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Where's Huell? (Jan. 17 - Jan. 22) | KCET
Where's Huell? (Jan. 17 - Jan. 22)
This week, Huell travels to a Snow Goose Festival, he rides the Skunk Train and he takes a gander at some vintage electric cars. Scroll down for a complete list of this week's Huell adventures!
Tuesday - Jan. 17, 7:30pm: Snow Goose Festival - Huell travels to Chico to join the celebration of the arrival of thousands of waterfowl that come from the north to spend their winters in the temperate North Valley climate. Snow Geese, Tundra Swans, Sandhill Cranes, Pintail Ducks and many more, fill the rice fields and wildlife refuges throughout the area. The Snow Goose Festival has grown to be one of the major Birding and Wildlife events in the state of California and you'll be amazed at the shear beauty of this spectacle.
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Wednesday - Jan. 18, 7:30pm: Forest Lawn - Join Huell as he visits one of L.A.'s best kept secrets - the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. You'll learn about the hope that Dr. Hubert Eaton envisioned when he created Forest Lawn almost 100 years ago. You'll also learn why not to call it a cemetery, see the largest framed canvas painting in the world, see amazing art and architecture and feel the peace and tranquility that surrounds this gem.
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Thursday - Jan. 19, 7:30pm: Wave Power - Huell looks at how the ocean could prove to be a very promising resource in the future of energy production and along the way he learns about the long history that this green technology has in the Golden State.
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Friday - Jan. 20, 7:30pm: Backdrops - Join Huell as he literally gets a look at what is behind the scene when he visits Grosh Backdrops. They have been providing backgrounds to movies, TV shows, theaters and even school plays since 1932
Saturday - Jan. 21, 7:30pm: Skunk Train - Following the the coastal "Redwood Route" as it has since 1885, the Skunk Train takes Huell on an inspiring ride through ageless redwoods and over spectacular mountains. It began as a logging train taking valuable lumber to the Mendocino Coast, and now provides passengers a glimpse of history and scenic beauty.
Sunday - Jan. 22, 7:30pm: Vintage Electric Cars - Huell visits the Nethercut Museum in Sylmar to see the very first electric cars which were manufactured in the early 20th century.California's Green #127 - VINTAGE ELECTRIC CARS from Huell Howser on Vimeo.


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Add the U.S. military's participation New York City's Fleet Week to the activities being blown out of the water by the federal government's sequester budget cuts.
The Navy's withdrawal was announced Wednesday on the Fleet Week New York website:
Unfortunately, there will be no Navy ships in New York this year for Fleet Week and no additional Sailors or Marines. We look forward to the opportunity to participate in future Fleet Weeks and we greatly appreciate the city's patience and understanding during these unusual times. Thank you NYC for what you do for our service men and women each and every day. Hope to see you next year!
Fleet Week, an institution in New York since 1984, is scheduled this year from May 23 to May 30.
Billed as a "celebration of the sea services," Fleet Week has given metropolitan New Yorkers a chance to meet sailors, Marines and Coast Guard members, visit ships and catch military demonstrations.
According to Newsday, up to U.S. 6,000 service members were expected to attend, and family, friends and supporters were expected to join them.
Fleet Week events were expected to pump about $20 million into New York City's economy, myfoxny.com reported, citing the city's Office of Economic Development.
Navy officials, noting that Fleet Week costs the service up to $10 million, had hinted that the sequester might sink their participation, Newsday said, adding:
The Navy said earlier this month it was following "Department of Defense guidance that no branch of the Armed Forces can participate in community events that come at an additional cost."
It was not clear whether the Navy's pullout would cancel plans by foreign navies to pull into New York Harbor for Fleet Week, Newsday said.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg declined to second-guess the decision Wednesday while speaking to a CBS New York reporter:
"I don't think that we should get in the way of making the decision for them, of what's needed to keep you and I safe."
What do you think of the decision to pull out of Fleet Week? Please leave a comment below.

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Emergency officials are discussing whether teaming up on a regional emergency alert system is the most cost-effective and reliable way to alert the nearly 3 million residents of the Portland Metro region of potential disasters.
Even before Portland has a less than desired outcome with its emergency notification system this week during an early morning shooting on Wednesday, city emergency preparedness officials were discussing of a regional plan.
"We intend to go out to bid," Dan Douthit, spokesman for the Bureau of Emergency Management said. "Whether the end of August or sometime next year, with some of the other regional partners."
The timing is right.
Portland's contract with FirstCall, a Louisiana-based emergency notification company, expires in August. The city paid $73,000 to the company for services this year, PBEM officials said, to provide targeted emergency alerts to notify residents in times of crisis.
Other counties are also open to the discussion. Clackamas and Washington counties, in particular, seem to be on board with the plan.
Nancy Bush, director of emergency management for Clackamas County, said the tri-county already works together, and it makes sense to "move in this direction."
"It will just make it that much faster and efficient in notifying our residents," she said, pointing out that disasters "don't know boundaries."
Bush said the county preprograms a series of potential disasters and other incidents into the system. They have messages for water-boil orders and potential disasters involving a dam failure at Timothy Lake dam or other dams in the county.
If the region suffers a catastrophic event, Bush said, the current system wouldn't suffice.
The counties emergency management leaders already met a couple times to discuss options. They're meeting against next week.
"There are some benefits in going together regionally," said Carmen Merlo, Portland Bureau of Emergency Management director.
The counties would likely agree to buy the same service, saying costs and helping to streamline communications.
Clark County is also at the table, although the Washington county is already teamed up with three neighboring counties across the Columbia River to provide services. Cheryl Bledsoe, emergency management division manager for Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency said teaming p has to make sense. "unless it saves me considerable time and money or time and effort, there's no benefit for me to change systems."
Bledsoe, who recently switched systems to a company called Hyper Reach, said "so far so good,"
"But I'm a little nervous watching Portland," she added.
"Nothing is certain in the technology world," Bledsoe said.
A reminder: these alert systems allow counties (or cities) to send out specific targeted alerts to neighborhoods or other geographic areas. In contrast, the alerts sent out in February for the snow storm went out to all wireless customers in the county.
But for the targeted systems, they rely on landline phones, plus the typically small handful of wireless users who opt in to receive alerts (You can sign up for alerts in your community at this website).
OK, so what's the lay of the land as we speak in the metro area?
Clackamas County:
System: Twenty First Century Communications
Estimated Cost: Roughly $15,000 annually
How it's doing: "This system has been working very well for us," said Bush. "We have been very fortunate that when we've been sending out messages, we haven't had any issues."
Expires: July 2015.
Why use it: "When people get this call, we want them to know, this is really important. Listen to this," Bush said.
Landlines: 132,063
Cell phones/other devices: 4,601
Washington County
System: CityWatch
Estimated Cost: Roughly $20,000 annually
How it's doing. "We haven't had any issues," said Larry Hatch, assistant director of the Washington County 911.
Expires: June 2014
Why use it: "I've taken a position of questioning the value of these systems with the move of a lot of our population to cell phone only," Hatch said. "We're going to keep it, I just think its good to questions where we're spending our money."
Landlines: 207,000
Cell phone/other devices: 5,400
Clark County
System: Hyper-Reach (recently switched from Twenty First Century). Clark County teams with Skamania, Cowlitz and Wahkiakum County
Estimated Cost: roughly $21,000 - $22,000 annually
How it's doing: Too soon to tell. On Twenty First Century, the county switched because of rising costs and other problems. "It worked pretty well, but we were beginning to have some customer service issues," Cheryl Bledsoe, emergency management division manager for Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency said.
Number of Landlines: 160,000
Number of signed up: not available
Multnomah County/Portland
System: FirstCall
Estimated Cost: $73,000 annually
How it's doing: The city has said there is "growing concern" with the software's reliability. PBEM is asking for $100,000 in ongoing general fund dollars next fiscal year, partly due to these concerns.
Expires: August 2014
Number of Landlines: roughly 303,000
Number of signed up: 17,000 signed up
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The last two months have been a whirlwind of legal feints and thrusts over the Common Core academic standards in Louisiana. But the standards have been in the works for four years, and the battle didn't start in June.
Education Week has put together a handy timeline of key events -- including May 7-23, 2013, "Nothing to See Here," noting that the anti-Common Core resolution of Sen. A.G. Crowe (R-Slidell) not only failed but was struck from the files.


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SWIMMING: Marine Hills wins third-straight All-City championship | Slideshow
The Marine Hills Swim Team extended its dominance of the Seattle Summer Swim League by winning its third-straight All-City championship Tuesday night at the Sand Point Country Club in Seattle.
Marine Hills combined boys and girls team tallied a grand total of 309 points to outdistance second-place Aqua Club, which tallied 301 points. Federal Way's other summer swim team, Twin Lakes, finished in 10th place overall with 101 points. There were a grand total of 16 teams at the All-City Championships.
Marine Hills won 16 individual race titles Tuesday night in Seattle, but the competition was a lot closer than a season ago when Marine Hills dominated, winning 23 of 72 races contested and setting seven All-City records.
The All-City championship came after Marine Hills rolled through the regular season unbeaten. It was the third year in a row that the Fish and Tree have completed the impressive double. In 2011, Marine Hills was undefeated during the regular season for the first time in the program's history and won its first-ever All-City championship.
Individually, the Fish and Tree got a pair of wins from Kenna Ramey and Courtney Hughes. Ramey, who won the 50- and 100-yard freestyle state titles in the fall for the Federal Way Eagles, took home championships in the 50 free (23.74) and the 50 butterfly (25.56) in the girls 15-over category.
Hughes won the girls 11-12 100 individual medley in a time of 1:04.48 and the 50 backstroke (30.11).
Marine Hills' other individual race wins came from Casey Nguyen in the boys 13-14 50 back (26.85), Shianne Lindh in the girls 11-12 50 free (33.04), James McDonald in the boys 11-12 50 breaststroke (34.14), Emily Nguyen in the girls 9-10 100 individual medley (1:14.88), Kaycee Simpson in the girls 13-14 100 IM (1:02.50), Michah Oh in the boys 13-14 100 IM (57.82), Breanna Ross in the girls 11-12 50 butterfly (28.63) and Liam Casey in the boys 11-12 50 butterfly (30.72).
Marine Hills also won four relay titles during the All-City Championships. The Fish and Tree took the girls 11-12 200 medley relay with a team of Taylor Kabacy, Lindh, Ross and Hughes (2:00.05); the boys 13-14 200 medley relay with Casey Nguyen, Jason Nguyen, Oh and Cooper Berry (1:48.59); the girls 11-12 200 free relay with Annika Oh, Kabacy, Ross and Hughes (1:49.24); and the boys 13-14 200 free relay with Berry, Casey Nguyen, Jason Nguyen and Oh (1:37.76).
The Twin Lakes Penguins picked up three individual race titles during the All-City Meet. Valerie McNolty won the girls 13-14 100 yard freestyle in a time of 55.94, Ian Olufson won the boys 13-14 100 freestyle in an impressive time of 50.21 and Sam Hoag took the championship in the boys 13-14 50 breaststroke in a time of 30.05.
Click here to see a slideshow of the Marine Hills Swim Team at the All-City Championships Tuesday at the Sand Point Country Club in Seattle. Photos courtesy of Dr. Eddie Lo.
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Gas for $3.30 a gallon is available at Fuel On, Spring Road and Fry Loop Road, North Middleton Township.
The Harrisburg and Pennsylvania average prices are $3.43 a gallon. The national average is $3.23 a gallon.
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Utah: A Hornet's Nest That Gays & Lesbians Call 'Home'
Say "Utah" to a gay man or lesbian woman and you might as well have force them to suck on a lemon. To LGBT people, the Beehive State has become a hornet's nest of homophobia and hate. Since November, the state has ben under a constant threat of boycott. The Utah Gay Ski Week was canceled, Americablog's John Aravosis calls it a "hate state" and there's even a site called utahboycott.com.
When it comes to hatin' on Utah, we've become no better than the people who discriminate against us. To steal another state's motto, you've got a friend in Utah. In fact, you have many, many friends in Utah. Instead of abandoning them to the wolves, it's time for us to differentiate our rightly justified anger at Mormon Church leaders from a state that has, in ways both small and large, been on the front lines of LGBT equality.
Salt Lake City's Pride Parade is the second-largest parade of any kind in the state. This past weekend, hundreds of gay and straight LGBT equality activists marched for an initiative called Common Ground that takes the Mormon Church's argument that they don't object to equal protection for gays & lesbians and turns it into legislation that would do just that. Yesterday, the first portion of the bill died in committee. Utah's gay & lesbians don't need us ignoring the state. They need us involved, as a closer look at the fight inside the beehive proves.
Salt Lake City: The Gay Capitol of Utah
You'd think that Salt Lake, the seat of the Mormon Church, would be a horribly conservative place, but it's actually the most liberal part of the state. In 2000, Mayor Rocky Anderson won running on a platform that included support of gay marriage. Once in office, the Mayor signed an executive order creating domestic partnerships for city employees. Utahn conservatives kicked into high gear, with State Senator Chris Buttars accusing the mayor of having "attracted the entire gay community to come and live in Salt Lake County." However, when a 2004 vote came trying to eliminate any form of gay marriage in Salt Lak, 63% of the city population voted against banning same-sex marriage.
The city is home to a thriving gay population. There are over a dozen gay and lesbian bars, (technically "private clubs" due to a weird city provision that's not worth going into here), that range from an eco-friendly bar called JAM to a lesbian dive called Mo' Diggity's. 15,000 people marched in last year's gay pride parade and the city, despite the dominance of Temple Square does not have a Mormon majority.
A Fight for Gay Teens in Provo
Now, Provo Utah, is a crazy conservative backwater, but even there, people are fighting for gays and lesbians. In 2005, students at Provo High School created a gay-straight alliance. The Deseret News reported at the time:
"We have actually a lot of sexual harassment in the school that you really don't notice until you sit down and think about it," said Provo High senior Kaisha Medford. "It's not (the administration of) Provo High's fault. They're doing everything they can. It's just like commentary made by people. It's a lot of things you hear in the classrooms, locker rooms."
Medford and others are now leading the effort for the club. About 30 students have expressed interest.
"I haven't heard any direct resistance," Medford said. "I've heard a couple of people that were not in favor of it. I haven't campaigned in the halls, but most of the people don't seem to have a problem with it; and if they do, they haven't expressed it."
The students had been struggling, however, to find a teacher willing to act as an adviser until Provo High special education teacher Mary Athetosis stepped forward last month.
"I went to almost everyone in the school," Medford said. "She was my last resort. I went to almost everyone I knew and some teachers I didn't know and some teachers that said they might do it, and then said they wouldn't. We basically went door-to-door" throughout the school."
Some parents tried to shut the group down and the district refused. They then tried to make permission slips a requirement for all clubs and the district refused, saying that it would violate federal law. Finally, in desperation some parents argued that the club violated a state law that prevented schools from "discussing or promoting sexual activities except within marriage", but district officials responded that they could not, and would not, infringe on their students free speech. The club remains to this day.
Gays in the Legislature
Walk through the halls of power in Utah and you will find three openly gay state legislators. Christine Johnson and Jackie Biskupski serve in the State House and Scott McCoy serves in the Senate. All three represent Salt Lake City districts.
Johnson has used her postion to be a tireless advocate for gay and transgender people. Her signature bill extends nondiscrimination protections to gay and transgender Utahns, and in it's laest incarnation extends that protection to housing as well. However, she's quick to pint out that she is a representative for all the people she serves and points out that only 20% of the bills she works on are LGBT related. Still, she revels in being a progressive voice in Utah, telling QSaltLake:
"I'm also really pleased that my constituents are only supportive when I go out on a limb for them,. When I make a statement on the floor that's perhaps a little more brazen or direct, or maybe [support] an unconventional theory that's very left, instead of getting criticism from my constituents, they remember it and are very appreciative. I consider it a luxury to be that progressive voice on the Hill.â€
Common Ground
The latest battle for LGBt equality in Utah is the state's direct response to Prop. 8. Sponsored by Equality Utah, the initiative challenges the Mormon Church to live up to their dissembling rhetoric. After Prop. 8 passed,the Mormon Church says that it "does not object to rights for same-sex couples regarding hospitalization and medical care, fair housing and employment rights, or probate rights" and so, the Common Grounds Initiative aims to put those very protections into law in Utah through four bills being introduced in the Senate this year.
It's an uphill battle. Just yesterday, the first bill, introduced by Sen. Scott McCoy, which would extend wrongful death protections to gays and lesbians, died in committee.
At last weekend's really in support of Common Ground, one gay California transplant to Utah explained that Utah doesn't have the market cornered on hate:
"Thomas Rowbottom, a bisexual man from Sacramento, California, and Alex Bright, a gay man from Florida. Rowbottom describing how he lost his job at a hospital chain because of his sexual orientation. Even in states known for being gay-friendly, Rowbottom said, anti-gay discrimination is a problem.
Upon moving to Utah earlier this month, Rowbottom said he thought few people in the Beehive State cared about gay rights. But after seeing support for demonstrations like that day's, Rowbottom said he was convinced that "the fight is not dead in Utah.â€
So what do you think? Is boycotting Utah the best strategy or is the right response to get involved?
yes, boycotting the state, does not mean not getting involved. I believe both are necessary.
When reading the article I couldn't get past this sentence in the second paragraph:
When it comes to hatin' on Utah, we've become no better than the people who discriminate against us.
What stupid thing to say. There is no equivalence. None. Gay people in California and elsewhere are not funding anti-Mormon initiatives in Utah. Our suck-on-a-lemon reaction is a completely rational and reasonable response to the situation.
That is so obviously false and stupid a start that the article that follows must be ignored on principle: There is no reason to read an article that starts off so badly.
Also, I think that gay organizations, gay owned companies, and gay inclusive organizations and companies(business, association, charity, etc) should actively seek services for meetings, conventions, and recreational activities in states that have passed discrimination laws to protect the LBGT community, strong anti-hate laws, and permit gay marriage. While making it known that is the reason for their choices.
And another thing – the page load time on this site is absurdly long.
@Tim in SF
Exactly. This is a stupide attempt to draw equivalence, where there is none. The outrage of the LGBT community at the organized Mormon Church's efforts to strip us of civil rights and equality doesn't make us haters. It makes us rational people who understand our political situation.
And just because I am boycotting Utah doesn't mean I won't involve myself in the struggle for equality and dignity for all people there.
Please, Queerty, try not to be silly.
Tough Love. I think the boycott isn't about us hating anyone but trying to drive home a point. I think it should be obvious the Mormon Church hit us in our homes and the root of our families, and the only place we've hit back is the pocket book, which seems more hatefilled? I'm sorry that good people live in Utah, I'm sorry that good people sat there while the Mormon Church made us sound like recruiters of small children, I'm sorry that good people sat there and did nothing while a small portion of this great Country had their rights stripped from them. I feel violated and outraged, and if I can funnel my money somewhere else and it sends a message then I think it's the right thing to do. The issue is that if I spend my money in Utah I'm certain some portion of it will make it to the Church, if I pay someone who belongs to the Church or an organization who is owned by the Church I'm contributing to lynching my rights. So don't get upset with me if people are suffering because I'm closely watching where I'm spending, or what I'm doing, I just don't want the next Mormon initiative to have me sent to a concentration camp or put into jail, because really if it comes down to it we are a minority and no minority wins at the polls againts the majority that has been taught to hate that minority for no reason other than how we choose to live our lives. So I'm sorry, I'm sure not everyone who lives in Utah is hateful and evil, but a large Church/Corporation does and they no longer need my money or support.
I am inclined to agree with some of the guys on here. It is all well and good that there are gay people in Utah (if they want to stay there, that's their choice) and helping them gain some rights is also worthwhile, but not by spending money in the state. I can promise you that Utah cares more about its Mormon residents than it does about its gay residents. You just have to think about taxes and the Mormom base is much larger than the gay base. Yes, one can make the argument that staying in the opposition's face rather than leaving is the appropriate thing to do and to that I say, "that's great, go ahead and pack your bags and move there, but I won't be following."
I just moved to Massachusetts from Florida in October precisely because Florida is an anti-gay, bigoted state and the wingnuts can have it.
Yep, I picked up my toys and went elsewhere and I am very happy that I did so. I took my tax money and my brains with me. Florida's loss, Massachusetts' gain.
Boycott Utah if you must, but also make sure to boycott every state where any church that opposes gay marriage is in the majority. Otherwise, you're singling out the Mormon church. That would be the act of someone who hates Mormons for being Mormon, and not for their stance on gay marriage.
Honestly, I am baffled by this post. First of all, how is it possible that you are surprised that Salt Lake is the most liberal part of Utah? The major city in any state is always the most liberal part of the state.
Onto my main point, we need to get over this. Utah didn't do anything wrong; certain Utahns did. But come on, what is boycotting Utah going to do? It's not like gay tourism has the same meaning in Utah as it does in say, Florida – a state with numerous gay vacation spots and a sizable gay population. In Florida, the gay dollar means something. But what reason could we have to boycott Florida? It's not like they recently helped pass a ban on gay marriage… oh, what's that you say? They did? Hmmm… and they had ban on gay adoption as well?
All of this anger towards Utah is misplaced. End of Story.
When I was traveling for business, I would try, as much as possible/feasible to frequent businesses that were GLBT-owned/operated (preferably) or GLBT friendly. I found that going into chatrooms and/or websites for those locales was most helpful.
This was true when I would go to (among other cities) Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; SLC, UT; and Denver, CO – after the hateful amendment passed but before it was struck down.
I have heard, and consequently adopted, the term "GAYCOTT" to describe this type of consumerism.
It is something to consider when one does not have much say where and when one must travel.
I save BOYCOTTING for individual BUSINESSES, such as EXXON-MOBIL, which refuse grant equal rights to their employees.
I still try to frequent those places that are GLBT owned/operated or GLBT friendly when I now travel for pleasure to support our community worldwide.
As a queer Utahn who volunteered and donated to the "No on 8†campaign, I understand and share the frustration and anger directed toward the state and the Mormon church. But to lump them together into an inseparable object to be hated and boycotted by the rest of the world isn't "rational.†It's just lazy. And it makes us seem just as simplistic, just as divisive, and just as spiteful as our opponents.
Yes, the church and it's members dumped money into the Prop 8 trough. But it was California voters who ate it up and cast their ballots. Publicity and financial support ultimately made the difference. So, how do haters from out of state plan to support our GLBT community if they turn their attention and their funds away from Utah? What is rational about that?
We have three GLBT-friendly business directories. SLC has been considered one of the top 51 "gay-friendly places to live†in the country. In addition to donating to "Yes on 8,†Utahns also donated over a million dollars to "No on 8†and we organized the largest "No on 8†phone bank outside of California. But for people like John Aravosis and Dan Savage, it's easier to just write off Utah entirely.
Utah GLBTs are still fighting for the most basic legal protections – employment and housing protections, hospital visitation, domestic partner benefits, adoption rights, etc. We don't need any more of your contempt or righteous indignation, WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!!!
The purpose of placing emphasis on Utah is not that we can actually impact their economy. "Gays that visit Utah" just isn't a big enough demographic.
Where a boycott of Utah (well, in reality, of the Mormon Church) can be useful is in the self-perception of Mormons.
At the moment Mormons are the most homophobic of all popular or powerful faiths. True, the Catholic Church is pretty bad but the voting Catholics don't take marching orders from the church. And evangelicals – even Southern Baptists – just aren't that motivated to contribute money or walk precints to enact anti-gay legislation. But the Mormons – including out of state – contributed between 47% and 70% of Yes on 8 funds and were 80-90% of their volunteers.
We need to either destroy or change Mormons. And changing may be easier.
Like most religious folk, Mormons (even the meanest and nastiest of them) like to think of themselves as good people. They believe that their faith leads them to work hard, treat their neighbors well, and be a blessing on those around them.
We are challenging that notion.
By making a public noise, we are making some Mormons notice us. And notice their own policies and behavior.
The Church went so far as to claim that they don't oppose ALL rights for gay couples… and then all four Mormons on the Judiciary committee voted that gay people cannot make a wrongful death claim when their partner is killed. Yes, they actually voted to deny the ability to sue for wrongful death.
Decent people, including decent Mormons, will eventually see that their positions are causing real harm to real people. They will have to look in the eyes of those in pain and try to justify why they are hurting them. They will have to ask themselves if they truly think it is good, just, and right to tell a lesbian trying to raise kids that she has no recourse whatsoever that the careless actions of others killed the woman who brought home the bacon; now she should just starve.
At some point they will feel shame. And when that happens, they will not be so quick to give their children's college fund to anti-gay propositions.
But they will look at themselves ONLY if we let them know that they are being a bad neighbor and a hurtful member of society. They can only feel shame for their evil behavior if we let them know that they are causing pain, harming the less advantaged, and taking actions to deliberately make the lives of others more difficult.
And – at the moment – our best way of getting them to even consider the ramifications of their own behavior is find media – which seems to be by means of boycott.
@Timothy: Destroy? Seriously? What an ignorant thing to say. It takes much away from your actual argument which has sensible arguments. I have no problem with an all out balls-to-the-wall media brawl with any group that opposes our rights. We SHOULD fight, but we should fight SMART. Blanket boycotts with no hope of success nor adherence serve no purpose.
Jon B,
Go back and re-read the sentence. I think you'll find that I'm not advocating "destroying" anyone.
It's a rhetorical tool for making comparisons. Either destroy (an extreme impossibility) or change (a viable possibility).
And you seem to have skimmed over the part where I discuss the purpose of a boycott. It is to get media attention and wake up those Mormons who truly want to be good neighbors. Thus is makes little sense to talk about "no hope of success" as though economic damage was the purpose.
The hypocrisy of the gay agenda is unbelievable. As hard as I try to understand and sympathize with it, it is lost on me. The angry and hate-filled gay marches with signs and slogans which effectively said I hate you because I say you hate me. What a bizzare and twisted logic. I supported prop 8 because I want to protect the traditional definition of marriage. Now I'm told I hate gay people? Uh, no I don't. Label me as you will, but I know what's in my head and it isn't what you say it is. Get over yourselves.
@Jonathan: I actually agree demonizing a whole state or a whole group of people (blacks, christians, republicans) does make us any better than the homophobic people in those populations. We are right and we lose our moral upperhand on this issue when we are discrimnatory back.
Also you are using the word equivilence wronghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_relation
I don't know if anyone knows, but most of the gay Europeans and their friends/family, from what I have seen on blogs and everyone else I know, are boycotting ALL USA products.
@Mary: Poor Mary is so 'misunderstood' boo-hoo. Given your choice of words and syntax, I think we have a 'winner' for hostility and anger. Mary wanting gay people not to be gay can only logically be considered bigotry – we didn't say you hate 'Bob', we just think 'Bob' should never appoint you as his legal representative in the event he becomes incapacitated because you will not act in accordance with his beliefs. We also advise Bob to remove you from his 'winter holiday' letter list ;)
The Utah legislature just voted against the most minimal recognition of gay and lesbian humanity – a law that would allow gay and lesbian surviving partners to sue for wrongful damages. Every single Mormon on the legislative panel reviewing the law voted against it, the non-Mormons were either absent or voted for it. That's all we need to know.
However, I don't think boycotting only Utah is enough. We need to avoid every state that has passed viciously anti-gay hate laws and Constitutional amendments, including places like Virginia, Michigan and Ohio. This is not about economic damages for these places, but LGBT safety. Once a state, like Virginia, passes a law or amendment stripping gays and lesbians of any civil right, like marriage, every civil right for gays or lesbians is suspect. There is no reason to believe we will be guaranteed hospital care in an emergency, police involvement if we are victims of a crime, or any other form of basic respect straight citizens can expect. There are simply no more protections for us.
I have to travel often for business, so I am forced to enter these states, but refuse to enter them for leisure purposes. I live in DC and resolutely refuse to cross the river into Virginia except to go to Dulles airport for work purposes. I do not shop in VA, eat in VA or even vist friends when they live in VA. I invite my VA friends to my house, but will not got to theirs, it simply isn't safe.
Oh, and Mary, unless you were married in a Roman Catholic Church, you are violating the traditional definition of marriage. As the nuns and priests taught me, the only way to be validly married is to be married in the Roman Catholic Church by a Roman Catholic priest. All other "marriages" are immoral lifestyle choices explicitly equal to homosexuality. That's why I love to see fundamentalists on the TV "defending marriage." Every one of them is either a fornicator or an adulterer.
Yes, please boycott Utah. More virgin powder for the non-imbeciles.
Seriously, please rationalize for me how boycotting a state is an effective path for furthering our political rights.
How does a boycott change the skewed perceptions of LGBT people that influence the minds of those who hate us? If you follow this boycott, are you not passing a judgment based on geography, that all people in Utah are politically and actively homophobic? That we all donated to support Prop 8?
Is this not akin to the world boycotting the U.S. for our foreign policy that you may or may not have agreed with? (Which didn't happen because the world understood that "American people" is not synonymous with the U.S. Government.)
No, it's actually worse because you're assuming that Utah as a political entity passed CA Prop 8. The State of Utah is not run by the LDS Church. Boycott and petition the Church and all of the members whom WE KNOW donated to the campaign for hate, but don't boycott a state because it's the home of a particular religion.
Maybe, just maybe, boycotting Utah because a ban on gay marriage passed in CALIFORNIA is passing the buck by the LGBT community and its supposed leadership for mounting an effective response to the proponents of Prop 8.
I'll be the first to admit that I haven't stood up as I ought to for my rights for fear of retribution under DADT.. But I plan to change that.
Don't let a passive enthusiasm for this boycott keep you from being an ACTIVE protester for your rights.
But, please at least boycott our virgin powder. The backcountry is crowded enough already.
It is grossly offensive that you would suggest that "when it comes to hatin' on Utah, we've become no better than the people who discriminate against us" – what a steaming crock of shit! How dare you suggest that the gay community's fury and disgust at these people is not justified!
We do not spend thousands of hours and millions of dollars dehumanizing Mormons, or working to take their rights away from them. We do not try to teach as many people as possible that they are sick, perverted, or a threat to other's families (although they are). And, we sure as hell don't commit such evil acts "in the name of Christ" like these hateful, hurtful scumbags do, every single day.
Not to mention – the Utah legislature just voted to reject a very minor piece of legislation in support of gays. They hate us, and they take great pride and satisfaction in their hate – outright glee, as a matter of fact, and you have the gall do suggest this attitude is admirable?!
You're a fool Japhy – fags like you make me sick, you like a Jewish Nazi.
Simply put, we need cultural hegemony over the anti-gay Religious Right. Boycotts are not the answer. The answer is to promote the "tolerance, equality, individual liberty, seperation of church and state" meme.
Cultural conservatives have done well in the culture war, which translates into real victories for them. We need to "shock and awe" their asses back to the caves they organize their religious terror movements from.
As a Utah native, a former Mormon, and a current comrade in the journey toward justice, I can tell you why boycotting a state is stupid.
It's ineffective.
It's hard to measure success.
The "state" can't respond in an effective way.
In contrast, I can certainly see the benefit of boycotting a specific store location.
It is easy to measure success and discourage allies from shopping there.
The store is able to respond in a way a "state" can't.
It has a much longer track record of success.
Boycott Utah? Don't turn your anger into stupidity. Find the nearest anti-shop and shut her down.
It shouldn't be about boycotting a state or moving out or anything of the like. Stay and fight for your rights. Be as visible as possible and show the people in that state who don't believe in equal rights for LGBT people that you're there, you are a vital part of the community, and you deserve everything that they have.
I come from Cobb County, GA, which is a place that passed a resolution in the 90s that said that they "don't agree with the gay lifestyle". As bigoted as many people in the county are, it is still the place I consider to be home and I am willing to fight for that. I also realize that because some people in a place are bigoted, that does not mean that EVERYONE is and it would be immature to punish everybody for a particular group's actions.
As a straight Salt Laker, I have to say that none of my friends consider Salt Lake to be any part of Utah's well-known and deservedly infamous political atmosphere. The reactionary mentality of the Mormon church absolutely runs things on a statewide basis and their medieval moral beliefs have poisoned the well of progressiveness for the foreseeable future, however much most of us in the capitol city may argue against them.
So, when you think about boycotting Utah, please take into consideration that most of Salt Lake City and Park City are on your side. With a little research, it should be fairly easy to target a boycott where it would felt by the true enemies of social progress.
And don't back down. Remember, boycotts were a vital weapon employed during the civil rights era–because they work.
THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!!! To all the people that are talking about boycotting Utah or any other state that has passed a law that discriminates against homosexuals, how will boycotting a state help to advance the gay rights struggle? It doesn't. Not all Utahns donated money to help pass prop 8, not all Utahns voted for the people who turned down "common Ground", not all Utahns are mormons, and not even all mormons agree with their religion's stance on gay marriage. I know this because I used to be a mormon when I was a kid, my parents still are (even though they completely support us), and I live with my same sex partner in Provo, Utah which is the mormon mecca of the world. We are in trememndous need of help as our most basic rights are being openly and blatantly ignored. In Utah anyone can fire you solely on the basis that you are gay, there is literally NOTHING you can do about it. There have been instances where this has been done openly, regardless of media atraction because bigots here know that people in here just don't care.
We in Utah have been fighting REALLY hard against discrimination to be heard, and specially now we need as much help from everywhere to be able to make change happen. Turning your back on our state is leaving one of the places that needs the most help.
Yes I understand that you all are mad because Prop 8 passed, yes I understand that you want to retaliate, but don't retaliate against a whole state which includes some of the most discrimnated against homosexuals in this country. Be smarter than that. To really expose the CRIME that was widely funded by mormon church members and aproved by california voters, things like the "common ground initiative" need to be done to expose just how far these bigots can lie.
AMEN to that. Now we just need to figure out what organizations and companies (of course including the LDS church and it's affiliates) donated money or helped make prop 8 pass, boycott them AND let them know that you are doing so and why. just couse their sales go down doesn't mean that they will know immediately why.
Let me first start by saying that Utah isn't an easy state to understand. Its even harder to claim you live there for that matter. I've lived here all my life. I grew up LDS, but since have realized where my spirit lies and its not with the church, but I respect those who choose to follow their teachings, after all its their choice and I'm for allowing free will. I understand the devotion of their members and approve of their humanitarian efforts, yet STRONGLY disagree with their involvement in ours or any government issues such as the Prop. 8 bullshit. Our government is filled with both representatives fighting for the people of the state (LGBT included) and representatives who obviously are influenced by the LDS church. The gay community IS one of the largest in the country. We regularly have 30-40 thousand attend the pride celebrations year after year and they continue to grow in numbers. We are a state of diversity, though you wouldn't know this unless you visit here. SLC is a hub for the arts and thus has a huge gay influence (Haven't you noticed American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance has been here quite a lot lately). Its a beautiful state for anyone to visit with many things to do. We have deserts, mountains, lakes, canyons, and the most National Parks in any state. Yes our nightlife has stupid laws stating you have to be a "member", but overall we have what any major city has for night time entertainment.
I know I am rambling on and on. I never claimed to be an english major, but my point is this…
You can't boycott an entire state because of what a church or their member did to take away rights. (well, you actually can but it makes absolutely NO sense to do it.) No matter where you spend your money, some of it is bound to turn up into the hands of someone mormon. Whether you live in Utah, Florida, California, or wherever you choose. Eventually your money will benefit the Mormon church in some manner through some means.
The best way for us to make a statement to the church is to continue to show them that our families are not any different from straight families. We need to keep showing them that we have just as much success with raising children, with being faithful with our partners, with living normal HEALTHY lives. The church here has changed views on many subjects over its fairly short existence (when compared with other churches) and it will eventually come to the realization that they are wrong here too. They were wrong with womens rights, inter-racial marraige, blacks in the church, etc… All of which they have changed their views on and now allow. Its only time til they do that here.
The Mormon church isn't the only church to blame. There has been involvement from basically every religion…especially those who are Christians. Its sad that Christians have shown to be the biggest haters around, especially towards LGBT rights, yet they claim to live their lives as Jesus says to live. Jesus was never a hater, so anyone who is a hater isn't Christian…no matter the church they attend!
I feel that we need to keep our voices heard, our goals in mind and never back down for anyone until we get what we and ALL people deserve. If we keep getting side-tracked by trying to stick it where it will hurt, we'll never get anywhere but where we already are. We just end up looking worse than the churches who have hurt us. We need to focus. We need to come together and move forward. We don't need to be wasting our time, our money, our efforts and support on unnecessary hateful actions. It only hurts good people who are in need of your support. Lets focus on showing that as a community we are really no different than anyone else and are capable of spreading goodness throughout.
"We do not spend thousands of hours and millions of dollars dehumanizing Mormons"
Maybe not "millions of dollars" but, from what I can tell, many in the gay community do spend "thousands of hours" dehumanizing Mormons. I've seen a lot of dehumanizing Mormons in this thread alone.
"We do not spend thousands of hours and millions of dollars dehumanizing Mormons, or working to take their rights away from them. We do not try to teach as many people as possible that they are sick, perverted, or a threat to other's families (although they are). And, we sure as hell don't commit such evil acts "in the name of Christ" like these hateful, hurtful scumbags do, every single day."
It's deliciously ironic that you claim that gays do not dehumanize Mormons, and then you proceed to, um, dehumanize Mormons. You're as much of a hater as the people you decry.
Uh Jeremy, I think you are missing one key thing here. We wouldn't have this problem with Mormons if they would have just minded their own business and let us have our rights. Furthermore, if gay marriage ban didn't pass in California, we wouldn't feel this way towards Mormons other than try to figure out why they spent so much money on a measure that didn't pass and that time has always been on our side all along. Please do your research.
Fine, but realize that by repeatedly building headlines by boycotting major events and corporations in Utah, you are deepening the divide here and making it much more difficult to accomplish much.
When gay people are perceived to be burning books of Mormon, vandalizing churches, and boycotting the Sundance Film Festival, etc. (which is a gay-friendly venue anyhow), you are just stirring up a big mess. What good comes of it? Who are you convincing, exactly?
Yes, Utah is a hornet's nest. Please don't sic the hornets after us while you sit in righteous indignation in Massachussets.
Please, boycott Cinemark, Marriott and any other business directly linked to Yes on 8 directly. But boycotting an entire state is ludicrous-and destructive to gays in Utah. We are making progress here in Utah. Please don't throw it away.
Uh Sam, did you read what you just wrote?
"We wouldn't have this problem with Mormons if they would have just minded their own business." Just change Mormons to gays and you will see how hypocritical the 'answer hate with hate' argument is, coming from a gay proponent.
Neither the church nor the state is monolithic. Nor is the gay community. Making blanket proclamations about any of the above is ridiculous.
And props to TeleUte83 for highlighting that California voters, not Utahns, passed prop 8. Perhaps the all the boycotters from CA should analyze the vote and work on the groups in their own state that voted for prop 8, to change their minds. But if you'd rather look beyond your own house to place blame, I too will be happy to have fewer people skiing in the powder.
Okay. Time to chime in. Over 80 percent of lawmakers in UT are faithful members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Laste week Mormon church elders met with state legislative leaders in a closed door luncheon as they do ona regular basis.
Church and legislative leaders try to shellack their closed-door meetings with a veneer of objectivity. LDS spokesmen say legislators request the meeting each year. And fter consulting the oracles, the Senate president and House speaker report back on LDS Church leaders might be willing to do But why?
The church hires a lobbyist like every other special interest. Nowhere else in the country do lawmakers consult with one denomination in this way — not Boston, not Birmingham. It's one thing for lawmakers to consult privately with individual Mormon bishops and stake presidents. It's another to make an annual political event out of it.
As long as the Mormom Chuch holds a strangle on the legislature. Its a forgone conculsion that the state will NOT pass any Pro-Gay laws.
The Common Ground Bills which are really the most smallest of gay human rights bill will not be passed. The LDS said after No on 8 passed and the spotlight was turned on them that they wouldn't object (publically( and nor did they support it (publically) But what went on in a close door meeting with State Legislatures is beyond everyones control.
As long as the LDS controls the legislature UT is and will be a Gay Hate Hate State. And Gays and lesbians will not be equal. And you know whats okay. It is okay to NOT TO LIKE THEM. And it is okay to Hate them and stay away from State. The "turning the other cheek" and "we are better than them" bullshit doesn't and won;t work while they are in control. In the beginning of the Gay Rights Movement when we were angry AND WE BOYCOTTED, AND WE PROSTESTED. Our movement moved further and faster. Its only been in th past 20 years since we've adopted the "we are so much better" attitude that we have stalled and gone nowhere.
Personally I don't care if I has the second biggest Pride Parade. Thats has nothing to do with the way the State is run and how the LDS controls it. If you want to stay there go ahead. If you want to enable the Mormon Chuch because 10 percent of every dollar that a Mormon makes automatically goes to the Church (There is no choice) go ahead. I'm not going to. ALL MORMON Businesses ahould be BOYCOTTED and well as Major Events in UTAH. They need to be hot where it hurts. In their pockets. Its the only way to make a point.
Now someone please explain to me why we aren't also boycotting California? Yes the mormons threw in some money but it was the people of California that voted for prop 8.
Is this because that we want the easy target?
Ummm because without the help of the Mormon Church of Utah YES on 8 probably wouldn;t have passed thats why.
Ummmm, the margin was 4 percentage points. What that tells me is that every single effort in support of the proposition was critical. Without the Mormon effort, or any one of the other efforts, the proposition would have had less support and the margin may have gone the other way. So yes, the Mormon effort helped pass the proposition, IN THE SAME PROPORTION AS ANY OF THE OTHER EFFORTS. Why is this so difficult for gays to understand? Because they simply can't accept the fact that a constitutional process was followed and the people spoke clearly. Gays are in denial that at least 52% of the CA populus doesn't agree with them and they turn their anger towards UTAH? Put your own house in order before you go blaming aliens.
@Wolf: Could you cite some of what you just posted? Your description of paying tithing suggests that it's a state income tax. It is not automatic and it is only required if you want to remain in good standing with the Church. As much as we joke about it here, there aren't isn't an LDS police that kidnaps people off the streets in white vans and eavesdrops a la Fahrenheit 411.
Utah is an awesome place and most Mormons are awesome people. But, many have an opinion of homosexuality , influenced by scripture and their leadership, that has made the jump to politics and ultimately deprived me of human rights I feel are so basic to leading a fulfilling life.
Rather than hate the LDS Church and its members (and umm, the other millions of non-LDS citizens in this country who hold similar views), it's our DUTY to change their perceptions. Not through boycotts, in a feeble attempt to show our "economic power," but through well-intentioned protests, and most importantly, showing our friends, family, and neighbors that most of us defy their stereotypes of what it means to be LGBT.
Your impressions, Wolf, of the members of the LDS church are as misplaced as their stereotypes of who you are, just because you may or may not be LGBT.
You donated to No on 8, right? And asked all of your friends to do so as well? If not, you should've used your words then when it mattered, rather than now, when it doesn't.
Uh RickC, Please look at my entire sentence, not just part of it.
"We wouldn't have this problem with Mormons if they would have just minded their own business and let us have our rights."
If I turned my sentence around, swapping the word "Mormons" with "Gays," people would look at my post funny and wonder "What the hell is this guy thinking? Straight Mormons are already first-class citizens."
The gay community is being treated as second-class citizens because we don't have all our rights in this country so that is what we are fighting for. The Mormons who believe that being gay is wrong are fighting against that. Not just in Utah, but in every state. I never mentioned anything about hate or hypocrisy towards anyone, neither in my last post nor in this post, so please don't assume so. I'm just stating the facts.
Also, I like to point out to everyone that I have no intention of boycotting Utah in general. I'm just boycotting businesses that have connections to the Mormon church to the best of my ability. I'm mad at the church, not at the state.
To blame Utah for the actions of the Mormon church is simply ridiculous and exhibits an uneducated philosophy. Perhaps you "Californians" should check the amount of LDS people living in your state, then maybe you could move here to SLC and boycott the place where that hateful bill was passed. Our GLTB community are far more supported than in most states. This is just another example of a few folks getting others worked up over an issue that they have very little knowledge or understanding of.
@Mary: Yes, Mary, I'll "get over myself" when you simply allow me to marry a man of my choosing. It doesn't hurt your marriage; you never have to meet us. It doesn't hurt your "traditional definition of marriage" any more than knowing that polygamous marriages are legal in some Muslim countries does. But I can know that, in the legal and social sense, my relationship is validated in the same way that a heterosexual relationship is. Plus, as any good economics professor will tell you, about 40% of marriages end up paying more in taxes than before. So, "lettin' the gays get hitched" would allow more money to be paid into the system, which means better public services for you and your children. So really, where's the problem?
Does anyone remember the 1987-92 boycott of Arizona for refusing to make MLK day a holiday? It worked.
My "Get over yourselves" post was in response to the bitter, angry and hateful tactics used by gays and gay supporters. I'm not talking about taxes or polygamy. I'm simply calling out the hypocrisy of gays calling me hateful when they themselves have clearly displayed the ugly emotions in their posts and demonstrations.
It's one thing to vote for a proposition put forward in a purely democratic process and express one's opinion. It's quite another to be targeted, boycotted, vandalized and intimidated for expressing that opinion. Especially when someone else who voted the same way I did is not targeted. I'm now told that by expressing that opinion I am a deep-seated hater of gay people. Please get this straight in your head… I do not, nor have I ever hated gay people because I believe it is wrong to do so. I voted my conscience when the question was put before me. But this prop 8 thing has truly tested my ability to match my thoughts and feelings with my beliefs.
I don't think you can say that because a boycott of Arizona was proposed and then they adopted MLK day that the boycott was the reason they adopted MLK day. The reason AZ adopted MLK day was more likely because most every other state in the nation had done so. The Utah legislature also refused to create a MLK day for many years, until every other state had done so and then they finally relented with no pressure from a boycott, but because every other state had done it.
I think a boycott of Utah is short-sighted, but the focus should be exclusively on Mormons and they should be vilified. I was very disappointed when Tom Hanks became a total pussy and apologized for calling Mormons un-American. He was right the first time before he apologized.


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The Gretna City Council has revamped its process for dealing with the purposeful neglect of historic structures in the city.
At its March 10 meeting, the council unanimously approved a revision of the city's "Demolition by Neglect" ordinance giving Gretna's Historic District Advisory Committee clear guidelines for dealing with property owners who fail to maintain historic structures. The ordinance allows the HDAC to make recommendations to the council about homes the panel believes are being neglected, and the council can then order homeowners to make improvements, or have the city make those improvements itself. If the city makes improvements, a lien would be placed on the property.
City Attorney Mark Morgan said the revision is the culmination of a push by the city that began last year to begin enforcing its existing ordinances regarding blight. The revision is an attempt to eliminate confusing language in the previous ordinance, and allow the HDAC the power to make a recommendation on whether a property was truly neglected.
Councilwoman Belinda Constant said that when she was elected, there was a massive problem with historic structures being neglected to the point where demolition was inevitable. She noted that if Gretna wants to retain its historic district, it must maintain a certain number of historic structures. Once those structures are demolished, it's impossible for the city to replace them, Constant said.
She added she pushed for the revisions to the ordinance and increased vigilance by the city because she wants to stem the tide of neglect and preserve Gretna's heritage.
"I saw it as a big problem," said Constant, who added that she would like to see a nonprofit established to provide assistance to individuals seeking to preserve historic structures in the city.
The original ordinance, which was passed in October 1997, had a long list of conditions that constituted neglect of a historic structure, and some of them pertained to issues that were cosmetic, Morgan said. The new ordinance makes it clear that neglect occurs when a property owner allows a condition to persist that eventually would lead to hazardous conditions at the home or to its demolition.
"The whole purpose of the ordinance is to protect historic structures from being lost forever," Morgan said. "The city is not in the business of doing historic preservations; they are in the business of preventing the deterioration of historic structures."
HDAC Chairman Joe Marino said property owners often have failed to make the improvements needed to salvage historic structures and then let them deteriorate until demolition was the only option. The commission lacked the ability to stop this practice, and while the city had the law on the books, enforcement was somewhat sporadic. Marino said that now the commission can take a more proactive role in protecting historic structures.
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The process for establishing neglect involves the HDAC and the city's administration. City inspectors initially cite a property for being neglected and then request that the property owner come before the committee for a hearing. The HDAC must determine whether the property is historic, whether it is truly neglected to the point of demolition and whether the property owner has done any work to correct the problem. The HDAC then makes a ruling and the case is forwarded to the council for a final decision.
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|January 8, 2000
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PYONGYANG WATCH: All the winged horses . . .
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This is the year Juche 89, known in the West as 2000; North Korea dates its Juche or national self-sufficiency era from the 1912 birth of the late Great Leader Kim Il-sung. Juche 89 will be glorified ''as a year of proud victory in the flame of great Chollima upsurge'', the party newspaper Nodong Shinmun and two other official papers proclaimed in a joint New Year's editorial. And this glorious new year follows Juche 88, which the editorial calls ''a fruitful year in which the dynamic second Chollima advance was made''.
Chollima. Now there's a blast from the past. Inspired by China's Great Leap Forward, Kim Il-sung started the first Chollima movement in 1958. Starting in 1954, North Korea had transferred its farmland from individuals to cooperatives. With the Chollima movement, named after a mythical winged horse that could leap 1000 ri (about 250 kilometers or 150 miles), Kim took collectivization even farther.
Using the Chollima to symbolize the ''breathless speed of socialist construction and revolutionary spirit of Korea'', Kim set out to remake nature, reform society and revitalize the people. It was a time of high excitement as North Koreans, like Mao Zedong and his subjects next door in China, were swept away by an almost mystical belief that the stage of true communism was at hand.
Kim grouped the original cooperatives together in larger units under state control, which also functioned as the lowest level of local government. Still called cooperatives, these were in fact similar to China's then-new communes and the Soviet Union's collective farms. Boosting production was only part of the objective. At least as important was to turn peasants, whose propertied status inclined them to bourgois capitalist traits, into good members of the working class - and, thus, prospective communists.
The collectivization movement did bring some bigger harvests, but it failed to ''resolve questions of food'' - Kim's ambitious goal when he set out the five-year plan in 1956. The increases failed to meet planners' goals. Rationing - the surest sign of scarcity - continued.
And Chollima brought serious confusion around 1959, when planners misallocated resources to various sectors of the economy. Quality of production dropped, and eager-to-please economic units turned in inflated claims for their quantitative production. That year, Kim found it advisable to back off a bit. For example, he restored to farm families individual kitchen garden plots and the right to use them to raise chickens, pigs, ducks and rabbits for sale. The regime urged that the families use the money to build new houses. In the early 1960s Kim tried adding incentives, short of money bonuses. He combined ideological indoctrination with prizes, including free vacations, and awards of medals and honorific titles for exceeding production quotas. Those incentives proved insufficient to produce the growth he sought.
Most ordinary North Koreans, however, did not have direct knowledge of outside countries, and they knew that their own living standards had improved after the advent of communist rule. Thus, say some former residents of North Korea, people generally were inclined to believe Kim Il-sung's boast of having unfolded a paradise.
And thus the Chollima movement's name apparently retains enough cachet as a symbol of the good old days that current Great Leader Kim Jong-il has decided to revive the winged horse for a new campaign in which North Koreans once again are exhorted to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. The goal this time is to build ''a powerful nation''. Among other things, they must put North Korea's science and technology ''on the world's level in the shortest possible time''. The electrical power, coal and metal industries must be developed, as well as railway transport, light industry and agriculture. And of course North Koreans must ''step up major construction projects''.
Designating last year as the starting point for the second Chollima movement made a certain amount of sense, as it was the year when the country's decade-long economic bungee jump appeared to bottom out. In Juche 88, grain production was up 8.5 percent to 4.22 million tonnes, according to a year-end report by South Korea's Yonhap news agency, in Korean, that was carried in Seoul's Joongang Ilbo on December 29. And after a period in which many factories had stopped operating for lack of fuel, transport and raw materials, ''4,000 plants, including the Kim Chaek steel complex, are pouring smoke out of chimneys''. The year saw enactment of new laws on agriculture, fish farming, planning of the national economy and arbitration of external economic issues. A national meeting on the ''second grand march of Chollima'' was held on November 3, the Yonhap article says.
And shortly before that Kim Jong-il, meeting South Korea's Hyundai Group founder Chung Ju-yung, said he wanted to learn about the New Communities movement that had helped the South develop its economy.
Although the North had gotten the jump on the South economically in the post-Korean war period, Park Chung-hee's 1961 military takeover in the South led to a new phase in their contest. Within a few years Park's authoritarian regime had unleashed often brilliant economists and dynamic business leaders. Their mission: build a market economy modeled on that of Japan, employing close bureaucratic guidance and taking full advantage of a low-cost, hard-working, well-trained labor force. The formula - not too different from the ''state capitalism'' that Kim Il-sung had rejected as inappropriate for the North - worked for the South, producing a rapidly wealth-expanding, relatively free economy that eventually far outdistanced the North's economy.
Perhaps, commented the Yonhap writer, ''2000 will be the year to test whether [Kim Jong-il] will transform himself into the North Korean version of Park Chung-hee''. Well, maybe it's not TOTALLY impossible. As a January 3 Yonhap dispatch notes, North Korea last year apparently experienced its first economic growth in a decade. It has received some $200 million from Hyundai for the tours that the Southern conglomerate runs to the North's scenic Mt Kumgang. Much of the North's grain shortfall has been met with donations from abroad. ''With its most difficult economic periods in October and November last year, the North has seen business recovery in major industries such as metals, machinery and chemicals and its energy shortage solved to some degree,'' says Yonhap, quoting a report by Seoul's Korea Develpment Institute. Things should improve further as US economic sanctions are lifted.
''North Korea seems to have awakened to economic principles, seeing that it emphasized material interests in economics in its new year's message,'' Yonhap quoted a South Korean Unification Ministry official as saying.
If that means the country awoke to the reality and efficacy of the market economy, though, you wouldn't know it from reading Nodong Shinmun's issue of January 6. The party daily says in a signed article that the collapse of the capitalist system is ''inevitable''. Outside North Korea, Juche 88 is portrayed as a dreadful year in which ''the financial crisis which racked Brazil in January last year swept the American continent, hard hitting the capitalist system once again. The purchasing power of the developing countries decreased and economy went bankrupt. As a result, strongholds of capitalism called markets fell down like a sodden wall.''
Oh, things do look bad out there: ''Nothing can save the capitalist system from its collapse and its worsening crisis,'' warns Nodong Shinmun.
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Honolulu Jazz Quartet
The Honolulu Jazz Quartet is a logical progression in the great tradition of jazz in Hawaii. The band was founded in 2001 by local bassist John Kolivas with the intent of bringing four like-minded musicians together to create a consistent, indelible sound. There are many fine jazz artists in Hawaii, but the economics of making a living as a jazz musician in the 50th State are not conducive to the same group of players working together for an extended period of time. The four members of HJQ have done just that, and the result is a beautiful blend of four individual voices into one distinctive and original voice a voice that has thrilled audiences at the 10th Annual Hawaii International Jazz Festival, the Honolulu Symphony Pops (with full symphony arrangements), and the finest jazz settings throughout Hawaii. HJQ performances have received praise from top musicians including Rufus Reid, Glenn Moore, Ricky Lawson, Paul Jackson Jr., and James Ingram.Read more
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We are about one hour before tipoff of today's game between Syracuse and Villanova here at the Wachovia Center.
Syracuse University freshman Scoop Jardine, who missed the Orange's last two games after being suspended indefinitely for violating university policy, traveled here with the team on Friday and is in uniform. He is warming up along with the rest of the Syracuse players on the Wachovia Center court.
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Alleged heroin dealer busted
A tip about marijuana being smoked inside a guest room at the Kaba Resort and Night Club on Route 15 in South Williamsport resulted in borough police last week stopping what they believe was the selling and distribution of bundles of heroin.
"We believe they were in the process of selling it. How much was already sold before we got there is unknown," Sgt. James Taylor said Friday night.
Before the night was over, police took into custody three occupants of the room, including Monte Dominique Byrd-Bonner, 23, of Philadelphia; Ishmil W. Harris, 29, of 930 Park Ave., and Jonathan R. Pedraza, 22, of 73 Morse Drive, Eldred Township.
"As officers walked toward the room, they immediately smelled the odor of burnt marijuana emanating from under the door. We heard male voices inside the room," Taylor said, adding that police were called to the Kaba, the former Days Inn, at 234 Route 15 on the night of June 19.
Police wasted little time in getting a search warrant approved by District Judge Jon E. Kemp. With the help of state troopers and members of the county's Drug Task Force, borough police executed the warrant for the motel room at 8:50 p.m.
It turned out that there were a total of 14 warrants for Harris' arrest, including two by local law enforcement agencies, Police Chief Robert Hetner said.
Harris committed to the Lycoming County Prison on a bench warrant.
There also were two warrants for Pedraza's arrest, including one by state police charging him with allegedly having 127 bags of heroin in the 800 block of Hepburn Street in the city on April 16, according to court records. He was arraigned by Kemp and jailed in lieu of $500,000 bail.
Police seized from the motel room an estimated $4,000 of suspected drug money from the three men. Whatever marijuana was in the room had already been consumed, Hetner said.
Police also impounded a 2005 Ford Mustang that Byrd-Bonner drove to the motel. The car was owned by Byrd-Bonner's mother, but investigators believe Byrd-Bonner "has been the primary user of the vehicle for the last seven or eight months," Hetner said.
A convicted drug dealer, Byrd-Bonner was incarcerated on a probation violation.
After obtaining a search warrant for the vehicle, police discovered "four individually-wrapped rectangular-shaped packages that had been held together by tape, and hidden under the front seat. We opened each of the packages and discovered that each one contained five 'bundles' of heroin," Taylor said.
"Each bundle contained 10 individually-wrapped packets," Taylor added.
The street value of the heroin was in excess of $4,000, he said.
None of the three men who were jailed were registered guests of the motel, Taylor said. The room was registered to a guest who was not there the night police executed the search warrant. That guest, who has not been charged, checked into the motel on June 17, Taylor said.
From his jail cell, Taylor was arraigned Friday afternoon before District Judge Gary W. Whiteman charges of possession with intent to deliver heroin, possession of heroin, conspiracy and possession of drug paraphernalia. He remained incarcerated in lieu of $250,000 bail.
The investigation is ongoing and no decision has yet been made on whether borough police will file drug charges against Pedraza or Harris.
Hetner said officers "will continue to focus" their attention on the 200 and 300 blocks of Route 15 which "continues to be a troubled spot for us."


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Can different cards from the same series work in crossfire mode?
They have to be the same model. The brand can be different though.
For example:
You can't crossfire a 5850 with a 5870.
You can crossfire an XFX 5870 with a Sapphire 5870.
wrong! you can CF the HD5850 with the HD5870 cuz they are from the same sries, but the HD5870 would acctually underclock itself and work at the same speeds and specs as the HD5850.
and as Vortex88 said, its also possible CFing diffrent brands.
Are you sure? From what I've heard, you can only crossfire the exact same gpu's.
Neta is right-same "series" can crossfire-i.e 5870,5850,5830
Cards will clock down to lowest common denominator. Keep in mind that the performance scaling is better with 2 same gpu's
So basically you can do it, but you'd still want two of the same GPU's, so that you get the full performance out of the cards. Otherwise, it would just be a waste of money.
yup, waste of money, unless you get one free and you have nothing to do with it its no good!
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Ben and my wife went on vacation with her father and the family down in North Carolina for the next 8 days. Since I am new at my job I was unable to travel as well. I didn't want to spoil her family fun so she went with Ben. I am very sad.
I dropped her off in Breezewood where she met her family. We had about 20 minutes to wait till they arrived so I took that opportunity spend a few minutes with Ben. We played patty-cake, this little piggy, and other games he likes. He lauged and smiled and looked at me with those adoring eyes that are reserved for a young child for his parents.
It was then time to part ways for a week. I was sad. As I drove off I found myself in tears missing him already. It was very powerful and unexpected. In 9 months I've never been away from him for more than 12 hours or so, and now I find myself without his smile and laugh for 8 days.
I will be a tough 8 days and I look forward to seeing him again next Saturday. I look forward to it very much, but I hope they have a great time in North Carolina.


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Olga Vidisheva started Shoptiques after realizing that the small, chic boutiques she loved to shop at tend to not have an online presence. Shoptiques
Like many entrepreneurs, Olga Vidisheva started her business to fix a problem, a vexing one that —oddly enough—surfaced because of something beautiful: a handmade pair of one-of-a-kind flats that she stumbled upon at a boutique in Paris.
When she arrived back at college wearing said flats, her friends descended: where did she get the shoes and, more importantly, where could they? Vidisheva gave up the boutique name—she wasn't being coy—but the shop had no website.
"No one here could buy it unless they bought a plane ticket and actually flew there," Vidisheva recalled. "I said to myself, how come in the 21st century we can buy tulips and have them overnighted from Amsterdam but we can't buy our shoes from Paris? That just didn't make sense in the century that we live in."
But that has already changed thanks to Vidisheva, who founded a company called Shoptiques last summer and launched the site in March 2012. Its promise, bringing scores of chic little boutiques with unique merchandise onto one e-commerce platform, drew a customer list of 12,000 before the site even launched, Vidisheva said. It now has 125 carefully chosen U.S. boutique partners, and this just in: they're moving in on Paris, where more than 20 shops have signed on to be featured starting this fall.
Cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Miami appear on the site as colorful illustrated maps that spotlight boutiques in Nolita, or West Hollywood and click through to each boutique's offerings.
"Imagine you're a woman in Kansas and you've watched Sex in the City for 10 years, and now you can virtually go to New York and shop like Carrie Bradshaw," Vidisheva says.
After getting an MA in journalism from Syracuse University, Teresa worked as a general assignment newspaper reporter—general on purpose because besides the usual city hall and police articles, there was the chance to fly an F-18 with the Blue Angels and tag along with bounty hunters on a stakeout—all good preparation for covering entrepreneurs.
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If you click this link and go in by around one hour and nine minutes, you can hear Marius Brill being interviewed by Paddy O'Connell on BBC Radio 2 yesterday, about his new novel, How to Forget. I've read parts of the novel and it seems to me to be an excellent combination of a comic novel, a thriller and a literary novel, as good as Marius' critically acclaimed first novel, Making Love. I have no shame and therefore urge all of you to listen to the Radio 2 thing and then go and buy the book, which A.L. Kennedy has called: "a genuinely funny romp through some of the darker areas of the human mind and some of the more life-threatening areas of mentalism and magic. An engaging and good-hearted read."
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Thank you Matt - and here I am shamelessly commenting I guess. Just to say that anybody who doesn't want to scrub through the iplayer Radio 2 show to find the bit you're talking about, just the relevant part can be found here: http://mariusbrill.com/wordpress/?p=1067ReplyDelete
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Forward-looking purchasing managers' indices and earnings from beleaguered lender Deutsche Bank feature among the other release highlights.
For the week of October 24, investors await quarterly results from a slew of major companies, including Apple, along with the first estimate of third quarter GDP.
As the dust settles on Wednesday's contentious presidential debate, U.S. markets are actually teetering on the edge of breakout territory.
O'Shares Investment chairman and CNBC Shark Tank investor Kevin O'Leary says GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has a huge advantage when selling to the U.S. market.
Britain's Brexit fortunes remain difficult to assess as markets offer mixed-signals on EU departure.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) appointed Brian McNamara CEO of its consumer healthcare division on Wednesday.
This pharmaceutical giant has struggled in recent years but is wisely repositioning itself as the world's largest manufacturer of vaccines.
Here is a look at two big pharma stalwarts to determine the better stock to buy for growth and income.
These stocks could be toxic to your portfolio in the month ahead.
Oil bounces back, German producer price data point to a continued low inflation outlook.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) named Emma Walmsley, the company's head of consumer healthcare, as CEO beginning next March.
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf will apologize Tuesday to the bank's customers in Senate testimony; U.S. stock futures are rising; GlaxoSmithKline names a new CEO.
Oil prices fall, taking shares in the sector down with them, while German producer price data point to a continued low inflation outlook.
SoftBank is one of 4 stocks to fire up your portfolio, says ASTON/Pictet portfolio manager Benjamin Beneche.
A strong performance from the ViiV Healthcare venture and a foreign-exchange booster make the case for the U.K.'s leading pharmaceuticals business.
The Consumer Union is alleging that Mylan may have paid Teva to withhold its EpiPen competitor from the market.
GlaxoSmithKline plc (LSE/NYSE:GSK) and Innoviva, Inc. (NASDAQ:INVA) today announced the presentation of further data from the pivotal phase III FULFIL study with investigational closed triple combination therapy fluticasone...
GlaxoSmithKline plc (LSE/NYSE:GSK) and Innoviva, Inc. (NASDAQ:INVA) today announced that the results from the pioneering Salford Lung Study (SLS) have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
Investors once OK with waiting patiently for a Gilead rebound are growing frustrated, even angry, at the company's lack of progress.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is working on a two-pill HIV regimen that could potentially change the standard of HIV treatment and push it ahead of rival pharmaceutical companies.
London based investment manager warns of further falls in U.K dividends.
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Parents, young adults urged to educate themselves about meningitis B, responsible for one-third of U.S. cases[1]
This market is like a leaky helium balloon; watch out for sudden downdrafts.
Two companies, one a tech giant and the other a Big Pharma stalwart, have formed a joint venture that's bringing disruptive technology to new drug development.
This big pharma blue chip is on a growth trajectory that often eludes companies of its massive size.
The Google parent and Big Pharma major have announced a joint venture into the developing world of bioelectronics treatments.


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Anthony Battaglia, 33, a left wing, played for WMU from 1998-02 and spent a season with the Kalamazoo Wings in 2008-09. He's currently on the roster of the Huntsville Havoc of the SPHL.
The brothers are natives of Chicago.
The 22nd season of "The Amazing Race" will premiere at 8 p.m. Feb. 17 on CBS.
Bates Battaglia, 37, played at Lake Superior State University from 1994-97 before starting a lengthy career in the NHL, including six years with the Carolina Hurricanes. He also played for the Colorado Avalanche, Washington Capitals and Toronto Maple Leafs.
Yahoo! Sports hockey blog Puck Daddy interviewed Bates Battaglia to talk about their run on the show, where Bates credits Anthony for introducing the idea.
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Puck Daddy: Why do this? Who came up with the idea, you or your brother?
Bates: More me [than him]. We'd always watch the show, and like everybody else we thought, 'Oh, I can do this, I can do that'. I talked to him about it, and he was like 'hell yeah, let's do it.'


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Furthermore, when trees and branches within the right-of-way cause an interruption to service that exceeds 24 hours, these companies must be compelled to provide generators and fuel to those suffering the consequences of their neglect. Perhaps that would motivate them to maintain and grow the infrastructure we all have come to depend on them to provide.
If I remove my tongue from my cheek for a moment, I would suggest major penalties be imposed on these companies and on private landowners who permit dead trees to stand that subsequently fall on power lines resulting in the loss of power to others. In fact, that is exactly what happened at 3:30 Oct. 29 in my neighborhood.
In spite of numerous requests, an absentee owner ignored our pleas and, naturally, his tree took out the transformer we depend on for electricity. Of course, his tree didn't impact his power because he lives elsewhere. It was only me and my 75 neighbors starting on our 12-day experience of no power.
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1-Andrew Trumbetti, Demarest, 6-5, 250
The Notre Dame commit is the total package. He's got the power to bull through the line and also the speed and quickness to track down any runner. He finished with 12 sacks last season and can also be used on offense as a receiver and blocker at tight end. He is No. 6 in the Ledger 50.
2-Kurt Holuba, Bergen Catholic, 6-4, 235
The consistent theme in each of Holuba's team-high eight sacks from last season is his relentless pursuit of the quarterback. Holuba, who finished with 57 tackles, including 18 for loss last season, will team with Garrett Dickerson to form one of the best line tandems in the state. He is No. 15 in the Ledger 50.
3-Darius Slade, Montclair, 6-5, 235
Slade can get to the quarterback quickly because of his strength and quickness and it's hard to run around him because of he can cover the sidelines. The dynamic end finished with 45 tackles and a team-high 13 sacks as part of a tough defensive front last season. He is No. 22 in the Ledger 50.
4-Antoine White, Millville, 6-2, 265
The Penn State commit has move through two, sometimes even three, blockers and it still hasn't been enough. Don't let his big frame fool you, he can chase down running backs just as well as he gets after the quarterback as evidenced by his 80 tackles, including 14 for loss, and five sacks last season. The senior is No. 19 in the Ledger 50.
5-Austin Stevens, Montclair, 6-4, 245
Stevens is a high-energy defensive end with a non-stop motor. He can get after the quarterback and provides solid run support as he recorded 55 tackles and 11.5 sacks last season for the North Jersey, Section 1, Group 5 champion. The highly recruited senior is No. 40 in the Ledger 50.
Others to consider: Derek Allen, Edison; Dajon Font, Piscataway; Justin Osuji, West Orange; Donald Bedell, Rumson; Chris Carter, Bridgewater-Raritan; Isaiah Coppage, Penns Grove; Michael Dogbe, Parsippany Hills; Lynwood Duncan, Weequahic; Ray Ellis, Holy Spirit; Nico Flores, Paramus Catholic; Andrew Foster, Hun; Rashan Gary, Scotch Plains; Terrance Harris, Paramus Catholic; Jimmy Hogan, Ramapo; Courtel Jenkins, DePaul; Noa Merritt, Pope John; Sean Morrison, Seton Hall Prep; Chris Sweeney, Westfield; Curtis Thompson, Florence; Isaiah Worthy, West Deptford; Cory Baccarella, Carteret; Anthony Paolello, St. Joseph (Mont.); Vojo Cogura, Pompton Lakes.


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That special something: You have it or you don't. The French call it "je ne sais quoi." It's hard to define, but easy to identify. A lucky few have it. The rest of us can only recognize -- and covet -- it.
The same is true for companies. In the world of information technology, the "it" company (pun intended) is Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL ) . Beyond its wildly popular iPods, iPhones, and iPads, the company's cachet extends to personal computers.
Most PCs may be old news, but the realm of make-your-friends-and-coworkers-envious, ultraportable notebooks remains hot. Apple redefined that slice of the market with its MacBook Air. Dell (Nasdaq: DELL ) tried to compete with its Adamo line, which was discontinued in February after a series of pricing and feature missteps. Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ ) tried to compete with its aptly named Envy 13. Introduced in September 2009 in response to the MacBook Air, the Envy 13 -- like Dell's Adamo -- suffered from too-high pricing and not-quite-right features.
That ain't it, man, that ain't it
There was much to like about HP's Envy 13, including battery life, graphics performance, and a high-resolution screen option. But the standard hard disk drive in the base model missed the mark. Upgrading to a faster, smaller, and lighter solid-state drive bumped the price up by $200. And like Dell, HP made the mistake of pricing its offering above Apple's. What were they thinking? Apple is known for its ability to command premium prices.
After aggressively dropping the price of the Envy 13 in recent months, HP discontinued it in February. According to HP, the Envy 14 is replacing it. But the Envy 14 is no MacBook Air competitor. In contrast to the MacBook Air, the Envy 14 comes standard with a hard drive instead of a solid-state drive. It is also bulked up with an optical drive. Compared to the Envy 13, it's about 50% heavier and 45% thicker … so, not exactly ultraportable.
Foolish takeaway
HP's PC advertising improved markedly after it hired a former Apple marketing executive in 2005. But when it comes to distinctive products, Dell and HP miss the mark. In the meantime, Apple is taking market share in desktops and portables and redefining products such as MP3 players, smartphones, and tablets with its iPod, iPhone, and iPad. In the wake of all these successes, Apple's stunning growth and premium valuation indubitably reflect its ineffable air of je ne sais quoi.


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Thirty people from across the U.S. and Canada have been picked to take part in the inaugural Challenge Detroit program.
The urban revitalization project's goal is to help revitalize the Detroit region by attracting and retaining innovative leaders who will bring their intellectual capital and talents to the city.
More than 900 applicants vied for the 30 spots.
The participants are coming to Detroit from Arizona, Wisconsin, New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Tennessee, North Carolina, Illinois and Ontario.
During their year in Detroit that starts in August, they'll work with nonprofits on initiatives such as developing opportunities for social entrepreneurship; addressing urban issues pertaining to regional planning; and distributing food to those in need.
Participants get a $500-a-month housing stipend and a $30,000 salary.