for other renewable energy sources could lapse at the end of 2008, and the association is urging Congress and the president to extend the production tax credit in order to sustain this remarkable growth along with the manufacturing jobs, fresh economic opportunities, and reduction of global warming pollution that it provides."
The Senate Finance Committee Wednesday included an extension of the expiring tax credits for wind, solar, and other renewable energy technologies as part of its economic stimulus package now working its way through Congress.
The Finance Committee approved an amendment by Senator Maria Cantwell, a Washington Democrat, to provide for a one-year extension of expiring clean energy and energy efficiency tax credits.
"Today, the Finance Committee took real steps to not only give consumers the immediate financial relief they need, but also to address the underlying reasons for the weakness in our economy by including clean energy tax incentives in the stimulus package," said Cantwell.
"These incentives fit the very definition of stimulus – they are targeted and timely and will lead to tens of billions of dollars in investment and more than a 100 thousand new jobs in 2008," she said. "Only by accelerating our investment in clean sources of energy and energy-saving technologies can we get people and businesses real relief from crushing energy costs."
Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican and ranking member of the Committee on Finance, said, "Renewable energy production depends on investment. Investors need certainty. They won't put their money out for a wind energy facility unless there's a reasonable expectation that tax incentives will continue into the future."
"Production has to meet demand and alternative energy has never been in such demand as it is right now," Grassley said. "The high price of oil helped to start the economic downturn. The stimulus package should underscore the nation's commitment to energy efficiency and alternative energy."
Both senators represent states among the top five wind power producers in the country.
Clipper Windpower of Carpinteria, California, opened a new wind turbine manufacturing facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 2007.
Texas has the most installed wind generating capacity, with California in second place and Minnesota in third, with Iowa close behind. Washington rounds out the list of top five states.
GE Energy continued to lead in wind turbine sales, with 45 percent of the market in terms of new capacity installed.
FPL Energy remained atop the list of wind project developers, with 956 megawatts of new development in 2007 alone.
The U.S. wind power fleet now numbers 16,818 megawatts across 34 states, according to the latest AWEA data, released in a year end market report.
American wind farms will generate an estimated 48 billion kilowatt-hours of wind energy in 2008, just over one percent of U.S. electricity supply, powering the equivalent of over 4.5 million homes.
Swisher says that by reducing the need for other fuels used for electricity generation, lowering the pressure on their price, wind can save consumers money, even in regions with low or no wind resources.
Wind power's strong performance is expected to continue this year. AWEA estimates that 2008 could equal 2007 in new wind capacity installed.
Developers report that with strong demand for wind power across the country, wind turbines are sold out for the year. Still, AWEA projects that with more companies entering the market, more turbines will become available.
"The pace of growth in 2008 and beyond is expected to largely depend, not on turbine availability, but on the timing and duration of an extension of the federal production tax credit," the association said.
Wind power reduces global warming emissions, and wind farms help conserve water as they do not require water for steam or for cooling as other forms of power generation do.
The full AWEA annual report is online at: www.awea.org/Market_Report_Jan08.pdf and a state-by-state listing of existing and proposed wind energy projects is online at http://www.awea.org/projects
Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 2008. All rights reserved.


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Most Popular New York Houses of the Day in 2013
Almost 90 homes were featured as a New York House of the Day in 2013, from a castle in Garrison and the home of a prominent suffragist in Sands Point, to a tucked away Fire Island beach house and a $28 million Bridgehampton home with elaborate Asian gardens.
New York House of the Day highlights highend homes for sale across Greater New York with compelling back stories and details, and can be viewed in our New York and Real Estate sections as well in our WSJ House of the Day app. Of the properties featured this year, until mid-December, here are the most popular houses of 2013.


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Barbados greets you year round with soothing trade winds, warm weather and friendly
This enchanting Caribbean island, steeped in history and charm provides a safe and secure
place for vacationers and business travellers alike.
Glenville Gardens welcomes you to our intimate cottages set among tropical fruit trees and
towering century old mahogany trees
You will experience the island way of life in the relaxed atmosphere of our quiet landscaped
gardens and enjoy the beach just minutes away.
We promise you a memorable tropical vacation.
Welcome to Glenville Gardens
Glenville Gardens
Lovely south coast cottages set in a relaxing tropical garden, close to the beach.
Condé Nast Traveler
July 2009
"For a peaceful spot to
lay your head, Glenville
Gardens, a refuge of
three pleasant,
well-equipped cottages
(Estelle is the roomiest),
is a couple of blocks from
Accra Beach, in Hastings.
Taste the golden apples
(like a kiwi-mango
hybrid) that fall from the
trees, and keep your eyes
peeled for a family of
monkeys and six shy
Hastings Villas