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Boulder County: No discussions scheduled
Boulder City Council: Discussion planned in early March
Longmont City Council: Second reading of a moratorium on marijuana-related businesses scheduled for Tuesday
Lafayette City Council: Approved on Feb. 5 a moratorium on marijuana-related businesses through Oct. 1
Louisville City Council: Discussion planned for March 19
Superior Board of Trustees: -- Second reading of a ban on all marijuana-related businesses scheduled for Monday
Erie Board of Trustees: Approved on Jan. 22 an emergency moratorium on marijuana-related businesses through Oct. 1
Lyons Board of Trustees : -- Approved on Dec. 17 a moratorium on marijuana-related businesses through Oct. 1
Nederland Board of Trustees: Work session planned for Feb. 26
Broomfield City Council: -- Second reading of a two-year moratorium on marijuana-related businesses scheduled for Feb. 26
Amendment 64 election results
Boulder County: Yes 116,384 -- 66%;No 58,774 -- 34%
Boulder: Yes 49,878 -- 75%; No 16,512 -- 25%
Longmont: Yes 25,643 -- 58%;No 18,284 -- 42%
Lafayette: Yes 9,566 -- 65% ;No 5,132 -- 35%
Louisville: Yes 7,620 -- 62% ;No 4,646 -- 38%
Superior: Yes 3,682 -- 58%; No 2,647 -- 42%
Erie*: Yes 3,312 -- 59%; No 2,323 -- 41%
Lyons: Yes 1,472 -- 70%; No 644 -- 30%
Nederland: Yes 1,258 -- 72%; No 483 -- 28%
Jamestown: Yes 407 -- 75% ; No 134 -- 25%
* Only Boulder County results
Source: Precinct vote counts from Boulder County Clerk & Recorder's Office
Imagine it.
Amsterdam-style coffee shops line Boulder's Pearl Street Mall, offering up cannabis strains like White Widow and Sour Diesel for on-premises enjoyment -- served with a piping mug of arabica coffee. Across Boulder County in Lafayette, a string of marijuana shops on Public Road beckons customers inside to sample the inventory while tossing back an ice-cold microbrew.
Is this the brave -- and groovy -- new world this era of legalized marijuana promises to be in Colorado?
Not so fast, industry insiders and government officials say. A free-for-all, anything-goes cannabis culture is not what was envisioned by Amendment 64, which allows adults 21 and over in Colorado to possess and use up to an ounce of pot and grow six marijuana plants. The measure, approved by voters three months ago, was expressly crafted with built-in limits, among them discretionary powers by municipalities to decide whether retail marijuana shops will be allowed and a prohibition on "openly and publicly" consuming the drug.
In the now-famous words uttered by Gov. John Hickenlooper in the wake of November's vote, "don't break out the Cheetos and Goldfish too quickly."
For those curious about what a fully implemented marijuana legalization statute might look like at the ground level, take a look at what's in place now as the result of rules drawn up for the state's medical marijuana industry, said Matt Cook, the former director of Colorado's Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division.
Strict zoning restrictions have been put in place for dispensaries, sophisticated "seed to sale" tracking is required of all inventory, and a long list of security and surveillance measures need to be in place before a business can open.
"The model for the medical side, if you take the patient out of it, nicely fits on to the recreational side," Cook said. "I don't think that Colorado is going to turn into a mini-Amsterdam."
Towns and cities throughout the state that have permitted dispensaries to operate have created wide setbacks, keeping the facilities hundreds of feet away from schools, daycare centers, hospitals and each other.
"The buffers that exist have already created a cap on the number of businesses that are out there," Jeffrey Gard, a Boulder attorney who has long worked with clients in the medical marijuana industry, said. "I don't think the sky is falling with this. I don't think we're going to see a major explosion in the amount of adult marijuana use."
'The 800-pound gorilla'
Local governments aren't the only ones with a say on the recreational marijuana industry in Colorado, however.
Late last year, the governor formed a task force charged with coming up with recommendations for the State Legislature, where lawmakers will soon be trying to figure out how to implement the various aspects of Amendment 64. The Colorado Department of Revenue is required to adopt statewide recreational marijuana regulations by July 1.
But all of that painstaking work could be undone by the one entity that still classifies marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance -- the federal government. Cook said recreational marijuana is untested ground -- Washington State is the only other state in the nation whose voters approved a similar measure in November -- and there's no way of knowing how the U.S. Department of Justice will react.
"The 800-pound gorilla in all of this is the federal government's response to this," he said.
Attorney Robert Hoban, a managing partner with Hoban & Feola in Denver and Colorado Springs who has more than a hundred clients in the medical marijuana industry, said many dispensary owners are in limbo about whether to convert their stores to recreational marijuana retail outlets as they try to divine what might come out of Washington, D.C. The fear, he said, is that the relatively lenient approach the Obama administration has taken with medical marijuana is not assured in a situation where the drug is no longer limited to medicinal use.
"If it's purely recreational, aren't we just thumbing our nose at the government? Is this going to draw the feds' attention and perhaps some enforcement action?" Hoban asked.
One of those stuck in wait-and-see mode is Evan Anderson, owner of 14er Holistics in Boulder, who acknowledges that operating as a medical marijuana dispensary in the far less restrictive world of recreational marijuana would be an "uphill battle." No longer will there be a need for customers to obtain a doctor's note, register with the state and present a "red card" to legally purchase cannabis.
But if recreational marijuana stores are going to be shut down by the federal government, he said, it makes no sense to convert. At least not yet.
"Nine months from now, will guys like me be getting a knock on the door from the feds for entering the recreational marijuana market?" said Anderson, who has run his dispensary on Mapleton Street for three years.
'Large customer base'
Brian Vicente, executive director of Sensible Colorado and the primary author of Amendment 64, sympathizes with dispensary owners' trepidation, despite the significantly larger market they could tap into by moving into recreational pot.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment reported that there were nearly 109,000 registered medical marijuana patients in Colorado at the end of 2012, with 9,436 of those patients in Boulder County. Between 486,000 and 616,000 adults 21 and over in Colorado use marijuana regularly, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration estimates.
"I think many of them will want to serve this large customer base but I've talked to some who want to remain in this medical world for fear of the federal government," Vicente said.
President Obama said in December that his administration doesn't intend to go after individual marijuana users in Colorado or Washington State but hasn't made clear the federal government's position on the commercial aspects of the industry, like retail stores and manufacturing facilities. Jeff Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Denver, said the U.S. Department of Justice is still formulating a response to the unprecedented situation.
"The U.S. Attorney's Office in Colorado is working with (Department of Justice) officials in Washington, D.C. to determine what the department's next step is regarding the legalization of marijuana," he said. "There is no timeline regarding an announcement."
Peter Verchick, owner of Boulder Vital Herbs on Iris Avenue and Flower Power Botanicals in Larimer County, said if the federal government decides to largely leave the commercial recreational marijuana sector alone, it won't be difficult for Boulder dispensary owners to make the conversion to that world and abide by whatever regulations the city and state create.
"You have responsible owners used to heavy regulation at the local and state levels," Verchick said.
The first retail outlets selling recreational marijuana won't appear in Colorado until the beginning of next year.
No decision from Boulder
At this point, the future of recreational marijuana stores in Boulder -- or anywhere else in the county -- is far from assured, regardless of the federal government's stance on the industry.
Most cities and towns in Boulder County -- including Erie, Lyons, Longmont, and Lafayette -- have placed or are in the middle of placing moratoria on marijuana-related businesses until the state can draft its rules. Superior is set to vote Monday on outright banning the businesses, while Broomfield is formulating a moratorium that would last through early 2015.
Boulder City Attorney Tom Carr raised eyebrows in December when he suggested that the City Council impose a two-year ban on recreational marijuana stores. The idea got little support from council members. Councilwoman Lisa Morzel said at the time that invoking a ban "would be so non-democratic and would provoke the wrath of the public."
Boulder voters approved Amendment 64 by a three-to-one margin, which was, along with Jamestown, the strongest level of support for legalization of any community in Boulder County. Voters in the county overall passed the measure by a 66 percent to 34 percent margin.
"The governments have been very slow to react and embrace what has been the will of the voters," said Gard, the medical marijuana attorney. "I think it's concerning that Boulder was entertaining a ban on marijuana businesses."
The City Council is scheduled to take up the issue again next month. Gard said assuming Boulder decides to allow recreational marijuana stores on the same basis and with the same limitations it set for medical marijuana establishments, there won't be much of a change in the industry's footprint from what's out there today.
"There just simply isn't a lot of space left for new businesses coming in," he said. "We'd be lucky to add one or two stores to the roster of existing businesses."
But the sales tax revenues, he said, could go up appreciably with several times the number of marijuana users potentially visiting stores than currently are patronized by medical marijuana patients. According to the city's finance department, Boulder collected $708,000 in medical marijuana sales tax revenues during the first 11 months of 2012 -- less than 1 percent of the city's total sales tax revenues for the period.
"I think there is a huge upside to taxing recreational marijuana," Gard said. "Governments that partner with industry profit from industry, and those that don't, the industry flies the coop and goes somewhere else."
Mishawn Cook, Boulder's tax and license manager, said the city is in a good position to license recreational marijuana stores if the City Council decides to allow them. As of Feb. 1, her office had issued 67 licenses for grow houses, manufactured infused products facilities and medical marijuana dispensaries. Out of those 67 licensed operators, 27 are dispensaries.
"We have very coherent local laws, licensing structure and inspection structure," Cook said. "Our experience with medical marijuana definitely gives us a template to troubleshoot problems we may come across this time."
Regulated like alcohol
Colorado's commercial marijuana landscape will largely be guided by existing liquor regulations in the state, Matt Cook said, given that the primary aim of Amendment 64 was to have pot regulated like alcohol. As such, there will likely be a manufacturer, a wholesaler and a retailer, he said.
"It's just like any widget out there, except this is a Schedule I controlled substance per federal law and needs a little more oversight," Cook said.
Gard said what appears possible with recreational marijuana is the abandonment of the vertical integration model that was placed on medical marijuana dispensary owners, in which an owner has to grow 70 percent of their cannabis supply and the same people are charged with getting product from seed to sale. That mandate, he said, led to many forced relationships between cultivators and retailers that resulted in "a lot of hardship and a lot of litigation."
The governor's marijuana legalization task force hasn't yet agreed on a recommendation on how to structure the recreational marijuana industry, but a proposal that came before it last week would allow growers, distributors and sellers to operate independently, as occurs in the liquor industry.
While attorney Hoban agrees that steering away from medical marijuana's vertical structure would be good for smaller pot shops that can't afford to run and maintain grow facilities, there remain other hazards in their path. The biggest is industry consolidation, he said, which has already been underway for years with medical marijuana businesses.
"That could be bad for the mom and pops unless they carve out for themselves a niche," he said.
Hoban sees recreational marijuana largely being targeted at out-of-state tourists, with billboards along I-70 trying to lure skiers and hikers headed to the slopes to enjoy a few apres-ski and post-trek bong hits.
What is public?
But the question of where people will be able to consume marijuana is very much undecided. While Amendment 64 expressly outlaws public consumption, exactly what constitutes a public place has come up for debate.
The dispute came into sharp focus last week when Lafayette business owner Veronica Carpio took issue with a proposed moratorium the city had drafted that would not only have temporarily prohibited businesses that sell marijuana in the city but also those that allow its use on site. Carpio's business, The Front Tea & Art Shop, serves as a rendezvous spot for people bringing in their own cannabis to enjoy but doesn't charge a cover fee or sell any pot.
She and her allies claimed the city is going beyond what it is allowed by law to do because the amendment specifically upholds private consumption of pot as a constitutional right.
"Marijuana is supposed to be regulated like alcohol -- that's the whole precept of Amendment 64," Carpio said. "How many bars do we have in this town?"
Lafayette countered that Carpio's business is a public venue in the city's commercial district and that it has the right to stop the activity. The City Council passed the moratorium unanimously. So far, The Front Tea & Art Shop has not been served with a cease and desist order, Carpio said.
Anderson, 14er Holistics' owner, said it is unlikely commercial gathering spots for smokers will take off in Colorado. Not only is the non-public consumption stipulation in Amendment 64 a tough hurdle to clear, but business owners will be reluctant to open themselves up to lawsuits that could result from someone getting high at their smoking club or lounge, driving off and getting into an accident, he said.
It's particularly difficult because, unlike with alcohol, there is no consensus on what level of THC in the blood translates to legal intoxication, Anderson said.
"I don't think we will see consumption in any business until the science of quantifying intoxication from cannabis is perfected," he said.
Vicente said the entire landscape for recreational marijuana will take time and evolve over the years, and that not everything can be resolved in the first year of implementation. He said it's exciting to be one of the first states in the country to pave the way on an issue that has increasingly gained acceptance from the general public.
The state has a valuable blueprint with the medical marijuana regulations it has already established, Vicente said, and Boulder County's cannabis-friendly reputation gives the county, in particular, the opportunity to be on the front lines of what will inevitably become a national discussion.
"There is a lot to be optimistic about -- Colorado has demonstrated that marijuana can successfully be taxed and sold. We have a track record of success," Vicente said. "And I think Boulder County has the opportunity to be the leader on this."
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Request a free credit report from each of the three national consumer reporting agencies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) when placing a fraud alert. Note: The phone numbers and addresses for these companies can be found at the bottom of this article.
Block fraudulent information from appearing in your credit reports
Receive a notice of these and other rights from the consumer reporting agencies
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Once you've placed a fraud alert, you have the right to request a free credit report from each of the three consumer reporting agencies – and this report is independent of your right to request a free credit report from each of the agencies annually. Note: You also have the right to request that only the last four digits of your Social Security number be visible on your credit reports.
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If there are any errors on your credit report, get them removed by notifying both the credit reporting agency and the business that the ID thief used to create fake loans or lines of credit (like the bank where the ID thief obtained a credit card in your name, or the lending institution that gave a loan to the ID thief). Technically you should only need to notify the creditor or reporting agency, but it is better to report to both entities.
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If the information in your credit report is found to be inaccurate, your credit report must be corrected, but you should follow up to ensure that the corrections have been made.
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Credit reporting agencies are required to carry out the request to block information within four days of receiving a valid request accompanied by a copy of an identity theft report filed with the police. The credit reporting agency is also required to notify the company that provided the information that the information may be the result of identity theft and has been blocked.
The right to be notified of your rights
The Fair Credit Reporting Act requires the credit report agencies to send you a copy of your rights when you contact them to report that you have been a victim of fraud or identity theft. The notice has to include a summary of the rights available to consumers (essentially the information in this article) to let you know how to correct the damage from identity theft, as well as information on how to contact the FTC for more information.
Note: The FTC has reported that consumers have complained to them about feeling pressured by the consumer reporting agencies to purchase credit monitoring services. Be aware of the potential sales pressure and make your own choice as to whether or not you want to pay for credit monitoring – and if so, whether you want to purchase this from one of these agencies or from another source. To see how identity theft monitoring services stack up, search online for "best identity theft monitoring service" or "best credit monitoring service," and read the reviews.
Credit Reporting Agencies contact information:
TransUnion: 1-800-680-7289; www.transunion.com; Fraud Victim Assistance Division, P.O. Box 6790, Fullerton, CA 92834-6790
Equifax: 1-800-525-6285; www.equifax.com; P.O. Box 740241, Atlanta, GA 30374-0241
Experian: 1-888-EXPERIAN (397-3742); www.experian.com; P.O. Box 9554, Allen, TX 75013
To file an identity theft complaint with the FTC:
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Urban Terror
His current favorite. Urban Terror is a free FPS, Counter Strike looking, with many different game mods. It has very good 3D rendering and graphics, making it very realistic. They kept the Quake3 3D engine, allowing jumping and running matrix-style. Many servers are available, and he plays on survivor or death match-type servers. The injuries are very well handled.
Screenshot from thatlinuxbox.com.
Nexuiz is another FPS with the best looking graphics for a free game, in his opinion. The action never stops, this is a very intensive game. Only death matches or capture the flag type of games. Good for spending energy!
Screenshot from internetactu.net.
Tremulous is a FPS with role play, where you can choose your equipment after you have killed enough enemies and earned enough money. Patience and skills are needed to get the best equipment.
Screenshot from blog.mypapit.net.
A small brick game to kill time when waiting for answers on msn (me: doh..). Colorful and no hassle. The official page seems dead..
Screenshot from Yekcim.
One of the Gnome games. Good for his logic (me: doh..) and deduction. Another way to wait for msn conversations or before going to bed.
Screenshot from jeuxlinux.fr.
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Learners will explore the concept of parallax (the apparent displacement of an object caused by a change in the viewer's position) and then simulate the discovery of Pluto with a Blink Comparator via an online interactive.
Audience: Elementary school, Middle school
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T-Shirts and More Questions
First up, for those of you who have been asking about t-shirts, I've decided to try out a company called Red Bubble and see how that works. SO, you can NOW ORDER T-SHIRTS AND HOODIES BY CLICKING THIS LINK! Yay!
I've uploaded two designs. You can get them as T-shirts, stickers or hoodies. If you order one, send me a quick email at firstname.lastname@example.com and let me know how it is.
I'd like to ask you about motivation to continue zazen practice.
I've done zazen for about 5 years or so almost every day and I feel that it had become kind of easy nowadays. Funny thing is that the easier it had become the more difficult it had become to find reasons to continue my practice. I mean, at first it was kind of cool if I managed to sit like 20 minutes staring at the wall, but now I feel that it's hard to find a meaning to go on. I just wondered if you'd have something smart to say on this subject.
This is one of the questions I get more than any other. How do you get started in Zen practice? How do you keep going?
The questioners usually end up asking for motivation. But I wonder if motivation is what we really need.
The stated purpose of a dharma talk is usually "encouragement." The talk is supposed to provide listeners with a motivation to carry on doing this often difficult and seemingly fruitless practice. When those dharma talks often include -- as mine often do -- phrases like Kodo Sawaki's infamous "Zazen is good for nothing" it often feels like they fail if their purpose. Why should we carry on doing something that's good for nothing?
The only way I can answer this question is to try and figure out why I keep on doing it. I suppose in that I am a good test case, because I have kept up this useless practice for well over twenty years now and have no intention of stopping. Yet I often wonder why I do it, even as I'm sitting there on a rolled up towel facing the wall of some hotel room in the middle of a foreign country, with sirens blaring outside or prayer calls from the local mosque tearing up my eardrums, having woken up early and delaying breakfast so I can get this thing done.
Yet even as I wonder why I'm doing it, I still keep going. Even knowing that it is good for nothing, I keep on sitting. Am I an idiot? Maybe. And maybe that's what it takes.
I used to do zazen because I wanted to have an enlightenment experience. Pure and simple. I didn't start off with this motivation. But pretty soon after I'd started doing zazen I read Philip Kapleau's Three Pillars of Zen with its amazing descriptions of real life enlightenment experiences and I wanted one of those. This proved to be lousy motivation because it kept not happening. And so I'd give up.
It was when I gave up on zazen that I discovered the only form of motivation that's ever really worked. Quite simply, I felt like shit when I stopped doing zazen. The first few times I gave up the practice I didn't really understand why I felt so shitty. Then when I'd get back to it, things would get a little better. It wasn't a vast improvement. But it was better than when I didn't do it. So I got back to the practice.
I've said this more times than I can count. I'm sure it's in most of my books in one form or another. And I know it's been on this blog a few times too. Yet people still keep asking for motivation...
I can say a few things that might help. One is that it gets better. There really are moments of insight and transcendence to be had. You can get through a lot of the garbage that's been holding you down. You might even have one of those so-called "enlightenment experiences."
I don't hold that these things don't happen. They do. And they have some value. Sure. Yet, as I've said, enlightenment is for sissies. It's not the point of practice. It's not the goal.
Ultimately we all have to provide our own motivation. What motivates me might not work for you. Hopefully this will help you find yours.
You mention that you don't focus your mind on anything in particular, you just let your awareness go where it goes, but you do keep making sure that your posture is correct.
It's been my experience that every teacher teaches the posture of zazen slightly differently. Back of the hands resting on the thighs, hands so that the little fingers rest on the stomach just below the belly-button would be one example.
But here's the real question: when zazen "gets up and walks around", as Kobun Chino Otogawa averred it sometimes does, how will you make sure your posture is correct?
This is another one I get asked a lot. One popular variation is: How do you keep your zazen mind when you're not sitting on the cushion? And, again, I can only answer from my own experience.
I used to work at this sort of thing. When I first started sitting I had a job as a part-time mail carrier. So when I walked my routes I'd be paying attention to the sensations of my feel, to keeping my back straight and chest open as I walked, to the color of the sky and the sounds around me. That sort of thing. I read about this in a book, I think. Probably not a Zen book.
Nowadays I don't really do that. At least I don't do it consciously. Maybe I've internalized it and made it habit. I don't know.
At some point, maybe a decade or so into my practice I noticed something kind of weird. Colors had become brighter, sounds sharper, my vision somehow clearer, my senses somehow enhanced. It was like a big shroud made of black gauze wrapping my entire body had been taken off and I could now see and experience things directly. The only other time I'd ever felt anything like that was when I was on LSD.
What made that happen? I don't know. Over ten years of zazen every morning and evening plus loads of multi-day zen retreats certainly had something to do with it. But it wasn't something I drove myself to experience.
Nowadays I don't feel right when I'm slumped over in a chair or on a couch. A few years ago I got rid of the couch in my living room (when I had a living room, ah luxury!) because I couldn't stand sitting on it anymore. I couldn't focus on anything. I replaced the couch with some cushions on the floor.
Right now I'm sitting in a coffee shop (Shaika, on Sherbrooke in Montreal's NDG district) and I'm not resting my back against the chair because when I do it feels too lax and unfocused. When I drive I put the driver's seat almost straight up or else I feel like I'm only half awake.
So how do you keep that zazen mind while you're doing something else? Just like you do when you're doing zazen itself; when you find yourself drifting, get back to the right posture. When you find yourself drifting again, do it again. After a while this becomes a new habit and you don't even really have to think about it much.
In his commentary on the Heart Sutra, Dogen says, "There are four instances of prajna that are going on daily; walking, standing, sitting and lying down." Prajna is intuitive wisdom. So for Dogen all of life was wisdom, it was all zazen. Whether we notice this or not, doesn't matter all that much.
Good? Good.
Now I'm gonna go do something else!
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ADDENDUM (re: Motivation):
The following is from Vince Anilla at Still Point Zen Center in Detroit:
Still Point Dharma Teacher Anatta Brad Wilson is also a black belt in aikido. Years ago, a couple young guys came in to the dojo. They were gung-ho and clearly willing to do just about anything to get black belts of their own as soon as possible.
Anatta said, "If you guys can stay a minute after class, I'll tell you the secret once everyone else has cleared out." They were pretty giddy, and had no problem waiting around afterward.
This is the secret wisdom that he shared after class: "What you do is come in here five days a week whether you feel like it or not. You arrive with a smile on your face and you leave with a smile on your face. Train hard and be cool to the people you train with. If you do that, and if in ten years you still don't have your black belt, I'll give you mine."
(He never saw them again.)
Zen practice is also like this. And so is anything else in life worth doing in the first place.


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Thursday, August 7, 2014
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So watching the NCAA tournament on CBS, TNT and TBS and they keep pimping Bleacher Report who is apparently one of their sponsors. I figure if the worst sports website on the internet can sponsor such a huge event that its time for Mark (Rockhawk) to pony up some cash and get us a .Net Super Bowl commercial.
We got to spit ball some idea's. What you got?
I'm thinking something emotional, loving and sappy. Various .net members hanging out in the Seahawks locker room describing what they love about certain players. Then leaving "Go Hawks!" stickie notes on their lockers.
Or, we could have various members simulate a Seahawks game. Pehawk, as the board midget, would have to play Russell Wilson. Tech worlds could wear his 79 jersey. AKSeahawkfan could return to play the role of Jim Harbaugh, since they're both pretty cranky. The rest of us could be in the stands making meaninless, dumbass comments about the play on the field, you know, playing our usual role.
Come on Mark, get this done.


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Saturday, June 02, 2007
I've got a new banner!
I'm using a new blogger template now, so there have been other small changes to the layout. On the sidebar you'll find post labels now, as well as books I want and books I recommend. The recent comments cover now the whole blog and not just the front page entries, which is useful, as there are comments being added to archived posts, too.
Please let me know if something isn't working properly or should be changed.
Have a lovely weekend, everyone!
UPDATE 11.6.2007: Check out Ximena's post as well :)
29 comments:
- Lydia said...
Once again, the super-talented Ximena has captured the spirit of both blog and blogger! Love the new look. I find it's really helpful to show recent comments from older posts, as my readers also go back into the archives to add new information. Congratulations on your new design.
- 1:28 pm, June 02, 2007
Looks lovely! Congrats!
- 1:52 pm, June 02, 2007
I love it! It's beautiful!
- 2:12 pm, June 02, 2007
- Kalyn said...
I love the new look. She really is talented with the banner designs. I agree, it fits your blog perfectly.
- 2:27 pm, June 02, 2007
- Ilva said...
It looks great Pille, beautiful banner! So now the beauty of the contents walk hand in hand with the beauty of the visual side of your blog!
- 2:52 pm, June 02, 2007
- K & S said...
I love the new look! Congratulations!
- 3:30 pm, June 02, 2007
- Bonnie said...
Definitely love the new banner! Suits you and your blog. Nice job Ximena!
- 4:08 pm, June 02, 2007
- Alanna said...
Love it, love it, LOVE it!! I love the sense of Tallina, also of you, casual, relaxed, connected. You are both inspired - and inspiring!
- 4:33 pm, June 02, 2007
- Zarah Maria said...
This looks awesome Pille! Congrats on the new design!
Can I pick your brain on where you got the recent comments thing? My old one didn't work with the new template, and I haven't been able to locate a new one that actually works. And I miss it so!
- 9:12 pm, June 02, 2007
- katiez said...
Well done! Great new banner!
Maybe after i get my garden in I'll have time to play with my blog...no, then it's the weeding.
Love the new look (liked the old one, too)
- 10:42 pm, June 02, 2007
- sandi @ the whistlestop cafe said...
She is so talented. I have to pop in every few days to she what she has drawn now.
Love your banner~ it is perfect!
- 11:22 pm, June 02, 2007
- Margaret said...
Lovin' it!!!
- 12:11 am, June 03, 2007
- ksklein said...
The header is beautiful!
- 2:10 am, June 03, 2007
- Anne said...
Oh, I love it! What a great look!
- 10:54 pm, June 03, 2007
- Chris said...
I so love the banner!!!!! Fabulous!
- 12:05 am, June 04, 2007
- lobstersquad said...
I´ve been away all weekend, but this is a lovely Monday morning surprise.
I think it looks beautiful, really, but how could it not, with Tallin in the background?
- 8:50 am, June 04, 2007
- Mann said...
armas bänner, eriti meeldib mulle see kohvikann:D
- 10:11 am, June 04, 2007
Nii-nii, tõesti väga lahe. Aga kus on (udus? aimatav?) (teadus(raamatu(kogu)hunnikud või vihje vanale heale Inglismaale või vähemalt Tallinna Ülikoolile? ;)
- 12:03 am, June 05, 2007
Lovely, Pille!... The banner looks too good... and so are the letters"nami nami" on it. Congrats!
- 11:22 am, June 05, 2007
- Gracianne said...
Nice one, really cute.
- 3:11 pm, June 05, 2007
- chili&vanilia said...
Pille, the new look is fantastic, congratulations!!!
- 5:30 pm, June 05, 2007
- Susan said...
It's perfect, Pille!
- 12:47 am, June 06, 2007
- christine said...
It's beautiful!! And it's perfect for you. :) Ximena is one extremely talented woman. A friend is making mine, and I can't wait for it to be done. Even more so now after seeing how pretty yours is.
- 6:22 am, June 06, 2007
- Thredahlia said...
Uus päis on kena ja sobib oivaliselt :P
Tere tulemast uude Bloggerisse :)
- 10:43 am, June 06, 2007
- thepassionatecook said...
What a fantastic make-over! It really suits you and the blog... excellent. i think i'll have to work on a new style as well ;-)
- 1:42 am, June 07, 2007
- neil said...
Great new look, it really fits in well. Great job the pair of you.
- 5:42 am, June 07, 2007
- valentina said...
Fantastic new look. Ximena is a great artist.
- 8:02 am, June 11, 2007
- veron said...
I was pretty sure I left a comment here days ago but then maybe I thought I did. Anyway, I love the new banner, it is simply beautiful and I love the colors! Ximena did a wonderful job!
- 4:05 pm, June 12, 2007
- Pille said...
Thank you, everyone, for your kind comments about my (and Ximena's) new banner!
Zarah Maria - I guess you've seen my email about the recent comments thingy by now.
Kadri - oh, kes seda udu siia joonistama hakkab, blogipäis peab ikka positiivne ja meeldiv olema. Ja mu põhitööks on trükimeedia põhjalik uurimine, nii et ajaleht esindab mu akadeemilist külge ka (lisaks sellele, et see mu elustiili visualiseerib:)
Veron - I saw your comment on Ximena's post about my new banner - that's why you're confused probably:) Thank you for commenting here, too! (And yes, the colours are wonderful - I'm very pleased)
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American Forces Occupy Veracruz, Mexico, 21 April 1914
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Description: This early combat photograph taken by an American sailor shows the first of approximately 2,300 sailors and marines from the South Atlantic Fleet and the 2nd Advanced Base Regiment landing at Veracruz, Mexico in the predawn hours of 21 April 1914. Two other marine regiments eventually arrived to support the attack. The American goal was to take possession of the port and to prevent a shipment of weapons from reaching Mexican dictator Victoriano Huerta. The weapons were due to arrive that morning from Germany. The crisis had begun several weeks previously when the Mexican government had arrested 9 American sailors for entering an off-limit area in Tampico, Tamaulipas. American President Woodrow Wilson, who had earlier helped Huerta seize power, broke with him over the incident and had shifted his support to Huerta's rival Venustiano Carranza. The caption on the photograph indicates that this particular group of Americans was from the troopship USS PRAIRIE (AD-5). The PRAIRIE, originally the Morgan Steamship Line passenger ship SS EL SOL, had been built in 1890 by William Cramp and Sons, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The United States Navy purchased her on 6 April 1898 from the Southern Pacific Company, and commissioned her as the auxiliary cruiser USS PRAIRIE. The Navy later converted her to a training ship and by 1914 she was serving as a troop transport. The initial landings went smoothly but by afternoon of the 21st sharp fighting had broken out and losses mounted on both sides. Supported by heavy fire from the ships of the Atlantic Fleet, however, the Americans quickly silenced the outnumbered and outgunned Mexicans. American losses were 22 killed and 70 wounded out of a total force of 2,300 sailors and marines; the Mexicans were almost totally annihilated. The Mexicans lost between 150 and 170 killed and between 195 and 250 wounded from a force that amounted to only about 200 soldiers. An unknown number of Mexicans civilians spontaneously volunteered to defend the town and also became casualties. The American occupation of Veracruz continued until 23 November 1914, when a coalition of South American countries – Argentina, Brazil, and Chile (the ABC Powers) — negotiated an end to the dispute. After the occupation ended, the Secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, the well-known publisher of the Raleigh News and Observer and a future Ambassador to Mexico, ordered that 56 Congressional Medals of Honor be awarded to Americans who served in the action, the most Congressional Medals of Honor ever to be awarded in a single battle. Ironically, the weapons the Americans had been sent to prevent the Germans from landing, were originally from the Remington Arms Company, an American firm.


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The SSL library does not seem to be the issue. I've checked and had the same ldd ouput with Firefox v. 17. Rather, the problem appears to be the libc version. (See mirabilos' comment at the lwn announcement.)
There goes the last Blogger compatible Browser. It does not appear to be a problem with the update, as I first thought. Downloading a fresh installation did not change anything with the issue.
I'm not sure, whether downloading the older Version 17 is a proper fix, either. Does Firefox provide 17.x security updates? I fear they might not.
Hence for now, sadly, it seems Opera is now the only modern browser still compatible with my old system... Don't get me wrong, I really like Opera, it's usually the fastest browser in my experience. But it's simply not as compatible as Firefox with some websites, and not properly supported by most Google services (Blogger, Mail, ...). I'm using the plain HTML interface with Google Mail when I'm in Opera. It's not pretty, but surprisingly fast.
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Parents dropping children off at school Friday morning in Kent and Sussex counties saw Delaware State Police troopers parked outside of the schools in an effort to allay fears that grew out of unfounded rumors that something bad would happen at school.
Delaware State Police increased its patrols of local schools in Kent and Sussex counties Friday morning in response to rumors swirling on social media that something bad was going to happen on the one-week anniversary of the Sandy Hook (Conn.) Elementary School massacre and the doomsday prediction by the Mayan calendar.
"Troopers on patrol or criminal detectives on duty parked in the parking lots of schools as school buses pulled up or as parents dropped their children off," Delaware State Police Master Cpl. Gary Fournier said. "We did that of our own volition, and there were no overtime costs associated with the move.
"It put people at ease to see troopers on the premises," he said. "We got a lot of well wishes from parents."
Fournier added that the rumors that had circulated on Facebook and Twitter were totally unfounded and baseless.
State Police's move followed the Dover Police Department's deployment of officers to each of the schools in the Capital School District on Monday in order to allay any local fears that developed as a result of the Connecticut tragedy. Dover Police Chief James Hosfelt said the deployments would continue indefinitely.
Local school district officials said things went rather smoothly on Friday.
Caesar Rodney School District Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald thanked parents and the community for sending their children to school today, despite the rumors that have been circulating this week.
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BAYFIELD Theres a learning curve when youre assembling paint stir sticks into crosses.
First, you learn that glue doesnt keep them together very well. If youre persistent, you keep trying. Next, you learn that heavy-duty staples work better.
And then, if you didnt already figure this one out before you started, you learn how much patience it takes to assemble 19,000 of them.
What gets you through is an impassioned empathy with the cause. Several members of the First Baptist Church of Bayfield have this empathy and are overwhelmed by the number, if not the task. Nineteen thousand is how many children younger than 5 who die in the world each day from hunger and other effects of poverty, according to UNICEF.
Were just talking about stapling paint sticks, says Gordy Herrick, who spearheads the churchs effort.
The plan is to find a highly visible hillside in the spring, when the soil is soft, and plant the 19,000 foot-high crosses into the ground. A large banner will explain the purpose and the problem and make suggestions on possible courses of action the average person can take.
Its a recent Saturday evening, and theyve gathered at the church to assemble crosses. Four people are hunched over portable tables, stapling and bundling. Two women are sitting along the north wall, cleaning off some of the 1,900 crosses used last fall. Other helpers are on their way.
When you hear that number (19,000) ... overwhelming is the perfect word, says Joe Reimers, the churchs youth minister.
The goal is to overwhelm others not to make them feel helpless, but to drive home that sense of urgency we think this problem demands, Reimers says.
The Bayfield High School and Colorado State University graduate spent 10 weeks in the summer of 2011 in the Nairobi, Kenya, area. He was among a group of six who fixed up homes and orphanages and visited children who dont get much support or attention.
Among the places he went was Mathare, where 500,000 people live in one of the worlds most poverty-stricken collection of slums. Illustrating the conditions there, the river that runs through the valley is black. After that trip, he says, its easier to put faces to the problem of children and poverty.
These are real people, he says. If I were born there, that would be me.
More recently, Reimers was leading a series for the churchs youth group called Made to Make a Difference. The theme was how the youngsters could affect positive change. It was about that time that Herrick came up with the idea of constructing the crosses and mentioned it to Reimers.
We looked at it as divine timing, Reimers says.
Debbi Renfro, who served as interim youth minister before Reimers arrived, and Melissa Pistor, a 10th-grader and youth-group member, are scraping dirt off the crosses displayed previously at Fort Lewis College and on the hillside just below the church.
Each cross is treated with respect. It represents a child who has died today because of poverty. Each of the sticks is prayed over individually.
Its a powerful experience, Pistor says.
Renfro says she takes bundles home, and her prayers vary.
This one, Im praying for clean water, she says. However God impresses on me to pray.
Sometimes, Pistor says, she prays for parents or siblings of the dead child, too. Renfro, noting the corruption in some countries, prays for governments to make sure food gets to its target.
Piles of new crosses are steadily forming in the area where Jerry and Lin Harris, who live near Chimney Rock, are working. It takes 1½ sticks one-half for the cross section so a box of 250 paint sticks makes about 166 crosses. A box costs $32, but for every one they buy, Lewis Mercantile chips in one for free.
Herrick estimates more than 2,500 are finished, leaving about 16,500 to go. But it should be pointed out that two decades ago even more kids were dying; in 1990, the group would have had to make 33,000 crosses.
The statistics, taken from UNICEFs website, are sobering:
Breaking it down even further, 13 kids younger than 5 die each minute.
Five countries account for half of the 19,000 daily deaths: India (24 percent), Nigeria (11 percent), the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan and China.
Two-thirds of the deaths are from infectious diseases. More than one-third of the deaths are attributable to malnutrition.
Herrick emphasizes that their project is to take those statistics and give them a visual presence. In other words, seeing the 19,000 crosses is much more striking than just reading the number.
A longtime teacher in Ignacio and at Fort Lewis College, Herrick is a history buff of sorts. He posits this challenging question:
If you were around Nazi Germany, what would you have done about the Holocaust? If you were around in the 1850s, what would you have done about slavery?
Would I have had the courage to step up and say Ill be part of the underground railroad (which illegally transported slaves to freedom), even though it might cost my family?
At the rate of 19,000 a day, thats 7 million dead children every year.
This is whats happening in our time frame, Herrick says. This is the catastrophe thats going on. What are we going to do?
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Georgetown is expected to experience minor flooding this morning as heavy rain and wind from Hurricane Sandy pound the region.
Georgetown is expected to experience minor flooding this morning as heavy rain and wind from Hurricane Sandy pound the region.
Georgetown Public Works Director Bill Bradley said town crews are currently checking catch basins and removing blockages, but roadside ditches are already full of rainwater.
"I'm afraid flooding is inevitable," he said. "It's going to come."
Bradley said the areas of town most likely to experience flooding first include Edward and Franklin streets, Adams and South Front streets and Race Street to Kimmey Street.
No power outages had been reported in the Georgetown area as of 8:30 a.m.
Hurricane Sandy strengthened overnight and is now expected to produce winds of up to 85 miles an hour, despite being about 250 miles offshore.
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Back in home school days—maybe ninth grade—my sister and I joined a handful of other homeschooled kids from our church to meet every Tuesday and Thursday for real lessons. By real lessons, I mean we had to report to teachers, listen to actual lectures, and do work as opposed to pretend we were watching biology videos at home when really we were watching Saved by the Bell (for the record, AC Slater still has my heart).
On these communal home school days, we drove half an hour to our church, an old brick building in Flint, Michigan that struggled to hang on to its historic charm when everything around it was falling apart. Wrapped high around the sanctuary of this church was a U-shaped balcony housing a number of modest offices. The floors creaked, the carpet was worn, and the walls were cold and paint-chipped, but there was character, especially after the rooms were transformed to home school classrooms. Chalkboards, desks and a few colored posters greeted us in these rooms on Tuesdays and Thursdays, along with teachers—church members who volunteered their time to instruct subjects in which they were experienced. Several of them were licensed teachers who traded public school jobs to stay at home with their kids and offer their help with homeschooled students in our church. It worked out perfectly.
Sue was our algebra teacher—or Sister Sue as we called her because in our church everyone was a Sister or a Brother, a Deacon or a Pastor, and you respectfully referred to them as such. Home school outings sounded a lot like the hallways in Sister Act—kids running around, shouting "Sister Mary! Sister Theresa! Sister Sue!" Except no habits or cool nuns with pasts as Reno lounge singers. Sister Sue was a math whiz, an algebra genius, and teaching higher math classes came easy for her. On the first day of algebra class, we (the three kids who made up Algebra I) received our text books (A Beka for curious homeschoolers) and immediately began flipping through them, just asking to be intimidated. And we were. The middle of the book revealed quadratic function graphs, square roots, equations with too many parentheses to count—a cryptic map to the future of our class, and we were certain we'd never decipher it.
"We're never going to be able to do this," my friend complained, "this is, like, way too hard."
"What page are you looking at?" Sister Sue asked.
"Page 181," my friend answered. We each flipped through our books until everyone was on page 181. She was right, it was bad—a hot mess of x's and y's and detailed graphs that made no sense. While we moaned and protested, Sister Sue smiled and walked to the chalkboard.
"So you think that looks really hard, huh?" she asked as she picked up a piece of chalk and wrote in a small corner at the top of the board the number 181 and circled it. "We'll see about that."
We eventually forgot about page 181, the tiny chalked circle at the top of the board lost among weekly lessons. Gradually and—for the most part—painlessly, we learned to solve square roots, function graphs and equations with too many parentheses to count. And then one day, in the middle of class, Sister Sue announced, "I'd like you to look down and see what page we're on."
Behold, page 181.
We were shocked. It looked completely different now that we were there. We laughed in disbelief and chided our former selves for doubting our capabilities. Function graphs? Child's play. Square roots? Cakewalk. Here we were, on page 181, and we hadn't even realized how high we had climbed.
Sister Sue erased the number on the top corner of the board that day. And strangely, it was a little disappointing not to have a scary goal anymore.
I've remembered this story through many moments of intimidation and doubt and have repeated the words "page 181" to myself a number of times now, its significance intensified with events in my life far more important than algebra lessons. The message remains though—I'm equipped with 181 pages of confidence and experience, enough to know I've proved myself wrong. Instead of the "I'll never…" mindset, I will continue to face goals—far-off ones, challenging ones—by circling an objective on a corner of a chalkboard, showing up for class every day, turning the pages, and knowing with certainty that I will get there eventually.
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For all the Page 181s we face: I'll lose the weight, I'll get out of debt, I'll stop yelling at my kids so much, I'll stop caring what people think, I'll restore order to my home, I'll save the money, I'll learn to forgive, I'll stop being so critical, I'll repair that relationship…write it down, circle it, and start on page 1. Allow for sick days and extra time on some lessons. You'll get there.
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On Dec. 12, the Center Township board of supervisors voted to appeal the voters' decision that the board go back to three supervisors from the current five. The same board voted to raise the property tax for 2012 to cover expenses.
Now our money is being spent to, in essence, sue ourselves.
Yes, it is the supervisors' constitutional right to challenge the voters' Election Day decision; I am sure they will state that numerous times in the weeks ahead. However, they should use their own money for the appeal, not our tax money. What about the rights of the tax-burdened residents?
I refused to sign the petition to go to a three-person board. However, after the actions of this board, I will be taking a stand to remind everyone which supervisors voted to spend taxpayer money to sue ourselves.
This past year has been really upsetting to me. I have been a proud resident of the township for more than 40 years. However, during this year, the supervisors chose to drag us through the mud in letters to the editor, news articles and radio interviews.
That is not what I entrusted them to do when I voted.
I want to make it clear that I never have met Beverly Schenck, a frequent critic of the supervisors. And, I am tired of people referring to anyone who disagrees with the supervisors her "cronies."
Center Township residents have brains. We are capable of understanding what is going on.
The supervisors have commented on how much Schenck has cost the township by way of her legal challenges to township decisions. However, it is the supervisors who have cost township residents plenty by fighting her requests.
So now I am challenging the supervisors to publicize what it will be costing us residents to sue ourselves. Maybe Schenck and other township residents should sue this board for the decision to spend township money to challenge the election decision.
I am hoping township voters will not re-elect any of the supervisors who have voted to challenge the Nov. 6 election result.
I am asking Center residents who are unhappy with this example of frivolous spending by the supervisors to talk with friends, family members, neighbors and others about this current situation, and about the supervisors who voted to pursue the appeal. They are Ronald Flatt, Edward Latuska and Kenneth Frenchak.


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