December 2011
after 12/8/11
here after 12/22/11
here
12/1/11
MISCELLANEOUS RAMBLINGS
Upcoming Staff Changes in
the Mayor's Office
a forward of His Honor Da
Boz email
As many of you know, Julie
Sinai my current Chief of Staff is transitioning into her new
position at UC Berkeley as the new Director of Local Government
and Community Relations at UC Berkeley.
I also want to take this
opportunity to announce that I have hired Judith Iglehart
as my new Chief of Staff effective Monday January 3rd, 2012.
Currently, Ms. Iglehart is the President of the international
division of the Keiretsu Forum. Her past experience in private
business, the California State Senate and with the University
of California make her excellent fit in my office.
Please join me in welcoming
Ms. Iglehart to the City of Berkeley.
regards,
Mayor Tom Bates
City of Berkeley News Page
here
"Electrical malfunction caused Berkeley
fire" Carolyn Jones,
Chronicle Staff Writer.
"A devastating fire
that tore through a Berkeley apartment building began with an
electrical malfunction in the basement, fire investigators said
today.
The fire was apparently an
accident, starting in the elevator machinery and quickly engulfing
the historic 4-story apartment building just south of the UC Berkeley
campus, according to the Berkeley Fire Department's initial findings."
"Fire in Dwinelle Hall at UC Berkeley quickly
contained" is a
report in the Contra Costa Times .
"Hewlett-Packard printers can be controlled
and set afire by hackers, researchers say" reports Jeremy C. Owens at contracostatimes.com.
"UC Berkeley police union defends Occupy
handling" is an
AP report at mercurynews.com.
"The union representing University of California, Berkeley
police say a video showing baton-wielding officers jabbing demonstrators
earlier this month is misleading and doesn't show officers being
hit, pushed and threatened. . . .
The UC Berkeley Police Officers'
Association on Monday released a letter to the community, saying
it supports a full investigation of the Nov. 9 incident. . . .
The letter also criticized
UC officials, saying they asked police to enforce their policies
then refused to stand by officers when they did."
"Which Side Are They On? How cops really
feel about the Occupy Wall Street protests" by Peter Moskos at slate.com.
"As to the protesters,
I have sympathy. I can only hope they will direct their anger
not toward the men and women following orders (lawful orders,
mind you), but to those with the power and means to actually affect
change.
As to the police, I also
have sympathy. You are stuck in the middle, as usual. But you
must exercise professionalism and restraint. The whole world really
is watching. And the good job of many can easily be undone by
the out-of-control action of few.
But to those who may be intent
on provoking and hurting police, I can offer no better warning
than one told to my friend years ago by his father: 'Don't get
into fights with police; they're not in the habit of losing.'
"
Charlie Rose "Update
on Occupy Wall Street" with John Heilemann and
Mattathias Schwartz is here.
"Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awards
$6 million for earthquake early warning research" Media Relations, UC Berkeley.
"The Gordon and Betty
Moore Foundation has awarded $6 million to three West Coast universities
to create a prototype earthquake early warning system for the
Pacific Coast of the United States.
The grant will allow seismologists
at the University of California, Berkeley; California Institute
of Technology (Caltech); and University of Washington, Seattle,
in collaboration with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), to learn
about the science of earthquakes and the best way to capture and
analyze seismic data."
"Marley Coffee Introduces Organic Ground
Coffee Line to Retail Partners in Northern California" is a story release at prnewswire.com.
"Karen Marley [ will ] Visit Rainbow Grocery in San Francisco
on Dec. 3, Andronico's Markets in Berkeley on Dec. 4
Marley Coffee, a sustainably
grown, ethically farmed and artisan roasted gourmet coffee, has
expanded distribution in Northern California with two leading
retailers. Rainbow Grocery in San Francisco and Andronico's Markets
in Berkeley will both begin offering the new lineup of Marley
Coffee Organic Ground in 8-oz. bags, starting in December.
To celebrate, Karen Marley,
daughter of Bob Marley, will visit the historic Rainbow Grocery
in San Francisco on Saturday, December 3 from 12pm 2pm.
"
"Volunteer grandparents fill void with
love in S.F." is
a Meredith May story at sfgate.com.
END
POSTS FROM THE
PAST
12/1/07
The Cajun
Savoy Family is giving a free performance in front of the 4th
Street Down Home Music. It's Sunday afternoon at 1:00 PM. Definitely
check it out!
"Berkeley puts up balance of funds for
disability center" writes the San Francisco Chronicle's
Carolyn Jones.
"Somewhere,
Ed Roberts is smiling.
A one-of-a-kind
regional campus named in honor of the pioneering disability rights
activist won its final round of funding Tuesday night when the
Berkeley City Council voted unanimously to pay the remaining $2
million.
The Ed Roberts
Campus will be a Bay Area center for disability services, policy
research and education. Ground will be broken in May or June,
after 12 years of fundraising.
"Everyone's
a little stunned," said Dmitri Belser, president of the Ed
Roberts Campus. 'People are feeling pretty happy right now. But
they're also feeling a lot of incredible gratitude.' "
Marsha Wacko
sent me the link to this story from her law office. Marsha got
her first real job in California with the help of our Center for
Independent Living.
END
12/2/11
MISCELLANEOUS RAMBLINGS
Vintage European Posters
Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11-5:30
December Weekends Saturday 11-6 and Sundays 11-5
2201 Fourth Street in Berkeley
Come and join us this month.
We will be open the first three weekends of December as well as
Tuesdays and Thursdays leading up to the holiday.
VW's new spot for South Africa
Volkswagen "Motorcycle
Ad"
"Riding a motorcycle
isn't for everyone. Aside from the requisite blatant disregard
for personal safety, there are a host of inconveniences to deal
with. Bugs, heat, dirt, dust, grime and the stench of road kill
can all put a kink in an otherwise enjoyable afternoon of riding.
. . . Volkswagen South Africa has released a new ad for the company's
Jetta featuring a duo of would-be motorcycle heroes as they endure
the slings of motorcycling on a pair of beautiful Kawasaki steeds."
"E. Coli Bacteria Engineered to Make Transport
Fuels" at ensnewswire.com.
"The same bacteria that
causes traveler's diarrhea has now been genetically engineered
to digest switchgrass and synthesize its sugars into three transportation
fuels."
"Apple, and Planet, Low on Cats" Andrew C Revkin, nytimes.com.
"All of the animals
Apple has used come from Felidae family in the Carnivora order
of mammals. Tiger, Lion, Jaguar, and Leopard all come from the
subfamily known as Pantherinae. Cheetah comes from the other still-living
subfamily, Felinae.
There are a lot of other
cats left. None of them are particularly intimidating though.
The Eurasian Lynx can weigh as much as 66 pounds. Even less fearsome:
the Eurasian Lynx's North American cousin, the Bobcat; the Ocelot,
the biggest of the dinky Leopardus genus; and Felix Catus, the
domestic cat.
Apple hasn't tapped a third
group of Felidae, now extinct, known as the Machairodontinae.
That subfamily includes Smilodon, also known as the 'Saber-toothed
cat.'"
END
POST FROM THE PAST
6/9/08
"3 top James Beard awards for Bay Area
foodies" writes
Miriam Morgan, Chronicle Food Editor.
"Bay Area chefs and
restaurateurs took home three top prizes in Sunday night's James
Beard Foundation Awards in New York, including best chef in the
Pacific region. The awards, given annually, are considered the
Oscars of the food world.
Craig Stoll, chef and co-owner
of Delfina in San Francisco, beat stiff competition that included
three other Bay Area chefs and was named the best chef in California
and Hawaii, one of 10 such regional awards. Stoll and his wife,
Annie, also operate the adjoining Pizzeria Delfina. The award
goes to a chef who has been working in that job for at least five
years and has set consistent standards of excellence.
Another major prize, the
Outstanding Pastry Chef award, went to Elisabeth Prueitt and Chad
Robertson, owners of Tartine Bakery in San Francisco, as the best
pastry chefs or bakers in America. The award designates a chef
or baker who serves as a national standard-bearer of excellence.
The couple also own Bar Tartine, a restaurant a few blocks away
on Valencia Street. Nicole Plue, pastry chef at Redd in Yountville,
was one of the five nominees in the pastry category.
In addition, Fritz Maytag
of Anchor Brewing Co. and Anchor Distilling Co., both in San Francisco,
a pioneer in the American micro-brew and artisan spirits industries,
received a Lifetime Achievement Award. Maytag also produces high-quality
blue cheese at his family's Maytag Dairy Farms in Iowa, and is
a leader in the resurgent American artisan cheese industry."
In 1983 Fritz Maytag, also
a motorcycle/car guy, held a "Concours d'Elegance of Rare
and Unusual Motorcycles" at his Anchor Steam Brewery in San
Francisco. I was invited to show at this invitation-only event.
I brought three bikes and my 1969 Royal Enfield "Interceptor"
was one of them. Deliciously catered, and with motorcycles placed
in among the copper-vats, it was memorable. Ed and Merryll Saylan
came as my guests.
I also brought my all-black
1946 Sunbeam of which Maytag said "This is my favorite. It's
even better than the Vincents." I bet he says that to all
the girls.
Maytag was also a classical
music fan and loves Bach. We talked a while about Bach's "Suites
for Unaccompanied Cello."
END
12/3/11
MISCELLANEOUS RAMBLINGS
roof work
Saturday at Fantasy
Like big machinery?
see a big Liebherr excavator climb a tall vertical
ladder
Video link courtesy
Bob Kubik.
Aptera
Slated for initial production
in late 2008, the Aptera will come in all-electric and plug-in
hybrid models. Its name means "wingless" in Greek, and
the Aptera's body materials and aerodynamics are borrowed from
light aircraft.
When Steve Fambro got bored
building robots at a San Diego genetics company, he figured he
could help keep his brain busy by building a kit airplane in his
spare time. But his wife deemed the hobby too dangerous, so Fambro
decided to build a car instead, one with low emissions and absurdly
high mileage. Called the Aptera (Greek for "wingless"),
the machine now exists as a working prototype. It has 2.5 seats,
three wheels, weighs a feathery 1,500 pounds, and Fambro says
his company will put the Aptera into production next October.
"California electric vehicle maker Aptera
closes doors" at
sfgate.com.
"Paul Wilbur, president
and CEO of electric vehicle manufacturer Aptera just announced
the company is closing today. The company was headquartered in
Carlsbad, Calif., the district of House Republican Darrell Issa,
a big critic of bankrupt Fremont solar manufacturer Solyndra.
Aptera hoped to make a three-wheeled
electric car in the $30,000 range but has been unable to find
private investors to match a conditional Energy Department loan
committment of $150 million."
END
POST FROM THE PAST
7/19/08
Doc drives his Jag to work
regularly
Well Ok, then!
END
12/5/11
MISCELLANEOUS RAMBLINGS
"Advice From the 1%: Lever Up, Drop Out" by Michael Lewis at bloomberg.com.
(Michael Lewis is the author
of the best-sellers The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine;
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game; Moneyball: The Art of Winning
an Unfair Game; and Liars Poker among other works.)
"To: The Upper Ones
From: Strategy Committee Re: The Counterrevolution
As usual, we have much to
celebrate.
The rabble has been driven
from the public parks. Our adversaries, now defined by the freaks
and criminals among them, have demonstrated only that they have
no idea what they are doing. They have failed to identify a single
achievable goal.
Just weeks ago, in our first
memo, we expressed concern that the big Wall Street banks were
vulnerable to a mass financial boycott -- more vulnerable even
than tobacco companies or apartheid-era South African multinationals.
A boycott might raise fears of a bank run; and the fears might
create the fact.
Now, we'll never know: The
Lower 99's notion of an attack on Wall Street is to stand around
hollering at the New York Stock Exchange. The stock exchange!
We have won a battle, but
this war is far from over."
CBS 60 Minutes
"Two high-ranking financial
whistleblowers say they tried to warn their superiors about defective
and even fraudulent mortgages. So why haven't the companies or
their executives been prosecuted? "
"Prosecuting Wall Street, pt. 1 with Eileen
Foster, former Countrywide vice president" a
Steve Kroft report.
"Prosecuting
Wall Street, pt. 2 with Richaed Bowen, former senior vice president,
Citigroup" Steve Kroft reports.
"Behind the financial crisis: A fraud investigator
talks."
END
POST FROM THE PAST
12/3/10
MISCELLANEOUS RAMBLINGS
"I mean, there really
isn't any Santa Claus, right?" Jack thought.
Steve Smith photo
Still, . . . "Naughty
or nice, naughty or nice?" continued to run through his head.
END
12/6/11
MISCELLANEOUS RAMBLINGS
Milo
Sunday, on his 7th Birthday
"Researcher takes on 'empathy fatigue'
in the workplace" by
Yasmin Anwar, Media Relations, UC Berkeley.
"A nurse refuses to help an ailing alcoholic who is upset
to find a hospital detox unit closed. A hospital clerk brushes
off a deceased woman's grieving family as they try to pay her
bills and claim her belongings. A charge nurse keeps the mother
of gunshot victim from seeing her son, saying the emergency room
is 'too busy.'
These harsh, real-life scenarios
helped inspire Eve Ekman, a doctoral student in social welfare
at the University of California, Berkeley, to study empathy burnout
in the workplace, a condition expected to skyrocket this year
due to the stress caused by the nation's financial crisis."
END
POST FROM THE PAST
12/10/04
Scrambled
Eggs Babe of the Year 2004
Potter Creek's
newest citizen
END
12/7/11
MISCELLANEOUS RAMBLINGS
Sally and Suzanna had a garden
party on Sunday afternoon in January 2007 --sort of the celebration "My dinning
pavilion was featured in House Beautiful." And by mid-afternoon, Sally's pavilion and backyard
over-flowed with guests, among them movers-and-shakers of west-Berkeley
and dressed-to-the-tens Bay Area interior decorators and designers.
Champagne flowed and La Farine desserts dazzled on the dinning-room
table. But in the midst of all this sat the demure Dorothy Mitchell-Irwin,
now 91. Sally's cousin, she was down from Redlands for the party.
A Redlands native, Dorothy went to school there from kindergarten
to college, graduating from the University of Redlands in 1938.
After meeting her first husband-to-be on a Hawiian cruise they
married and shortly after moved to Honolulu. But they divorced
within a year. "I thought I was so smart, but I was so naive"
she said.
Dorothy remained in Hawaii
and got a job working for a civilian contractor to the military.
And so on December 7, 1941 she was there and remembers. . . .
When I think of December
7th, 1941 I usually also remember the Thanksgiving before. My
boyfriend at the time, Hilbert Crosthwaite was a young Lieutenant
on the submarine, ARGONAUT. He had duty on Thanksgiving night
and invited me to join him and another officer on board for dinner.
(I don't remember what we had, but the Navy was famous for good
food.) While we were eating the teletype started clacking and
we could hear it. The other officer took the communique and read
it. The sense of the message, from Washington I think, was that
the United States had lost track of the Japanese fleet but that
it was still somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.
December 7 was on a Sunday.
When the telephone rang early that morning I ran downstairs to
answer it. (Later on one of our boyfriends put an extension upstairs,
but I was the one awakened and ran downstairs to answer it.) It
was a roomate's boyfriend, Warren Gardner, and he said: "The
Japs have bombed Pearl Harbor!" We had not been out with
him the night before, and anyhow he was inclined to play jokes
on us, so I said: "Stop yer kidding-and go back to bed."
"No," he said, "it's true, If you don't believe
me turn on the radio." So I did and this is what I heard
Webbley Edwards say: "And if you do not live throughout this
day, happy landings. The radio station is now going off air.`'
All the radios were off air so no enemy planes could follow the
beam into Honolulu.
Well! That got my attention.
I ran upstairs to waken my roommates and met with the same unacceptance
until out our upstairs window which overlooked the Ala Wai Canal
and the golf course beyond, we-saw a small white plane flying
low over the canal with a big red circle under the wing!
You can imagine we got dressed
in a hurry. In order to calm my nerves and keep busy I decided
to wash clothes in the kitchen sink. We did not have a washing
machine and as a rule we took our laundry to a Japanese mamasan
every week. I remember thinking: if I'm going to be a Japanese
prisoner, at least I'll have clean clothes. Later we were advised
to pack a bag and what we should put in it. We still had it at
the end of the war but we hadn't used it.
When we heard what we thought
was a bomb explode a block from our apartment we all ran out to
see what had happened and while we were gone the sink overflowed
and flooded the kitchen floor. That kept me busy too. Now I'd
have clean clothes and a clean floor.
Some Japanese bombs did fall
farther away from our apartment, but the one in question was an
anti aircraft shell which misfired from Fort de Russey's Battery
B anti aircraft Coast Defense gun. This was an Army Fort to protect
Honolulu shoreline from Diamond Head to Fort Armstrong down town.
Well fortunately that shell fell on an inter section of Aloha
Drive and Lewers Ave. It made a hole in the pavement that was
quickly repaired.
The Japanese bomb wiped out
a low income area of mostly Japanese residents and we thought
it was ironic they bombed their own people.
Now there's a beautiful hotel
for service people at Fort de Russey and a museum on the site
of Battery B, as it was called.
We kept ourselves busy all
day. Early in the afternoon one of the room mate's boyfriends
who lived in Manoa Valley came to see if we were OK. I think 3
or 4 fellows lived in the house. So we all piled in Fred Barnett's
open air convertible and he took the 3 of us home. We were driving
down Beretania Blvd. between the Honolulu Academy of Arts and
Thomas Square when we heard a terrible racket that sounded like
machtne gun fire, and we all DUCKED. A big PBY was flying overhead
and we were thankful it was OUR plane. But the noise was caused
by a flat tire. Auwe! We all piled out of the car while the tire
was fixed.
Those fine fellows opened
cans and fixed a tuna casserole that tasted mighty good. My two
roommates worked for Hawaiian Electric Co. and one was a Home
Economist, so I'm sure we must have helped. I'm not sure where
everyone else slept, but I slept on the floor in my clothes.
I might add that we expected
the Japanese would come ashore at Waikiki.
Next morning one fellow drove
me to the Navy Recruiting office on Ala Moana Blvd . and I got
a ride to the Submarine Base Gate at Pearl Harbor. Then I started
walking to Kuahua Island (as it was called) where the Pacific
Naval Airbase office was where I worked, when a Press Photographer
picked me up and took me to the office. I'm sorry I can't remember
his name because he became a famous photographer.
The PNAB office was across
from Ford Island which actually blocks the entrance to Pearl Harbor.
The scene was horrendous - water was burning because oil from
the battleships had caught fire. They were still bringing in bodies,
both dead and alive. All of our battleships had been destroyed,
as they intended, but we still had aircraft carriers!
W. T. Owen was the manager
of the PNAB Purchasing Department where I worked. There were 8
or 10 purchasing agents buying materials needed to build the Pacific
Naval Airbases. There were 5 big engineering firms constructing
these bases. Oleta Stevens was in charge of all the girls (20
or 30?) who typed the purchase orders for Midway, Wake and Johnson
Islands. I called Oleta and she reminded me that on the 8th our
wastebaskets were filled with sand in case there was a fire when
the Japs returned. She said she urged us to work hard and fast
to accomplish as-much as possible in case it was our last chance.
She remembered that the OKLAHOMA
had capsized and by Tuesday the ship had been righted and all
the officers and crew were rescued. The
ARIZONA was never brought up from its watery grave.
The YORKTOWN aircraft carrier
was badly damaged during the Battle of Coral Sea in May of 1942,
and it was sunk during the Battle of Midway the following month.
The ENTERPRISE was badly damaged too. More about that later.
On Monday I saw a Destroyer
going out to sea that maneuvered back and forth like a car emerging
from a tight place. They'd had word the Japs were attacking Hilo
and were going out to protect the harbor.
The next day our friends
gathered to help us black out our our apartment. It stayed that
way till the end of the war.
The air raid wardens were
very demanding - not one glimmer of light was allowed to show
through.
Naturally we were all afraid.
We really expected the Japanese to invade Oahu by walking in over
the reefs to Waikiki. Now we know they planned to start with the
Philippines and work their way across the Pacific. They made a
good start to this plan. Lucky for us they didn't know how easy
it would have been to invade Oahu.
Just before the Battle of
Midway it was very impressive to be aware of bombers flying out
from Hickam Airfield, next to Pearl Harbor, every few minutes.
We knew something Big was happening. It was the Battle of Midway.
At that Battle the Japanese lost 3,500 of their finest and best
trained men.
Shortly after in June, 1942,
the aircraft carrier ENTERPRISE, which had been badly damaged
in the Battle of Midway, returned to Pearl Harbor with a GREAT
hole in its side. Still, it was a magnificent sight to see this
huge ship badly crippled come back home to Pearl Harbor - the
crew and officers standing at attention on deck. It was thrilling,
and we were very proud. Until then I don't believe we'd been confident
about winning the war. But that was the beginning of the end of
what had been started for us at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 194L
Although it took 3 more years of fierce fighting and a terrible
loss of life to come to a successful conclusion.
Some years
ago, my friend Takane Eshima gave me a copy of the book Day
of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor. The
author is ex-Oakland Tribune reporter/photographer, Robert B.
Stinnett. The book's thesis is that WE were sneaky about Pearl
Harbor. Although his case that FDR knowingly let Pearl Harbor
happen in order to get America into war is not fully made, it
seems clear Roosevelt finessed us into World War II.
In Alliance
of Enemies; the untold story of the secret American and German
collaboration to end World War II, authors Hassell and MacRae write of Roosevelt's
methods "FDR sized on information to use as a tool for power
plays among his key advisors. Richard M. Helms . . . recalled
that FDR also ignored 'intelligence that was inconvenient. . .
. Intelligence was important to [Roosevelt] . . . but he tended
to toy with it.' "
END
12/8/11
MISCELLANEOUS RAMBLINGS
OPEN STUDIOS continue
100 artists and craftspeople open their studios
and galleries
during the 21st Annual Berkeley Artisans Holiday Open Studios.
Event website has a list and map/ http://www.berkeleyartisans.com
Saturdays and Sundays
11/26 thru 12/18
11 - 6 p.m.
for Berkeley Artisans Holiday Open Studios
2547 Eighth Street at Parker, Berkeley
In the Sawtooth Building
&
Please join Susan Brooks @ the Studio
hand wrought jewelry & works on paper
http://www.susanbrooks.com
In addition to the weekends of the event
I will also be open every Thursdays 12-5 p.m.
and Dec. 19-23, 12-5 p.m., Dec. 24, 11-2 p.m.
I will be available many extra afternoons throughout the season,
just give a call.
Throughout the year I am open
every Thursday, the first Saturday of the month,
& by appointment or chance.
Hope you'll stop by,
Susan
There are also open studios in ActivSpace
at 2703 7th Street, Berkeley AND throughout Potter Creek and west-Berkeley.
You can drop toys off for
"Toys for Tots" at BFD Station No.1. They're on 8th
just north of Dwight.
And Berkeley High's principal
has written letters to parents of his concern over the increased
size of the Occupy encampment. It is across from our high school.
The Obama administration
has just released a study about domestic terrorism that advocates
greater involvement of local law enforcement.
Claudia emails
Rocket Restaurant Supply
This place is on 7th almost
at Ashby, but I went there for the first time on Saturday, and
was very pleasantly surprised. They have a HUGE assortment of
cooking equipment, sized for the home cook to cooking for the
whole neighborhood, and then some. Plus very reasonably prices.
I wasn't sure it was open to the public, but it is, and I urge
people to go see it. Reminds me of the days when the Whole Earth
Access store was down there, could drop in for a little item like
a thernometer for yogurt making (as I did today), or to inspire
wishful thinking about a dream kitchen too.
Claudia
especially good for holiday
baking season
and here
again for the Holidays is Richmond Ramblers Motorcycle Club, Cliff
Miller's fruitcake recipe
"This
is a wonderful recipe, and it's just in time for the Holidays.
Enjoy!
With the holidays coming, here's a fruit cake recipe that will
help take the stress out of this normally stressful time.
Ingredients:
1 cup of water
1 cup of sugar
4 large eggs
2 cups dried fruit
1 tsp. salt
1 cup brown sugar
3 ounces lemon juice
1 cup of nuts
vodka
First, sample the vodka to check for freshness. Take a large bowl.
Check the vodka again to be sure it is of the highest quality.
Repeat.
Turn on the electric mixer, beat 1 cup of butter in a large fluffy
bowl.
Add water, eggs and 1 tsp. sugar and beat again.
Make surr the vodca is still OK. Cry another tup. Turn off mixers.
Chuck in the cup of dried fruitt or something.
Mix on the turner.
If the fried druit gets struck on the beaterers, pry it loose
with a
drewscriver.
Sample the vodka to check for tonsistancity. Next, sniff 2 cups
of
salt. Or . . . Who cares? Check the vodka. Now sniff the lemon
juice
and strain nuts.
Add one Table.
Spoon.
Of sugar. Whatever.
Grease the oven.
Turn the cake ttin 350 degrees.
Don't forget to beat off the turner.
Whip the bowl out the window.
Check the vidka again.
Ah,
. . . forget it. Nobody likes fruitcake anyway."
Though not published by our
The Bark, still check out
" 'Everyday
Dogs' the allure of man's best friend" by Kathleen Maclay,
UC Media Relations.
"A new book from the
University of California, Berkeley's Bancroft Library now hitting
the holiday bookstore shelves gives fresh meaning to the term
'dog days' by celebrating the powerful connections between people
and their canine companions.
'Everyday Dogs' shows the
special bonds between humans and their pets."
Of some particular Potter
Creek interest yet by itself specially good is Charlie
Rose' conversation with John Lasseter--John Lasseter, the
director and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney
Animation Studios.
Though Lasseter's appreciation
of Steve Jobs has insight, his expressed love of animation is
contagious. A regular at 900
GRAYSON, Lasseter televises well.
a Mary
Morris Lawrence photo
Marilyn Monroe
"Early Marilyn Monroe photos sell for more
than $300,000 at auction"
is an AP story.
"Copyrights and images
from Marilyn Monroe's first photo shoot sold for $352,000 at an
auction . . . Julien's Auctions spokeswoman Caroline Galloway
tells The Associated Press on Sunday that the Monroe photos -
taken in 1946 when she was still Norma Jeane Dougherty - were
the highlight of the Beverly Hills auction known as "Icons
& Idols."
END
POST FROM THE PAST
12/7/09
this photo is of
the Avon Lady here from Walnut
Creek
the mayor of Potter Creek
a biker chick
Marsha Wacko
END
"Greenhouse gas network grows in CA" is a report at signonsandiego.com
"Earth Networks on Wednesday
announced it will connect with state-run atmospheric sensors and
those operated by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in
the Bay Area to expand its network for monitoring greenhouse gases
in California.
There will be at least 12
greenhouse observation sites including those managed by
Earth Networks, the Berkeley Lab and Scripps -- in California,
with more in surrounding states as part of the effort. The company
is pitching in $1 million and the State of California is providing
$300,000."
from my log
12/1/11--4:48 PM--dry dirty
air in front room, mucus membrane irritation.
12/2/11--5:05 PM---dry dirty
air in front room, mucus membrane irritation.
12/3/11--4:58--dry dirty
air in front room, mucus membrane irritation, nausea, overrides
HEPA filters. Marsha has same and headache. 5:54 PM--"epoxy"
odor in front room. Similar off-and-on during day.
12/4/11--8:31 M--dry dirty
air in front room, mucus membrane irritation. {Last two days almost
constant irritation, general mucus membraneheadache, nausea, dry
itchy skin, watery eyes, Marsha same.) 9:06 AM--dry dirty air
in front room, mucus membrane irritation, "epoxy/asbestos/hot
roofing tar" odor. 7:34 PM--dry dirty air in front room,
mucus membrane irritation, Marsha similar. 9:39 PM--Similar.
12/5/11--7:04 AM---dry dirty
air in front room, mucus membrane irritation. 8:29 AM--dry dirty
air in front room, mucus membrane irritation, "epoxy/asbestos/hot
roofing tar" odor. 12:03 PM-- dirty air in front room, mucus
membrane irritation. 3:23 PM-- dirty air in front room, mucus
membrane irritation, "epoxy/asbestos/hot roofing tar"
odor. Off-and--on all affternoon.
12/6/11--4:21 PM--lights
flicker. 4:29--dirty air in front room, mucus membrane irritation.
5:31;;PM--VERY SERIOUS irritant in front room nausea, headache,
light head, leave. 6:28 PM--dry dirty air in front room, mucus
membrane irritation, "epoxy/asbestos/hot roofing tar"
odor. 10:06 PM--dry dirty air in front room, mucus membrane irritation,
"epoxy/asbestos/hot roofing tar" odor. Off-and-on since
late afternoon.
12/7/11--12:51 PM--dry dirty
air in front room, mucus membrane irritation, "epoxy/asbestos/hot
roofing tar" odor. 8:07 PM--dry dirty air in front room,
mucus membrane irritation, "epoxy/asbestos/hot roofing tar"
odor.
12/8/11--5:27 AM--dirty dry
air in warehouse front and IMMEDIATELY in front of warehouse,
mucus membrane irritation, "epoxy/asbestos/hot roofing tar"
odor. Similar off-and-on all day. 6:47 PM--dry dirty air in front
room, mucus membrane irritation, "epoxy/asbestos/hot roofing
tar" odor. Constant from early evening, dry dirty air in
front room, mucus membrane irritation, "epoxy/asbestos/hot
roofing tar" odor.
12/8/11--PM through 12/9/11AM--Off-and-on,
dry dirty air dirty dry air in warehouse front and IMMEDIATELY
in front of warehouse, mucus membrane irritation, "epoxy/asbestos/hot
roofing tar" odor, ends about 6:00AM. About 7.00 AM--irritant
in front room, nausea, headache, light head. 11:42 AM--dry dirty
air in front room, mucus membrane irritation, "epoxy/asbestos/hot
roofing tar" odor. 2:30 PM--similar.
Understand, length of
exposure to irritant is critical, just walking past warehouse
is not sufficient; "IMMEDIATELY in front of warehouse"
means just that--a few feet or less, and for some time; the irritant
is often odorless--understand even some lethal gases are; irritant
is experienced only "now and then"; and irritant has
after life.
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