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When U.S. President Barack Obama told a packed Jerusalem Convention Center on Thursday evening that "As a politician, I can promise…political leaders will never take risks unless people push them to take some risks," it became clear for all to see that the president had not come primarily to "reset" ties with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as some pundits had claimed, but rather to connect with the Israeli people. By ensuring the Israeli public that America would always have Israel's back on issues of shared security such as Iranian prevention, while also pushing for peace with the Palestinians, the early assessment is that President Obama used his bully pulpit abroad effectively. In so doing, he won the trust of a skeptical Israeli public necessary for the United States to advance its foreign policy goals in the Middle East.
President Obama embarked on this "reset" by "convinc[ing] most Israelis that he has a real feel for their national narrative," argued Ehud Ya'ari, a senior Israeli journalist and political commentator for Israel's Channel 2 news. In contrast to his speech to Egyptian youths in 2009 (in which some argued the president legitimized Israel's existence only through the prism of the Holocaust), the president recognized Judaism's 3,000 years historical roots in the land of Israel through both his speeches and through his deeply symbolic visits to the tomb of Zionist pioneer Theodor Herzl and to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Equally critically, President Obama reaffirmed in his Thursday speech – in his own words and directly to the Israeli people – his commitment to ensuring Israel's security, speaking of the "unbreakable" nature of the U.S.-Israel relationship and promising his audience that "America will do what we must to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran."
The results of the president's charm offensive, experts say, have been superlative. "The president captured the hearts of the Israeli people," said Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, head of the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and former head of the Israeli Defense Force's Military Intelligence Directorate. "He has become a new Clinton," added Ya'ari, evoking the memory of a president who deftly managed to win over the hearts and minds of the vast majority of the Israeli population during his time in the White House. "[Obama] has indeed turned the page in the way Israelis perceive him."
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As the president's statements on Iranian prevention and the necessity of renewed peace talks made clear, his connection with the Israeli public was aimed at bringing them closer to this administration's position on issues of mutual interest to both the United States and Israel. This tactic of going over Israeli leadership's head to win over popular sentiment is strikingly reminiscent of the appeals the president has made to American domestic audiences to pressure their Congressmen on issues such as the ongoing budget battles. In both cases, the goal has been to convince decision-makers that there will be a political cost for picking a battle with the president.
"When [Netanyahu] had conflict with [President] Clinton" during the Israeli leader's first term in the mid-1990s, "he paid a high political price because Clinton was beloved in Israel," says Natan Sachs, a research fellow at the Brookings Institution's Saban Center for Middle East Policy. Similarly, "the more Israelis trust [this] president, the less likely they are to support a rash Israeli decision on the military option [vis-à-vis Iran]."
While Sachs also cautions that the effects of public diplomacy on U.S.-Israeli shared security objectives are "real but limited," the president's trip also provided an opportune moment for Netanyahu to make gestures towards Turkey – and perhaps even the Palestinians – that the Israeli leader might have otherwise viewed as politically difficult. Indeed, Obama's visit offered Netanyahu the political cover to apologize to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the Mavi Marmara incident, starting a reconciliation process that has been an American objective since 2010. With respect to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Ya'ari said, "Bibi will now feel more secure about public support for a new attempt to opt for a deal – maybe interim – with the Palestinians."
At this critical juncture in the U.S.-Israel relationship, the Israeli people finally see President Obama as an ally who holds their best interests at heart. As the president returned to Washington on Saturday evening, he found himself significantly empowered to achieve American objectives in the Middle East – at long last, with the Israeli people at his side.
CNN = FRAUD, DECEPTION, AND LIES. They are the laughing stock of 'news' throughout the western world. They have lost all their credibility ....... it's over for them. They are just wasting their stockholders funds talking poop.
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The anti-American / Make pretend Christian group otherwise known as the "Tea Party" Is running out of lies.
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Obama is great at making speeches, but their is no substance or follow up to what he says. For instance, he made all of his wonderful speeches that won him a nobel, but the policies remained unchanged. He likes to travel across the United States giving speeches on how rich the GOP are, and how they will not compromise, but he has done nothing to bring the two parties together. He is a supposed to be a leader, but Congress has never been more divided. Obama was reelected stating that we do not need to make changes to Medicare, when he knows this is false. He was reelected stating that the rich should pay more, even though the top 10% already pay 76% of all income taxes. He is a populist presdient who just knows what people want to hear, whether it is or is not true. Talk means nothing.
He got a standing ovation when he addressed the room full of gradeschoolers, but his reception by the adults was less than exciting.
I think more people have to realize that the Palestinian situation is for all intents and purposes the front line in the war against extremism in the Muslim world. Peace is very important globally on this front, although as some who live there may disagree, especially those in power on the Israeli or supposedly smart side. In order for the extremist to fought in all the regions of the Muslim world first the situation in Israel and Palestine will have to be set right. Going back to the 1967 peace accord boundaries. Once this is accomplished then the fight to root out extremist can go out full bore. There are millions and millions who would rather die then agree, that all religions can gather at one table with respect for each others believes. This is not a small feat, for there is a war going on right now on this earth and those who radicals there believers will not stop regardless of the lose of life. There those of us who live in free democratic societies, have not fully appreciated that it is war. It would be good if all the moderate Muslims would police themselves and deal with it, as there are many more moderate Muslims, close to 750 million. As they are not able to cage the tiger, it is left to the rest of the world to bear the cost.
Sometimes war is necessary to obtain peace.
Lest we forget.
Absolute NONSENSE. No poll before or after Obama's visit show that Israelis trust Obama at all. More propaganda. What happened to CNN?
He went to an elementary school and got lots of applause from the kids there, not so much from the adults that he jerked the rug out from under.
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Three Young Activists & Their Causes--by Christine St. Pierre, Miles Becker, syndicated from Yes Magazine, Jul 04, 2014
These three young activists found creative ways to tackle issues from climate change to voting rights.
1. Olivia Bouler: Painting to rescue birds and restore habitat
Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Olivia Bouler asked the National Audubon Society how her skill as an artist and her love of birds could be put to use. The fifth grader from Islip, N.Y., created a web page offering her vibrantly colored and lively paintings in exchange for donations.
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When 12-year-old Madison Kimrey isn't juggling schoolwork, voice lessons, and drama rehearsals, she's speaking out to protect voting rights for young people. Recently, her home state of North Carolina passed a restrictive voter ID law that sparked lawsuits from the NAACP and the ACLU, who believe it will dissuade some demographics, including young adults, from voting.
Kimrey sought a meeting with Governor Pat McCrory to discuss her opposition to the law's elimination of voter pre-registration for teenagers. McCrory ignored her request, calling her a "prop for liberal groups." Bubbly and quick-witted Kimrey, who writes all her own speeches, replied that Governor McCrory's response "isn't the kind of leadership that our state deserves."
Kimrey is in favor of voter pre-registration for teens because it makes it more likely that young people will cast their first ballot at age 18. She sees her championship of voting rights for teenagers as the latest manifestation of a long tradition: "I am a part of the new generation of suffragettes," she says. Her work with MoveOn.org's campaign for a federal voter pre-registration program for teenagers has been recognized with the Youth Ambassador award from Davidson Young Scholars.
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Thirteen-year-old Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is the youth director of Earth Guardians, a Colorado group that involves young people in fighting climate change. He's well qualified for the role, having been an environmental activist since the age of six. Martinez's Aztec first name, pronounced "Shoe-Tez-Caht," reflects the indigenous ancestry and belief system he sees as the source of his environmentalism. "We were all indigenous at one point," says Martinez, but "we have forgotten that the Earth gives us all that we need."
Saddened by the environmental damage caused by hydraulic fracking in his home state of Colorado, Martinez is a plaintiff in lawsuits that seek to hold the state and federal governments accountable for protecting the Earth's atmosphere. "We're asking for a six percent carbon reduction annually," Martinez explained of the federal lawsuit backed by NASA scientist James Hansen, "which could get us back down to 350 parts per million."
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Dave Lee, a junior majoring in Visual Communication Arts at Liberty University, recently won first place in an international computer game design competition held by Massive Entertainment, a leading producer of games and interactive entertainment software.
The Malmo, Sweden, company, in conjunction with sponsor nVidia, announced an international 3D map design competition in April. The goal was to use Massive Entertainment's design tools and software kit to create a multiplayer map for its World in Conflict game. Lee won the grand prize of $1,000 and two nVidia 9800 GTX graphics cards.
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THOUSAND OAKS, California (Reuters) - With his game markedly better than this time a year ago, tournament host Tiger Woods was happy enough after grinding out a two-under-par 70 in Thursday's opening round of the World Challenge.
Though Woods did not strike the ball as well as he did in Wednesday's pro-am competition, he sank several par putts from around 10 feet to remain in contention and ended an overcast day at Sherwood Country Club just three strokes off the lead.
The American world number three has triumphed five times in the elite invitational event and, at a hilly venue he knows better than anyone else in the 18-player field, he has a good opportunity to claim his fourth victory this year.
"I didn't hit it very good today, so it was nice to scrape out a good score," Woods told reporters after mixing three birdies with a lone bogey and a total of 29 putts to finish three behind compatriot Nick Watney.
"I made a few good par putts to keep the round going. I kept myself in the tournament. Could have easily shot myself out of the tournament but I kept myself in it."
Playing his first tournament since he tied for fourth at the PGA Tour-sanctioned CIMB Classic in Malaysia last month, Woods said he was not at all rusty with his game.
"I just felt a little off," the 36-year-old said. "Even warming up I didn't quite feel it was where I needed to have it. I had it last night when I was hitting golf balls, and that was nice.
"Unfortunately I just didn't have it like I did last night. I'll do some work here and hopefully shore it up for tomorrow."
Since ending a frustrating two-year title drought with a one-shot victory at the World Challenge 12 months ago, Woods has triumphed three times on the PGA Tour and is excited about his prospects for 2013.
He has been working with coach Sean Foley on the fourth swing change of his professional career but, with all the fundamentals now bedded in, he is spending most of his time in practice just fine tuning.
"I've already made the big changes," said Woods who was World Challenge champion in 2001, 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2011. "They're already in. It's the little tweaks here and there.
"But the thing I'm excited about is my short game is back. I'm chipping and putting well again, and that's something that's turned around since my ball striking was better.
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For the moment, though, Woods has just three more rounds to go before wrapping up his 2012 campaign ere at Sherwood.
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Riot on the Rail, Charlotte, NC
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The joke is what do criminals call light rail passengers. Answer, a captive audience.
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Notre Dame-Oklahoma Preview Capsule
No. 5 Notre Dame (7-0) at No. 8 Oklahoma (5-1), 8 p.m. (ABC)
Line: Oklahoma by 10
Series Record: Notre Dame leads 8-1
Notre Dame will attempt to get to 8-0 for the first time in 10 years and stay right in the thick of the national championship dialogue. The Sooners will try to stay on the fringes of the race and firm up their status as one of the top one-loss teams in the country.
Notre Dame LB Manti Te'o vs. Oklahoma FB Trey Millard. One of the tasks for perhaps the Sooners' most versatile player will be tracking down the Fighting Irish's Heisman Trophy candidate to block him on running plays, while Te'o could have to chase him around in the passing game.
Notre Dame: RBs Theo Riddick and Cierre Wood. Riddick had a career-high 143 yards rushing and Wood contributed 114 as the Irish ran for 270 yards last week against BYU. Notre Dame has rushed for 796 yards in its last three games.
Oklahoma: DT Stacy McGee. A part-time starter a year ago, McGee was reinstated this week after being suspended for the first six games. He'll help the Sooners' front line try to slow Riddick and Wood.
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Bloomberg's D.C. footprint explodes
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has expanded his Washington footprint dramatically over the past two years, using his enormous clout and seasoned lobbying hands to push a nexus of issues that the White House and Congress are just beginning to address.
From guns to gay marriage to immigration to infrastructure — and most recently, in the battle for billions of federal dollars in Hurricane Sandy relief — Bloomberg's presence in Washington has grown exponentially since 2011. And he has just retained three Republican lobbyists to press Congress on new gun control measures, POLITICO has learned, a big move considering GOP fear of the powerful National Rifle Association.
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( Also on POLITICO: Jim Messina to Mayor Bloomberg's office to talk guns)
Armed with his powerful political perch and a massive personal fortune, Bloomberg has employed a repertoire of tactics — his own voice, the city's lobbying office and lobbying shops hired by coalition groups he has helped create — to move the needle on his issues.
No one has ever tried what Bloomberg is doing now — but then again, there's never been anyone like Bloomberg in elected office.
"It's certainly not being bored, because I would argue we are doing more things in the city than we were before," Bloomberg said in a lengthy POLITICO interview in his bullpen-style office at New York City Hall last week. Bloomberg's work with his personal philanthropic foundation has helped keep him focused on his policy objectives, he said, but so has seeing results.
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After toying with a presidential run in 2008, Bloomberg has instead turned his attention over the past three years to a range of national projects. Taking on gun violence was the first. "Vindicated," Bloomberg said, is the wrong word to describe how he feels now that the White House has embraced the cause; Bloomberg simply said he's glad President Barack Obama has seen the light.
Bloomberg and a web of groups with his imprint — including some he has donated to personally — have hired a veritable army of well-connected lobbyists. Sitting with POLITICO, Bloomberg described lobbying as helpful but not the be all and end all to achieving change in Washington.
"It's a grass-roots push that got Obama to do something" on guns, Bloomberg said. "Or try the grass-roots push on gay marriage. It got some reporter to ask Joe Biden the right question at the right time when he was loquacious or whatever the word is."
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On gun control, the issue for which he has gained national attention, Bloomberg said: "You have to go and convince the average congressperson or senator that it is in their personal, reelection interest to not side with the NRA but to side with the other side." The single most important gun control measure that's needed, he said, is legislation requiring background checks.
Still, Bloomberg hasn't left it all to the grass-roots.
His most high-profile endeavor — Mayors Against Illegal Guns — and the super PAC he created last year are likely to spend tens of millions of dollars over the next year. And MAIG is bringing on Republican lobbyists to help woo GOP lawmakers skittish about being at odds with the NRA.
They include Carl Thorsen of Thorsen French Advocacy, a former counsel to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas); Jamie Brown Hantman, president of the JBH Group and a former special assistant for legislative affairs to President George W. Bush; and Robert H. Marsh, of the OB-C Group, who also worked for Bush.
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I especially like using find for modified/accessed/created files, which mike covered earlier in that series. He didn't mention my favorite part though which is piping to arguments to get more information as follows:
find . -mtime -1 | xargs ls -l -a
Can you tell I have a habit of frequently forgetting what I'm working on and what I saved *that* file as?


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Live NBA Scoreboard
I wanted to share my project with anyone who was interested. I am very bad at documenting things, however I am willing to help people with questions if they contact me, or better leave them in the comments so others can view them. Before explaining anything, you can see a quick youtube video demo below. The scores in the demo is from April 13, 2011.
Below is a quick Summary of how stuff works and what I did. For more detailed information download the source files and documentation below.
Very Quick Summary:
Using automator, built into OSX I have it return the mobile NBA website's contents (this is key because the full NBA website uses flash to display scores). Next I have automator filter the paragraphs keeping only lines with the @ sign, this works very well and only keeps the scores. The next problem is the scores vary significantly, location of data and their formatting are different each time. I wrote a parser in Java to format the data to a consistent format, finally the data is transferred out the serial port using RXTX (a java based serial communicator) to an Xbee module where it is transferred to the scoreboard. The scoreboard is running off a atmega 32 where the data is in a known state is displayed to the board. The board does not care about the information so porting a custom scoreboard or any other sport would all be computer ended and not require a firmware update. For detailed information about the hardware and how it was all put together see the PDF below. Also feel free to contact me with any questions if you are curious about a particular part that you are trying to develop.
Final Note: At peak power (every LED on with wireless transfering peaks out at 36W (2A @ 18V) with a cheap laptop power supply.
I did find a java html parser online that I was thinking about porting to until I got super busy so I could use it with Windows/Linux.
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Read the original story here in The Oregonian.
When Ailene Farkac appeared in a Eugene criminal court in 2007 for dealing drugs, she figured she'd get probation and beat it home in time to pick up her six-year-old son from school.
She figured wrong.
The judge sentenced Farkac to three years in prison, a comeuppance for a drug-addicted mom who had already missed pieces of her kids' lives by slinging dope.
She would rise in triumph at Portland State University's graduation this spring, with high honors, a couple of degrees, and a good chance of admission to a doctoral program in sociology or public policy.
Her ascent spotlights the good that can be accomplished behind bars. She's focused on research that will help prisoners re-enter society. But to comprehend the pain and determination that pushed Farkac to succeed, you have to reach into the darkest corners of her journey.
And still you may wonder how the 45-year-old mother of three pulled it off.
Farkac started using drugs at 13, the year after her parents – devout Orthodox Jews in Long Island, N.Y. – did the unthinkable. In a faith built around marriage and family, they split up.
"I was the only kid in my yeshiva whose parents were divorced," she says.
By her freshman year at Plainview High School, she was dealing pot. She graduated in 1986 with poor grades. But she was smart, gabby and persistent. She took a few community college classes, then talked her way into the State University of New York at New Paltz.
But she dropped out to follow the Grateful Dead's concert tours, following the band's well-worn trail to Eugene. There, in the cradle of Oregon's counterculture, she would take a job making natural fruit juice, meet the man she would marry, and serve as bookkeeper in a bong shop. Farkac gave birth to two daughters – Mollie and Anna – in the early 1990s.
She and her husband, David Farkac, ran a successful tie-dye business called Living to Dye. But when they moved to the tiny Willamette Valley hamlet of Pedee, she felt the walls closing in.
A junkie friend from New York came to visit in 1995, busting her out of Pedee and teaching her how to score heroin on the streets of Eugene. Farkac put her swagger and business skills to use, serving as middleman between heroin suppliers and street dealers.
She worked the drug trade like a hungry entrepreneur, teaching Hebrew numbers to a couple of fellow junkies so they could talk in code as they negotiated the price of heroin with Spanish speaking suppliers. She also broke the dealer's cardinal rule.
"I got myself addicted," she says. "I can't deny I was breaking the law. But I was breaking it for drugs."
In 1999, she wrote herself a check for $200 from the bong shop where she worked. Feeling guilty, she confessed. Eugene police popped her for misdemeanor forgery, and she got 19 days on a road crew.
She fell into familiar patterns of addiction. She cleaned up, relapsed and cleaned up again and again, tethered to the junkie's train of misery. Evictions. Restraining orders. Divorce. Creditors. Bankruptcy.
Farkac's son, Dylan, was born in 2001. She moved to New York seeking a fresh start, and her boy soon came to live with her. Mollie and Anna, then in grade school, stayed with their dad in Oregon.
Farkac took a job with a Wall Street nonprofit that helped the poor. But she returned to drugs, taking delivery of heroin in the lobby and shooting up in the bathroom.
A dope dealer in Eugene lured her back to Oregon in January 2006, telling her his business was crumbling without her. She sold up to six ounces of heroin a day at $1,200 an ounce, spoiling her kids with the proceeds. She took them on trips, sprung for dinners and bought them clothes, jewelry, cell phones and electronics.
"It was in lieu of spending time with them," she says.
Her kids knew she was using drugs, but had no clue she was dealing. In April 2006, police busted through the door of her apartment on Eugene's High Street armed with a search warrant. Mercifully, the kids weren't with her. She was indicted the following year, and a judge sentenced her to three years on probation.
"It was a gift," she recalls.
On the way to visit her probation officer for the first time, she stopped to see her dope dealer.
A team of Eugene police detectives arrested her in November 2006 for commercial delivery of heroin and possession of cocaine. She bailed out again. But the following February, a judge sentenced her to three years in prison.
Farkac, confident she would get probation, had made no preparations to tell her kids. Anna was in a middle school history class when her big sister Mollie texted her with the news. The kids would next see their mom in the visiting room of the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville.
Coffee Creek officials kept Farkac five months before sending her to a six-month boot camp in Coos County to help her win early release. But she loathed the program. She says the officers tried to crush her spirit and made rude comments about her Jewish faith.
She washed out after five months, returning to Coffee Creek.
Mollie was devastated. She was a high school sophomore in Dallas and her mom's absence was punishing. Farkac missed her choir and band performances, her swim meets, her junior prom.
"I didn't have a mom," she recalls.
Mollie and Anna joined the Girl Scouts Beyond Bars program to spend weekend visits with their mom. They ate prison food for lunch, making crafts and small talk. While Mollie remained hurt and aloof, Anna quickly forgave her mom.
"I saw her more in prison than I had in the last two years," Anna recalls. "I loved it."
Dylan, in grade school, found his world turned upside down. His dad was using drugs and he had to navigate metal detectors every couple of weeks just to sort things out with his mom.
"She was one of the few people I could talk to," he says.
At Coffee Creek, Farkac tutored several young women trying to earn GEDs, a reminder that she still had much to teach her own kids. But she had to repair the tattered bonds between them.
Farkac got out of prison the week before Thanksgiving 2008 and stowed a cardboard box of clothes and photos in a Eugene halfway house. She took a job at Wendy's, her weekly pay less than what she could earn in a few hours selling heroin.
When Dylan's father went to jail, he moved in with his mom.
Farkac enrolled at Lane Community College, where Anna later joined her.
Her mom put her head in the books and didn't look up. She eventually earned straight As, which caught the eye of Lane's honors program. She enrolled at Portland State, which admitted her to its honors program.
Farkac drilled deep into her studies, making PSU's president's list. In September 2013, she was accepted into the prestigious Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program, which helps talented and ambitious undergrads pursue deep academic research and gun for doctorates.
Farkac's children were shocked by their mom's changes. She became a driven researcher, burning up days and nights in PSU's library to prove herself to her kids, and to herself.
"I feel like she just grew up," Anna says.
On June 15, Farkac crossed the stage at PSU wearing a gold summa cum laude cord. She earned a 3.96 grade point average, a pair of degrees – Social Science and Black Studies – and was initiated into the Phi Kappa Phi Honors Society. Her family applauded wildly.
"It was so exciting," Anna says. "I cried."
Farkac hopes to apply for doctoral programs this fall. She's now finishing her McNair research project, an examination of the federal Second Chance Act, signed into law in 2008 to help prisoners return to society and stay there.
It's a subject Farkac knows, from inside and out.
-- Bryan Denson


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Letter to the Editor: Doesn't Caltrans have anything better to do?
Maybe if Caltrans can't find anything more truly constructive for its road crews to do to keep busy during snow lulls than every single evening kicking up and dumping a swirling thick cloud of dirt and dust on everyone and everything in downtown, it should just pay its crews to do absolutely nothing.
Let 'em rest up for when their services are of a real value. It would do far more good, certainly for the public health … and aesthetics, if not commerce.
This is what I thought at 8 p.m. on a Friday night, during peak pedestrian traffic among the various lodgings, restaurants, bars and stores as a street sweeper crawled through downtown arrogantly and offensively, dumping a choking cloud of filth on everyone and every thing.
Wouldn't you just love to hear the load of green wash that they're likely using as part of the rationale to justify something so pointless, wrong and filthy?
Mark Adams
Tahoe City


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