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For better and for worse, "The Sessions" has "crowd-pleaser" written all over it.
The dramedy, which won the audience award and a special jury prize for ensemble acting at Sundance this year, engineers a small story for mass consumption. It's falafel at a chain restaurant: Good enough, but missing some flavor.
The terrific John Hawkes ("Martha Marcy May Marlene," "Winter's Bone") stars as real-life poet/journalist Mark O'Brien, who's spent the majority of his life in an iron lung after contracting polio at age 6. Thirty-eight and still a virgin, Mark's ready to change that. So with the blessing of a priest (William H. Macy) who becomes a friend, Mark hires Cheryl (Helen Hunt), a sexual surrogate who, in no more than six sessions, will guide this man who has never masturbated and hasn't seen his penis in 30 years, toward not just sexual comfort but experience and competency. What's the difference between Cheryl and a prostitute? You don't have to pay up front, which Mark learns after botching their first meeting by leading with, "Your money's on the desk over there."
Compared to "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," another true story whose main character could barely move but refused to let that stand in his way, "The Sessions" falls short in seeing the world through Mark's eyes. Writer-director Ben Lewin instead courts a tone that falls closer to amusingly bittersweet than the wide, from anguish-to-affirmation spectrum of "Diving Bell." When Mark's attendant, Vera (Moon Bloodgood), makes a comment about simultaneous orgasms, you see the punchline from a mile away as a hotel clerk (Ming Lo) says, "What's that?" And it's unclear how Cheryl's husband (Adam Arkin), who grows jealous when Mark expresses feelings for her, has made it this far with his wife and her profession.
Every actor's strong, but Hawkes in particular uses each moment to articulate, with little movement, the mix of resilience and shame and ultimately freedom that drives his life as an author who types using a stick in his mouth—and a man longing to participate in opportunities most people take for granted.
"Scratch with your mind," Mark tells himself when he gets a tickle on his nose that his body won't allow him to scratch. In a different way, the enjoyable, moving and fast-paced to a fault "The Sessions" leaves you with an itch and a feeling that a nice movie could have been great. I felt the same way about "The King's Speech": very well-acted, not super-informative or memorable.
If "The Sessions" didn't feature as many premature ejaculations as "American Pie," we might have a real best picture Oscar contender.
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In 1996, a 24-year-old from the suburbs of San Francisco released a hip-hop record that changed perceptions not only of hip-hop, but also recorded music at large. Endtroducing....., the full-length debut of the producer DJ Shadow, was constructed almost entirely from samples of pre-existing recordings and was perhaps the first such album to reach a wide audience.
More than 15 years later, DJ Shadow, whose real name is Josh Davis, is enjoying the sort of milestone usually afforded to artists like John Coltrane or The Beatles: His collected works are being released in a limited-edition box set called Reconstructed. Davis spoke with NPR's Guy Raz about where he finds his source material, how sampling can spark interest in forgotten artists and why he does his best work when he's alone. Hear the radio version at the audio link on this page and read more of their conversation below.
GUY RAZ: You were 24 when Endtroducing..... was released. What did you set out to do with that album?
DJ SHADOW: It's interesting: Sometimes people forget that although Endtroducing..... is my first album, it's actually five years into my career of putting out records. I had put out a lot of singles on various labels, had done a lot of remixes, had done a lot of production for other artists, primarily MCs. The reason it's spelled E-N-D at the beginning was because I saw it as the final chapter in a number of singles that I had done already.
This was the end of the introduction?
Exactly. It was the final statement at that time.
The cover of that record is two young men flipping through crates of records at a record shop. I imagine that's what you were doing when you made this album: flipping through records and listening to things, figuring out how to piece them together.
I call it a collage. For people unfamiliar to sampling and its history and how it evolved, I think that's the best way to explain it. It's taking little pieces from here, adding it to little pieces from there — as many different disparate elements as you can find — and making something totally new out of it. Literally down to, not just the drums from one record, but the snare from one record, the kick from another record, the bass line or part of a bass line from another record, putting it all together. That's one hurdle. But then, actually having it articulate something and channel my inspiration through it — to be able to tell a story in that way is the second hurdle. Just throwing a bunch of things together may not be very interesting.
The instrument that I grew up wanting to play [is] the sampler. And it's the instrument I took seriously in terms of becoming the best at it, or one of the best. I think, initially in the late '80s when the technology was made available, the instant reaction to it by the old guard at that time was, 'Well, [sampling] is just out-and-out theft. It's stealing.' And I think I've learned to recognize all sides of that discussion. But I think what Endtroducing..... did for a lot of people was kind of close the book on that discussion and say, OK, this is legitimate. This is a legitimate new way of making music.
How were you choosing your material? Would you just pick up random records on a whim and see if they worked?
Sure, in some cases. But in other cases, you start to develop a sense of [which ones will have] something fruitful within the grooves. You start looking for certain labels; you start looking for certain producers. One of the first things I realized is that anything prior to 1966 probably wasn't going to have what I was looking for. Once James Brown invented funk and rock 'n' roll began to combine certain jazz aesthetics, then music began to take form and began to settle into a 4-4 groove, which is what hip hop is based on. ... You were going for something that you could nod your head to. Anything before 1966 is going to have just a completely different approach.
Back when hip-hop started out, there were people playing turntables and sampling the beats off other records, and they didn't pay artists that they sampled. A lot of that had changed by 1996. How were you able to make this record of virtually all samples? Did you have to pay everyone involved?
I was asked by the parent record company, "Give us your first 10 [samples] that you think are the most obvious or the biggest usages, and we'll work on those first.' I said, 'Fair enough, here they are.' ... Clearing samples is not a cut-and-dried process. Some people have reasonable expectations of what they think the usage is worth and some people don't. Some people have artistic scruples about it, some people don't. And then the third most common thing is, you can't find the people: The labels don't exist or they've been absorbed into a massive conglomeration who doesn't even know what they have or where the tapes are. These are really common scenarios, and you just have to do your best to navigate them.
Endtroducing..... pulls from jazz and funk and psychedelia records, but also has clips from interviews and television shows. Are you always listening for sounds that would make good samples?
Yes and no. I'm not connected to some otherworldly current of sound. Part of what I was trying to do on Endtroducing..... was really tip the cap to all the different people that came before me that inspired me. ... A lot of the early sampling that was done, there's these moments where they almost sound like mistakes — sort of a weird blast of a horn that kind of goes out of tune for a moment. When Public Enemy and others were taking these moments and amplifying the noise component rather than the musical component, you were getting just a completely different way of looking at music, almost this collage of mistakes that in itself makes something so right. I thought that was a brilliant moment in music.
It occurred to me when I was preparing for this interview that I'd never seen a photograph of you. You're kind of an Oz figure — a shadow hidden behind a turntable. Are you reluctant to be a star?
Growing up, I always identified with the director, not the movie star. I identified with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, the people who pulled the strings behind the camera. ... Yeah, that's really what the name [DJ Shadow] comes from. There was a moment when famous hip-hop producers in the '80s ... were doing their own albums, where the MCs were kind of the featured artist. And they were on the front covers. I remember thinking, "Hmm, I'm not so sure if I agree with the way this is progressing." Later, you had Puff Daddy being in the videos with Biggie. I always just kind of felt, "Well, I'm comfortable in the studio environment. I don't want to be out there having to worry about fashion and stuff like that.
What you do seems like a pretty solitary endeavor. Are you alone most of the time when you're making music?
I think there's different doors and different planes of aloneness. You're only able to get to a certain depth of creativity if you're being constantly distracted. And I think you can cross further if you're alone for, say, eight hours with no distraction. You can cross even deeper if you're alone for a week. I found that it really wasn't until about two days into any given stretch that I was able to get to a place of inspiration — that I had anything valid to say. That's just the way I work. And I've come to recognize that through the years, that I'm really not digging deep enough until I've been alone for a certain amount of time.
Reconstructed, the box set you're releasing, comes in this beautiful black reflective case, and inside there are seven CDs and a card signed by you. It seems to suggest that this art form — hip-hop and sampling — has finally caught up with jazz. You could imagine a jazz artist putting out something like this and no one would say anything.
The concept is [one] that I resisted for a long time. It really wasn't until my last album came out. At that point, I had five albums to kind of go through and choose my favorite parts. ... I also think there's something kind of satisfying about periodically going back through your work and breaking bread with your old music and your old self. It can serve, for me anyway, to kind of calibrate me and get me ready for what's next. So I felt like the time was right. Obviously we limited the box to only be available to the 500 people around the globe, who really are such big fans of what I've done that something like this would make sense to them. It's an interesting time. In a weird kind of way, I think as a reaction to the whole concept of putting out a best-of and walking through the past so to speak, my current DJ set is extremely contemporary — kind of as a counterweight.
Have you ever been approached by any of the artists that you've sampled? Has anyone thanked you for shining a light on their obscure or even ignored records?
Yeah, it has happened a couple of times. There's a guy named Jules Blattner who I sampled on the U.N.K.L.E album that I produced. He's a St. Louis stalwart who made music in the '50s, '60s, '70s. He has a very healthy attitude toward it. You can kind of go two ways. You can look at it as tip of the cap and a way to reintroduce that person's music to people in a completely different context than the way they originally intended. I find that a lot of the more down-to-earth working musicians really get that.
On the other end of the spectrum, you have sometimes people that have gotten to a place where they're very protective of their legacy, and they can't really see the positive benefit. ... Sometimes you have to just work with those people. There's been times when we've encountered resistance and broken through that resistance. And then there's times where we're not able to make it happen. And the unfortunate thing about that is, not only does my music not get out there, but nobody will ever have a chance, through my music, to rediscover the original artist.
And if you're just tuning in, this is WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz. And it's time now for music.
RAZ: In 1996, this album revolutionized hip-hop.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: Hold up, before we get started...
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: Guess who's coming? Guess who's coming?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: It's...
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: Guess who's coming?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: ...it's...
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: Guess who's coming?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: DJ Shadow.
RAZ: All of the sounds you're hearing right now - all of them - are samples. The sounds were cobbled together mainly from old vinyl records. As a matter of fact, almost every note on the entire album was produced that way. The man behind it is Josh Davis, better known as DJ Shadow.
DJ SHADOW: I call it a collage. I think that's the best way to explain it to people. It's taking little pieces from here, adding it to little pieces from there. You know, literally down to not just the drums from one record but the snare from one record, the kick from another record and making something totally new out of it.
RAZ: The result of his work was the groundbreaking album "Endtroducing."
RAZ: It's been more than 15 years since "Endtroducing" was released, and DJ Shadow is enjoying this sort of milestone usually reserved for artists like John Coltrane or The Beatles. His combined work is being released as a box set. It's called "Reconstructing." Josh Davis grew up in the suburbs of Sacramento and San Francisco where he idolized the early heroes of hip-hop. And when he began as a DJ, he wanted to bring the art of sampling out from under the shadows.
SHADOW: I think initially in the late '80s when the technology was made available, the instant reaction to it by the old guard at that time was, well, this is just out and out fast. But I think what "Endtroducing" did for a lot of people was kind of close the book on that discussion and say, OK, this is legitimate. This is a legitimate new way of making music.
RAZ: The second track on the record, it was called "Building Steam with a Grain of Salt." Can we sort of listen through that and can you tell us what all those bits are? So, it begins like this:
GEORGE MARSH: Producing...
SHADOW: OK. Well, it's a piano from a record by a guy named Jeremy Storch. And, again, one of the knocks on sampling is that, well, you just take famous songs that everybody knows and replay, you know, the chorus over and over. Well, obviously, in this case, I was taking a rather obscure artist. Part of the aesthetic is taking great moments from basically forgotten music history and reapplying it with a new context.
RAZ: Then you've got the spoken word over that.
MARSH: I'd like to just continue to be able to express myself as best as I can...
SHADOW: That's the gentleman named George Marsh, a drummer from the Bay Area. And there was an instructional record about music, and he was interviewing some of his favorite drummers from, I think, about '74.
RAZ: And then you've got that...
RAZ: ...that sound. This sound: (hums).
SHADOW: Yeah. I'm struggling at the moment off the top of my head to remember where that came from. It might actually come from the Jeremy Storch record, but I'm not 100 percent sure.
RAZ: And then that percussion.
SHADOW: The percussion is from a high school record. In the '60s and '70s primarily, you know, any local high school or college would, in addition to having a yearbook, the school would pay to press 500 copies of the school band and what they were up to. That's where the drums come from.
RAZ: Where would you find these records? You just picked them up at a record store. They were, you know, maybe 50 cents or 75 cents and just buy them and just on a whim and see if they work?
SHADOW: Sure. Sure, in some cases. But in other cases, I mean, you start to develop kind of a sense of things that are going to make it, you know, increase the odds of having something fruitful within the grooves. You start looking for certain labels. You start looking for certain producers. I mean, one of the first things that I realized is that anything prior to 1966 probably wasn't going to have what I was looking for because once James Brown invented funk, then music began to settle into kind of a four-four groove, which is what hip-hop is based on.
RAZ: I'm speaking with Josh Davis. He's better known as DJ Shadow. The new retrospective of his career is called "Reconstructed." Tell me about how you got into this. I mean, you grew up in California, relatively small town. You are white, and this has been predominantly an African-American musical genre. Presumably, hip-hop was what you listened to as a kid growing up.
SHADOW: I grew up in a household that tended to reject the mainstream. And my listening habits were primarily R&B. I mean, I was able to tune into an R&B station from San Francisco on my AM little portable radio. So I was listening to, you know, Lakeside and the Gap Band and Kool & the Gang and Evelyn Champagne King. I mean, a lot of post-disco, so basically '80 to '82 or so. And then they played "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. And it was just one of those moments.
GRANDMASTER FLASH AND THE FURIOUS FIVE: (Singing) It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from going under...
SHADOW: You know, if you're a punk kid and the first time you heard Minor Threat or Bad Brains, I mean, you know, through any kind of underground musical genre, everybody has these moments. It was just one of those moments in my life where I felt as though at 10 years old, I was hearing music for the first time. And I was hearing something that wasn't my parents' and it wasn't anybody's, it didn't feel like, because nobody had really--it was undefined at that time.
FIVE: (Singing) Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge...
SHADOW: This was an East Coast phenomenon, primarily a New York City phenomenon. Growing up in a small town, you had to just grab these little glimpses where you could. And what it did for me was it became kind of an obsession about, you know, this culture that wasn't all around me. It was something that was, you know, seemed so distant, and it seemed so obviously vital yet so out of reach.
RAZ: "Endtroducing" - and I know people have said this to you many times - you know, it was such an important record for me when I first heard it 16 years ago. I never heard anything like it. And it occurred to me when I was preparing for this interview that I had never seen a photograph of you. I mean, you're--there are not many glamour shots, just photo after photo of you. And it occurred to me that you're kind of an Oz figure. I mean, you are really your name, like a shadow hidden behind a turntable. Are you reluctant to be the star?
SHADOW: I just think it interferes a lot of times with just being able to communicate the music. For me, the music is the message. And also growing up, the DJ tended to be relegated to the background, and I was kind of OK with that. Famously, you know, Run DMC, Jam Master Jay was always in shadow.
RAZ: Is that why you became Shadow?
SHADOW: Yeah. That's really what the name comes from, actually. I mean, it was--there was a moment where famous hip-hop producers in the '80s such as Marley Marl and another guy named Herbie Luv Bug were getting deals where they were doing their own albums, and they were on the front covers. And I remember thinking, hmm, I'm not so sure I agree with the way this is progressing. I'm comfortable in a studio environment. I don't want to be out there having to worry about fashion and stuff like that. You know, that sounds really kind of ridiculous even as I'm saying it. I mean, that's just not what I'm into. It's not where my head's at.
RAZ: Josh, recently, somebody wrote that your first record, "Endtroducing" - this is a quote - "altered the landscape of hip-hop forever." I mean, you know this that critics have called you one of the most influential figures in hip-hop. Is that strange when you hear that?
SHADOW: I mean, I'm not so sure I agree 100 percent with that sentiment anyway. I mean, I'm not so sure it changed hip-hop so much as it did introduce a lot of previously hip-hop-wary listeners to a new universe. You know, some people called it trip-hop, some people just sort of fit it into electronica. I mean, I definitely, you know, growing up on hip-hop, I've always tried to do work that would provide an alternative because I think that's how things change and evolve. Yeah, I am trying to change music. I don't know that I'm trying to change hip-hop necessarily though.
RAZ: Josh Davis is the music producer better known as DJ Shadow. He has released a retrospective of his career in two different forms. One is a single album and two as a massive box set. Both are called "Reconstructed." Josh Davis, DJ Shadow, thank you so much.
SHADOW: Thanks for having me.
RAZ: And for Saturday, that's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz. Check out our weekly podcast. Search for WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED on iTunes or on the NPR smartphone app. Click on programs and scroll down. We're back on the radio tomorrow. Until then, thanks for listening and have a great night. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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The recent events surrounding the raid of a Web hosting firm in Sweden have spilled over to the outside world, triggering an attack by Anonymous on several bank, university and government websites in Sweden.
The events trace back to the Oct. 1 arrest of Pirate Bay cofounder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, which happened the same day police raided PRQ, a controversial Web host that is home to several torrent sites and others that feature unsavory content. The Pirate Bay, which formerly used the hosting services of PRQ, also went down the same day, but attributed its outage to a power failure.
Joining us to discuss these developments is Andy Greenberg, a journalist and author of the new book This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information. Greenberg, who has been covering the recent string of stories coming out of Sweden, talks about how Sweden's culture of unencumbered Internet is coming into conflict with Swedish (and international) law, as well as the varying degrees of tolerance for free speech versus intellectual property.
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TechNewsWorld: Let me first quickly recap what's happened in the last week or so for anybody who might not be up to speed. On Monday, Oct. 1, Stockholm police raided PRQ, which is a Web host that has for years been linked to some pretty controversial sites such as WikiLeaks, the Man-Boy Love Association website, as well as a Chechen rebel site and other websites of that ilk that other Web hosts might stay away from.
PRQ has also hosted The Pirate Bay, which is noteworthy because right around the same time as the raid on PRQ, The Pirate Bay went offline. And while blips in The Pirate Bay's service are nothing new, it was offline for a couple days, and that is a uniquely long black-out for The Pirate Bay.
And it's worth noting, also, that Gottfrid Svartholm, who is a co-founder of both PRQ and The Pirate Bay, was detained last month in Cambodia and extradited to Sweden where he is, as I understand it, currently being held for hacking into a Swedish IT company. So there is kind of a confluence of stories going.
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First off, let me ask you about the perception that a lot of people have that Sweden is something of a bastion of Internet freedom and that it's really a place where anything goes on the Web. This seems to be kind of the image it has throughout a lot of the Western world. What do you think about that perception, and is it really a place of more unencumbered Internet freedom than other places?
Andy Greenberg: Well, I think that culturally, Sweden has always been a bastion of Internet freedom. Sweden produced the first Pirate Party, for instance, and it produced these institutions like PRQ, the most free speech-preserving Web host in the world, and it produced The Pirate Bay, which calls itself the world's most resilient file-sharing site, and they'll fight off any lawyer or any company.
But I don't know if that is really a matter of Swedish law, or really just a matter of Swedish culture. It seems in some ways that this culture of ultra-free Internet is coming into conflict with Swedish law, probably most significantly with the conviction of The Pirate Bay's founders in 2010 under copyright infringement in a Swedish court.
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TNW: You mentioned how Swedish Internet culture is kind of butting up against Swedish law, and I know it's been butting up against laws in other countries as well. Earlier this year the U.K. and the Netherlands ordered Internet services providers to block access to The Pirate Bay, and that is something that had already happened in Belgium and in Italy. What sort of interaction have you seen between Sweden and countries that are also in the EU trying to kind of put the squeeze on these "freedom fighting" websites.
Greenberg: Well, Sweden itself has been sort of swinging back in this pendulum of freedom versus security. In 2008, they passed a law called the FRA law -- I'm not sure what they stands for in Swedish -- but it basically allows the authorities to wiretap any information that passes over the country's networks, which is something that doesn't even exist in the U.S., and it's a terrifying idea for people like those who run PRQ.
Definitely America, the MPAA and the RIAA, were pressuring the Swedish government to crack down on The Pirate Bay as kind of public enemy No. 1 of copyright infringement, and they were successful. After the raid of the PRQ servers in 2006 to take The Pirate Bay's data and use it for forensic evidence, and then finally the trial that ended in 2010, I think the copyright lobby cooperating with law enforcement in Sweden, has successfully shut that down.
TNW: I know that you've spoken with at least one person over at PRQ. What's the reaction from them been about this most recent raid and all these goings-on in Sweden?
Greenberg: Well, PRQ has sort of spun off from The Pirate Bay. I spoke with the owner of the company and he sort of doesn't know what is happening. He didn't know why he was raided. He told me that The Pirate Bay hasn't been hosted at PRQ since 2010. But when I asked him then, "Why is it then that The Pirate Bay went down at the same time as PRQ and came up at the same time as PRQ after raid?" he was almost as puzzled as I was. He was sort of thinking it was just some strange coincidence....He told me he found out later that two of the targets of the raid were another file-sharing site and then an Android-piracy site where you can download free apps.
TNW: Yeah, it seems like the conclusion he drew was that it was all about intellectual property as opposed to any of the more "iffy" moral sites.
Greenberg: There was a lot of speculation that the current investigation into WikiLeaks might be involved in the PRQ raids. But there is no evidence of that -- there's all these other very sort of "fringey" sites hosted there -- like blogs that have been accused of defamation and the Chechen rebel website you mentioned -- and it seems that none of those were targeted here and it really is just about copyright infringement. And it's interesting to see where the powers-that-be want to focus their attention. You can defame who you want and you can call for death to the infidels, but no Dark Knight Rising. That's not allowed.


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|Jamie Carragher is 16/1 with PaddyPower to score in the Merseyside derby
Goal understands that the Merseyside club would be willing to listen to marquee offers for the 26-year-old but tantalising new images of the kit that Liverpool will wear in 2013-14 have Suarez as one of the centrepieces and suggest that the former Ajax man very much remains in the plans of manager Brendan Rodgers.
The new strip, design by Boston-based company Warrior Sports, who agreed a €30-million-a-year deal to supply Liverpool's kit in August 2011, is based on the shirts worn during the club's fourth European Cup win back in 1984 - though, with Champions League qualification out of the window, the likes of Suarez and Steven Gerrard will not have the chance to emulate their predecessors.
Reds fans might be less keen on the sight of Pepe Reina in the new kit, however, given the number of errors and mistakes that the goalkeeper has made this season.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Last Saturday, the UCSB cross country program hosted a memorable awards banquet, with 16 members of the 1978 and 1979 PCAA (Big West) championship teams in attendance. The event commemorated the achievements of the past and served as the awards ceremony for the 2008 season.
The '78 and '79 teams were reunited 30 years after their championship seasons. The 16 teammates participated in a social hour before the banquet, and also toured the Mosher Alumni Building and the new Intercollegiate Athletics Building, allowing them to observe how UCSB athletics has advanced in the past three decades.
The members of the team were given an opportunity to speak at the awards banquet, providing their perspectives on the championship team and on the current cross country program. Each team member was given a commemorative blue jacket embroidered with the UCSB cross country crest and the number 30, signifying the 30 year anniversary of their benchmark seasons. The team went on a run together the morning after the banquet.
Awards were presented to members of the current team in honor of their achievements in 2008. The MVPs for the 2008 season are Danielle Domenichelli, the women's Big West Conference Champion, and Scott Smith, who took third in the men's Big West Championships.
Other presentations included the Comeback Runner Award, which was awarded to Waleed Totari for re-earning a spot on the team after sitting out last season. His determination during the season and offseason was remunerated at the Big West Championships, where he took ninth place to earn All-Conference distinction. The Gaucho Award was presented to Charles Maginnis for finishing in a scoring position at the Big West Championships as a freshman.
Additionally, the team presented Domenichelli and fellow senior Ashley Ramirez with gifts to commemorate their Gaucho careers.
The program would like to thank all those who attended the banquet, and now looks forward to the 2009 track and field season.
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PINOLE — A tug of war may be brewing over how to spend a $1.24 million federal grant to the Pinole Fire Department geared to hiring armed forces veterans and laid-off firefighters from other agencies.
The fire chief and the firefighters union say the U.S. Department of Homeland Security SAFER grant will enable the reopening of the shuttered Pinole Valley Station 74, one of two in the city. But the grant, which is spread over two years, would provide only about half the cost of operating the station full time, and city officials warn that the $620,000 yielded in each of the next two years would have to be augmented with significant local funding to run the station.
The shuttering of the station in July of 2011, coupled with a staffing increase from three firefighters per shift to four at the downtown station, saved $1 million a year.
Meanwhile, some emergency response experts as well as residents in Pinole, elsewhere in Contra Costa County and beyond, say that in an era of strapped finances, public agencies need to look at alternatives to what many say is an outdated and unsustainable model of emergency services delivery, rooted in a bygone era when firefighters mostly fought fires. Today, most fire department calls are medical, while fires constitute a shrinking portion of calls, down to less than 10 percent in many departments, including Pinole's.
Suggestions include deploying two-person specialized medical vehicles to many emergencies as an alternative to much larger and more expensive firefighting apparatus staffed by three or sometimes four firefighters.
On Tuesday, the City Council will hold a special study session to discuss the federal grant as well as a report from City Manager Belinda Espinosa and Fire Chief Charles Hanley, which focuses on four fire service options for Pinole, including the current one. Pinole shares its chief with the Rodeo-Hercules Fire District and is part of a three-agency Battalion 7, along with Rodeo-Hercules and the Contra Costa County Fire District's San Pablo and El Sobrante stations.
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Attached to the staff report, which mentions the option of two-person medical vehicles, is a 2010-11 civil grand jury report from Santa Clara County, which faces many of the same firefighting issues as Contra Costa, titled "Fighting fire or fighting change? Rethinking fire department response protocol and consolidation opportunities."
According to the grand jury report, fire agencies' "continued insistence on clinging to a 100-year-old response model designed to fight structure fires makes no sense given the modern reality that structure fires are the exception and medical emergencies are the norm."
Firefighters Local 1230 Vice President Nick Ronchetto said two-person medical emergency vehicles present safety issues and are of limited effectiveness in accidents, rescues and hazardous materials incidents.
"This model (the number of firefighters and apparatus sent on calls) has been a huge success in California and has been used as a model all over the world," Ronchetto said in an email. "So why do we want to change what works?"
Hanley said in an email that the grant will cover the reopening of Pinole Valley Fire Station 74 with a three-person engine company for two years but did not elaborate.
On the question of Pinole contracting for service with Rodeo-Hercules or Contra Costa Fire, the staff report all but rules out Contra Costa because of the cost difference, about $3.1 million a year with Rodeo-Hercules versus $3.4 million a year with the county; the differential is due largely to retirement benefits and equipment maintenance and replacement costs, city officials say.
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"Oracle's case against Google has evolved primarily into a copyright infringement suit over the past several months, and with the full trial scheduled to begin this coming Monday, the court is making an effort to get down to the nuts and bolts of copyright law. The judge issued an order last week requiring that both Google and Oracle provide their respective positions on a fundamental issue in the case: 'Each side shall take a firm yes or no position on whether computer programming languages are copyrightable'." Seems like an easy enough answer to me, especially since Oracle's example doesn't hold up at all - Oracle points to Klingon's custom glyphs to illustrate that a language can fall under copyright, but unlike Klingon, a programming language uses standard glyphs we all use every day. Arguing you can copyright that is borderline psychotic, and opens up a whole can of worms.
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How To: Make an Ottoman Slipcover
Project: Ottoman Slipcover
Time: 2 1/2 hours
Cost: $20.00 excluding extra set of legs
No question about it, the little straw ottoman is already as cute as can be. It can however, go to work for you doing double, or even triple duty with help from a slipcover and a change of legs. Once you make the basic slipcover pattern...
...for your most beloved ottoman, the sky's the limit on your design possibilites; color, pattern, and texture will be at your disposal. A change of legs can convert a little floor stool into a pull up seat or vanity stool and will make a splash in any room of the house. The trick is to get as much work from one piece of furniture as you can.
Tools and Resources:
- 1 1/2 yard of plain fabric
- 3/4 yard of contrasting felt
- craft/applique iron on paper
- fusible hem tape
- velcro
- desired pattern
- iron
- sharp scissors
- sewing machine
- measuring tape
- fabric glue
- button kit (not shown)
Step by Step:
- Place your ottoman on top of a piece of paper or fabric and trace around it adding 1/2" all around
- Measure the circumference of your ottoman and add 3 extra inches
- Determine the desired depth of the slipcover and add 1"
- Cut out the fabric top
- Cut out the fabric that will be the side band of the slipcover
- Fold 1/2" of the long side of the fabric over and press with a hot iron, slip fusible hem tape inside of the fold and press until fabric is fused, forming a hem
- Fold over 1" of the short end of the fabric band and then fold over another 1", inserting fusible hem tape to fuse the folds in place
- With a hot iron, press the craft/applique paper on top of the felt until it's fused together
- Trace and cut out the desired shapes from the felt
- Peel off the paper backing and press the felt designs in an attractive pattern on the top and sides of the slipcover pieces
- Pin and stitch the slipcover side to the top of the slipcover
- Pin and stitch the velcro on the two short ends of the slipcover side where they overlap so the slipcover side will stay closed and you won't see the velcro.
- Make three covered buttons and handstitch them in place next to the fold of the side
- Add a set of angled metal leg brackets on the bottom of the ottoman so you can change out different sets of legs
- Stain a set of wood legs with your desired color, let them dry and smooth off with steel wool
- Make many slipcovers using the same pattern but change some details to make it different
- Get some extra sets of legs that will fit into the angled metal let plates and you can change the appearance of your favorite ottoman


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A new University of North Florida poll reveals Sen. Bill Nelson has a 10-percentage point lead over Connie Mack IV (50 percent to 40 percent) among likely voters. The key to the Nelson lead is support from African-American voters (83 percent to 8 percent). The poll also finds that Gov. Rick Scott's job-approval rating among likely voters sits at 46 percent.
Additionally, the poll shows three propositions on the ballot that propose to cut property tax-rates for selected groups (Propositions 2, 9 and 11) all have a support of more than 75 percent. Also of interest, 38 percent of likely voters are planning to either vote absentee or at an early-voting site. Sixty-four percent of likely Florida voters also favor allowing felons to automatically regain their voting rights at a point after their sentence has been completed. Finally, Floridians believe the best governor over the past 42 years was Jeb Bush (35 percent).
The survey was conducted through the use of a 27-station telephone-polling laboratory at UNF. A sample of the polling universe was selected through the use of Random-Digit-Dialing methodology. An additional cell phone sample was used to increase representation. To ensure geographic diversity, the state was pre-weighted into seven strata. The survey was conducted in Spanish for those respondents who wished to complete the survey in Spanish. Gender, age, education and party registration are weighted to statistics from the census and Florida Division of Elections for the state of Florida.
The survey was conducted between Oct. 1 and Oct. 9 and includes 790 residents (+/- 3.49 percent) and 683 likely voters (+/- 3.75) in the state of Florida. Approximately 180 UNF political science students participated in the data collection.
Among the statewide findings:
-- Sen. Bill Nelson leads Connie Mack IV among likely voters 50 percent to 40 percent. Nelson is heavily supported by African-Americans (83 percent to 8 percent).
--Gov. Rick Scott has a 46 percent job-approval rating among likely voters in Florida.
--Thirty-eight percent of Florida voters plan to vote either by absentee or at an early voting site.
--Jeb Bush (35 percent) is the consensus choice over Bob Graham (14 percent), Charlie Crist (13 percent), Lawton Chiles (10 percent) and Rick Scott (5 percent) for Florida's best governor during the past 42 years.
--Sixty-four percent of likely voters support felons getting their voting rights back automatically at the point after their sentence has been completed.
--Proposition 2 is favored by 75 percent of likely voters.
--Proposition 9 is favored by 84 percent of likely voters.
--Proposition 11 is favored by 80 percent of likely voters.
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Diabetes and pregnancy
For an OB dealing with a type 1 diabetic pregnancy, what sort of blood sugar average would prompt a "red flag" and threats of hospitalization to get it under control? It`s not that I`m non-compliant,and I`m not pregnant yet,but my current average is around 170 & my dr says an OB would go absolutely ballistic over that.(I am working to get it down, prior to pregnancy)
I would agree with your doctor - the goal for blood sugar control prior to getting pregnant is entirely normal blood sugars and HbA1c. It is critical that this be achieved PRIOR to getting pregnant because one of the greatest concerns is the effect of high blood sugar on very early stages in the baby's development of major structures. I have seen children born with heart brain skull and spinal cord defects due to inadequate control of the mother's blood sugar before she got pregnant - trust me, you want to do the absolute best you can to prevent such occurrences. Its one thing to live with if it happens despite best efforts; its another thing to live with if you feel that it could have been prevented by something within your control. Please see some of the links below.
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I've always been a weenie. I duck in a crisis. I get queasy watching my blood drawn. Mine is a cautious life, one that carefully avoids actions that might lead to broken bones, stitches, or other encounters with medical supplies. While it's true that I endured four natural childbirths, this was only because I was terrified—nauseated!—by the very idea of a big, long epidural needle stuck in my back.
Then came motherhood.
Ta-da! My inner superhero revealed herself. In the right situation, talents I never knew I possessed sprang into action. Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound—if one of my beloved children was in peril, that is.
It's not just me. It's mothering itself. One minute a woman stands in an empty nursery, battling butterflies and Braxton-Hicks contractions, wondering what she's gotten herself into and whether it's truly possible to love anyone as much as her DH. Then, pow! Ka-boom! Zounds! She gazes into that squinchy face and she's ready to lay down her life for a virtual stranger.
Is it the power of love? I like to think so. Scientists believe a mother's "vigilant protectiveness," as Japanese neuroscientist Madoka Noriuchi calls it, may be rooted in brainpower, too. Last year, researchers in Tokyo used MRI to show that particular areas of mothers' brains lit up when their children were in distress. They believe this means that a highly elaborate neural chain reaction orchestrates certain responses to cries. Having a baby also creates subtle changes in the brain that result in sharpened perceptions, says Katherine Ellison in her book The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter. A keen sense of smell in pregnancy keeps a woman away from spoiled food, for example, and more attuned hearing allows her to distinguish her own baby's cry—changes that aren't merely cool, they help her keep a new life alive.
Frankly, the reasons for mom heroism matter less to me than the miraculous fact that it exists. Holy weirdness, Batman! Why didn't anybody tell me about this? So my own mother wasn't the only one to have "eyes in the back of her head" and a sixth sense about how the kids who were playing quietly, not the shriekers, were the ones up to no good. Each threat I've vanquished brings confidence for the next crisis. And a secret relief, too: "Phew! I'm good at this mom thing!" So let's celebrate some heroic traits you never knew you had.
Super courage!
There's a reason parents on airplanes are urged to adjust their own oxygen masks before helping their children. Safety experts know how strong the parental instinct is to save one's child without regard to one's self.
That's surely the impulse that drove me to completely ignore my lifelong fear of bee stings and plunge into a hole absolutely swarming with bees. From across the yard I'd seen my daughter, Eleanor—still wobbly as a newly minted toddler—take a tumble. Jogging over to help her up, I saw the in-ground nest—and the angry bees, on her clothes, tangled in her downy hair, even inside her howling mouth. They could have been butterflies for all I cared as I snatched her up and raced inside.
I didn't notice the welts all over my legs until hours later—after the dash to the ER, where some 30 stingers were removed from my little girl, after I was assured she was okay.
During a child's emergency, everything in the world, including regard for one's own fears, or safety, or life, recedes. Selflessness may be an unhealthy way for a mom to live 24/7, but it clearly has a time and a place.
Super ferocity!
Another survival instinct is one we share with mama bears (and maybe mama bees). It's a primal protectiveness that's ignited when a mom sees her cub threatened or suffering. Mother rabbits have been known to stand tall on two legs to intimidate coyotes eyeing their newborns. Mama badgers can scare off grizzlies. Maybe you've seen the mom next door make short work of the playground bully or put a thoughtless soccer coach in his place.
While Kim Moldofsky's family of four was out watching fireworks last Fourth of July, their Chicago home was robbed. The 911 operator they called to report the crime told them to leave the house immediately in case the thieves were still around. "My boys ran out in their summer pajamas," she explains. "But it was ten-thirty at night and chilly. So when my husband commented that they were shivering, I just took off." Leaving him with the boys, she ran back to the house to get them clothes, grabbing a big stick on the way. "I kept banging it so the supposed robbers would know I was there."
Was she scared? "No. My adrenaline was flowing," she says. "I was P.O.'d!" The robbers may have made off with a few valuables, but they weren't going to leave her children cold!
Super strength!
Adrenaline fuels more than bravado. It's part of the "fight or flight" response to stress. It raises the heart rate, releases glucose for energy, and increases oxygen flow to the muscles, making them work harder. Net result: a burst of superhuman strength. Ever hear stories of people fighting off sharks or lifting cars and heavy machinery off other people? They're not urban legends.
Laura Patyk was sitting with relatives on the deck of her Indian Trail, NC, home, watching her six kids swim with her husband, Paul, in their in-ground pool. She had just removed the water wings of her youngest, 3-year-old Priscilla, and changed her into play clothes. One minute the preschooler was walking carefully around the outside of the pool within everyone's view, and the next, Patyk glanced over and screamed, "She's in!"
"I don't remember getting from A to B. It was a blur," Patyk says. But everyone else saw her leap from her chair on the deck, run barefoot down six steps, dash across the lawn, and dive into the pool, fully clothed, to rescue her daughter—all in about ten seconds, even before Paul made it over from the opposite end of the pool a few feet away.
Such feats are known as "hysterical strength." These stress responses aren't recognized by medical science because they're almost impossible to study. But they sure are handy in a crisis.
Super presence of mind!
1-800-222-1222. Stephanie Chandler picked up the phone and "just started dialing." She'd been helping 3-year-old Luke brush his teeth when she suddenly noticed her 18-month-old daughter, Evie, "gulping down a bottle of bubble-bath soap like some hobo with a paper bag," she says.
She checked the label: Keep Out of Reach of Children. And then she dialed Poison Control, as if on autopilot. "My pediatrician had given me a sticker with it ages ago and I'd placed it on one of our phones. But I'd never tried to memorize the number, since I assumed I wouldn't be able to," says the Queen Creek, AZ, mom.
Nevertheless, it popped into her head when she needed it. "A part of me worried I might be calling a vending-machine supplier in Vermont, but sure enough, Poison Control answered," she says. (Thankfully, she was told that guzzling the soap is harmless.)
You'd think that the fear and hysteria triggered by a crisis involving a child would erase all presence of mind. Yet many parents report the opposite. It's only later—when everything's okay—that they fall apart. "Your son will be fine," an ER doctor once told my sister-in-law, who had calmly wrapped her toddler's bloody finger when it was mashed in a van door and then driven him to the hospital and nursed him through stitches. "But you're whiter than he is, and I think you need to sit down before you leave." By then, she could.
Superstrong stomach!
To think that my husband (to-be, at the time) once chased me around his apartment with a piece of raw chicken, coaxing me to touch it in a vain attempt at exposure therapy. (He'd just learned that I avoided the meat counter at the supermarket because the sight of those bloody, glistening cuts made me nauseous.) One word changed all that: rotavirus. Six months before the Attack of the Killer Bees, Eleanor had contracted a horrible case. Who knew a 20-pound human could lose so many bodily fluids and live? Who knew I'd unflinchingly cope with it? As one mom said, "No one ever told me that becoming a mother would at some point require me to cup my hand in front of my child's mouth in an attempt to capture as much vomit as possible and keep his clothes intact. And they certainly didn't tell me what to do with a handful once I had it."
And yet we find ourselves routinely managing situations right out of horror flicks—the gushing blood, the bones bent at unnatural angles, the terrifying sound of a skull colliding with the metal interior of a refrigerator (don't ask me how that happened). A child's pain seems to trivialize a mother's own reactions, like the desire to gag.
How a sissy like me grew into this brave face, this quick-thinking calm, this comics-page courage, I'll never know. I'm just grateful these superpowers are there, clicking on in the nick of time. No phone booths or invisible planes necessary.


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ASHI Home Inspection Standards of Practice - DJ Friedman's text copy 4/3/96 TABLE OF CONTENTS Section 1. Introduction 2. Purpose & Scope 3. General Limitations & Exclusions 4. Structural Components 5. Exterior 6. Roofing 7. Plumbing 8. Electrical 9. Heating 10. Central Air Conditioning 11. Interiors 12. Insulation & Ventilation Glossary Note: Underlined words are defined in the Glossary. 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 The American Society of Home Inspectors, Inc. (ASHI) is a not-for-profit professional society established in 1976 whose volunteer membership consists of private, fee- paid home inspectors. ASHI's objectives include promotion of excellence within the profession and continual improvement of its member's inspection services to the public. 1.2 These Standards of Practice: A. provide inspection guidelines. B. make public the services provided by private fee-paid inspectors. C. define certain terms relating to these inspections. 2. PURPOSE AND SCOPE 2.1 Inspections performed to these guidelines are intended to provide the client with a better understanding of the property conditions, as observed at the time of the inspection. 2.2 Inspectors shall: A. observe readily accessible installed systems and components listed in these Standards. B. submit a written report to the client which shall: 1. describe those components specified to be described in sections 4-12 of these Standards. 2. state which systems and components designated for inspection in these Standards have been inspected. 3. state any systems and components so inspected which were found to be in need of immediate major repair. 2.3 These Standards are not intended to limit inspectors from: A. reporting observations and conditions in addition to those required in Section 2.2. B. excluding systems and components from the inspection if requested by the client. 3. GENERAL LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS 3.1 General limitations: A. inspections done in accordance with these Standards are visual and are not technically exhaustive. B. these Standards are applicable to buildings with four or less dwelling units and their garages or carports. 3.2 General exclusions: A. Inspectors are NOT required to report on: 1. life expectancy of any component or system. 2. the causes of the need for a major repair. 3. the methods, materials and costs of corrections. 4. the suitability of the property for any specialized use. 5. compliance or non-compliance with applicable regulatory requirements. 6. the market value of the property or its marketability. 7. the advisability or inadvisability of purchase of the property. 8. any component or system which was not observed. 9. the presence or absence of pests such as wood damaging organisms, rodents, or insects. 10. cosmetic items, underground items, or items not permanently installed B. Inspectors are NOT required to: 1. offer or perform any act or service contrary to law. 2. offer warranties or guarantees of any kind. 3. offer or perform engineering, architectural, plumbing, or any other job function requiring an occupational license in the jurisdiction where the inspection is taking place, unless the inspector holds a valid occupational license in which case he/she may inform the client that he/she is so licensed, and is therefore qualified to go beyond the ASHI Standards of Practice, and for and additional fee, perform additional inspections beyond those within the scope of the basic ASHI inspection. 4. calculate the strength, adequacy, or efficiency of any system or component. 5. enter any area or perform any procedure which may damage the property or its components or be dangerous to the inspector or other persons. 6. operate any system or component which is shut down or otherwise inoperable. 7. operate any system or component which does not respond to normal operating controls. 8. disturb insulation, move personal items, furniture, equipment, plant life, soil, snow, ice, or debris which obstructs access or visibility. 9. determine the presence or absence of any suspected hazardous substance including but not limited to toxins, carcinogens, noise, contaminants in soil, water, and air. 10. determine the effectiveness of any system installed to control or remove suspected hazardous substances. 11. predict future conditions, including but not limited to failure of components. 12. project operating cost of components. 13. evaluate acoustical characteristics of any system or component. 3.3 Limitations and exclusions specific to individual systems are listed in following sections. 4. SYSTEM: STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS 4.1 The inspector shall observe: A. structural components including: 1. foundations 2. floors 3. walls 4. columns 5. ceilings 6. roofs 4.2 The inspector shall: A. describe the type of: 1. foundation 2. floor structure 3. wall structure 4. columns 5. ceiling structure 6. roof structure B. probe structural components where deterioration is suspected. However, probing is NOT required when probing would damage any finished surface. C. enter underfloor crawl spaces and attic spaces except when access is obstructed, when entry could damage the prop- erty, or when dangerous or adverse situations are suspected. D. report the methods used to observe underfloor crawl spaces and attics. E. report signs of water penetration into the building or signs of abnormal or harmful condensation on building components. 5. SYSTEM: EXTERIOR 5.1 The inspector shall observe: A. wall cladding, flashings and trim. B. entryway doors and representative number of windows. C. garage door operators. D. decks, balconies, stoops, steps, areaway, and porches including railings. E. eaves, soffits and fascias. F. vegetation, grading, drainage, driveways, patios, walkways and retaining walls with respect to their effect on the condition of the building. 5.2 The inspector shall: A. describe wall cladding materials. B. operate all entryway doors and representative number of windows including garage doors, manually or by using perma- nently installed controls of any garage door operator. C. report whether or not any garage door operator will automatically reverse or stop when meeting reasonable resist- ance during closing. 5.3 The inspector is NOT required to observe: A. storm windows, storm doors, screening, shutters, awnings and similar seasonal accessories. B. fences. C. safety glazing. D. garage door operator remote control transmitters. E. geological conditions. F. soil conditions. G. recreational facilities. H. outbuildings other than garages and carports. 6. SYSTEM: ROOFING 6.1 The inspector shall observe: A. roof coverings. B. roof drainage systems. C. flashings. D. skylights, chimneys and roof penetrations. E. signs of leaks or abnormal condensation on building components. 6.2 The inspector shall: A. describe the type of roof covering materials. B. report the methods used to observe the roofing. 6.3 The inspector is NOT required to: A. walk on the roofing. B. observe attached accessories including but not limited to solar systems, antennae, and lightening arrestors. 7. SYSTEM:PLUMBING 7.1 The inspector shall observe: A. interior water supply and distribution system including: 1. piping materials, including supports and insulation. 2. fixtures and faucets. 3. functional flow. 4. leaks. 5. cross connections. B. interior drain, waste and vent system including: 1. traps; drain, waste, and vent piping; piping supports and pipe insulation. 2. leaks. 3. functional drainage. C. hot water systems including: 1. water heating equipment. 2. normal operating controls. 3. automatic safety controls. 4. chimneys, flues, and vents. D. fuel storage and distribution systems including: 1. interior fuel storage equipment, supply piping, venting, and supports. 2. leaks. E. sump pumps. 7.2 The inspector shall: A. describe: 1. water supply and distribution piping materials. 2. drain, waste, and vent piping materials. 3. water heater equipment. B. operate all plumbing fixtures, including their faucets, and all exterior faucets attached to the house. 7.3 The inspector is NOT required to: A. state the effectiveness of anti-siphon devices. B. determine whether water supply and waste disposal systems are public or private. C. operate automatic safety controls. D. operate any valve except water closet flush valves, fixture faucets and hose faucets. E. observe: 1. water conditioning systems. 2. fire and lawn sprinkler systems. 3. on-site water supply quantity and quality. 4. on-site waste disposal systems. 5. foundation irrigation systems. 6. spas, except as to functional flow and functional drainage. 8. SYSTEM: ELECTRICAL 8.1 The inspector shall observe: A. service entrance conductors. B. service equipment, grounding equipment, main over current device, main and distribution panels. C. amperage and voltage ratings of the service. D. branch circuit conductors, their over current devices, and the compatibility of their ampacities and voltages. E. the operation of a representative number of installed lighting fixtures, switches and receptacles located inside the house, garage, and on its exterior walls. F. the polarity and grounding of all receptacles within six feet of interior plumbing fixtures, and all receptacles in the garage or carport, and on the exterior of inspected structures. G. the operation of Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters. 8.2 The inspector shall: A. describe: 1. service amperage and voltage. 2. service entry conductor materials. 3. service type as being overhead or underground. 4. location of main and distribution panels. B. report any observed aluminum branch circuit wiring. 8.3 The inspector is NOT required to: A. insert any tool, probe or testing device inside the panels. B. test or operate any over current device except Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters. C. dismantle any electrical device or control other than to remove the covers of the main and auxiliary distribution panel. D. observe: 1. low voltage systems. 2. smoke detectors. 3. telephone, security, cable TV, intercoms, or other ancillary wiring that is not a part of the primary electrical distribution systems. 9. SYSTEM: HEATING 9.1 The inspector shall observe: A. Permanently installed heating systems including: 1. heating equipment. 2. normal operating controls. 3. automatic safety controls. 4. chimneys, flues, and vents. 5. solid fuel heating devices. 6. heat distribution systems including fans, pumps, ducts, and piping, with supports, dampers, insulation, air filters, registers, radiators, fan-coil units, convectors. 7. the presence of an installed heat source in each room. 9.2 The inspector shall: A. describe: 1. energy source. 2. heating equipment and distribution type. B. operate the systems usuing normal operating controls. C. open readily openable access panels provided by the manufacturer or installer for routine homeowner maintenance. 9.3 The inspector is NOT required to: A. operate heating systems when weather conditions or other circumstances may cause equipment damage. B. operate automatic safety controls. C. ignite or extinguish solid fuel fires. D. observe: 1. the interior of flues. 2. fireplace insert flue connectors. 3. humidifiers. 4. electronic air filters. 5. the uniformity or adequacy of heat supply to the various rooms. 10. SYSTEM: CENTRAL AIR CONDITIONING 10.1 The inspector shall observe: A. central air conditioning including: 1. cooling and air handling equipment. 2. normal operating controls. B. distribution systems including: 1. fans, pumps, ducts, and piping, with supports, dampers, insulation, air filters, registers and fan-coil units. 2. the presence of an installed cooling source in each room. 10.2 The inspector shall: A. describe: 1. energy sources. 2. cooling equipment type. B. operate the systems using normal operating controls. C. open readily openable access panels provided by the manufacturer or installer for routine homeowner maintenance. 10.3 The inspector is NOT required to: A. operate cooling systems when weather conditions or other circumstances may cause equipment damage. B. observe non-central air conditioners. C. observe the uniformity or adequacy of cool-air supply to the various rooms 11. SYSTEM: INTERIORS 11.1 The inspector shall observe: A. walls, ceilings, and floors. B. steps, stairways, balconies, and railings. C. counters and a representative number of cabinets. D. a representative number of doors and windows. E. separation walls, ceilings, and doors between a dwelling unit and an attached garage or another dwelling unit. F. sumps. 11.2 The inspector shall: A. operate a representative number of primary windows and interior doors. B. report signs of water penetration into the building or signs of abnormal or harmful condensation on building components. 11.3 The inspector is NOT required to observe: A. paint, wallpaper, and other finish treatments on the interior walls, ceilings, and floors. B. carpeting. C. draperies, blinds, or other window treatments. D. household appliances. E. recreational facilities or another dwelling unit. 12. SYSTEM: INSULATION & VENTILATION 12.1 The inspector shall observe: A. insulation and vapor retarders in unfinished spaces. B. ventilation of attics and foundation areas. C. kitchen, bathroom, and laundry venting systems. 12.2 The inspector shall describe: A. insulation and vapor retarders in unfinished spaces. B. absence of same in unfinished space at conditioned surfaces. 12.3 The inspector is NOT required to report on: A. concealed insulation and vapor retarders. B. venting equipment which is integral with household appliances. GLOSSARY AUTOMATIC SAFETY CONTROLS: Devices designed and installed to protect systems and components from excessively high or low pressures and temperatures, excessive electrical current, loss of water, loss of ignition, fuel leaks, fire, freezing, or other unsafe conditions. CENTRAL AIR CONDITIONING: A system which uses ducts to distribute cooled and/or dehumidified air to more than one room or uses pipes to distribute chilled water to heat exchangers in more than one room, and which is not plugged into an electrical conven- ience outlet. COMPONENT: A readily accessible and observable aspect of a system, such as a floor, or wall, but not individual pieces such as boards or nails where many similar pieces make up the component. CROSS CONNECTION: Any physical connection or arrangement between potable water and any source of contamination. DANGEROUS OR ADVERSE SITUATIONS: Situations which pose a threat of injury to the inspector, and those situations which require use of special use of special protective clothing or safety equipment. DESCRIBE: Report in writing a system or component by its type, or other observed characteristics, to distinguish it from other components used for the same purpose. DISMANTLE: To take apart or remove any component, device or piece of equipment that is bolted, screwed, or fastened by other means and that would not be disman- tled by a homeowner in the course of normal household maintenance. ENGINEERING: Analysis or design work requiring extensive preparation and experience in the use of mathematics, chemistry, physics, and the engineering sciences. ENTER: To go into an area to observe all visible components. FUNCTIONAL DRAINAGE: A drain is functional when it empties in a reasonable amount of time and does not overflow when another fixture is drained simultaneously. FUNCTIONAL FLOW: A reasonable flow at the highest fixture in a dwelling when another fixture is operated simultaneously. HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES: Kitchen and laundry appliances, room air conditioners, and similar appliances. INSPECTOR: Any person who examines any component of a building, through visual means and through normal user controls, without the use of mathematical sci- ences. INSTALLED: Attached or connected such that the installed item requires tools for removal. NORMAL OPERATING CONTROLS: Homeowner operated devices such as a thermostat, wall switch, or safety switch. OBSERVE: The act of making a visual examination. ON-SITE WATER SUPPLY QUALITY: Water quality is based on the bacterial, chemical, mineral, and solids content of the water. ON-SITE WATER SUPPLY QUANTITY: Water quantity is the rate of flow of water. OPERATE: To cause systems or equipment to function. PRIMARY WINDOWS AND DOORS: Windows and/or exterior doors which are designed to remain in the re- spective openings year round and not left open for the entire summer. READILY OPERABLE ACCESS PANEL: A panel provided for homeowner inspection and maintenance which has removable or operable fasteners or latch devices in order to be lifted off, swung open, or otherwise removed by one person, and its edges and fasteners are not painted in place. Limited to those panels within normal reach or from a 4-foot step-ladder, and which are not blocked by stored items, furniture, or building components. RECREATIONAL FACILITIES: Spas, saunas, steam baths, swimming pools, tennis courts, playground equipment, and other exercise, entertainment, or athletic facilities. REPRESENTATIVE NUMBER: For multiple identical components such as windows and electric outlets - one such component on each side of the building. ROOF DRAINAGE SYSTEMS: Gutters, downspouts, leaders, splash blocks, and similar components used to carry water off a roof and away from a building. SAFETY GLAZING: Tempered Glass, laminated glass, or rigid plastic. SHUT DOWN: A piece of equipment or a system is shut down when it cannot be operated by the device or control which a home owner should normally use to operate it. If its safety switch or circuit breaker is in the "off" position, or its fuse is missing or blown, the inspector is not required to reestablish the circuit for the purpose of operating the equipment or system. SOLID FUEL HEATING DEVICE: Any wood, coal, or other similar organic fuel burning device, including but not limited to fireplaces whether masonry or factory-built, fireplace inserts and stoves, woodstoves (room heaters,) central furnaces, and combina- tions of these devices. STRUCTURAL COMPONENT: A component which supports non-variable forces or weighs (dead loads) and variable forces or weights (live loads.) SYSTEM: A combination of interacting or interdependent components, assembled to carry out one or more functions. TECHNICALLY EXHAUSTIVE: An inspection is technically exhaustive when it involves the extensive use of measurements, instruments, testing, calculations, and other means to develop scientific or engineering findings, conclusions, and recommendations. UNDERFLOOR CRAWL SPACE: The area within the confines of the foundation and between the ground and the underside of the lowest floor structural component.
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Former council candidate receives a court date in ongoing nuisance case.
Ridgecrest Police Department officially served Ridgecrest resident William Dale Howard with a citation Tuesday morning, setting a date to appear in court on Jan. 16, 2013.
According to RPD Capt. Paul Wheeler, Howard was issued a citation at his home in the 1100 block of Mayo Street on 13 misdemeanor counts.
The Kern County District Attorney's office filed the charges on Thursday, Nov. 29.
"I'm pleased we're going forward with this," Wheeler said Tuesday. "This is something that has been going on far too long."
While the court set a bail at $32,500, Wheeler confirmed Howard was not required to pay it.
Howard faces 12 misdemeanor counts of violating Section 372 of the California Penal Code, or maintaining a public nuisance, and one count of violating section 20-8.2 of the Ridgecrest municipal code, or violating land use in violation of zoning.
Howard is accused of violating the penal code because the properties listed are filled with various possessions. According to Wheeler, many of his properties fall under the category of a "junkyard," which is not allowed in single-family and estate residential areas.
A previous case containing 37 misdemeanor charges against Howard filed in Jan. 2011 was dropped in August 2012 by the DA's office due to the case's age.
In addition to the criminal case, Howard faces a civil lawsuit that includes a receivership act filed by the city on Sept. 19. The first court date is set for March 18, 2013 at the Kern County Superior Court in Bakersfield.
The receivership act against Howard falls under Section 17920 of the California Health and Safety Code, which includes classifying properties as a nuisance.
Should the court find in favor of the city, a court-approved receiver would take control of Howard's properties and remove anything that violated the California Penal Code or city ordinances.
Howard said Tuesday he was looking forward to his day in court.
"These charges seem to be the same ones they (the DA) dropped the last time," Howard said of the charges.
Howard confirmed that he keeps peacocks on his property, and said it was legal to keep them.
"I have had peacocks and other animals since 1959," Howard said. "They were with legal with the county then and they're legal now."
Ridgecrest fell under Kern County laws until 1963, when the city was incorporated and began establishing its own municipal code.
The DA's office filed the charge for violating city zoning ordinances to thread the case together. In a prior interview, deputy district attorney Scott Garver said the zoning section excluded peacocks or any other farm animals from being kept in single family residential properties.
Howard maintained he is entitled to his constitutional rights and would move forward with defending himself in court.
"I look forward to going before a fair and impartial judge and jury," Howard said. "You can't just quit something because some says they don't like what you're doing."


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Manchester fire ruled accidentalBy DAMIEN FISHER
New Hampshire Union Leader
February 26. 2012 11:35PM
MANCHESTER - Investigators believe the cause of Saturday night's apartment fire is accidental.
Manchester Fire Chief Robert Corbeil said Sunday the exact cause is still being determined.
'They're leaning toward an electrical malfunction,' he said.
The blaze heavily damaged the third-floor apartment at 485 Dubuque St., though none of the residents was injured.
The building was home to about 12 people, or three families, said Bruno Bartoli, the property manager.
'All three families went to the Red Cross,' Bartoli said.
Firefighters had to battle the flames, as well as high winds Corbeil said.
'We had issues with the wind,' he said.
The wind repeatedly reignited the fire, keeping firefighters hard at work to try to save the home, and the neighborhood.
The building is in a neighborhood of triple-deckers close together. Firefighters feared the flames would jump to other homes, and called in a second alarm, Corbeil said.
'That was one of our concerns,' Corbeil said.
The adjacent building on the north side sustained damage from the heat of the fire, Corbeil said, with the vinyl siding getting melted in places.
It took firefighters more than an hour to get the blaze under control, and they stayed at the scene through the night to ensure the fire stayed out.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones has returned home after leaving a treatment facility where she was being treated for her bipolar II disorder.
The actress was spotted driving to her New York City apartment Tuesday after dropping off her daughter at school, according to People and E! News.
Zeta-Jones, 43, checked herself into the facility on April 29 and was set to be there for 30 days. She was there to undergo some healthy "maintenance," according to TMZ.
Her rep did not immediately return a request for comment.
"Catherine has proactively checked into a healthcare facility," the actress' rep told the Ministry last month. "Previously Catherine has said that she is committed to periodic care in order to manage her health in an optimum manner."
Bipolar disorder, formerly known as manic-depression, is typically lifelong and recurrent. People with bipolar II swing from severe depression to a milder and briefer manic state called hypomania. They aren't impaired to the extent that folks with bipolar I can be.
The "Side Effects" star previously sought treatment for her condition at a Connecticut facility back in April 2011, after dealing with the stress of the previous year, which included her husband's fight with throat cancer.
Her husband, Michael Douglas, 68, described her most recent visit to the facility as a "10,000-mile check-up," according to the mag.
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EEE found in batch of Exeter mosquitoes
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CONCORD - State health officials say the first positive test for Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) this year was found in a batch of mosquitoes in Exeter.
The positive test for the virus is in addition to six batches of mosquitoes testing positive this year for West Nile Virus. Last year, there were 13 positives for EEE, including nine mosquito batches and four animals.EEE and West Nile are transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito. The finding does not change the low-risk level in Exeter, according to a news release issued by the state Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)."This is the first identified positive for EEE in New Hampshire this season, but unfortunately it is not unexpected," said Public Health Director Dr. Jose Montero. "These two viruses tend to appear in waves, and some years there are more positives than others so we don't really know what the rest of the season has in store. This is all the more reason why people should take precautions against being bitten by mosquitoes."West Nile symptoms appear four to 10 days after a bite and include fever and headache.EEE is a more serious disease that carries a high mortality rate for those who contract the serious form of the illness. Symptoms may include high fever, severe headache, stiff neck and sore throat, and they usually occur four to 10 days after a mosquito bite.For more information, go to the DHHS website at dhhs.nh.gov/dphs/cdcs/arboviral/index.htm and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website at cdc.gov.


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