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Library Friends & Volunteers Appreciation Party
Wednesday August 3, 2022, 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Are you a current or former Library volunteer or Friend? You're invited to a Pizza Party!
We'd love to thank you for helping the Library. We haven't had a Volunteer Appreciation event since before Covid-19, and we are excited to welcome you back.
Stop by to visit with staff and other volunteers, enter a raffle, and enjoy some pizza and refreshments.
You'll also have a chance (if you'd like) to record a greeting for our National Library Card Sign Up Month promo video!
Please RSVP so we can get a headcount for food and account for any food allergies. See you then!
VOLUNTEER Overview
Volunteers keep shelves organized, shelve books, take care of the grounds (weeding, planting, cleaning outside), assist during the summer reading program, and help with other special projects and events. The Library accepts volunteers age 13 and older, and has a VolunTEENs program exclusively for people ages 13 - 18.
The Library would not function without the help of our strong volunteer team. Volunteers are extremely valued members of our library team! The Library is significantly underfunded, so the more volunteer assistance we receive, the more services we can offer the community. Our District serves 16,114 people - more than just Sugar Grove, but also parts of Montgomery and Aurora.
To apply for a volunteer position at the library, please fill out an application. You can submit the completed application at the Circulation desk or by emailing the Circulation Department. Hard copies of the application are available at the Circulation desk.
Library Ambassadors
The library ambassadors are advocacy volunteers who help the community find out about the Library's programs and services. Ambassadors might be assigned as their neighborhood social media liason - sharing library information to your neighborhood groups. They may also be asked to speak with their church, school, classroom, social groups and more. An ambassador may also attend Now Learn series programs to socialize with and provide tours to new library patrons. We hope that ambassadors can help provide a 'Welcome Wagon' type of experience to new residents to let them know how you get a library card. Ambassadors might also help with public-facing outreach responsibilities on behalf of the Library Friends.
Booksale Volunteer
Volunteers in this area would be responsible for sorting and reviewing donated items for the collection, and helping to keep the sale shelf organized and refilled.
Garden Volunteer
Volunteers in this area would be responsible for weeding and occasionally watering annual plants. If the library acquires indoor plants, they may take care of those throughout the year. Garden volunteers may also solicit plant donations.
Graphic Design Volunteer
Do you have a knack for creating graphics that draw people in? We'd love help on special design projects. Our team uses Canva for design.
Now Learn Community Volunteer
Now Learn: From Your Community series, where a community member or organization demonstrates a skill or discusses a topic in a specialized area. Is there something you want to "show and tell" to the public, or do you know someone who can?
Photography Volunteer
Volunteers would attend events to take photographs of attendees and activities on an as-needed basis.
Shelving Volunteer
Do you enjoy order? Know a little about the Dewey Decimal system? Okay with singing "ABC" in your head a lot? You might enjoy shelving books, movies, music, and other library materials into different areas of the library. We will provide training.
Summer Reading Program Volunteer
Volunteers help the library staff by checking in children at the summer reading check in table. This involves handing out and collecting reading logs, properly marking and filing the information both in paper and by computer, and handing out prizes for reading accomplishments. Volunteers must be able to communicate information clearly to children and their caregivers. They must be able to read, write, and type on a computer. Summer Reading Program Volunteers are generally asked to help a minimum of 2-6 hours per week during the 8 week program.
Do you want to earn service hours while helping the Sugar Grove Public Library?
Join the Library VolunTEENS program! For those in grades 7-12. You will earn service hours during the meeting, as well as if you volunteer for any events or projects beyond these meetings.
During the meetings, you will provide feedback and ideas to the Librarian on how to make the Library better for teens. You will also have the opportunity to help with creative projects to promote the library's services, books, and programs. Activities may also include organizing, shelving, preparing crafts, and more.
Welcome Wagon Volunteer Committee
Help us get this project off the ground! We would like to assemble welcome packets for new community members. We need your help delivering the welcome bundle, sourcing items for the bundle, and other activities in support of this new program.


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crankshaft / My Chumby hacking story: Do you believe in the Users?
From day one, I have been always envisioning Crankshaft to be the software package that is easy ("turnkey") for the end user and powerful for the developers. Crankshaft has proved to be turnkey for many users and I've also made it fun for newbies to customize it, but with the dev mode introduced last week, I think I have executed my very first baby step in making that a dream for developers. That inspiration came from my many years being a hacker, and a single ill-fated product that affected me the most profound way: The Chumby.
The sentence I remembered the most from it was: "Do you believe in the Users?" (In turn, from the movie Tron, I think.)
I still keep my Chumby. It still works. Wait a sec, it's not a Chumby, isn't it? Read on…
This will be a trip down my memory lane, and not everything is relevant, so I hope you have some free time to read this. First, a disclaimer: the information, and opinions expressed in this blog were solely mine and in no way representative of anyone else's view.
Apple: Do you believe in your Customers?
When Steve Jobs did the infamous funeral for OS 9, Apple ran an advertisement for OS X on the Macintosh that advertised it as a powerful UNIX machine:
OS X Ad. Source.
Being born in Vietnam in a middle-class family, I only knew Macs through computer magazines. Vietnam was sanctioned by the US up until 1995. I first touched a computer in 1998 when I was 11. I knew Macintosh was a powerful computer for users, designers, and programmers alike, but never touched one myself. When I was a freshman college student in the Vietnam of Academy of Cryptographic Engineering in 2005, I spent all my money working for a startup for 4 months to buy a crappy Acer laptop for $600 (of which $300 my mom helped me). Later I turned it to a Hackintosh. OS X Tiger was polished, lovely and powerful just like I imagined. I was greeted with this when I tried to do
Tiger used to warn its users this. I don't think newer versions of macOS do this anymore. Source
Surely I was somewhat fluent with Linux at that point but somehow I always associated that message with OS X (I think because I would log in as root when I wanted to do stuff on my Linux boxes). I knew at that point I had a powerful tool that just worked normally but also trusted me to break it when I wanted it to. It was memorizing.
Truck: Do you believe in your Students?
Then for reasons too long to tell, I dropped out of the college in Vietnam, heartbroken but not any less determined. I got admitted to Truman State, a small liberal arts college in Kirksville - a town in the middle of nowhere, in 2008. For my first two years there, I was just a low-key Business-Administration-turned-CS international student. I worked for the Truman IT department to support a hall that houses a couple of departments, one of which was the Maths and CS department. Across my office was the only CS lab called The Nerdery with around 15 computers. 4 of them ran Linux, specifically an old version of Debian. You can see them in the photo here in the background.
Good ole time in The Nerdery at Truman State University. Credits: Ian Monroe on Flickr.
The computers were decommissioned Windows Dell PCs. Each had a Pentium 4 CPU with 1GB RAM. They were slow for the time, so not many students used them. On top of that, they also had old browsers and the accounts were unprivileged and they didn't provide much utility so compared to Windows stations. Dr. Don Bindner, the professor who is charge of the Nerdery, installed an LCD matrix display on one of them to show the department server load with a custom daemon. In March of 2010, I noticed I could do a local kernel exploit on the computer, so I covertly planted a program that wrote "Hello Don, you have been fished!" on the LCD and it would trigger on April fools' day (don't worry, that message was silly and doesn't mean anything). The day finally came. It caught one of the students' attention, and they reported to the Donald. Before he asked a student to investigate it, I came to talk to him: I told him I could have done more malicious things with all other accounts, but that was all I did. He was somewhat impressed and wasn't mad, so we sat down to talk.
We agreed this would be a nice opportunity to revamp our system. I came up with a proposal, we would install Ubuntu so they look more modern - that was the easy part. And because people who use Linux are power users anyway, I wanted to give everyone root (a.k.a. the Stallmanism approach). But that brought another problem, how were we going to stop people from messing everything up? First, we thought about running Ubuntu as a "live" distro from the HDD. But what if someone dd'ed the HDD? Well,… Let's netboot them! Two problems came up. First, the network ports we had in the room were the "slow" 100Mbps one. Second, for us to do PXE netboot, there will be a ton of changes needed in the IT infrastructure and it would take a long time for the IT department to get to us. Ain't nobody's got time for dat!
Further digging revealed to me that it was possible to flash an extremely powerful bootloader called iPXE run as an Option ROM. That way, we wouldn't have to worry about having PXE support on the DHCP server. One cool thing about the EPROM chip on the network card, if we had one, is that they are writeable, but only when one erased them first. To erase them, one would have to literally pull the chip out and shine a strong UV light on the transparent hole for a while. In short, it would take a ton of work for a student to actually brick a station.
You need something like this to erase EPROM chips quickly. Source
So we came up with a crazy Frankenstein setup. I bought and donated a cheap gigabit switch to the Nerdery to give all the computers a 1Gbps connection because we actually had a single 1Gbps port. The built-in Ethernet port on those computers were already Gigabit so that was fortunate. We would also buy several old 3M 10Mbps PCI network cards to install one on each computer. Their sole purpose was to house an iPXE EPROM chip to boot the computers. And guess what, that crazy setup worked after a couple of nights messing around with them! I decided to further foolproof them by optimizing the live image so everything would fit and run on RAM. Lucky for us, Don and I were able to dig up several RAM sticks from decommissioned PCs, so we had 2GB of RAM on each computer in which ~1GB was used for the live image. They were damn fast! If the Windows PC took 2 minutes to log on and 30 seconds to open a browser, it took our workstation 1 seconds to log on and a browser would open instantly. That's not counting gcc, apt, and all kinds of fun stuff we had on them. On top of it, everyone had root!
If you mess anything up, just hold the power button for 3 seconds and the computer would boot right back up. They were a hit among students then. We called the distro Truck (because everything better to start with the prefix Tru-), a name my friend Erin Clark (she is now working for iXSystems) suggested to me one night. We thought it was a nice name because a truck is a very powerful and solid vehicle.
Creating Truck was perhaps one of my fondest memories during my time in Truman as an undergrad student. As far as I knew, no one up to when I left Truman actually abused that root privilege to do anything shady (that's one of the perks in a small school).
Chumby: Do you believe in your Users?
I graduated Truman at the end of 2011 and was offered a temporary job for 8 months in the IT department as a "Web developer" while waiting for my grad school decision. Part of my job when I was a student was to help design and install AV control systems in classrooms. Each classroom then had a document camera, a computer, potentially laptops, and maybe a tape/DVD player and they needed to be labelled accordingly, and using the remote is too hard and too flaky. We would order the touch panels from Extron that has a couple of physical buttons to allow us to switch the multimedia source to project in the classroom. Their products were very nice, but then the prices were not. They later came up with a touchscreen system that sold for an even higher price. Extron support was nice and efficient though, so, as people often say, "you get what you pay for."
However, I remember we were having budget cuts left and right. It didn't help that Truman isn't a rich school to begin with, it's just a small public education insitution. Partly because of the cost of the AV control system for each classroom, we didn't usually have all the funds allocated at once. We would have to do several rooms at a time whenever funds came in. So among the things I was expected to do, the IT department really hoped I could come up with a more elegant solution. I was planning to design a simpler board with a simple microcontroller with an Ethernet chip with the help of the Donald and get them manufactured. But then it was a very monumental task and 8 months seemed way too short to get it executed. I even had one of the first "preview" Pi boards at the time but wasn't very sure if I were going to use it. It was 2012, the Pi was very rare at the time, the lead time looks like going to be at least another year. How on Earth were we supposed to get hundreds of them for a reasonable price before I left?
My first Raspberry Pi B in early 2012 – I knew it was something very special. It was a gift of Nokia. Thank you - You were so kind.
One night when I was browsing Hacker News late, I came across a peculiar comment:
I'm anxiously awaiting the time when I can buy a Pi without jumping through hoops just to check one out. In the meantime, for those interested primarily in the price of the product and the DIY-tinker factor but who haven't been able to snag a Pi yet, you can currently pick up new (well, not new exactly, but never used) Insignia Infocast 3.5" devices for about $25 from various resellers (look on ebay, etc).
OH RLY? I looked on eBay. There was a merchant who was offering the Infocasts for around $20 a pop. I immediately emailed the person to see how many they have, and they said they have a lot. I only heard about the Chumby at the time, and never worked with one. With that price I ordered one of them shipped next-day to me to test. I wasted no time and just enabled the developer mode right after I got it. Thanks to the wiki, after several sleepless nights, I managed to port Webkit to it. Shortly after, I was able to get a proof-of-concept web interface to work to control and manage a projector in my office. I showed the department at the meeting, they were amused. That would be all we needed to have to implement such a control system!
I convinced my manager and the department to pull the biggest heist ever to buy all the remaining stock from that merchant. I can't remember the amount we purchased, but it was hundreds. The shipment came in a truck and we filled literally a quarter of a storage room with new Infocast boxes. I figured with a price that can get 5 rooms going with Extron control units, we could have enough control units for the whole campus for 5 years. It was quite a funny and memorable scene in my mind. I had a picture of it, but my hard drive crashed, so I don't have it now (When I am able to retrieve it from old colleagues, I will post it here).
At Truman, we still dearly call them the Chumby/ies. I was able to get a control system going by the time I left for grad school 8 months later. I haven't asked, but last time I checked 6 months ago or so, Truman still use the Chumbies to control projectors :).
When I had my first Chumby, I knew it was something very special. It was an end-user product and would just work out of the box. Yet I only needed to press on a corner and it would expose as a fully capable hackable Linux computer with all its development bells and whistles. It invited me to repurpose it to do whatever I want. I'm sure the creators of it believed in their users to do good things with it.
Because of the hack, I had the pleasure to know and exchange several emails and do some things with bunnie. I don't recall if I ever told him, Duane, or anyone who worked on the Chumby about this story about the big heist and the mass deployment of it. I really hope everyone who worked on the product is glad their creation still proved to be useful years later after they closed shop. For myself, I am proud of being the person that deployed hundreds of hacked products all around the little beautiful campus that I spent the best years of my life in.
Throughout the years, I have used custom firmwares and taken part in custom firmware development for a couple of routers, android mobile phones, Chromebooks, game consoles, and handhelds. Many later products reflected somewhat the Chumby spirit: the write protect screw on the Chromebooks or the bootloader unlock command on android phones. But none of them gave me the bold impression that I had with the Chumby. It was the first mass-market product asking to be hacked. In retrospect, it might not have done a fantastic job of being an end-user product for some reason, but to me, it opened a new way of thinking. That way of thinking is to empower the users, not to restrict them. I can ship a product that works out of the box, but might be extended and used in ways I couldn't imagine.
Crankshaft: Do you believe in your Car computer?
Crankshaft displaying a custom wallpaper. Just copy a file named
wallpaper.png to the
boot partition and it will "just works."
I still see Crankshaft the distro is just the right thing that came at the right time than it is a challenging product. OpenAuto/aasdk, on the other hand, was a monumental piece of reverse engineer by f1xpl. I just packaged OpenAuto/aasdk in a shiny package so it's accessible to many people who don't know how to compile OpenAuto. But in doing that, I hope it becomes an inspiration. I hope many people will first get attracted to Crankshaft as a shiny product and come out of it as developers/hackers. I have already seen many people who are subscribed to the /r/crankshaft subreddit and followed me on GitHub are coming up with ideas how to make it better. Now I invite all of you to work with me to make your own dreams come true. Because Crankshaft, like the Chumby, is inviting you to hack it further.
Find a jumper and enable the "dev mode" on Crankshaft, and it will open its gate to let you hack it, just like the Chumby.
Hacking is fun. I do very much believe in the Users.
Plug: I'm looking for a job soon. Please let me know if you know someone is looking for a hacker. Thanks!


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The Co-Publishers of the Greene County Democrat newspaper developed a list of questions and submitted them on September 13, 2016 to both candidates – Hattie Edwards and Raymond Steele for Mayor of Eutaw, in the Run-off Election on October 4, 2016.
We requested that the responses be sent to us by this Monday, September 19, to be published side-by-side in this week's paper. We wanted the voters to review and compare their responses to make an informed decision before voting in the run-off.
We received a response from Hattie Edwards, the incumbent candidate but we have not yet received a response from Raymond Steele. We are printing her responses and will still welcome the responses of Raymond Steele for publication next week.
Answers to Questions by Hattie Edwards
1. What are the qualifications and experiences that make you the best candidate for Mayor of Eutaw?
First, I want to thank the Co-Publishers of the Greene County Democrat for this opportunity to express my views on the issues in this upcoming run-off for Mayor of the City of Eutaw.
I have been working in the public sector for 34 years, first with the Greene County Highway Department and then as the Mayor. I have a degree in Data Entry and Data Processing. I have been a community worker and public servant working for forty five years. I am aware of the needs of our city for improving the water and sewage operations. I have served on many different boards. I am an Operator I and I have my CDL. In my working and community efforts, I have made many contacts throughout the state of Alabama who are helping me and want to continue to help me to do a great job as Mayor. My commitment to my community is also as a devoted mother of four, an endearing grandmother of three and an active member of Pine Grove Baptist Church.
2. What are three of the priorities that you will pursue when you are elected to the position of Mayor of Eutaw?
Among my priorities, when I am re-elected are: 1. Securing new vehicles and equipment for the city; 2. Upgrade our recreation facilities – the parks, playgrounds, a wellness center and swimming pool; 3. Renovate the National Guard Amory; and 4. Fix the roads and streets throughout the city.
3. What are some other things that you wish to accomplish in your coming term as Mayor?
Attract new industries, jobs and businesses to Eutaw. Bring more events and programs to the City of Eutaw. Encourage citizens to become more involved and attend meetings of the City Council and other groups to improve the quality of life in our community. Put out a monthly newsletter to keep the public informed.
4. What did you learn from your previous service, which will help you to do a better job, if you are elected to serve for the next four years?
I have learned and know how the city operates. I can do a budget for the city. I have learned how important it is to set grounds rules, right out of the gate for employees, including the police force. I know how important it is to keep the public informed of the work and progress in the city and to keep an open door at City Hall to listen to the concerns of residents.
5. One of the issues that is of great concern to the citizens of Eutaw is the status of the roads and streets in Branch Heights, what is your plan to deal with this problem?
Branch Heights was annexed into the city in 2004. We were expecting HUD and the Housing Authority, the Greene County Commission and others to help with fixing the roads before this area came into the City of Eutaw. None of these entities has really helped with this problem.
It has been difficult to get the State of Alabama (ALDOT) to put up funding for the roads in Branch Heights because it is a residential area, no businesses or commercial activities are centered there, and the streets do not directly connect to any state roads. It will be very expensive, in the range of $13-20 million dollars to completely redo the streets, curbs and sidewalks in Branch Heights. The City does not have these funds at this time. I am willing to continue to patch and improve the roads in Branch Heights, as long as the City Council backs me up until we can find the resources needed to do the full job.
6. How will you improve educational and recreational programs for youth in the City of Eutaw?
As you know, one of my visions is to turn the National Guard Armory into a multiplex activity building. This improved facility will have a swim area, basketball, banquet hall, and exercise room. I want to bring in movies, plays and other civic and cultural events. I want to involve the public – both children and adults – participate in designing and choosing these events and activities.
7. Do you feel the City of Eutaw needs to have a formal financial budget; if so, what is your plan and timetable to develop a budget for the city?
Yes, I will have a budget ready by November 2016. I hope the City Council will approve the budget and hold our finances in line with the budget.
8. Anything you want to say or add which will help voters to decide that you are the best choice for Mayor of Eutaw?
I have just served four years as Mayor. I have helped secured $5.2 million dollars for City improvement projects by the grace of GOD. This includes a $3.1 million loan and grant package from USDA to upgrade and expand our water system, including replacing the water tower and 52 new fire hydrants to keep us safer. Half a million dollars from ALDOT to re-pave Prairie Avenue and other improvement projects. I am working hard every day to make a difference for the city.


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With the ongoing record-breaking heat wave in Southern Nevada we are all facing the reality of climate change on a daily basis. To help education these issues UNLV played host to the Nevada Conservation League (NCL) discussion focusing on the reality of climate change, its impact on Southern Nevada and what can be done to combat it. It was an all-star event with a great line-up of speakers and panellists boasting a wealth of experience in the water industry and climate change research.
Former General Manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority and water guru Pat Mulroy kick started the evening talks by highlighting some of the key regulatory and policy issues related to water use, both in the USA and globally. Many of these ideas are drawn from Pat's recently published book The Water Problem: Climate Change and Water Policy in the United States which looks to understand the impact of climate change on water shortages and quality, and how we must start tackling these severe problems.
She raised the idea that many economies that are heavily reliant on fossil fuels are not opposed to tackling climate change, nor do they believe it is a hoax. The key is in helping these economies find alternative incomes through training, awareness and education. Helping them to understand how climate change, drought, pollution and food shortages amongst numerous other things, need to be tackled in the medium to long term. Recalling her conversation with a member of an OPEC nation "it is not the final destination that matters, but the journey to get there".
Pat expressed great concern over the impact of repealing the EPA or park services on water and tackling climate change, deeming it a "travesty if they were to go". The narrative that has been created through some sections of society and politics poses a very dangerous threat to our ability to tackle these key issues.
In terms of regulation there is a need to show much greater flexibility. Our current regulation is very static, whereas climate change is continually changing and evolving, our regulation must mirror this to prove more efficient and effective. It must be continually reevaluated.
Following on from this we need to know "what drives people who don't support climate change". Pat pointed towards people insecurities and need to look out for themselves and those closest to them right now. Often people are "happy to pass on the responsibility to future generations" as they don't believe climate change will affect them or even their children. It is key that we help people see climate change is happening now and is already impacting us daily, especially in Southern Nevada.
Rounding up her speech she pointed towards NGOs as the best placed organizations to make a real difference in combating climate change. There must be co-operation and listening to all sides, helping to alleviate people's concerns and educate them of the problems at hand. Historically Governments are very slow to react in terms or policy changes and regulation, businesses have to protect shareholders and continue to make a profit, leaving NGOs as the perfect groups to drive a recovery in the limited timeframe.
Following Pat Mulroy's emotive speech there was a panel discussion moderated by Andy Maggi. The panel comprised of Colby Pelligrino, Director of Water Resoursces for SNWA, Dr. Matthew Lachinet, UNLV Geoscience Professor and Researcher and Dr. Lynn Fenstermaker, DRI Deputy Director of Earth and Ecosystems.
The panel drew upon their expertise to demonstrate the fact that climate change is indeed happening and how it is already impacting Southern Nevada. While there has been little change in terms of precipitation over recent years, there has been a significant rise in temperature. This is especially clear when viewing the increase in minimum temperatures across Nevada. The hotter environment is causing an increase in evaporation and significant melting of snow pack ultimately leading to the drought we see across the South West United States. This is termed a "hot drought" due to it being driven by high temperatures rather than the lack of precipitation as described above.
The "Colorado River hot drought" has caused river flow to reduce by approximately a third, directly related to escalating temperatures caused by climate change. The panel discussed the significant implications this has on Southern Nevada, and how we can see these impacts at work. There has been an increase in wild fires which increase pollution and destroy vegetation that both absorbs pollution and reduces evaporation. Combined with the loss of snow pack due to melting these visuals of climate change in action clearly show how it is already reducing the water supplies in Southern Nevada.
While many people may point to the rapid population growth as a reason for reduced water resources, this is not entirely accurate. While we have to be mindful of population growth the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) reports that water consumption has actually reduced. This is due to improved efficiency and water saving programs they have initiated. 70% of Nevada's water is used in agriculture so collaborative programs with local farmers are essential to reducing water use. Through programs incentivizing farmers to reduce water use the SNWA has proved very successful at improving water conservation, proving itself to be a national leading in tackling this pressing issue. They are currently working on a drought contingency plan with key stakeholders so the drought can be managed.
Over the past decade the SNWA has been the only water authority to use less than its allocated share of water. A quite amazing achievement and testament to all of the hard work, innovation and collaboration. Currently if there was to be no precipitation at all the SNWA estimates they have enough water to last for 8 years. This indicates how well they have done in conserving water but also how fragile the situation is around water and climate change.
Finally the panel were asked whether it is time to panic, and whether the problem of climate change and water can be solved. "We shouldn't panic, we must learn to use science, communicate data and further understand the impacts". The panel was positive that the work being done in Southern Nevada could help solve the problem on a local level but were less confident of a global resolution to a highly complex problem. "It is a serious problem but we can go a long way towards tackling it if we act now".
There is no doubt we are already seeing the effects of climate change locally but the event highlighted the great work already being done in Southern Nevada but also cautioned that we must continue to innovate, collaborate and educate if we are to be successful.
Thank you to the Nevada Conservation League, UNLV and all of the speakers for a fantastic event.


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An election is a formal process of selecting a person for public office or accepting or rejecting a political proposition by voting. Hawkesworth & Kogan (2004) thus says that elections provide a legitimate means of making political choices and therefore for an election to be effective voters should have a free and genuine choice between at least alternatives. An election is considered to be formal in most of the world's political systems but studies show that only a third of these elections do more or less competitive contests (Hawkesworth & Kogan, 2004). This means that only a few of these elections are considered legitimate. Lack of competitive contests results from practices such as deliberate gerrymandering of constituency boundaries, voter intimidation and manipulation of vote counts. Research also shows that less competitive elections may result from restricted to one party election.
The use of elections in the modern world originated from the gradual emergence of representative government in Europe and North America in the 17th century. Hawkesworth & Kogan indicated "that there are several types of elections which are considered as political means of recruitment because they facilitate the legitimate selection of public office holders" (2004 p. 399). Elections act as a means of granting officials the authority to make public policy decisions and on top of that they legitimize those decisions. Hawkesworth & Kogan (2004) thus say that "any electoral mandate resulting from such a process does not entail the implementation of the abstract preferences of the majority of citizens but rather the introduction of the policy of those leaders who come to power" (p. 399).
It should be noted that most officeholder elections are interpretable only in terms of the role of political parties in the political process. Hawkesworth & Kogan (2004) found out that since elections seek to fix individual responsibility and accountability for the actions of modern governments, political parties, rather than individual representatives have become the vehicles of democratic accountability. Hawkesworth & Kogan (2004) also indicated that elections found throughout the democratic world include referenda and initiatives, which are considered to be elections in which the preferences of the community regarding particular issues are assessed. Referenda are instigated by those in government while initiatives are initiated by groups of electors.
Hawkesworth & Kogan (2004) says that "referenda usually concern the raising and spending f public money although they are occasionally used to decide major constitutional issues which are deemed to require the express consent of the people, or moral issues in which the elected bodies are deemed to posses no competence" (p. 400). Elections carried out in form of referenda may be legislatively binding or merely consultative. On the other hand consultative referenda are likely to have the force of legislative mandates. Elections of the form of referenda and initiatives are most heavily used at national level in Italy and Switzerland and in other areas in a variety of countries at sub-national level, such as USA and Germany (Hawkesworth & Kogan, 2004).
Around the world electoral systems can be classified into three broad categories which include majoritarian (plurality), proportional and semi-proportional. Hawkesworth & Kogan (2004) says that plurality is the simplest system for counting and converting votes into representative office. During the elections in plurality a candidate needs only more poll votes than any other single opponent. Hawkesworth & Kogan (2004) says that under the majority rule the party or candidate gaining more that fifty per cent of the vote in a constituency wins. They also said that neither the majority nor the plurality formulas distribute legislative seats in proportion to the share of the popular vote won by the competing parties during the elections. This also implies that these elections systems reward the strongest party disproportionately compared to the weaker parties (Hawkesworth & Kogan, 2004).
Medvic (2009) in his studies indicated that elections serve at least four functions in a democracy choosing public officials, ensuring accountability, influencing the direction of policy and granting legitimacy to the government. Firstly Medvic says that elections are a mechanism of determining who will hold public office (2009). This means that those who will represent the citizenry are chosen directly by voters. Medvic (2009) says that it also implies "that votes are cast for candidates contending for an office and the winner or winners in multimember districts are chosen based on a predetermined formula" (p. 12).
Elections are used to allow voters to choose the candidates who will run for various offices. According to Medvic (2009) party nominees in general elections are often chosen in primary elections, or primaries, which vary significantly in terms of who may participate but offer some level of input into party business by rank and file members. Elections can be used to remove an individual from public office before the end of his or hr term depending on the rules governing the electoral body and the country as a whole.
The second use of elections is that they are used to hold elected officials accountable for their actions in office. Medvic (2009) says that "whether one believes in the trustee model of representation which maintains that representatives should act on behalf of their constituents, everyone agrees that representatives may not always act exactly as their constituents expect them to" (p. 12). Voters in this context give elected officials some leeway. Voters have the opportunity to remove their representative from office when they are particularly troubled by the officeholder's decisions or personal behavior (Medvic 2009).
The third function of elections is to give the people some say over the policy direction of their country, state, city, or other unit of government. Medvic (2009) says that this takes place in two basic forms one which is considered weak and the other considered strong. He continues to say that in its weak form the policy directing role for elections is accomplished by encouraging elected officials to be responsive to the public. As a result Medvic (2009) mentions that with an election looming or having just occurred representatives are keen to show how they are responding to citizen's wishes. Through this process it is expected that voters are able to influence the actions of the elected officials.
Elections behavior has become a major mainstream component of contemporary political science. This has been driven by some factors such as the intellectual fashion in favor of the New Institutionalism which emerged in the late 1980's (Hawkesworth & Kogan, 2004). Another influence of the current trends in elections is the wide spread desire for the transparency and also the regulation of all aspects of electoral competition in order to remove the potentially delegitimizing effects of corruption (Hawkesworth & Kogan, 2004). Elections are being changed by the technological developments which lie at the root of partisan de-alignment which is central to changing the styles of political communication and virtually ensure that changes after the elections are irreversible (Hawkesworth & Kogan, 2004).
Research shows that in democracy proportional representation requires that the distribution of offices be broadly proportional to the distribution of the popular vote among competing political parties. Hawkesworth & Kogan (2004) found out that "this type of election seeks to overcome the disproportionalities hat result from majority and plurality formulas and to create a representative that result the distribution of opinion within the electorate" (p. 401). Proportional elections outcomes achieve more autonomy than plurality or majority systems.


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Militant Blows Himself Up in Dhaka Hotel: Bangladesh Police
A suspected militant who planned to attack people marking Bangladesh's National Mourning Day blew himself up in a Dhaka hotel room on Tuesday after officers confronted him, the country's police chief said.
The suspect, identified as Saiful Islam, 21, set off a bomb at the Hotel Olio International in the Panthapath neighborhood, about 300 meters (984 feet) from a house in the adjacent Dhanmondi neighborhood where founding President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and much of his family were assassinated on Aug. 15, 1975.
Saiful, who was a madrassa student and a member of militant group Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), had checked into the hotel armed with explosives on Monday night, Inspector General of Police A.K.M. Shahidul Haque told reporters. Police have blamed a faction of JMB for carrying out a terrorist attack at a local café, the Holey Artisan Bakery, that left 29 people dead in July 2016.
"We had the information that this militant planned to attack the people going to the Dhanmondi 32 to pay their respects. This precaution helped us to avoid an attack," Haque told reporters, referring to Old Road No. 32 in Dhanmondi.
"We repeatedly urged him to surrender starting Monday night, but he rejected our pleas. … Finally he blew him up at around 9:45 a.m. as our forces started the operation to capture him," he said.
Aug. 15 is observed in Bangladesh as a national day of mourning to mark the anniversary of the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of Sheikh Hasina, who is now the prime minister. She was out of the country when the assassination took place 42 years ago.
The explosion occurred about three hours after Hasina and President Abdul Hamid placed floral wreaths at the house, which is now a museum.
The blast ripped an outside wall from the hotel and injured a security guard and a police officer. Other guests and employees had been evacuated from the hotel, according to officials.
"A huge explosion followed and the wall of the room collapsed. It rocked the whole building," Sanwar Hossain, an additional deputy commissioner of the counter terrorism unit, told BenarNews.
Fire brigade members rushed to the scene and took one injured person to a nearby hospital.
Haque identified Saiful as a JMB member who was a former member of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, a faith-based political party. Jamaat-e-Islami and JMB are not linked.
Assistant Inspector General of Police Mohammad Moniruzzaman said Saiful was from Southwestern Khulna district and had been a political science student at B.L. College in Khulna.
A bomb blast ripped the outside wall from the Hotel Olio International in the Panthapath neighborhood in Dhaka, Aug. 15, 2017. [Focus Bangla]
Witness account
Salahuddin, a salesman whose shop is in front of the hotel, told BenarNews that he saw troops mobilize after 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, but thought they were being deployed for the day of mourning.
"I sleep here. When I tried to open the shop, (the police) ordered us not to come out. After a while I saw members of different security agencies flood the area," he said, adding that traffic came to a halt.
Salahuddin said he saw a Special Weapon and Tactics officer fire a shot from across the road, at around 9:44 a.m.
According to a Panthapath area resident, who asked not to be named, police had been conducting security checks in the area over the last two weeks.
"A person had to undergo three security checks before reaching Hotel Olio. How could he reach the hotel with explosives," the resident told BenarNews.
Militancy Not Over
Earlier, Monirul Islam, the chief of the police's counter-terrorist unit, told reporters that ongoing preemptive law enforcement attacks over the last year had eroded militant networks in Bangladesh. At least 70 suspected militants have been killed in police raids since the Holey Artisan attack, according to authorities.
Extremist groups are having a tough time regrouping, but militants will not disappear unless their distorted ideology was rooted out, Islam warned.
An analyst agreed.
"Look, militancy had been there, and now exists. This is yet to be eliminated. The law enforcers have done a commendable job. They must remain alert at all times," Shafqat Munir, a fellow of the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies, told BenarNews.


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"The Night of…" refers to a specific line of dialogue common to film noir and crime movies— "Where were you on the night of the 24th"? The dates may vary, but the line is always the same, implying that the answer should explain someone's whereabouts, an alibi or an explanation for where one was when something decisive happened.
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Gigi Butler, entrepreneur and founder of Gigi's Cupcakes, admits her story of success is full of sweet irony. Gigi opened her first Gigi's Cupcakes location just off Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee in 2008. Gigi's Cupcakes is now the largest cupcake franchise in the world.
With an entrepreneurial spirit that needed an outlet at the age of 15, Gigi opened her first business, Gigi's Cleaning Company, which she continued to grow once she moved from California to Nashville in 1994. She cleaned houses during the day and sang at downtown Nashville honky-tonks at night. After a decade of pursuing a career as an entertainer, the heartaches of the music industry hit home.
Gigi decided to step back and focus on her financial future. While building a sweet empire was never part of her plan, Gigi realized that her culinary and business skills could take her places she never dreamed about. She decided to take a chance on her other passion – baking.
Gigi learned her love for baking at an early age as she came from a long line of bakers who taught her unique family recipes. As an adult, Gigi felt that baking had become a lost art that needed to be resurrected. Even though people rarely have time to bake from scratch, they still enjoy eating delicious home-baked goods, especially ones that reminded them of their childhood.
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If anyone is maintaining a list of phrases that just don't make sense please add "hot and fast BBQ brisket". That just goes against everything anyone ever suggested. In this context though hot means 300F and fast means around 7 or 8 hours so it's not as crazy as you might think.
Not much to a Texas style BBQ brisket really. A simple rub, meat and smoke. Sauce is to hide failures. Intricate rubs just aren't Texas. Smoke – that's the secret ingredient. It's tough to pull off though. Probably the hardest thing there is. Pulled pork is very forgiving. Ribs maybe a bit trickier. But brisket – brisket is tough to nail. This approach makes things easier but if your friends don't already tell you your pulled pork is the best they've ever had maybe you're not quite ready to take on BBQ brisket. It's expensive and it's really not very good at all if you miss.
How simple a rub is simple? Aaron Franklin, widely acclaimed as the master of Texas brisket has revealed his secret recipe to the world. Are you ready? Do you have a pen handy because you will want to take notes…
It's 50% kosher salt and 50% 16 screen crushed black pepper by weight. I have no idea what screen corresponds to but coarse is what you want – some call it butchers pepper. If you want to go really crazy you can add a bit of granulated garlic and onion. That's it – and I think the garlic and onion are overkill. Serious overkill.
Costco coarse black pepper is a nice grind size for this. Diamond Crystal kosher salt is roughly the same size so they work well together.
The smoke is the thing. In central Texas they use post oak. Some might use hickory but mostly it's post oak. It kills me that people are paying $25 a bag for wood chunks. If the wood doesn't grown near you then OK – I do buy hickory but if you want oak or maple look at your firewood pile. I bet there's some in there. Find a friend with a bandsaw and cut your own chunks. That's what I do…
I burn lump charcoal and I like Dragons Breath best if you can find it. It's a mix of oak and hickory. It just smells like Texas when it burns. Really. Maple Leaf is a mix of beech, birch and maple – it's not the same but it's pretty good too.
This technique works for the flat. I haven't tried it yet with the point. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, the whole brisket has two pieces. The flat is leaner and flatter, the point is fat and delicious. I will try a point prepared this way before too long. Whole brisket 15 hour smokes are for the truly dedicated and while I admire them this works for the rest of us.
bbq brisket done hot and fast
The Brisket
- 1 4-6 lb beef brisket flat
- Oak and/or hickory wood chunks
Dry rub
- 6 Tbsp butcher's pepper
- 2 Tbsp salt
The Brisket
- Set your smoker up to cook at around 300F. I bet, if you were careful enough, you could do this on a weber kettle but it's easier in a smoker.
- Trim your brisket if needed. Please, please, please leave at least 1/4 inch of fat minimum on it. Fat tastes good. Trust in Julia Child. Her words, not mine.
- Season your brisket liberally with Aaron Franklin's secret rub. Smoke the brisket fat cap up for 4 hours. At this point check the internal temperature. It should be somewhere around 160-170F. At this point wrap your brisket in butchers paper and continue to cook fat cap down until you get to an internal temperature of 195-200. This is another hour or two max. You are looking for probe tender.
- Pull the brisket and let it rest for 30-60 minutes (or put it into a pre-heated cooler if you need it to stay hot longer). Slice against the grain. If you blow it you can always serve it with BBQ sauce but if you nail it you will not want to do that...
The Faux Cambro
- Google it for details but a lot of BBQ forums talk about the faux cambro. This is an easy way to keep your BBQ brisket hot if your timing doesn't quite work out. All you do is take a cooler a bit larger than what you are trying to keep warm and pre-heat it by filling it with hot water. You wrap your meat so it doesn't leak and fill the empty gaps around the meat in towels. Make sure you don't use nice towels. Try as I might I always have leaks... BBQ scented towels. Is that really a bad thing?


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The Lagos State Task Force says its men have rescued a four- month-old baby boy put in a bag and dumped under the bridge in Oshodi area of the state.
The Chairman of the outfit, SP Olayinka Egbeyemi, told newsmen in Ikeja that the enforcement team of the Task Force rescued the baby while on duty in the area.
Egbeyemi said that the 18-year-old mother of the baby was arrested by an official of the force when she was running away after dumping the baby.
He said that during an investigation, the mother confessed that she dumped the baby because she could no longer take care of him.
"We have briefed the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni, about the incident and he has directed that the baby and his mother be immediately transferred to Social Welfare Department of the Lagos State Ministry of Youth and Social Development,'' Egbeyemi said.
The mother told newsmen that she decided to dump the baby when none of her family members was ready to accommodate and help her.
"My mother sent me out because I could not identify the man who impregnated me. I had sex with different men," she said.
According to her, she dropped out of school in JSS II, due to poverty.


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I had an engineer from a welding company contact me about his application. He was already using three EXAIR Super Air Knives for a cooling application. He had the Super Air Knives mounted in a linear fashion, two model 110018 18″ Super Air Knives and a model 110012 12″ Super Air Knife. His system was designed to operate the different Super Air Knives to cool the corresponding tubes length after a welding operation. (He purchased the EXAIR Super Air Knives because he wanted the best air cooling capacity with the highest efficiency.)
Because it was an automated system, timing was critical. The system was designed to operate one 18″ Super Air Knife for an 18″ welded tube. For a 36″ long tube, they would turn on both the model 110018 Super Air Knives. For their longest tube, they would activate all three Super Air Knives to cool the 48″ welded seam. The engineer was extremely happy with the effectiveness and the consistency of the Super Air Knives that he was able to create a timing sequence in his automated operation for a repeatable and reliable cooldown of the welds.
So, why did he decide to contact EXAIR? I was thinking the same thing when he was giving high praises about the EXAIR Super Air Knives. It was because of their compressed air system. In another section of the plant, they would use large air vibrators to break loose powder from a hopper. These vibrating devices would use a large quantity of compressed air when they were turned on. During this time, the compressed air system would drop in pressure throughout the plant. This would change the amount of compressed air available for his application; affecting his timing sequence to get adequate cooling.
Since that the engineer was happy with the efficiency and quality of our Super Air Knives, it was an easy decision for him to contact EXAIR about the Digital Flowmeters. He wanted to measure the amount of air flow to each Super Air Knife and continuously monitor the system for any low-flow conditions. Since he was supplying the Super Air Knives with ½" NPT piping, he requested the model 9090 ½" Digital Flowmeter for each Super Air Knife. I explained that the EXAIR Digital Flowmeters are very accurate and easy to install. They have different ways to monitor the compressed air flow; 4 – 20 mA analog output, serial connection, or a Datalogger. Since his PLC system had an analog reader, our Digital Flowmeters could supply the analog signal for flow measurements. Currently the PLC was operating the solenoids to turn on and off sections of the Super Air Knives to cool the desired length of welds. Now, he was looking to measure the amount of air flow with the PLC to verify that they did have adequate compressed air flow to the Super Air Knives. If the flow was not sufficient, then he could trigger an alarm to delay the welding operation. So, when the vibrators went offline, then they could restart their operation.
EXAIR routinely maximizes compressed air efficiency in an effective manner and I recommended, as an alternative, that he could use one 1½" Digital Flowmeter, model 9094, to monitor the air flow to all three Super Air Knives. This would save him a lot of cost for his project in purchasing one larger Digital Flowmeter instead of three smaller ones. Also, with the resolution of the flow meter and his ability to utilize the 4 – 20 mA analog signal, he could easily determine the required flow to one Super Air Knife, two Super Air Knives, or all three. In the end, he was quite impressed with my recommendation to keep his system operating, even during times of depletion in his compressed air system.
At EXAIR, our first priority is to help the customer to correct their compressed air issues. For this engineer, he was able to mount one Digital Flowmeter to monitor the compressed air flow to all three Super Air Knives. If you need real solutions to your compressed air applications, you can contact an Application Engineer at EXAIR, and perhaps we can also reduce your project cost in the process.
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Contrary to the popular belief, employees are not the only victims of workplace discrimination who can pursue a discrimination claim and sue the employer. Job applicants have the legal right to be free of any type of discrimination, including but not limited to race, gender, religious, age, marital status, and other "protected characteristics."
If you are currently looking for a job in Los Angeles or elsewhere in California, you may want to find out what types of hiring discrimination are out there. The failure to take legal action against discrimination during the hiring process may not only cost you the job you are being interviewed for, but also take a toll on your emotional, psychological and even physical health.
Before you start sending out your CVs and before you do your first job interview, our Los Angeles discrimination attorney at the JML Law advises you to learn what types of hiring discrimination are there.
Like employees in California, job applicants are equally protected by the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from discrimination on the part of their prospective employers. This is not the full list of protected characteristics that are most commonly discriminated against in California:
If you are applying for a job in a company where your spouse already works, the employer cannot reject your job application only because of your spouse's employment. Such actions are prohibited by California's employment laws.
Our Los Angeles discrimination lawyer warns, however, that it may be legal for an employer to require you to work in a different department than your spouse in order to minimize the risk of workplace conflicts and/or bias.
Beginning on January 1, 2018, employers in Los Angeles and all across California are prohibited from asking job applicants about their previous salary or their conviction history. In case of the latter, it is now illegal to conduct a background check before a conditional offer is made. And even after the offer is made, employers are prohibited from making employment decisions merely based on the conviction history (though there are a couple of exceptions when the applicant's convictions have a direct relation to his/her expected duties).
While California's employment laws do not prohibit employers from Googling your name and checking your social media profiles before hiring you, it is illegal for employers to ask their employees and job applicants to disclose their social media usernames and passwords. If handing over your username and password is one of the requirements for you to be hired, you should speak to a Los Angeles discrimination attorney immediately.
While most employers in Los Angeles and all across California impose English-only policies lawfully (the requirements for job applicants to speak fluent English is justified based on the nature of his/her job duties), it is unlawful to use the English-only policy to discriminate against people who do not speak English well or because of their national origin (for example, when speaking fluent English has no relation to the job applicant's duties whatsoever).
Contact the JML Law to find out whether or not your prospective employer's actions during the hiring process constitute discrimination. Schedule a free consultation by calling our offices at 818-610-8800 or send us an email.


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You want to sell your San Ramon, California house, and you want to get top dollar.
But "What do I need to do to sell my house in San Ramon, California"?
Here are some tips on how to get your home ready to sell if you're looking for top dollar that the market will bear:
*NOTE: These instructions are if you're looking to get full retail value for your house sale. However, if you don't want to do the things below… or don't have the time or money to do the things below… you can still sell your San Ramon, California house fast for a fair value in a win-win sale that'll save you time and expense.
1) Clean, clean and clean. Even vacant houses get dusty and dirty, so keep it up! Nothing short of gleaming perfection will impress buyers. If you're not a total clean freak, hire someone who is to help you out until you sell.
If you're a slob, consider finding somewhere else to live while you show your house. Maybe you can bribe your cleanest friend to trade houses with you? Seriously, keeping everything immaculate really helps buyers feel comfortable in your space. Nothing stops people faster from buying faster than feeling grossed out.
2) Cultivate a cohesive, neutral style. You don't have to paint everything off-white. In fact, some subtle colors can really help change the perception of spaces – for example, a soft yellow will help brighten up a dark kitchen, while a deep dark blue or green will help a bright bedroom to feel like a calm place to sleep (but be careful, dark colors will also make rooms feel small).
Spend the money to get high-quality paint and professional help. Subconsciously people will pay more money for a property with just the right colors and very neat lines – it makes the home feel better built, even though it's just paint.
Optical illusions are real, and psychologists study this stuff. Don't believe me?
Look it up. And don't neglect the outside and just do the inside, or anything else that's unbalanced.
3) Fix or replace anything that's broken. Yeah, it might feel like a waste of money to spend an extra couple hundred bucks on a dishwasher that someone else might just pull out and replace again. But really, quite a few buyers will get a home inspection and use the opportunity to negotiate with you. As the seller, you'll often end up paying more if you try to hide neglected maintenance from the purchaser – and of course you don't want to be guilty of fraud.
Make sure you stay in compliance with all the laws.
It's often a good use of money to hire a home inspector to come through before you put the property on the market. If you ask in advance, they'll often charge you a tiny rate to come back after you've done a bunch of minor repairs and deliver you a clean bill of health. Prospective buyers love to see an independent report on the condition of the house – it makes them feel very comfortable with the purchase.
4) Make only necessary improvements. The biggest mistake people make when getting their house ready to sell is over-improving. They often spend too much money on customized frills that can't be recovered in the sale.
Paint is about the only safe investment – it's easy to overspend on almost everything else, and it's easy to get ripped off by unscrupulous contractors.
It's important to know what improvements will produce a return on investment to avoid wasting money.
5) Get expert opinions. You should definitely find at least a few decent real estate brokers who will help you price your property, but be honest with them. If you're going to market the property on your own, don't make enemies by lying about your intentions. Great brokers are rare, but they make more money for their clients than they earn.
6) Have a really great marketing plan. Again, great brokers earn their value by doing this work and spreading the advertising expenses across many clients. It's pretty expensive and time-consuming to start from scratch on your own, but if you're already a marketing expert you're ahead of the pack.
If you're not, spend the time listening to what the best brokers do to sell houses in San Ramon, California – just to educate yourself on the options.
7) Get a cash offer. We buy houses all over the San Ramon, California area, and we do all the work so you don't have to deal with any of this stuff.
Don't Want To Do The Things Above Yourself? But Still Want To Sell Your San Ramon, California House Fast?
While everyone wants to get as much as they possibly can from their house sale… not everyone can do the things or wants to do the things required to sell it at full retail value to an end buyer.
Doing the repairs, cleaning the property up, upgrading the property, marketing the property… those all take money and can take lots of time.
If you have the funds to do these things... AND you can wait the 3-9 months it takes to sell houses in this market… then you'll be better off financially to do those things then list it on the MLS (the main property listing service that real estate agents use).
If you don't have the funds to do these things... AND can't wait months to sell your house… then you may be a perfect fit for our local San Ramon, California house buying service. You'll submit basic info about your house over here on our website, we'll evaluate your house, we'll make you a fair all-cash offer on your house, and you can decide if it's a fit for you.
Then we can close FAST (oftentimes within 7 days) if you need us to.
Take a look at what we'll pay you not to do anything versus the time, expense and hassle involved with doing it on your own.
So if you're still asking "what do I need to do to sell my house in San Ramon, California"… now you have 2 solid options.
- Fix the property up and get it all nice and ready with the steps above to sell it at top dollar
- Let us do all of the work and we'll make you a cash offer on your house in AS-IS condition. This saves you time, money, and gets the hassle off of your hands.
If you need to sell a property near San Ramon, California, we can help you.
We buy properties like yours from people who need to sell fast.
We'd like to make you a fair offer on your San Ramon, California house
Give us a call anytime at (925) 852-8261 or
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Here are some Fun Facts about
San Ramon Activities
The Iron Horse Regional Trail and Las Trampas Regional Wilderness are two notable outdoor locations. The city features a large number of parks for outdoor recreation. Golf enthusiasts enjoy playing at the numerous courses including San Ramon Royal Vista Golf Course, Bridges Golf Club, Canyon Lakes Country Club, and the Black Hawk Country Club. The Anthony Regional Park Campgrounds, Tilden Regional Park, Sunny Glen Recreational Area and Boone Acres Park are some of the area's notable locations
Introduction to San Ramon, California
San Ramon, California, in Contra Costa county, is 8 miles NE of Castro Valley, California (center to center) and 16 miles E of Oakland, California. It's regarded as part of the San Francisco Bay Area. San Ramon is situated in a valley and has a moderate climate. It's home to the headquarters of AT&T, Chevron Corporation and 24-Hour Fitness. In 2001 the town was recognized as a "Tree City USA." Toyota and United Parcel Service have offices in the prominent Bishop Ranch Business Park.
San Ramon History
The Seunen Indians were the original inhabitants. San Ramon Creek was named in tribute to an Indian vaquero named Ramon. "San" was added to the name in order to follow the Spanish custom. Americans established settlements in 1850. Numerous local canyons, hills and streets are named after the early settlers.
In 1864 an important stage line traversed through the valley on its way to Oakland. In 1891 the Southern Pacific Railroad arrived which allowed farmers to ship their crops and improve the local economy. In 1983 the citizens decided to incorporate the city.
San Ramon Attractions
- Memorial Park.
- Forest Home Farms is included in the National Register of Historic Places and features the notable Boone Home and the Glass Home.
- Old Ranch Park.
- San Ramon Central Park.
- Crow Canyon Gardens is a scenic location.
- Museum of the San Ramon Valley features a variety of exhibits.


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Well, we finally have been cited as the inspiration for reforms in England. Prime Minister David Cameron is suggesting a "fat tax" on foods to combat obesity and to avoid becoming like the United States — a nation of fat people. He appears to be unaware that we prefer to call ourselves a Rubenesque nation.
Denmark recently added a surcharge to foods containing more than 2.3% saturated fat. That would include butter, milk, cheese, pizza, meat, oil and processed food.
Cameron, however, asked citizens to look across the pond to ponder the cost of not taxing the fat.
"But frankly, do we have a problem with the growing level of obesity? Yes. Do we have a kind of warning in terms of – look at America, how bad things have got there – what happens if we don't do anything? Yes, that should be a wake-up call."
You're welcome. This pays us back for the years of pointing to England as what happens if you do not take care of your teeth.
There was a time when Prime Ministers were bigger than life. Winston Churchill could literally eat David Cameron for lunch and have room for a Home Secretary and an after-dinner mint.
It is also short sighted. With global warming, sea levels are expected to rise. Rather than reduce pollution causing global warming, we have decided to simply make our people more buoyant by increasing their percentage of body fat. In contrast, England — an island nation — will remain composed of "sinkers" who will disappear under the waves of Britannia with only their workout tapes and low-fat wrappers marking the surface of where their once proud nation once stood. As we float and bob on the surface of the water, we will look across the pond with great satisfaction that our fat saved our civilization.
This is precisely why so many English people died without lifeboats on the Titanic. Had they followed our lead — rather than ridiculed our people — they would have popped up like corks in the Atlantic.
Churchill cut a different and more buoyant image. This is why he told the leaner Hitler "We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes." Hitler was a sinker and Churchill knew it.
They have forgotten the original verse to Rule Britania:
The nations, not so fat as thee,
Must, in their turns, to waves fall;
While thou shalt flourish fat and free,
The dread and envy of them all.
"Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
"Britons never will be slaves."
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Happy Monday!
I love a great hair story, especially when there's pictures! Keris Stainton sent me a link to a hilarious "hair don't" post on her blog after seeing the hair lessons page on my website. Click here if you're in the mood for a giggle and enjoy!
Also, I'm still at the YA Author's Cafe if you'd like to stop in and ask me anything about my writing, my book . . . or why I lose all my fine jewelry. 😉
One more thing–the Class of 2k7 is having a first lines contest! The person who can match the most first lines with the 2k7 book will win a fabulous collection of 2k7 arcs! Entries are due this Friday, May 18th. Good luck!
Have a great week!