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By Joshua Schneyer, Timothy Gardner and Richard Valdmanis
(Reuters) - An unexplained blast this week at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in rural Washington state, which injured workers, forced an evacuation and raised alarm about a potentially large second explosion, could focus attention on the risk of storing massive gas supplies near population centers.
The Monday incident at Williams Co Inc's massive gas storage site is a rare safety-record blemish among the dozens of U.S. LNG plants and storage sites, including towering tanks in packed neighborhoods of New York City, and near Boston.
Energy industry experts and opponents of new LNG plants alike said it may spur debate about safe handling of gas for cities increasingly reliant on the clean-burning fuel. At least a dozen new U.S. LNG export facilities are seeking government approval, and some have faced opposition on safety grounds.
Early Monday, a "processing vessel" at the Williams facility near the small town of Plymouth, Washington, exploded, spraying chunks of shrapnel as heavy as 250 pounds as far as 300 yards, according to local emergency responders.
The flying debris pierced the double walls of a 134-foot LNG tank on site, causing leaks. Five workers were injured, and local responders warned that vapors from the leaks could trigger a more devastating, second explosion. A county fire department spokesman said authorities were concerned a second blast could level a 0.75 mile "lethal zone" around the plant.
Everyone within a two-mile radius of the site was evacuated, and a bomb-squad robot was deployed to snap photos of the damaged tank to avoid putting workers at further risk. Some who did approach were reportedly sickened by fumes.
By late Tuesday residents were allowed to return and responders said the risk of a secondary explosion had been averted. Williams is investigating the incident alongside government agencies. What caused the explosion is not clear.
"This type of event raises the public's awareness that we're dealing with a combustible commodity," said Teri Viswanath, a natural gas market strategist at BNP Paribas in New York. "We take a lot of precautions in the industry to avoid them, but they do infrequently occur."
U.S. consumption of natural gas rose 12 percent between 2008 and 2013, fueled in part by the strong endorsement of the cheaper and cleaner-burning fuel by the administration of President Barack Obama. New shale drilling has also led to record natural gas output.
But delivering fuel safely is no small task. Concerns about gas distribution adds to controversy around oil shipments in railcars after recent fiery derailments, fertilizer plant safety following last year's West Texas disaster, and reports about the U.S. power grid's vulnerability to sabotage.
The blast in Washington came a day after utility PG&E Corp was hit with federal criminal charges for alleged safety lapses in a deadly 2010 gas pipeline explosion in California, and weeks after a building in Manhattan was razed by a natural gas explosion, killing eight.
Stephen Maloney, a senior risk consultant at Moody's Analytics with a background in LNG risk analysis, said the Washington incident could trigger a review of the risks posed by LNG facilities, including a fresh look at the probable frequency of accidents. Companies and regulators use risk models when considering permitting projects.
"While notable, the Plymouth event was not especially severe," Maloney said. "But, when you are dealing with very low frequency events, even for an event of limited severity, one data point has the potential to really change statistics."
To be sure, industry experts say U.S. LNG plants have a nearly spotless safety record.
At the Washington facility, Williams cools gas to around minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, making it non-flammable. Leaked LNG would likely vaporize and dissipate, posing little explosion risk, several experts said. But vapors that are contained in a closed space or gather into a cloud could ignite.
"It's a very unlikely scenario," said Kent Bayazitoglu, an LNG expert with the Gebler & Associates consultancy in Houston, adding gasoline is a riskier fuel.
Companies hoping to build new U.S. LNG plants and other LNG facilities say safety technology, including containment dams around storage tanks, has improved in recent years.
"LNG is safer than many of the gases we use every day," said Darren Seed, vice president of investor relations at Westport Innovations Inc, which is currently working with seven engine manufacturers to design LNG-powered trucks and locomotives.
Most proposed LNG export plants would also be located far from population centers, reducing the risks from an incident. For a FACTBOX on U.S. LNG plants under review, click here:
But others cite what they say are red flags. A 2009 report by the U.S. Congressional Research Service warned that LNG spills can unleash explosive vapor clouds. A 2004 blast at an Algerian LNG facility killed 27 workers and injured many more.
Ted Gleichman, of the Sierra Club's national team on natural gas, said it is also "insane" to place LNG facilities on the earthquake-prone U.S. West Coast after the 2011 disaster at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant.
"This tragic fire in Washington State demonstrates these facilities are inherently dangerous," he said.
LNG export terminals can be far more complex than the Williams facility in Washington, a so-called "peak-shaving" site designed to store LNG to meet spikes in domestic gas demand. There are 59 U.S. peak-shaving facilities, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). For an EIA map, click here: http://www.eia.gov/pub/oil_gas/natural_gas/analysis_publications/ngpipeline/lngpeakshaving_map.html
Many peak shaving sites are located in or near major cities like Atlanta, Boston or New York.
National Grid operates two giant 1960s-era tanks in Brooklyn. Another New York site, operated by Con-Ed sits near La Guardia Airport in Queens. More than 722,000 people lived within two miles of the two sites during the 2010 Census, according to a Reuters analysis of data compiled by the Minnesota Population Center. (GRAPHIC: http://link.reuters.com/kuz28v)
"It's not a question of should we or shouldn't we have this infrastructure," said Henry Willis, director of the RAND Corp's Homeland Security and Defense Center. "It's a question of ... are we taking the right steps in terms of engineering requirements, oversight, and safety inspections to have confidence we are effectively managing the risk."
The New York tanks are double-walled, equipped with alarms, and other safety features, and the sites have never suffered a major incident. They are overseen by several government agencies and have detailed emergency response plans, operators said.
Dozens of other LNG storage tanks dot New England, many of which are supplied by the giant GDF Suez-operated Everett Terminal two miles from downtown Boston. The Everett hub has received more than 1,000 LNG cargoes since opening in 1971, and includes peak-shaving storage.
GDF Suez said it will monitor the findings of an investigation into this week's Washington State accident.
(Additional reporting by Ryan McNeil, Edward McAllister and Scott DiSavino in New York; Editing by Bernard Orr)


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Well, here we go ...
This is my personal page with projects, links, tools, blog and other stuff I need. If you like it – great – if not – that's fine as well.
Other Resources
Beside this page there is some other interesting stuff out there.
One is my German-Austrian dictionary. Improve your austrian language abilities at Ostarrichi or Österreichisch. Not to forget the page about Bairisch.
Then there are pages about Sinhala and Ceylon (but pretty old already).
Another cool project for testing some stuff is about getting really, REALLY resilient against pretty much anything - Ur-Immun against Anything
And there should be some kind of project done in Colombia as well, so we are doing some bookkeeping promotion over there at Cuenta Conmigo
Mainly I am working for/with/at ISNED.
Ranking pages in search engines, mainly Google, can be done with my Page about SEO with a SEO Tutorial. You can test your webpage immediately with the Testtool for Webpages.
And there is a very interesting new company called Technikwerker in Dorfen going to deliver cool stuff.
I am also doing some stuff for the Atlas Body Center and embedded labs. Have a look at them.
And an experiment about - well - let's say "food" and "cooking". You will find it at KingKorn.BiO.
There is some stuff about web pages, web development and SEO over here as well. One is the SEO special characters page.
Great horror movie from Diego where I had a look being the executive producer "Desomorfina".
Looong time ago some friends and I founded ANDTEK, so you can have a look what cool stuff they are doing today. And this is also a good place to remember Stefan Großberger, alias "Grasl".
And if you finally want to move on in life and you have no idea how - there is my "Act.Act?Act!" page where you get all the stuff you need to know.
On these pages you find the preparation for the "Psychologie Aufnahmeprüfung" and related to it the "Psychologie Testsimulator".
And finally there are some test for your personality at Personality Tests to get into the details.
And finally a completely useless site for RolandDerSuperheld. And the cemetery of old pages as well as some SEO Code Testing.
And really finally a strange project for Lohinuma. Maybe you figure out yourself what it is about ;)


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Carson, CA – The Columbus Crew got second-half goals from Federico Higuain, Josh Williams and Dominic Oduro en route to a 3-0 win over Chivas USA at The Home Depot Center on Saturday.
Higuain provided a moment of brilliance in the 51st minute in what was an otherwise cautious affair, while Williams secured the win with a goal in the 88th minute Oduro opened his Columbus account with a goal deep into stoppage time.
After providing an offensive spark for the Crew over the second half of last season, Higuain nearly set up the opening goal with a cross that Jairo Arrieta turned on goal, only for Chivas goalkeeper Dan Kennedy to keep it out.
Crew netminder Andy Gruenebaum produced a quality stop on Chivas forward Julio Morales at point-blank range to keep his side level at halftime.
But the second 45 minutes belonged to the visitors with Higuain scoring the best goal of the bunch shortly after the interval as he lashed a 25-yard shot in off the right post.
Juan Agudelo tried to find an equalizer for Chivas in the 84th minute but his header was off target.
And Columbus put the game away in the final minutes as Eddie Gaven's corner kick was volleyed home by Williams on the turn before Oduro found the net just before the final whistle, bringing an end to a dismal start for new Chivas boss Jose Luis Sanchez Sola.


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Living in a Material World (Circles and Lines AutoCAD Tutorial)31 Jan, 2007 By: Lynn Allen
Learn how to add materials to your drawings.
As technical designers, we have a tendency to get caught up in the minute details of our CAD drawings and forget the value of aesthetics. Being a math major, I am as guilty as the next person -- focusing exclusively on all those lines, arcs and circles. Adding materials seems foreign to me, and a bit too abstract for my liking. But, materials can add so much to a drawing - and they can even win contracts. This month, let's dabble in the powerful world of materials in AutoCAD 2007 -- in terms us techies can grasp.
Down to Basics
AutoCAD 2007 comes with more than 300 materials (from Autodesk Viz and 3DS Max). That means you can create awesome renderings completely inside plain old AutoCAD. Plus, the new updated Render command works with the touch of a button. No longer do you need to decipher all those cryptic settings. Now you just select the level of rendering you prefer -- somewhere between Draft (for speedy renderings) and Presentation (slower but much more precise) and you're set. All those cryptic settings are there for you rendering nerds who actually understand what a Lanczos filter type is, or what an Energy multiplier means, but the rest of us don't even need to touch those settings.
When you install AutoCAD 2007, it asks if you want to install the Materials Library. If you didn't say "Yes" at that time, you'll need to grab your installation disk and add it. You'll also find that your Tool Palette populates with all of the great materials for easy access. If you don't see the materials on your tool palette, simply right-click on the tool palette bar and select the Materials library (as seen below). This gives you the following palettes of real-world materials to choose from: Woods and Plastics, Door and Windows, Finishes, Furnishings, Masonry, Metals, Sitework, and Thermal and Moisture. Each of the materials is displayed with a checkered underlay. There is also a Materials group that has fewer materials to work with, but includes the material tabs for Concrete, Fabric and Flooring (in case you were looking for them).
Easy access to all your materials exists in the Tool Palettes.
Attaching Materials
You can attach a material to an object, to a face on an object, or to a layer (in which case it would be assigned to all the objects on that layer). To attach a material to an object or a face, it's as simple as dragging and dropping from the toolbar to the object. Once you drop a material into your drawing, it's displayed as a swatch in the Materials window and saved with the drawing.
If the materials are not displaying in your drawing, make sure Materials and Textures is turned On. You can set this in the Materials control panel on the Dashboard. You''ll also need to make sure your Visual Style is set to display materials (choose Realistic).
To try another material, don't delete the first one. Simply drag and drop another material, and it replaces the existing one.
If you have a difficult time getting the right materials on the right objects, you can also select a material tool on the palette and make a selection of objects in the usual manner. A friendly paintbrush indicates that it's waiting for you to select the objects for the material. This method also makes it easier to attach materials to multiple objects in a selection.
Materials are applied to an entire solid object by default. What if you want to assign a material to just one face? There's no need to slice and dice the object. Just follow this procedure: right-click the material tool in the palette and choose Apply Material to Objects. Hold down the CTRL key and select the desired face (or faces) to assign the material. It's that simple.
Assign Layers
The ultra-organized users out there like to assign materials to layers. This, of course, requires some forethought because you'll need to put objects that have different materials on separate layers. It is, however, a clean way to assign materials.
You must load the materials you want to attach before you can assign them to a layer. Just drag them from the tool palette and drop them into the drawing area (just don't drop them on a specific object). You can also select a material and select Add to Current Drawing from the right-click shortcut menu. Type in MAT at the Command prompt (short for Materials) to view all the loaded materials. You can also find this in the View menu / Render / Materials.
The Materials command displays materials and lets you customize them.
Once you've loaded the materials in the drawing, you can attach them to a specific layer with the MaterialAttach command. I prefer to use this command via the Materials control panel on the Dashboard by selecting the Attach By Layer icon as seen below (let's face it, who wants to type in "materialattach").
Use the Dashboard to quickly assign materials by layer.
The loaded materials appear on the left side of the dialog box, while the existing layers are on the right. It's really just a matter of dragging the material from the left over to the appropriate layer. See the figure below for an example that shows the Granite material assigned to the Counters layer and the material White Oak assigned to the Cabinets layer (sounds like a great kitchen doesn't it!).
Drag and drop the materials to the appropriate layer.
Remove, Turn Off Materials
If you want to remove a loaded material from a drawing, simply right-click on the swatch in the Materials command and select Purge from drawing from the menu. You can't purge the material if you have assigned it to an object. And, if you want to remove a material from an object, select the last icon in the Materials command window, as seen below, to delete the materials from the selected objects.
Use the last icon in the Materials command to delete materials from objects.
If you have a very large model you might find your machine slowing down due to multiple materials and textures. If this happens, turn off the display of materials and textures from the Dashboard, as I mentioned earlier.
What is the difference between a material and a texture? A material defines the surface qualities such as color, shininess and translucency (because now we can create materials we can see through!). A texture is an image that is mapped to a surface to give the material a more realistic look and feel.
Customizing Materials
Next month, we'll dive into customizing materials to get exactly the effect we're after. Even with 300 materials available, you may need to tweak them to get the desired results.
Until next month?happy AutoCADing!
About the Author: Lynn Allen
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Tenn. cop who resigned amid scandal buys former K-9 partner
The town agreed to sell the popular dog to the officer, who resigned after a Facebook post landed him in trouble with the department
By Becky Campbell
Johnson City Press
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. — A Jonesborough police officer who resigned earlier this month amid a Facebook controversy that was likely to get him fired now owns his popular K-9 partner, Rio, after the town agreed to sell the dog.
Officer Scottie Greene, who started with Jonesborough Public Safety in 2007, submitted his written resignation March 4 in the midst of an internal investigation about a post to his Facebook profile page.
It was the last in a string of infractions documented by the department in Greene's personnel file, which the Press accessed through an Open Records request Friday.
In a Feb. 27 letter to Greene from Major Matt Rice, the department was contacted by someone from the District Attorney's Office about the post because it could be perceived as a racist comment.
"It comes down to public trust with town employees and police officers," said Jonesborough Police Chief Matt Hawkins.
Greene said he reposted a comment from a Facebook page where people — presumably police officers — post stories about things that happen when they're working.
The particular post on Greene's page, according to Rice's letter, read: "Yes ... I know what I ordered ... a black coffee with 4 shots of espresso. No I do not want whip cream on it ... yes I said a medium not a Grande you know the one between a small and a large. ... Yes I know its gonna be strong. Thanks for informing me of this my little nappy dreadlock having dope head ... p.s. see you soon."
In a response to Rice's letter, Greene acknowledged putting the post on his page, but said it was aimed "at the day-to-day life of a police officer," and was never intended as a racist comment.
"It's funny stories from police officers all over, funny encounters, funny arrests. There was a story about a cop getting a cup of coffee at a Starbucks. This wasn't my story. It was a repost of a comment," Greene told the Press.
"I'm just a silly goofy cop who likes to make people laugh. If it was in bad humor and I offended anyone, I'm sorry," he said.
Greene's punishment for the post started out as a three-day suspension, but during that time he said Rice notified him about an impending termination.
As a result, Greene resigned. That also meant he had to sever his relationship with K9 Rio, a lovable police dog popular with kids but not so popular with suspects.
After a review of Rio's health status, the department determined an arthritic condition would only give Rio about one more year of service. The town calculated the dog's worth for that remaining year and gave Greene the opportunity to purchase the dog.
Greene said he couldn't afford the $600-plus price, but a business in Johnson City paid it for him. Now Rio is retired and living with Greene.
During his six years at Jonesborough, Greene had nine reprimands, most of which resulted in unpaid suspensions.
Greene said he feels like he was targeted during his time at Jonesborough and written up for "ridiculous" infractions.
Twice he was reprimanded for allowing Rio to ride in his personal vehicle, a direct violation of department policy.
There were also reprimands and discipline for violating the pursuit policy, use of emergency sirens and lights and missing mandatory training. Greene later completed that training, according to documents in his file.
But Greene also received commendations and several letters of recognition during his time at Jonesborough. Earlier this year, he was one of six officers in a 26-county region named "2012 East Tennessee DUI Officer of the Year" by the Governor's Highway Safety Office.
Greene said he loves being a police officer and hopes the Facebook situation and subsequent media attention doesn't hinder him from continuing in law enforcement.
"I love being a cop. That's my calling. Anyone who knows me knows I've been ... respectful to everyone," he said. "I'm trying my hardest to continue this career."
Hawkins said the department has great officers and he wants to see the department move forward from the situation.
"There was an issue, it was addressed, it's time to move forward. We have to. We have no other choice," Hawkins said.
Reprinted with permission from Johnson City Press


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A town on the Utah-Arizona border largely controlled by Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect moved closer to opening its first commercial winery, a new venture and a signal of yet another lifestyle choice that separates the sect from mainstream Mormon teachings.
State liquor authorities say the owners of Vintage Reserve Estates plan to make red and rosé wines with grapes purchased out of state and sell it through Utah's state-owned liquor stores.
Abe Kader, a state inspector, said three of the five owners are from Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona. The twin border towns are populated largely by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a radical offshoot of mainstream Mormonism whose members believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven. The mainstream church strictly prohibits the practice.
The winery owners didn't return phone calls Wednesday. An employee for a state-controlled trust that holds most of the land in the area, Isaac Wyler, said the registered Hildale address for the company appears to be on property controlled by the sect.
Members of the mainstream Mormon church generally eschew alcohol and caffeinated beverages like coffee and tea. Polygamists, on the other hand, often drink alcohol and coffee.
Historian Ken Driggs said the roots of the sect go back to the 1920s, when a church president began cracking down on both alcohol use and polygamy. Many people in plural marriages were excommunicated and kept both their polygamous lifestyle and more lax attitudes toward alcohol, coffee and tea.
In past years, people in the Jeffs-led group would occasionally drink beer, former member Lorin Holm said. But in the face of new edicts from their imprisoned leader, drinking alcohol has become more frowned upon, he said.
"He just started clamping down on everybody," Holm said of Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence in Texas for sexually assaulting underage girls he considered wives but maintains control of the group through communications from prison.
Driggs, who has been studying the sect and traveling to the area for decades, said winemaking is a new venture.
"There's never been anything like it," he said. "The industries are mostly construction, cabinet-making, any of those kind of things."
Owners didn't attend a state liquor commission meeting where their license was approved Tuesday, putting Vintage Reserve Estates on the path to becoming the 13th winery in Utah.
"It's one of the biggest, cleanest, best-equipped wineries I've seen," said Kader, the state inspector.
He said that the owners plan to apply in the future for a package license to sell the wine on the Hildale property.


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Author of Fake Steve Jobs Blog Outedposted by Moderator
Filed under: Media Pranks, Publicity Stunts, Satire
"˜Fake Steve"™ Blogger Comes Clean
by Brad Stone
New York Times
August 5, 2007
San Francisco "" For the last 14 months, high-tech insiders have been eating up the work of an anonymous blogger who assumed the persona of Steven P. Jobs, Apple"™s chief executive and one of the world"™s most famous businessmen.
The mysterious writer has used his blog, the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, to lampoon Mr. Jobs and his reputation as a difficult and egotistical leader, as well as to skewer other high-tech companies, tech journalists, venture capitalists, open-source software fanatics and Silicon Valley"™s overall aura of excess.
The acerbic postings of "Fake Steve," as he is known, have attracted a plugged-in readership "" both the real Mr. Jobs and Bill Gates have acknowledged reading the blog (fakesteve.blogspot.com). At the same time, Fake Steve has evaded the best efforts of Silicon Valley"™s gossips to discover his real identity.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes magazine who lives near Boston, has been quietly enjoying the attention.
"I"™m stunned that it"™s taken this long," said Mr. Lyons, 46, when a reporter interrupted his vacation in Maine on Sunday to ask him about Fake Steve. "I have not been that good at keeping it a secret. I"™ve been sort of waiting for this call for months."
Mr. Lyons writes and edits technology articles for Forbes and is the author of two works of fiction, most recently a 1998 novel, "Dog Days." In October, Da Capo Press will publish his satirical novel written in the voice of the Fake Steve character, "Options: The Secret Life of Steve Jobs, a Parody."
Unlike the off-the-cuff ramblings on his blog, "Options" is a well-plotted satire that imagines Apple"™s chief executive grappling with his real-life stock option backdating troubles and getting help, and bad advice, from friends like Larry Ellison, Bono and Al Gore.
The book, in part, led to Mr. Lyons"™s unmasking. Last year, his agent showed the manuscript to several book publishers and told them the anonymous author was a published novelist and writer for a major business magazine. The New York Times found Mr. Lyons by looking for writers who fit those two criteria, and then by comparing the writing of "Fake Steve" to a blog Mr. Lyons writes in his own name, called Floating Point (floatingpoint.wordpress.com).
Mr. Lyons said he invented the Fake Steve character last year, when a small group of chief executives turned bloggers attracted some media attention. He noticed that they rarely spoke candidly. "I thought, wouldn"™t it be funny if a C.E.O. kept a blog that really told you what he thought? That was the gist of it."
Mr. Lyons says he recalled trying out the voices of several chief executives before settling on the colorful Apple co-founder. He twice tried to relinquish the blog, but started again after being deluged by fans e-mailing to ask why Fake Steve had disappeared.
Though many speculators have guessed Fake Steve was an Apple insider, Mr. Lyons says he has never interviewed Mr. Jobs nor written a story about the company. "I have zero sources inside Apple," he said. "I had to go out and get books and biographies to learn about a lot of the back story."
Mr. Lyons said writing as Fake Steve became addictive. He developed a unique lexicon and catalog of insults for the character. Bill Gates is Beastmaster, and Eric E. Schmidt, Google"™s chief executive, is Squirrel Boy.
Last month, when a reader asked Fake Steve about Apple"™s succession plan, he replied: "My plan at this time is to live forever and to remain in charge here, though perhaps with fewer restrictions on my power. The truth is, I am not human "" I am a man-god, son of Zeus, born to mortal woman but fathered by the ruler of the gods, lord of thunder."
Mr. Lyons receives around 50 e-mail messages a day through the blog, many with ideas for posts, and says the site had 700,000 visitors last month. Recently someone claiming to be Mr. Jobs"™s daughter, Lisa, wrote to tell him, "You don"™t sound at all like my father, but your blog is hilarious."
The guessing game around his identity was intense, with speculation centering on a variety of plugged-in journalists, former Apple employees and even Mr. Jobs himself.
Over the last year, Forbes"™s publisher, Richard Karlgaard, even got into the act, speculating about Fake Steve"™s identity on Forbes.com several times. At one point he wrote: "The guessing game has begun. Who is writing it? Send me your guesses. I"™ll gladly buy the most expensive iPod for the first to identify Fake Steve Jobs."
Mr. Lyons said he felt bad and later revealed himself to his bosses and colleagues.
Mr. Karlgaard said he had a good laugh and holds no grudges. "I think it is the most brilliant caricature of an important part of American culture that I"™ve seen," he said. "We"™re really proud that he"™s one of ours."
Forbes had planned to move the Secret Diary to Forbes.com in September, although it may now accelerate the move.
The Fake Steve saga calls to mind the guessing game behind "Primary Colors," the political roman à clef written in 1992 by Joe Klein, then a Newsweek writer. Newsweek reacted differently, however, firing Mr. Klein when he allowed other writers at the magazine to speculate on the book"™s author without tipping them off.
Mr. Lyons clearly used the Fake Steve persona to further some of his own interests and positions. For example, articles in other business publications and their journalists were a frequent target of criticism from Fake Steve, while Forbes got off comparatively easy.
Fake Steve also had it in for the devout fans of the open-source operating system Linux, calling them "freetards." Mr. Lyons has written several articles for Forbes in which he has been critical of the cultlike aura around the free software movement and its founder, Richard Stallman.
He said that he never intended his blog to be mean-spirited and that he is a fan and customer of Apple. "If I really thought the Apple guys were going to find this guy and kill him, I wouldn"™t want to do it. I was kind of hoping it would be puckish and fun. I think the guys in the Valley like the fact that it makes them into fictional characters. It"™s a comic strip."
Asked whether he was worried that he would be called to account for some of Fake Steve"™s stinging, personal posts, Mr. Lyons chuckled and said, "Yes."
As for Mr. Jobs himself "" the real one "" he did not seem all that interested when told the identity of his online doppelganger. He said in an instant message conversation that he had no interest in reading Mr. Lyons"™s novel.
John Markoff contributed reporting.


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My Visit to Leg Avenue5:50 PM
Here they box up the orders which go around a crazy conveyor belt system. The headquarters only ships out to sellers, not to individuals, so it was a super interesting behind-the-scenes look at their process. I had the deep and sudden urge to sit atop a box to see where it would go but I held back because I was wearing a dress and I'm a lady.
Next, he showed us around the office and ended up at the design studio for their in-house designers. Brace yourselves, baby, and take in one of the first things I spotted...
Alexander McQueens! Sitting nonchalantly on the windowsill! *jaw drop* I touched them and the leather was SO soft and the gold studs and skull zippers.... Did I mention they have an entire wall of high end designer shoes? Oh my. :D
There was eye candy everywhere we looked! Fur, glitter, sequins, satin and lace, hats, racks and racks of costumes....
Catalogs of all of their past work year after year...
Hand-rendering markers in all the colors of the rainbow and everything in between! :D :D :D What I wouldn't have given to have resources like this while in design school!
Here are a few of the designers hard at work. Sooo much visual energy to take in.
One girl's amazing monitor. OMG right? I want one of those plushy monitor covers so bad! Where can you even get stuff like that?! I've never seen anything like it before. =^__^=
I also got to pick out a few costumes for my upcoming Halloween tutorials this year and mentioned which ones I chose to the designers. When I brought up that a couple only came in size S/M, this kind designer knew it would be way huge on me and started taking a few measurements.
She then had me put on the actual costume and pinned it to fit. By this point I was so speechless! She was soooo generous and kind enough to offer to alter it to custom fit me. My face was like D: and very thankful.
Thank you SO MUCH to Daniel and the whole Leg Avenue team for letting me experience this amazing space with you! I absolutely cannot wait for the holidays this year to share with everyone the fruits of your love and hard work. <3
I hope you guys enjoyed coming along with me on my behind-the-scenes look at a really fun company. ^_^ I know I had a blast and I will never forget it! To browse Leg Avenue costumes, you can visit their site here or visit their Facebook page. I know they plan on doing costume how-tos (like how to properly fluff your fox tail...hehe) so it may be a good idea to check in again before Halloween.
Readers, have any of you worn any Leg Avenue costumes before? Let me know what you've tried in the comments!
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whoa it's crazy that you got to view the behind-the-scenes. i see their costumes all the time for halloween. this is wonderful jen and i'm drooling all over my keyboard at the studded shoes!ReplyDelete
angie of pandaphilia fashion
Thanks for the tour! You look darling in that costume and I'm drooling over your nude pumps.ReplyDelete
They sure are talented.ReplyDelete
You look so adorable in that dress. I also like your shoes :)
Nice OOTD.
You look so cute in that costume! What shoes are you wearing btw? Love nude pumps!ReplyDelete
xoxo Lily (chloeash.blogspot.com)
I love this post! Cutie squirrel! (err...it's a squirrel right?) I see their fun costumes all over ebay and it's nice to see the "behind the scenes" of a company's operations.ReplyDelete
This is such a fun post! I love taking a peek inside design houses!ReplyDelete
Ok I can't read ... fox! Cutie fox!ReplyDelete
Lovely photos and a great post about your experience!ReplyDelete
Can you tell us what shoes you're wearing here? xoxo
wow looked like quite an adventure! love the fox costume, so adorable :) and omg those mcqueens. DIES.ReplyDelete
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That fox costume is great!! I hope it'll be available in XS.ReplyDelete
What a fun trip! I have never heard of Leg Avenue before...I usually do not do regular Halloween costume shopping because nothing ever fits. Great to hear that they have smaller sizes!ReplyDelete
Cannot wait to see more of your fox suit in the future!
- AnonymousJuly 25, 2011 at 7:46 PM
OMG those are the McQueen booties I wantttttttttttt, minus the studs on it. gah. Lucky you for touching them. LOLReplyDelete
Love the post! Where are your shoes from?? :)ReplyDelete
haha.. this was certainly interesting and like the others i also want to comment on your shoes! so cute!ReplyDelete
that's such a cute costume!!!ReplyDelete
love all the pictures and you're beautiful as always!ReplyDelete
omg those SHOES!ReplyDelete
I'm practically drooling over those booties.
it looks like so much fun. that's for the pictures =D
that fox costume is freakin ADORABLE!!!!ReplyDelete
You look so adorable in that costume.ReplyDelete
I'm so jealous. I wish I could be there looking at those gorgeous shoes. They must cost a fortune, though haha.
You are so skinny O_O
You're almost like a piece of paper when you turned to your side in the costume photo...
- AnonymousJuly 25, 2011 at 11:10 PM
So cute the pictures! Looks like you had lots of fun ♥ReplyDelete
The costume suites you very well :)
That computer cover reminds me of my sassy girl (Korean version). I think the main character had one (different design) too! It's so cuteReplyDelete
awh, how fun! wished I had that sort of opportunity.The monitor plushy cover is sooo cute!ReplyDelete
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Hi Jen,ReplyDelete
Love your pumps! Where did you get those from? I wear a size 5 and have a very difficult time finding shoes. Thanks!
Looks you had fun! xDReplyDelete
The last picture is really funny! :]ReplyDelete
Great post and photos. It looks like a good time was had.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2011 at 4:44 AM
love the first picture !ReplyDelete
you`re beautiful :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2011 at 5:16 AM
THE SHOES!! I'm in lovve!! Black leather, gold studs and GOLD SKULL ZIPPER?? I need these in my life.ReplyDelete
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be a gumiho this year! =DReplyDelete
Amazing photos. I love the costume you tried on! So cuteReplyDelete
the costume is looks so good it you *o* i wish i could find those kind os awesmoe cute costumes in Portugal, unfortunately we barely celebrate hallowen, only carnival and even that is a bit basic since the costumes are not really that good.ReplyDelete
But well, the spirit is what counts most of all :) have fun when halloween arrives ^^
Amazing photos..and you look so cute!! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2011 at 11:57 AM
wow that looks amazinggg & all those pens :O I'm a graphics student so you could imagine.. I want them allllll!! That costume is too cute!ReplyDelete
hi there! it looks like the monitor cover is just a steering wheel cover.ReplyDelete
you look so adorable in that costume!ReplyDelete
Hello Jen! Where is your dress and shoes from? I die...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 10:25 AM
Have you ever tried the eyeshadow palettes from Sleek makeup? They are cheap and so pigmented, I think you would love them.ReplyDelete
Jen, you're so pretty!! ^^ReplyDelete
That costume is really adorable! At first I thought it was a squirrel costume... lol ^O^;;
I think this is the first time your sister has made an appearance in one of your posts. You should introduce her! :)ReplyDelete
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Love, An
dig that pair of shoes with the skull zippers!ReplyDelete
Ah! Copic markers, my loves! ;DReplyDelete
Cute costume, looking forward to your halloween tutorials this year!
By the way, if you have not tried Barielle nail polishes, they are having a buy one get one 50% off sale and a coupon code for an additional 30% off the entire purchase (FBFLASH30). That comes out to be 4.20 each for a .45oz bottle which is the average amount for full-size polishes. Just spreading the bargain love, hope you can share this info!
One of the shades Buddha-ful is similar to Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure if anyone still is looking for that. :)
such a small world..ReplyDelete
cant believe daniel didnt tell me when he invited you to leg ave HQ!!!
My jaw dropped at the copic markers! I want!ReplyDelete
Haha, your picture with the mannequin is so funny! You're so short there ^^ Love your blogReplyDelete
u are such a beauty.ReplyDelete
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The question is… who has the best games on the shelf at the most critical time of the year – the fall holiday season? Who's going to sell the most? Let's take a look at the top three exclusive titles for each company.
Halo 3: ODST (September 22)
Microsoft continues its Gears-Halo-Gears-Halo schedule with ODST, a spin-off that revolves around a wayward Orbital Drop Shock Trooper. The ODSTs are lighter and stealthier than Spartans, so you won't be saving the day single-handedly. That means no dual wielding weapons, no supercharged life meter, no overt "shoot your way out of trouble" situations (allegedly). Instead, you have a set health meter than can be filled with health packs, as well as access to classic Halo weapons and a trio of handy visors that let you see various spectrums of light.
Above: The enemy-outlining visor helps keep baddies in sight
We definitely need more time to decide how the single player game will affect Microsoft's chances this fall, but we already feel the multiplayer is a strong, if derivative offering. It's essentially a "Halo Horde" that sends waves of Covenant troops your way, with each wave becoming progressively stronger, tougher and more aggressive.
Above: At a glance, it sure looks like Halo 3
Will it make a difference? March's Halo Wars went on to sell nearly one million copies despite being a console RTS. Consider then that ODST will be released in the fall, is an FPS and says "Halo" on the box. Yeah, this will move 360's regardless of quality. The fact it comes packed with all of the existing Halo 3 multiplayer maps won't hurt either, even if they are separate from the Firefight horde mode.
Splinter Cell: Conviction (October)
Sam "Solid Snake" Fisher has been notably absent from Ubisoft's lineup for two years now. Conviction was originally set for a 2007 release, then delayed for retooling and finally revealed last week as a drastically different game. The devs say they grew tired of stealth gameplay being associated with weakness, and instead want you to use stealth as a vicious predator, snatching up foes and scaring the crap out of them.
Above: Each area is said to be a "small sandbox," offering multiple ways in and out
Will it make a difference? Splinter Cell used to be one of the most popular franchises on the market, so it'll be interesting to see what a 24-month break does to its public perception. There's a strong chance the Splinter Cell name still carries weight with the masses, and the one-two punch of a new entry and a total makeover could reinvigorate this wandering series (hey, it worked for Prince of Persia).
Left 4 Dead 2 (November 17)
More zombies, more special infected, new weapons, new techniques… Left 4 Dead's super-quick follow-up is much more than downloadable content passed off as a sequel. We only spent 45 minutes with it and are already ticking the days off our calendars. Just knowing that our tried-and-true battle plans won't work in the second game (thanks to wandering witches and the new Charger infected) has us dying to leap into the zombified South.
Plus, Valve is still sitting on further details (including a new mode) that'll no doubt make this even more desirable.
Will it make a difference? Absolutely. The original sold more than two million units since November 2008. There's a vocal group of haterswho think L4D2 is an uncharacteristically bad ripoff, but don't expect them to hold on to their boycott once the servers go live. It's one thing to click a box on the internet claiming you hate something, and quite another to actually ignore a million people having fun without you.
AND DON%26rsquo;T FORGET%26hellip;
Forza 3 and the DLC-combining GTA: Episodes of Liberty City probably won't move a lot of hardware on their own, but when viewed in tandem with the top three games, the 360's lineup is a powerful set of games.
But how does it stand up against Sony and Nintendo?


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Richard III's face revealed for first time in 500 years
The face of England's much-maligned king Richard III was revealed on Tuesday for the first time in 500 years on Tuesday following a reconstruction of his skeleton which was found buried underneath a car park.
The three-dimensional plastic model is based on a CT scan of the skull of the king, who was killed in battle in 1485 after just two years on the throne but lived on as one of history's worst villains in the eponymous play by William Shakespeare.
Academics hope the discovery of his remains under a car park in the central English city of Leicester, complete with the twisted spine of folklore and major wounds to his skull, will lead to a rehabilitation of his reputation.
And Richard III enthusiasts believe the image of his face, until now only depicted in paintings, will be key to rewriting his legend.
"It's an interesting face, younger and fuller than we have been used to seeing, less careworn, and with the hint of a smile," said Phil Stone, chairman of the Richard III Society.
Another member of the society, Philippa Langley, who led the project to unearth the bones of the last Plantagenet king, said the reconstruction showed for the first time what he might have looked like when he died in battle aged 32.
"The portraiture that we have of him that was done in the Tudor era always seems to bring out this guy who looks like he was 50," she told AFP.
"He led armies and he fought many skirmishes and I think you can see that strength of character and that determination."
The task of reconstructing the face—complete with shoulder-length black hair—was led by Caroline Wilkinson, professor of craniofacial identification at the University of Dundee in Scotland, and paid for by the Richard III Society.
Her team created a scientific reconstruction using a CT scan of the remains, without any reference to contemporary portraits of the king, and then "humanised" it by painting the face and adding features such as brows and eyelashes.
Another academic has been trying to establish how Richard may have sounded when he spoke.
Philip Shaw of the University of Leicester examined the king's handwriting, and given that the spelling in those days often reflected local dialect, concluded that he may well have spoken with a Birmingham accent.
The skeleton was found during an archaeological dig at a municipal car park in Leicester last August.
A team at the University of Leicester announced on Monday that DNA tests, carbon dating and examination of bones had proved beyond reasonable doubt that it belonged to Richard, ending a 500-year-old mystery.
After his death at the Battle of Bosworth, near Leicester, Richard's body was buried by Franciscan friars, known as Greyfriars, in an unmarked grave. When their monastery was destroyed in the 1530s, all traces of him disappeared.
Richard's remains will now be re-interred at Leicester Cathedral in a ceremony next year that befits his royal status.
In "Richard III", Shakespeare described a villain who murdered his two young nephews to win the throne, whose hunchback and withered arm were a physical manifestation of his evil.
The skeleton confirms the king did have a twisted spin, but no withered arm.
Enthusiasts also say there is no evidence he killed the young boys, and hope the focus will now shift to the social reforms Richard introduced.
(c) 2013 AFP


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The first step was to pick out our colors. HeyMatthew and I actually split the box completely in half with our choices. No fighting over colors in this house.
The next step is the easiest and the harderst. Peel those crayons and get to blow drying. I kept burning my finger with the direct finger to crayon to heat action so I eventually started stabbing the crayons with a fork and then heating them up that way. There is definitely a method to doing all of this properly and 4 burned fingers later I'd be happy to give you tips if you want them.
HeyMatthew came up with his own method and kept his canvas vertical while melting his crayons. If you want the watercolor smeary look then keep yours flat but if you want the drippy look then this is the way to do it. Also, rotating the canvas every now and then helps keep the drippy things interesting!
Here is the finished product. Aren't they a-ma-zing!?!? Don't you think HeyMatthew's (the one on the right) looks like a rooster? I think he named his "Chicken Dinner" or something crazy like that. This project took a little over two hours to finish and only cost us about $35 dollars with a 50% off coupon (for the canvas) from Michaels. I read online that the girl who makes the solid crayon drip paintings sells hers for like $250 so when you think about that, ours are totally worth $35. Make your own and let me see them!! Hope everyone had a great weekend! UPDATE FROM JULY 2013- I didn't seal mine but if you try it and find a way to seal yours, please let me know! I get a lot of questions about how to do it and I'd love to be able to share tips from someone else. Thanks!


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So many animals are taken to shelters with only a short time before they are put to sleep. The State of California spends an estimated $300,000,000 (that's 300 Million Dollars) a year housing and euthanizing 500,000 (that's Half-a-Million) unwanted pets each year.
The Spay and Neuter License Plate program could reduce those numbers for both the cost and the lives taken, for a mere $50 a year. Please consider giving a CA Spay Plate as a gift to all animal lovers in your family this year or at the start of 2012.
You can reserve a plate for $10, so the person you gift can decide whether they want it personalized or not. Because the artwork on the plate takes the space of one letter, a personalized plate is limited to 6 characters.
I first wrote about CA Spay Plates in June of 2010. I ordered a new plate with SPCATS for my Ford Focus. I didn't order one for my Maverick because the plate I have is 1973 MAV, which is too long to fit on the CA Spay Plates. However, after my diatribe on the cost to the state and to the animals fell on deaf ears, or eyes in this case, I changed my Maverick's license to MAV 73, which is available, and ordered another CA Spay Plate.
Why am I making such a fuss about this? Because in order for the DMV to accept the Spay and Neuter License Plate as part of its special plate program, the group sponsoring it MUST have 7500 pre-orders by June of 2012. So far they have less than half that amount. They need another 4200 pre-orders in the next six months. I can't believe there aren't 4200 people in the East Bay who couldn't spend $50 to save the State hundreds of millions of dollars.
It absolutely boggles my mind that people here complained about Herb Moniz's salary of $357K, which doesn't come out of their pockets in any way, but are unwilling to do anything about the State of California spending $300 Million to kill innocent dogs, cats, puppies, kittens and bunnies.
Hey, Ms. Bunny, you call yourself Bunny. Where's your license plate? Did you order one with BUNNY on it? The Safe Cat rescue group I belong to now has three Bunny fosters. So we are in the Bunny rescue business too. We all know how quickly bunnies multiply, so the Spay and Neuter program would be especially helpful for reducing unwanted bunny litters and helping older bunnies get adopted from shelters or rescue groups instead of being killed.
Some of you might not want it because you don't like Pierce Brosnan's artwork, or you can't fit your 7-character personalized saying. I don't much like the design of it either and I'd rather keep my 1973 MAV phrase, but I'd be a hypocrite if I didn't put my money and my car where my mouth is.
Where are the Tea Party people here? I know you are here, so why don't you care about saving the State a whopping $300 Million. Maybe reducing pet overpopulation would save only $100M or $50M for starters, but as they say a million here and million there adds up to real money.
The CA Spay Plate program needs another 4200 pre-orders in the next 6 months or it will die, and thousands, no hundreds of thousands of innocent pets will die too because some of you don't care enough to spend $50 to keep unwanted litters from being born.
A few weeks ago I wrote my blog on adopting a senior dog. I wanted to adopt a 14 year old Dachshund from Muttville Senior Dog Rescue, but when I contacted them she had been adopted. So I put in a request for another older Dachshund, this one only 7 years old. She was rescued from a shelter ONE HOUR before she was sentenced to death.
This sweet older dog committed no crime other than being old and unwanted. Fortunately for her, she was rescued and her foster family decided to keep her. I decided that six cats are enough for me (one is a foster and available for adoption). So I am not going to apply for another dog. I bought a bike for exercise instead (more on that later).
I urge anyone who cares about animals, or saving the State from wasting money, to invest in a CA Spay Plate. If you are planning to give an animal for a gift, please consider adopting an adult or a senior cat or dog or bunny.
Safe Cat will be at Petco in Dublin on December 24th. I shall try to bring my foster that was pulled from the Martinez Shelter from the "death" list. Please don't let the CA Spay Pate program die like the animals it is designed to protect.


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The Senate voted Wednesday night by the barest of margins to approve a massive tax cut for the oil industry in the hope that it would lead to more oil production in Alaska.
The vote on Senate Bill 21 was 11-9, with only Republicans supporting the measure. Two other Republicans, Gary Stevens of Kodiak and Bert Stedman of Sitka, joined the Senate's seven Democrats in voting against the bill. With rural areas so dependent on state spending, two Democrats with large rural constituencies who are otherwise part of the Republican majority caucus, Donny Olson of Golovin and Dennis Egan of Juneau, voted against the bill.
The vote showed that the 2012 election, where redistricting helped knock off three Democratic senators, played a decisive role in changing the outcome on oil taxes. An oil tax bill pushed by Gov. Sean Parnell failed to make it through the Senate last year.
The vote was taken at 8:59 p.m. after hours of impassioned debate rarely heard in the Alaska Legislature. But the outcome had been all but sealed once an 11-9 vote along identical lines approved an amendment earlier in the day to slightly increase the tax on industry. That brought in the main holdout, Sen. Click Bishop, R-Fairbanks.
A video recording by KTUU Channel 2 of the votes going up on the tally board shows Bishop casting the 11th vote in favor of the bill.
The bill will cost the state treasury billions of dollars over the next decade, but supporters say it will eventually lead to greater oil production. Opponents say it's nothing more than a giveaway to the industry, which told the Legislature it would reduce its efforts here if it didn't get tax breaks even as it told stock analysts the opposite.
The bill throws out the five-year-old tax system known as ACES, for Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share. It became law through a coalition of Democrats, Republicans and Gov. Sarah Palin -- in her populist phase -- as way to undo the previous pro-industry tax regime that passed in 2006 under a cloud of corruption.
The measure will come up for reconsideration Thursday. Opponents said after the vote that they will continue to talk to Bishop in hopes of getting him to change his mind and force a do-over with a different result. In a 10-10 tie, the bill fails.
Talk of tax rates, net profits and exclusions dissolved into an epic debate on the future of Alaska and the meaning of the "owner state" Wednesday as the Senate warmed up for the vote.
"This is a bad bill that should be voted down," said Sen. Hollis French, D-Anchorage. "It's a giveaway, it's a crapshoot, it's a far, far cry from our best work and what we're capable of doing. I've watched each committee negotiate against themselves, waiting for some positive word form the oil industry. The words never came. In fact it was just the opposite. The last hearing, when the bill was in Senate Finance, I listened to senator after senator try to get the industry to commit to making more investments in Alaska if this bill passed. They declined to commit -- ConocoPhillips, British Petroleum, Exxon Mobil."
Sen. Cathy Giessel followed, saying she wasn't a lawyer like French, "but I have something of tremendous value, and that is, the life experience of living in the Territory of Alaska as well as the State of Alaska, and I've watched this state move from a very small economy before oil to what we enjoy today." But Giessel asserted that the economy is declining along with oil production. "I'm interested in seeing that robust economy come back. Right now, what we're seeing is a continued decline while other producing sectors in our country are seeing an increase in production -- Texas, North Dakota, California. ... Right now, we're seeing folks move out of our state."
Stevens, who was Senate president last year when Parnell's bill died in the Senate, urged his fellow senators to be cautious about trusting the oil industry, given its history in the state: he cited three major events, the Amerada Hess court case in the 1970s where a judge ruled the industry cheated Alaska out of nearly $1 billion, the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, and the Veco corruption scandal of 2006.
"Those three events are not the only abuses we have experienced -- they're just the three you cannot forget," Stevens said. "There is really no hurry to make a decision today, or really this session. It's better to get it right than do it quickly, with questions unanswered and with results unknown. This bill gives away too much to the major oil companies who are producing oil in the legacy fields at Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk. Those fields seem to be doing just fine under the current tax policies and are enormously profitable to the industry. ... This body has decided to place enormous trust in an industry that has often proved itself to be untrustworthy. To believe the industry will indeed substantially increase oil throughput without a (sunset provision) if that does not happen, I appreciate your purity of heart."
"Let's kill this bill today, let's start from scratch," said Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage. Like several other opponents, he then referred to an interview in the Juneau Empire by a leading supporter of the bill, Sen. Kevin Meyer, R-Anchorage, who called the chances of more development "a crapshoot."
"I've heard this bill called a crapshoot," Wielechowski continued. "Is that we're down to, basing our public policy on a gamble, basing a bill that moves billions of dollars across the table to the oil industry, on a crapshoot? Basing our ability to fund teachers, troopers, VPSOs, roads, bridges, on a crapshoot? Basing the future of Alaska on a crapshoot? Is that what we're down to?"
"ACES doesn't work and something has to be done," said Sen. Pete Kelly, R-Fairbanks. "This bill does something, I think it does something very good. The biggest thing it does for me is it tells me we don't have to accept failure as our destiny. We don't have to have future of decline. I don't want to look my kids in the eye and say when I stepped out of high school in 1974, the world was my oyster. ... Sorry, to you, we spent it all and when we were faced with the tough decision of changes in things that maybe looked like we were in the pocket of the oil companies, we didn't have the guts to do the right thing so that you, my kids, and all your kids, so that you guys could have the same kind of future that we had. I just hope you'll all vote yes."
"One thing we know for sure," said Sen. Lesil McGuire, R-Anchorage, "is that a driver in investment is fiscal policy, and when we, as those that govern, have been told time and time again that our fiscal policy is not competitive and broken, it is absolutely incumbent upon us, as those that take that oath to the Constitution, to make every effort we can to change that tax policy in a way to encourage investment. ... I'm proud to be voting for Senate Bill 21 today -- it is not a haphazard, last-minute solution or anything that we're rushing into."
"I've taken a lot of votes over the years, and I've got to say that this is probably the most important vote that I'm going to be taking in my political career," said veteran legislator Lyman Hoffman, D-Bethel. "These are some of the highest stakes that we are addressing today -- which is the future direction that this state is going to take.
"My great grandfather came to Alaska in the 1850s. I state that because my grandchildren, when they lived in Bethel, were sixth-generation Bethelites, and I have to stand here today and justify my vote to them, and having heard the debate, the stakes are too high for us to go all in without some assurances that we are going to be able to provide services and protect the (Permanent Fund) dividend that the people of Alaska deserve, as the result of the profits that we've been able to get out of what our Constitution says is the maximum sustained benefit for the people of Alaska. I won't be able to look them in the face and say that's what I have accomplished if I am a yes vote. There is no way that I'd be able to do that, Mr. Speaker, and that is why I'm a no vote."
How they voted
Senate Bill 21, the overhaul of Alaska's oil and gas production taxes, passed 11-9 in the state Senate on Wednesday night. It faces a reconsideration vote Thursday before advancing to the House.
YES: Bishop, Coghill, Dunleavy, Dyson, Fairclough, Giessel, Higgins, Kelly, McGuire, Meyer, Micciche
NO: Egan, Ellis, French, Gardner, Hoffman, Olson, Stedman, Stevens, Wielechowski
By RICHARD MAUER
Alaska Dispatch Publishing


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Anyone who frequents the dog park and knows about dog behavior probably has a few horror stories to share and I am no exception.
A couple of years ago, I was at my neighborhood park, which is a private multi-use park for dogs and people. It was an off-hour so it was just me, my dog, Jonesy, and my foster dog, a little Corgi with a history of some fear and reactivity to unfamiliar dogs. Jonesy was off-leash and the Corgi was on a long line. Generally, when I'm just with Jonesy, who is reactive towards unfamiliar dogs, especially those who are en route to trampling or side-swiping him, I'll keep him focused on me in fun games or give him treats. That way Jonesy doesn't have a chance to feel threatened enough to bark and growl doggie expletives. But in this case, I didn't know other dogs were entering the area park until I heard the mad barking of three Australian Shepherds as they leapt out of their car and started racing around as if they had been penned up for weeks. The park was the size of a football field, but as usual, these dogs decided that the choice spot was wherever we were, so they sprinted our way. I stood for an instant indecisively. Should I call the Corgi and sprint so he'd follow me (but most likely with the other dogs in hot pursuit) or should I give him a super-slack leash in hopes that he will feel like he can get away and doesn't need to lunge at or possible bite the furry torpedoes heading our way.
Still unsure, I shouted to the other owner, "My dogs are fearful of other dogs that race up to them," a tactic that generally works well. Most owners are accommodating, or at least apologetic when their off-leash dogs have charged up. But today I was up against the type of guy for whom workplace sensitivity classes were invented.
"Oh, are they bothering you?" he asks. "You look really scared. Do you want me to leave the park?" He continues in his pretend-nice, voice. I'm thinking, "What normal person notices he is doing something that makes you nervous and hears you verbalize the problem, and then asks you if it's an issue?"
My reply, "No, you don't need to leave, but can we have 10 yards of space?" Then his true colors came out. "It's a DOG park," he says, emphasizing every word, as if, because I'm a small Asian woman, I'm too stupid to understand English spoken at a normal speed. "They're supposed to be able to play," he continues.
That's what he said, but what he really meant was, "My dogs have no come when called and because of that, they have to hog the entire 100-yard field. Because I have no control of them, I have to pretend that you're the idiot when I know the real idiot is me." Sure enough, when he tried to get his dogs to go back to the car, it took him a good five minutes to round them up. (Note he had to get his dogs back into the car in order to have any control over them so that I could leave the park with the corgi).
Download the free poster on Dog Park Etiquette here as part of Dr. Sophia Yin's Perfect Puppy poster bundle.
How and Why Dogs Should Behave Politely at the Off-Leash Park
Incidents like this happen regularly at a majority of off-leash dog and multi-use parks, resulting in bad experiences for both people and dogs. Many people may pooh pooh the problem and blame other, insecure dogs for being scared. However, when you turn the situation around and imagine we were talking about kids at the playground, it would all seem very different.
Take these scenarios, for example:
Scenario 1:
At the dog park, avoid letting your dog mob dogs that enter the park and avoid letting them sprint up to other dogs they don't know. Watch how the other dogs respond to your dog's greeting and look for signs of fear or anxiety in them (Read the blog on body language of fear and anxiety and download the free poster)
Scenario 2:
If your dog has a tendency to steal toys or even crowd other dogs who are playing with toys, you'll need to develop a fantastic come when called and fetch so that he can bring the toy to you and you can get it back to the rightful owner. You may need to leash your dog if he's a toy thief because it's not fair for him to disrupt other dogs' play.
Scenario 3:
If your dog is a pest you'll want to call him and engage him in more appropriate play with you or a toy.
Scenario 4:
In fact, in my experiences, overly rough play is a leading cause of deteriorating behavior at the park. One dog's having fun but the other is getting trampled, or both dogs are getting too excited and suddenly their play breaks into a fight. To prevent this from happening, you'll want to call your dog over to you and engage him in replacement behaviors before he gets overly rough with others.
Scenario 5:
A park is for multiple uses, even if it's a dog park. Dogs should avoid hogging the entire field. Give dogs that are playing fetch room to play and let dogs that are interacting with their people interact on their own.
Scenario 6:
While most people at the dog park like dogs, most people dislike being body slammed or jumped on. In fact, these rude behaviors can cause injury to people. I've even seen this injury cost $40,000 for the negligent owner of the dog. The solution? Train your dog to greet people by sitting politely or call him away from them before he can jump or body slam them.
Scenario 7:
Probably the number one reason dogs get into trouble at the park is that people stand around and ignore them. Behind their back, multiple small altercations are happening or the dog's being rude and other dogs are just too polite or friendly to fend him off.
What should you do to prevent your dog from being a dog park menace?
Luckily the trick to keeping your dog out of trouble at the park is simple.
It sounds easy and it really is. If you can train these two vital skills and supervise your dog, then you and your dog and the other park participants will be happier and everyone will get along better.
Stay tuned for the next blog about proper dog play!
Download the free poster on Dog Park Etiquette here.


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Well here we are; another Groundhog Day.
No shadow is good news.
Just like we got a year ago on Brown Dog's Day.
Those reports from "Holidog's Voyage" were a kick. In case your memory needs refreshing, we started receiving emails from Holidog back in July of 2005.
It seems Holidog was inspired by The Voyage and decided to head out into the world for his own adventure. In that first email, we discovered Holidog had a little Voyage shirt, sunglasses and even a suitcase.
I'm not sure if I ever mentioned it in the many subsequent HoliBlog posts about Holidog's Voyage, but I never knew who was helping Holidog.
The emails arrived, I cracked up, and when time permitted I posted the photos and text.
As we got closer to open, I didn't get to those last several trip reports from our intrepup reporter, but he went all over the place:
From a well-known national park to kitschy roadside attractions.
And on to a few other national treasures (Holidog was disappointed to find out the real Alamo doesn't offer his favorite Frito Pies, though).
But Holidog's travels were not confined to the U.S.
Off across the pond he flew:
After nearly a year of emails from Holidog, it seemed likely his helpers would reveal themselves early in the season.
I had my suspicions.
At first, I thought maybe it was members of our entertainment department.
Then I accused some former seasonal employees; they seemed delighted to be considered that devious and creative, but denied any involvement.
Then it came to me it might be some coaster enthusiasts. They hail from all over the world and could easily work up a network of travel venues for Holidog.
So that had to be it.
It seemed a good assumption that the Holidog Helper would reveal himself or herself over the Memorial Day weekend, as we were hosting a big event for enthusiasts.
It was indeed a good assumption.
However when the secret was unleashed, it was a complete surprise.
In fact, it was right outside of Kringle's Kafe. My scream of shock and surprise was so loud, people up at the front gate became alarmed.
It turns out a Party of Four helped Holidog see the world.
Four gentlemen, actually.
Four fellows who should have been busy working on all the little specifics on the design of our new coaster.
That's right, it was The Gravity Group.
Got me good. Never gave them a thought.
So what got into them? Why did they spend so much time, effort, and creativity on this caper?
Korey was the mastermind. He claimed I'd at one point labeled them as geeks and they were out to prove me wrong.
Of course I insisted I would never have called them geeks. Surely they were mistaken.
All the wives chimed in with how obsessed their husbands were with this — especially when they constructed Holidog's little traveling house.
Those fellows were grinning from ear to ear, so very pleased with themselves.
Apparently, they were quite disappointed to find out there's not a park mascot at the home of their next coaster project.
Probably not a snarky PR director, either.


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Single-family Residential Service
All single-family residences and duplexes will be provided with the following services on your scheduled collection day:
- Recyclable Materials
- Green waste (City of Orland and Willows by subscription only)
- Household trash
Place carts at curbside the previous night of your scheduled collection day. Lids must be closed, and the lid opening must face towards the street. Carts should be placed side by side at least 3 feet apart and 6 feet away from parked cars or objects. As a courtesy to your neighbor, promptly remove carts after service.
Single-family residents who qualify for the senior discount must be 65 years of age or older, head of household and qualify for utility rate discounts. Please contact Customer Service for additional information and application.
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If the cart exceeds the weight limitation, the driver will attempt service and will notify dispatch of the problem. Dispatch will attempt contact with the customer. It will then be the responsibility of the resident to make the correction and contact Waste Management for service.
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Each resident is responsible for the proper care and security of the trash and recycling carts. Customers will be charged to replace carts that are damaged or destroyed other than through normal usage. Please contact Customer Service for cart replacements.
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Microsoft's "Secure Boot" plans for Windows 8 have already caused no end of controversy in the Linux community, and certainly one of the more divisive announcements in recent months was Canonical's decision to drop the GRUB 2 bootloader as part of its solution for Ubuntu Linux.
It didn't take long for the Free Software Foundation (FSF) to react to that news, and its response wasn't favorable.
"Our main concern is that because they are afraid of falling out of compliance with GPLv3, they plan to drop Grub 2 on Secure Boot systems in favor of another bootloader with a different license that lacks GPLv3's protections for user freedom," wrote FSF Executive Director John Sullivan in a recent white paper on the topic. "We urge Ubuntu and Canonical to reverse this decision, and we offer our help in working through any licensing concerns."
Sure enough, it now looks like that's just what happened, and Canonical on Thursday announced that it will use GRUB 2 after all.
A variety of solutions
As a quick recap, the problem at the root of all this is that Windows 8 hardware will come with the Secure Boot technology enabled in the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI), meaning that only operating systems with an appropriate digital signature will be able to boot.
On ARM-based hardware, furthermore, it apparently won't be possible to disable Secure Boot.
We've already seen proposed solutions from Fedora and SUSE Linux as well as Ubuntu, and the Linux Foundation has spoken out on the topic too. Linux developers, meanwhile, are doing work of their own to address the problem.
Canonical's original decision to use an EFILinux bootloader instead of GRUB 2 arose out of a fear that licensing provisions in the latter might force the disclosure of Canonical's encryption keys if a manufacturer inadvertently shipped a computer that did not allow Secure Boot to be disabled, explained Jon Melamut, its vice president of professional and engineering services, in a blog post on Thursday.
'Security and user choice'
It is the FSF that owns the copyrights to GRUB 2, however, and in subsequent discussions with the group, "the FSF has stated clearly that GRUB 2 with Secure Boot does not pose a risk of key disclosure in such circumstances," Melamut added.
Canonical has also confirmed that fact with its manufacturing partners, he noted, as well as introducing variations in the Ubuntu Certification program and QA scripts for pre-installs "to ensure that security and user choice are maintained on Ubuntu machines," he explained.
So, the bottom line is that GRUB 2 will be used in both Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" and 12.04.2 by default.
The next beta version of Ubuntu 12.10 is due next week, with a final release planned for Oct. 18.


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This post will start my Hundred Islands Series. You may wonder why such title. Well, Lucap has one of the best skyline in Pangasinan that all photos in this set involve shots of the sky - thus, while in Lucap, you should look up.
Saturday, July 05, 2008
Look Up @ Lucap
This post will start my Hundred Islands Series. You may wonder why such title. Well, Lucap has one of the best skyline in Pangasinan that all photos in this set involve shots of the sky - thus, while in Lucap, you should look up.
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i am really into clouds.ReplyDelete
i like photos with clouds in it.
i like the 2 last pics!ReplyDelete
superb kuya=]
i lab sunsets!
Your angle of taking pictures is really awesome.... Thats what i really like... Nice one lawstude....ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6:08 PM, July 06, 2008
you did it again bro! i've been to hundred islands already but it was such a long time ago. i like the second pic.ReplyDelete
Lovely... as always...!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10:33 PM, July 06, 2008
colorful boats and nice pics of the sunset :) Never been to 100 islands so I look forward to your posts :)ReplyDelete
wow! i've been there 3years ago. my favorite in this set are photos 1 and 4.ReplyDelete
i love the hundred islands! i hope i can go back and see this place.
i wonder if bolinao is also nice. been there?
look up = lucap = cool!ReplyDelete
ang galing! ganda tingnan mga pics.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9:30 AM, July 07, 2008
da best and second pic kuya. ganda ng pagka-capture sa clouds...ReplyDelete
can't wait for your update about rice terraces. hehe
kakaiba yung clouds sa 2nd pic parang ang lapit lang....ReplyDelete
i couldn;t wait more of ur pics soon
Tama ka nga, ang ganda ng cloud formations!ReplyDelete
great cloud photos. don't worry about the text, these photos speak volumes.:DReplyDelete
if your most recent trek was Banaue/Batad, you definitely need rest.:D when i got back from Batad, i had palpitations everytime i see steps or stairs, lol! i told myself NEVER again! but after a few months, i climbed mt. hibok-hibok...pampalakas ng loob pala ang Batad trek. looking forward to your next post.:)
Ayun... my blog was hacked. Timely for my winning of the filipino blog of the week...ReplyDelete
ill be starting from scratch again. trying to restore what can be restored.
at me promo pa talaga ng San Mig Light! hehe. Hay, sana makapasyal din dyan sa Hundred Islands. Baka pag napatagal pa ko 99 na lang abutan ko. :-)ReplyDelete
i love the second pic and the lighthouse picReplyDelete
naku, pag pumunta ko jan kelangan ko pala mag dala ng bengay dahil magkakastif nek ako kakatingala kasi ang ganda nga ng clouds... parang un feeling pag nasa airplane, gusto mo akapin parang cotton candy. =)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9:32 AM, July 08, 2008
Ang gaganda ng ulap!ReplyDelete
Nagpunta kami dyan. Nung nasa jump-off na kami, hindi kami natuloy dahil pinigilan kami ng tatay ng kasama namin. Hindi daw magandang bumiyahe kapag mahal na araw.
Nice clouds...ReplyDelete
Hello guys!!! Just got back from an exhausting but wonderful trip in Ifugao. Because of the trip, I have to excuse myself from work for one day. As a result, I have to work double time (and overtime) just to catch-up on my work, so pardon me if I can't visit all of your blogs lately but I promise to do so once I my sched eases.ReplyDelete
@ kris jasper - me too, when i was a kid, i just use my imagination so that i could see various images from the clouds.
@ my-so-called quest - thanks doc, pangasinan in general has really amazing sunsets.ReplyDelete
@ selerines - thank you. i guess i am just lucky with the subjects.ReplyDelete
@ madbong - thanks madbong. i have been to the islands several times and it never really fails to amaze me.ReplyDelete
@ shades - thanks. coming from you, that's just great.ReplyDelete
@ BW - i think i'll have 3 or 4 more post about the place. hope you like 'em all.ReplyDelete
@ the dong - thanks. bolinao is also great. it has a lighthouse and a fantastic view of the sunset.ReplyDelete
@ acey - just playin' with words lols. ;-)ReplyDelete
@ pensucks - salamat at nagandahan ka. i appreciate it.ReplyDelete
@ beero - salamat. nasa restaurant ako nyan. maxine by the sea, ng mapansin ko na ang ganda ng ulap.ReplyDelete
post ko ifugao trip ko maybe in two weeks time.
@ dakilang islander - yeah, kitang-kita talaga yung clouds sa kinalalagyan ko kaya natuwa ako kunan. salamat.ReplyDelete
@ kegler - salamat. pwede na ko sumali sa skywatch friday.ReplyDelete
@ luna miranda - wow salamat.ReplyDelete
yup. i had atrek to batad and i will NEVER do it again.
@ the islander - sayang naman. bangon na lang uli. karma lang katapat nyan.ReplyDelete
anyways, congrats for winning the Filipino Blog of the Week.
@ r-yo - tama panyero, bilisan mo pumunta dito (sama ako) kasi baka nga maging 99 na lang sila.ReplyDelete
@ neil camhalla - thank you. i appreciate.ReplyDelete
@ tentay - uhm ano yung bengay?ReplyDelete
ganda talaga ulap, parang cotton candy. may previous post ako about clouds na kuha ko sa eroplano. check ko na lang link then bogay ko sayo.
@ anino - sayang naman pero ganyan din ako eh. pag may pumipigil di ko na rin tonutuloy kasi wala naman masama sumunod sa mga matatanda eh. marami pa naman araw.ReplyDelete
@ aline - thanks...ReplyDelete
Lucap.... lawstude..... hmmm lawstude looked up! hehehe joke. lucap as in look up. parang malapit lang ng clouds na pwedeng abutin. maganda siguro dyan kapag gabi with moonlight and stars. romantic!ReplyDelete
this masterpiece of yours remind me to visit alaminos where my father grew..ahh. all my siblings went there na. except me..ReplyDelete
ang ganda raw talga.:)and u captured it perfectly!
i mean a part of it, since i hope u did more shootings..ReplyDelete
rgds dear bro
Oh my gulay. Wala ako masabi, naalala ko tuloy yung A Walk Through the Clouds sa mga pics. Ang ganda Lawstude.ReplyDelete
did you see urdja there? nang ako punta maxine by the sea di ko gusto as in bad service and dry masyado food. malas lang yata ako...ReplyDelete
galing naman ng pix!ReplyDelete
waaah. kelangan na tlga nameng ituloy ang pangasinan escapade namen! hehe.
wonderful, very beautiful.ReplyDelete
Bengay un amoy minty na mainit sa katawan kapag masakit muscles? un amoy lolo hehehehhe.. sigi sigi penge link :>ReplyDelete
These are all awesome. Love the wrap around steps.ReplyDelete
@ redlan - sabi nga nila. on a clear sky you can see forever.ReplyDelete
@ josh of arabia - wow. salamat naman for liking the pics. i bet pag-uwi mo this will be one place you'll visit. always go back to the roots man.ReplyDelete
@ vanessa - salamat ng marami vanessa.ReplyDelete
@ tutubi - yap nakita ko si urduja. nasa tapat ni lima hong. malas mo naman sa food, nag-enjoy kami sa food ng maxime eh. calamare, spicy hipon, pansit atbp.ReplyDelete
@ vanny - yeah babalik nga uli ako next week doon kaya lang sa lingayen naman. (work-related)ReplyDelete
@ daniel j santos - thank you again for visiting.ReplyDelete
@ tentay - ayy oo yung cream. binasa ko kasi ng diretso eh, ben gay pala. ;))ReplyDelete
@ andrea - that's the light tower to guide fishermen and boats at night. thanks.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9:50 PM, July 09, 2008
wow! such a wonderful skyline :)nice photos, lawstude :)ReplyDelete
nice pun on the place's name. :DReplyDelete
love the pics!
@ orange - thanks. pangasinan is really noted for its great skylines.ReplyDelete
@ carlotta - just played around with words a bit lols.ReplyDelete
wow ganda... ive never been there.. isa yan sa mga places na gusto ko mapuntahan.ReplyDelete
I am from Anda Pangasinan. My place is called the mother of the hundred Island because it is the largest Island North of the national park and it is the only Island town in Pangasinan. In my entire lifetime though I have been to Hundred Islands only thrice. I heard that they tried to renovate the place. Sana nga nag-improve kasi medyo pumapangit na dati.ReplyDelete