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Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Artist Residencies
Application Guidelines
Frequently Asked Question
Winter Residencies
Scientific Delirium Madness
AIR Krems Exchange
The Ford Family Foundation Residency for Oregon Visual Artists
Artist Residencies
Application Guidelines
Frequently Asked Question
Winter Residencies
Scientific Delirium Madness
AIR Krems Exchange
The Ford Family Foundation Residency for Oregon Visual Artists
Application Guidelines
APPLICATION DEADLINE: March 15, 2017 for a residency in 2018
APPLICATIONS:Applications will be available at the end of November.
Use the apply link on the left of the page or go directly to the online portal at slideroom using this link: https://djerassi.slideroom.com
ELIGIBILITY AND RE-APPLICATIONS: National and International visual artists, composers, choreographers, media artists, writers and scientists (for the SDM session) are eligible. Alumni must wait three seasons before reapplying for a return residency. Example: 2015 residents can reapply for the 2019 residency season. Artists who were placed on alternate status may reapply for the next season. Please note the application form, resume and all support materials must be in English. Students are not eligible for residencies.
ADMISSIONS PANELS: Invitations for residencies are extended based on evaluations made by panels consisting of artists and arts professionals in each discipline. The panels meet once a year to review applicants within those disciplines. Panelists are rotated each year. Approximately 85 artists are selected each year to work on independent or collaborative projects.
PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable processing fee of $45 is required with each application. Media uploads are inlcuded in this fee. The fee is to be paid by credit card at the end of the on-line application process in slideroom.
NOTIFICATION: Applicants will be notified in September of the year they applied.
ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES: There are five categories.
Applicants should apply in the category that best represents their work. Applicants may apply to only one admissions panel, and in one genre, at a time. Applicants with concerns about choice of panel should contact the Residency Coordinator before submitting an application.
RESIDENCY SESSIONS:The residency dates for 2018 will be on our website at the end of November.
There are 6 residency sessions each 29 days long from April through mid-November. No shorter or partial residencies are offered. Session 3 (June 28- July 26) is for *Scientific Delirium Madness* only.
SCIENTIFIC DELIRIUM MADNESS: Session 3, June 28- July 26 * Scientific Delirium Madness*, a special initiative of Djerassi Program in collaboration with LEONARDO/ISAST. Djerassi will host 6 scientists and 6 creative artists whose work explores the continuum of art and science for a special 29 day residency.Residents during this session are expected to participate in the Annual Open House AND may be asked to share their experience in an academic-style conference.
We ask scientists interested in the Scientific Delirium Madness session to use the 2017 Scientific Delirium Madness: Application for Scientists on the slideroom portal.
For the disciplines of visual arts, media arts, literature, music composition, and choreography, if your work is informed or grounded by biology, physics, mathematics, geology, chemistry, agriculture or environmental science, please use the Application for your specific discipline and include Session 3 among your prioritized session choices.
COLLABORATIONS: Artists who plan to collaborate during the residency must submit individual applications. Work space needs should be clearly specified (i.e. whether or not separate studios are required). Also indicate if you are interested in attending as an individual artist.
COUPLES: Couples must apply separately with the understanding that each applicant will be reviewed separately by their discipline's panel. If both artists are selected, we will make every effort to schedule you at the same time and arrange appropriate accommodations. Separate studios will be assigned unless otherwise requested. Please note on your applications if you would like to share the same living quarters.
CHOREOGRAPHY APPLICANTS: Choreographers may request to have one DANCER or one VIDEOGRAPHER in residence or request the time alone. This should be noted in the work plan on the Panel Review Form.
GUESTS: Accommodations are limited to selected individual residents only. No accommodations for spouses, partners, or children are available. Friends or family who are in the area for brief visits cannot be accommodated overnight at the facility. They are welcome for day visits and dinner at the ranch. No personal pets are allowed.
GERALD OSHITA MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP FOR COMPOSERS: Contributed by an anonymous donor, the Fellowship is designated for a composer of Asian, African, Latino, or Native American ethnic background. The Oshita Fellow receives a one-month Djerassi Program residency, during which the recipient is free to compose, study, rehearse, and otherwise advance his or her own creative projects, plus cash stipend.
NON-DISCRIMINATION: The Program encourages and welcomes the participation of artists from all backgrounds and does not discriminate with regard to age, race, sex, sexual orientation, disability, religion, marital status, or nation of origin in its admission policies.
Submit six jpeg images to best present your work.
Provide 6 Images (up to 5 MB each)
You may submit more than one type of media to best present your work.
Excerpts of video work and film segments are requested. The panel may only watch the first five minutes.
Provide 1-6 items.
Images (up to 5 MB each), Video (up to 60 MB each), Audio (up to 30 MB each) and PDFs (up to 10 MB each). You may also link to media from YouTube, Vimeo and SoundCloud
Excerpts of work requested. The panel may only watch the first five minutes.
Accepted media files (mov, wmv, flv, mp4)
Provide 1-5 items. Video (up to 60 MB each). You may also link to media from YouTube and Vimeo
You may include 2 separate musical scores (PDF). This is optional not required. For works created without a score, a brief statement describing the recorded music should be included. You can do this after you upload. All audio samples need to be uploaded as MP3.
Provide 1-5 items. Audio (up to 30 MB each) and PDFs (up to 10 MB each). You may also link to media from SoundCloud
Submit work (PDF) in only one genre per application.
Provide 1-5 items. PDFs (up to 10 MB each)
Prose: fiction, creative non-fiction, translation
double-spaced typescript of no more than 30 pages
Drama: scripts, screenplays, librettos
double-spaced typescript of no more than 30 pages
Poetry: 10 short, one-page poems or appropriate excerpts of a longer poem. Please include all poems in one file. no more than 10 pages
Graphic Novels: graphic novels


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CLEMSON, S.C. - A man trying to woo a woman with the scent of baby powder caused a scare at Clemson's post office.
The post office was briefly shut down after officials discovered some white powder. The substance was found by a postal worker Saturday, less than a month since the deadly poison ricin was found at a Greenville-area post office.
The mysterious powder was identified as baby powder.
Clemson Police Chief Jimmy Dixon said tests confirmed Monday that the powder did not pose a threat, but was meant to make the letter smell good.
"A gentleman who was infatuated with someone here in the city of Clemson had mailed her a card and was trying to be romantic," Dixon said.
The post office was closed for three hours Saturday morning.
"We had done a preliminary threat assessment Saturday and nothing indicated threat or malicious intent, so it was reopened," Dixon said.
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What can the church to do help mentor the lost men in our society, the boys who grow up looking for a role model?
The only way to foster genuine mentoring relationships is to build a church that's truly intergenerational. Believers need to get out of the habit of segregating themselves according to age groups. Younger men need older men who can come alongside them, walk with them through the tough spots of life, and show them what it means to be a man who really trusts God for all his needs and who puts other people's concerns and interests ahead of his own.
To put it another way, men need to be nurtured within the context of community. The church, as Christ's Body, is uniquely equipped to meet this need. But we have to remember that it won't happen automatically. If we're going to build men up in the image of Christ, we're going to have to be intentional about creating thriving men's ministries in our local congregations.
As you survey the state of manhood and fatherhood in our society, what distresses you and what gives you hope?
I'd say that, on the whole, men today have a much fuzzier concept of who they are and what they're supposed to be doing than did their fathers and grandfathers. The feminist movement has done a great job of opening up all kinds of new doors and opportunities for women, but in the process, one of its unfortunate side-effects has been to rob men of their purpose as provider and protector. Somehow, guys today need to rediscover and reclaim that aspect of their identity.
On the other hand, I see signs that many young dads are stepping up to the plate and playing a much more active role in their children's lives than was often the case in past generations. Brad Wilcox, Director of the National Marriage Project, recently reported that fathers have almost doubled the average amount of time they spend with their children each week, from 4.2 hours in 1995 to 7.3 hours in 2011. That's good news.
What encouragement can you give to fathers who have come from broken families and feel ill-equipped to raise families of their own?
I'd encourage them to believe that, with God's help, he can rise above his origins and his present situation. I'm not necessarily saying that this will be an easy process. I also think it's important to remember that none of us will ever be perfect in this life. Nevertheless, new life in Christ is not just a fantasy. It's something we lay hold of by faith.
New growth, new horizons, and new ways of thinking and behaving are all part of God's plan for those who turn their hearts over to him and trust him to lead the way. You just have to find the gumption to say, "The past is the past and the old patterns stop here. By the grace of God I'm going to take a different path!"
How would you advise pastors, church leaders, business leaders, community leaders, and politicians to help shape the next generation of young men?
This is an art, not a science. Every man is different, and re-creation in the image of Christ is a unique process for each individual. But on the whole, I'd say that men at the beginning of the 21st century desperately need three things: people to love and be loved by, a place to belong, and meaningful work to do. The church, the community, business, industry, and the corporate world can all contribute something toward the meeting of these needs. But the place where it all begins—the most important piece of the puzzle—is the family.


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'Vagina Monologues' playwright explores
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Even after the worldwide success of her Obie-winning play "The Vagina Monologues," Eve Ensler still struggles with the body impolitic.
The celebrated actress-playwright, born to a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother, sees herself as "a Jewish being. My mother looked like Doris Day. I was a dead ringer for Anne Frank. I came out Jewish." But when it came to her self-image, there were times when Ensler felt even heaven couldn't help her.
Her new one-woman show "The Good Body" opens Wednesday, July 7, at San Francisco's Geary Theater after a week of previews. In the play, presented by ACT, Ensler picks up where "The Vagina Monologues" left off, excoriating society's illusory ideal of female perfection.
Says Ensler: "It's based on how women shape and reshape, hide, vary, mutilate and transform their bodies in order to fit into their culture, and the underlying drive to be good."
That obsession to be good and look good begins at home. Much of Ensler's play is autobiographical, charting the playwright's personal battles with
the try-on room mirror, especially regarding another one of her body parts: her belly.
"I will vanquish ice cream," intones Ensler in the play's opening sequence. "I will visualize flat abs and do sit-ups and curls past the point of burning. I will see chocolate as poison and pasta as a form of self-punishment."
However, "The Good Body" is more than Ensler's story alone. Over the course of the play, Ensler goes global with the body-image problem. She takes on the personas of multiple characters, from a 12-year-old Kenyan girl who wants to look like the Dolce & Gabanna stick figures on "Beverly Hills 90210" to Isabella Rossellini, the celebrated actress dropped as a skin-care products spokeswoman after she got "too old."
Ensler even plays a verklempt fortysomething Jewish housewife who undergoes genital tightening surgery to please her aging, virility-challenged husband ("The last time I saw him that excited was at Ethan's bar mitzvah," says the character).
"Some of them are made up," says Ensler, "and some are real, like [Cosmopolitan magazine guru] Helen Gurley Brown. I would hear pieces of stories, hear an idea, and make up a character. All have seeds in truth."
Ensler wrote the play over a period of three years, workshopping it at a theater festival on the Croatian island of Brioni, and most recently at the Seattle Repertory.
The San Francisco world premiere production is the most elaborate yet, utilizing complex lighting, backdrops, costumes and set, all under the direction of Peter Askin.
"Peter did 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' and all the John Leguizamo shows," says Ensler. "I'm in awe of what he's done. But all the designers on the show have heightened, expanded and illuminated what's going on."
Illumination of women's issues has been Ensler's dominant artistic mission. Based on interviews with 200 women about their sexual experiences, "The Vagina Monologues" catapulted Ensler to worldwide fame. The play was translated into dozens of languages and ran in theaters all over the world, including sold-out runs off-Broadway and on London's West End. Her other plays include "Lemonade," "The Depot," "Extraordinary Measures" and "Scooncat."
Ensler has earned a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in playwriting, the Berrilla-Kerr Award for playwriting and the Elliot Norton Award for outstanding solo performance.
Her success in the theater led to what she considers her most significant achievement to date: launching V-Day, a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to combating violence against women around the world.
"It's a vagina miracle," she says. "The only thing that means something in the long run is the impact of V-Day. We raised over $26 million and had 2,300 performances to stop violence."
Despite the acclaim and accolades, Ensler readily admits success has not spoiled her.
Far from it.
"When I finished 'Vagina Monologues,' I had this fantasy I'd be in the clear," she says. "I thought, 'I liked my vagina, I worked it all out.' Then I looked down and saw my stomach. If you have self-hatred, it's in you."
However, rather than fork over big bucks to psychoanalysts, Ensler tends to work out her problems on stage in front of adoring audiences. Unorthodox, yes, but it seems to work for her.
"I am sane because of it," she says. "I don't know what I'd be if I didn't have this outlet. I have had moments where I liked my body, and when you get a feel for something, you can grow it. If this play does anything, I hope people will have a moment to love their bodies."
"The Good Body," written by and starring Eve Ensler, runs Wednesday, July 7, through Sunday, July 25, at the Geary Theater, 405 Geary St., S.F. Tickets: $11-$68. Information: (415) 749-2228 or www.act-sfbay.org.
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Originally published Dec. 19, 1999
Before Oregon was a territory or even a destination on the long trail, it was an idea.
And the idea -- an Eden where people prospected not for gold but for a better life -- became the lifeblood that nurtured the Beaver State until the end of the 20th century.
Oregon tugged at the nation when California was still unknown. The territory won the imagination of 19th-century America, which soon trampled Native American cultures in the rush for Willamette Valley land.
In 1846, the Oregon Trail changed forever the destiny of the tribes and a young nation. In the years to come, the Oregon dream reinvented itself for new generations.
During the Great Depression, it lured busted farmers and laborers to the Bonneville Dam.
In the 1940s, Oregon drew African Americans to the Portland shipyards.
In the 1970s, it attracted hippies and environmentalists.
In the 1990s, it drew affluent Californians. They cashed out in Orange County or San Jose and came north to escape pollution and crime. They traveled in Mercedes sedans rather than Conestoga wagons, but they sought the same thing: Oregon's promise of a better life.
The late Oregon poet laureate William Stafford explored the feelings the West provoked in one of his Methow Valley poems. It captures the way Oregon gripped newcomers.
"These people look out and
wonder. Is it magic? Is it
the oceans of air off the Pacific? You can't
walk through it without wrapping a new
piece of time around you, a readiness for a meadowlark,
that brinkmanship a dawn can carry for lucky people
all through the day.
Oregonians always counted themselves lucky.
Today, the past lives in the "Far Corner," a place at once isolated from and inextricably bound to the American Dream.
This "progressive anachronism," as historian Gordon Dodds so aptly describes Oregon, has thrived and stumbled for nearly two centuries under the mantle of its awe-inspiring charter -- not the document that framed a new territory, but the idea that lived in the minds of men.
In the 20th century, Oregon gained a progressive political reputation. The label was misleading; it obscured Oregon's wide cautious streak. Oregon was willing to be progressive -- such as with the environmental laws of the 1970s -- only when it came to defending the old values. And those values were bound to the land like the gray, enveloping rain.
Oregon: A place where the grass grew tall and green even in winter. Where steady rain nurtured crops and family ambitions. A land of high mountains, salmon rivers, rich valleys where a family could acquire a square mile of paradise for the price of a 2,000-mile walk.
Of course, the dream didn't match the reality. But the gulf between myth and muddy winters didn't matter. What mattered was what people believed. Americans equated Oregon with a better life.
The intruders encountered an unfamiliar landscape. At least nine climate zones reached across a state larger than New England. Rainfall varied from 200 inches a year in the Coast Range near the headwaters of the Wilson River to 6 inches in the Alvord Desert, in the parched shadow of Steens Mountain.
Oregon was as geographically diverse as it would later be lacking in cultural variety. Eleven mountain ranges creased the state. The Columbia Gorge hid 71 waterfalls in a setting spectacular enough to make painter Albert Bierstadt blush. Gardeners grew palm trees in Curry County while frost settled in the northeast mountains every month of the year. Winter buried the High Cascades under 70 feet of snow, while a weather anomaly created a "banana belt" on the south coast.
Newcomers were unprepared for the rich landscape. How they came to relate to the alpine forests and wild rivers forever defined what it meant to be an Oregonian.
"What makes Oregon different is how Oregonians relate to the land, to the place where they live," says Carl Abbott, a professor of urban studies at Portland State University. "And the place they relate to is not just their own city or town, it's the whole Northwest."
Praising, plundering the land
At the turn of the century, Oregon was vastly different from today.
Portland was two cities, living side by side. One was rowdy and two-fisted; the other staid, downright stuffy. The Willamette waterfront was a messy industrial district of clipper ships and skid roads. Fancy mansions sprouted among the stumps in the hill above.
Portland was establishing itself as a financial center in America's raid on the West. Oregonians loved the state's natural beauty, but, in an irony as thick as an old-growth spruce, they couldn't wait to love the landscape to death.
"Beautiful and fertile valleys, glorious and majestic mountains and river scenery, wonderful forests, mines of gold, silver, copper, nickel . . . rivers teeming with fish," wrote Pacific Monthly in 1905. "We have it; we are in possession of it -- this garden spot, this land pregnant with hidden resources, possibilities that almost stagger the imagination, opportunities."
In 1905, Portland staged its own coming-out party for the industrial century. The Lewis and Clark Exposition drew 3 million people. The hyperbolic local press, led by The Oregonian, hawked the future of what they saw as a New Oregon.
Despite the hoopla, the New Oregon was not to arrive until the 1970s, when a Republican governor named Tom McCall helped change attitudes about the environment.
What was at hand as the century dawned was a more efficient plundering.
By 1900, tremendous harm had been done to the land. The Willamette River was a sewer; trout placed in wire cages suffocated within minutes when dunked in its soiled currents.
The arid rangeland of southeast Oregon was severely damaged by over-grazing. Harney and Malheur counties held more sheep in 1900 than the human population of the state, which was 413,536.
As early as 1875, Spencer Fullerton Baird of the U.S. Commission of Fish and Fisheries sent a letter to the U.S. Senate predicting the extinction of salmon in Western rivers. Baird cited over-fishing, dam-building and habitat changes.
In Central Oregon, mill owners eyed a Ponderosa pine forest that reached to California. The coastal lowlands, the easiest ground to log, were quickly cleared of 15-foot-thick Sitka spruce and Douglas fir. The advent of the steam donkey and narrow-gauge railroads opened more forests as the timber machine industrialized.
No place for differences
The century broke with an orgy of political reform. William Simon U'Ren, who came to Oregon in 1889, birthed an era of progressive reforms. These laws, which welded political power to the people, included the initiative and referendum in 1902, the direct primary in 1904 and the recall in 1910.
But Oregon, cradle of democratic reform, also was home to scapegoating and the vicious politics of division. At times, the state was anti-Native American, anti-African American, anti-Japanese, anti-Catholic and, most recently with 1992's unsuccessful Ballot Measure 9, anti-gay from the start. The state faltered with race and ethnic relations.
Native Americans were excluded from the dream. The intruders took their lands and decimated the tribes with European diseases. Ships and wagons that carried settlers also brought influenza, smallpox and measles.
The provisional Legislature outlawed slavery, but the Oregon Constitution later banned African Americans from the state.
In the 1940s, when more than 20,000 African Americans arrived to work in the shipyards, Portland merchants responded by placing "white trade only" signs in windows.
In the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan burned crosses at Catholic schools and backed an initiative sponsored by the Scottish Rite Masons that outlawed parochial schools. The initiative passed, but the U.S. Supreme Court later declared it unconstitutional.
A call for conservation
The century marched like a logging crew across Oregon as the raid on the West joined the industrial age.
The 1930s launched an era of unprecedented dam-building on the Columbia River.
Bonneville Dam reflected the growing technological muscle of America. And the spirit that anything was possible.
"We weren't really mature enough then to see why it couldn't be done, and maybe that's why it was done," said Edgar Kaiser, chief of excavation at the site.
The dam-building swelled the federal government into a potent force in a region that, ironically, valued its independence. But the dams hastened the demise of salmon, perhaps the landscape's truest harbinger.
The Columbia, once the world's greatest producer of chinook salmon, became a river of ghosts.
Oregon passed Washington as the nation's leading timber producer in 1938. After World War II, Oregon's national forests spit the lumber that built the suburbs of California.
Yet from the start, Oregon also produced a lineage of conservation voices that spoke against the grab for resources.
In the 1880s, William G. Steel and John B. Waldo, two progressive Republicans, persuaded a succession of presidents to preserve alpine forests. Steel, who founded the Mazamas mountaineering club, persuaded President Grover Cleveland to protect Crater Lake. He later teamed with Waldo, a chief justice on the Oregon Supreme Court. Together, they lobbied for creation of the national forests that flank the Cascades today.
"An urgent need of the hour would seem to be, not more land to cultivate, but some change for the better in our ideas," wrote Waldo. "There are educational uses in the mountains and the wilderness which might well justify a wise people in preserving and reserving them for such uses."
In 1905, naturalists William L. and Irene Finley raised a lonely voice of dissent against draining wetlands for the Klamath Irrigation Project, the nation's first reclamation effort.
In 1913, Gov. Oswald West preached conservation to the Legislature and laid the groundwork to save the state's prized beaches.
The strands of environmentalism culminated in 1966 with the election of a fiery broadcaster turned politician who once said he loved Oregon more than he loved his own life.
The administration of Tom McCall, which lasted until 1975, became a turning point in Oregon history. After McCall, Oregon would never be the same.
He greeted the public during open hours at his office and shepherded more than 100 environmental laws through Salem.
His most enduring legacy was Senate Bill 100, the breakthrough land-use law. The 1973 law created the Land Conservation and Development Commission and gave the state authority over growth. The law slowed urban sprawl and preserved farm and forest lands. It is still hailed as the nation's most progressive land-use law. But McCall was only tending Oregon's oldest values: forest and river, ocean and sky.
His leadership shifted Oregon into a new realm. In the decades ahead, Oregon would run headlong into limits on fish, on forests. A new ethic of conservation caused Oregonians to re-examine the raid on the West.
"For the first time since the nation's inception in the late 18th century," wrote historian William Robbins in his insightful book "Landscapes of Promise, The Oregon Story," "a sizable public in the United States is beginning to question and rethink the deeper meaning of the idea of progress."
The road ahead
So what is the lesson in the century's twilight? Where does the Oregon story go from here?
No doubt we will continue beating furiously -- perhaps even progressively -- into the past.
Oregon's heritage of public lands will stand out more dramatically as the nation's population soars in the 21st century. About 53 percent of Oregon is owned by the federal government, much of it on 13 national forests spanning 15.5 million acres, an area the size of West Virginia.
Despite our reckless past, wilderness and wild rivers glisten like jewels in Oregon's necklace of federal lands. Oregon has 47 federally designated wild and scenic rivers, 30 percent of the entire system.
The beaches are largely preserved in state parks and waysides from Astoria to Brookings.
From the Eagle Cap Wilderness in the Wallowas to the rugged Kalmiopsis in the Siskiyou Mountains, wild lands still shape our vision of Oregon. We count 38 federal wilderness areas encompassing 2.1 million acres. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has recommended another 1.3 million acres, mostly in the cold desert of southeast Oregon, for protection as wilderness.
Astonishingly, public discussions today include proposals to dismantle four high dams on the lower Snake River in the name of endangered salmon.
Our 3.3 million residents live mostly in urban areas; 66 percent reside in cities or towns. But their hearts roam wider -- over a country that grabs you in unfathomable ways: the alpenglow of Mount Hood; the fury of 30-foot winter waves on a wild beach; the emerald canyon of the North Umpqua; the way sage perfumes the air after an unlikely rain along the Deschutes.
Come what may, Oregon will define itself by this magnificent land form. Our fiercest political battles will be tied to the land.
The Oregon dream will endure if Oregonians remember what we share instead of what divides us. The common ground is all around us: It is the love we have for this Oregon, this rare place, this idea.


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SADDLE BROOK — A man pretending to be a utility company worker checking a gas leak tricked an elderly woman to let him into her home in an apparent burglary Friday afternoon, police said.
As many as two accomplices made their way into the woman's Floral Lane home after she let the phony utility worker inside, according to police. A neighbor told officers she saw two men entering the home around 2 p.m.
Police said the man claimed to work for Public Service Electric & Gas and was described as Hispanic, dressed in dark clothing with some sort of identification card in a clear plastic holder.
It was not immediately known if anything was stolen from the house, police said. Saddle Brook investigators and the Bergen County Sheriff's crime scene unit were searching for evidence.
Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or with any information was asked to call the Saddle Brook police at 201-843-7000.
Similar burglaries where intruders posed as utility workers were reported in Teaneck and Lodi last month, but authorities have not said if they are linked.


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Postcards for Mom
Here's a site that ingeniously exploits the power of the internet in order to play a prank. It's Postcards for Mom. Will Hanke created the site late last year in order to play a joke on his mother, Celeste. On the site he invited people to send letters to his mom (you had to email him in order to get her address). People thought it was a great idea, and soon Celeste was getting all kinds of mail, from all over the world. But she had no idea why these people were writing to her, nor could she figure out why they appeared to know personal details about her life. Finally she discovered what was going on when she read an article about Will's prank in the St. Louis Post Dispatch. With his mother now aware of the joke, Will has moved onto a new victim: someone else's mother. This new mother, Betty, was chosen by auction. The highest bidder earned the right to have their mother pranked. It would be a cool way to get your parents really confused.
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Hi, I was the second Mom in Will's postcards for mom hoax. I loved it. The first month's letters all contained keys to fictional places and things. After a week or so, I started replying to those who had included a return address. I would continue with the 'story' their letter contained. I still have all of their letters and postcards, and copied many of my responses. It was really great.Posted by Betty in Maryland on Sat Jan 01, 2011 at 10:28 AM
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Circuit Court Judge Ronald Stone dismissed the charges Monday following a request by the Clackamas County District Attorney's Office, which was prosecuting the case against Deputy Steve Wilkinson to avoid potential conflicts of interest, said Yamhill County Sheriff's Office Captain Ken Summers.
Wilkinson has been a deputy in Yamhill County since August 2005.
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6/8 Extra bases
* The Cubs and Twins meet in Minneapolis this weekend for the first time in six years, opening a three-game series at Target Field Friday night. This is the end of a long road trip for the Cubs that will cover 6,770 air miles over three weeks.
* Target Field is the 120th different ballpark the Cubs will have played in since their inception in 1876. It's also the second new ballpark for the Cubs this year, joining Marlins Park, where they played in April. The Cubs are 11-11 in their last 22 ballpark debuts.
* How bad have things been offensively? The Cubs have combined to score 109 runs in 19 wins, an average of 5.7 runs per win, yet only scored 95 runs in the 38 losses for an average of 2.5 runs per loss.
* They've lost 18 of their last 22 games, and 10 of those losses have come by one run.
* The Cubs are 103-120 all-time in Interleague play since it began in 1997.
— Carrie Muskat
7/31 Lilly, Riot & Z update
It's decision day for the Cubs. The trading deadline is 2 p.m. MT. FoxSports.com says there are still four teams — the Dodgers, Twins, Tigers and Yankees — who are pursuing Ted Lilly. However, ESPN.com reported Saturday morning that the Yankees are out.
On Friday, Lilly prepped as he normally would for his next start, which would be Monday at Wrigley Field.
"Teddy wants to stay here but he knows the game of baseball and he knows that something could happen," Lou Piniella said. "It's good to see they want to stay here. That speaks well."
Lilly is trying to focus on pitching.
"We're near the end of July and I only have three wins," said the lefty, who is 3-8 with a 3.69 ERA. "I really want more than that.
"It doesn't settle so well," he said. "I've got 18 starts and I've got three wins. It's bothersome. That's what I'm here for is to go out and try to win."
There's also been some interest in Ryan Theriot, whose phone was loaded with messages from people, including his agent, wondering if he was pulled from Friday's game because a deal had been made. It was simply a double switch. The Denver Post reported the D-backs have talked to the Cubs about a possible Theriot for Kelly Johnson swap.
Less than 24 hours after he was activated from the restricted list, Carlos Zambrano also is getting some action. Big Z told reporters Friday in Denver that he would consider waiving his no trade clause if the Cubs wanted to move him. According to SI.com, the Mets offered Oliver Perez and Luis Castillo for Zambrano but the Cubs said no. Big Z still has a lot of money remaining on his contract ($6.4 million this year; $17.9 million in 2011; $18 million in 2012).
— Carrie Muskat
7/30 Lilly & Theriot rumors
Could Ted Lilly go back to the Dodgers? According to Fox Sports, the Dodgers and Cubs have talked about Lilly and Ryan Theriot, but the catch is that the Dodgers want the Cubs to add cash in the deal. Lilly has $4.3 million remaining, Theriot $933,000.
The Cubs and Dodgers have confirmed the talks are ongoing. The catch is the money. The Cubs are trying to trim payroll, and the Dodgers don't want to add. The trading deadline is Saturday at 4 p.m. ET.
Lilly actually was drafted by the Dodgers in 1996 in the 23rd round but traded in July 31, 1998, to the Montreal Expos in a six-player swap. This season, he's 3-8 with a 3.69 ERA in 18 starts, and has received the least amount of run support in the Major Leagues. If he went to the Dodgers, the lefty would join a rotation of Clayton Kershaw, Chad Billingsley, Hiroki Kuroda and Vicente Padilla.
The Twins were interested in Lilly but chose to add to the bullpen, acquiring Matt Capps from the Nationals on Thursday. A Mets official told the New York Post it's "very doubtful" they'll get Lilly because they do not want to take on the money remaining and give up prospects.
Theriot received a $2.6 million salary for 2010 after losing an arbitration case to the Cubs. He's under team control through 2012. The Fox report said Theriot could take over at second, sending Blake DeWitt to Triple-A. But DeWitt was batting .272 with one homer, 15 doubles, four triples and a .352 on-base percentage. Theriot is hitting .285 with one homer, 10 doubles, two triples and a .321 on-base percentage. The Padres had looked at Theriot but instead traded for Orioles third baseman Miguel Tejada.
— Carrie Muskat
7/29 Lilly rumors
A New York Mets official told the New York Post on Thursday it's "very doubtful" they'll get Ted Lilly by the trading deadline because they do not want to take on most of the $4.37 million still owed the lefty and give up prospects. The Dodgers and Twins are still believed to be talking to the Cubs about Lilly.
— Carrie Muskat
8/30 Harden rumors
Both Minnesota Twins officials and Cubs officials will not confirm or deny that the Twins are the team that placed a claim on pitcher Rich Harden, as has been reported.
According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, two people close to Harden say they doubt Harden will join the Twins. To their knowledge, the Cubs had yet to open a window for the Twins to negotiate a long-term deal with Harden, who is a pending free agent.
It's possible the Twins would trade for Harden without a long-term extension. He will be a Type A free agent, which would assure them two compensation picks in the 2010 draft if he signed elsewhere.
Harden and Twins first baseman Justin Morneau were teammates on a British Columbia select team during their youth. Harden was a center fielder then and once opened Morneau's lip with a long throw that bounced into his face. Harden's father, Russ, who coached the team, brought Morneau to the hospital.
— Carrie Muskat
8/29 Rumors & Harden
Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal reported Saturday that the Twins and Cubs could be working on a deal which would send Rich Harden to the Minnesota club. The Twins reportedly claimed Harden on waivers Thursday, and the two teams have until noon Monday to make a deal. Harden is a free agent at season's end, and could always play for the Twins for a month, then re-sign with the Cubs for 2010. Harden was scheduled to start Monday night.
— Carrie Muskat


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Fair Housing For Whom? Those Who Pay For It? Those Who Get It? Both? Neither?
The last Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice Survey was done in 2005. My solicited response is below. My conclusion, it was a fraud and a failure.
Five years latter we're at it again. We can expect the same results. FRAUD and FAILURE. From the Portland Housing Bureau website: http://www.portlandonline.com/oni/index.cfm?c=29385&a=324549
"On behalf of the consortium of the City of Portland, the City of Gresham and Multnomah County, PHB is required to submit to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) certification that it is affirmatively furthering fair housing. This certification has three elements and requires that the County:
Complete an Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice (AI);
Take actions to overcome the effects of any impediments identified through the analysis; and
Maintain records reflecting the actions taken in response to the analysis."
Some FACTS related to the 2005 Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice Survey:
1. I was an experienced stakeholder who was interviewed for many hours.
2. My analysis of the final document was solicited. (See below)
3. My Standards for Equitable Distribution of Public Housing Resolution to set minimum and maximum public housing goals for every neighborhood in Multnomah county was included as part of the recommendations in the final report.
4. The Standards for Equitable Distribution of Public Housing Resolution required accurate, complete and timely public housing statistical data.
5. No action was ever taken by any of the participating public jurisdictions to even discuss much less implement the Standards for Equitable Distribution of Public Housing Resolution.
6. Neither the principle author, nor any public or private Auditor, nor any elected official, nor anyone from HUD, nor any outside third party, nor any PSU staff person who created the charts, maps and graphs would or could confirm the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of the underlying data thereby denying validity and credibility to every chart, graph and map in the report. [The Housing Authority of Portland, a major contributor of the data has a notoriously long and documented history of denying elected officials, candidates for public office, citizens, voters and taxpayers access to its Public Housing Statistical Data. None of the public data previously sought by members of these groups involving records containing gender, age, neighborhood, income, size of household and last record modification date were included in the 2005 AI report. The HAP board has recently made a mockery of the Oregon Public Records law by exploiting a loophole which prevents the District Attorney from enforcing the law as long as HAP does not issue a denial for their public records.]
7. The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development showed no interest in authenticating, monitoring and enforcing the AI report leading to the conclusion that the time, effort and cost, though legally required, is not justified.
Other related FACTS:
1. I remain an even more experienced stakeholder.
2. The mayor of Portland, Sam Adams, refuses to use the term "Public housing" and denies its existence.
3. The mayor of Portland, Sam Adams, has used his singular statutory authority to control the Housing Authority of Portland by nomination and dismissal of HAP board members, to deny citizen and taxpayer access to HAP's Public Housing Statistical Data.
4. The mayor of Portland, Sam Adams, locked out any discussion of Public Housing in what was deceptively billed as the all encompassing Portland Plan.
5. The Portland Housing Bureau is even more hostile to providing Public Housing Statistical Data than the Housing Authority of Portland.
6. Nick Fish, commissioner in charge of the Housing Bureau and former HAP board member, has consistently used his public power to obfuscate and hide Public Housing Statistical Data.
7. The forthcoming Obama administration's Preservation, Enhancement, and Transformation of Rental Assistance Act of 2010, PETRA, legislation has Public Housing client location goals that are similar in intent to the Standards for Equitable Distribution of Public Housing Resolution and will require accurate, complete and timely public housing statistical data to confirm compliance.
Unless and until the elected public officials serving on the Portland and Gresham city councils and the Multnomah county commission come to grips with the proper language of Pubic Housing and the fundamental NEED to have accurate, complete and timely Public Housing Statistical Data, the 700,000 citizens of Multnomah county will have NO REASON TO TRUST any of them and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development with regards to Public Housing issues.
Richard Ellmyer
Author, Standards for Equitable Distribution of Public Housing Resolution, http://www.goodgrowthnw.org/5-10-15%20Resolution.html
Former progressive legislative candidate for the May 2010 primary who supports PETRA and a public policy of Equitable Distribution of Public Housing. Defeated by establishment Democrat Tina Kotek who opposes PETRA and continues to support the abhorrent and discredited public policy of UNLIMITED neighborhood concentration of Public Housing Clients which has lead to the highest concentration of Public Housing in our contested House district of any House district in Oregon.
From: Richard Ellmyer
Subject: Review - DRAFT Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Report
Date: October 24, 2005 9:19:16 AM PDT
To: HAP Watchers
You missed the most important potential impediment to fair housing - Multnomah County's Public Housing Czar - Portland's mayor, Tom Potter.
Tom Potter came to the mayor's job with the same amount of knowledge, experience and interest in public housing policy as George W. Bush came to the president's job with knowledge, experience and interest in international affairs. Their willingness to honestly report the status and effects of their policy decisions as well as their actions purporting to deal forthrightly with the reality of the circumstances are not dissimilar. Their vulnerabilities are inevitably exploited by others with access to the seat of power.
You missed the most important actual impediment to fair housing - the Oregonian newspaper.
In the last 18 years no reporter, editorial writer or columnist has used the phrase, "public housing policy" in a piece about Multnomah county. An hour long presentation to editorial board chief, Bob Caldwell revealed a knowledge and interest of the Housing Authority of Portland similar to that of candidate for mayor Tom Potter. An 18 year blank slate on public housing policy issues in Multnomah county is sufficient evidence to add editor Sandy Rowe and most certainly publisher Fred Stickel to the list of unknowledgeable and disinterested power players. No news is bad news for public housing policy.
Below is my solicited response to the draft of a report required by the federal agency, Housing and Urban Development - HUD. This AI report was last written nine years ago. Production of the current document was the excuse used by mayor Potter to mistakenly postpone the enforcement of his January 26, 2005 directive to HAP to provide public housing data by neighborhood.
Before I begin I must preface what I have to say with two questions:
Fair housing for whom? This report, and the entire public housing establishment, presumes that "fairness" ONLY involves the recipients of government support. I argue that "fairness" MUST INCLUDE the stakeholders in every neighborhood. That is the home owners, business owners and parents of children who send their kids to neighborhood public schools. These folks are also the same people that pay the taxes that support public housing clients. This report FAILS to include the concept of "fairness" to ALL of the parties involved in a neighborhood community.
Is there anyone in the state of Oregon who believes that improving the quality of life in their neighborhood is achieved by OVERLOADING their own neighborhood with low-income housing?
Hi Trell Anderson [BHCD manager of AI report project]:
My response to the draft Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Report is personal. It reflects my point of view which has been developed over more than four and a half years of serious involvement with public housing policy. I was drawn into the AI report because in May 2005 mayor Potter postponed the enforcement of his own directive of January 2005 to require HAP to provide public housing data by neighborhood until the release of the AI report in September 2005. This delay was both unnecessary and without merit. Providing public housing data by neighborhood to the decision makers, press and citizens of Multnomah county is totally independent of any connection to the AI report.
Your job is to submit to HUD a report with very circumscribed parameters. My mission is to bring attention and accountability to the public housing policy process in Multnomah county. These two goals may not entirely mesh. You tend to integrate public housing ie. housing that is supported by tax dollars and so-called affordable housing which may be private and involve no government sponsorship. I am strictly focused on public housing policy issues related to the annual spending of $200,000,000 of tax dollars in Multnomah county on public housing. So you will understand that where I travel in this exercise may exceed the bounds of your mandate.
Some years ago the Portland Auditor, Gary Blackmer, wrote a report relating to public housing policy. It was incomplete, unread, and dismissed without implementation. It seems most likely that upon receipt of this AI report in Washington D.C. it will find a home alongside of similar reports on a high shelf in a very low dimly lit basement storeroom. With the departure of the two individuals most responsible for concealing public housing data by neighborhood and a proper audit of HAP's books and record keeping procedures, namely former mayor Vera Katz and former HAP Chair Howard Shapiro, there remains a small possibility that some of what is contained in this report may cause a larger local audience to take notice.
Had a report such as this emerged several years ago, before the massive remodeling and rebuilding of Columbia Villa and had it included authentic, accurate, complete and timely public housing data by neighborhood, the issue of quantifying public housing policy and consideration of the 3-6-9 resolution would surely have been on the public table. That discussion and debate would most certainly have lead to a different outcome in the planning and redevelopment of Columbia Villa. It would have exposed an effective public housing policy of concentrating public housing clients into a few select neighborhoods. It would have exposed HAP's computer records as inaccurate, incomplete, untimely and unaudited. It would have exposed a coordinated effort by elected and appointed officials to prevent public housing data by neighborhood from becoming public.
The Report
Remarkably, there is no mention of the most important person in public housing policy in Multnomah county - Tom Potter, Portland's mayor - his role as Multnomah County Public Housing Czar and the names of the 29 public housing commissioners that are his responsibility to guide, supervise and coordinate while they serve at his pleasure. It is negligent and misleading to omit the role of the most powerful person in the game and his subordinates.
It is also noteworthy that there is no mention of the $200,000,000 from the public treasury that is spent annually on public housing in Multnomah county by HAP, HCDC and PDC. This is a mistake or oversight proportional in error to the value of the public expenditure. An inattentive reader might imagine that public housing is paid for by harvesting the fruit of the public housing money tree located in never never land.
There are five sections of this report which attracted my interest.
The primary questions, which are not addressed, are these. In what neighborhoods and in what numbers are those "at risk" public housing clients located? Are there discernible effects in the neighborhoods with these "at risk" public housing client populations?
The real questions of consequence, which are not addressed, are these. How many, by number and percentage, public housing clients attend a particular public school of any grade level? Are there discernible effects on any school caused by the number or percentage of public housing clients or any subset such as age, family income category, gender etc.?
For no apparent reason the boards and commissions in Multnomah county which have an impact on public housing policy are unnamed in this report. For the record they are, The Housing Authority of Portland, The Portland Development Commission and the Housing and Community Development Commission. They are comprised of 29 appointed officials which collectively spend $200,000,000 annually on public housing in Multnomah county. They all serve at the pleasure of the mayor of Portland who, under ORS 456.110 may dismiss any of them at any time for a number or reasons including, "inefficiency." The mayor of Portland is by statute the Multnomah County Public Housing Czar. Who actually sits on these boards is less important than who is the mayor of Portland and how he or she exercises the responsibility to guide, supervise and coordinate the activities of these appointed public officials.
That being said, membership on HAP, PDC and HCDC tend to come from an established network of those somehow connected to the public housing establishment. Most of those currently serving are rarely, if ever, in the path of any decision they make as public housing commissioners. Your report recommends that more public housing clients should be represented on these boards. I argue that every person appointed to HAP, PDC and HCDC must come from the neighborhoods which are most affected by public housing policy decisions. It is the homeowners, business owners and parents of children who attend local public schools that are the real stakeholders in any neighborhood. They are the fabric which holds a neighborhood together. They are the citizens who should be sought out and persuaded to serve in public housing policy positions.
"In terms of the demographics of the section 8 vouchers, Maps 13 and 63 show the spatial distribution of the vouchers. Note on Map 63 the heavy concentration of vouchers in the Northern neighborhoods." I have lived in North Portland for 30 years. I don't need a "spatial" map to tell me North Portland is OVERLOADED with section 8 vouchers. What is needed is authentic, accurate, complete and timely data on section 8 vouchers by neighborhood so that a plan, (3-6-9 resolution?) designed to comply with our public housing policy of dispersion not concentration of public housing clients, can be implemented to decrease the number of section 8 vouchers in the "Northern neighborhoods" and redistribute them in a more equitable manner throughout Multnomah county's 117 neighborhoods.
"The City of Portland's Location Policy, adopted in 1996, serves to manage the concentration of affordable housing developed with City- controlled funds in areas of the City where poverty is concentrated. The policy provides exceptions that balance the overriding policy objective of poverty de- concentration against other policy goals that include: responding to localized housing needs, the desire to prevent residential displacement and deference to community-based decision-making about housing development."
I'm afraid the "exceptions that balance the overriding policy objective of poverty de- concentration" have totally overwhelmed the rule. The long time refusal by Portland's last mayor, Vera Katz, and now our current mayor, Tom Potter, to make available authentic, accurate, complete, timely public housing data by neighborhood is evidence enough that concentrating public housing clients into a few select neighborhoods is now the rule not the exception.
"Subsidized housing tends to be located (with some exceptions) in areas with higher crime rates, lower performing schools, and greater number of hazard waste generators."
No kidding? So the question arises, with the exception of hazard waste generator, which actually came first to the neighborhoods involved, high crime and bad schools or an overload of public housing clients? And regardless of the answer how do you propose to change these circumstances and improve the quality of life in those neighborhoods that are affected by these problems? Your report offers no "current efforts." I suggest you plug in the 3-6-9 resolution and the quantification of public housing policy in Multnomah county.
The Maps
Let me start with the 70 maps and charts. My first instinctive reaction is, "so what?" Nobody in Washington D.C. nor Multnomah county is ever going to make public policy based on this stuff. A large percentage of these maps say, "Source: 2000 HUD CHAS Data, Table A6A." What's up with this? The AI report which is being written for HUD uses source material from HUD? Huh?
Map#63 is the best exemplar of the, "you've got to be kidding" maps. This is the genre of maps populated with what appear to be hundreds or thousands of tiny to not so tiny to very small circles. Map #63 reminds me of the patterns made by tons of aphids on my cauliflower plants in early fall. The difference here is that these little "bugs" are not from this season. No, they're from March 2000. It is pathetic for HAP to submit five year old data in a virtually useless form when it has the technology to provide timely current data. This map alone is reason enough to dismiss the entire HAP board and audit every record of every file on their computers.
The only map which is more or less heading in the right direction is map#13. Unfortunately it provides only marginally useful information because it is based on households not individuals and is not neighborhood specific. No ages nor income status are included on this map which is based on unnecessarily old, 2004, data.
There are NO maps nor tables which show the total # of HAP clients residing in each neighborhood of Multnomah county.
There are NO maps nor tables which show the number of HAP clients as a percentage of the total number of residents in each neighborhood of Multnomah county.
There are NO maps nor tables which show the age distribution of HAP clients in each neighborhood of Multnomah county.
There are NO maps nor tables which show gender distribution of HAP clients in each neighborhood of Multnomah county.
There are NO maps nor tables which show the total # of HAP clients within various income ranges residing in each neighborhood of Multnomah county.
There are NO maps nor tables which show the number of HAP clients within various income ranges as a percentage of the total number of residents within various income ranges in each neighborhood of Multnomah county.
These maps and tables are absolutely essential for public decision making. For the democratic process to work citizens must have access to data which is authentic, accurate, complete, timely and in a form they can understand. Everyone relates to neighborhood. 117 neighborhoods are officially designated and recognized in Multnomah county. HAP, PDC and BHCD should all compile and make available to the public data files with records that ALL contain a neighborhood field. All maps and tables should be by neighborhood.
Maps and tables should be produced and published by HAP, PDC and BHCD that show only their individual activities.
Maps and tables should be produced and published by HAP, PDC and BHCD that show a composite of their activities.
Maps and tables should be produced and published by HAP, PDC and BHCD which show separately and in combination the locations, by neighborhood, of clients that reside on publicly owned property, those that reside on tax subsidized property and those that receive vouchers.
Give Us Authentic, Accurate, Complete And Timely Public Housing Data By Neighborhood And We Will Make Our Own Maps And Tables
In the spirit of the mayor's directive of January 26, 2005 and the public records law every citizen of Multnomah county has a right to a record for every public housing client in the form of a tab delimited text file with the following four fields: neighborhood, median income range (0-30,31-50,51-80%), age and gender which would be downloadable via FTP from HAP's website.
If you want a report that is actually useful to public discourse on the making of public housing policy in Multnomah county as well as being easily understandable to the decision makers, and most importantly to the citizens of Multnomah county, then you need to ask Richard Ellmyer to do it.
Richard Ellmyer
3-6-9 Resolution author and project champion
President, MacSolutions Inc. - A Macintosh computer consulting business providing web hosting for artists and very small businesses.
Writer/Publisher - HAP Watcher commentary - Published on the Internet and distributed to 4000 readers interested in public housing policy in Multnomah County.
Portsmouth - formerly the 18%, currently the 8% and rising solution neighborhood, North Portland


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James Sanford says "There Will Be Blood" gets better with every viewing. Can you name any movies that get better every time you watch them? Tell us in the comments below.
Paramount never anticipated the demand for Paul Thomas Anderson's "There Will Be Blood," which is why the film hasn't been screening in many parts of Michigan until today. Now everyone in the state should have the opportunity to see what Jame Sanford calls the best movie of 2007.
It's the story of a wildly ambitious, extremely demanding chronicle of a power-crazed oilman (Daniel Day-Lewis) in the Southwest of the early 1900s, based on the novel "Oil!" by Upton Sinclair.
With the film's critical acclaim and eight Academy Award nominations, audiences likely will expect to be blown away. But James says the film"sweetens in the memory and reveals itself to you long after it's over." The more you think about it, the better it gets.
This is thanks to a groundbreaking, multi-layered performance by Daniel Day-Lewis and a multifaceted script from Paul Thomas Anderson. And "Little Miss Sunshine" star Paul Dano holds his own as Day-Lewis' nemesis.
Also in the podcast this week:
• "Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert" - There Will Be Ticket Shortages
• "Strange Wilderness" - There Will Be Bigfoot
• "Over Her Dead Body" - There Will Be Ice Sculptures
• "Eye" - There Will Be Jessica Alba
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|[TowerTalk] rope in elements
|firstname.lastname@example.com (Clive GM3POI)
|Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:00:38 -0000
Force 12s Tapering may have solved low wind speed resonances, However I have a broken shortest 10m Director on a C31XR-H which was rated at 135mph. That broke at the junction of the 5/8"and 1/2" tube at wind speeds of 80-85mph. At the time I stood under the tower and could hear the another (probably 10m ) also in mechanical resonance so this problem still exists. It has just shifted higher in wind speed. F12 don't suggest rope mainly because of ice loading. However I will have to do something to upgrade my C31 otherwise I can expect it to break again. 73 Clive GM3POI Still thinking about extra tubing/rope. ----- Original Message ----- From: <email@example.com> To: <firstname.lastname@example.com>; <email@example.com> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 3:27 PM Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] rope in elements > In a message dated 3/23/01 3:13:22 PM Pacific Standard Time, email@example.com > writes: > > > I was wondering if any one on the reflector has any > > comments about the pros and cons of putting rope in beam > > elements. It seems that the tips are always the first part > > of the beam to self eject. I tried an elements with and > > without rope and there was a slight reduction in vibration > > with the rope (spinning an element by hand) es just > > wondering if there is an other benefit. > > With conventional yagi design, the element taper was gradual. The > reasoning was that you make the elements stiff and strong. Since the element > pieces were all 'about' the same size, they would self-resonate in light > winds. Since the result was that the elements would spend a LOT of time > vibrating, they would eventually crack and break or shed pieces. The rope in > elements was a successful way to dampen this light wind vibration. > > Force 12 changed this paradigm when they came out with their aggressive > taper schedule. The element starts out reasonably fat and tapers real quick. > This eliminated the element vibration and the need for rope in the elements - > two very worthwhile goals. So now the thinking is "bend like a willow" rather > than "break like an oak". It also has been shown to be useful in icing > conditions - the elements droop like crazy with an ice load but then > straighten right out with no damage when the ice melts. > > Cheers, Steve K7LXC > Tower Tech > > -- > FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/FAQ/towertalk > Submissions: email@example.com > Administrative requests: email@example.com > Problems: firstname.lastname@example.com > > -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/FAQ/towertalk Submissions: email@example.com Administrative requests: firstname.lastname@example.com Problems: firstname.lastname@example.com
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- An unidentified man was found dead of a gunshot wound Saturday morning at the intersection of Alameda Avenue and 17th Way Southwest.
Police responded about 2:45 a.m. and found a body lying on the ground near the intersection with at least one gunshot wound.
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Heluva Good! Pole qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series LENOX Industrial Tools 301 was canceled Friday afternoon due to inclement weather.
Rain began falling at New Hampshire Motor Speedway at about 2:00 p.m. At that time, the final practice for the NASCAR Nationwide Series was cut short. An hour later, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series qualifying was canceled.
The field for the LENOX Industrial Tools 301 will be set according to Sprint Cup Series points standings, giving points leader Tony Stewart the pole.
Alongside Stewart in Row 1 will be Jeff Gordon. Jimmie Johnson and Kurt Busch fill out Row 2. Busch was the fastest in practice earlier in the day.
"It's always important when you go around to the tracks the first time," said Kurt Busch. "You know in the back of your mind it's a "Chase Race" when you go back."
His No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge had a lap time of 29.149 seconds and a top speed of 130.667 mph.
"We knew it was going to rain but I still wanted to have a practice qualifying lap under my belt. That way, when we come back in September, we're starting off with notes that are current."
Stewart hit the wall during practice and will have to go to a back-up car, but will use the same engine.
Teams will have two more practice sessions on Saturday before the LENOX Industrial Tools 301 on Sunday.
With the weather subsiding, the NASCAR Camping World Series East Heluva Good! Summer 125 started as scheduled at 5:10 p.m.
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The ministry of ushering is as old as the Catholic Church. And, in fact, the usher's handbook tells us it dates back 600 years beyond the birth of our Lord. Ushers perform this task for a variety of reasons, but there is a common thread among these, which is our desire to serve the community, assist our clergy and add another dimension to our worship.
The usher ministry is more than collecting the congregation's gifts at Sunday mass; it is about presenting a warm and welcoming face to all those folks who enter the church and providing a helping hand to those in need. And it is here that we find an earthly reward in that tender, warm smile and thank you when we simply have done our job. We are also rewarded regularly when we ask a member of the congregation to help with the collection with their kind and generous response. The usher's handbook also tells us the usher must strive to be a people person and what better place to accomplish this than in the Lord's House.
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"This is a decision that is exclusively in Apple's court," Seidenberg told investors during its last earnings call. "We obviously would be interested [if] at any point in the future they thought it would make sense for them to have us as a partner. And so we will leave it with them on that score."
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First, yours is a primarily CDMA network, and the iPhone uses a GSM radio. That's a gulf that neither you nor Apple could overcome with technology changes. The easiest solution, for now, would be for Apple to build an iPhone with a CDMA radio. Trouble is, Apple doesn't have a history of building to others' tech specs; rather, it's known for creating its own. More recent dealings with Intel (Nasdaq: INTC ) suggest that Apple is open to change in this area, but "open to change" isn't the same as "willing to change."
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Liverpool v Newcastle Utd
Barclays Premiership
Monday December 26 2005
Kick off 3pm
NEWCASTLE'S recent revival came to a shuddering halt at Anfield on Boxing Day as The Magpies lost 2-0 on a miserable afternoon on Merseyside.
Steven Gerrard opened the scoring after14 minutes, taking a touch to beat Steven taylor before rifling past Shay Given.
Given pulled off an amazing save to deny Harry Kewell midway through the half, but he was beaten in the dying stages of the first period when Peter Crouch's header came off the post and crept off the line beyond the grasp of the goalkeeper.
United rarely threatened all afternoon, and to add to their woes Lee Bowyer was red carded for a foul on Xabi Alonso just after the hour mark, and Steven Taylor left the field with what looked to be a recurrence of his shoulder injury.
90+3m Morientes heads at Given after a cross from Pongolle
89m Ameobi plays the ball in to Shearer, and when he feeds Solano on the right the Peruvian's low cross is cleared
88m Gerrard shoots wide again as Liverpool press for a third goal.
87m Gerrard shoots over the bar after Morientes made the space to create a shooting opportunity for his skipper.
86m Luque is replaced by Shola Ameobi
82m Liverpool get forward through Gerrard and he feeds Cisse who had pulled away from Boumsong, but Given made a superb save to claw the ball away.
79m Josemi replaces Finnan
75m Alonso's forward ball to Cisse results in the French striker firing into the Kop.
72m Crouch is replaced by Cisse
70m Gerrard delivers a left wing corner to the far side of the penalty area, where Finnan lays it back into the path of Alonso and his low 25 yard drive is held by Given.
67m Kewell is replaced by Pongolle
65m BOWYER RED CARD Pandemonium breaks out after Bowyer catches Alonso late near the dug outs. Ugly scenes involving players from both sides follow, and Crouch races over the push Bowyer to the ground. When order is restored, Bowyer is shown a straight red card - the second season in a row he has been dismissed at Anfield - then Crouch is booked for his part in the fracas..
63m Solano plays the ball into owen, but he is well shadowed by Carragher and has to settle for a corner. Liverpool half clear the flag kick, and when Luque crosses back in The Reds eventually clear.
61m Garcia's clever flick sends Finnan away down the right, but Bramble gets ahead of crouch to boot the ball away.
60m Solano plays the ball into the path of Shearer inside the box, and he immediately turns and shoots but his angled effort goes wide
57m Bowyer makes a good last ditch tackle on Gerrard as he tries to break forward, and Given races out to clear the danger.
50m Liverpool have loud appeals for a spot kick waved away when Solano appeared to handle Morientes' header on the line after a left wing corner from Garcia.
46m Souness makes a change, with Charles N'Zogbia being replaced by Nobby Solano. Solano moves over to the right, with Bowyer slotting into the middle.
45+1m Garcia should have made it 3-0 with the last kick of the half, but he couldn't keep his shot down from inside the six yard boix after Crouch had expertly controlled a cross from Morientes and turned Boumsong to fashion the chance.
43m LIVERPOOL GOAL Kewell's cross is headed downwards by Crouch towards the bottom corner, and although Given manages to get a hand to the ball to push it onto the post, but as it rolls back past him it just crosses the line before either the goalkeeper or Bramble could clear. The referee's assistant flags for a goal and TV replays prove the decision to be correct.
40m Kewell wins two corners on the Liverpool left off Ramage. The first sees Hyypia send a header straight at Given, and the second comes to nothing.
36m Kewell releases Gerrard down the left, and he drills the ball across to Garcia 25 yards out, but he fired high and wide.
30m Boumsong fails to deal with a long ball downfield which allows Morientes to steer it into the path of Garcia. The Spaniard goes past Babayaro on the edge of the box and is pushed over by the left back, who gives away a free kick in a dangerous position on the dee. Gerrard's low strike around the Newcastle wall is superbly pushed away Given who dives low to his left, and when Finnan fires the ball across the face of goal Bramble clears.
28m Agony for Steven Taylor as he is hurt in an aerial clash with Morientes. It looks as though it is a receurrence of his shoulder problem, and he is substituted by Titus Bramble in the 29th minute.
24m Luque has time and space on the left to cross for Owern, and Riise has to get back to nod the ball away for a corner from inside his six yard bos. Reina has to back pedal and tip Luque's inswinging corner over his bar for another flag kick on the left. This time the Spaniard's set piece goes out of play.
20m Kewell shows great skill to skip past former Leeds team mate Bowyer on the left wing, then cuts inside Ramage before crossing for Crouch. His downward header was booted to safety by Taylor.
18m Bowyer's free kick is flicked on by Faye on the edge of the box, but Liverpool manage to clear their lines through Hyypia.
16m Shearer back heels the ball into the path of Bowyer, and his cross across the face of goal is gathered by Reina who got there ahead of Owen in the middle.
14m LIVERPOOL GOAL Crouch lays the ball into the path of Gerrard after a cross from Garcia. The Reds skipper takes a touch to go past Taylor before drilling the ball past Given.
13m Faye is lectured by referee Mark Halsey after a foul On Gerrard, but escapes without a caution.
11m Luque's diagonal ball for Owen is overhit, then moments later Ramage's attaempt at a cross loops into the arms of Reina.
08m Luque floats in a deep cross from the left which Reina punches clear from the edge of the box ahead of Shearer. The ball is worked back to Owen and he wins a free kick when he is fouled by Riise, but Luque's delivery is immediately cleared.
06m Owen is booed by The Kop when he gets his first touch of the ball down the inside right channel.
05m Given makes a great block to save at the feet of Moreientes after the striker skipped between Taylor and Boumsong. Faye put the loose ball out for a corner when Moreientes tried to head it back into the middle, and when flag kick was played short, Alonso crossed to the back post where Crouch rose to head into the path of Kewell and his well struck effort was somehow kept out by Given. The ball eventually fell to Gerrard on the far side of the box, but he drilled the effort wide.
03m Kewell has the first strike at goal, but his effort from Morientes' pass after a flick on by Crouch was well off target.
00m Liverpool get the game underway, with Newcastle attacking the Kop End.
GRAEME Souness rang the changes for the Boxing Day clash with Liverpool at Anfield, making no fewer than five changes to the side that won 4-2 at West Ham in their last outing.
One of those changes was enforced due to Scott Parker's one-match suspension, so Charles N'Zogbia returned from a broken hand to line up in the centre of midfield.
Steven Taylor was fit to return after his shoulder problem, so he replaced Titus Bramble in the centre of defence, while Celestine Babayaro was recalled at left back in plkace of Robbie Elliott.
Nobby Solano and Shola Ameobi were the other two players to drop out, with their places on the right and left flanks respectively being taken by Lee Bowyer and Albert Luque.
Solano, Bramble, Ameobi and Elliott all had to be content with places on the substitutes bench alongside regular goalkeeping number two, Steve Harper.
Liverpool, in Premiership action for the first time since December 10 when they played host to Middlesbrough, made two changes to the side that won that match 2-0, with John Arne Riise and Peter Crouch replacing Stephen Warnock and Mohammed Sissoko.
Newcastle United: Shay Given, Peter Ramage , Jean Alain Boumsong, Steven Taylor (Titus Bramble 28), Celestine Babayaro, Lee Bowyer, Charles N'Zogbia (Nobby Solano 46), Amady Faye, Albert Luque (Shola Ameobi 86), Alan Shearer, Michael Owen
Subs (not used): Steve Harper, Robbie Elliott
Liverpool: Jose Reina, Steve Finnan (Josemi 79), Sami Hyypia, Jamie Carragher, John Arne Riise, Harry Kewell (Florent Sinama-Pongolle 67), Steven Gerrard, Luis Garcia, Xabi Alonso, Peter Crouch (Djibril Cisse 72), Fernando Morientes
Subs (not used): Scott Carson, Stephen Warnock
Referee: Mark HalseyAttendance: 44,197


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By Greg Price: Freedom Newspapers
Portales coach Brenda Gomez said in five of the Lady Rams' six losses this season, they let a lead slip away.
Portales refused to let it happen again Friday, surviving sloppy ballhandling and poor shooting to edge Gallup 31-29 in a consolation semifinal game in the Plateau Holiday Classic at Rock Staubus Gym.
Senior Kaycee Quick scored 21 points for the Lady Rams, including a putback with 1:31 remaining in the fourth. Quick also drew a foul and completed the three-point play for a 31-26 lead in a match of defending state champions — Portales in 3A and Gallup in 5A.
"I was just in the right spot at the right time," Quick said. "We could've done better with (the lead), but we still held on to it and we have lots of improvement (ahead)."
Gallup junior Telisha Joe, who finished with nine points, converted a fadeaway jumper into a three-point play to pull the Lady Bengals within 31-29 with a little under a minute left.
"We knew that she was the key," Gomez said of Joe. "If she had the ball we knew she was going to get it to someone who could score, or she'd score."
Gallup senior Cleo Crank gave the Lady Bengals (10-3) a shot at the victory, deflecting a pass off Quick and out of bounds with 24 seconds left.
On the ensuing possession Ram junior Bethany Self forced a jump ball with no time remaining.
Gomez said the Lady Rams' defensive game plan revolved around how dangerous Joe can be shooting and passing.
Besides her late defensive play, Self also contributed seven points.
Gallup coach John Lomansey said his team's poor shooting led to the loss.
"I mean, we blew about five layups, and had some missed free throws," Lomansey said. "If we shoot the ball anywhere we can, we win the game by as much as 15."
The Lady Rams (4-6) were up by as much as nine twice in the first half — once after senior Amanda Terry stepped through a double-team and banked in a jumper for a 14-5 Rams lead with 6:59 left in first quarter.
Quick then scored Portales' next five points between a layup by Gallup senior Ashley McCurtain and a 3-pointer by junior Erica Sowers.
Plateau Holiday Classic
Consolation semifinals
Gadsden 48, Dexter 29
Portales 31, Gallup 29
Championship semifinals
La Cueva 33, Eldorado 30
Clovis 55, Alamogordo 43
7th place
Dexter vs. Gallup, noon (gym 2)
5th place
Gadsden vs. Portales, 9:30 a.m.
3rd place
Eldorado vs. Alamogordo, 2:30 p.m.
La Cueva vs. Clovis, 6 p.m.


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Data Gaps in Natural Resource Management: Sniffing for Leaks Along the Information Pipeline
Holly Doremus
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
July 22, 2006
UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 83
Despite wide recognition that natural resource management decisions are heavily dependent on the supply of scientific information, little attention has been paid to the processes by which that information is supplied. This paper lays out the key steps of the information supply pipeline, which include exploration, extraction, refining, blending, distribution, and consumption. Leaks in the pipeline can occur at any of these steps, interrupting the supply of information to decisionmakers. Because information supply is contextual and complex, no universal fix can address all information shortfalls. Nonetheless, several general recommendations emerge. First, decisionmakers must recognize the limits of scientific information, both in terms of the degree of precision and certainty attainable, and in terms of the need for other inputs into decisions. Second, priorities should be more consciously set, both on the broadest level across multiple resource demands and for specific problems. Third, freewheeling creative exploratory research needs to be better encouraged. That will require more than increased funding; the training and cultures of both managers and researchers also need to be addressed. Fourth, the production of available information must keep up with theoretical advances. Targeted funding, incentives for information production, and institutions with an information production mission are all needed to ensure that extraction keeps pace. Fifth, collaboration needs to extend across traditional disciplinary, political, and institutional boundaries. Finally, once information is produced it needs to be archived in locations and formats that make it both accessible to and useful for future researchers and managers. Focusing on the information supply pipeline helps move the discussion beyond the simplistic dichotomy of precaution versus certainty to the ways we can improve the information base for decisions and the value of those improvements.
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Keywords: Information, Natural resources, Environmental law
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GREENVILLE, MI -- Two Ada area men are charged with felonies after police say they misused more than $300,000 in state grant funds, using some of the money to pay for expensive dinners and possibly a "gentleman's club" in Las Vegas.
Gardner Klaasen, 46, and David Valdiserri, 47, are charged with false pretenses involving more than $100,000. They were arraigned Friday, June 6, in Montcalm County District Court.
The two men are accused of misusing community development block grant funds provided by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation but funneled through the city of Greenville.
Read the full story: Police: Fraud suspects used grant money for personal gain; Greenville forced to repay $310,000
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Reading "Super Sad True Love Story"
Most dystopian novels are bleak and disturbing — think "The Road" or "The Handmaid's Tale." You won't find yourself laughing a lot — or even smiling — while you read these books.
The 2010 novel "Super Sad True Love Story" is as dystopian as they come, but has a zany sense of humor that distinguishes it from other books of its genre. Author Gary Shteyngart has created a horrifying futuristic society, where the United States is on the verge of economic collapse, a creepy military dictatorship reigns, credit rankings and other personal data are publicly available to everyone and anybody who dares read a book risks becoming a social pariah. Common at checkpoints and in other public bulletins is the the "1984"-esque warning "By reading this message you are denying its existence and implying consent."
All of which is disturbing stuff, but Shteyngart is a very funny writer, and at times "Super Sad True Love Story" feels more like a comedy of manners than a science-fiction novel about a society in decline. The book is also quite sharp: The world depicted in "Super Sad True Love Story" isn't so far removed from the world of today. There's little privacy, as Shteyngart's characters are always connected to social media, and obsession with designer products and youth culture is rampant. In "Super Sad True Love Story," growing older is one of the worst things that can happen to you. The main character, Lenny Abramov, is in his late 30s and on the verge of obsolescence.
The son of Russian immigrants, Abramov works for a company that sells immortality to "high net-worth individuals" — to rich people who are invited to sign up for a series of cutting-edge medical treatments designed to extend life indefinitely. As the book opens, Lenny is just returning from a stint in Rome, and is in danger of losing his job to the younger, more attractive people who were hired while he was away. He has also fallen in love with a younger woman named Eunice Park, who develops feelings for him and moves in to his apartment despite the fact that he is older, unattractive and neurotic. The book is comprised of Lenny's journal entries and Eunice's messages to her friends, family, Lenny and, eventually, Lenny's sleazy boss.
"Super Sad True Love Story" is light on its feet and frequently hilarious, which is why it comes as such a surprise to realize how deeply sad, even violent, the story ultimately is. The closing chapters revolve around a military crackdown that SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS! targets people with bad credit. Lenny and Eunice are safe, but Eunice's friend David — a veteran of the U.S. war with Venezuela and political activist — has been killed in the government's attack on the homeless encampments in Central Park, and Lenny's friend Noah has been killed in an airstrike. After the crackdown, the government reveals a plan to turn New York City into a "lifestyle hub" — a community for the wealthy, where people without means are not welcome. As if this isn't bad enough, Eunice has run off with Lenny's sleazy boss, leaving Lenny alone with his neuroses and regrets.
I'm not sure "Super Sad True Love Story" is a great book, but it's a very good one — fun to read, thought-provoking, witty and smart. But I wasn't sure it was quite as moving as I wanted it to be — I cared about Lenny and Eunice, but not a lot. These are two people who never really belonged together — who were mismatched from the beginning. Of course, in a world as screwed-up and crazy as the world in "Super Sad True Love Story," true love might not even be possible. Which might just be the scariest thing of all.
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Smith Academy: Last year's Western Mass. Division II semifinalists hope to make it at least one game further. With Danielle Duseau returning, those chances are very good.
Frontier: The defending Division II champion Red Hawks also have a wealth of returning talent, led by prolific scorer Rose Moscaritolo and goalie Gwen Thayer.
Mohawk: Junior midfielder Kesheal Henderson is one of the top players back for the Warriors, who lost to Frontier in last year's Western Mass. final.
Longmeadow: Despite graduating four All-Scholastic first-teamers, the defending Division I champion Lancers still have plenty in the cupboard. Junior forward Jessie Moriarty was the team's top scorer last year.
Minnechaug: With senior goalie Katie Patterson and the continued emergence of forwards Liz Mastrio and Alexa Murphy, the Falcons are poised to have another solid season.
Agawam: Senior Casey Noonan is a capable scorer, but the senior-laden Brownies will have to improve their finishing touches all around in order to maintain success.
Northampton: The Blue Devils have a new coach but still have enough returnees from last year's suprise Western Mass. Division I finalists to make a continued impact. Senior Emily Allcroft is one of those players.
South Hadley: Senior forward Dominique Wilkins has the ability to score in bunches like the Basketball Hall of Famer by the same name.
East Longmeadow: The Spartans look to remain in the thick of things.
Turners Falls: Senior Lauren Grimard returns to lead a talented offense, while senior defender Sophie Letcher and senior goalie Jaimee White have the back end secured.
Pioneer: Although the Panthers graduated a pair of 100-point career scorers, look for Sarah Mathewson and Bethany George to make plays in the midfield.
Holyoke: Senior Kathryn Collier is one of the top returning goalies in Division I, while sophomore Katelyn Leclerc made an impact as a freshman.