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interviews, record reviews, and a local band spotlight.
12 page, full color music zine with interviews, record reviews, and a local band spotlight. Lark's Tongue, Big Box, Adobe Homes, Beau Navire, Ice Age Records, and Easter all inside! Eat shit and die.
I am brand new to the world of zines and mini comics. I just completed my first mini comic of which I hope will be many.
"Stranger Two Stranger" features stories of actual missed connections found on Craigslist from Detroit, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. Stories range from the sweet to the strange. It is 16 pages and about 7x5 inches and all black and white. Price is $2.
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I worked exceedingly hard on this zine, and am very proud of the way it came out. It's a perzine on topics that are important or significant to me and I share my opinions and experiences on things such as religion, childhood, mental health, feminism and gender prejudice, teen magazines, etc.
It is half sized and 52 pages. Black and white, copy and paste with very little computer text (most was typed on a typewriter). The images come from collective ephemera I have.
You can buy it currently for $4 or a trade (that will go into the zine library I founded).
News from Scriptor Press | #51 | May 20, 2011
*In this issue*
1. The Cenacle | #77 | April 2011 | 16th Anniversary Issue
2. Scriptor Press Sampler | #12 | 2010 Annual
3. Jellicle Literary Guild Highlights -12/28/2010
4. Within's Within: Scenes from the Psychedelic Revolution Archives
5. Burning Man Books becomes TransArtBooks (TAB)
6. Labyrinthine / Many Musics Projects
Hello everyone,
1. The Cenacle | #77 | April 2011 | 16th Anniversary Issue
Download link: http://www.scriptorpress.com/cenacle/77.html
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Can it be really 16 years of this literature & arts journal? I suppose the numbers add up, but it still seems strange. This new issue features what amounts to an all-star cast of the periodical's recent contributors. Get it, print it up, or however you best enjoy, & dig deep in. Start anywhere, & keep going till you stop, smiling, provoked, worked out in mind & heart.
The contents of this new issue include:
· Poetry by Joe Ciccone, Ric Amante, Tom Sheehan, Martina Newberry, Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor, & Raymond Soulard, Jr.
· Interview with Judih Haggai & new poems
· New fixtion by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
· New language essay by Ralph Emerson
· Letter on the death penalty by Jim Burke III
· Classic fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne
· Psychedelics essay by Terence McKenna
· Photography by Kassandra & Raymond Soulard, Jr.
· From Soulard's Notebooks commentary
· Notes from New England by Raymond Soulard Jr.
2. Scriptor Press Sampler | #12 | 2010 Annual
Download Link: http://www.scriptorpress.com/sampler/12_2010.html
[Size = 1.0 MB]
The Sampler has been coming out annually for a dozen years now, distilling the issues of The Cenacle for a given year into one chapbook of highlights. My thoughts this year are to distribute this periodical farther & wider than before, picking up the idea I had for it when it first began in 1999.
The contents of this new issue include:
· Poetry by Joe Ciccone, Ric Amante, Tom Sheehan, Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor, Martina Newberry, & Raymond Soulard, Jr.
· Fiction by G.C. Dillon & Horse Lampner, & fixtion by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
· Language essay by Ralph Emerson
· Letter by Jim Burke III
· Essay on Wilhelm Reich by Alex Smith
· Psychedelics essay by Dave King
· J.D. Salinger tribute by Raymond Soulard, Jr.
· Photography by Victor Vanek, & by Kassandra & Raymond Soulard, Jr.
3. Jellicle Literary Guild Highlights 12/18/2010
Audio Highlights Download / Stream Link: http://www.scriptorpress.com/jellicleguild/12.18.2010.mp3
[Size = 90.4 MB]
KD and I welcomed Jim Burke III, Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor, and newcomer Catfish Rivers (aka Jeremy) for an epic evening of fun. By proxy, we had Ric Amante, Martina Newberry, Judih Haggai, David Hartley, and Chris Gose. The meeting ran from about 5 pm to 1 am. I was amazed in reviewing the meeting's audio how much Art was shared!
Audio highlights include:
1. Raymond – JG's 22nd Anniversary Meeting intro
2. Raymond – "Season of Lights" poem
3. KD reads Tom Robbins' Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
4. Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor reads Tom Sheehan's poetry
5. Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor – Gluten-Free Guerilla Cooking Book
6. Raymond with Catfish Rivers – "From Soulard's Notebooks"
7. Raymond gives intro to Chris Gose's World's Window
8. Chris Gose – World's Window (recording)
9. Ric Amante reads poetry from near South Station Boston (recording)
10. Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor reads from Toni Morrison's Beloved
11. Group Jam with Tibetan Book of the Dead, House of Leaves, and Beloved
12. Raymond reads from JD Salinger's "For Esmé—With Love & Squalor"
13. Raymond – Memorial Tribute for JD Salinger
14. JBIII & Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor – Neil Young medley
15. Proxy reading for David Hartley of William Burroughs "A Thanksgiving Prayer"
16. Martina Newberry – "Bad Manners" (video)
17. Judih Haggai – Poetry (video)
18. Zannemarie Lloyd Taylor – Gluten-Free Guerilla Cooking Book (continued)
19. Raymond – Labyrinthine (excerpts)
4. Within's Within: Scenes from the Psychedelic Revolution Archives
Archives link: http://scriptorpress.com/withinswithin.html
I began doing this radio show in 1999, locally at Radio Free Cambridge (R.I.P.), & beginning in 2000 at Allston-Brighton Free Radio (R.I.P.). After a time away, resumed doing this show in 2003 online at SpiritPlants Radio. Through moves that included Connecticut, Washington State, Oregon, & a return to Massachusetts, I kept on doing this show. Over the course of time, I built up an online show archives that, including recent additions, includes 178 of the show's 380 episodes (and counting). I'd like to invite you to visit the show's archives, read the show summaries, listen to some, download them if you wish. It's a long time labor of love, and my pleasure to share the music, words, & other art I've featured on it.
5. Burning Man Books becomes TransArtBooks (TAB)
Link: http://www.scriptorpress.com/nobordersbookstore.html
From 1999 to 2009, I prepared & brought the growing number of titles of the Burning Man Books series (KD began going with me in 2004) annually to the Burning Man Arts Festival in Black Rock City, Nevada. I, then we, called our project the No Borders Free Bookstore, & gifted thousands of chapbooks of poetry, prose, & artwork to people there. Since 2009, No Borders Bookstore has lived exclusively online.
Now I've decided to continue the series under the name TransArtBooks (funny little word play there) & find a new venue to continue the No Borders Bookstore aspect of this project. It's taken awhile for me to get re-settled in Boston, & so the first TAB titles will not be coming until the summer of 2012. Until then, & of course beyond, I invite you to visit the above link & peruse the many, many good books that can be freely downloaded. You'll find hours of good reading times just waiting there for you.
6. Labyrinthine / Many Musics Projects
Labyrinthine link: http://www.scriptorpress.com/labyrinthine.pdf
Many Musics link: http://www.scriptorpress.com/manymusics/one.html
Labyrinthine & Many Musics, the former fixtion & the latter poetry, have been my major writing projects for about 5 years now. I've been posting new pages of each as they are published in The Cenacle. They can be read at the above links. I would greatly like more people to read these works, as they have been traveling with me for a long time now, & will continue to do so for a fair while to come.
KD & I very much hope you enjoy the new releases of these various projects. A lot of talented people have contributed their talents & time. Additionally, if you have an artistic skill, or would like to develop one, write to me, Perhaps we can collaborate on making this wish come to pass.
Email comments to this list by simply hitting "reply" to this email—or reply to me directly at email@example.com.
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Brazilian playmaker Oscar made his first start for Chelsea last night and marked his Champions League debut with a goal of the highest order.
Here, we take a look at some other memorable debuts, both for the right and wrong reasons.
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Discussion in 'Off The Beaten Track' started by LuckyCharm, May 25, 2012.
Anyone watching?
Like this so far. Interesting concept.
Me too. Really good so far and I like all the pros too. How long is this going to run? I think each pro has two singers if they eliminate one a week (none this week) then 8 weeks? Right up till the olympics.
And not much in the way of bad auditions.
I'm always amazed how much Robin Thicke looks like his dad.
I only tuned in in time to see John Legend perform "Ordinary People" with a hulking football player with a great voice. Can anyone fill me in on what I missed?
ETA: Robin Thicke searching for a partner/teammate. I love the sound of Robin's voice and his songs. Unfortunately, his lyrics tend to be kind of stupid. He chooses a young lady named Olivia Chisolm. They're performing "Lost Without You."
A really good guy who sang with Jennifer Nettles. He's currently in the lead.
Robin and Olivia need a room. That is excellent chemistry on stage.
rfisher, I think the show will run for 9 weeks. If I'm understanding correctly, there will be no eliminations. Everyone gets to stay to the end.
OMG! I didn't know this was on!
Is it one or two hours?
Excellet! I guess they score points each week to determine the winner? So far, I want to hear everybody sing more. I'm just imagining how this format would have been with the Voice mentors. Adam, Xtina, Blake and Ceelo singing each week.
Kelly's boy was the weakest of the 4. He sings well, but is holding back. Maybe he'll get better.
Also, their accents are different but otherwise their voices are almost identical.
The episode is 2 hours.
Kelly Clarkson and her partner, Jason Farol sing a song that I probably should recognize but don't. They land in 4th place.
John Legend chooses Bridget Carrington as his second teammate. They sing "Tonight."
My only criticism of the show is that the arrangements so far have all been a bit dull. I get that it's supposed to be all about the singing, but it's comes off kind of like really good karaoke.
Robin already setting the scene for a fantasy bromance with John. He definitely watched The Voice.
Some of these duets are This makes AI songs look like kiddies.
Jennifer picks John Glosson (from her very own hometown.) They sing "Stay." It's really good. Lands them in 3rd place.
Jennifer's boys are smoking the competition.
jennifer's john was my favorite so far
Robin and Alexis Foster perform "Magic." Finally something uptempo.
Robin/Olivia were better together.
Can someone explain how the placements are determined?
The three pros not singing rank the duet. I think.
Kelly and Jordan Meredith perform "Stronger."
Kelly's girl was great. They sounded really good together.
1. J Rome (Jennifer)
2. Johnny Gray (John)
3. Alexis Foster (Robin)
4. John Glosson (Jennifer)
5. Olivia Chisolm (Robin)
6. Bridget Carrington (John)
7. Jordan Meredith (Kelly)
8. Jason Farol (Kelly)
I am watching now after recording it. Go Kelly, go!!!!
I started recording with Kelly and the Jason guy. That was boring, and Kelly's outfit was Kelly is NOT a big girl by any means. She's not a stick, but she's at most a size ten, but her clothes make her look bigger and mishapen. She's a pretty girl; why does she dress like a doudy dominatrix?
Bridget and John Legend were So were her shoes. It's nice to see adults singing adult songs.
Kelly's girl is the weakest singer of the bunch or maybe she was just super nervous. I think Jason is an amazing singer but again, he is super super nervous. Kelly is not going to win with either of those two, I don't know why she didn't find a confident singer as one of her picks. This show was great, though. Such high quality. Even the worst were so far better than a lot of the other shows. Of course, dueting with superstars probably helps.
I am curious how Jennifer will do when they don't sing their own songs. She had a big advantage this week since her catalogue is full of duets as it is.
But "Stay" definitely wasn't a duet when Sugarland did it. I think it speaks to how great she and her partner were that they made it work as a duet.
I saw Jennifer on the CMT Reba and Lionel Richie tributes singing their songs .. she was fabulous. I'm not a huge Sugarland fan, but I think Jennifer could sign just about anything.
By the way, did Robin Thicke rub anyone else the wrong way? (no smart comments!!) He comes across a little cocky for my liking and I wonder if it was just him being silly and joking or if he has a big ego.
Have a listen to Sugarland's "Live on the Inside". They do covers of Pearl Jam, the B52s, and a couple of other acts (in addition to their own songs), and it all rocks.
I loved her singing Springsteen in his KenCen tribute. But I don't like Sugarland songs. I forgot to tape this. Boo


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I am a doctor of pharmacy and I have listened to all of your podcasts and have read many of your book suggestions (TWIV and TWIP). I thoroughly enjoy them and hang on every word of Dick's stories. I would like to say a few things. First may I point out the obvious flaw with your name; This WEEK in Parasitology, and yet we don't have it weekly. I feel that we need more shows just to catch up with all of Dick's anecdotes. You also mentioned the island of Ceylon changing to Madagascar but in fact it is now Sri Lanka. The USGS was formed in 1879 as a bill signed by president Rutherford Hayes and I can't seem to find anything in it's history that relates to the Rockefeller Foundation. As best as I can tell Thiabendazole is not available in the US or Canada and Mebendazole oral is the current treatment for hookworm. I hope this helps. Keep them coming.
P.S. Why not have a TWIP/TWIV app for your iphone? All of the contacts, emails, shownotes and shows and access to literature can be in one place. Just a thought.
Lars writes:
Hello Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier,
this is my second mail to the TWIV/TWIP team. Thanks for some more background information last time about the Plasmodium falciparum/Gorilla story.
By now I have listened to all TWIP podcasts more than once and have been able to listen to nearly all the TWIV podcasts. I can understand that with your schedule does not allow to have a TWIP and TWIV podcast every week and I think in this field it is better to have less podcasts but the ones that are there go really into the subject. I think with a weekly but much shorter version a lot of the public learning benefits are reduced. So it would be great to have these long TWIP and TWIV podcasts in future as well.
I am sure you have heard about the The Carter Center and its fight against Guinea worm. It would be great to have a podcast about the Guinea worm topic since its said that this will be the second disease (the first parasitic disease) to be eradicated. And the first disease eradicated without the use of a vaccine.
Greetings from Germany
Jim writes:
What a terrific cohesive and comprehensive approach to hookworms. Such a delicate handling of the political and social issues, too. You may receive some response from listeners upset about the civil war and slavery and southern lethargy, but hopefully it will be balanced by positive reactions.
I just finished an article about a visit to Biloxi, Mississippi, in an 1865 edition of Harpers Weekly Magazine that talked about the lethargy that infects not only locals but visitors, too, referring more to the weather, I suppose, than parasites. Even in the 60's while living in California folks would refer to the much slower pace of life and speach in the South that supposedly derived from culture and weather. Interesting idea that parasite-derived group actiivity or mores might lead to social changes that perpetuate it.
Thanks for a terrific netcast. Looking forward to the rest of the story.
Smithfield, VA
David writes:
Love the show....
This delightful book has a section that is germane to your show and you might want to quote a few lines and discuss.
It details the occupation of Tongue examiner of pigs who would look for signs of parasite infection and sometimes cover it up.
Also....I have been a victim of Giardia three times as I was outdoor type of fellow who had a dog I traveled with extensively.
I got the classic symptoms each time: Painful abdomen often after eating, foul smelling stools that persisted, changes in stools consistency and color and it lasts until some form of treatment
Round one cured by Flagyl aka Metronidazole
Round two cured by Wheat Germ and I mean cured followed by Flagyl
Round three cured by Wheat Germ alone.
some research is here
here is a health page recommendation
scroll down for wheat germ
Jeannine writes:
I was a fellow graduate student at Notre Dame, graduating in 1970. I remember your discussions on parasites in the break room with pleasure. Your name keeps popping up everywhere, most recently on the TWIV netcast I receive, I suppose, as a member of the ASV. So I just wanted to say 'hello'.
Following a post-doc at the University of Chicago I had the good fortune to be hired as a grants manager by the Office of Naval Research in Chicago, where I lived at the time. I was hired at the recommendation of Morris Pollard, a friend of my soon-to-be boss. I went on to be transferred in 1982 to ONR Headquarters in Arlington, VA, where I still reside. I retired, sort of, in 2002. My 30 years in government work proved to be a delightful continuation of graduate school, as I site-visited hundreds of scientists most eager to discuss their research in areas ranging from shark behavior to fluid resuscitation of hemorrhage. I probably attended at least 200 conferences during my career as well. As a parting shot, so to speak, I fielded a battlefield hemorrage treatment used by the Marines in Iraq. During most of my government career I conducted part-time research in virology as a visiting professor at Loyola Med. School in Chicago, Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, University of Tennessee and Washington State University. My primary objective has been to understand how viruses make you sick--a field of minimal interest to virologists I must conclude following many hostile letters from journal editors. I have recently completed my work at WSU and plan to write a few more articles and then read books unrelated to virology! Three of my most recent articles are attached.
I am pleased that another student of Notre Dame has had a rewarding career.
Best wishes to you and your family,
Laura writes:
I am currently studying Zoology at university and starting a masters degree in Molecular parasitology and vector biology in september. I have recently seen a story on monsters inside me (its on the discovery channel) about a fireman who became infected with Ballamuthia an amoeba where there have only been a few cases in humans. Would you be able to tell us more about opportunistic amoeba?


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Just a few days ago, my friend sent a link to my inbox. When I opened it up, I was greeted by something that looked very similar to this:
It's a full snapshot of a webpage, complete with annotations showing me exactly what she wanted me to focus on. Of course, there was also a hyperlink to the original page on the web. I thought to myself, "Self… this is neat-o!" I mean, how many times have you sent someone a link, followed by a little message explaining the most essential part of the article or webpage? All the time, right?!
This new add-on, Capture and Annotate lets you markup web pages any which way you please, and then share them fast! It fits easily right into your Firefox or Chrome browser.
Today I'll be demonstrating the functionality of Capture and Annotate in Firefox 4, but it is nearly equivalent in Google Chrome.
First, head over to the download site, which is here [1] for Firefox, and right here [2] for Chrome. Select Download Now, or Install (respectively).
Follow, the installation procedure for the add-on and, in just a few moments, you'll have a nifty little icon in the top right corner of your browser. So what can it do for you?
Navigate to an article, and press the Capture and Annotate button. A panel of tools will appear, allowing you to crop, insert shapes, lines, drawings, and text. It's just like using Microsoft Paint – just point, click, and draw!
You are free to scroll up, down, left and right across the entire webpage to make annotations; you're not limited to just what you see on the screen, which is a great feature of Capture and Annotate.
When you've finished marking up the document, select Done from the toolbar. Now you have some sharing options: to download, or upload to the web.
It really depends on where the annotated webpage needs to go, and with whom it needs to be shared with. For example, if you want to share with family and friends over the Internet, select Upload.
Within seconds, you will receive a link to share via email or instant message. Not to mention a plethora of other communication portals such as Gmail, Facebook, and Twitter.
Your other option is to save the file locally to your hard drive. Utilize this option if you want to save a copy for backup, or to save to a removable media like a flash drive. For example, I recently had to send a copy of a bunch of webpages, so I fired up Capture and Annotate and saved all of the image files to my hard drive. Then, I just inserted the images into a Word document, before sending it to my brother. Easy!
Give Capture and Annotate a spin, and let us know in the comments if it's made your life just a little bit easier.
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My first tip is to check with your airline for any guidance they might have on traveling with dry ice. Dry ice is not prohibited by TSA. Secondly, as far as FAA regulations go, dry ice is permissible when traveling with perishables as long as you adhere to the following guidelines.
- Packages of dry ice must allow for the release of carbon dioxide gas.
- The limit for dry ice for both carry-on and checked baggage is five-pounds.
- Packages of dry ice must contain the language "Carbon Dioxide Solid" or "Dry Ice" and must also have the net weight of the dry ice on the package.
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By Love Transformed
The Promise of Gratitude
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. —1 Peter 1:6
If we wait for circumstances to change before we heed God's command to rejoice, we may wait a long time! If then we begin rejoicing only when circumstances change—but only then, what kind of gratitude is that? If we promise to show gratitude, we can only make good that promise if we maintain a positive sense of being thankful no matter how adverse the circumstances.
What, then, is the consequence of rejoicing and showing thanks when you don't feel like it? It glorifies God. It shows a highly developed faith. It is observed by the angels. It is the greatest threat to our enemy, the devil. It shows how deeply we believe what we claim to believe. "If you falter in times of trouble, how small is your strength!" (Prov. 24:10). Rejoicing in the Lord, the proof of our gratitude, regardless of circumstances shows that we are genuine and that our faith is real.
What is more, it has an extraordinary way of moving God to act. This is the promise of gratitude. I never tire of reading or repeating the account of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, who was told that a vast army was coming against him. Alarmed, the king called a fast for all the people. A prophet of God stepped forward. "He said, 'Listen, King Jehoshaphat and all who live in Judah and Jerusalem! This is what the Lord says to you: 'Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God's'" (2 Chron. 20:15). Jehoshaphat and all the people fell down and worshiped. The battle began. There had never been a battle quite like it.
After consulting the people, Jehoshaphat appointed men to sing to the Lord and to praise Him for the splendor of His holiness as they went out at the head of the army, saying: "Give thanks to the Lord, for his love endures forever" (v. 21).
The result: God stepped in. The enemy was suddenly overturned.
Gratitude thus contains an inherent promise. The promise is, show thankfulness and you get God's attention. Show gratitude, and God gets involved. He is moved by praise and can't keep from showing it!
Excerpted from Just Say Thanks! (Charisma House, 2005).


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Pension Reform Dead - HSR approved -State Broke
Original post made by Arnold, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on Jul 7, 2012
In the meantime the union controlled democrats have done nothing with Jerry Brown's 12 point pension reform plan, which was unveiled in November, unless you consider burying it in committee away from public view and dousing it with water as something (watered down). The democrats could have come up with a plan in time for the November Ballot if they had a plan by June 28. They didn't do that. Now they've left Sacramento for a one month vacation/recess while accomplishing nothing. If what has been leaked is any indication of what they've been doing they aren't doing anything that amounts to real pension reform - not even close.
What they have done is look for ways to upend and overide the "voter approved" pension reform efforts of both San Jose & San Diego. According to U/T San Diego, "Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, confirmed discussions have been open to pre-emption of local measures." While Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, is on record acknowledging that those conversations have taken place he has only backed away from the comments after receiving very pointed letters from the Mayors of San Diego and San Jose. Here is what the mayors had to say:
From: San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders
To: Assembly Speaker John Perez (D), Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D)
"As a charter city, it is our right and our duty to ensure that our fiscal house is in order," Sanders wrote in the letter, obtained by U-T San Diego. "Any statewide effort to undo the reform passed by an overwhelming majority of San Diegans violates the tenet of charter cities and usurps the will of the people of our city."
Regarding 66% of San Diego voters approving measure B, Sanders goes on to write, "Clearly they have spoken. Any attempt to nullify their vote would be a slap in their face and an outright insult to the Democratic process."
From: SJ Mayor Chuck Reed
To: Assembly Speaker John Perez (D), Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D)
"The people of San Jose have decided that reducing the cost of pensions is far better than continuing to reduce services and employee pay," Reed wrote. "The Legislature should respect that decision, and a similar decision in San Diego, as it attempts to deal with the statewide issues… Any legislative effort to override the reforms approved by our voters would be a travesty of the democratic process and a violation of the voters' Constitutional rights."
Now that these two mayors have spoken Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D), is backing away from the heat. But then there is this from his spokesperson saying that his boss respects the will of the voters and any pension legislation coming forward would "grandfather- in any future pension reform legislation."
WHAT? If you read between the lines what he is really saying is that the pension reform legislation being crafted by the democrats will set a floor for what cities, counties, and special districts can do in the way of future pension reform. They are working on handcuffing local politicians efforts to contain costs. Ultimately the only option left for cities that are struggling will be to cut services, raise taxes, or sell city assets. That is unacceptable.
The Flies hovering over this pile of legislatures are clearly the union controlled democrats, public employee unions (private sector unions are beginning to understand how these benefits are harming them), and CalPERS - who is a big part of the problem and more than willing to swing their substantial political weight around for the public employee union cause. After all, the CalPERS Board of Directors is dominated by the unions and they, CalPERS and the Public Employee Unions, consider massive deferral of cost and ever increasing amounts of investment risk as justifiable as long as the taxpayers are guaranteeing they'll cover losses, which we are.
It is the equivalent of staking someone in a high-stakes poker game and agreeing to cover the entire loss while allowing the "PLAYER" to keep all the winnings. It works well for the Player that can't lose but eventually the person bankrolling the no-win bet wakes up.
Between the lack of pension reform and the force fed and manipulated HSR vote that will cost this states taxpayer 100's of billions, I don't know why anyone trusts anyone in control of Sacramento. Apparently this state is awash in money. It's either that or we will be looking at massive tax increases in the not to distant future if we're to fund what's been promised.
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a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 7, 2012 at 9:56 pm
But of course we are NOT awash in money! We are awash in debt, and the flood hasn't even hit yet. Man up and ready for the tsunami, boys!
Some of you may question my, em, mathematical conclusions in the first paragraph above. But in the face of the flood that threatens us, I am oblivious to such questions, as I live in my own private little mathematical universe in which mathematical conclusions are based not on principles of truth but rather are formed and used in the service of my TEA PARTY convictions. Today, we are moored in Boston Harbor, and now it isn't the Brits we have to fear, but rather it is that mountain of water bearing down upon us.
Thank you, and God Bless America by giving us all life preservers.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 7, 2012 at 10:39 pm
"Some of you may question my, em, mathematical conclusions in the first paragraph above"
Apparently you don't have enough confidence in your own pathetic self to (A) use your own name to share your views, or (B) dispute the claims I made in my first paragraph (or anywhere other comment for that matter).
Let me take this opportunity to correct a mistake I made.
Replace this: "But then there is this from his spokesperson saying that his boss respects the will of the voters and any pension legislation coming forward would "grandfather- in any future pension reform legislation."
With this: "A spokesman for the Sacramento Democrat had said earlier that his boss "respects the will of the voters. ... It is presumed that any local initiative passed this year will be grandfathered-in to the eventual pension-reform legislation."
It is only every initiative that is passed after November that will be blocked. The democrats are just to busy doing the bidding of CalPERS and the Public Employee Unions to care about the damage they're inflicting on the real middle class - everyone actually in the middle class not earning 60 to 200K in pensions benefits, at age 50-55, with lifetime medical.
The real middle class is just expected to pay for this real BS!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 7, 2012 at 11:49 pm
Sorry, I'm confused and make a lot of mistakes. When I said "real middle class" I meant not govt workers, because they are not middle class. Well, they're not REAL middle class. I hate to argue with myself on this matter because, frankly, I can't think beyond the links I shamelessly quote from (usually sans quotation marks because, heck, an idiot like me wants other idiots to think maybe I know what I'm talking about). But to reiterate: anyone who isn't really middle class is just making us all drown in debt. What IS "real middle class"? I haven't the foggiest. But it sounds good, and the bloggers I'm plagiarizing haven't bothered to define. The rest of you are pathetic cowards.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 8, 2012 at 12:08 am
"CalPERS has just ended their fiscal year losing 10 billion dollars while projecting they would earn 18.6 billion, for a net loss to the taxpayers of 28.6 billion (just this past year ending June 30, 2012). CalSTRS lost about 6 billion while not earning about 12 billion, for a net taxpayer loss of approx. 18 billion."
To fake arnold: I thought you had an issue with the above statement. What is your concern with the numbers? Are you disputing my contention that the combined loss of the two biggest pension funds will cost taxpayers a combined 46 billion - for this one single year that ended June 30, 2012?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 8, 2012 at 8:25 am
My friend and namesake, Arnold, plays bingo a lot. He thought he was going to WIN 100 dollars last night but in fact he LOST 100 dollars. THEREFORE: The real Arnold (the dumb one) really lost a net of 200 dollars. Yes, such reasoning is idiotic, I know; but such serves him and his tea party pig farmer crowd just fine thank you.
In high school, Arnold missed two free throws and the other team then went down court and scored a bucket. His coach said the other team actually scored 4 points on that bucket -- the two points for scoring, and two points for Arnold's missed free throws. The high school coach was an idiot, of course, but unfortunately Arnold believed him. Later in his life Arnold acted on such gullibility and became a Tea Bagger.
Does the self-alleged REAL Arnold tell us what counts as REAL middle class? Who belongs, who doesn't, and by what criteria? No. Why? He can't find a blog that will help him out. All he has is anger for the state and anyone associated with it after it shut down part of his pig slaughter operation because of the stink it was causing throughout the neighborhood.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 8, 2012 at 9:42 am
Who cares about the math? The fact is that the pensions have got to go. San Jose and San Diego voters are to be admired for doing something to stop the rape of the taxpayers by the chosen few.
3% at 50 is theft, plain and simple. 2% at 65 is reality if and only if the workers have made the payments into the pension fund. Cops and firemen claim they cannot work past age 50 -- then they take other jobs as soon as they get their golden pensions.
Stop the rape, stop the pensions.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 8, 2012 at 9:49 am
Forget the math! Forget reason! Who cares when the false middle class is raping the true middle class. The flood is coming and we're all going to be raped.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 8, 2012 at 6:38 pm
You didn't really think these whxxxs in Sacto would do what is morally right and fiscally sound...did you ??? Surely not. They sold themselves, body and soul, long ago to the unions. taxpayers be damned.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 8, 2012 at 8:12 pm
LOL. <scroll, scroll> Arnold babbling to himself. <Back button>
a resident of another community
on Jul 8, 2012 at 9:49 pm
I'm NOT babbling with myself! I'm babbling with my significant other who is me but the false me. I didn't raise those questions I refuse to answer, he did. I mean I did. It's all in the math!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 8, 2012 at 10:59 pm
How dare these elected idiots override individual cities that have VOTED to no longer feed the beast!! What arrogant axxes! Stockton goes bankrupt, and these clowns write new stuff to neuter voters in individual cities...cities that should be able to determine their own futures, with the votes of 'their' people.
We are tax slaves, being held hostage. Sacto is a one party city...state assembly, stage senate, and govenor...all Dem. working with the public unions. We the people, taxpayers, and voters, have no voice in our own futures. Outrageous gall for them to march right on making new ways to make it impossible for cities to survive.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jul 9, 2012 at 8:25 am
Stacey is a registered user.
The HSR project is suffering from bad timing. It's politically unpopular due to the state of State finances and the 2008 recession created a low ridership scenario that makes the project nonviable, especially without the Federal money. Throw into the mix the historic low interest rates and hot bond market, which won't be there in the future. So it became both stupid to approve now and stupid to wait.
I think the biggest drawback of the project is the new blended transportation plan.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jul 9, 2012 at 8:35 am
Stacey is a registered user.
Simitian needed to oppose it because of his constituency: Palo Alto. Most of the Peninsula has been notoriously against rail projects. They were behind the push towards the blended transportation plan because they didn't want new tracks for HSR.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jul 9, 2012 at 8:38 am
Stacey is a registered user.
It's easier and less expensive to build new track on some farmer's land than on the Peninsula. I wonder if all the EIR stuff is going to get waived too. Is EIR only good enough when the project is not your favorite shiny new toy?
a resident of California Somerset
on Jul 9, 2012 at 8:46 am
OOPS! Looks like Stacey/Kathleen forgot to switch accounts when holding a "conversation" with herself on this thread, addressing her earlier post under the name "Kathleen" when she actually posted as "Stacey."
I guess this proves what people are saying. Shame on you!
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jul 9, 2012 at 8:56 am
Stacey is a registered user.
Sock Puppets, GROW UP!
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Jul 9, 2012 at 9:15 am
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
Again, SPU et al, do the homework. Stacey is responding to my comment on the other thread.
No reason to believe there are mounting problems in California: Web Link
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jul 9, 2012 at 9:20 am
Stacey is a registered user.
I'm also frustrated by the fact that the HSR plan doesn't attempt to connect two high density population centers in its first phase. It's like if they built Eurostar only between Dover and Calais.
a resident of California Somerset
on Jul 9, 2012 at 9:24 am
Do my homework? The evidence is right here!
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jul 9, 2012 at 9:27 am
Stacey is a registered user.
You call that evidence? Grow up, Sock Puppets.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jul 9, 2012 at 9:30 am
Gee whiz, Stacey/Kathleen sure likes to give orders. Grow up! Do homework! Pay for my early retirement so I can spend all day on the forum lording it over others! Vote down entitlements I don't benefit from!
a resident of Livermore
on Jul 9, 2012 at 9:34 am
Calpers, the public workers unions, and the Democrats in Sac are in bed together. To resolve this problem, the pensions should be funded in advance, not in the future. If a public employee is going to retire, the money should be in the bank. So we pay as we go, see what happens when the cities run out of money with all these public sector programs. I don't have a problem with someone getting a good deal when retirement comes, but the money for them should have been saved already.
a resident of another community
on Jul 9, 2012 at 10:32 am
Sock Puppet, since you're fond of whining about other poster's sources of income, divulge where you receive the income you need to spend all day on PW all day long. You criticize posters personally and never provide coherent insight or suggestions to fix our broken state economy--broken by 50 years of dem majority rule.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jul 9, 2012 at 10:35 am
@Sock Puppet: Do your homework! Eat your spinach! Pay no attention to the Kathleen behind the curtain! Respect my authoritah!
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Jul 9, 2012 at 11:43 am
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
SPU, It takes one anonymous phone call to the PW to determine if we are in fact two different people. Doing that, of course, would burst your little bubble and the opportunity to blather on about absolutely nothing.
a resident of Bridle Creek
on Jul 9, 2012 at 12:27 pm
That's a great idea--maybe I'll try that later! Because, remember people, there's NO WAY Staceleen could spoof an IP address. In the mean time, I just called Barry Bonds' agent, and he told me Barry never did steroids, so that must be true, too! He also wanted me to pass along some advice that worked for Barry: he said that you should stick to a story long after everyone stopped believing in it. That's how Barry won back the respect of the fans, and why history will vindicate W's claim about Iraq's WMDs.
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jul 9, 2012 at 12:33 pm
Stacey is a registered user.
Nurse Shark, GROW UP!
a resident of Civic Square
on Jul 9, 2012 at 1:30 pm
I'm shocked, absolutely shocked, that someone can sign in as, say, Kacey, on her desk top, and then sign in as, say, Sathy, on her lap top. I'll never again believe another word I read hear on these posts! It's okay, Kacey/Sath. I'm sure you're not the only ones doing it either.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Jul 9, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
No expert here, but I don't have to be. As far as I know, our home has one IP. The PW (and sister papers) has been able to track people posting under multiple names and has removed those posts in the past and without much surprise from the multiple personality poster. Spin away, though, because quite a few people know the truth.
More on state budget: Web Link
a resident of Amberwood/Wood Meadows
on Jul 9, 2012 at 2:02 pm
If the IP doesn't fit, you must acquit. I repeat, if the IP doesn't fit, you MUST acquit!
Kathleen (and/or Stacey), thanks for reviving the "Chewbacca Defense."
a resident of Pleasanton Meadows
on Jul 9, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Geez louise, this thread of comments veered so off-topic from the original post... unbelievable. This is a serious problem, no matter what your name is. And it is really disgusting that state legislators are actually trying to find ways to usurp the will of the voters. San Jose and San Diego voters got it right. How not shocking that the state would try to find a way to muck it all up! They must really want to drive this state into bankruptcy.
a resident of another community
on Jul 9, 2012 at 3:48 pm
I've been trying to tell all of you this for years. The democratic party wants the state to fail. Most have been educated in UC bastions of socialism; most are bribed by the filthy rich unions; and others watch movies made by the leftist-communist moguls in Hollywood. Once the tsunami rolls over us, they'll come through in their tax-financed life boats collecting debris to sell at flea markets and yard sales to the bums that live under our overpasses who are now collecting my tax money for social security, disability, whatever. Because the bums will be the only ones left with any money. I heard that some of them who stand at the Interstate exits make upwards of a $1000 per day. Where's the justice in that? And I have to pay tax money to support this riff-raff?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 9, 2012 at 4:40 pm
"(Reuters) - U.S. states and localities have run up more than $2 trillion of unfunded pension liabilities, Moody's Investors Service said on Monday, citing data on plans offered by 8,500 local governments and over 14,000 individual entities.
The Wall Street credit agency said that according to its estimate, the total liabilities for fiscal 2010 were more than three times the amount reported by local governments."
""Pension liabilities are widely acknowledged to be understated," Moody's Managing Director Timothy Blake said in a statement."
- Why is Moody's reporting the actual debt is 3 TIMES the amount reported by local governments? What numbers are local governments reporting that have so severely understated the debt? Who will be affected by the proposed changes from the rating agency?
I'll try to answer the first two questions tomorrow, but here is an excerpt from the article regarding the last question:
""Moody's is seeking public comment through the end of August on four major changes it plans to make in how it treats pension liabilities. The negative impact of the modifications - which will start taking effect in the fall - will hit local governments such as counties, cities and towns, as well as school districts, most heavily - unless Moody's significantly alters them after reviewing the public comments… Cities and counties are likely to see downgrades, Blake said."
The post above that begins, "I've been trying to tell all of you this for years", is from the troll with a penchant for impersonations.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 9, 2012 at 6:41 pm
Thanks for the selectively chosen quotes usually taken out of context. For those who tire of reading and re-reading tired, rehashed quotes selectively taken from varied sources, let the following suffice:
A tide is coming. Instead of the black guy going after the victimized top 2% of wealth holders in this country, he should be cutting all fed jobs to minimum wage. Until he does this, we're going to drown in debt. Even if the economy improves, we're still going to drown. And the life preserver is to cut teacher salaries and pensions. I work for minimum wage on my dad's chicken farm. All fed and state employees should work for the same.
Nobody should make a higher pension than Kathy Reugsnubber. Because she deserves it. But no one deserves higher. Don't return your ungodly pensions, Kath. You've earned it!!!
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Jul 9, 2012 at 6:58 pm
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
Arnold the troll, Again, outrageous and worthless statements about Obama and teachers and what people actually have suggested. Must be blissful in the vacuum you live in--no problems with the direction the state or country are facing in there. Lalalalalalalalala.
Shifting to 401k plans won't hurt public employees--it would likely only begin with new employees anyway, which is a typical approach to that kind of change. I have consistently suggested teachers should be paid more.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 9, 2012 at 7:31 pm
Oh get off it, Kathleen. You're just angry because your Arnold persona has been exposed for the imcompetent schlub you are.
I'm with you regarding teacher salaries, however. I'm all for it. Just make sure you take away their pensions first. Ha-ha-ha. But I DO, I really really DO want them to get a higher salary.
PS And don't you dare ask me to support a parcel tax.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 9, 2012 at 10:42 pm
We have one last chance at this.
Be sure to vote against all of those Leftist taxes on the November ballot. Ignore all their threats to shutdown schools, etc.
They can take all the money they just spent on waste and rechannel it to our schools, and other valuable government resources.
While this is being done, they can save further funds by defunding every government agency, then put the few we really need out to bid.
Tell your friends!
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 10, 2012 at 6:03 am
Yes, don't vote to improve schools; don't vote to help save the planet; don't vote to ensure women's health care; don't vote to feed hungry children; don't vote to maintain prospects of world peace.
Rather, vote to lower your taxes because, at the end of the day, before the apocalyptic, rapturous flood crushes down upon us, it is only lowering your taxes that counts.
Wowsa! I LOVE the way people use their brains on this forum!
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Jul 10, 2012 at 7:19 am
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
We aren't voting to lower our taxes; we are hopefully voting to stop increasing them. No more feeding the lumbering, ravenous, insatiable beast more than the family can afford.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Jul 10, 2012 at 8:19 am
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
Here is an editorial from today's Tri-Valley Times regarding HSR: Web Link
Tim Hunt has also posted this morning on the topic of the state budget/HSR.
a resident of Vintage Hills
on Jul 10, 2012 at 8:29 am
Kathleen Ruegsegger is a registered user.
Also covered this morning, Brown's tax plan gets top billing on the November ballot (despite a lawsuit by the opposing measure for education). I think that will make it easy to vote no and move on to the rest of the ballot.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Jul 10, 2012 at 11:32 am
The actual pension poll Web Link
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Re: Sailing the Hudson River NY
I think we are splitting hairs here on where the Hudson officially begins and ends. The entire Hudson up to Troy is a tidal estuary although the halocline or where the salt water reaches to, changes from year to year. Usually the salt water does not go above, say Beacon and is normally not higher than Haverstraw Bay. Salt water fish species are routinely found in the southern third of the Hudson but it is still the Hudson River, which is a tidal estuary.
NY Harbor begins at the Battery, or Liberty Landing Marina on the west.
Does the East River also begin at the Battery or the Brooklyn Bridge or Buttermilk Channel? I am not sure I care.
The East River is not a river but a tidal straight but the Hudson is a river.
/end of nonsense
Re: Sailing the Hudson River NY
I just traveled the Hudson back in Sept. you are in for a nice trip. Of course the key is to go with the flow, but it is a beautiful ride passing many historic sites. I was fortunate to be with locals who could point out what I was seeing and tell me much about it. We passed manhattan just after dusk and the city was well lighted. For your own sake, do som research just to enjoy the scenery. We anchored near sandy hook, and made our way out to the Atlantic the next morning. The water is deep, wide, and we had little company as far as other boats, a few ferries and a tanker. Enjoy
Re: Sailing the Hudson River NY
Hello...all true... I lived on the Hudson in Newburgh, went to school in Hyde park and worked in cold spring.. I used to sit in class and watch the ice flow up river with the tide.
I always thought it was tidal to Albany, but now understand that it's as far as troy..?
I gave lessons out of Jersey City for two summers, one just after Irene. The river looked like chocolate milk for 2 weeks afterward and yes..I saw parts of houses and their contents float by..as well as whole trees.
Re: Sailing the Hudson River NY
Tempest, as a native I wouldn't call the Battery or the Upper Bay "the Hudson River". Not till you got past the Battery itself. The traffic south of the Battery can be real fun, we used to watch the Governor's Island ferry (property of the USCG and therefore at the right hand of God) duke it out with the Staten Island ferry, the commercial traffic, the recreational traffic, and the real fun, when the "new" high speed commuter ferries started up they figured THEY were at the right hand of God because they had to maintain their schedules. Ah, nope, a coupla folks got some nasty surprises from their "elders" on that.
But it still can get busy out there.
Problem on the Hudson proper is not off Manhattan but way further up. Think West Point and all the twisty places where the river is subject to shifting winds, tight curves, constrained drafts. Now add the barge tows, and when they come around a corner if someone is towing (not pushing) the tow is going to swing and you may not be aware of which way it is coming, or where other traffic is going to go to avoid it and keep in deeper water.
Some years ago a sailboat made the mistake of anchoring overnight on the Hudson, not in a designated anchorage. IIRC they got run down and the owner killed. Of course there have been accidents from long tows in the Sound as well, but at least there's usually lots more manuevering room on the Sound.
And some of the stuff that sails upriver, like the Tropicana Banana freighter (literally) is bigger than you would expect, with a matching blind spot under the bow.
Then sometimes after heavy rains, you will find bits of houses and whole trees coming down, just like Mark Twain's tales on the Mississippi.
There IS plenty of room for all, but daylight and a radio and some planning ahead might all be useful. And a camera.(G)
I think technically, the Hudson River ends someplace surprisingly high up like Kingston. South of that it is technically the Hudson Estuary, a flooded river where seawater comes up twice a day, tidally. And you can often see the tidal bore.
Re: Sailing the Hudson River NY
Actually there's quite a bit of crossing that goes on around lower Manhattan. Not so much further North as Minne says where it's more north and south. The commuter ferries and the Statue/Ellis island ferries, and other tour boats zig-zag across all day long around lower manhattan from about Weehawken down. Still, it's not an issue. They are big enough to see and if you know where they're headed ( the terminals) you can keep clear. What I find around lower manhattan is that while watching and dodging the ferry traffic you can easily forget to look for the tug and barge that is slowly lumbering up or down the channel.
Re: Sailing the Hudson River NY
Eldridge for sure!
I didn't find the Hudson commercial traffic to be much of a worry. They don't cross the river, so its easy enough to slide past them north or south bound (or let them pass you). Have a radio handy.
The white knuckle part of this trip is the East River, Hells Gate and Western LIS.
Very doable, but read up.
If you're unfamiliar with seawater, I presume that means open water. Don't let LIS fool you, it can get treacherous in bad weather. The Eastern portion of LIS up to Buzzards Bay can get as churned as the deepest blue water passage in some cases.
Just read up on weather prediction and get access to some sites like Sailflow or PassageWeather to keep an eye on things. It's done all the time. Have a great trip.
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If you buy a copy of Eldridge (from any chandlery) it will lead you NYC to Boston step by step. There's no better local guide for LI Sound and NYC.
Coming down the Hudson, mainly just watch out for commercial traffic and tows, tows also being a hazard for the entire route but on the Hudson they can be harder to duck.
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I brought my father's (now my) 30' O'Day from Lake Superior thru to Albany last fall, and planning to bring her home to moor in Boston this spring/summer.
I am a little green also, especially sailing in seawater, so would love any suggestions you have regarding navigating the Hudson/NY stretch.
I sail frequently near the Tappan Zee Bridge (about 30 mi N of the Battery). Here the current runs north for 5 hrs, then south for 7 hrs (roughly). It's just the effect of river current against, or with, the tide.
If you need boat supplies or boat work in the Tappan Zee area I'd recommend Westerly Marina in Ossining (eastern shore). If you'd just like a nice meal the Tarrytown Yacht Cub is a good bet. It's right at the Tappan Zee.
You'll want to be heading south at the Tappan Zee 4 1/2 hrs before Eldridge shows low tide at the Battery. Otherwise you won't make it north on the East River to Long Island Sound. I have a 23 ft Catboat and my wife has a photo of it's GPS showing 11.7 knots on that river.
Once past Execution Rocks the current begins to relax, so I'd leave the Tappan Zee early in the morning to make the North Shore of Long Island in time for a casual anchoring. Believe me, you won't be dallying around NY Harbor. It's fun but quite hectic: helicopters, Staten Island Ferries, Cruise ships, police boats, fire boats, and commuter ferries that run like waterbugs...not to mention a rare passenger aircraft in the Hudson (Capt. Shelly).
Feel free to contact me if you need more info about the area.
Dick Hare, Ossining, NY
... and the Eldridge "Tide and Pilot Manual" has intuitive current charts for both the East River and The Race and Gut for about $15 including tax.
Yes, it can be a fun ride by Roosevelt Island into Hell Gate but the several times I've done it but the currents were no worse or stronger then my experiences going through the Plum Island Gut except there is usually less room to maneuver in the East River so extra vigilance is required.
The trip around Manhattan will be fun and your GPS just might hit 10 knots if you get a strong current near Hell Gate. The trip through the Erie Canal is something I've wanted to do. PM me if you stop in NYC (I'm in lower Manhattan, 1 mile north of The Battery).
I'm surprised I haven't plugged the club where we keep our boat yet as a stopover point on the Hudson. Our boat is at the Nyack Boat Club on a mooring and they have some guest moorings that are something like $25/night. The club has a launch and showers and the village has restaurants. It is about 25 nm. from the Battery in NYC. Since it is a sailing club there is no fuel dock per se and the local fuel and pump out is in Tarrytown but it is more of a motorboat club and is in tight quarters.
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MemoTrie is functional library for creating efficient memo functions, using tries. It's based on some code from Spencer Janssen (originally put on hpaste.org, now expired) and uses type families.
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ICYMI the SOTU Is SNAFU
A mountain of bad, in fact deadly, ideas that Congress will eagerly support, and a handful of good proposals that no one will work for and Congress will strive to bury: the SOTU is SNAFU, ICYMI.
Obama's hiring Romney campaign staff, pushing for a massive corporate trade deal with Europe as well as the Pacific nations, militarizing the Mexican border, and promising not to spend a dime before listing all the good things he'll spend it on. He'll defend human rights in Egypt (but not mention billions of dollars' worth of weapons he'll give the Egyptian government). "Sudden, harsh, arbitrary cuts would jeopardize our military readiness," he said. Readiness for what, Mr. President?
"We have kept Congress fully informed of our efforts," Obama lied about his drone kill program, and Congress cheered. He said he'd end the war on Afghanistan, and they cheered. They sat silently through the next few sentences as he promised NOT to end that war, and then they picked up the cheering again. He hyped the military as a jobs program. He committed to cutting Medicare. Cheers, cheers, cheers.
"We produce more oil at home," he bragged. "We produce more natural gas than ever." We need "a bipartisan, market-based solution to climate change, like the one John McCain and Joe Lieberman worked on." Inspiring!
I recently read the script of a new play by Karen Malpede called "Extreme Whether." The title picks up on the crisis of global warming and the choice it presents to our species. The play will be performed in New York as part of a Festival of Conscience along with Malpede's brilliant antiwar play "Another Life."
"Extreme Whether" is a riff on the story of James Hansen, the NASA scientist who has been trying to tell Congress that the environment is collapsing since 1988. Malpede invents a family story for a character like Hansen. At least in reading (much different from watching) the story at first seems insufficiently tragic. But as the play advances, so does its vision of the damage being done. Yet the closer the play gets to communicating the apocalypse that may be to come, the more it appears to have fallen short, although it is of course the play itself that is waking one up to the horror. Some things defy description even as they're told to you. In the end, the play is sufficiently tragic, but it presents an image of people as irrational, hedonistic, and therefore hopeless -- an image we should be constantly correcting if possible, except that it, too, seems pretty accurate.
The real Hansen will be speaking at the Festival of Conscience, as will I. See the schedule below.
FEBRUARY 17th
First, this Sunday is a day to rally in Washington, D.C., for serious action on climate change. Be there. And make sure anyone who's not on board with this movement watches a performance of "Extreme Whether."
And that evening, help mark 10 Years of D.C. Poets Against the War.
Ann B. Knox, read a poem called "This Moment" in front of the White House on February 12, 2003:
We meet in this wind-harsh square
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We speak from what we know
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Has the mailed fist
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Pay attention, our words matter,
these bare trees matter,
the Potomac flowing black
under white ice matters,
kids, woods, a leashed dog,
poems matter.
All our lives converge
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"Sudden, harsh, arbitrary cuts would jeopardize our military readiness," he said.
Readiness for what, Mr. President?
Written by KAREN MALPEDE
Performances Thursday - Sunday, March 28 - April 21
Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00pm
Sunday at 3:00pm
starring George Bartenieff with Abbas Noori Abbood, Christen Gifford, Abraham Makany, Alex Tavis & Di Zhu.
Another Life is a surreal romp through the post-9/11 decade; an out-sized mogul (George Bartenieff) controls, cashes-in, and is undone in the only American play about the U.S. torture program. Another Life has been excerpted in The Kenyon Review, given a staged reading at the National Theater of Kosovo, was a centerpiece of the Art of Justice: 9/11 Performance Project at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater, and was further acclaimed during a workshop run at the Irondale Center last March. The play, written in a fast-paced lyric language, is based on research, interviews, testimonies, the words of torturers and tortured, and has been widely praised by experts in the field of human rights, for its inventiveness, power and ability to create empathy. George Bartenieff gives a tour de force performance as the Cheneyesque mogul Handel. Christin Clifford is his wife Tess and Abbas Noori Abood his prisoner Abdul. Di Zhu is his wounded physician daughter who becomes a whistle-blower; Alex Tavis a disgraced F.B.I. officer becomes head of Handel's private contracting interrogation business. Abraham Makany is Geoff, Lucia's fiancé who died in the Twin Towers, and retains the innocence of a previous age. With lighting by Tony Giovennetti, video design by Luba Lukova, costumes by Sally Ann Parsons and Carissa Kelly, set by Robert Eggers and music by Arthur Rosen, and written and directed by Karen Malpede, Another Life is a challenge to the legacy of torture. March 28-April 21, Thurs-Sat. at 8pm, Sun at 3pm; special Saturday, April 13 matinee at 3 pm.
Please Note: On Saturday, April 13, there will be a 3pm Matinee performance of ANOTHER LIFE. There will be no 8pm performance on April 13.
Play reading Monday, April 8 at 7pm
Saturday, April 13 at 8pm
Extreme Whether, a new play, will be given two premiere readings; itdraws inspiration from two earlier eco-conscious writers, Ibsen and Chekhov. It is a family drama set on an endangered wilderness estate in an endangered world; as immediate and startling as today's extreme weather news. With fierce commitment to truth-telling and heroic persistence against the censorship of science a famous climate scientist and his younger colleague and lover battle industry climate change deniers to alert the wider public to the need for action. An old environmentalist, a wise child and a frog complete the cast. An original musical score by Arthur Rosen creates the cosmic dance. George Bartenieff, Kathleen Chalfant, Zack Grenier lead the cast alongside Soraya Broukhim, Kathleen Purcell and Alex Tavis in the two readings of this new play by Karen Malpede. April 8 at 7pm and April 13 at 8 pm, only.
Both plays are presented in conjunction with A Festival of Conscience, a series of post-show dialogues with major voices. These post-show talks are free to all.
March 28: Noor Elashi, writer, daughter of Ghassan Elashi, currently serving 65 years in a CMU prison in Colorado, for having led a Muslim charity that sent donations to Gaza, Pardiss Kabriaei, CCR lawyer representing Muslim's in the U.S.
Thursday, April 4, David Swanson, author War Is A Lie, blogger, radio host
Sunday, April 7 (post-matinee): Elizabeth Holtzman, Cheating Justice & Karen J. Greenberg, Director, Center on National Security, Fordham Law.
Monday, April 8: 8 pm Reading Extreme Whether, post-show talk by Dr. James Hansen, NASA, America's foremost climate scientist
Thursday, April 11, 8pm Another Life, tba post-show discussion
Friday, April 12, 8 pm Another Life, post-show Victoria Brittan, journalist, co-author, Guantanamo: Honour Bound to Defend Duty; Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror
Saturday, April 13: 2 pm matinee of Another Life. 4:30-6 Post-show panel, Ramzi Kassem, lawyer for Gitmo detainees, Jesselyn Radack, Government Accountability Project, lawyer for many of the whistle blowers, including John Kiriakou; and Tom Drake, whistle blower and former intelligence officer.
Sunday, April 14: 2 pm matinee of Another Life. 4:30-6 post-show panel, Michael Ratner, Exec. Director of CCR and lawyer for Julian Assange; and Christian Parenti, author of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence, and other books, and contributing editor to The Nation.
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Saturday's 77-72 win over Florida State will be remembered mostly as the day when P.J. Hairston scored a career-high 23 points.
But it might have been another Hairston play, one that had absolutely nothing to do with putting the ball in the basket, that was most emblematic of the victory. With under six minutes left, Carolina had the ball, trailing 68-65. They ran a set that was designed to get the white-hot Hairston the ball near the top of the key.
The Seminoles, however, traditionally have the Tar Heels very well-scouted. On at least two occasions, when point guard Marcus Paige called a halfcourt set, the FSU defense immediately mimicked that same play call and their coaching staff leapt off the bench to shout instructions, indicating they felt they had a very good idea of what was coming.
That was the case on this occasion. James Michael McAdoo mostly whiffed on what was supposed to be a screen of Terry Whisnant, enabling Whisnant to shoot through and make a terrific defensive play by knocking the pass to Hairston away. Michael Snaer scooped up the ball and sprinted the other way, where Paige and Hairston were back on defense.
Both players first looked like they had intentions of taking a charge, but when Snaer swerved into the lane, Hairston raised his arms and went for the jump ball.
He got it, forcing the officials to go to the possession arrow, which favored the Tar Heels. Instead of going down by five points or more, Carolina had the ball back. Following Hairston's heady play, they closed the game on a 12-4 run.
"I was going to try and take the charge," Hairston said. "But I saw him pick the ball up and I put my hand right where the ball was, and I pushed down so he couldn't get the shot up. I knew I had the ball."
Roy Williams noticed, saying on his radio show this week, "P.J. doesn't get enough credit for what he can do defensively."
Hairston could've been forgiven for watching that play from a distance. After all, he was the game's star offensive player, the set had been run for him, and Whisnant's breakup had left Hairston a little off-balance. Hairston's hustle, however, might have been the turning point of the game.
"You can't let your team down," he said. "That was going to be an easy layup. Things like that, little things on defense, are what wins games."
He's right, and it wasn't the only example of the Tar Heels functioning as a team rather than five individuals. One of Williams's favorite expressions is "Help a teammate." He preaches it constantly, and it can mean almost anything--help a teammate off the floor when he hustles for a loose ball, remind an oblivious freshman about the time of the shootaround, or find an open player for a great shot.
With a minute left, it was something else entirely. With nine seconds left on the shot clock in what looked like a sputtering offensive possession, Williams had called timeout to set the play. Carolina led, 75-72, and the ball was inbounded to Jackson Simmons, who held the ball high, around 30 feet from the basket. Florida State's swarming defense knocked the ball away, and Terrance Shannon gathered it in and raced for what looked like a layup that would cut the Seminole deficit to one point.
But here came Marcus Paige, who had been setting a screen near the free throw line, a good 10 feet away from the action. Paige turned on the jets and caught up with the bigger, slower Shannon in only a couple of strides. That put him in position to swipe at the ball as Shannon neared the hoop, knocking it in the air and recovering it with the Tar Heels' 3-point lead still intact. It was the textbook example of Paige helping a teammate, Simmons.
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Practically everyone who visits the Vatican stops to take a picture of the Swiss Guards. Ditto for the Queen's Guard at Windsor Castle, the Royal Life Guards at Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen, and the Evzones at Greece's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Those multicolored uniforms may not have a place on the modern battlefield, where camouflage is far more important than panache, but they do attract the tourists.
If, by this measure, these ceremonial units have some value (albeit none militarily), why not have more of them? You could post the newly created Sartorial Guard at tourist locations that haven't been attracting enough foot traffic lately. And who knows, they might even attract more recruits into the real military. (Though I'm not sure what the career path is once you've held the rank of Feldweibel in the Swiss Guards.)
Obviously, I'm not being serious. Once you start manufacturing new ceremonial units, you cheapen the brand. You don't need more than one as a "loss leader" in the military, and there's no need to get the people who actually fight up in arms. Figuratively, that is.
Here's why managing a portfolio is critical for managing products. It wouldn't be hard to find some enterprising "champion" for a new Swiss Guards-ish unit who was willing to sew the uniforms and stand around looking fierce. (We call them re-enactors, and we don't put them on the public payroll.) No matter how much attention they attract, they'll still be a failure from a national perspective.


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