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INGLEWOOD, Calif. (January 17, 2010)—The third time proved to be the charm for Zenyatta as the brilliant mare was voted Horse of the Year for 2010. Owners Jerry and Ann Moss accepted the honor at the annual Eclipse Awards Monday night in Miami.
The runner-up in both 2008 and 2009, Zenyatta outpolled Breeders' Cup Classic winner Blame and three-time Breeders' Cup Mile winner Goldikova for the title. The 6-year-old Street Cry mare, who was based at Hollywood Park throughout her career, won 19 of 20 starts and earned more than $7.3 million, a record for a female thoroughbred.
The only three time winner of the Vanity Handicap, Zenyatta suffered her only defeat in her final start when she was beaten by a nose when attempting to defend her title in the Breeders' Cup Classic.
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Zenyatta will make her final public appearance in California during a special celebration Sunday, December 5 at Hollywood Park.
The 6-year-old Street Cry mare, who finished her spectacular career with 19 wins in 20 starts and more than $7.3 million in earnings, will visit the saddling paddock after the sixth race, giving her legion of fans another opportunity to show their admiration.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (December 5, 2010)—A vocal and appreciative crowd of 11,216 bid farewell to Zenyatta as the brilliant 6-year-old mare made her final public appearance Sunday at Hollywood Park.
After spending some time in the paddock, the daughter of Street Cry, who finished her racing career with 19 wins in 20 starts and more than $7.3 million in earnings, was paraded in front of the grandstand and the clubhouse area.
Then, brought to the winner's circle, a place she visited eight times at her home track, Zenyatta was joined by a large gathering of media, photographers and assorted others, including those closest to her.
Trainer John Shirreffs sat calmly in his stable office in Barn 55 South during a pleasant sunny Thursday morning before entering Zardana in defense of her crown in the $150,000 Bayakoa Handicap Sunday and hosting more than 50 guests admiring and photographing Zenyatta before her farewell ceremony here, also on Sunday.
Adoring fans from as far away as West Virginia and Missouri watched every move Zenyatta made outside the barn as she was given a bath by groom Mario Espinoza before grazing on her favorite lawn.
"She's going to a better place," said exercise rider Steve Willard to the crowd. "She's going to be seven years old; time for her to be a mama."
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (November 28, 2010)—Zenyatta will make her final public appearance in California during a special celebration Sunday, December 5 at Hollywood Park.
The 6-year-old Street Cry mare, who finished her spectacular career with 19 wins in 20 starts and more than $7.3 million in earnings, will visit the saddling paddock after the sixth race, giving her legion of fans another opportunity to show their admiration.
Not long after, Zenyatta, who has called Hollywood Park home for more than three years, will head to the track and parade in front of both the grandstand and clubhouse area.
Sunday, December 5, will be an emotional and meaningful day on two fronts for trainer John Shirreffs at Hollywood Park.
In addition to seeing retired superstar Zenyatta make her final public appearance in a ceremony between races, Shirreffs will also saddle defending champion Zardana in quest of a record sixth victory in the $150,000 Bayakoa Handicap.
Zenyatta, the glamour queen of racing with 19 victories in 20 starts, grazed outside Barn 55 South Sunday with groom Mario Espinoza as 25 adoring fans admired and photographed her.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (November 18, 2010)—Before Zenyatta begins a new stage of her life at Lane's End Farm in Kentucky, Hollywood Park will stage an appreciation day for the brilliant mare Sunday, Dec. 5. Post time is 12:30 p.m.
Zenyatta, who has been stabled at Hollywood Park throughout her career, will be paraded between races, giving local fans a final chance to see the 6-year-old daughter of Street Cry before she leaves California next month.
The entire Zenyatta team will be on hand, including owners Jerry and Ann Moss, trainer John Shirreffs, jockey Mike Smith, racing manager Dottie Ingordo-Shirreffs, exercise rider Steve Willard, groom Mario Espinoza and hot walker Carmen Zamona.
Two-time champion Zenyatta grazed outside Barn 55 South with groom Mario Espinoza on a sunny Thursday morning as trainer John Shirreffs came to grips with the reality that the superstar mare had been officially retired.
"We discussed it at dinner a few nights ago, and that was it," said Shirreffs from his stable office in reference to the decision with owners Jerry and Ann Moss and Dottie Ingordo-Shirreffs, wife of the trainer and racing manager for the Mosses.
The decision entailed Zenyatta be flown to Lane's End Farm in Kentucky in early December for a mating to a stallion yet to be determined next year. Zenyatta concluded one of the greatest careers in thoroughbred history with a second-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs November 6, her only setback in 20 starts. She earned more than $7.4-million, a career record for a female thoroughbred.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (October 31, 2010) — The last Southern California start – and 19th consecutive victory – for the undefeated Zenyatta was the highlight of the inaugural Oak Tree at Hollywood Park meet which concluded Sunday.
The average Southern California attendance for the 22-day season was 10,771.
Meanwhile, the average Southern California handle was $3,734,000 and the all sources average handle was $7,198,000.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (October 31, 2010) — Zenyatta, who extended her unbeaten streak to 19 with a thrilling victory in the Lady's Secret Stakes Oct. 2, was voted Horse of the Meet in the annual media poll as the inaugural Oak Tree/Hollywood Park meet wrapped Sunday.
This was the third consecutive year Zenyatta, who is owned by Jerry and Ann Moss, trained by John Shirreffs and ridden by Mike Smith, has been voted the honor for her Oak Tree accomplishments.
The 6-year-old Street Cry mare, who has spent her entire career stabled at Hollywood Park, will attempt to finish her career 20-for-20 when she competes in the Breeders' Cup Classic Nov. 6 at Churchill Downs. A victory would make her only the second two time winner of the Classic, joining Tiznow.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (October 22, 2010)—In her next-to-last work in Southern California before she heads to Kentucky, Zenyatta completed seven furlongs in 1:27 1/5 Friday morning at Hollywood Park.
Exercising over Cushion Track under jockey Mike Smith, the 6-year-old Street Cry mare, who is undefeated in 19 starts, broke off behind Sarbonne, went her opening three furlongs in 38 4/5, a half-mile in 50 4/5, five furlongs in 1:03 1/5 and six furlongs in 1:15 1/5 en route to the final time, according to Hollywood Park clocker and morning line maker Russ Hudak.
Zenyatta finished her drill with customary work mate El Vino, who went a half mile in 50 seconds.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (Oct. 14, 2010)—Zenyatta, who has won all 19 of her starts, worked five furlongs in 1:02 3/5 Thursday morning over the Cushion Track at Hollywood Park.
The drill, which occurred with stablemate El Vino, was the first for the brilliant 6-year-old mare since her third consecutive victory in the Lady's Secret Stakes on Oct. 2 during opening weekend of the inaugural Oak Tree at Hollywood Park meet.
Owned by Jerry and Ann Moss and trained by John Shirreffs, Zenyatta is expected to have two more local works before she heads to Kentucky for a defense of her title in the Breeders' Cup Classic on Nov. 6 at Churchill Downs.
Zenyatta continues to be the hottest item in the racing world. The 6-year-old mare posed for 90 minutes of photos outside Barn 55 South at Hollywood Park Sunday morning, while trainer John Shirreffs fielded media interviews and racing manager Dottie Ingordo-Shirreffs hosted a flock of adoring fans.
Less than 24 hours earlier, unbeaten Zenyatta attracted 25,837 screaming fans—the most at Hollywood Park in more than nine years—to witness her journey into immortality with her 19th straight victory in the $250,000 Lady's Secret Stakes and the top spot on the female career earnings list with $6,404,580.
"We've had tons of people, which is fabulous," said Ingordo-Shirreffs, wife of the trainer and racing manager for owners Jerry and Ann Moss. "She's even had an impact on the lives of people. One woman said her personal life had been difficult the last two years, but Zenyatta kept her going. She's uniting people all over the country who came by and exchanged numbers.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (October 2, 2010)—Making her final start in Southern California at the place where she has been stabled throughout her brilliant career, Zenyatta remained undefeated with a thrilling victory in the $250,000 Lady's Secret Stakes Saturday at Oak Tree/Hollywood Park.
The race was one of four Grade I events on the card.
Before an extremely enthusiastic crowd of 25,837, the 6-year-old daughter of Street Cry and the Kris S. mare Vertigineux won for the 19th time – matching the streak of Peppers Pride, who earned her wins in races restricted to New Mexico breds – with a strong rally to defeat 4-1 second choice Switch by a half-length.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (September 25, 2010)—Zenyatta completed her serious preparation for the $250,000 Lady's Secret Stakes, Presented by TVG, on Oct. 2 at Hollywood Park with a six furlong work Saturday morning.
Working with stablemate El Vino, the 6-year-old Street Cry mare, who is undefeated in 18 starts, was timed for the move over Cushion Track in 1:13 4/5, according to Hollywood Park clocker Russ Hudak.
Owned by Jerry and Ann Moss and trained by John Shirreffs, Zenyatta, who has won the Lady's Secret the last two years, ran the first three furlongs in 37 3/5 seconds and completed the final three-eighths of a mile in 36 1/5. A win would be the eighth over the Hollywood Park main track for Zenyatta, who has been stabled here throughout her career.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (September 18, 2010)—Continuing her preparation for the $250,000 Lady's Secret Stakes, presented by TVG, on Oct. 2, Zenyatta worked six furlongs in 1:13 4/5 Saturday at Hollywood Park.
Undefeated in 18 starts for owners Jerry and Ann Moss and trainer John Shirreffs, the 6-year-old Street Cry mare will be looking for her third consecutive victory in the Lady's Secret. The race at 1 1/16 miles over Cushion Track is one of six Grade 1's that will be run during the first weekend of the Oak Tree at Hollywood Park meet.
Besides the Lady's Secret, the Oct. 2 program will include the $250,000 Norfolk Stakes for 2-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles over Cushion Track, the $250,000 Goodwood Stakes for older horses at 1 1/8 miles over Cushion Track and the $250,000 Yellow Ribbon Stakes for older fillies and mares at 1 ¼ miles on turf.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (August 10, 2010)—Zenyatta returned to her home at Hollywood Park today after a short, but successful , road trip.
The brilliant 6-year-old daughter of Street Cry remained unbeaten, winning for the 18th time in the $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes Aug. 7 at Del Mar.
The victory was her third in a row in the Hirsch, meaning she has won two different Grade 1's in Southern California three times. On June 13, Zenyatta became the first horse to win the $250,000 Vanity Handicap at Hollywood Park thrice.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (June 13, 2010)-With a powerful closing kick she has never failed to deliver, Zenyatta remained perfect, running her way into history with a thrilling victory over St Trinians and four others in the $250,000 Vanity Handicap (video) Sunday at Hollywood Park.
The win was the 17th in a row for the 6-year-old daughter of Street Cry and the Kris S. mare Vertingineux, enabling her to surpass Cigar, Citation and Mister Frisky for the longest win streak by a modern day thoroughbred in races not restricted to state breds.
She also became the first three time winner of the Vanity, a Grade 1 which was run for the 69th time Sunday.
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The use of antiretroviral treatment by HIV-positive individuals to reduce their risk of transmitting HIV to their sexual partners is commonly referred to as "treatment as prevention." Antiretroviral treatment can reduce the amount of HIV in bodily fluids (such as rectal fluid, semen and vaginal fluid) of someone living with HIV and may therefore make them less likely to transmit HIV to others during unprotected sex. The possibility of reducing the risk of HIV transmission is one argument made to support early initiation of HIV treatment.
Until now, the strongest evidence for "treatment as prevention" came from observational studies. These studies have involved heterosexual, serodiscordant couples (where one partner is HIV-positive and one partner is HIV-negative). By systematically combining the results from multiple observational studies, researchers recently found that the overall rate of HIV transmission among serodiscordant couples on treatment was lower than the rate of transmission among couples who were not on treatment. Transmission rates were reduced by 66% to 84%, depending on which studies the authors included in their analysis.
Unfortunately, with observational "treatment as prevention" studies, it is difficult to conclude that HIV transmission was reduced as a result of the HIV-positive partner being on treatment and not due to other factors that researchers may not have taken into account (also known as biases). For example, people on treatment may be more likely to use condoms regularly, which would explain how they have prevented transmitting HIV to their partners. Also the studies provide little information about the relative importance of the time of initiation of HIV treatment on potential risk reduction.
Last week, preliminary results from the first randomized controlled trial studying "treatment as prevention", known as HPTN 052, were released. Randomized controlled trials are generally considered the "gold standard" of evidence because they minimize -- but do not eliminate -- the influence of possible biases. This type of study can more confidently attribute the reduced the risk of HIV transmission to the antiretroviral treatment.
The HPTN 052 trial studied the effect of "treatment as prevention" among 1,763 serodiscordant couples. Specifically, the trial was designed to determine if starting HIV treatment very early would reduce the risk of HIV transmission between partners in a stable, serodiscordant relationship. The vast majority of the couples (97%) were heterosexual. All of the couples enrolled had been in a stable relationship for at least three months prior to enrolment (most of the couples were married). The trial took place in several countries, including Botswana, Brazil, India, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, Thailand, Zimbabwe and the United States. Due to difficulties enrolling participants in the United States, only one US couple participated in the trial.
To be eligible for the trial, the HIV-positive partner had to meet the following criteria at the time of enrolment:
The HIV-negative partner had to have tested negative for HIV within 14 days of entering the study.
A total of 890 HIV-positive men and their partners, and 873 HIV-positive women and their partners participated in the study. Half of the HIV-positive men and women started treatment immediately upon enrolment (early treatment). The other half did not start treatment until their CD4 count dropped to between 200 and 250 cells/mm3 or they developed an AIDS-related illness (delayed treatment).
All couples received regular adherence counselling, HIV risk-reduction counselling, free condoms, HIV testing, and screening for and treatment of other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Although the clinical trial is scheduled to be completed in 2015, preliminary results have been released early as a result of an interim review by an independent data and safety monitoring board (DSMB). Based on the study data, the DSMB concluded that earlier initiation of HIV treatment by people living with HIV substantially protects their HIV-uninfected heterosexual partners from acquiring HIV.
Overall, 39 HIV-negative partners became infected during the study. In each case, researchers used genetic matching to determine the source of the HIV infection. In 28 cases, the HIV-positive partner in the study was the source of HIV transmission. In 7 cases, the HIV-positive partner in the study was not the source. In the remaining four cases, the sources are still undetermined.
Researchers then looked at the 28 cases where genetic matching confirmed that HIV was transmitted from one partner to the other within the serodiscordant relationship. Of these 28 transmissions, 27 were among couples where the HIV-positive partner delayed treatment and only 1 was in a couple where the HIV-positive partner started treatment immediately. Therefore, the study showed that earlier initiation of treatment by the HIV-positive partner reduced the risk of transmission to the HIV-negative partner by 96%.
The study also found that starting treatment earlier provided additional health benefits for the HIV-positive partner. Whereas 17 cases of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (tuberculosis that occurs outside of the lungs) were reported among the HIV-positive people who delayed their treatment, there were only 3 cases among the HIV-positive people who started treatment immediately.
The vast majority of the couples enrolled in the HPTN 052 study were heterosexual and at risk of transmission primarily through vaginal sex. Therefore, the results may not apply to other populations -- such as men who have sex with men and injecting drug users, who are at risk of HIV infection through other routes, including anal sex and sharing needles.
The study also does not tell us about the effectiveness of earlier treatment at reducing the risk of heterosexual transmission in a "real-world" setting. The participants in this trial were provided with a comprehensive package of prevention services, including HIV risk-reduction counselling, adherence counselling, and screening for and treatment of STIs. It is possible that HIV treatment may be less effective at reducing transmission in the absence of these services. For example, "treatment as prevention" may be less effective if the HIV-positive partner does not adhere to their medications, if either partner has other sexually transmitted infections, or if a couple engages in more risky behaviours because they feel that the treatment protects them fully from transmission.
Finally, the trial involved people who had recently received an HIV-positive test result and who had relatively high CD4 counts. This suggests that the HIV-positive people in this study are more likely to be recently infected with HIV. Therefore, it is hard to tell from the data that is currently available if the reduction in HIV transmission as a result of early treatment seen in this trial would apply to other stages of HIV infection.
Additional results and analysis from two more pre-exposure prophylaxis studies in heterosexual couples in Africa were presented at the International AIDS Society Conference in July 2011.
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Facebook joins Linaro Linux-on-ARM effort
More ARM chippies, plus Red Hat and Canonical
It has been more than two years since Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson, and Texas Instruments formed a non-profit software company called Linaro to help focus the disparate efforts to get Linux running well on ARM processors and system-on-chip designs. A slew of companies, some new to the ARM racket, have joined the Linaro effort – and as of Thursday afternoon, so has social media juggernaut Facebook.
Facebook has been non-committal about its intention to use ARM-based servers in its data centers, but the Open Compute Project open source hardware engineering effort would probably accept ARM-based machines if the chips from Marvell, Calxeda, and others that have been tuned up for servers were more widely available. And it was not exactly a coincidence that Jay Parikh, vice president of infrastructure engineering at Facebook was on a panel during AMD's ARM strategy launch earlier this week.
Facebook is not the only company that announced it was joining the Linaro effort during ARM TechCon 2012 this week in Santa Clara. AMD, which just jumped on the ARM server bandwagon, has joined the non-profit coding organization and specifically, Facebook and AMD are joining the Linaro Enterprise Group, which was formed to focus on "the development of foundational software for ARM server Linux," as the announcement put it.
Commercial Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical, which are supporting ARM server processors from Calxeda and Marvell with their respective Fedora and Ubuntu Server wares, have also joined the enterprise group. Calxeda and Applied Micro, which are on the front wave of ARM server chip and related fabric interconnect development, have joined up, too, and new ARM server chip enthusiast Cavium, which makes a fair living peddling multicore MIPS-based network processors, also wants to get on the inside track with Linaro.
Founding members Samsung and Freescale have not made any public statements about server plans, but having hired a bunch of ex-AMDers, Samsung is widely expected to muscle into the ARM server fray soon. Server maker HP has now joined up, opposite rival IBM, which was a founding member of Linaro back in June 2010.
ARM designs are licensable and mutable, and that has inspired a kind of hippie culture of sharing and modification on the hardware front that is akin to open source software (without the hardware specs actually being opened up, mind you, so you get the variety without the actual openness).
We'll call it the chippie culture, just for fun.
The plethora of ARM hardware is a challenge for any operating system maker, and no lesser light than Linux creator Linus Torvalds has chewed out the chippies for making this harder than it needs to be, and to vent that "[s]omebody in the ARM community really needs to step up and tell people to stop dicking around."
Linaro may not be succeeding at the level that Torvalds would like, but the organization says that Linaro was the third largest contributor to the Linux 3.5 kernel, among those contributors who do this as their day jobs at Red Hat, Intel, Novell, Texas Instruments, IBM, the Linux Foundation, and Google.
By the way, coders with no affiliation still were the largest contributors to Linux 3.5, and "Unknown" beat out Linaro but trailed behind Red Hat and Intel.
The Linaro Enterprise Group is working on low-level booting and kernel software for ARM-based servers initially, with both 32-bit and 64-bit variants. Linaro is not creating an ARM Linux distribution, but funding the foundational work that can lead to an ARM distribution.
There's lots of talk of ARM-based servers, and some of it actually occurred on Friday in a live chat here at El Reg, where we broke the news about the new Linaro members and the fact that AMD will be marrying the server-side ASIC for its "Freedom" 3D torus interconnect with its ARM-derived Opterons based on the 64-bit Cortex-A57 cores from ARM Holdings. These ARM Opterons will no doubt to be called the A Series, with x86-64 Opterons probably to be called the X Series. ®


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Guide to Geologic Hazards in Alaska
- Solifluction
- The slow viscous downslope flow of waterlogged soil and other unsorted and saturated surficial material, normally at 0.5-5.0 cm/yr; esp. the flow occurring at high elevations in regions underlain by frozen ground (not necessarily permafrost) that acts as a downward barrier to water percolation, initiated by frost action and augmented by meltwater resulting from alternate freezing and thawing of snow and ground ice. (Neuendorf, K.K.E. and others, 2005)
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Verizon Supports Bipartisan House Cybersecurity Bill
Feb 13, 2013, 03:30 EST
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.), chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, introduced legislation on Wednesday (Feb. 13) similar to cybersecurity legislation that passed the U.S. House of Representatives last April. The following statement should be attributed to Peter Davidson, Verizon senior vice president, federal government relations:
"Verizon supports legislation that boosts ongoing cybersecurity efforts and promotes the sharing of cyberthreat information among communications companies and federal agencies, provides appropriate liability protections and consumer privacy safeguards, and achieves greater cybersecurity without technology mandates or prescriptive rules. It's important that communications infrastructure providers retain the flexibility to implement all measures available to them to secure their networks and protect their customers.
"Verizon appreciates the leadership and dedication of the bill's principal authors, Reps. Mike Rogers and Dutch Ruppersberger, to build consensus around legislation on this important national security issue. Verizon will continue to work with key policymakers in Congress and the administration to achieve enactment of bipartisan, consensus cybersecurity legislation this year."
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Zod demands tribute as primaries draw closer
RAPID CITY (AP) -- General Zod issued a demand Thursday for $142 million in tribute for August 2007 to fund his bid for the 2008 Presidential race.
Said Zod at a campaign breakfast, "Now is the time to show your allegience. With an election drawing near, I must rise before you and do these things that are necessary, this campaigning, as it were, to take my rightful place in the White House.
"Today dawns a new era of prosperity! All citizens shall joyously offer half their wages this month. You shall use your phone and dial one of the three agencies allowed to collect these funds. The numbers are 1-800-525-6285, 1-888-397-3742, or 1-800-680-7289. You must give them a credit card or bank account number. If tribute is not forthcoming, rest assured these agencies have all powers to appropriate what is yours! They shall enslave you, and one day, your heirs!"
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How Scalia Lost His Mojo
Why the Supreme Court's most exciting justice is becoming much less fun to read.
Last week, when Antonin Scalia found himself on the losing end of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld—the case invalidating the Bush administration's military commissions for Guantanamo detainees—the court's self-styled littérateur did what he does best: He blew his stack. The court's interpretation of legislative history, he wrote, only makes sense if it "indulges the fantasy that Senate floor speeches are attended (like the Philippics of Demosthenes) by throngs of eager listeners, instead of being delivered (like Demosthenes' practice sessions on the beach) alone into a vast emptiness."
Two days earlier, when Justice David Souter's dissent in a death-penalty case, Kansas v. Marsh, rubbed Scalia the wrong way (the court upheld a law Souter called "morally absurd"), Scalia gave a similarly scalding performance. Souter's opinion, he wrote in a concurrence, "has nothing substantial to support it" and makes a great fuss about the largely irrelevant question of wrongful conviction in the criminal justice system. "That is a truism," Scalia snapped, "not a revelation."
That scolding tone, those deliciously overwrought metaphors: It's Catholic-school headmistress meets Vladimir Nabokov, and it's the lively, unapologetically stylish Scalia that avid court-watchers know and love. But the opinions above stand out this term, not just for their colorful language and questionable etiquette. Such decisions are noteworthy because they have become increasingly rare. The 2005 term might well mark the demise of more than just Bush's military commissions and mechanisms to enforce the exclusionary rule: It could also signal the decline of Antonin Scalia's literary style.
Everyone agrees that Scalia is a witty jurist and a lively writer. Earlier this year, the New York Times crowned him the "funniest justice" on the court, finding him responsible for a whopping 77 "laughing episodes" during oral arguments of the 2004 term—19 times the number of episodes produced by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and infinitely more than those produced by Scalia's ideological neighbor Clarence Thomas. Conservatives, meanwhile, can't stop praising him for the brio he brings to the bench. Web sites like Cult of Scalia and Ninomania give fans the chance to wax sycophantic about the "greatest jurist of our time" and the "yummy" dissents he produces. 2004 also saw the release of a book, Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice—a fawning collection of opinions, compiled by Kevin A. Ring. "Scalia's way with words," writes a breathless Ring, "is what makes this book possible."
Just what is this "way with words" that makes Scalia so distinctive? His writing style is best described as equal parts anger, confidence, and pageantry. Scalia has a taste for garish analogies and offbeat allusions—often very funny ones—and he speaks in no uncertain terms. He is highly accessible and tries not to get bogged down in abstruse legal jargon. But most of all, Scalia's opinions read like they're about to catch fire for pure outrage. He does not, in short, write like a happy man.
But there was a lot less of his trademark style this year. And there's a very simple reason to expect to see less of Scalia's verbal pyrotechnics in the future: Scalia's angry wit depends on having someone to criticize, and criticism tends to travel by way of the dissent. That's why Ring's book has the title it does, instead of, say, Scalia Delivers or Scalia Convinces Everyone That He's Right.
For 18 years, Scalia has been a frustrated conservative presence on a shifting but moderate bench, and it shows in his writing. Yes, he has certainly produced a few thrilling majority opinions, but Ring rightly notes that "nearly every opinion reveals Scalia's strong disagreement with the reasoning, if not the conclusion, of a majority of the Court."
As that court lurches rightward, though, Scalia's contrarian spirit will begin to seem less, well, contrarian. Already, he has been dissenting less. Since Samuel Alito joined him on the bench (for a total of about 40 cases this term), Scalia has joined or written dissents just three times (with one partial dissent). During the last 40 cases of the 2004 term, by contrast, Scalia dissented 11 times, and twice in part.
Since the 2005 term began, Scalia has written more majority opinions than any other justice and has authored the third-fewest dissents—a stark contrast with past terms. The endlessly charming John Roberts has made no secret of his desire for a court that speaks with a unified voice, and as Walter Dellinger pointed out last week, he pulled off the astonishing mathematical trick of agreeing with every justice on the court more than Rehnquist had. Alito's charms are less universal, but he agreed with Scalia 13 percent more than did Sandra Day O'Connor—a justice with her own special place in Nino's hell. With the court less Balkanized, the vitriolic stylings of Scalia will seem increasingly out of place.
This is not to claim that Scalia won't find a place for a clever turn of phrase or a purple metaphor in the future. His dissent in Hamdan and opinion in Marsh prove there is enough contested constitutional territory still available, and I have no doubt that Scalia's love of language transcends ideological lines. (For years, he and Harry Blackmun—as intellectually distant as two justices could be—were the sole members of the Chancellor's English Society, a playful group Scalia founded to promote proper English usage.) But it's simply in the nature of dissents to spawn the kind of fuming creativity that Scalia most loves. When you dissent, not only do you have a nice big target at which to take aim—the majority—but, more important, you don't need anyone else on the court to agree with you. "It is clearly true," Georgetown law professor Peter Rubin told me, "that any justice is freer to write whatever he or she wants alone." In short, it's easy for Scalia to be a big, colorful jerk in dissents because he can be a big, colorful jerk all by his lonesome self.
And how. A quick tour of Scalia's greatest hits in dissent is in order. There's Morrison v.Olson, in which the court upheld the Independent Counsel Act. (Remember Kenneth Starr?) Scalia, writing on the short end of a 7-1 split, upbraided his colleagues for overlooking an obvious separation-of-powers problem. Some dangers come before the court "in sheep's clothing," he wrote. "But this wolf comes as a wolf."* Then there's PGA Tour, Inc., v. Martin, in which the court had to decide whether a rule requiring all golfers to "walk" the course violated the rights of a disabled golfer. In dissent, Scalia suggested that, "out of humility or out of self-respect (one or the other) the Court should decline to answer this incredibly difficult and incredibly silly question." And few can forget Planned Parenthood v. Casey—the 1992 case upholding the core holding of Roe v. Wade—in which Scalia's dissent achieved a level of frustrated fury usually reserved for undersea volcanoes and small dogs tied to parking meters. Chastising the majority opinion's claim that it is "tempting" to limit the freedom of federal judges, he retorted that "no government official is 'tempted' to place restraints upon his own freedom of action, which is why Lord Acton did not say 'Power tends to purify.' "
It's heady stuff—and that's without even getting into Scalia's jeremiads against the use of international law, "evolving standards of decency," or the court's embrace of the "homosexual agenda." But in majority opinions, the name of the game is coalition-building, and while the Scalia who speaks in the first person plural is able to find room for a flash or two of wit, there's just no comparison with his dissents. You can read Scalia's majority opinions in Davis v. Washington or United States v. Gonzalez-Lopez, without cracking a smile, and—a line or two notwithstanding—Scalia's majority opinion in Hudson v. Michigan (which allowed unconstitutionally acquired evidence to be used at trial) could have been written by pretty much anyone.
I don't doubt that all this newfound relevance pleases Scalia. And he may well try to have his cake and eat it too by writing lots of blistering concurrences that take shots at anyone and everyone within rifle range. But that would be pointless. You might even say it would be a bit like Demosthenes on the beach, rattling off into a big, open nothingness.


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President Obama, first lady to attend Fort Hood memorial service
(CNN) — President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will attend Wednesday's memorial service for the victims of last week's shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, a top White House official announced.
Obama vowed after the shootings that "We're going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened" at Fort Hood, where three soldiers were killed and 16 wounded Wednesday afternoon by a soldier who then took his own life. Investigators have identified the killer as Spc. Ivan Lopez, a 34-year-old Iraq war veteran with a history of depression and anxiety.
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer confirmed the trip Sunday morning during an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation." Obama also addressed the memorial service for an earlier massacre at Fort Hood, in 2009.


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Thursday, January 12, 2012
9 comments:
- the southern hostess said...
So sweet. Paul's my favorite, so I love this.
- January 12, 2012 at 7:05 AM
- April said...
That photo is adorable. Someone I know got one her books for Christmas and really loves it!
- January 12, 2012 at 8:32 AM
- ROXY MARJ said...
This photo is sooo cute and totally hilarious! Thanks for sharing!!!
:-[) And I love those teeny houses below as well as Iris Apfel! She is definitely one of my style icons too! I got to sit in on an interview between she and my teacher a couple years back, and got introduced to her afterwards...she was so sweet, gracious and super funny! Love her and love being reminded of her! :)
- January 12, 2012 at 10:06 AM
- sharmin said...
I love that photo! I haven't seen Linda's book, but I saw some of her work at a museum once and it was so beautiful!!! I hope you get a chance to see some of her photos sometime.
- January 12, 2012 at 3:36 PM
- neLLa said...
soo beauty !!!
- January 12, 2012 at 7:44 PM
- max said...
wonderful photo.
- January 13, 2012 at 1:07 AM
- akiko said...
I never checked the book but now I'd love to.. The photo is so adorable! xo akiko
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- January 14, 2012 at 1:59 AM
- Shoko said...
ROXY MARJ - That's incredible! You're so lucky - I'd LOVE to meet her!
sharmin - I hope so, too! Definitely going to pick up the book ASAP.
- January 16, 2012 at 11:59 PM
- Shara said...
love this pic soo cute;)kisses La Folie
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Officers in Orange arrested a man for driving recklessly after receiving complaints from other drivers, and they discovered the suspect was also in possession of synthetic marijuana.
After a brief court appearance, a 25-year-old Bronson man charged in the intoxication manslaughter death of Amber Roussel was taken back into police custody after he failed a drug test Monday, Jan. 28.
Derek Wesley McBride was indicted by a grand jury in November 2012 for the July 30, 2012, collision that killed Amber Roussel, 31, and injured her husband, Ryan Roussel, 36, both of Louisiana.
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Event will feature light show that will continue nightly through Jan. 1, 2013
The Roswell Park Cancer Institute community will gather for the annual Tree of Hope lighting ceremony Friday, Dec. 7, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at RPCI. A holiday celebration for all whose lives have been touched by cancer, this family-friendly event will culminate with the lighting of the Tree of Hope by a cancer survivor from Carly's Club for Kids & Cancer Research in WNY.
This outdoor event, co-sponsored by WIVB News Channel 4/WNLO CW 23, West Herr Automotive and Xerox, will include live entertainment and holiday-themed activities throughout Kaminski Park & Gardens. Parking is available in RPCI's on-campus parking ramp (Carlton Street at Elm Street, Buffalo).
New to this year's celebration is an animated light show presented by Xerox. Beginning at the Tree of Hope, Kaminski Park will light up with a dazzling display of nearly 30,000 energy-efficient LED lights orchestrated to music. The 13-minute light show, open to the public, will continue Dec. 8 to Jan. 1, 2013, running every 30 minutes between 5 and 10 p.m.
Additional Tree of Hope highlights:
Horse-drawn-carriage rides
Visits with Mr. and Mrs. Claus
Performance by John & Mary (John Lombardo and Mary Ramsey) with special guest Theresa Quinn
Live ice sculpting by Paul Strada
Face painting, balloon art and appearances by RPCI's trained therapy dogs
Candle ceremony paying tribute to those we've lost to cancer and survivors still in the fight
Gingerbread house raffle supporting Roswell Park's Celebration of Life cancer survivors' event
Sale of Paint Box Project merchandise benefitting cancer research at RPCI (more info: www.paintboxproject.com)
Dunkin' Donuts, Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Buffalo, and BJ's Wholesale Club to provide refreshments
Guests should register by Monday, Dec. 3, to 1-877-ASK-RPCI (1-877-275-7724) or [email protected]. See http://www.roswellpark.org/treeofhope for more information.
Western New York, Western Pennsylvania and Southern Ontario television viewers can tune in to live broadcasts from the event throughout WIVB's News 4 at 5 and News 4 at 6 broadcasts that evening.
The mission of Roswell Park Cancer Institute is to understand, prevent and cure cancer. RPCI, founded in 1898, was one of the first cancer centers in the country to be named a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center and remains the only facility with this designation in Upstate New York. The institute is a member of the prestigious National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an alliance of the nation's leading cancer centers; maintains affiliate sites; and is a partner in national and international collaborative programs. For more information, visit RPCI's website at http://www.roswellpark.org, call 1-877-ASK-RPCI (1-877-275-7724) or email [email protected].


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Google's Nexus line of products has long been popular with Android purists thanks to its vanilla build of the mobile OS and speedy updates. The Nexus devices have gained even more attention in recent years in no small part due to Google's aggressive pricing on phones like the Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 5. "Nexus" may be a word that Android fans soon retire from their vocabulary, though. A new rumor claims that Google will replace it with a new program.
Dubbed "Silver," this new program will reportedly see Google partner with device makers to produce high-end Android phones that will have a limited number of non-Google apps or allow users to uninstall them. According to The Information, Android Silver products will also have prompt updates and a consistent user experience.
So what do the manufacturers get out of this deal? It's said that Google will heavily promote Android Silver devices in carrier stores and other advertising. This means that the device makers wouldn't need to spend so heavily doing their own promotion.
According to today's report, Motorola and LG are likely to be the first companies to take part in Android Silver. The first Silver phones could launch as early as next year in the US and other developed markets. Google will reportedly use in-store displays to show off the Silver devices and the Android software that they'll run.
We've seen Google attempt to make Android more prominent on the platform's hardware lately. For example, devices are starting to feature "Powered by Android" branding on their boot screens. This Android Silver program sounds like the next big step for Google to highlight Android itself rather than allowing brands like "One" and "Galaxy" take over the platform. And while this is all still very much a rumor for now, it certainly sounds like an effort that Google could make, especially since the "Nexus" brand has never really gained a ton of traction with consumers.
What do you all make of this rumor? Do these Android Silver devices sound like something that you'd be interested in?


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Software for Specailty Trades
Service Management software works with this company's suite of accounting software. It features several tools for the specialty contractor including a dispatch board for complete control of the work-order process, automated billing, and 80 standard reports.
Timberline Software Circle 304
Security management system
The iSecure Pro is an intelligent, integrated, Windows 2000-based security management system, developed with the latest information management technology. Featuring the power and connectivity of the Microsoft SQL Server client/server database, it's an ideal security system for protecting single buildings, networked campuses, and multisite enterprise applications.
Circle 311
Electrical estimating system
The Bidmaster NET series electrical estimating system is an advanced, Web-enabled, computerized estimating system for electrical contractors. It features a materials database that includes more than 30,000 electrical items, plus prebuilt, customizable assemblies.
Circle 302
Infrastructure tracking system
iTRACS is a non-proprietary, real-time infrastructure tracking, reporting, and asset-control system. It is an Internet-enabled, standards-based hardware and software solution. It automatically discovers and monitors port connectivity in data centers and wiring closets to ensure 100% accurate, up-to-date network documentation.
Circle 306
Project control and accounting software
Protiftool is a fully integrated project control and accounting software product geared for construction or construction-related companies. It allows companies to better track their costs and manage projects. Its software consists of a comprehensive set of modules that give an overview of your entire company's operation.
Circle 303
Spreadsheet software
Resource Manager 2001 is an add-on to Microsoft Excel. Its APS Module features detailed work-center calendars that can be adjusted at any time. Its Data Integration Wizard assists clients in reading bills-of-materials, routings, and more from a variety of ERP systems.
User Solutions
Circle 313
Field-service automation system
Enterprise software uses wireless communications, handheld computers, advanced software, and the Internet to automate the costly, time-consuming, paper-intensive processes associated with field-service operations. These processes include communications between the field technician and the office, receipt of work assignments, completion of work orders, and making information ready for invoice and payroll.
Circle 301
MSDS management system
MSDSBank.com is a new Web site designed to revolutionize the management of all material safety data sheets (MSDSs). To keep up with MSDS changes, this site has a library of hundreds of thousands of MSDSs for common chemical products. This makes it possible for users to locate and store all required MSDSs at the Web site.
Circle 310
Palm-based project-management software
With Prolog Pocket software, professionals in the architectural, engineering, and construction industry can use a handheld Palm computer to manage and track information from the field, including: each company's labor hours, work performed, and equipment; weather conditions; notable events and visitors; safety notices; notices to comply; and punch lists.
Meridian Project Systems
Circle 307
Business management software for specialty contractors
Wintac Pro 2001 software integrates customer and job-site tracking, dispatching, scheduling, routing, work-history and equipment tracking, job pricing, estimating, invoicing, work orders, proposals, purchase orders, flat-rate pricing, multitruck inventory, A/R, A/P, checking, payroll, financial reporting, and marketing.
Intac International
Circle 308
Invoice approval process for construction software
The new accounts payable invoice-approval process for this company's Forefront Construction Management Software allows a construction company to route invoices electronically. Invoices can be routed to a user-defined sequence of reviewers. Each reviewer can add remarks and make changes to the coding entirely on screen.
Dexter Chaney
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Home security system software
The GrafikTouch LT is a Windows-based touch-screen program designed for the HAI OmniLT controller. Its ZoneTracker feature pops cameras on the screen when security zones are violated, and plays a prerecorded message to alert the homeowner of the event. The program can be expanded to control multiple touchscreens.
Circle 300
Lift truck safety/maintenance software
Shockmate is a companion interface to this company's Shockswitch ID operator control and monitoring system. Shockmate helps lift truck users conform to the latest OSHA requirements. It tracks required daily safety inspections, records maintenance events, and helps track the maintenance costs of each vehicle.
Circle 312
Online industrial lighting design guide
This company's online design guide for industrial lighting includes a full range of industrial products, along with information about their use, best practices, design tips, and related technical information.
Lithonia Lighting
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Michael A. Lerner, author of Dry Manhattan: Prohibition in New York City, says mass support of Prohibition was the direct result of successful WWI propaganda.
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Glen Whitman discusses the ramifications of the three-tiered system of alcohol distribution, which forces manufacturers to sell their products through a limited number of distributors.
He says the lack of competition leads to increased prices and decreased selection.
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SOMERVILLE — Beethoven's five sonatas for cello and piano propose an uneasy relationship, since the piano — particularly in its modern incarnation — tends to cover the cello's low register. These pieces also record Beethoven's evolution as a composer: He wrote the first two in 1796, the third in 1808, and the last two in 1815. In their performance of all five at Tufts University's Granoff Music Center Sunday, Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey and local pianist Lois Shapiro were tough, intelligent, and rewarding.
The conversation between cello and piano can be a relaxed one, as it generally is between Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, with the piano giving the cello ample room to express itself. Or it can be a confrontation, as it is on Wispelwey's Channel Classics set of these sonatas with Dejan Lazic, where the cello has to fight for space. Shapiro, who plays in Triple Helix and is on the faculty at Wellesley College, was as forthright as Lazic, but she would back off when Wispelwey had something to say. Wispelwey, with his usual dry, puckering tone, engaged in a battle with his instrument, struggling to get everything he wanted from it. He rarely looked at Shapiro, and yet they were always on the same page.
They were lighthearted in the first two sonatas, where themes show up in unexpected keys or vanish altogether. In the allegro of No. 1, Shapiro would set them galloping off in one direction, then another; in the rondo, they seemed to be discussing what game to play. No. 2 found Wispelwey in a more sober vein, sighing in the andante sostenuto and experiencing a brief panic attack in the allegro, but here again the rondo was full of fun, as he and Shapiro strove to outdo each other.
Sonatas Nos. 4 and 5 are darker and knottier, the two instruments like an anguished couple in an Ingmar Bergman film. In No. 4, a dreamy andante turned into a hysterical and nightmarish allegro; No. 5 started with squabbling before a hymn-like truce was declared and cello and piano freed themselves by breaking out of D minor into D major. Both sonatas resolved into exhilarating fugal interplay, but Wispelwey and Shapiro gave full voice to the tortured and ugly in Beethoven's writing.
They ended with No. 3, where cello and piano learn to listen to each other and construct themes and develop them together. The opening allegro, with its thunder and lightning and reference to "Es ist vollbracht" from Bach's "St. John Passion," led to a jagged, darting A-minor scherzo with a spooky pizzicato conclusion before the 17-bar E-major andante cantabile restored calm. In the allegro finale, once again, they seemed to be making it all up as they went along.Jeffrey Gantz can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Eli Kim on
Decided after 3 weeks to try the opened bottle of sauce (The triple Strength that got on my shirt). Mine showed no signs of mold. Heck, it didn't even show signs of separation of the contents of the bottle. Put a bit of triple strength in my mouth and noticed a kick, but a bit lacking on sauciness. Not sure if it is because I didn't shake it. Tasted pretty decent, but can I ask one request? Up the heat? Maybe it's cause I took a small amount, but the heat feels a bit too low for me. Otherwise I'm hoping the new batch gets it's final testing done and sent out soon. I'm only brave enough to try this one bottle for now.
Jason Russell on
So what is the new estimated ship date?
Chris HoltSuperbackeron
so, i got mine a few weeks ago and it's been sitting on my counter. (i opened the package right after receiving the DO NOT CONSUME email...) Then you finally explained why we shouldn't consume them. I've been waiting looking for mold to grow on the top where the air bubble is inside the bottle but haven't seen it yet.
I know you said that about 3% of the bottles contain "natural airborne molds" but how dangerous is this? If it's naturally occurring in the air then what are the odds i already have this stuff floating around my house or my office? Could I pour the sauce into a pot, boil it to sterilize the sauce, (disinfect the bottles) and re-bottle it and it would be safe?
Don't get me wrong...I'm not about to take a risk when you said so strongly DO NOT CONSUME (good work getting the message across). I'm just super super excited to try this stuff. We've been waiting for many a month and having to wait another 2 months when it was within my grasp is heart-wrenching, especially if I could just boil the sauce to sterilize it. (of course, while waiting patiently for the official replacement).
---I understand that you gave notice of potential danger in consuming the sauce, and am interested in the responses to my above questions regardless of this warning---
Paul, Chris and Leigh Creator on
Thanks guys for the comments, and the fun pics you are sending in, glad you love the shirts, our illustrator Karlie McCulloch did an amazing job for us. For all those that had t-shirts but didn't get a package, they will come with the fresh batch of sauce.
I hope can see from the updates that we are making good progress, and we will have this fresh batch to you all as soon as we can get the extra natural preservative through lab testing. The shelf life of 1 year will likely remain unchanged.
And as we mentioned in the updates, all backers will receive an extra bonus to reflect our gratitude for sticking with us. Can't wait to get it in your hands.
Cheri Galvan on
Cheri Galvan on
Amazing to me how many people turn, when the whole idea of Kickstarter is to help with new ideas, and to try to get production started for new, innovative products..I wish you "Badgers" the best..and if your product is indeed as great as it sounds..you will be successful..With sadness, I did pour out the sauces today..but look forward to the new batch arriving in time for summer cook-outs! Oh...and the bottles are indeed AWESOME!
Jackson Knife and Tool on
Im glad you guys are preserving. I love delicious sauces.
Meghan MacRae on
You guys are awesome! I was SO excited to see my little badgers, and the aroma was heaven! Can't wait to slather the stuff on my soon to be even more famous fall off the bone ribs! Happy to be one of your little honey backers!
Chris Lauer on
Looking forward to the 2nd batch!
Michael Caldwell on
Received my refund today. Thank you very much for taking care of that. Best of luck, I have no doubt you will recover from this.
Paul, Chris and Leigh Creator on
Hey Guys,
Just wanted to clear up a few questions we have been getting. First off, we have not yet sent out a second batch of sauce, so any sauce you have received is part of the recall and should not be eaten. This includes triple cobra unfortunately.
Second, backers that have requested a refund will receive it shortly. As you might imagine we have allot going on right now with this setback and are working on every front to make it right. An update with more information will follow later in the week.
Michael Caldwell on
I sent an email for a refund and never received a reply.
QuantumC on
I also wanted to note that the tripple stength bottle I received today was leaking and the top of the regular bottles cover had text saying sealed for freshness, while the leaking tripple strength bottle did not have the red text on it. Could it be that nothing will seal the freshness of a wild honey badger?
Eli Kim on
Received mine as well today. I could tell it was the sauce from the way it smelled. It was tossed and turned a lot because the Triple Strength bottle is leaking sauce at the top. It seems even these bottles weren't enough to contain the powerful flavor. Neither was the plastic wrapper for the shirt. Gonna give the shirt a wash and hope it's not stained permanently. Not brave enough to test the sauce if it's not recommended. Although I'm wondering if I can get a new... clean shirt? Can't hurt to ask. Hopefully those little buggers get through and out to us soon.
Daniel Lieber on
For those who received the recalled sauce (I have not received anything yet), you can dispose of the sauce, thoroughly clean the container, and come up with a creative use for the empty badger. Please let the rest of us know what you do with the badger via a comment here and perhaps other creative ideas will come out. I'm confident Paul, Chris, and Leigh will appreciate knowing something good came of the tainted run.
James BendosSuperbackeron
Sorry to hear about the continued issues. As ridiculous as your whole ordeal has been, most of us realize the pain and unknowns that arise from being a start-up. So best of luck going forward. I did just receive the bottles and will reluctantly dispose of them. Just an fyi, one bottle arrived with a cracked lid and leaked a bit. Not a big deal, but I will be disappointed if the replacements are damaged in transport as well. Hopefully, that's the last of your issues.
Colin Culks on
So the doorbell rings right, and it's this guy dressed partially in brown, and partially in scratches and fear. He gives me this box then only runs away doesn't he, like a terrified snake. I could hear growling from the box, and the unmistakable smell of war. That made me think, now I know what the real problem was with the sauce. It was infested with real Honey Badger! That's why it was so dangerous, and the only thing they could do was destroy the whole batch. Not thinking of my own safety, I threw the rabid box into the boot of my car, and drove down the motorway at maximum speed, which for my car is nearly 56mph. Also, it's got no clutch. Near the steelworks, I crashed into a huge tanker carrying liquid nitrogen. I dived out and grazed my chin, but the car and the cargo were frozen in the boiling wave. This would hold the badger for a little while, but I knew he was in there, burning with rage, and slowly melting himself, teeth first. I didn't have the keys for the boot, but I managed to get it open using some crayons I had. The lock's all blocked up with purple wax now, but I don't even mind. Using my sleeves as protection from the cold, and chanting the pain minimising incantation my old man taught me when I was four: "Fuggerbuck!", I raced into the steelworks with the snarling box. I dodged past the steel workers shouting "I need Japanese steel!" in case any of them's an Uma fan like me. Ain't she beautiful? As I ran up to the huge smelter, I tripped over and grazed myself on the chin again, right in the same place, and the package went flying and growling, right into the molten metal. There was a howling sound like someone had left the flap to Hell open. I stared into the white heat inside. Damn it was hot. I could feel it on my face. Actually, it was mostly coming from my mouth. My mouth was burning hot, and I began to feel dizzy. The room swam, and I could hear the voices of the steel workers asking me if I was ok.
When I woke up, I was alone, but my mouth still hurt like hell. I reached out and pulled myself up using the kitchen worktop for support. I had vomited, and chunks of meat and bread were dried onto my neck. In my hand was a hamburger with a bite taken out of it. Damn, that must have been some powerful sauce. Or maybe it was the effects of the mould.
Jerome Bond on
These bad boys arrived at my door yesterday. Very happy with the look of the bottle as the little evil beady eyes mocked me to taste it's contents. YES I saw the email about the recall and YES... I still tried the sauce. Evidence of mold in a few bottles...I was hungry...and desperate...and I just don't care. Made a batch of Badger Balls and ate ALOT of them. I'm still alive but more importantly the sauce was delicious, so good when it hits your lips! Can't wait to get my replacement bottles. Sounds like there was nothing you guys could have done to prevent the disaster, complete bummer :( I'm still happy I backed this project, every KS project i've backed had delays. Just seems to be the nature of KS. The bottle is awesome and amazingly the sauce was even better. Hope this doesn't hurt you guys too much.
RadaBnasty on
Honey Badger don't care about recalls. Send that sowse!
Tim Hendrickson on
That really sucks about your first batch being bad. I just got my shipment today and was wondering with regard to the triple strength sauce, if that was ok, or was it also tainted like the regular strength sauce? BTW, the love the bottle.
Joseph SchmalkeSuperbackeron
you have an obligation to let people know what is wrong with the trained sauces you mailed.
Dave Classick on
Well here we are 7 months later... $18 in for a sauce i really wanted to but havent gotten the chance to try yet.. Im only 40 minutes away... If i drive up to the city, can i just pick mine up???
Thiago Andre Scarani on
Relax, everyone. The e-mail says that replacements will be sent free of charge. I would love to have the means to perform an analysis on the "defective" sauce so as to know exactly what went wrong.
Or the creators could also tell us, so that we get a better understanding on this. There are so many variables on food manufacturing that need to be controlled, especially when manufacturing is outsourced, that a lot can really go wrong.
Jon Marler on
Before anyone throws away their sauce, let's wait for independent confirmation. It very much looks like their kickstarter account may have been compromised, but I wouldn't know if it was. Sounds fishy to me.
Aaron Lococo on
and I'm pretty sure this is the last food item I will ever fund on kickstarter...
Kevin Baltz on
Wow ... and now its canceled.
Paul, Chris and Leigh Creator on
Hey guys,
We are still working to get full functionality up on our store. At this point, if your orders says "completed" it has shipped out and is on the way to you!
Jason Alexander on
Such a disappointment of a kickstarter project. I won't be using my reward code. If someone else wants to spend the money on shipping, message me and I'll give you my code.
Randy Jimenez on
One last thought, at the end of the day, the $7.40 shipping is change in my pocket but I'd rather put that toward helping another Kickstarter campaign get off the ground.
Randy Jimenez on
Hmm, already been said but disappointing Kickstarter. The shipping issue, that's our fault for not reading carefully. I think I've gotten used to Kickstarter campaigns not charging for shipping to the US. I don't know anything about shipping but most other campaigns are pulling this off somehow. Maybe there was more homework to be done? But again, 100% my fault for not reading more carefully.
But what is more disappointing is the fact that there is no actual benefit from contributing early via Kickstarter. In helping the Badger get off the ground all we really did was pre-order the sauce at retail price. Hero rewards with exclusive offers? Thanks, but I don't want discounts on more sauce, especially with these shipping costs. Why would I buy more sauce? I don't even know yet if I like the sauce. And I won't be finding out. Please consider my campaign contribution a donation.
All that said, the team hit their goal and finished their product. Congrats on that and good luck.
Michael Caldwell on
Glad to see things are coming around, and that you guys are staying committed to the product. Rough start, sure, but we shall see how things turn out. Having backed multiple kickstarters, I do not blame you one bit for the "convoluted" ordering process; it saves the hassle of manually shipping each order, and that saves you a TON of effort. Still a little off-put by zero benefit to being a initial backer, but so be it; I gambled, hopefully the sauce is awesome. Curious to see what the "Hero Rewards" are all about, but if it is just a little coupon to save a buck or two on our next order...well, here's hoping that is not all it is. Good luck guys, really looking forward to this sauce! And since Christmas has come and gone, I'm not giving any of them out as presents as I intended...which means, more for me!
Paul, Chris and Leigh Creator on
Hey Brian! Thanks for your comments
First let me say that the shipping prices are just shipping, the badger pays all the handling, packaging and fulfillment charges out of the kickstarter funds raised. And yes this is huge chunk, I don't really want to think about it ha ha.
Secondly on USPS there are discounts available, we are getting them, they are just very minor (5% range) compared to the UPS discounts of about 32-33% we get, well correction our large fulfillment center gets the 32-33% and we get to use that. We didn't negotiate this, they did, and it really really is their business by nature.
Thirdly, on the flat rate boxes, yes it is $11.35, we can just about stuff 3 bottles in, but it is not ideal and they are not packaged as well as in the correct sized box which we can ship UPS. In terms of costs, to ship 3 bottles UPS to MO is $8.27, a good saving over the flat rate, most states realize a saving in fact. WA,OR,NV,ID,CA and AZ do end up about 70-80 cents more than the flat rate. But give the advantages of better sized boxes etc. and higher expected badger survival rate, we though it was not worth offering the flat rate box and it saves on complexity at the fulfillment center end.
I hope you can see that we have done our homework in trying to find the best reliable way to get the rewards delivered. It pains us that the sticker price is so high.
I will say that there are some Special Forces Badgers that will be embarking on low protection airborne missions as soon as they come off the production line. They are know to be the bravest of badgers, even for a honey badger, and have already said their goodbyes to friends and family. The outcome of their mission will determine the first "Hero Rewards" offering. It is just not a method that can be trusted until it has been tested by the brave few.
Hope this helps! And yes stay tuned for more fun videos etc. to promote the badger, we have a few fun ideas.....
Brian Weatherill on
I think the sticker shock on shipping is unsuprising, I just looked at the USPS flat rate medium sized box and it's $11.35, and about big enough to contain a significant number of bottles (3 maybe 4)..
The price above is retail, they state discounts are available.
So I think shipping is a little expensive and that better negotiation with UPS may result in some better pricing.. What I suspect is that the guys are getting quotes from the supplier for S&H, not just shipping.. and that handling is the piece thats adding the extra chunk..
I know you guys are not sales people by nature and I know this is a lesson you'll take to heart. Good luck and don't forget to keep marketing and getting out there in the spring/summer to promote your brand.
Paul, Chris and Leigh Creator on
Hey Brian thanks so much. We are doing our best and we just CANNOT WAIT for everyone the get the sauce in their hands.
Quiestdeus on
Hey guys,
From the tone of the most recent kickstarter update it sounded as if you had a number of unhappy individuals complaining.
As the most negative participants can often be the vocal minority, I just wanted to drop you a line and let you know that you have INCREDIBLY happy people as well. With 1420 backers and only 89 comments I would not take things to heart too much.
I can't wait to get my sauce, and think you have handled this entire process professionally and superbly.
Long live the badger!
Brian Eng on
If you are inferring to me by taking offense to the gimmick comment, I am sorry, I didn't mean to offend. Although, that comment had nothing to do with the sauce itself, more toward the bottle. I was surprised how much work went into manufacturing a bottle. I respect you are offering people partially refunds on the shipping, that is commendable. In my case, I will just let it go. Anyways, my only real complaint is the TRIPLE COBRA STRENGTH sauce. I REALLY WANT SOME. But it's $60!!!! I've never even tried the sauce before, it is such a gamble to spend $60. Can you guys please work something out here? Why is it so expensive? As always, I wish you guys success. Thanks.