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For CASology's NEON challenge, I searched for the "neon-est" colors of card stock
I saved the leftover circles from the o's and die cut some punctuation marks
for the smaller pink dots. All the dots were adhered, some with dimensional tape.
I'll also be entering CASual Fridays' #109--POLKA DOTS.
Thanks so much for stopping by!


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Washington Extension has put an informative document on the web called, "Comparison of European & American Systems of Production and Consumption of Dry-Cured Hams".
If you read this blog, I recommend you check it out.
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FINAL RESULTS (Summary)
FINAL LEADERBOARD (Players)
FINAL LEADERBOARD (Team)
SANTA ANA, Calif. - Upperclassmen Taylor Camany and Balbina Guajardo were both among the top 20 at the 2013 UCI Invitational presented by Kia this week, helping Santa Clara University place sixth among a 12-team field at Santa Ana Country Club in Orange County.
Camany carded impressive rounds of 73-78-75 to finish tied for 10th overall. Guajardo finished the event strong with scores of 81-74-75 to place tied for 17th. As a team Santa Clara once again out-played West Coast Conference foe BYU, while also getting the best of No. 92 Idaho.
Boosted by an opening round 67, Gonzaga's Alice Kim won the individual title by four shots over North Dakota State's Amy Anderson. Kim claims a sponsor exemption into the LPGA's 2013 Kia Classic (the UCI Invitational event is the only collegiate tournament in the country that allows the winner to participate in an LPGA event).
Gonzaga - the top ranked team coming in to the tournament - also claimed the team title by topping host UC Irvine and Long Beach State.
6 Santa Clara 306 315 308 929
T10 Taylor Camany (5) 73 78 75 226
T17 Balbina Guajardo (2) 81 74 75 230
T30 Ashley Noda (1) 75 82 79 236
T34 Sadie Strain (3) 77 81 79 237
T56 Meghan Shain (4) 83 83 81 247
UC Irvine Invitational
Dates (Site): Monday and Tuesday, February 25-26, 2013
Host: University of California Irvine (presented by Kia)
Tournament Field (12 teams): Gonzaga (57), UC Irvine (70), Long Beach State (73), Idaho (92), UC Riverside (111), BYU (114), Portland State (128), North Dakota State (137), Santa Clara (156), Sacramento State (157), Montana (164), Northern Colorado (177)
Details: 54-hole tournament – 36 holes on Monday and the final 18 holes on Tuesday 26.
Shotgun start Monday at 8:30 a.m. then Tee Times Tuesday starting at 7:45 a.m. off 1 and 10.
Course: Santa Ana Country Club (Santa Ana, Calif.)
Yardage/Par: 5,888/Par 72 on Monday and 5,831/Par 72 on Tuesday
Course Website: SantaAnaCC.org
Course Number/Address: 714-556-3000
20382 Newport Blvd
Santa Ana, California 92707-5396
Live Scoring: Golfstat.com
*A sponsor exemption into the 2013 Kia Classic is awarded to the winner of the 2013 UC Irvine Invitational presented by Kia on Feb. 25-26 at Santa Ana Country Club. This partnership makes the UC Irvine Invitational presented by Kia the only collegiate tournament in the country that will allow the winner to participate in an LPGA event.
May 29, 2013 WOMEN'S GOLF: YOUTH IS SERVED
April 17, 2013 Balbina Guajardo Balances Golf and School
April 5, 2013 Santa Clara Women's Golf to Compete in Cowgirl Classic
March 19, 2013 Santa Clara Women's Golf Works During Downtime
February 23, 2013 LPGA Exemption Up for Grabs at UCI Invitational Monday and Tuesday
February 17, 2013 Freshman Ashley Noda Paces SCU Women's Golf at Stanford
February 15, 2013 Region's Best Golf Teams Converge at Stanford's Golf Course This Weekend
February 13, 2013 Santa Clara's Balbina Guajardo Selected Among WCC's Top Players
February 12, 2013 SCU Women's Golf Beats BYU and Nevada, Place 7th at The Gold Rush
February 8, 2013 Orange County the Site for SCU's 2013 Women's Golf Opener
November 16, 2012 Prep All-America Golfer Annie Freman Chooses Santa Clara University
October 30, 2012 Guajardo Just Misses Going Back-to-Back at Cal Poly Invitational
October 26, 2012 SCU Women Aim to Repeat as Cal Poly Invitational Champions
October 23, 2012 Bronco Women Play Well, Finish Third at SCU's Colby Invitational
October 22, 2012 Bronco Women Excel In Opening Day of the SCU Colby Invitational
October 22, 2012 SCU's Colby Invitational Underway at Silver Creek CC
October 17, 2012 SCU's Colby Invitational Set for Monday-Tuesday, Oct. 22-23
October 14, 2012 Santa Clara Women Out-Play Seven Schools at Desert Intercollegiate
October 13, 2012 Balbina Guajardo Paces Bronco Women's Golf in Palm Desert
October 11, 2012 SCU Women's Golf to Play at Classic Club in Palm Desert
October 9, 2012 Rookies Strain, Riley Go Top 15 in First-Ever Tournament
October 5, 2012 SCU Golf: Five Broncos In Action Monday on Central Coast
September 25, 2012 SCU Women Equal BYU In Final Round of WSU's Cougar Cup
September 24, 2012 SCU Women Initiate Golf Season on the Palouse
September 21, 2012 Golf Season Begins Monday for Bronco Women at WSU's Cougar Cup
September 10, 2012 Santa Clara University Adds Greg Staszko to Women's Golf Coaching Staff
July 6, 2012 Camany and McCartan Named All-American Scholars
April 19, 2012 SCU's Taylor Camany Earns Spot Among WCC's Best Golfers


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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
End Game, Part Two? Three?
69 comments:
- Mike said...
Just a note of clarification Ann... canaries in a mine are there to prevent deaths... but it could be taken to the Los Osos extremist view that canaries should not be allowed in a mine that could cause their deaths... Using the Los Osos activists illogic; Move the Canaries out of the Mine!!!
Yup, the Los Osos obstructionists never were trying to come up with an economically feasible sewer, no Ann, the Los Osos Obstructionists have always been about preventing ANY SEWER... and cost be damned...!!! You know it, we know it and so does the BOS, including you will note, Mr. Meacham...!!!! Passed 5 to Zero...!!!
Have a nice day, the rest of us are rejoicing every bit as happily as Al Barrow was following the recall...!!!!
WE won't forget or forgive the obstruction as we pay our coming sewer bills... Thanks Obstructionists, you certainly saddled this community with a financial burden and will force some very good people to have to move away...!!!!
- 7:42 AM, December 15, 2010
- FOGSWAMP said...
So, what return percentage this time around?
Does anyone know?
- 8:25 AM, December 15, 2010
- Sewertoons said...
A piece of Ann's writing above:
"-requests that the BOS verify whether Dana Ripley's plan actually would be $50 million cheaper and would be capped and guaranteed (a simple enough thing to check, one would think-"
Ripley would not be the one performing this scope of work. If you recall he came in under the authority of the Lyles Group. So what he claims cannot be guaranteed by him as he does not have the horsepower to run a project this big. He can claim whatever he likes, he can't be put to the test here.
And to back up what Mike is saying, I copied this out of a document prepared by Sorrel Marks and sent to me last year some time. It was regarding sewer costs over the years and what lawsuits along the timeline have resulted in:
2001 $84.6 million Final Project Report by Montgomery Watson
Obstructionism costs money.
- 10:11 AM, December 15, 2010
- Sewertoons said...
FOG, Ann stated it above, 15% protested.
- 10:13 AM, December 15, 2010
- FOGSWAMP said...
Thanks Toons.
T'was just a senior moment with a 218 vote in mind.
- 12:34 PM, December 15, 2010
- Sewertoons said...
You are welcome FOG. I am subject to those myself. Have a hard time accepting that I qualify for the "geezer" rates at various venues.
- 2:47 PM, December 15, 2010
- GetRealOsos said...
Found the letter from Stan and Gordon.
Click here: http://www.mediafire.com/?y4653iryxahvy97
- 9:58 PM, December 15, 2010
- Churadogs said...
Mike sez:"no Ann, the Los Osos Obstructionists have always been about preventing ANY SEWER..."
Once again, you are making stuff up. And your statement proves you have stopped thinking. What I and anyone who knows anything about the history of this project is this: There are a handful -- literally a handful out of a town of 15,000 folks, like a number you could count on the fingers of two hands, if that -- of "obstrucitonists" who do not see any need for a sewer. Handful, Mike. Tiny handful. That's what you know and I know and everyone else knows. But you wish to pretend this tiny handful represents a huge chunk of the community. That's dishonest, Mike, and you know and I know it. and anyone familiar with this blog knows it, too. Intellectually dishonest, plain old Dishonest-dishonest, in other words, a lie,Mike, a lie, as in making stuff up. Which you do all the time.
As for people who object to how this process was done or the project itself, the breakdown is: X% of that group want a STEP system, Y% want either STEP or Gravity but want the sewer plant out of the center of town. BUT both X & Y want a sewer, which makes them "pro sewer" not "anti-sewer." Their arguments are over type and placement. But neither are anti-sewer obstructionists. They're all pro-sewer and their sewer choices are a bit different from yours, but they're not anti. Once again, declaring them "obstructionists" is dishonest, a lie, and you're making stuff up. Again.
Toonces sez:"Ripley would not be the one performing this scope of work. If you recall he came in under the authority of the Lyles Group."
so let's get the Lyles Group to guarantee the project and price.
GRO sez:"Found the letter from Stan and Gordon."
I couldn't access it for some reason. But, tell us, was the number they used 30%? And what was the date on that? I got to wondering if it was Pre-CSD or Post WMH, ie. 2000?
- 5:42 AM, December 16, 2010
- Alon Perlman said...
Would Ya believe Fifty? Amazing letter OSO
"Original Sewer Obstructionists"
But I don't get the 2011 point-Seems they were concerned with Affordability and wanted to do something about it.
- 6:44 AM, December 16, 2010
- FOGSWAMP said...
Thanks for the link GRO, interesting read.
"The economic impact of this sewer will devastate our community (underlined), 50% if not more of this community may be forced to sell their homes and move because of the high costs of the sewer".
Yes, they seemingly cared at that point in time.
Remember, thereafter they soon became known the dream team, like "save the dream". So the letter could have been just a "prophetic dream".
The costly problem occurred when they cultivated the skill to remain in the lucid state of dreaming.
I guess the disturbing nightmare that caused them to wake up and pay attention was the recall.
Now we are in the costly dramatic stage of healing the dream
- 9:06 AM, December 16, 2010
- Ron said...
I'm with Ann, I can't seem to get that file either. I see "1997wilson.pdf"... but I don't see a link to it.
All I see is "Save to my Account"
Do I have to create an account to get it? I REALLY want to read it.
Also, GRO, you wouldn't happen to know if Budd has a 1999-ish document that shows a payment from the LOCSD to the SWA Group. would you?
My guess is there are several, but all I need is one with LOCSD letterhead showing any kind of payment to the SWA Group.
VERY important.
If so please e-mail it to me (contact info on my blog) or, if I can figure out how to get it, post it here.
Those are the documents that the LOCSD won't give me, because it will show that their jobs are based solely on a scam.
Muchos gracias, amigo.
- 9:18 AM, December 16, 2010
- GetRealOsos said...
Ann and Ron,
I will try to re-post the letter. Sorry.
The letter was written on June 11, 1997.
Yes, they said 50% if not more people would be forced to sell because of the price tag of $145-$200 a month.
Also interesting, Stan and Gordon say the County acknowledged that the sewer may not change nitrate levels for 45 years if at all.
My point was why the complete turn around from Stan and Gordon? Was it because MWH came into the picture handing out bundles of money (like Pandora was asking for -- almost $1 million.) And MWH getting busted for this elsewhere?
Makes one wonder!
(And Ron, I don't know if Budd has the info you want. He probably does. I don't know him. I suppose you could email him and ask. Someone here has to have his phone or email address. I'll try to find out if you can't reach him.)
- 9:24 AM, December 16, 2010
- Sewertoons said...
Ann says, "so let's get the Lyles Group to guarantee the project and price."
Maybe they would have done that already when they were interviewed by the County to try to make the sale? Maybe they cannot offer that because they cannot guarantee a cap on the costs.Remember, Ripley can't do this alone and he does not speak for the Lyles Group. Who, by the way, did not protest not getting onto the short list.
Ann, as for sewer obstructionism, I was floored to hear one of the Sustainability Group's comments on Tuesday. The "technologic and technological debacle" is driven by the nitrates in the bay and the bay isn't polluted, you (Water Board and County) don't know if we even need a sewer. Someone else said why have a sewer if you can clean up the pollution at the well head.
At this point the obstructionism seems to be stopping this sewer for a Step collection system. Had we a Step collection system, my bet is that we'd be hearing more of what I posted above.
As to the letter, I downloaded it and was hit with a bunch of porn popups afterward.
Let's also remember that the "X%" number that wants a Step system is very, very small. Disproportionally vocal on pushing it, however.
- 10:07 AM, December 16, 2010
- Mike said...
Just a note of caution to those taking a letter or message from 1997... You might be taking comments out of context and making incorrect assumptions... Situations may have also changed...
Not sure why a couple of you are still blaming only the pre-recall Board and NOT seeing what financial damage the CSD5 Board created...
Does any of your "investigation" amount to anything more than a witch hunt... and in case you haven't noticed, the CSD does not now and will never again have control of the sewer design/selection...
Yawn, you guys must have nothing better to do now that the County is firmly in control...
- 10:58 AM, December 16, 2010
- Ron said...
GRO wites:
"My point was why the complete turn around from Stan and Gordon? Was it because MWH came into the picture handing out bundles of money"
Not only is that an excellent point, but it really seems to be coming down to that. Nothing else makes sense.
I've shown, repeatedly, that numerous official documents, throughout 1998, told the Solution Group crowd -- Stan, Pandora, Gordon, etc. -- that their "better, cheaper, faster" disaster wasn't going to work, but they pushed it, HARDCORE, anyway (I mean, who does that?), and then, when their scam worked, they immediately started cashing in on it, AFTER it killed the county's 1998 "ready to go project."
Well, at least I can show the Karners started to immediately cash in on their deliberately-made disaster, but no one else.
So it looks like we're pretty much at this point of the cop story: The point where the cops say to the "perps," "You know, unless you start talking, you're going to take this entire rap yourself."
I mean, PLEASE tell me that Pandora didn't do ALL of this just for $3,869.04.
GRO writes:
" I don't know if Budd has the info you want. He probably does. I don't know him."
Thank you for that information.
Then, I have a public request for a public records request: If ANYONE out there has a pdf file of a 1999-ish LOCSD document, on LOCSD letterhead, that shows a payment from the LOCSD to the SWA Group, pleeeeeease email it to me: sewerwatch at gmail dot com
In fact, if someone were to e-mail that above mentioned "1997wilson" letter, at that above mentioned email address, I would post it where I post my other documents, and then there would be a direct link to it... that's right: SewiLeaks!
- 11:39 AM, December 16, 2010
- Sewertoons said...
GRO, despite the problems of posting the letter, thank you for doing so.
I will paste in what you wrote earlier about the letter to refresh our minds:
GRO said:
"Why would Stan and Gordon do a complete turn around from the time they wrote to then Pete Wilson about the cost and technology."
"If Stan and Gordon were saying the same thing many years back -- that people would be forced to move because of the extreme cost and that a sewer wouldn't correct nitrate problems etc. -- WHAT changed their minds so when Montgomery Watson Harza and the Tri-W came into the picture?"
"How come they fought for affordability and technology THEN and made a complete turn around with MWH's Tri-W plan?"
Sorry, I meant to finish this but got busy and now I don't have the time. I will answer your questions about the letter as soon as I can.
- 11:57 AM, December 16, 2010
- GetRealOsos said...
Lynette says: "As to the letter, I downloaded it and was hit with a bunch of porn popups afterward."
Lynette, you clever, deceptive little woman.
There is no porn.
YOU JUST DON'T WANT ANYONE LOOKING AT THE LETTER. And YOU don't want to see it. You want to scare people. And the letter is way too scary for you!
If there's porn on your computer then talk to Lou!
You don't want any truth out there. We all can see that.
P.S. Those comments you made on the Trib blog about Bo and Lacey (and Piper) are pretty darn low. ALL you have is attacks. That's it and you are exposing how very sick you are.
- 12:25 PM, December 16, 2010
- Mike said...
...ahhh GRO... there were several folks (not just 'toons)commenting in the Trib... and very pointedly that they didn't appreciate the Coopers and Piper...
There are quite a large number in this community who do not like Gail, the Coopers, Piper, Bev, Julie, Al, Jeff... and quite frankly, they have earned every bit of the scorn by not respecting the BOS or this community which is why we wouldn't mind seeing them move to Orange County....!!!!!
Do you need help moving GRO....!!!!
- 12:47 PM, December 16, 2010
- Sewertoons said...
I'm back, sorry for the delay.
I read the letter. It is dated June 11, 1997. I will send it to anyone who wants to e-mail me: email@example.com.
It is a plea to Wilson, then governor, for help to pay for a sewer that the County proposed. Why is this letter scary? No idea. It isn't.
Why did they do a turnaround? Because they wised up. What they initially proposed wasn't going to work. They HOPED it would work, they TRIED to make it work. When it wouldn't work, instead of suing the County, the State, the Water Board, knowing full well THAT was futile due to the CAWS case losing against the Water Board, they came up with a plan that DID WORK and was PERMITTED and FUNDED. They understood that there WAS NO CHEAPER WAY TO DO THIS. A lesson the Lisa board failed to grasp.
They made an impassioned pleas to lower the cost having used all other avenues to do so. Please don't tell me that the nuttiness of the supposed collusion with MWH, that the nitrates won't be fixed by Tri-W or the present project, or the Broderson objections are based on this letter for money!
- 1:19 PM, December 16, 2010
- Sewertoons said...
Mike, I think GRO has already moved!
- 1:20 PM, December 16, 2010
- Mike said...
Thanks 'toons... it's a waste of time to play with those bit players...
The sewer is going to be built inspite of those foolish enough to continue to nitpik the process and/or claiming there is no need for a sewer or blaming everyone they disagree with...
- 2:17 PM, December 16, 2010
- Sewertoons said...
Yeah, I guess it is a waste. And they have nothing left to do now - but wait. To pay for the sewer AND the bankruptcy.
- 6:21 PM, December 16, 2010
- Churadogs said...
GRO sez (of Lynette) "P.S. Those comments you made on the Trib blog about Bo and Lacey (and Piper) are pretty darn low. ALL you have is attacks. That's it and you are exposing how very sick you are."
I've written before of the "Voice" that comes through loud and clear, even with people thinking they're "anonymous." It's always there and goes right to the heart of the writer's basic character. And there are several posters here, including a constant "anonymous," with a voice that's soul-deep Ugly On A Stick. It's an interesting phenomenon. Can't escape that "voice."
Re the infamous letter. Interesting. 50%. Wow. and 1997. earlier than I recall.And they were guestimating even then of charges up to $200, which is about where the county is targeting this project. Thanks for tracking that down. Presume Ron will post it in his cache. Now, will be interesting to see if that % guestimate has gone up or down vis a vis the present project and the updated census numbers.
- 6:30 AM, December 17, 2010
- GetRealOsos said...
Can you imagine anyone picking on Bo? Now, HE, does speak for the people. HE cares. HE speaks for the seniors who can't possibly come down to the BOS meetings and are sitting at home getting sick over the cost!! (Some, of course, have died with the stress.)
Lynette sure doesn't care and sure doesn't speak for the community. Neither does Joyce Albright or Mike.
Regarding the "letter" -- it is interesting that Gibons doesn't think the cost will force people out of their homes, but Stan and Gordon thought 50%. Big difference! And notice they also stated "alleged" nitrate pollution. Heck, they even mentioned the sand at the Tri-W location. All interesting I think.
You say, "nuttiness of the supposed collusion with MWH, that the nitrates won't be fixed by Tri-W"
Lynette, if the nitrates are from the farm run-off (which the STATE WATER Board NOW claims -- but you know more than they do of course), and nitrates from pet waste, and Men's Colony, people living on boats in Morro Bay, nitrates from plants, and on and on -- how in the world can MWH's plant fix any nitrate problem? ... can't and won't happen!!
- 9:41 AM, December 17, 2010
- Sewertoons said...
GRO, nitrates in the aquifer. A-Q-U-I-F-E-R. That place where we get our drinking water (well, not you anyway). Nitrates, caffein, drugs, etc. ALL in the aquifer. (But we all know that cows drink a lot of caffein, right? Yeah, let's blame the cows.)
Ann, we will be paying the $6.486 mil back on the SRF loan - but the claim is in for $8,636, 565.57, which includes that loan, the interest from the petition date and the $$ on a $2 mil grant PLUS whatever else is in the bankruptcy. That will be in addition to County sewer costs.
What mention of the sand at Tri-W? The reference looks like it is to Broderson.
- 11:24 AM, December 17, 2010
- Chris said...
GRO: Give it a rest. The No Sewer, Move the Sewer, Not-in-my-lifetime sewer obstructionists have failed again!
Failure "When your best just isn't good enough."
Thanks for the laughs!
- 5:18 PM, December 17, 2010
- FOGSWAMP said...
The three that signed that letter sure seem to fit Barbara Wolcotts' definition of an UltraOppositionist.
A group of people who would stop at nothing to keep the Los Osos bay polluting.
I wonder what her editor thought of that letter. I read somewhere that the editor of Small Town Perfect Storm lived in Los Osos, so may have seen a copy and just ignored it.
- 7:01 PM, December 17, 2010
- GetRealOsos said...
I was referring to any nitrate or pollution in the bay. Obviously.
As far as the ground water, I'm sure you like the ground water in Morro Bay much better!! They have their gravity, leaking MWH pipes. (Have you seen the videos of the leakage?) You can go anywhere and find pollution in ground water with any gravity system. They all leak!! But you believe "out of sight, out of mind".
And how about the horse farm back off Highland? Not in the PZ of course. And, oh, those homes outside the PZ -- they don't contribute to any kind of pollution because the water board "believes" they don't.
You will NEVER convince me that this sewer scandal is nothing more than a land grab and developers dream. It's the biggest hoax I could ever imagine.
And I'll keep repeating this:
A less intrusive collection method wouldn't harm all the trees, the Chumash remains, and would be less costly so many more people could remain in their homes.
You are only wanting MWH to line the pockets of you and your friends. There is proof of "appearance of conflict of interest" with Gibson, Paavo, etc. etc. -- Give us a break.
- 9:14 PM, December 17, 2010
- Churadogs said...
It was interesting how "polluting the Bay" became conflated with nitrates in the upper aquifer, and we heard a great many rallying cries that we had to stop polluting the bay, with scary claims of septic tanks leaking raw sewage into the bay & etc.When the Kitts study came in with their DNA numbers everyone sorta went, Uh, well, nevermind, and suddenly you didn't hear any more about it. Ditto with CMC leaks, Morro Bay's troubles, when it became clear that the issue wasn't Los Osos septics polluting the bay, except in tiny amounts from homes sitting smack dab in high groundwater right on the bay & etc. But it was a useful scare tactic, again with little or no "science," but useful for pushing forward the badly misconceived 83-13 resolution and, of course, for attempting to brand any and all critics as "anti-sewer obstructionists" who ARE POLLUTING THE NAITIONAL ESTUARY BAY EEEK!
Speaking of which, I see we have a "new" voice, "Chris", who has drunk the A.S.O Kool Aide. Anyone who uses that phrase gives himself away as intellectually lazy and part and parcel of The Big Lie and/or admitting that he's just another tool of marketing based "strategies." Talk about making one laugh.
- 7:35 AM, December 18, 2010
- Mike said...
HaHaHa... Ann, you have drunken so much Los Osos water that you are now paranoid as well as having grown into just an old woman with no life out side your septic tank...!!!!
Another voice...??? You should have opened your closed mind and realized there were a very large population on this community who disagree with you and the babble you spew... You haven't heard from all those who disagree with you and the batshit crazies you cheer on in the quest to halt any sewer in Los Osos...
Please don't try to tell us again that you really want a sewer just with all the strings you attach... No Ann, YOU speak very clearly...!!!! YOU have never wanted a sewer, because you are simply befuddled person who for some reason believed Gail and not the many who developed a real PLAN, complete with permits, contractors and funding...!!!
I welcome "Chris" as another "voice" of reason who has seen through the obstructionism and who YOU do not want to hear... There are many more out here who very much disagree with you... Maybe you should learn to actually listen to the real community instead of trying to find fault...
- 7:58 AM, December 18, 2010
- Ron said...
That letter is hil-ar-i-ous!
Here's a direct link:
[Thanks to the people that sent me that pdf, and, sorry folks, no porn pop-ups associated with that link. My apologies.]
-- Stan Gustafson
-- David Mayfield
-- Gordon Hensley
June 11, 1997
- - -
Payback's a bitch, eh, guys?
Well, fellas, ol' P.Wil wasn't much help, but ol. P. Na-K. sure was!
In one of her maaaaannnnnnyyyy newsletters, published just a few months after that letter:
"Solution Group members are... Stan Gustafson... David Mayfield... Gordon Hensley"
And to top off the hilarity, according to that newsletter, David Mayfield is a "Mental Health Counselor."
Uh... Mr. Mayfield, meet Ms. Nash-Karner.
And, of course, the "$71 million" project that Dave, Stan, and Gordon are whining about in that letter, was the County's "ready to go" project, that they all killed, along with Pandora, in 1999 (at a cost of some $6 million to SLO COUNTY TAXPAYERS) after they tricked Los Osos voters into backing their "better, cheaper, faster" disaster.
An anonymous commenter titled 'toons writes:
"Why did they do a turnaround? Because they wised up. What they initially proposed wasn't going to work. They HOPED it would work, they TRIED to make it work. When it wouldn't work, instead of suing the County, the State, the Water Board, knowing full well THAT was futile due to the CAWS case losing against the Water Board, they came up with a plan"
Sniff... sniff.
Such brave souls.
Where's my hanky?... sniff.
By the way, "Mike," I've got some bad news for you.
The bids for the overpass in the south county, "came in much lower than expected on account of the rotten economy — now how's that for a silver lining?"
Which means that the sewer's probably going to come in cheaper than expected, too.
And that means that not as many people will be forced from their homes, and I know that's just gotta kill ya.
"Chris" writes:
"The... Move the Sewer... sewer obstructionists have failed again! "
"Chris," do me a quick favor. Run down to the middle of Los Osos, and let me know if you see an industrial sewer plant three blocks upwind of downtown.
Now, does that look like a "failure" to you?
Ann writes:
"...admitting that he's just another tool of marketing based "strategies.""
Or the person responsible for those silly little "strategies," herself.
- 9:08 AM, December 18, 2010
- Mike said...
ronnie... to turn the tables on your guess of why the overpass bids may have come in lower than expected... It is quite probable that the CalTrans estimates (say isn't Caltrans where Lisa, Chuck, John and Steve work..???) that quite probably the CalTrans "estimates" were cooked a bit higher than usual... After seeing the poor planning brought to Los Osos by those 4 CalTrans "Engineers and Scientist(?), it is easy to see how mismanaged the SLO CalTrans office has become... but it's your story ronnie, right out of the "straw" you smoke each night...
- 9:58 AM, December 18, 2010
- M said...
Mike, could you please explain to us about how it is that you know what this community is thinking, or which side exactly we all come down on? Or is it simply your small group of friends that feel the way you do. I know that most of the people I talk to are not chomping at the bit for $200+ a month sewer bills to start as soon as possible as you and others are. Doesn't make us anti-sewer obstructionist. Simply means we think there are better alternatives.
Sincerely, M
- 11:24 AM, December 18, 2010
- Mike said...
M... are you dillusional....??? NO ONE wants a $200 per month sewer bill...BUT, thanks to the OBSTRUCTIONISM that took place with the MTS group, that's what we have coming.... I don't like it one damn bit, but when the community allowed Gail, Lisa and Julie to win that recall and then without caring what they should have known would be coming, we watched them destroy the community and force the State to take the project away from the CSD and gave it to the County... Now is waaaayyy too late to continue to fight the County... NO ONE made a case for a better, less costly, approvable system... We all have lost....!!!! I do wish those responsible could be held up to total public scorn....
- 12:20 PM, December 18, 2010
- Chris said...
Actually not a new voice, we've just been away for a while.
I do think your memory or rewrite of history is a little off. While you may have forgotten, many of us do remember that YOU had your hand out for a dog park at TriW paid for by the rest of us.
So what is this... A cover up? Are you really a park coconsiprator with Pandora? Ron, are you looking into this?
Speaking of Ron, your comment simply highlights one of the more pitiable aspects of your character. It is obvious to everyone that the only consistent feature in all of your dissatisfying relationships is you.
Thank you both for starting my day off with a laugh.
- 12:35 PM, December 18, 2010
- M said...
Richard, is that you? Sounds like it.
- 12:51 PM, December 18, 2010
- M said...
You didn't answer my question Mike. Course, you usually don't. You just insert your diatribe about obstructionist. Your friends brought us $205 a month with a sewer in the middle of town while taking away the County's sewer at $77 a month. Now tell us all again why you support them so much?
Sincerely, M
- 12:55 PM, December 18, 2010
- Mike said...
Sorry M... apparently you don't read so good... My friends, AND they are the true friends of Los Osos, backed a very legal PLAN, complete with every permit reqired, and were on their way to building a state-of-the-art (not a glorified septic tank) waste water treatment system... It would have complied with the RWQCB mandate, would have prevented any action against the property owners, and would have cost half of out of town sewer... I and my friends are not at all happy about the $200 per month bill that is coming... so go complain to those of YOUR friends who obstructed the Tri-W Plan and caused the $200 per month bill.... Don't look to the rest of the community to feel sorry for YOUR hand wringing and tears...
- 1:07 PM, December 18, 2010
- M said...
As usual your not making any sense Mike. How much would Tri-W have been without the alleged obstruction? The most expensive property, the most expensive visual mitigation, the most expensive smell mitigation, the most expensive treatment plant, everything about Tri-W was more expensive than anywhere else. How did obstruction raise the cost? Could they have done it for $77 that the County plan had set? I guess we'll never know, cause your friends stole that plan from us. You've already stated that your pipes are already in the ground, so I don't know what you've got to complain about. I guess you just have no life outside of this sewer. I still say your biography fits you know who which explains alot.
Sincerely, M
- 3:52 PM, December 18, 2010
- Mike said...
obviously M, you do not know what you talk about... but have fun playing with yourself... maybe you should team up with the ochs or Linde Owen or Julie-used-to-be-tacker to hold hands and make up whatever stories that will make you all warm and fuzzy... You'll never understand the truth anyway so you might as well tell stories until the $200 bill start coming...
- 5:02 PM, December 18, 2010
- GetRealOsos said...
Mike (Richard),
Wasn't the Tri-W at $207 per month? ...Then you add the hook-up fees and imported water, delays for the digs, etc.
If another system were to be used such as vacuum, step and others the cost would be much less. Then you could have a treatment plant on 1 - 2 acres with Perc. That's a whole lot less money.
But, no, it had to be MWH and big expensive gravity pipes. That's how many of us know it was nothing more than a land grab from the beginning.
Does anyone know how many RWQCB employees live outside the PZ? I would like to know that one.
- 6:28 PM, December 18, 2010
- Churadogs said...
Chris sez:"While you may have forgotten, many of us do remember that YOU had your hand out for a dog park at TriW paid for by the rest of us"
Not exactly accurate, Chris. SLO-4-PUPs, the group that started the first off-leash dog park in the county at El Chorro (run and maintained by private donations and volunteer help; I'm on the Board) were asked by the CSD to prepare a report for the CSD (free of charge, no "hands out" anywhere)as to the viability of having a dog park at the site in the areas that had already been designated as "park elements." (The "park elements," how did you put it, "paid for by the rest of us" were part and parcel of the original TRI-W plan; SLO-4-PUPs had nothing to do with creating any of that) As requested, we held several public input meetings, compiled info, made recomendations based on our experience with El Chorro,met with MWH/group to evaluate the plans and site area they came up with based on the report of what dog parks generally require to be successful. We presented the report to the CSD at a public meeting. The layout of the dog park design was then incorported into the overall TRI-W plan in spite of objections from some members of the public.
The overall conclusions of the report was that, yes, a dog park could work at that site, but did require some heavy mitigation and expenses, mostly around the issue of parking and handicapped access.
Mike sez:"YOU have never wanted a sewer"
Oops, there he goes again, making stuff up. Serious question: Does Mike actually believe the stuff he makes up? Or does he know he's lying and simply doesn't care? Or, because he has serious comprehension problems, maybe he doesn't know the difference?
and Mike sez:"You should have opened your closed mind and realized there were a very large population on this community who disagree with you "
Uh, Mike, please check the County Survey, the part that asks for sewer plant preference sites. I put Tri-W last when I filled out the survey. so did the vast majority of other people who filled out the survey. Now, what were you saying about "very large population of this community who disagree" with me?
Mike sez: "I and my friends are not at all happy about the $200 per month bill that is coming..."
Then GRO sez:"Wasn't the Tri-W at $207 per month? "
Will the REAL Tri-W please stand up?
chris sez:"Give it a rest. The No Sewer, Move the Sewer, Not-in-my-lifetime sewer obstructionists have failed again!"
Not exactly accurate. 1. People who want to move a sewer plant aren't "Not-in-my-lifetime sewer obstructionists." They're "Love the sewer, but please move the plant out of townists." 2. The "move the sewer" supporters/voters actually DID move the sewer, so I'd have to say that was "successful" rather than declaring they "have failed again."
- 5:43 AM, December 19, 2010
- Mike said...
I do love reading/watching/ hearing you Ann and the dwindling band of fools squealing to justify and spin their retoric... NOW "they" are all in favor of the sewer, they just didn't like 8 years of work, purchase of Los Osos property, real PLANs, legal permits and funding... "they" just didn't personally like where the sewer was going to go... Whoppie...!!!! Now the main plant is supposedly going out of town... Wowwie!!! and the cost is going to be much higher (we ain't done yet!) what Tri-W would have cost... Yup, Ann is already squealing and her head is spinning around as fast as her words....
...but thanks Ann for the great morning laugh.... Keep trying, you really don't know what the quiet majority is thinking about this stupid sewer war YOU keep cheering on...!!!
- 7:44 AM, December 19, 2010
- Ron said...
Chris writes:
"It is obvious to everyone that the only consistent feature in all of your dissatisfying relationships is you.
I have no idea what that means, because it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
The only consistent feature in all of my dissatisfying relationships is me?
By the way, Chris, did you go take a peek at the Tri-W site?
Still laughing?
Ann writes:
"Does Mike actually believe the stuff he makes up? Or does he know he's lying and simply doesn't care? Or, because he has serious comprehension problems, maybe he doesn't know the difference? "
None of the above, and, I'm a bit surprised, Ann, that you don't see it.
You HAVE to understand, that what they do here, in your comments section, is all part of one of her silly little "strategies."
What you are seeing here, in the comments section of your blog, is a deliberate, orchestrated "strategy."
YES, they know they are lying, and YES, they don't care that they are lying, what they DO care about is obfuscation.
For example, the anonymous person posting as "Mike," writes:
"the cost is going to be much higher (we ain't done yet!) what Tri-W would have cost"
That statement simply can not be supported anywhere, by any official document, but in the world of "behavior based marketing" the truth is totally irrelevant. They're going to make sure that they come in here and repeat all of that unattributed, and completely false crap over, and over, and over, and, over, and over, and over again, and hope some of it sticks.
That's how "behavior based marketing" works, after all, they have A LOT to lose.
News flash: People are stupid.
SOME of them will believe what the "behavior based marketing" type(s) (I added the "(s)" just in case there's more than one) write, even though it's completely made up.
That's why, when I detected comments on my blog that were obviously deliberate "behavior based marketing" I started deleting those comments.
I mean, the central core of my blog is showing that Los Osos, SLO County, and California are all victims of Pandora's "behavior based marketing," so, what I was doing, BEFORE I started deleting that crap, was allowing them to "behavior base market" on my site, when I know that the entire disaster is due solely to "behavior based marketing."
So, I dropped the hammer on them -- no more "behavior based marketing" at SewerWatch, and, INSTANTLY, my comments dropped to "0," which is like the best thing on the world!
If you, Ann, want to allow them (but, most likely, her) to continue to deliberately run their/her silly little "behavior based marketing" "strategy" here, hey, it's your blog.
- 10:09 AM, December 19, 2010
- Mike said...
...say ronnie... We're sure thankful for YOU giving Pandora all the great press... She been able to ride that wave of words to be effective in working toward more and better parks within ALL of SLO county... Guess negative bs from YOU is a good thing...!!!!
So far, we can't come up with a single person YOU have been able to run out of town... Keep up the good work...!!!!
- 10:40 AM, December 19, 2010
- Ron said...
The anonymous commenter "Mike" writes:
"...say ronnie... We're sure thankful for YOU giving Pandora all the great press... "
"She been able to ride that wave of words to be effective in working toward more and better parks within ALL of SLO county"
Right. Perfect!
Like I wrote before, we have a genuine Kumbaya moment here.
So, that means that you should write to Supervisor Gibson demanding that he pops out an official Resolution at a BOS meeting this January, recognizing her for her 20 years on the Parks Commission.
And then that would open up a public comment period on that Item, and then, just a hunch, we'd REALLY hear from the "silent majority." (OH, that'd be soooo sweeeet!)
C'mon, "Mike," help me out!
Write to Bruce, like I recently did at this link:
... and demand that he "honor" Pandora.
Doncha wanna see ol' P. celebrated? Hey, 20 years.
"Chris?" 'toons? C'mon! We're all on the same boat on this, right?
"Celebrate Pandora!"
Kumbaya, my Lord, Kumbaya...
- 11:06 AM, December 19, 2010
- Mike said...
...Pandora's doing very well without Your spotlight...
SAY, Maybe YOU should write about Juile-what-ever-her-name is and how she's saved Los Osos and Oceano... You do know she's a perfect mom and wife...
- 11:27 AM, December 19, 2010
- Chris said...
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- 2:32 PM, December 19, 2010
- Chris said...
Here's what I saw at Tri W: A monument to the undeniable failure of your Shicker-Tacker-Sesena-Senet-Fouche team.
It seems your team thinks cutting your nose off to spite your face, or in this case a whole community successfully fulfills their duties.
No one voted to turn the site inot a mud wallow. Attempting to label as "success" the conversion of a project (that as Mike pointed out was financed, had all required permits and was under construction) into a multi-million dollar bankruptcy is shameful!
At some point you must really give up your vitriol because hanging in there is just making you look like an even bigger loser.
- 2:49 PM, December 19, 2010
- Ron said...
An anonymous commenter titled, "Chris" -- another silly, made-up name, and part of another silly "behavior based marketing" "strategy" -- writes:
"Here's what I saw at Tri W: A monument to the undeniable failure of your Shicker-Tacker-Sesena-Senet-Fouche team."
Really? Huh... how very "behavior based marketing" of you.
Because, for about the millionth time, let me show you what the County of SLO saw at the Tri-W disaster.
Straight from the County's Pro/Con Analysis, available at this link:
- "(Tri-W's) downtown location (near library, church, community center) and the high density residential area require that the most expensive treatment technology, site improvements and odor controls be employed."
- "It (The Tri-W sewer plant) has high construction costs..." ($55 million. The next highest treatment facility option is estimated at $19 million.)
- "Very high land value and mitigation requirements"
- Tri-W energy requirements: "Highest"
- "Small acreage and location in downtown center of towns (sic) require most expensive treatment"
- "higher costs overall"
- "Limited flexibility for future expansion, upgrades, or alternative energy"
- "Source of community divisiveness"
- "All sites are tributary to the Morro Bay National Estuary and pose a potential risk in the event of failure. Tri-W poses a higher risk..."
- "NOTE: It was the unanimous opinion of the (National Water Research Institute) that an out of town site is better due to problematic issues with the downtown site."
- "ESHA – sensitive dune habitat"
Then there's the March 2009, "Los Osos Wastewater Project Community Advisory Survey," conducted by county officials, "Only (9-percent) of (Prohibition Zone) respondents chose the mid-town (Tri-W) location (as their preference for the treatment facility)."
And, of course, finally, in a June 2009 letter to the California Coastal Commission, the SLO County "Project team," writes, "The Project team, given the clear social infeasibility issue associated with Mid Town (Tri-W project) and the infeasible status of the LOCSD disposal plan [bolding mine], believes that if either of those options are deemed by decision-makers to be the best solution for Los Osos, then serious consideration should be given by the Board (of Supervisors) to adopt a due diligence resolution and not pursue Project implementation."
Still laughing, "Chris?"
Wanna see me laugh?
"... if either of those options are deemed by decision-makers to be the best solution for Los Osos, then serious consideration should be given by the Board (of Supervisors) to adopt a due diligence resolution and not pursue Project implementation.""
- 5:22 PM, December 19, 2010
- Mike said...
Hey Ronnie.WHEN do we see YOUR piece on the virtuous Julie Tacker... wonderful mother and wife....???????
No guts...???? Just a wantabe hack who got fired from the Sun Bulletin...!!!!
- 5:42 PM, December 19, 2010
- Chris said...
Ron, Ron, Ron,
Since you specialize in history you probably missed this from the Tribune Article on the Los Osos Rates hearing.
"As it is now, owners of single-family homes will pay nearly $200 a month for the next 30 to 40 years to finance the project."
Oops! seems your figures (and the hopes of the County) are out of date. We are now in line to pay much more than the any of the previous projects.
Retired banker hubby reminded me that the cost thrown around by the County don't include the bankruptcy and depend on the forgiveness of fines for polluting our water.
So, I am quite confident in saying your team failed...and failed miserably...to accomplish any of the goals the obstructionists dreamed of.
Laughing at you, not with you.
Read more: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2010/12/15/1408595/protest-of-los-osos-sewer-project.html#ixzz18c38zm5N
- 6:08 PM, December 19, 2010
- Churadogs said...
Chris sez:"No one voted to turn the site inot a mud wallow."
Uh, Stan, Gordo & Richard did when they started construction before the recall election.
Chris, are you a Mike clone and just make stuff up? Yikes.
and Chris sez (quoting from the Tribune):"As it is now, owners of single-family homes will pay nearly $200 a month for the next 30 to 40 years to finance the project."
Uh, Chris, think you missed the "as it is now . . ." as in "as this editorial is being written. HOWEVER, those numbers MAY change IF construction bids come in under the guestimates, & etc.
Aw, Chrissie, don't be another Mikee, stupidly making stuff up. One stupid Mikee per blog is more than enough.
- 7:18 AM, December 20, 2010
- GetRealOsos said...
Where's Lynette?
This is not like her -- not to post every hour!
You are right. It WAS the recalled board who decided to ruin Tri-W and start the construction early (no turning back was their plan). Mike can try to spin it any way he wants but the bottom line is the bottom line.
What's really weird is that if the State Water Board had not loaned out the first installment of the UNSECURED loan then Stan, Richard, and Gordon couldn't have started the project at all.
Yup, they were the ones who started the Tri-W project a month too early to cause the tremendous damage which of course includes the bankruptcy!
P.S. A friend of mine over heard the contractors working on the Tri-W say they had never made so much money on a job. Another friend told me that they were to get a bonus to finish the job early.
- 8:45 AM, December 20, 2010
- Mike said...
...and GRO, I seriously doubt that YOU have ANY friends...!!!! You don't ever actually KNOW anything about sewers and the Tri-W Plan, ONLY hearsay...someone, some friend, some other Harvey the Invisible Rabbit... You are just so full of crap...!!! just a rumor monger...!!!!
- 8:58 AM, December 20, 2010
- GetRealOsos said...
Mike (Richard),
Yes, you'd sure say I spread rumors.
Yes, I know a very expensive sewer is coming. I never said otherwise.
I'm saying that it didn't have to be so expensive. Period. You know it, we all know it.
It's a land grab to get everyone out so the developers can move in to re-build Los Osos to what Pandora wants it to look like. No riff-raff for her! No seniors for Van Burden, Starlings, etc.
Yes, I have good friends who aren't stupid by any means.
I have given more FACTS and information than you'd like (that's obvious). But I like to see you go off the top, I have to admit that.
P.S. Where's your good, loyal friend Lynette? ... taking time off for the holidays?
- 9:18 AM, December 20, 2010
- GetRealOsos said...
Mike (Richard),
One more thing:
You say that this is a rumor?
If the State Water Board had not loaned out the first installment of the UNSECURED loan then Stan, Richard, and Gordon couldn't have started the project at all.
Sure Richard!
- 9:20 AM, December 20, 2010
- Mike said...
I will agree with you GRO... time to clear out the riff raff and wipe out those silly 25 ft wide lots, trailer trash and that ugly "town" center so I can have jeffie build me and my friends some 5,000 to 20,000 sq ft mansions around a real golf course... Yup, GRO, you are right on target there... We also are planning on toll gates like 17 mile drive... gotta keep out the riff raff.... It's all in our PLAN... There will be 2 acre lot minimums so WE won't need no stinkin' sewer... Gotta love it when all the planning comes together... Thanks Gail, Lisa, Ann, Al and Julie... and thanks to YOU too GRO... we couldn't get control of LO without folks like you...!!!!
- 9:32 AM, December 20, 2010
- Chris said...
Nice try old gal, but the harder you try to divert attention from the failure of the Shicker-Tacker-Sesena-Senet-Fouche board, the dumber you look.
It wasn't starting the project that devistated the community it was stopping the project with no workable plan.
The project is a done deal. I hope you spent the last 5 years wisely saving up to pay...and pay...and pay for Shicker-Tacker-Sesena-Senet-Fouche "Move the Sewer" fiasco.
Laughing at you, not with you.
- 10:08 AM, December 20, 2010
- GetRealOsos said...
You say, "It wasn't starting the project that devistated the community it was stopping the project with no workable plan."
Problem with that is the RECALLED board had already sunk over $3 into the project.
We could have moved ahead with Ripley, and moved the sewer out of town (to the same place it will now be.)
It was the State Water Board loaning out all that money with an unsecured loan that allowed the recalled board to start that very STUPID project a month early (so there would be no turning back of course!)
Remember Stan saying, "WE LEFT YOU WITH NOTHING -- no money!!"
But, obviously the State Water Board wanted Tri-W and wanted MWH even though they aren't to dictate what system we select.
I personally saw a memo from the State Water board requesting Steve Highland (of MWH) sit in on a meeting with them. This memo was to Blakeslee. Why?
I believe it's because MWH has been handing out money to many. That's what they do.
And also remember (and by the way, this is not a rumor! -- Blakeslee was taking MWH's calls all during his AB2701.)
Nope, you don't want to admit it, but it was the recalled board's fault for the financial mess that we're in -- with a little help from the State Water Board.
- 7:12 PM, December 20, 2010
- Churadogs said...
GRO sez:"It was the State Water Board loaning out all that money with an unsecured loan that allowed the recalled board to start that very STUPID project a month early (so there would be no turning back of course!)
Remember Stan saying, "WE LEFT YOU WITH NOTHING -- no money!!"
Irony: I'm pretty sure that if the CSD had NOT started that project before the recall, the recall would have failed.
But here's one thing I'm absolutely sure of: No responsible elected CSD official who actually cared more about this community than about their own wounded egos would ever, ever, EVER have gambled that unsecured SRF money on a scorched-earth policy by setting the recall election date as late as possible (as Gordo stated, he was not inclined to help people trying to get him out of office (that old ego) by starting that project before the recall election. Not ever.
- 6:36 AM, December 21, 2010
- Alon Perlman said...
There were several Pre-Recall CSD PR components that failed; The arrival of reality-The starkness of the cleared ESHA where deer roamed a month prior. The Hunnihuts. "Trust the truth".(maybe the last one was just me). But; It was the extra month(s) that allowed the "Recall organization" to solidify that lead to the Recalls or more importantly the passage of Measure 'B" (A legally binding measure, for long enough to reach the no-return point).
The Post Recall board? I spent about 2-3 years watching them directly in action in meetings, between meetings, during meeting breaks, at the committee meetings far from the cameras;
Learned 3 things- 1. Each director is an individual and brought their own individual capabilities, disabilities and notions of responsibilities. As they matured or failed to mature in to their roles and learn the functions and limitations of the organization.
2. There are certain constraints and paths that responsible CSD directors can follow as they work their way through regulatory and mundane directorial duties (including fiscal responsibilities) to accomplishing their goals. Call it "CSD 101".
As I learned more and more about CSD Staff Manager interactions, (as if I was auditing the class) it became apparent that some of the directors were not going to pass their final exams.
During the first two years it was easy to for me blame the outside agencies. Then I woke up. Unfortunately, for a few directors the "exclusively blame" path continues to this day.
In a healthy CSD the public is the Sixth Director.
In the post Recall CSD the "public" Ranked fifth, somewhere behind Director Gail and Director Al.
It was easy to rationalize, (In the first two years) even the clearly questionable actions of the post-recall board, to be due to the individual pressures (Including Lawsuits).
Lesson Number 3: In hindsight, en toto, 20/20; this was not a board who could build any sewer if handed to them on a silver platter.
Yeall may differ.
Midtown? (Heh Heh- I mean Tri-W) Remains an Odd location as far as land use. But given the final cost and the shape of the collection system?
Social unfeasibility;- not Technical or monetary infeasibility.
It's a wash, (Literally and figuratively).
- 10:38 AM, December 21, 2010
- FOGSWAMP said...
Well said Alon.
- 6:52 PM, December 21, 2010
- Ron said...
Alon writes:
"Tri-W... Social unfeasibility;- not Technical..."
That's not accurate.
The disposal system was also "infeasible."
According to the County: "... the infeasible status of the LOCSD disposal plan..."
In other words, it wasn't going to work as planned.
And, according to the county, Tri-W posed the "highest" risk for spills into the National Estuary.
Just curious: Did the Tri-W site just happen to collect a drop or two of water during these storms?
- 9:38 AM, December 22, 2010
- Alon Perlman said...
Thanks Ron, you opened the Flood Gates. I'm going to repost this to your Blog
- Without re-researching-without clear context to the statements etc... top of my head -what I think and what I know.
I think the Infeasibility of disposal plan had the 100% Broderson element. I think Legros once said on this blog; the 100% Broderson was temporary to the project start and some would be shunted elsewhere. Disposal issues appear in CCC documents throughout the developments of projects. I personally was in active opposition to Broderson until Rob Miller reduced it. Also Tri-W did include tertiary (Along with high maintenance and negative pressure building for odor control, also there was on-site disposal/ grounds maintenance component inconsistent with the location's being a low collecting spot. (On the other hand if you had to have it in-town, the gravity collection is correct. And on the other- other hand bringing your rainwater/stormwater into the same exact spot as your Sewer plant has consequences that seem un-designed into many of the area's Sewer systems- (MB. Avila Creek). But....The County got the 2ndary treated application part wrong- CCC corrected that.
I'm not sure it can't handle slightly more than the 450 AFY but the numbers are locked in now. And any number would have to be dependent on continuous safety monitoring and a reserve capacity to STOP flows, "If".
The 0% Broderson suggested by some, even to this day, is even more impractical.
- 12:44 PM, December 22, 2010
- Alon Perlman said...
Best for last; WHAT I KNOW-I do monitor progression of the "Midtown site" and the surround on a regular basis. So you bet I was there Monday while it was raining, and Tuesday took a hike post rains (Subsurface collecting phase) to observe directly timed flows through the basin. (Fred Dellagata (LOCAC Traffic and Circ. Chair) was there with me too and we observed that erosion was close to the curb of LOVR roadway and he notified the County).
Last year (January close to the CCC Los Osos WWTP?) there were three (25 year event) successive storms. I rushed back at the ending of the third Storm in time to find the rupture of the final remnants of George Milanese retention pond. Note to self; "Was the Palisades Drainage project completed? Think so").
So this Monday, there was "A river runs through it" in the location I thought it would, and on Tuesday in the lull (as I already predicted); the TRI-W fenced portion retained NO standing or flowing water. Not quite "Dry as a bone" but close to it.
Where does it go? it actually, this year, worked its way out from the area, without collecting. all the way down Pine and the West edge of the Trailer park where it and the " lower Broderson " flows went neatly into the West Sweet Springs Marsh-and the national estuary if carrying a Sewer spill. But not a disaster to Sweet Springs spring and ponds. I'm not sure if the County included Giacomazzi at the time they stated "highest risk".
I confirmed that last year- this year is Insurance. Your other two "citizen" experts you know- Julie T. identified Willows inside TW fence and Linde Owens knows a lot about the property and has made good public comments about vehicles entering the ESHA, but Linde can't be shaken from believing that "Overflows at T-W, would go to Sweet Springs" understood to be meaning the ponds slightly east. It's a sewer activist thing.
- 12:53 PM, December 22, 2010
- Chris said...
You write: "Lesson Number 3: In hindsight, en toto, 20/20; this was not a board who could build any sewer if handed to them on a silver platter."
Nicely put. I love the subtle way you juxtapose the skill of the old board to produce a project that protected our community with the incompetence of Shicker-Tacker-Sesena-Senet-Fouch.
All water down the toilet now. Hopefully our new Board can find a way to pay the debts Shicker-Tacker-Sesena-Senet-Fouch stuck us with.
Ho, ho,ho-ing with you, not at you.
- 3:37 PM, December 22, 2010
- Alon Perlman said...
On the same page somewhat, Chris. We have learned that no sewer is perfect. (Example=100% Broderson remains in my mind an excessive Amt, see re Legros comments)
Hm... I'll avoid rephrasing that, but I meant "any sewer". (Darn! thats not quite it either!)
You should know that I helped stop that 2005 Sewer. At the time I certainly did not appreciate the regulatory hurdles. Later I was relatively much more instramental in stoping the Tonini Sprayfields, and more learned, even predicting the CCC objections.
It may not be the same as your point, or relevant to you, but having been through it, part of my point is that "The group" was composed of individuals, each of whom played different parts in removing the slim possibility of a (somewhat?) cheaper system as an alternative.
A different mix (even including one or two of the listed), may had gotten the Job done. IMHO
- 5:09 PM, December 22, 2010
- FOGSWAMP said...
It's interesting to note, at this time of the season, the numerous wastewater gravity system spills across the nation, and the tons of raw sewage spilled into our streams, rivers and oceans.
Some figure it is enough to keep Niagara Falls gushing annually for about 10 days.
Yet, out water-board demands we use a system with a "proven track record", according to Mr. Briggs.
Well, the deep trenched gravity system sure as hell has a proven record.
Without a doubt, the gravity system is a revenue generating system for the State.
- 7:09 AM, December 23, 2010


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But everything changes in seventh grade, starting with a new coach. He's impressed with Russell's height and tells him to try out for the team. To everyone's surprise, he makes the cut. Now Owen is struggling against jealousy, as Russell turns out to have some natural abilities. Russell is worried about losing his old friends and his Masters of the Mind team, but is finding out he enjoys basketball more than he expected. Can the brothers reconcile their differences and work together as a winning team, or will they lose on and off the court?
Now this is a book that takes a pretty basic plot, that's been done plenty of times, and turns it on its head in an awesome way. I loved that the author didn't descent into stereotypes, but kept the story realistic. Russell does have some amazing natural abilities, but he is also really bad at other parts of the game and needs to work hard to get into good physical condition. Owen doesn't suddenly turn out to have some amazing abilities elsewhere. It just so happens that Russell is good at academics and sports and Owen is really only good at sports. Owen isn't a very likable character; he's mean, overbearing, and selfish, but he's completely realistic in his behavior and the alternating viewpoints show how he got to the point of justifying the things he did, even when he knew they were wrong. Russell is a bit too good to believe sometimes, but he becomes a bit more human by the end.
Verdict: This is a book that will fly off the shelves; funny, realistic, school drama, sports, there's something for everyone. I highly recommend it and am looking forward to adding the sequel, Double Dribble, as well.
ISBN: 9781599909158; Published February 2013 by Bloomsbury; ARC provided by publisher; Added to the library's order list.


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The Many Banes of My Existence by Alexis
They're coming to take me away, ha ha!
Sunday, September 22, 2013
possibly the end, but I'll begin again in a new location
I will probably soon drop this blog and start another. someone has presumably hacked me. The most recent change was that the ability to divide my blog into paragraphs has been disabled. Whoever did this, I hope you are very proud of yourself. I'll try a few more things, but then I'll need to start over. I'll leave the new link here.
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One of the segments of the film is an introduction to the planet Earth. I've animated it to a 70's "Keep On Truckin'" kind of tune.
The Sun.
The Moon has to orbit the Earth so what better move to give it but a..... Moonwalk. This was actually very tough to animate, but I am happy with how it turned out. I might post a short animation of it later.
Finishing up the orbit while showing how long it take for the Moon to "slide" it's way around the Earth.


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I read this story Violet Okolie, followed from Facebook,……..Not only in Abuja, they happen every where…. There are women version too….ooo!!!
Risk it, be cautious, run away as soon you detect fraud.
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If you can no longer walk down the road with a platonic male friend without your mum jumping out of the bushes and enquiring, "Nne, is he the one? Hey my son, welcome o. Enhehn? Biko, give me your mother's number so we can start planning the wedding"
If your uncle thinks he is being all chummy chummy when he digs a painful hole in your side with his sharp, bony elbow and asks, "so tell me, when are we coming to drink palm wine on your behalf, nne"?
If your mothers, aunties and a long retinue of their friends are ready to matchmake you with anything that has a male reproductive organ, 'Just do and marry, dassall!'
If because of uncomfortable situations like these, you cannot even pick an unpainted cab to ferry you round town; you can see your people's spies craning their necks to catch a glimpse of your "new boo" and almost placing an instant, irreversible curse on you when you open your wallet to settle the cab fare.
If you walk into the supermarket with a friend and everyone immediately defers to him as your "oga". Don't even think that airlines, hotels and hospitals are going to ask you before they fill out "Mrs" before your name.
If you are a Nigerian, 28 and over and not yet married then it is obvious your village witches have finally located your residential address and when you go to sleep at night, meet inside your womb to hold their dance rituals and ensure you remain attractive only to your incubus.
(PS: If you do not know what incubus and succubus are at this stage, then you must be one of those mythical "happily married" Nigerian people).
Anyway, if you are tired of receiving huge bottles of holy water, anointing oil and sacred mantles from all sorts of concerned citizens; if you will bite the next person that suggests one yeye magician in sharp suit for all night deliverance sessions; if you are determined to shoot the next friend who attempts to match make you with their lousy partner's friend all because "a woman without a man is nothing"…
If you ticked yes to all the above, live in Abuja and have decided to settle for one of these Abuja boys with flashy cars, biabia down to their chest area and some funky hybrid accent in order to at least keep the concerned citizens off your case, please read this guide to decoding Abuja men first and consider it my gift to humanity and harassed young ladies all over the world.
- If he says to you, "I am a business man", my sister biko ask him what sort of business he is involved in. Abuja is a town where someone's "business" could actually be keeping an eye out for lonely, desperate but comfortable young ladies to leech off on. It is such a successful business that some of them have registered limited liability companies and even have associations that hold regular meetings where they trade advice and exchange contacts of hopeful "hosts". So, if his business is the type that does not require an office to execute, biko my sister, get used to the idea of holding your pillow tighter at night. Maka Stories that touch
- If your bae is into "real estate" my sister, biko delete all thoughts of properties in Maitama and Asokoro from your mind. What he is actually telling you with that euphemism is that he is one of those who gather in any of the numerous Abuja mosquito gardens to wait for someone who wants to rent a house. Usually, they sit in groups of 10 and above. Someone rents a three bedder for N2m, agency fee at 5% is N100,000. Please divide that among the ten of them who followed that transaction bumper to bumper and you will see that if you have anything that looks like a steady source of income or a reasonable business; then the only castles you and your bae would be building over the course of your relationship would all be in the air. Of course to be financed by you – but that is just a little inconveniencing detail, nehi?
- If your tear rubber boo claims to be an "artiste" or "moozeeshan", my sister your case don turn to sorry patapata o! Why? Nothing o, just visit any of the afore-mentioned mosquito gardens at night and watch the one you erroneously believe is the next Macka Janson as he walks from table to table, strumming a half dead guitar in a croaky isale-eko voice, singing for a bottle of beer, some left over grilled fish, or N200 transport money back to base.
Engage at your own peril.
- Okay, let us keep it brief from this point on…
Car dealer = mechanic
Politician = Otimkpu with an internet connection
International business man = just deported from Zaire
Teacher = teacher
Banker = Anything from the bank security guard to the guy who scrubs the toilets after the original bankers have done a careless number 2
Contractor = jobless muchacha
No, I am not being materialistic, just trying to keep it real. Do not allow yourself to be pressured into taking a leap from the frying pan straight into the fire. The hustle is real, but do not make yourself another man's hustle.
In my village, we call them "Oji amu, o jiro ego" (Akwai penis, babu kudi).
We are tired of stories that touch.
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meredith's socks
I'm thinking about this because I have two unworn pairs of Meredith's socks here and I am saving them for the first frost. They sit wrapped in my kitchen just as she mailed them, waiting to be called by name in a little pyrex bowl under the bookshelf. (My kitchen doesn't have a microwave anymore, I moved it to the tack room and turned it vertical to hold my western saddle, but I do have bookshelves!) It's almost August 1st and that means first harvest to me. It means it is time to start buying or trading for cords of wood. It means getting chimney's cleaned and the pony barn walls up. It means getting hay, A LOT of hay, put aside and fences mended. It means getting ready for the big Mother Earth News Fair and then Antlerstock on Columbus Day Weekend. Antlerstock is always a huge party but I am hoping to celebrate that weekend knowing that hay is in, wood is stacked, and I am ready.
I want this to be the winter I learn to make socks. I really, really, do. I can knit, purl, cast on and cast off. I can make hats in the round, and scarves of course. I think I have all the tools I need to learn socks and the darn truth is all I need to do is sit down, start knitting, and pay attention to some books, videos, and knitters. If anyone has any favorite beginner sock resources, the no-fail type, please let me know!
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I have an update about the Against the Grain Workshop. I am ordering books and printed cloth sacks for the seed distribution, but they have not arrived yet. I will mail out the packages for those taking part in the online or in-person workshop soon as I get them in. I wrote by August 1 but I didn't realize how soon that was, so expect them shortly after, before September.
Webinar subscribers, you are not forgotten. You will get nine more videos, and your subscription lasts until they are delivered even if it spills over into 2013. Next up is Wool: sheep to spindle and is 20 minutes long or so. Your link will be emailed soon as I have the 5+ hours to finish it up, but since I am working on them every night they are coming along.


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I started feeling old after the birth of my first child. I was 24. Which really isn't that old, now that I think about it. In fact, it made me a young father. But at the time I had a wife and a child. I went from a fulltime student and part time socializer/ TV watcher, to a fulltime waiter, fulltime student, and fulltime father. Friends attended late night parties while I attended late night feedings. I fell asleep at strange times and in strange places (hallways, busses, stoplights…) because my son was gassy or cranky or colicky or whatevery… Most nights, I was up all night.
I felt old and worn out beyond my years because I held to a sense of duty. I wanted to care for my wife and son. But there was another part, a more sinister part, that wanted to let my hair grow out again, slash a few holes in my jeans, run off to L.A., join a punk band, and bang groupies. Not that I have any musical talent, but there was something about listening to punk music from the late 90s (my teen era) that made me feel young again. As I drove from one obligation to another, I often listened to Taking Back Sunday, BadReligion, NOFX, Hot Water Music, and handful of other bands that had long ago broken up, and only I remembered. I imagined myself on the stage of some shitty basement club. I was always the lead singer and I was always sexy. I longed to, once again, be part of the punk scene.
|Is that a Hot Water Music Tattoo?
Mel and I often listened to my music in the car, not because she liked it, but because I insisted. I was a jerk that way. We'd drive and I'd tell her about the time I saw this band or that band: "The singer jumped off the stage!" or "Henry Rollins shook my hand!" or "I was crowd surfing and someone stole my shoe." Mel nodded, as though she were interested, but most likely she wanted me to shut up. So much of her love is shown through her toleration of my ridiculous stories, immature understanding of love and sex, and lame ideas for financial success. Sadly I didn't realize this fact until I was nearly 30.
After we had Tristan, however, Mel started paying more attention to my music, saying things like, "Did that song just drop an f-bomb?" or "Did that say, 'you drink, you drive, you spill'? Really? Really? Your son is in the back seat." She used angry hand motions as she spoke, motions I'd only seen from my mother and other mothers.
Once, as we were driving to meet with a pediatrician, Mel asked, "Do we really need to be listening to a band called Kill Your Idols? Are they even speaking English?"
I looked in the back seat and Tristan was bobbing his little round head and smiling. Whether he was really into the music or simply passing gas was undetermined, but I jumped on the opportunity. "He's digging it, babe. Future punk!" I held up my fist and Mel exhaled, loudly.
|Tristan (age one): future punk
The problem was that the two of us had very different understandings of what a "future punk" meant. I saw it as a cool kid that played by his own rules. Someone who'd sow his wild oats early, and would use his determination and straight shooting demeanor to become a successful lawyer or liberal arts professor. In contrast, Mel envisioned the jackasses in high school who tried to put her in a garbage can.
"I don't want Tristan to grow up and trash people. He is better than that. He is a sweet little boy. With a sweet smile. You want to turn him into a criminal." Mel got a little misty as she spoke, as though Tristan was already heading down a dark path, while I rolled my eyes and tried to change the subject back to a fight I once saw in a mosh pit.
Once Tristan was just over a year old, things started to settle down a bit. Mostly because Tristan had started sleeping a little better at night. We discovered that he was lactose sensitive. Apparently this can happen to babies. He grew out of it, eventually. But for the first year of his life, if we gave him formula with any lactose in it he'd get moody, and then puke, or fill his pants. Sometimes he did both at the same time. And it always seemed to happen at night.
A couple friends, Dan and Scott, invited me to see a few old punk bands that were still touring. Dan was a large black-haired man with a spindly beard and a shoddy home haircut. He wore baggy and faded clothing, and from a distance he looked a lot like a medieval butt-kicking kind of dude, but upon closer inspection, he is actually meek and nerdy. The kind of person who asks a lot of awkward questions about girls. He was impulsive. For example, Dan moved to China, more or less, on a whim. I have always envied this quality in him. He'd only been back a few weeks when he invited me to the show.
|Dan: living by his own rules
Scott was 6' 3" and over 400 pounds with blond hair. He was known as a spaz in high school, always yipping and yapping about this and that while flinging his arms around in an attempt to get attention. He still held some of that awkwardness, only it was watered down now through a mix of maturity and years of being mocked. He was one of my oldest friends. When my father died, I called Scott. And I called him a few years later when I decided to marry Mel.
Scott had never been married, while Dan was going through his second divorce.
|Scott: Before and after he lost over 50% of his body mass. Really proud of him!
The show was at The Great Saltair, a venue on the shores of the Great Salt Lake that was surrounded by dirty grey earth and a handful of abandoned factories. It had a reputation as an "anything goes venue," and it sounded exciting to cut loose for a while.
"Yes," I said. "That sounds amazing. I'd love to go. But I have to ask my wife."
Dan said it back to me in a high-pitched voice, "But I have to ask my wife." Every time I said, I have to ask my wife, I felt like a huge pussy. Like I couldn't take care of myself. And every time my unmarried friends heard it, they rolled their eyes, or slapped me in the balls, and told me to grow a pair. Mel always said this just showed that I needed new friends, while I always wanted her to see that asking for her approval showed my dedication to our marriage.
Reluctantly Mel agreed to let me go under one condition: "Don't do anything stupid."
I put my hands up and assured her that I wouldn't. "You've got nothing to worry about," I said. "I'm totally an adult."
Mel looked me in the eyes and said, "I love you, but sometimes I'm surprised you've lived this long."
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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Manager Frank Robinson has been hoping against hope that his starting rotation will find a way to cure what ails the Baltimore Orioles.
He was saying just the other day that if he just could go through the rotation once without an early-inning blowup, perhaps that would turn the club around.
No deal.
The California Angels scored five times in the first inning last night and went on to score a 6-3 victory before 29,612 at Anaheim Stadium.


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Friday, March 5
Pull Up Treats
Last year I made these Pull Up Treats for St. Patrick's Day. The tutorial is HERE on Splitcoast Stampers and they are quick and easy to make. When you pull up on the ribbon tied at the top, a large candy bar appears. The tutorial is for the Hershey Big Bars, but once you get the hang of these, it is easy to scale down to fit smaller treats also.
The only hint I have is that sometimes you do need to put a little tag or label that you are supposed to pull the ribbon. Otherwise, people try to untie it or tear it. We wouldn't want that!
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[This is the headline over a report published today by the Agence France Presse news agency. It reads as follows:]
A Libyan court on Monday postponed its verdict in the case of two officials from ousted dictator Moamer Kadhafi's regime accused of "financial crimes" connected to compensation for the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing.
Abdelati al-Obeidi, a former foreign minister, and Mohamed Belgassem al-Zwai, ex-speaker of parliament [RB: and ambassador in London], were accused of mismanaging public funds in compensating families of victims of the Lockerbie bombing, according to charges read by the judge.
The criminal court in Tripoli postponed the verdict until June 17 "to allow more time to study the file," the judge said.
At a hearing in September, the jailed pair pleaded not guilty to the charges. Their lawyer argued that they had not made any personal gain and had negotiated on behalf of the authorities.
The prosecution has said Obeidi and Zwai were responsible for negotiating settlements with the Lockerbie families and had paid out double the amount originally planned in return for Libya's removal from a US list of state sponsors of terrorism.
In 2003, the Kadhafi regime officially acknowledged responsibility for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 that killed 270 people. [RB: No, Libya didn't. Here is what it actually acknowledged.] Libya paid 2.7 billion dollars (2.1 billion euros) in compensation to victims' families.
[This blog's coverage of the proceedings against Messrs Zwai and Obeidi who, in my assessment -- and I met them on many occasions --, were two of the good guys in the Gaddafi regime, can be found here. I am shocked at their appearance in a photograph (last in the series) on the BBC News website.]
A commentary on the case of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, convicted of the murder of 270 people in the Pan Am 103 disaster.
Monday, 6 May 2013
Libya delays Lockerbie verdict on Gaddafi ministers
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The Libyan courts face the same dilemma as the Justice Committee.ReplyDelete
They cannot advance or retreat, but are left holding the hot potato!
The Court can't drop the case because that would imply the payments by the old regime were legal and they can't prosecute because that would imply Libya was not responsible for Lockerbie.
And no self-respecting Justice Committee can drop PE1370 without losing their credibility and they can't (drop the matter) by recommending an enquiry because they know the Government would refuse and end the matter!
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The fairy tale happened. Four years after his second visit, Mandela became president of a free, democratic South Africa. Now he is dead and his Nigerian counterpart was snubbed at his memorial service which netted the most heads of state and government in the history of the world. Pride of place was given to America, whose CIA provided the intelligence that led to his capture, and our former 'colonial master', whose concerns we are now frantically un-nationalising, wasn't far behind. Nigeria didn't figure, which is to say that nobody even noticed us amid the celebrations of a life well lived. America shook hands with Cuba, which everybody agreed was in the spirit of the great man's legacy; America, Britain and Denmark took a 'selfie' which went viral as everyone wondered whether Michelle was pouting or smiling, Denmark being very pretty; and Israel and Iran didn't attend for all sorts of complicated reasons to do with the real politick that had condemned Mandela to a long stretch in the first place.
Shortly before his death, having 'stepped aside' after just one term (Jonathan, please note), Mandela professed himself disappointed with us in an interview he granted one of our diplomats: 'You know I am not very happy with Nigeria. I have made that very clear on many occasions,' he fumed, before launching into a broadside (of which the following is only part):
Your leaders have no respect for their people. They believe that their personal interests are the interests of the people. They take people's resources and turn it into personal wealth. There is a level of poverty in Nigeria that should be unacceptable. I cannot understand why Nigerians are not more angry than they are… What do young Nigerians think about your leaders and their country and Africa? Do you teach them history? Do you have lessons on how your past leaders stood by us and gave us large amounts of money? You know I hear from Angolans and Mozambicans and Zimbabweans how your people opened their hearts and their homes to them. I was in prison then, but we know how your leaders punished western companies who supported Apartheid.
As our very own IBB said (as who should know?), 'Mandela had a moral conviction and his moral conducts was very, very high and powerful,' only a pity that he himself failed to exhibit these fine qualities when he truncated the very democracy for which his hero had endured the unspeakable; had, indeed, looted 'people's resources' which he had turned 'into personal wealth', for instance the missing
N12.2bn oil windfall when America invaded
Iraq, a war which Mandela called them on: 'Why does the United States behave so
arrogantly... Their friend Israel has got weapons of mass destruction but
because its [sic] their ally they won't ask the UN to get rid of it. They just
want the (Iraqi) oil... We must expose this as much as possible.'
But this is the world of real politick where presidents do not willingly step aside, which was what made Mandela unique, and not only in Africa, and why so many wanted to be counted (even taking photos of each other), including Nigeria, which had opened its heart and home – and its bank account – to the cause this man was ready to die for, the same man who told our intrepid diplomat what we all know: 'The world will not respect Africa until Nigeria earns that respect. The black people of the world need Nigeria to be great as a source of pride and confidence. Nigerians love freedom and hate oppression. Why do you do it to yourselves?' Why indeed? And what are we going to do about it? The obvious answer would seem to be to do what Mandela himself did when faced with a minority regime which was just as blind, as deaf and as dumb to the majority they were oppressing but which, when all said and done, at least built an economy that now gives the country mouth to talk anyhow to Nigeria. Would that we had done the same with the wherewithal we distributed so generously.
Nor is South Africa alone in its contempt for the 'giant of Africa'. Another much-quoted article pointed out that Liberia had earlier done the same when they elected the first woman president in the continent at the expense of 'Nigerian limbs', before letting rip against the 'fifty something other ungrateful lepers across the continent' who 'have been beneficiaries of the bottomless pit of petrobillions of Abuja...only to run to Washington, London...to give thanks'. And how they shone! America kept 'Madiba' on the terrorist list until after his presidency. These days, they water-board 'terrorists' without due process – 'We, too, must act on behalf of justice' – and drone children in Pakistan every Tuesday – 'We, too, must act on behalf of peace'.
Maybe one day we will wake up to the world of real politick, just like Mandela asked us to, being himself not like that.
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Adewale Maja-Pearce is the author of several books, including Loyalties
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Mask Dancing, Who's Afraid of Wole Soyinka?, From Khaki to Agbada,
Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa and Other Essays, A Peculiar Tragedy, and
Counting the Cost, as well as the 1998 and 1999 annual reports on human
rights violations in Nigeria. He also edited The Heinemann Book of African
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Collected Poems, The New Gong Book of New Nigerian Short Stories,
and Other Stories, In My Father's Country, How many miles to Babylon?, A
Mask Dancing, Who's Afraid of Wole Soyinka?, From Khaki to Agbada,
Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa and Other Essays, A Peculiar Tragedy, and
Counting the Cost, as well as the 1998 and 1999 annual reports on human
rights violations in Nigeria. He also edited The Heinemann Book of African
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Collected Poems, The New Gong Book of New Nigerian Short Stories,
and Dream Chasers.
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NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell has distanced himself from calls to personally intervene to protect abused children, saying it's up to the police commissioner to fill any shortfall in staffing.
The police squad tasked with protecting children from abusers is operating at 50 per cent below what's needed, according to a leaked human resources review.
The review says 50 cases were ready to proceed in January but suspects weren't arrested because of a lack of resources.
Wollongong detectives were dealing with 45 cases of child abuse when the recommended amount was no more than 15, with overworked officers forced out due to stress.
The review also warned that workloads were set to explode in the wake of the national royal commission into institutional responses to child abuse.
"We've got circumstances where perpetrators of the most heinous crimes against children are not being arrested," NSW Opposition Leader John Robertson told reporters in Sydney.
In question time in parliament on Tuesday, Mr O'Farrell said there had been 1700 police graduates since his government came to power.
"It is up to the police commissioner to allocate those resources as he sees fit ... and I am sure we will see additional commitments made," he said.
"We are giving police the numbers and the powers to get the job done."
Earlier, Police Minister Michael Gallacher slammed claims children at risk of abuse had remained in vulnerable situations.
"No child is left at risk," he said, adding it was difficult to attract officers to the squad.
"It is difficult, difficult work day in, day out."
Police said all 50 of the offenders identified in the review had been arrested in subsequent weeks, and the squad had been boosted by another 10 officers since January.
Mr Robertson said the number was pitiful given the report said a further 175 were needed, 50 of them critically.
"How many briefs are sitting there now because the resources just aren't there?" he asked.
Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn acknowledged the squad was understaffed and said police were reviewing what could be done to get 40 additional officers in.
The report also warned of failed prosecutions in court due to deficiencies in police evidence briefs.
Mr Robertson said the government needed to prepare now for a spike in cases following the royal commission.
"These people deserve hope, they deserve justice and what they deserve is for the premier to personally intervene," he said.


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In just the last month, the court has handed down rulings favoring employers in three separate cases. But the string of victories for employers is less an indication of employee hostility and more a move by the country's highest court towards more conservative interpretations of the law, experts say.
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Westchester, NY (PRWEB) October 12, 2012
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I am confused. Fifteen years ago when I wanted a handgun permit, I first had to have a form from a licensed gun expert that said I had passed a course on the use of handguns.
I then had to go to our town police to be fingerprinted. After they established I was not a criminal, I had to go to the state police for a permit. What more does the state legislature want of our citizens? This constant debate is expensive at a time when we don't need unnecessary expenses -- especially since these steps to get a handgun permit have been required for years.
Barbara Baldwin, Farmington