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*************** The ARRL Letter Vol. 20, No. 38 September 21, 2001 *************** IN THIS EDITION: * +New York ARES/RACES volunteers in good spirits * +Pentagon ARES team stands down * +ARRL treats FCC to ham radio up close and personal * +Georgia hams come "up north" to help * +Brand-new ham is youngest volunteer * +FCC prohibits automatic control on LA repeater * +Florida ARES and SKYWARN turn out for storm duty * Solar Update * IN BRIEF: This weekend on the radio Sign up for Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level II course Vietnam War veteran Bill Ruth, W3HRD, killed in Pentagon attack AMSAT-NA announces election results Disney special event postponed until December George Jacobs, W3ASK, to step down as CQ propagation editor Guatemala gets 70 cm back Kuwait authorizes 9K2USA call sign Special event station K5MFJ to commemorate MFJ's 30th anniversary Ten-Tec opens retail store, full-line dealership WWV survey deadline near +Available on ARRL Audio News =========================================================== ==>WORLD TRADE CENTER AMATEUR RADIO VOLUNTEERS BEARING UP WELL New York Amateur Radio Emergency Service and Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service volunteers generally are in good spirits, but tired, says New York City-Long Island Section Emergency Coordinator Tom Carrubba, KA2D. "The mood is positive," he said, more than a week into the grim reality of the World Trade Center attack response. "Overall, it's going very, very well. Everybody's settling into the routine of the operation." Two dozen or more hams per shift are covering communications and logistical support for the American Red Cross as well as supplementing communication for the New York City Office of Emergency Management. "It's a great effort every day, 24/7, and it's expanding as we get more requests." A single, multi-purpose ARES/RACES net is being maintained on the 147.000 MHz repeater in Manhattan. New York City District Emergency Coordinator and RACES Radio Officer Charles Hargrove, N2NOV, is serving as the incident commander. At this point, Carrubba said, the need for volunteers is being largely covered by amateurs from the Greater New York City Area--which includes New York City and Long Island, Eastern New York, Connecticut and Northern New Jersey. Hams have volunteered from all over, however, including at least eight Delaware-Lehigh Amateur Radio Club members from from Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. Hams are deployed to 13 American Red Cross shelters, two OEM sites, several staging areas, and Red Cross headquarters, and as net controls. At any given time, up to a half dozen amateurs are posted just outside the secure perimeter of the so-called "Ground Zero" World Trade Center site, where Carrubba described conditions as "terrible." Volunteers there have been asked to provide respirators and other protective clothing. Shifts at all locations are 12 hours long. Carrubba explained that Amateur Radio volunteers are being rotated in and out of areas and duties in an effort to equalize the stress. "The first 30 or 40 hours everybody does 'the iron man act,' I call it, because they're running on adrenaline," he said. After that, everyone gets some rest and unwinds a little bit. "The people that are going back are fresh," he said. Since September 11, more than 350 hams have volunteered in excess of 5000 work hours. Carrubba anticipates the Amateur Radio support operations to continue for some time to come, since the normal telecommunications systems remain disrupted or problematic. "The communications in the shelter are being used like telephones," he said. Telephone service is available, but it can take 15 or 20 tries to get a call through. Carrubba said net traffic has been substantial, although there are occasional lulls. Many more volunteers will be needed before the ARES and RACES operation stands down "Right now our task is a long-term effort, Carrubba said. "The schedule is being filled in on a day-by-day basis." To date, more than 200 individuals have signed up via the World Trade Center Disaster Relief Communications Web site, <http://wtc.ab2m.net>. Carrubba expects that Amateur Radio assistance might be needed at least another week and possibly longer. "As long as there's a need for communications, we will be there," he said. In the meantime, REACT International is seeking additional Amateur Radio and licensed GMRS users, primarily to support the Salvation Army's relief efforts in New York. "We still need volunteers," said REACT International Secretary Lee Besing, N5NTG, who added that some shifts on Wednesday went unfilled. "They're burning out and having to return to their jobs," he said. REACT is now running 20 volunteers per shift. Volunteers should visit the REACT International Web site, <http://www.reactintl.org/tragedy_09112001.htm> or contact Charles Bessels, <email@example.com>. ==>PENTAGON ARES TEAM STANDS DOWN The team managed by Virginia Amateur Radio Emergency Service to support the Salvation Army's disaster relief operation at the Pentagon stood down this week. Virginia Section Emergency Coordinator Tom Gregory, N4NW, thanked all who volunteered and turned out to assist following the September 11 terrorist attack. "With the changes in security, increased shift times and, most of all, the ability of the Salvation Army to [now] manage their support operations via telephone, the need for Amateur Radio has ended," Gregory said. "The support provided here in Virginia, by the hams in New York--where operations continue--and in Pennsylvania clearly demonstrates the resolve and commitment by so many hams to meet the needs of our fellow Americans at this time of great tragedy." The ARES operation--with Tom Harmon, AK1E, as incident commander--provided logistical support between the Salvation Army's relief and recovery effort on site and the agency's Arlington headquarters. The Salvation Army has been providing food and refreshments to the crews engaged in the Pentagon investigation and recovery operations. Gregory said many of the more than 100 volunteers who reported for duty between September 11 and September 18 gave up time with their families and their jobs. In a few cases, he said, he even wrote letters to employers requesting that volunteers be allowed time off to work the incident. "Amateur Radio performed exactly as it was supposed to," Gregory said. "We responded to the need to provide communications where none were available." He said the Virginia ARES organization stands ready to jump in again "at a moment's notice" if the need arises. Another amateur team consisting of Mt Vernon Amateur Radio Club and Arlington County Amateur Radio Club members was providing communication and technical support to the American Red Cross relief effort at the Pentagon site. Arlington County ARES Emergency Coordinator Alan Bosch, KO4ALA, said his team was running shifts from 8 AM through 1 AM each day, and he expected the operation to continue at least through week's end. ARRL President Jim Haynie, W5JBP, visited members of the Pentagon ARES team on Monday, September 17. Gregory said he appreciated Haynie's encouragement at a difficult time. Haynie was accompanied by ARRL First Vice President Joel Harrison, W5ZN, FCC Special Counsel for Amateur Radio Enforcement Riley Hollingsworth, and ARRL Virginia Section Manager Carl Clements, W4CAC. ==>ARRL "AMATEUR RADIO DEMO AND EDUCATION DAY" WOWS FCC The ARRL this week took Amateur Radio's message directly to FCC Headquarters in Washington, DC. ARRL President Jim Haynie, W5JBP, said the idea behind the ARRL's "Amateur Radio Demo and Education Day" September 18 was to foster a positive view of the Amateur Service--especially with three new commissioners on board who may not be familiar with ham radio and the issues it faces. "The FCC is bombarded with paper every day in the form of filings, briefings, backgrounders and other print materials," said Haynie, who masterminded the demonstration. "So our purpose was to let the commissioners and their staff get out of the 'paper chase' for awhile and see Amateur Radio up close." The "demo" part of the event included a fully operational HF Amateur Radio station, which was used to make several contacts, a selection of low-profile antennas, a PSK31 setup, and a software-defined radio designed and built by Bob Larkin, W7PUA--and featured in QST <http://www.proaxis.com/~boblark/dsp10.htm>. The "education" facet comprised informational graphics throughout the room that depicted such topics as Amateur Radio disaster communication, the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program, and deed covenants, conditions and restrictions--or CC&Rs--as they affect hams subjected to private land-use regulations. One surprisingly popular poster featured a description of radio wave propagation. A videotape loop on Kid's Day ran all day long. The event gave Haynie the chance to chat at length about Amateur Radio issues with FCC Chairman Michael Powell, commissioners Kathleen Abernathy, Michael Copps, and Kevin Martin, and key FCC staffers. Equally enthusiastic was ARRL First Vice President Joel Harrison, W5ZN, who also represented ARRL at the event. "We wanted to show the continuing--and maybe even growing--importance of Amateur Radio to the nation's telecommunications infrastructure, and to demonstrate our role in technological development and emergency communication," Harrison said. And that latter aspect did raise a somber note, as the Amateur Radio demonstration took place only days after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. Powell asked the FCC to "go on with the show," because of his commitment to keeping the FCC running on a business-as-usual basis during the national crisis. News of the tragic situation still pouring in underscored Amateur Radio's value in providing emergency assistance. Haynie said the highlight of the event was the interest and involvement of Chairman Powell and his staff as well as the opportunity personally to meet the other three new commissioners. Haynie said that some commissioners seemed particularly interested in information on Amateur Radio antenna installations that had been erected under the "reasonable accommodation" provision of PRB-1. Haynie said he was especially pleased that every commissioner and nearly all FCC department heads turned out with their staff members--nearly 100 visitors in all. Chairman Powell spent considerable time examining every display and asked for a personal demonstration of the PSK31 equipment. He was also interested in Amateur Radio involvement in rescue efforts at the World Trade Center and Pentagon disaster sites and how the Amateur Radio Emergency Service operates. ARRL General Counsel Chris Imlay said he was pleased to see that people did not just "cruise through" but stayed to discuss various issues and topics. Imlay said the event set the stage for future productive discussions with the FCC on a number of important Amateur Radio issues. On behalf of the ARRL contingent, Haynie deemed the day a huge success. "This was the first time we have ever had such an opportunity, and in our collective opinions it was very successful!" he said.--Steve Mansfield, N1MZA ==>GEORGIA HAMS SUPPORT SOUTHERN BAPTIST RELIEF EFFORT IN NYC A group of Georgia amateurs has accompanied Southern Baptist Convention Disaster Relief crews to the New York City area in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The hams are providing communications support to the Convention's mobile kitchens and shower units, deployed last week at the request of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The communications van of the Chattahoochee Baptist Association Amateur Radio team is stationed at a staging area at the Raritan Valley Baptist Church in Edison, New Jersey. Operating as W4CBA, the volunteers in Edison are utilizing the nearby New Jersey Institute of Technology Amateur Radio Club's K2MFF 147.225 MHz repeater in Newark to communicate with deployed kitchens and showers in the Brooklyn Naval Yard and near Ground Zero in Manhattan. Amateurs are accompanying volunteers from eight states into the field as they serve meals to relief workers and displaced residents. According to Jackie Whitlock, N4JJW, the call from FEMA came on Wednesday. By last Friday, two kitchens had been deployed, with a third unit in reserve at Edison. In their first 36 hours on the scene, 89 volunteers had served more than 7500 meals at the Manhattan and Brooklyn sites. The Chattahoochee Baptist Association has been supporting Southern Baptist Convention relief efforts since 1996. ==>THE YOUNGEST VOLUNTEER Ten-year-old Beverly Holtz of Huntington, Long Island, New York, was distraught after hearing of the tragedy at the World Trade Center. "I slowly explained what the news footage meant," said her father Fred Holtz, K2PSY. "The first thing she said was that she wanted to help." Neither of them realized just how soon she would get the chance. About six years ago Fred Holtz revived his interested in Amateur Radio. Soon his young daughter showed an interest in the hobby. Together they studied the electronics and Beverly was especially interested in the questions on emergency procedures. "I told her that they were very important and you never knew when you would need them," Holtz said. Father and daughter joined the local radio club and started going to meetings. Eventually she took the FCC exam for the Technician license and passed! She couldn't wait for her license to arrive and was ready to get on the air. Beverly's new ticket finally arrived Friday, September 14, and she was officially KC2IKT. The next day she and her dad were running errands in the car, listening to an emergency net being run on a local repeater, when they heard a call go out for volunteers to staff a shelter as part of the response to the World Trade Center attack. "We can do that!" Beverly told her dad. Fred Holtz called net control and explained that his daughter was only 10 and wanted to help. "No problem," they were told. That afternoon they reported to the Red Cross shelter in Valley Stream, New York. Some 40 European students were staying at the shelter after being stranded when flights were cancelled at the nearby airports in New York City. Using her dad's hand-held transceiver, Beverly answered questions from net control, relayed health-and-welfare traffic and was the only radio operator for the entire eight-hour shift. "I was very impressed that [net control] treated her as an equal and that she was able to do it," her dad said. "She really had a trial by fire!" Beverly said that the eight hours seemed like one hour. "I can't wait to do more," she said. "It made me feel good to help."--Diane Ortiz, K2DO ==>FCC PROHIBITS AUTOMATIC CONTROL ON LA AREA REPEATER The FCC has terminated the automatic control privileges of the W6NUT repeater in the Los Angeles, California, area until further notice. An FCC review into the repeater's operation initiated last winter followed allegations that the licensee or control operator failed to address "long periods of jamming by users, broadcasting, music playing as well as a plethora of other violations." The latest chapter in the W6NUT saga followed a September 7 letter to repeater owner Kathryn Tucker, AA6TK, from FCC Special Counsel for Amateur Radio Enforcement Riley Hollingsworth. Hollingsworth specifically cited incidents of alleged rules violations in early February on W6NUT and reiterated that extensive monitoring of W6NUT showed "no evidence that a control operator even exists for this repeater." The FCC also has reported receiving numerous complaints about W6NUT. In her reply to the FCC, Tucker identified her husband, Roy Tucker, N6TK, as the primary control operator "24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks out of the year." But elsewhere in her response, Tucker noted that he was not on duty during the alleged misbehavior in early February that prompted the FCC review. Tucker also told the FCC that it was not the repeater's policy "to attempt to remove unruly operators" from using W6NUT. As for complaints, Tucker told the FCC that the W6NUT policy was to let them "go in one ear and out the other." The rules do "not exempt the repeater station licensee from responsibility for the proper operation of his or her station or allow a repeater station licensee to ignore complaints, Hollingsworth wrote. "Given your response, it is evident that you do not understand the duties of a control operator." Hollingsworth asked Kathryn Tucker to document her designation of Roy Tucker as the W6NUT control operator, and he noted that the rules hold licensee and control operator "equally responsible for the proper operation of the station." Automatic control does not absolve the licensee or control operator of the responsibility for illegal or improper conduct that airs, Hollingsworth explained. While there's an exception for inadvertent communications that violate the rules, he said, FCC rules do not consider improper or illegal conduct that's repetitive or continues for hours or days to be inadvertent. Hollingsworth requested that the licensee or the control operator conduct a time and usage study of W6NUT's operation for 14 consecutive 24-hour periods to demonstrate that the repeater can comply with FCC rules without a control operator on duty. The repeater may continue to operate using remote or local control in the meantime. As a result of the early February incident, Gregory S. Cook, ex-KC6USO, of Chico, turned in his license, and the FCC ordered Ted R. Sorensen III, KC6PQW, of Agoura Hills off all repeaters on the 144, 222, or 440-MHz bands for the next three years. ==>HAMS ACTIVATE AS GABRIELLE SWEEPS ACROSS FLORIDA Florida amateurs provided the National Weather Service with real-time reports as Tropical Storm Gabrielle swept across Florida September 14. Amateurs staffed the Ruskin National Weather Service Amateur Radio station WX4TBW starting at 9 PM on September 13 and remained on duty throughout the storm's passage. Damage reports began streaming in as Gabrielle approached Florida's west coast September 14. SKYWARN spotters from Sarasota and Manatee counties reported wind gusts as high as 74 MPH. Flooding generated by Gabrielle also forced an undetermined number of people from their homes in DeSoto, Hardee and Hillsborough counties. Nets were established to pass critical information to the National Weather Service and to handle local and regional ARES activities. Several shelters were staffed by ARES operators throughout the ARRL West Central Florida Section. According to West Central Florida Section Manager Dave Armbrust, AE4MR, area hams took the event in stride. "No big deal, our amateurs have been doing exactly this for years," Armbrust said. "Tropical storms and hurricanes are yearly events for ARES groups here. There is little need for us to do an annual SET as we generally get the real thing." Armbrust was asked if anything made this particular storm different. "The massive loss of power kind of hit us by surprise," he said, "but it does prove how important emergency power is to ARES." More than 250,000 Floridians lost power at least temporarily, but operations on the wide-coverage K4WCF repeater continued for nearly eight hours on emergency power. "The flooding and wind actually took three repeaters off the air, but the ARES groups had trained for the loss of repeaters, and they did not miss a beat," Armbrust said. While Gabrielle weakened as it moved eastward across the Florida peninsula, it still packed a punch. After passing over Florida, Gabrielle reached Hurricane strength over the Atlantic. The storm continued northeastward off the US and Canadian Coasts before becoming extratropical south of Newfoundland on September 19. The Hurricane Watch Net was not activated at any time. ==>SOLAR UPDATE Solar maven Tad Cook, K7VVV, Seattle, Washington, reports: Solar flux and sunspot numbers are in a general upward trend since the beginning of August. Average daily solar flux was down almost 23 points, and sunspot averages were off nearly 43 points, when compared to the previous week. The autumn equinox is Saturday, September 22, and right now is the best time for HF propagation in many months. Ten meters is getting really good at this time of year and will get better--at least in the northern hemisphere--during October and November. Looking at average sunspot numbers for the past two weeks, this could be the best fall equinox of the current cycle for HF propagation. Average daily sunspot numbers from September 6-19 were 220, but for the same period last year, it was only 113, and 132 in 1999. We haven't had sunspot counts this high prior to the fall equinox since the peak of the last solar cycle, when the average daily sunspot number was 219 from September 6-19, 1989. Predicted solar flux for Friday through the middle of next week is around 230. Sunspot numbers for September 13 through 19 were 223, 216, 183, 169, 159, 215 and 224, with a mean of 198.4. The 10.7-cm flux was 239.7, 236.6, 219.3, 207.1, 199.1, 203.8 and 198.8, with a mean of 214.9. Estimated planetary A indices were 18, 10, 15, 8, 10, 8 and 8, with a mean of 11. __________________________________ ==>IN BRIEF: * This weekend on the radio: The Scandinavian Activity Contest (SSB) and the Radio Club Panama XXX Anniversary Contest are the weekend of September 22-23. JUST AHEAD: The CQ WW RTTY Contest, and the Louisiana, Texas and Alabama QSO parties are September 29-30 weekend. See the ARRL Contest Branch page, http://www.arrl.org/contests/ and http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal/weeklycont.html for more info. * Sign up for Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level II course: Registration begins Monday, September 24, at 4 PM Eastern Time for the on-line ARRL Level II-Intermediate Emergency Communications Course (EC-002). Visit the ARRL Certification and Continuing Education Registration Page <https://www.arrl.org/forms/cce> to take advantage of this continuing education opportunity. Each class is limited to 50 seats, so don't wait to register. Answers to most questions are on the ARRL Certification and Continuing Education home page <http://www.arrl.org/cce> and the C-CE links at the right, including the C-CE FAQ page. Stay informed by reviewing these periodically. To learn more, contact ARRL Certification and Continuing Education Coordinator Dan Miller, K3UFG, email@example.com. * Vietnam War veteran Bill Ruth, W3HRD, killed in Pentagon attack: The terrorists' attack on the US has claimed another ham and ARRL member. Vietnam and Gulf War veteran and retired Chief Warrant Officer William Ruth, W3HRD, of Mount Airy, Maryland, is the fifth ham known to have died as a result of the terrorist attacks. The Army announced September 19 that Ruth, who worked at the Pentagon, was among the 30 confirmed dead. He was 58. "I remember Bill from my time with the Rock Creek Amateur Radio Association," said Leo Boberschmidt, W3LEO, a close friend. "I still remember the great slide program he gave on his experiences during the Gulf War; it's hard to say anything else right now." Four other amateurs are still missing in the wake of the World Trade Center attack. * AMSAT-NA announces election results: AMSAT-NA Corporate Secretary Martha Saragovitz has announced the results of the 2001 elections for the AMSAT-NA Board of Directors. Barry Baines, WD4ASW; Dick Daniels, W4PUJ, Robin Haighton, VE3FRH and Bill Tynan, W3XO, will retain their seats on the board for two years. Bruce Paige, KK5DO, is the first alternate, and Richard Hambly, W2GPS, is the Second Alternate. They will serve until the next election.--AMSAT-NA * Disney special event postponed until December: The W4D special event to commemorate the 100th birthday of Walt Disney, scheduled for September 30-October 1, will be postponed until December. The new date will be announced. The event is sponsored by the Disney Emergency Amateur Radio Service. * George Jacobs, W3ASK, to step down as CQ propagation editor: After more than a half-century of writing CQ's monthly "Propagation" column, George Jacobs, W3ASK, will step down at year's end as the magazine's propagation editor. Tomas Hood, NW7US, will takes over the column in January 2002. Jacobs will remain on the CQ staff as contributing editor emeritus. "George Jacobs is an institution at CQ and in Amateur Radio community," said CQ Editor Rich Moseson, W2VU. "Over the past 50-plus years, he has helped demystify propagation for amateurs around the world, and has a prediction accuracy record that can't be beaten." Dayton Hamvention this year named Jacobs Amateur of the Year. An ARRL Full Charter Life Member, Jacobs was among the founding fathers of the OSCAR amateur satellite program and served as CQ's space communications editor prior to the launch of OSCAR I in 1961. Professionally, Jacobs was instrumental in building the Voice of America's worldwide short-wave network as well as other short-wave broadcasting facilities. * Guatemala gets 70 cm back: The Amateur Radio Club of Guatemala (Club de Radioaficionados de Guatemala--CRAG), the Guatemalan International Amateur Radio Union member society, reports that 430-440 MHz has been returned to Amateur Radio there. In 1996, the government eliminated amateur access in the formerly shared bands and auctioned 70 cm frequencies to commercial land mobile stations. These services reportedly now will be relocated to other spectrum. CRAG reports that Guatemala will seek a footnote at World Radiocommunication Conference 2003 to give Amateur Radio primary status at 430-440 MHz in that country. CRAG had petitioned the Guatemalan government to reverse its decision removing Amateur Radio from the band, and CRAG and IARU Region 2 officials had met several times with government officials on the subject. CRAG thanked the IARU Executive Committee for its support. The IARU Region 2 Conference will be held in Guatemala City September 30 to October 5.--AMSAT; IARU * Kuwait authorizes 9K2USA call sign: Bob Furzer, K4CY/9K2ZZ, reports that the Kuwait Amateur Radio Society--in conjunction with the Kuwait Ministry of Communications--has authorized the use of the call sign 9K2USA by all radio amateurs in Kuwait. The authorization is being characterized as "a small token of the sympathy and support for the people of the United States from the citizens of Kuwait, and as an expression of deep condolence" following the deadly terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, DC. The authorization will continue through the end of September. The Kuwait Amateur Radio Society will handle QSL chores using a common database, and all QSLs will be via 9K2RA, e-mail email@example.com. Visit the KARS Web site <http://www.kars.org>.--Bob Furzer, K4CY/9K2ZZ * Special event station K5MFJ to commemorate MFJ's 30th anniversary: MFJ Enterprises in Starkville, Mississippi, will sponsor a Mississippi ARRL day in the park, Saturday, September 29. Special event station K5MFJ will be on the air to commemorate the company's 30th anniversary. Events include tailgating and factory tours of MFJ, Ameritron, Hy-Gain, and the MFJ metal shop and engineering building. ARRL and MFJ have provided door prizes. Lunch is on the house. Work K5MFJ on 10, 15, 20 or 40 meters and receive a commemorative certificate. QSL to MFJ Amateur Radio Club, PO Box 494, Mississippi State, MS 39762. For more information, visit the MFJ Web site <http://www.mfjenterprises.com>. * Ten-Tec opens retail store, full-line dealership: Ten-Tec has opened an Amateur Radio retail store and full-line equipment dealership. The 1000-square-foot retail store and ham shack are in the lobby of the Ten-Tec manufacturing facility in Sevierville, Tennessee. "We have a large, loyal customer base that we'll be able to supply with accessories that complement our own manufactured equipment," says Ten-Tec Amateur Radio Product Manager Scott Robbins, W4PA. "Equipment from more than 20 manufacturers is already in stock and available direct from Ten-Tec." Ten-Tec is planning a grand opening celebration for its new retail outlet during the annual Ten-Tec Hamfest, Friday and Saturday, September 28-29. Visit the Ten-Tec Web site <http://www.tentec.com>. * WWV survey deadline near: The deadline is September 30 for the National Institute of Standards and Technology survey seeking information on how WWV and WWVH listeners use the standard time and frequency broadcast services. The survey remains available on the Web <http://www.timesurvey.nist.gov/>. 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By now the words "hope" and "Obama" are inseparable. And the man certainly hasn't welded himself to the ideal without help.
Here's another one of those lovingly-produced Obama = Hope! messages, put together by Blacklist, narrated by Douglas Coupland -- who wrote Generation X, Microserfs and The Gum Thief -- and directed by Pistachios.
Jesse Dylan, who directed "Yes We Can," also came along for the ride.
It probably won't spark a mash-up craze, but it's one more for the I <3 Obama scrapbook. (You have one, don't you? ...uh-huh.)
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by John Hawkins | June 25, 2012 7:11 am
Brett Kimberlin[1] has been in the news a lot lately. He has filed suit against some conservative bloggers, he's called the workplace of Stacy McCain's wife, some people believe he's behind a website that has posted the personal information of bloggers and others believe he's connected to the SWAT-ting of three conservative bloggers. According to Robert Stacy McCain[2], "at least three people…say they have talked to the FBI about what is, supposedly, an ongoing investigation of (SWATting/Brett Kimberlin)."
This is not the first time Brett Kimberlin has made national news. He first made a reputation for himself as the "Speedway Bomber." While he was in prison for that crime, he claimed to have sold pot to Dan Quayle. This caught Mark Singer's eye and he wrote a very credulous piece about Kimberlin's claims in the New Yorker. Afterwards, Singer apparently found Kimberlin to be such a fascinating subject that he spent four years working on a book about him, which came out in 1996.
That book was Citizen K: The Deeply Weird American Journey of Brett Kimberlin[3]. Although Kimberlin probably wouldn't agree with this assessment, Singer still seemed to be sympathetic to him in the book. In fact, Singer comes across as someone who researched what he was told by Kimberlin, unwillingly had the blinders ripped away from his eyes, and felt compelled to note what he had seen even though he found it unpleasant.
Here are some excerpts of note, which should fall under fair use given that this is a 381 page book. Enjoy.
"I already knew that I was listening to someone who, as a teenager, had been convicted of perjury; that he had progressed from small-time marijuana dealer to big-time marijuana smuggler; that in the late seventies he was regarded as suspect, though never charged, in a murder case that was never solved; and that in 1981, after a protracted prosecution in Indianapolis that included several bizarre elements, he was convicted of six apparently motiveless bombings in the town of Speedway, Indiana, the last of which left a man severely maimed. (In all, eight bombs detonated, but the government based its case on only six.) — P.8
"If Clinton gets elected, I'm out; I know I'll get a pardon," Kimberlin told me at one point. "But you can't say that. It looks like I'm (claiming I sold pot to Quayle) for political reasons, like I've got an agenda." — P.23
A couple of weeks shy of his eighteenth birthday, in May 1972, Kimberlin was indicted and charged with having sold 2.3 grams of cocaine to someone who turned out to be a government informer. — P.46
The Star went on to say: "Kimberlin first drew the notice of Federal drug agents who heard of his reputation of being a "multi-kilo' dealer in drugs. An informant told agents the youth was selling marijuana as a freshman at North Central High School." Finally, the article referred to a narcotics agent who worked on the case as having "testified at an early hearing that Kimberlin was known to have contacts with large-scale dealers in cocaine and heroin in Texas. He flew a private plane on some trips, the agents said." — P.49-50
Going to jail the first time taught Kimberlin some useful lessons, if not precisely what the judge who sentenced him had in mind. His perjury trial and conviction took place on a single day, in November 1973, but Kimberlin didn't actually enter custody until the following February. …..During this temporary inconvenience he had visits from family members and drug partners, as well as limited use of a telephone, and thus managed to buy and sell five thousand pounds of marijuana. — P.51
I've met smugglers who thought that some of my methods were too ballsy. I looked at it as just the opposite. If you do something right out in the open, as long as you don't trip up and make a mistake, then nobody's going to suspect it. — Brett Kimberlin, P.57
Kimberlin said he followed self-imposed rules that, for many years, enabled him to survive unscathed in his high-risk occupation. He never did business using his home telephone. He didn't use the same pay phone repeatedly. He wrote down few of the phone numbers of his business associates, relying instead upon his "incredible memory." If he did write a number down, he would invert certain digits. He never transported dope in his own car. He never told a woman what he was actually up to. When he checked into a hotel or bought a plane ticket, he paid cash and used an alias. He rotated through dozens of aliases. (When he went to Washington, he was "Mr. Smith.") He carried false identification — Social Security card, passport, driver's license. — P.61
From the beginning of his friendship with Sandi, Kimberlin said, her younger daughter developed an attachment to him. Sandi would come to Eagle Creek, to tend his horses and ride her own; Jessica would tag along, and "she used to hang on me, she didn't want to let me go." Jessica was ten years old and Kimberlin was twenty. — P.76
For three consecutive summers, 1974 through 1976, they took vacations of a week or longer in Disney World, Mexico, and Hawaii. Sandi couldn't get time off from work, so on these summer trips it was just the two of them — Brett and Jessica.
Eyebrows levitated. A drug-dealing colleague had memories of conversations with Kimberlin that struck him as odd: "We'd see a girl, who pubescent or prepubescent, and Brett would get this smile and say, 'Hey, what do you think? Isn't she great?' It made me very uncomfortable." Another recalled Kimberlin introducing Jessica as "my girlfriend," and if irony was intended, it was too subtle to register. To a coworker at IU-PUI, Sandi confided that Kimberlin was "grooming Jessica to be his wife." To another, Sandi explained that although Kimberlin's relationship with Jessica was chaste, he intended "to wait for her and would marry her." — P.78
"One day in June, I called (Jessica) at the apartment and said I'd come pick her up. I told her I was coming and I had a friend with me. She said 'Who?' It was (William) Bowman" — a drug-dealing associate. "When I got there she wasn't there and she left a note that she was at her grandmother's. I called over there and said I was coming to pick her up and (Julia Scyphers) said, 'Well, Jessica's with me today. You'll have to see her later.'" — Brett Kimberlin, P.80
On a three-by-five index card, the detective from the Speedway Police Department who interviewed Judith Johnson — the interview took place 3 August 1978 — recorded the following quotation from her, separate from her signed statement: "Brett Kimberlin had vengeance on his face when he talked about Mrs. Scyphers. He radiated hatred." — P.82
Kimberlin did not shoot Julia Scyphers, nor did anyone ever insist that he had. Only two people — the victim and her husband — got a close look at the killer. …The calm manner of the killer — as well as the apparent lack of motive, since nothing was stolen — suggested the work of a professional. — P.84
…(Fred Scyphers) identified William Bowman as the man who seven months earlier had come to his front door and put a bullet in his wife's skull. …For a murder trial to proceed, eyewitness testimony was essential, but Fred Scyphers was no longer available. Nine days after confronting Bowman in the courtroom, he collapsed and died of a stroke. — P.111
The first night — Friday, 1 September 1978 — four explosions occurred, at irregular intervals: shortly before ten o'clock, in a trash container in front of a stereo equipment store in a shopping center; fifteen minutes later, in a dumpster in a motel parking lot; half an hour after that, in a residential area; finally more than three hours later, under a crab apple tree near the entrance to a school.
….That no one was injured seemed more a matter of luck than of design. A fifth blast and then a sixth — in a cornfield and outside the Speedway Lanes bowling alley — took place in the following two nights.
…The bomber decided to take a day off — which did nothing to lessen the tension — and then upped the ante by planting one beneath a Speedway Police Department patrol car at an apartment house near Cunningham Drive.
…As it happened, however, the next explosion destroyed Carl DeLong's right leg. — P90-91
The search of the Impala yielded, in addition to the timers, a six volt battery, an ohm meter (for measuring electrical current), two twenty-five-pound bags of double-aught lead shot, three boxed of .445 caliber lead balls, four types of ammunition (approximately eighty rounds in all), and four gallons of Coleman lantern fuel. The government's agents had no basis for believing that the car belonged to anyone other than Kimberlin… — P.99
Kimberlin also said he was being framed for the bombings and the ATF should be looking for three FBI agents who had a vendetta against him, and had been conducting the vendetta for years. He said the vendetta was a result of the fact that his father, an attorney for Public Service of Indiana, had won the largest cash settlement in history from the United States government, and that the only way the government could get back at Mr. Kimberlin was through Brett. When asked the names of the three FBI agents, Kimberlin refused to name them and said he refused because he is not a snitch and did not want to get anyone in trouble even if they were framing him. — P.109
(Kimberlin) filed a $24 million damage suit against Ronald Confer, claiming his testimony contained "malicious falsehoods" that were intended to "cause harm." When nine months passed without Barker's appointing a special prosecutor, he sued her as well, along with two dozen law enforcement officials (including William French Smith, the attorney general of the United States) and several witnesses (including Lynn Coleman and, for good measure, Confer again). There could be no mistaking his fundamental jurisprudential strategy: Sue the b@stards; then sue them more; then some more. — P.182-183
(Kimberlin) had resisted a sexual predator by tossing powdered chlorine cleanser in his face. The predator was African American, Kimberlin told me, and as he fended him off he shouted, "You f*cking n*gger! You motherf*cking n*gger! Get the f*ck away from me! I'll kill you, you motherf*cker!" Kimberlin enjoyed telling this story. — P.183
At Oxford, (Kimberlin) was assigned as a quality-control clerk at a prison factory that manufactured cables for military aircraft and tanks. His task was to inspect the finished goods. Each day, he said, he did his work quickly and then tried to immerse himself in a book, but the prison guard who was his overseer objected to his reading on the job. When he persisted, the guard threatened to give him a "shot" — write an incident report that could lead to disciplinary action. So he stopped bringing a book to work, he said, and instead devoted his spare time to sabotage. "I'd run the cable through quality control," he said. "I'd check them. I'd sign off on them. And then I'd cut some of the damn wires." — P.184
"I started suing everybody — all the people who lied about me" (Kimberlin said). "I sued the agents who performed the illegal search and seizure of my home and property." Eventually, Kimberlin filed more than a hundred lawsuits and motions in the federal courts on his own behalf…. P.185
In a separate scam, (Kimberlin) claimed, he and two other convicts availed themselves of a corporate telephone credit card access code, ran up charges well into six figures, and never got caught. — P.188
As a LEGAL matter, the bombings conviction was, barring a presidential pardon, for once and all, irreversible. — P.211
Sifting through this little heap of mendacity, I asked myself whether Kimberlin lied for sport or whether an assortment of small lies coalesced into a gang of tar babies that then encircled him. — P.316
When Kimberlin delivered a similarly sanctimonious oration at his sentencing hearing, he apparently believe in his innocence. At the end of the day, I decidedly did not. — P.323
The Quayle story was Kimberlin's most successful creation, the invention that propelled him further than any other. Someone he knew, but not Kimberlin himself, had either sold or claimed to have sold pot to Quayle — and (Kimberlin) appropriated this for himself. — P.335
I spent four years asking questions about Kimberlin, and along the way I never met a soul who could offer genuine corroboration of the fable that brought him to my attention in the first place. — P.337
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Last Week on Dear Television:
- Post 1: "When Worlds Collide," from Jane Hu
- Post 2: "Romney-Dad: Conservatives in Comedy," from Lili Loofbourow
- Post 3: "Moby-Nick, or The Whale Belt," from Phil Maciak
This Week:
"Of In-Groups and Out-Groups"
SCHMIDT BELLOWED WHEN JESS started her Frasier Crane imitation. A line had been crossed. I knew then that we were about to get some amazing material for our discussion of generational comedy. Is Schmidt a modern-day Frasier? Not quite, I think, but his outburst hints at some slightly foppish commonality between the two. Jane, Phil, I can't wait to hear what you guys thought. Me, I was so disturbed by Deschanel's pitch-perfect Urkel impression (and by how grotesque Stephanie Tanner's "How rude!" looked on a grown woman) that I kind of blacked out on nuance. The Urkel imitation is doing worrying but potentially interesting things with race and comedy (as is The Mindy Project, with Mindy's uncomfortable theory about black men). It's telling that both shows step back from the risks they take: Deschanel acknowledges her comedic debt to Urkel when she introduces the hula-hooping polyamorists to an "adorable African-American" character, thereby sort of apologizing for whatever appropriation. And Mindy's theory of race is completely wrong — it's the white guy who's into her.
This week, I ended up fixating on how The Mindy Project and New Girl dealt with in-groups and out-groups. In both cases the protagonist made it in — Jess bonded with Brory et al and Mindy made it to the VIP — while other characters who consider themselves high-status winners looked on forlornly. Another way of putting it is that both episodes were about locking out the smooth operators who work the system by "crushing it" (Schmidt) or by cultivating Carlo (Shauna), and showering our protagonists in accidental social success. (Okay, Schmidt isn't a smooth operator, but he is relentless, and his relentlessness pays off sometimes. The point is that both he and Shauna are, in their way, very hard workers.)
In both cases, the protagonists end up choosing their original in-group over the more desirable out-group, but both episodes stage the seduction of wanting badly to belong, even as you understand that your winning has nothing to do with your own merit. Mindy's theory about black men and Indian girls doesn't apply, even though she gets to hang out with a bunch of gorgeous mega-talented black men and quiz them on romantic comedies. Jess's imitations of eighties sitcoms are only working because the young 'uns have never seen them. Both women are being read in a way they didn't quite expect, both start accepting the social capital that accrues as a result, but neither is ultimately in it for the long haul.
Did you guys buy Brory and Fife's obliviousness, by the way? I thought New Girl was uncharacteristically ungenerous to the neighbors. The polyamory joke felt descriptive and right, but the dishwasher joke? The laundry joke? Those felt like Winston-league pranks, clobbering millennials in the face with a ski.
Still, that brings me to New Girl's thesis of the pranking "sweet spot," which I loved (and which I lack). This B story was, as usual, my favorite part of the episode, delving as it does into the question of effort. What do you care about, what do you work towards, and why? Nick's intense work ethic when it comes to pranking Schmidt matches Schmidt's mega-effortful personality (which is sort of beautifully symbolized by the "brightly-colored sweater" he wants to see Jess wearing). It's heartbreaking to see Nick putting all that work into a system only Schmidt buys into, just as it's heartbreaking to watch Schmidt compete in a social scene that runs on lack of effort. It's heartbreaking to see Jess succeed with the quinoa crowd, since she's also about sincere enthusiasm and effort, and it's heartbreaking to watch Winston actually try.
But Winston, you guys. Winston is getting left behind. Whatever breakthrough-plus-parody-of-a-breakthrough his speech was supposed to be fell flat. As, of course, did his speech, which won him a three-hour talk show in the middle of the night. If that isn't an unfortunate metaphor for Winston's role in New Girl, I don't know what is. It's a little weird to conjure up one underused African-American actor when you're underusing the one in your cast. Then again, maybe that's the point: if Schmidt is our generation's Frasier, maybe Winston is our Urkel? Frasier's urbanity was repackaged as whale-belted and be-muscled, whereas Urkel's overbroad, well-intentioned awkwardness got rebranded as a quiet but slightly insane lack of common sense?
I hope the show finds its sweet spot with Winston, because I feel like he's fading into a joke accessory — he's the guy whose weirdness only lasts one episode: he likes fruity drinks! He doesn't get pranks! He wears a peacock earring!
While we're on the subject of zany, can we talk about Morgan in The Mindy Project? I worried about Morgan in this episode when he showed up at the club with the duffel bag full of supplies, because he was sailing awfully close to Schrute Farms. But it's fine: Morgan's handsy goodheartedness distinguishes him from Dwight the Rampant Randian. I love him. That said, I appreciate that his warmth is only intermittently competent. In particular, I loved that the triumphant moment when he shoved his earnings into the waitress' hands didn't come off, and that he doesn't see it fail. That shot of the waitress waving his tips yelling "this is thirty-seven dollars!" would have been the payoff in a typical sitcom, and we could all laugh at Ransom/Morgan's faux-success and at the hapless waitress. Instead, we see Mindy bankroll that little social victory without calling any attention to it — she's alert to the needs of people around her, even when she chooses to ignore them. Mindy's redeeming features live there, I think — in the moments of quiet do-goodery that underwrite her loud and sometimes selfish demands. It's skillfully done.
I poured a little dust outside your car,
Recommended Reads:
Week 2, Post 1: "When Worlds Collide," from Jane Hu
Week 2, Post 2: "Romney-Dad: Conservatives in Comedy," from Lili Loofbourow
Week 2, Post 3: "Moby-Nick, or The Whale Belt," from Phil Maciak


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Here's an experiment. Track down Derren Brown and get him to wipe all knowledge of the Pixies' reunion from your mind. Now listen to EP2 with no knowledge of who is behind it. What do you think? How do you feel? Weirdly, your first thought is unlikely to be 'ooh, this sounds like the Pixies!' It does of course, but in the field of indie rock so does pretty much everything - you can't do this sort of punchy, quirky guitar pop without the Pixies being in the background. The EP's Pixies-ness isn't especially remarkable. You'd certainly applaud the off-kilter sensibilities melded to the face-melting riff on 'Blue Eyed Hexa', you'd marvel at the honey-dipped hooks that dribble sweetly across 'Greens and Blues' with its sexy, chiming guitar, clockwork chord progression and gorgeous chorus, and you'd nod enthusiastically to the grungey, poppy groove on 'Magdalena'. You'd conclude that this was an impressive little package, and you'd be fairly interested in where it had come from.
And then you'd be told it's the Pixies and weirdly everything becomes a bit less exciting, a bit less impressive, a bit less delicious. We apply a different set of standards to our 'great' bands, which is of course deeply unfair. Not every song can be 'Debaser', not every album can be Surfer Rosa. A band that have skirted pretty close to perfection can be forgiven for easing themselves back in, which is why these short, almost under-the-radar EPs must seem so appealing to them. When and if a new Pixies album does come along, many will expect the second coming: dribbling material like this is a clever way to circumvent those expectations. Still, what constitutes feeling their way back for the Pixies would be mightily impressive for a lesser band.
Following on from last year's EP1, this a tougher, leaner Pixies than that of their classic era, missing some of the ramshackle charm on which their most well known work floated. Surfer Rosa and Doolittle, especially, always felt moments away from disintegration, a shade between masterpiece and mess, which the quartet always pulled off by the skin of their teeth. There's no such tension here - this is a slicker, and more metallic set, taking fewer risks and hitting fewer heights. Musically its cues come from Trompe Le Monde and the scratchier end of Black Francis' solo output, with 'Blue Eyed Hexa' built on an almost Jack White-ish stomp and a bloodthirsty vocal, while a kind of disquieting, melancholic pop is at work on 'Magdalena' which makes it the most uncompromisingly 'Pixies' moment here. Closer 'Snakes' is another odd one, a propelling beat allowing guitarist Joey Santiago to lay a brilliantly messy anti-solo between killer Frank Black choruses. It's great. The jewel in the crown is 'Greens and Blues', the one moment here that creeps in the direction of the big Pixie-pop touchstones of yore, the 'Here Comes Your Mans', and 'Gigantics', the latter of which has a spirit deliberately mirrored here.
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"Laws of Attraction" Emphasizes Pro-Marriage Message
- Annabelle Robertson Entertainment Critic
- 2004 30 Apr
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Rating: PG-13 (for sexual content and language)
Genre: Action/Drama/Adventure
Run Time: 90 minutes
Director: Peter Howitt
Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Julianne Moore, Parker Posey, Francis Fisher, Michael Sheen
If you like lawyer jokes, you'll love this film, which plays on stereotypes and creates a few new ones while dispensing a much-needed message about the power of making marriage work, against all odds.
Audrey Woods (Julianne Moore) and Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan) are successful New York divorce attorneys who have never lost a case, but any resemblance between the two ends there. The daughter of a social icon, Audrey works for a top city firm and lives in a stylish apartment. She believes that divorce can and must be handled amicably and honestly. When things get stressful, she dashes into the bathroom for a Twinkie or two. Daniel, on the other hand, keeps his cases like his suits and his office – messy and dirty. Like Audrey, he's convinced that people should put the passion they so often display for divorce into saving their marriage, thus avoiding the whole process. But unlike Audrey, when all else fails, this Irishman has no qualms about using dishonest tactics to win.
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When the legal eagles find themselves pitted against one another in court, Audrey seeks out Daniel and tries for a settlement, but instead winds up getting drunk with him. She is attracted to his rakish charms, but refuses to admit it. They nevertheless spend the night together. The next morning, Audrey has to wear the suit that Daniel washed and shrunk the night before to court. She's further humiliated when Daniel pulls her panties from his pocket during the hearing, and promptly loses her case.
For the next few months, the two battle it out, much to the delight of the media. When Daniel agrees to represent a spurned fashion-designer (Parker Posey), Audrey seeks out the philandering rock-star husband (Michael Sheen) and goes to war. Doing a pretty good imitation of the late Sid Vicious (of the Sex Pistols) and Nancy Spungen, these clients both want revenge – and their Irish castle. So Daniel and Audrey head to the luxurious abode to depose the staff as witnesses. But alcohol is calling, and they get drunk again. This time, they pull a "Britney" and tie the knot.
Audrey is horrified, but Daniel is smitten. When the news hits the press back home, Audrey nevertheless abandons plans for a quickie divorce and agrees to pretend that the marriage is real, so their careers won't suffer. The problem is, Audrey really is in love, just out of touch with her feelings – something her youth-obsessed mother (Frances Fisher) intends to cure.
The happily-ever after ending won't surprise anyone. After all, this is a romantic comedy. And we go to see these because we like the way they make us feel – warm and happy and hopeful that love really does prevail. The great thing about this movie is that not only does love prevail, but marriage does as well, and that's not something you can bet on these days – especially at the movies. So the message, that we must work things out if we possibly can and save the marriage, is an excellent one.
To get there, you have to accept that Audrey and Daniel aren't exactly church people, though. The fact that she can only connect to Daniel while drunk is disturbing, and is never addressed by the film. Moreover, it might even lead one to conclude that getting drunk is a good thing, because it forces "destiny" to happen. This is a deceitful message at best. Alcohol destroys our inhibitions and boundaries, which, like fences, are meant to keep the good in and the bad out. If anything, the one-night-stand between Audrey and Daniel alienated them and prevented them from slowly building a real relationship – one that is based on intimacy, not sex.
Both Brosnan and Moore do excellent jobs with their roles, and the acting throughout the film is superb. I also liked Sheen's punk-rock persona and Fisher's mother character, who each got some laughs. The script, though fairly predictable, has some very cute one-liners scattered throughout. "Are you really 56?" Daniel asks Audrey's mother, who has a penchant for plastic surgery. "Parts of me are," she answers. Audrey also tells her mother, "He's not your type. He's old enough to drive." Throughout it all, she remains oddly optimistic about love, despite numerous divorces – another way the film emphasizes a pro-marriage message.
Despite its broken, imperfect characters, "Laws of Attraction" is a nice movie that will appeal to couples needing a romantic boost and women longing to believe in love again. If nothing else, it will certainly remind us that, when considering divorce, we would all do well to "Remember the Alimony!"


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The bizarre animated story of one man's struggle to clean his house.
October 31, 2011
Tom King's "Plugs"
October 30, 2011
October 28, 2011
The Art of Ben Hickling
Click here to see much more (and in hi-res).
First look at "Frankenweenie"
Here's some pics from Frankenweenie, Tim Burton's black and white stop-motion remake of his own 1984 live-action short film.
Song of Pride
This video was done by the 8th grade student Sam Clancey-Edwards. It is about Canada.
Animation Nation
I can't believe "Regualr Show" made it on Jeopardy!
October 27, 2011
October 26, 2011
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Program Information
The primary goals of the WCJC Geography program include the following:
- To develop in the student an appreciation for and knowledge of the ways in which humans
have used and adapted to the physical environments of the earth.
- To enable the student to understand how culture is created and how it develops and
is influenced by the physical environment as well as how humans have overcome difficulties.
- To provide the student with knowledge of how people make a living, how they use their
physical resources (land, soils, minerals), and how climate affects human activity.
- To foster in the student the ability to think intelligently about the physical environment
and the resulting cultures so that the student will have empathy and appreciations
for cultures that are greatly different from his or her own culture and perceive the
universal aspirations of all humanity.
- To equip the students with the ability to read and interpret maps in order to locate the countries and cities of the world, the physical features of the continents-rivers, lakes, mountains, forested areas, and plains. Map location work and study will provided the students with a larger and broadened spatial perception of the earth.
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It's that Mardi Gras time of year, and while the snow continues to fall up here in the mountains of Colorado, we love a good celebration and can always find an excuse to give you some delicious recipes for tea beverages! (And believe it or not, one of our local ski areas really does celebrate the occasion every year in the snow.)
Down south where the beads are really flying the go-to refreshment is sweet tea, which is black tea with plenty of sugar (or sometimes prepared with simple syrup — one part water and one part sugar boiled together and cooled). We're all about indulgence (it's called Fat Tuesday for a reason, no?), but we get it if your sweet tea needs to be a little less sweet. We found this recipe for Slightly Sweet Tea from Southern Living, which you can make with organic green tea, honey, orange and lime juice.
But should you want something a bit more potent, shall we say, we've got a recipe that's a marvelous mash-up of two legendary southern refreshments: sweet tea and mint juleps! Keep this recipe on hand for the Kentucky Derby (the first weekend of May is just over two months away, after all):
Sweet Tea Mint Juleps
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 (1-ounce) package fresh mint (about 1 cup)
- 1 1/4 cups bourbon
- 1/3 cup fresh lime juice
- 1 3/4 cups chilled sparkling wine
- Mint sprigs (optional)
Combine sugar and 1/2 cup water in a microwave-safe bowl; microwave at high 3 minutes, stirring until sugar dissolves. Add tea bags and mint to sugar syrup; steep 20 minutes. Discard tea bags and mint. Stir in bourbon and juice; chill. Pour tea mixture into a pitcher; stir in sparkling wine. Garnish with mint sprigs, if desired; serve immediately.
If Earl Grey is not your bag (ha ha ... tea, bag ... sorry), we encourage you to substitute our Organic Assam, or play around with this recipe until it's your cup of tea. Your cup of sweet tea! Don't worry, the blog's over now. Happy Mardi Gras, tea lovers!


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UPDATE - Looks like it's back. Skyrim and Deus Ex are now both available for under $10. Merry Christmas!
Hope you weren't planning on buying - or in some cases playing - any new PC games today, because Steam's servers have either been down or crushed for much of the day. The service's support Twitter is silent - maybe it's got the day off - but you don't have to look far to see reports of people struggling to get online.
How's everyone's status been? I had a little trouble this morning (it's December 26 already here in Australia)
but everything seems fine now OK now I can't access the store at all. We're still getting reports of downtime in the US and Europe though.
Most complaints seem to be concerning Steam's store and community features; the service's status page (at least when it loads, as it's on-and-off for me) still shows hundreds of thousands of people playing games.
The store, on the other hand...here's what the store page looks like for most:
I guess more people wanted a free copy of Left 4 Dead 2 than Valve were bargaining for...


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SNOW HILL – Architectural standards for commercial buildings in Worcester County are under development and will be considered by the Planning Commission this summer.
"Staff has them pretty much ready and we'll be looking at draft architectural standards at our second meeting in June," said Carolyn Cummins, chair of the planning commission.
"This is something that was recommended the county do as part of its Comprehensive Plan," said Sandy Coyman, director of comprehensive planning. "It's at the staff level now and we're working up a draft for the planning commission to review."
The draft of the standards is based on the voluntary plan for downtown Ocean City created by the Ocean City Development Corporation, and the standards created by La Plata, Md. The standards will include a pattern book of characteristic architecture, illustrating elements like rooflines, window placement, and building materials.
Cummins said that the standards would also resemble the Route 113 corridor plan, already in place, and the Route 50 corridor plan.
"We want to have one plan, because there's been overlaps," Cummins said. "They just don't have the same standards in them."
The overarching requirements would be supplemented by road specific standards, such as coastal or small town styles, she said.
Architectural standards are important for the local hospitality industry, according to Coyman.
"Tourists tend to go to places because they're different, not because they look like home," Coyman said.
Many corporations use what is called 'franchise architecture,' or the same building design everywhere.
"It tends to make a new place look like every other place," Coyman said. "In Worcester County we want to preserve our rural and coastal character."
The new Bank of Ocean City building in Berlin is a good example of a new building constructed to be compatible with a historic town, planners say.
The standards will be sent on to the County Commissioners once the planning commission declared itself satisfied with the draft. The commissioners would likely hold public hearings on the document.
Coyman said it would be up to the commissioners to make the standards mandatory or just guidelines.
The county planning commission's attempts to impose some architectural control over new buildings has been only sporadically successful. Developers continue to struggle with the commission's concerns over new project architecture, as illustrated by a contentious discussion last week at a commission meeting, over the proposed West Ocean City Rite Aid pharmacy.
A second elevation for the 17,000-square-foot building, with modifications including a lighter brick, additional cornice line, and landscaping, came under consideration at the May meeting.
Continued criticism of the changes caused attorney Mark Cropper, representing the applicant, to remark that Worcester County does not yet have architectural review authority. The attorney called the debate an inappropriate discussion without set standards.
"The county needs to adopt specific architectural standards," Cropper said. "Worcester County needs to do it, and once Worcester County does it I think this board has every right in the world to go through this analysis."
Cummins said that county attorney Ed Hammond disagrees. The county code does give the planning commission some authority over building design. "It's limited, would be what I would say," said Cummins.
"You're right, we need standards," said Brooks Clayville, commission member.


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It's no secret. I love Liberty Tree Tavern. It has one of my favorite burgers, one of my favorite appetizers, and one of my favorite desserts in all of Disney World. The food is great, the service is excellent, and the atmosphere of the restaurant is delightful.
But there is a design aspect of the restaurant that is extremely compelling and that many visitors miss: each room is decorated to honor someone who was instrumental in the creation of The United States of America! The next time you head to Liberty Tree Tavern, ask your "town crier" about the particular room in which you're being seated. Is it the one dedicated to Betsy Ross, George & Martha Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Paul Jones, or Paul Revere?
Liberty Tree Tavern is located in Liberty Square in Disney World's Magic Kingdom. The building is white and columned on the outside, but full of rich Revolutionary decor on the inside. Once you've left your name with the front podium, you'll wait in a huge, two-story lobby full of spindly seating, a massive cooking fireplace focal point, spice racks, and kitchen tools. Don't forget to take a look at [Read more…]


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I Am a Child of God
31243, Hymns, I Am a Child of God, no. 301
1. I am a child of God,
And he has sent me here,
Has given me an earthly home
With parents kind and dear.
Lead me, guide me, walk beside me,
Help me find the way.
Teach me all that I must do
To live with him someday.
2. I am a child of God,
And so my needs are great;
Help me to understand his words
Before it grows too late.
3. I am a child of God.
Rich blessings are in store;
If I but learn to do his will
I'll live with him once more.
Text: Naomi W. Randall, 1908-2001. © 1957 IRI
Music: Mildred T. Pettit, 1895-1977. © 1957 IRI


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Angora Ridge tracked out by snowmobiles, skis, and snowshoes
The Angora Burn Area from Angora Ridge
Informative sign at the Angora Lookout. Fallen Leaf Lake in the background
The Angora Fire Lookout, with Fallen Leaf Lake and Mt Tallac behind it
Fallen Leaf Lake and Lake Tahoe from the Angora Fire Lookout
Mt Tallac reflecting in Fallen Leaf Lake from the Angora Fire Lookout
Fallen Leaf Lake and Mt. Tallac from the Angora Fire Lookout
View southwest from the Angora Fire Lookout
Angora Ridge Rd in the winter
Snowscape along Angora Ridge Rd
Red paintbrush on the ridge above Fallen Leaf Lake, along the Mt Tallac Trail.
The first part of the Mt Tallac Trail follows a ridge overlooking Fallen Leaf Lake
Fallen Leaf Lake and Lake Tahoe from the Mt Tallac Trail
The trail to Floating Island Lake after departing the ridge.
The creek out of Floating Island Lake
View east from across Fallen Leaf Lake
Looking southeast over Fallen Leaf Lake
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