Vampire bats sound like the stuff of nightmares - but rabies outbreaks caused by them are the real thing. Could Glasgow Uni researchers have the answer?
Forget battling the forces of evil - scientists at Glasgow University say they're close to a breakthrough on coping with vampire bats, no stakes or garlic required.
Granted, there are few of these bloodthirsty creatures hanging around the river Kelvin - but Glasgow researchers Julio Benavides and Daniel Streicker have penned an article for theconversation.com suggesting relief may be at hand for those who live in Latin America.
It reads: "They have to drink blood every night to survive [and] can bite with their fangs without you even noticing. No wonder these bats are called vampires.
In Peru alone, some 20,000 people were bit between 2009 and 2013 - and in communities across the Amazon,where bites are commonplace, the rate of rabies infection could be almost as high as 1% per year.
The article says that at least 12 children were killed in a single outbreak earlier this year.
Livestock is also affected, meaning farmers lose thousands of animals a year.
The rabies virus is expanding into areas which were previously free of it at around 10km to 20km per year, and the number of outbreaks at national level has doubled.
So what do scientists in Glasgow think can be done about it?
"We are pleased to report that the waves of rabies in bats moves quite predictably. This makes it possible to forecast in some areas when and where the virus is likely to strike next. With this information, which has not been known until now, the authorities in Peru will have the option of anticipating their arrival, allowing them to vaccinate the animals and people before deaths begin.
The article also suggests vaccinating the bats themselves - following the lead from successful mass-vaccination programmes to curb rabies in dogs, foxes and raccoons.
It adds: "Researchers in Mexico and Brazil have shown that you can prevent bats in captivity from catching rabies by giving them an orally transmitted gel that has been impregnated with the vaccine.
"Whether this would work on wild bats is another matter … but our findings on the way the disease spreads in waves among bats could change the game here too: rather than seeking to eliminate rabies from all vampire bats in endemically infected areas, we could try to halt the spread into new areas instead.
"Given that vampire bat rabies has a major impact on human lives and livestock, and we now have both an effective vaccine and a better understanding of how it spreads, we believe this is the right starting point to inspire a new generation of disease control strategies for bats.


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Hello everyone! I'm Helen from HTB Creations. Today I have a coffee card to show you featuring the fabulous Cherry Latte Trendy Twine.
I cut the coffee cup from a file on Design Space. It's about 4 inches tall. The cup was a bit plain so I decided to fill around the 'wrap' with my Cherry Latte Trendy Twine. I pop dotted the little heart on after I stamped the sentiment from the Need Coffee stamp set. To finish it off, I added some brown sequins and a bit of gold Wink of Stella pen to the 'steam'.
We've got something fun coming on Thursday so I hope you check back in. And be sure to head over to Annie's Paper Boutique for all your Twine and packaging needs!
Trendy Twine....No tricks, just Treats!
I just LOVE this time of year...leaves up here will be starting to change soon, apple picking and of course PUMPKINS!
For my project today, I used the adorable Mini Coffee Cup and turned it into a pumpkin. I started by wrapping the cup with some designer paper and stamped my cutie Peachy Keen pumpkin face on the front.
For my top...or the stem, I used a wooden button and placed a striped piece of the straw onto the button. I die cut some leaves and hot glued everything to the button. To cover the hot glue, I wrapped some Halloween Lime Orangesicle Trendy Twine several times around the base.
To finish my project off, I wrapped some more of the designer paper around the lid of the cup as well as added a die cut circle to to the top in which the button embellishment was adhered to. I took some more of the Halloween Lime Orangesicle Trendy Twine wrapped it 2 times around the lid and attached my sentiment tag with a bow.
Filled with some candy or a Pumpkin Coffee K-cup, this would make a fun gift to give!
I started this card by piecing together my patterned papers and layering them to my card base. I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut out a Coffee Cup. I added some Cherry Latte Trendy Twine to the cup for a decorative touch. I mounted it to the front of the card using foam adhesive to give it some added dimension. I ran a length of Cherry Latte Trendy Twine across the front where the bottom layers of the patterned paper pieces met.
I created a fussy bow which I embellished further with a double bow created from Cherry Latte Trendy Twine, and a button laced with the twine as well. Lastly, I just stamped and added my sentiment to the card front to complete my project.
You can find this fabulous Twine on sale at Annie's Paper Boutique.
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It's Tammy, and I am sharing a Hot Cocoa gift treat showcasing this months AWESOME Mini Coffee Cups, Mini Spoons, and Cherry Latte Trendy Twine.
I always get swamped at the holidays, so I try to start working on gifts for these occasions early. I made a little basket of Holiday Cheer!
I started by decorating my Mini Coffee Cup with some designer paper. I made a belly band from kraft paper and ran it through my paper crimper to give it the corrugated cardboard look.
I used some die-cut labels to attach my greeting and I wrapped the top with Trendy Twine's Featured twine this month: Cherry Latte Trendy Twine.
I then added the contents to make Peppermint Hot Cocoa into a bag and tied off adding Cherry Latte Trendy Twine gift tag and a decorated Mini Wooden Spoon.
Next I took a paper berry basket adding Kraft Paper Shreds and folded a doily over the top to the outside. Wrapping some more amazing Cherry Latte Trendy Twine adding a cluster pine cone embellishment.
I am closing out the month with these awesome features and I hope you stop by Annie's Paper Boutique and pick some up for your gift giving needs while they are on sale.
Good Morning! It's Tanya from Crafting on Caffeine.
I'm so happy to be guest designing today and excited to share my planner layout with you.
What better week than my birthday week?
As you can see, I used a few different stamp sets and I've got those listed below.
The Starbucks metal clip goes perfectly with my coffee theme, too.
Of course, you knew I would have to add Trendy Twine into my planner! I used Grape Fizz!
I used the "need coffee" mini cards to make sure I don't forget what food I am planning for our party.
Here are all the planner stamps I used.
Oh and of course one more look at my day!
Thank you for stopping by and thank you, Lesley, for the opportunity!
Hello everyone! This is Sukie with a coffee themed double paged layout featuring Cherry Latte Trendy Twine. This double page layout is a fun representation of my recently found love for coffee.
I created the layout pages using Cafe Coffee Girls cutting file from KaDoodle Bug Designs. The girls face was stamped with Rosie's Favorites Face Assortment Peachy Keen Stamps. The die cuts for my layout came from the Love You A Latte, Holly & Ivy and Summer Celebrations Cricut cartridges.
Some fun washi tape was adhered along the top and bottom edge of my layout pages. I did a lot of embellishing with the Cherry Latte Trendy Twine. Not only did I outline several of the cuts on my page with the twine, I also used it as an accent, the color combination was perfect. All of the sentiments are from the Scrappy Moms Freshly Brewed stamp set.
Head on over to Annie's Paper Boutique to pick up this gorgeous twine. Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful day!
Hello everyone! This is Sukie with a fun project featuring Spooktacular Taffy Trendy Twine, and these adorable mini cups which the design time has been spotlighting this entire month. For my project, I went with a Halloween theme and also used these adorable Kraft Metal Rim Tags which are new in the store.
After I covered my mini cup with some fun Halloween paper, I adhered a punched web border over some solid card stock and wrapped the coffee cup to create a sleeve. One of the metal rimmed tags was adhered to the front of the cup while the other one was added as a tag. The embellishments for the metal tags were cut from the Creepy Cookies cutting file from KaDoodle Bug Designs. The Spooktacular Taffy twine was the perfect color combination for a fun embellishment not the lid of the coffee cup and on the tag. I tucked in a small sentiment from the Scrappy Moms Bewitched stamp set.
Stop by Annie's Paper Boutique to pick up this gorgeous twine, these adorable mini cups and kraft metal rim tags. Thanks so much for stopping by and have a fabulous day!
Trendy Twine- I want CANDY!
here today to share another Mini Coffee cup project.
This time with a Halloween candy theme.
I used some Lime Grapesicle Trendy Twine and the Foodies stamp set.
I stamped some of the candies and candy bars from the Foodies stamp set.
I added some wink of stella and glossy accents for them to sparkle.
The cup is filled with several different kinds of Halloween candy.
A view of the top of the lid.
I added one of the cute candies there.
Check out all the rest of the details on my blog.
Good morning! Beth from Beth's Beauties here. I created this vintage jar shaker card for Grandparent's Day, but it could be used for birthday, thinking of you and many other occasions just by changing the sentiment.
I used a Jar stamp from Whimsy Stamps to create the shaker. I tied a Petite Kraft Tags with Metal Rim around the top of the jar. On the tag I formed a heart out of Cherry Latte Trendy Twine and covered it with glossy accents for a shiny look. I also used the Cherry Latte Trendy Twine to weave through the red doily and tied it in a bow.
I finished it off with a sentiment banner at the bottom.
For more details, head on over to my blog, Beth's Beauties.
Good morning Trendy Twine friends! Beth from Beth's Beauties here. Fall is coming soon and with the cooler days, many people like to drink coffee. So, what better gift to give than a gift card for that?!
I started with a Small Glassine Bag and embossed it with a swirly embossing folder. It was the perfect size for a gift card! Then for the topper, I used pretty patterned paper and wrapped Cherry Latte Trendy Twine around it and also added a bow of that twine on the tag. Then for the coffee cup, I used a file from SVG Attic's set called All I Need. I layered it with glossy accents and covered the steam with Chocolate Truffle and Krazy for Kraft Trendy Twines.
Trendy Twine - Need Coffee!


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Alec Garnett to run for House District 2 seat being vacated by Speaker Ferrandino
By Kurtis Lee
Alec Garnett, Ed Perlmutter, House District 2, John Adler, Mark Ferrandino
Alec Garnett is running for House District 2. Courtesy of Garnett.
For almost two years Alec Garnett has served as the Executive Director of the Colorado Democratic Party, working behind the scenes of a group led by Chairman Rick Palacio.
But later this year, Garnett will leave his position at the state party and work to carve out a political career of his own, as on Tuesday he announced his candidacy for the Denver-based House District 2 seat.
"I am honored to pursue this opportunity to serve the citizens of Denver and Colorado," Garnett, whose father Stan is the current Boulder County District Attorney, said in a statement.
The seat is currently held by Democratic House Speaker Mark Ferrandino who is term limited in 2014. No other candidates have announced a bid for the seat — which is a Democratic-stronghold in the state House.
Garnett's political roots include a stint in Washington where he worked as a legislative assistant to U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter of Golden and legislative director to the now deceased U.S. Rep. John Adler of New Jersey.
"I plan to continue the strong leadership for House District 2 under the gold dome, and I'm confident Colorado is headed in the right direction. But, there's always more work to be done," Garnett said in a statement. "I will prioritize finding solutions to the challenges facing Colorado's economy, focusing on creating high-quality educational opportunities for the next generation, and fighting for equal rights under the law for everyone."
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Hey Alec, your web page says nothing about where you stand on the issues. You are going into a primary, so where do you stand? Let's start with the new gun laws in Colorado that we are finding more and more unpopular.
Do you support repeal of the new gun laws? Some? All? If not, can you give a cogent reason why supported by facts and statistics and not emotion or using the old meme's of "common sense" and "reasonable"?
Comment by schotts — October 21, 2013 @ 10:46 am
Young Garnett moved to HD2 just to run for this seat. His wife worked for Newt Gingrich for several years including 2012. Ick!
Comment by pchild57 — March 20, 2014 @ 2:50 pm
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In Which We Enjoy the Last Daze of Summer
Howdy-do kids and squids! As always, we've got a week jam-packed fulla fun times lined up for you, even if this is the rare week when we don't have new beer(s) to announce (and also this is an off-week for cask*) and anyway let's get on with it!
And first on up is something cool as hell that's ongoing right now and that's a beer and CD combo deal! See, when we were brewing beers for our anniversary party, we named Worshipper's beer after their 2018 EP Mirage Daze - partly because it's a great record but also partly because we thought it was a cool name - and anyway our new friends in Worshipper thought that was pretty rad, so now if you buy Mirage Daze (the beer) in the taproom, you can get Mirage Daze (the CD) for an extra two bucks! Anyway the point is that it's a very good EP and also a very good beer and you should buy both of them.
The EP is definitely upside down on purpose in this picture
Anyway movin' on into some fun times, on Wednesday (which I'm told is today) we're hosting 80's/90's Pop Culture Trivia! It's a pretty big swath of time, but there was some damn memorable stuff goin' on at the time, so grab them Hammer pants outta the back of your closet and come hang out!
And then on Thursday we've got Inebri-Art in the house for some beer mug painting! Twenty bucks gets you a mug and all the painting supplies you'll need and it sounds like a rad way to spend the evening, so come paint with us!
Moving on to Friday, we've got ice cream! Yes indeedy, Blanche's Ice Cream is bringin' their truck back around with some frozen treats for y'all to enjoy in the last days of this year's warm summer nights and also they've usually got ice cream tacos and anyway it's gonna be tasty times!
Then on Saturday we're once again gettin' an early (as in, 10:30 or so) start for some beer garden yoga! (Or taproom yoga depending on the weather) And as an added bonus, 100% of ticket sales will be donated to Healthy & Free Tennessee, a network of organizations working together to fight for reproductive freedom and sexual health in Tennessee (a state with a total abortion ban), so come do some yoga for a good cause!
And gettin' on to Sunday, in addition to our regularly-scheduled sushi class we've got our friend Matt Heaton comin' by for some Surf Guitar Happy Hour! There's not a lot of better ways to spend an afternoon than listening to surf rock and sippin' on some beers, but you ain't gotta take *our* word for it because you can and should do just that this weekend!
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And then movin' on to the heady days of next week, we've got some cool stuff lined up next week! Next Thursday (9/22) we're hosting a terrarium workshop (which is honestly a lot of fun. Like, a bunch more fun than it sounds, and it sounds pretty cool) and then on Friday (9/23) we've got Al Ghanekar and friends in the house doin' some stand up comedy and then after that on Saturday (9/24) we're hosting another show! This time around we teamed up with Somergloom to get a buncha rad doom and psych bands (namely Sundrifter, Major Stars, Kind, Coma Hole, and Electric Street Queens) and they'll be playin' out into the beer garden and we're callin' the event Oktoberfuzz and it's gonna be completely fun as heck! It's also worth noting that this will be our first-ever ticketed show in the beer garden (tickets are only $10! For five bands! That's, like, $2 per band!), so plan accordingly etc.
Anniversary encore? Anniversary encore!
But Wait! There's more! We'll be reppin' at a couple events "out in the world" this weekend! On Friday we'll be at the Dedham Museum for Tavern Night! We don't get to go to a lot of beer fests inside of museums, so this one's a pretty rad change of pace for us. Then on Saturday we'll be up in Gloucester (specifically Stage Fort Park, which we're assured has a killer view) for the Blackburn Brewfest! Anyway the point is that if you're outside of the paradise that is our taproom/beer garden this weekend, you should swing by these events and say hi!
* I know, I know. Frown at me all you want, but it takes time to make casks, and there's been a lack of caskable beers in the tanks these past few weeks.
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It's the last weekend of summer. Sure, it's been a not-so-great one, but I still appreciate having some sunshine in my life. And because we have less than 20 days left in this glorious season (which ends on September 22nd), we should all enjoy the last daze of summer while it lasts.


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Meg Chair Pete Wilson Trashed 'Whores' in Congress
After their candidate hid out for more than a week after the illegal housekeeper story broke wide open, the Armies of eMeg opened fire on Twitter Saturday, wondering where Jerry Brown was in the wake of the revelation that someone in his campaign office suggested calling Whitman a "whore" for selling out to the LA cops union.
"Still in hiding, @JerryBrown2010 skips his own "Day of Action" & refuses to take accountability. http://bit.ly/9bsDsM #cagov about 3 hours ago via web" tweeted sarapompei.
"@JerryBrown2010 last seen entering witness relocation program under new name Monsieur "Rayon de Lune" Details: http://bit.ly/9bsDsM #cagov about 3 hours ago via Seesmic twhirl," said Murphy4MegNews and murphymike.
Rob Stutzman and Tucker Bounds chimed in, too. The hunt was on. And Team Krusty, after issuing an apology to Whitman and anyone in the known universe who might have been offended, was saying absolutely nothing in response to eMeg's Wash-Your-Mouth-Out Campaign for Clean Speech.
But then, one of our faithful Calbuzzers – someone not tied to either governor's campaign — sent us a Feb. 3, 1995 story from the San Francisco Examiner, recounting former Gov. Pete Wilson's buoyant return to Sacramento after a five-day visit to Washington as he geared up to run for president.
Wilson, who as every schoolboy knows, is now Whitman's campaign chairman, back then made national headlines with his critique of Congress, where he had served as a senator. Wrote Brand Ex-man Tupper Hull:
After learning that a federal judge had ruled California might be liable for up to $500 million in damages over its issuance of IOUs during a budget crisis in 1992, Wilson lashed out at Congress for having approved the Depression-era Fair Labor Practices Act.
"I don't blame the judge; he is interpreting the law," Wilson said during a speech before the National Association of Wholesalers Wednesday. "I blame the Congress for being such whores to public employees unions that they would pass that kind of legislation."
Even in 1995, best we can recall, Congress included both men and women. We're just sayin'.
More on whores: To offer a bit more context on the subject, we can report exclusively that a Google search of "political whore" yields 13,400 results, including links to sites called politicalwhore.com and politicalwhores.org , plus recent stories in which liberal Florida Rep. Alan Grayson called a top ranking federal reserve official a "K Street whore," and conservative talk show host Jim Quinn termed the National Organization for Women (which endorsed Brown in the wake of his campaign's slander about eMeg) the "National Organization of Whores." Let's not forget P.J. O'Rourke's classic political study, "A Parliament of Whores."
As Sensitive New Age Digital Era guys, however, we cannot presume to opine one way or the other on the soundness of the views expressed in our own comments column by Calbuzzer Adelaides Lament, who self-describes as "a female and feminist" and who raises an interesting point:
…I'm offended by Meg's vapors over the "can we call her a whore?" remark.
She can't have it both ways. If she's going to pass out every time somebody utters a bad word – or god forbid a sexist one – she'd spend all her time in Sacramento on the fainting couch.
Yes, selling out to the police officers union in a back room deal could well be referred to as "being in bed with" or even "whoring yourself out to" the union in trade for an endorsement.
If Meg really wants to be governor she'd be better off growing a pair and throwing away the smelling salts. Those boys in Sacto play rough.
Indeed they do, and a Calbuzz investigation suggests that they've been doing so at least since the days of Ronald Reagan's governorship.
"How Ronald Reagan Governed California" an article in the January 17, 1975 edition of the National Review, no less a conservative publication, even suggests that the Gipper on occasion found some amusement in such matters. Recounting tense, high-level negotiations in 1971 over welfare reform between Reagan and then-Speaker Bob Moretti, the piece reports what happened when the talks at one point broke down:
An impasse was reached and one of the legislators, whose self-appointed role was to maintain an atmosphere that would encourage compromise, called for a recess and sent for food and drink. Warmed by his own hospitality and trying to put the situation in perspective, he commented: "It's too bad the people elect an ideologue like Reagan. They should stick with political whores, like me." His candor broke the ice and negotiations were resumed…
As journalists, of course, we long have been accustomed to being smeared and assailed in a whorish manner for, as the ironist Pierce Thorne has noted:
Journalists are like whores; as high as their ideals may be, they still have to resort to tricks to make money.
All of which goes to show that context is everything in political speech. And as Ronald Reagan knew, a sense of humor never hurts either.
LA Cops Flog a Bad Transcript: One more note on the "whore" incident. Calbuzz has in its hot hands a "certified copy" of the transcript of the conversation that was taped by the answering machine at the offices of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, dated Sept. 21. It was transcribed by Lori Odell Kennedy of Kennedy Court Reporters Inc. We're not sure how Ms Kennedy and the LAPPL (which has endorsed Whitman) came to the conclusion they did, but in this allegedly "certified" transcript, the person who speaks the words "What about saying she's a whore," is said to be J.B. (Jerry Brown). But anyone who listens to the recording can plainly hear that the speaker was NOT Brown.
One other problem: on the tape (and in the transcript), Brown says, "My first ad goes up tonight." That would place the conversation on Sept. 6 or 7, not Sept. 21. Which would mean the cops had the tape for nearly a month before it was released. Wonder what they did with it?
BTW, we hear the LA Times wasn't the only media outlet it was given to. Apparently Fox News also had the tape and passed on the story. But the real question Calbuzz has is this: Would the LA cops union intentionally put out a bad transcript trying to finger Brown for the comment? Hmmm.
Tags: Adelaids Lament, Day of Action, Fair Labor Practices Act, Jim Quinn, Kennedy Court Reporters, LAPPL, Lori Odell Kennedy, National Association of Wholesalers, Pete Wilson, Pierce Thorne, police union, Tupper Hull, Twitter, whore, whoregate
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How the FPPC Should (and Shouldn't) Meddle Online
Calbuzz is generally not too keen on any regulatory movement, cause or organization, especially not one that's intent on regulating us. But we have to say there are good reasons to extend – carefully — to the online world some of the disclosure requirements on political campaigns that now apply in the old media world of broadcast and print.
The trick is for California's Fair Political Practices Commission to use a light touch so as not to kill the baby in the crib. Internet political communications still are in their infancy. You Tube, for example, by which so much of today's online political messaging is conveyed, wasn't even created until February 2005 and it didn't really catch on in the political world until the 2008 cycle.
When the FPPC considers rule-making this fall, the fundamental principle should be this:
Keep the burden of disclosure on the candidates, campaigns and advocates without creating undue burdens on the media through which they choose to communicate. (Especially us.)
We agree with the FPPC report on this issue that:
When a committee or candidate engages in campaigning, the public should know that the communication is being paid for, regardless of the form that communication takes. In the current networked world, political communication by a regulated committee or candidate that occurs over the Internet is the functional equivalent of a broadcast ad, and an email is the functional equivalent of a mailer.
Fortunately, the FPPC and its staff have been cautious, open and deliberate as they approach the issue. They recognize, for example "that it is difficult to regulate a moving target. Innovation is not predictable and could be stifled by moving too quickly and regulating too strictly."
Who's paying for what: The FPPC report recognizes that you can't require the same disclosure for a postage-stamp-sized web ad, a tweet or a Facebook message that you demand in a TV commercial. But you could require that a web ad or even the name of a tweeter or Facebooker who's pushing campaign communications should link to a page on which it's disclosed who is behind the message so that an online reader understands where the message is coming from and who's paying for it.
As the report noted:
Some paid advertising does not allow adequate room for disclaimers required by current law (e.g., some forms of electronic advertisements, twitter communication, etc.). In those cases, candidates and committees must provide information in ways that are practicable given the limitations of the medium (e.g., on the website that is accessed when one clicks on an ad; on pages providing information about the source of tweets; on appropriate places in social networking sites; through information that pops up when the mouse is rolled over word or phrase).
The Maryland Board of Elections recently passed new electronic media rules to provide just such flexibility. The Maryland regulations provide that if electronic media advertisements are too small (e.g., a micro bar, a button ad, a paid text advertisement that is 200 characters or less in length, or a small paid graphic or picture link) to contain an "authority line," the ads will comply with the required disclosure of the political committee authorizing the message if the ad allows the viewer to click on the electronic media advertisement and the user is taken to a landing or home page that prominently displays the authority line information.
That makes sense to us.
Sock puppets and web whores: There's one place where we're not sure the FPPC goes far enough: requiring online communicators like bloggers to disclose if they are being paid by a campaign or political committee for more than the standard value of their advertising.
The rationale for not requiring disclosure by sock-puppet bloggers is this: 1) the FPPC does not want to dampen robust free speech on the internet and 2) payments to bloggers will be disclosed in the campaign or political committee's expenditure reports.
We heartily agree with the principle of doing nothing to dampen free speech on the Internet,or anywhere else. But there is a big difference between Steve Poizner placing an ad on Calbuzz at the same rate that ad space is sold to anyone else, compared to Meg Whitman paying $15,000 a month to Green Faucet, the parent of the Red County blog, in order to secure a steady stream of favorable coverage and support masquerading as news coverage.
One is just a business transaction in which the web site selling advertising is not a paid mouthpiece for a campaign but instead a free agent on the Internet.
The other is little more than paid campaign communications. Blogs that are subsidized by a political committee – and who have thereby crossed the line into paid advocacy — ought to be required to make that clear to their readers.
Voluntary disclosure is not good enough. There are too many unscrupulous cheats out there and too many web whores. Moreover, it's nothing for a campaign with big resources to set up a web site that looks like a neutral observer but which is, in reality, just an extension of the campaign.
At the very least, expenditure reports should be modified to specify "internet communications," and "online advertising." Something along the lines in the FPPC report, which calls for:
…requiring that expenditure reports contain more detail of payments for activity on the Internet, including payments to bloggers, so that these payments can be more easily discerned. The brief description on the expenditure report would include the name of the recipient of payment for electronic communication, the purpose of the payment, and the name of website or other similar address where the communication (blog, tweet, Facebook page, etc.) appears.
For now, the report says:
We do not recommend requiring disclosure in blogs at this time because of our concern about stifling this robust and growing source of political discourse. We considered an alternative that would require bloggers compensated by a campaign committee to disclose on their blogs that they have material connections to a campaign. This was based, in part, on a recent Federal Trade Commission guideline requiring bloggers endorsing products to disclose their financial connections to the manufacturers of the product. Requiring disclosure of paid bloggers would also be analogous to Section 84511 of the PRA mandating disclosure of paid spokespersons in ballot measure ads.
We recommend instead that the Commission continue to monitor the development of activity on weblogs and assess whether disclosure through expenditure reports is sufficient to ensure voters know when a blogger is part of a political campaign and when she is acting as an interested citizen expressing her political views. If the Commission determines that the failure to require more disclosure of compensated political bloggers has undermined the right of the public to be informed about the course of political communication, the issue of appropriate regulation should be revisited.
Calbuzz prediction: unless the FPPC requires disclosure, plenty of unethical bloggers, tweeters and Facebookers will fail to tell readers who's buying their loyalty.
In search of a bright line: There are some other issues still to be fleshed out. For example, who is to be considered "news media" and who is not.
The report says the Political Reform Act's media exemption (on advocacy) "should be interpreted to include online media sources, whether or not they also participate in print or broadcast media."
Importantly, however, blogging should not automatically be considered to trigger the media exemption unless the blog meets the standards for being considered part of the media. It is not necessary to expand the media exemption to include uncompensated bloggers who are unaffiliated with campaigns because they are protected by the exemption recommended above for volunteer uncompensated political communication.
This gets really tricky.
Relevant passages in the Political Reform Act define news media as "a regularly published newspaper, magazine or other periodical of general circulation which routinely carries news, articles and commentary of general interest" or "a federally regulated broadcast outlet" or certain kinds of newsletters or regularly published periodicals.
What does that make an online political news site like Calbuzz? Or partisan sites like Calitics or FlashReport? Or an aggregator like Rough & Tumble? All of which have or would gladly accept, advertising from candidates and political committees. What would you call Red County? Or California Majority Report? Do they "meet certain standards for being considered part of the media?" Or are they advocates for causes and candidates?
Click on the "eBay: Don't Buy It Now" ad on this page and you get taken to California Working Families which tells you the page is "Paid for by California Working Families for Jerry Brown for Governor 2010, a Coalition of Public Employees, Firefighters, and Building Trades Organizations. I.D. # 1324632. Not authorized by a candidate or a committee controlled by a candidate." That's the way it should work.
Likewise, if you click on "It's Time for a New California" on the FlashReport home page, you get taken to Meg Whitman's campaign home page which tells you at the bottom "Paid for by Meg Whitman For Governor 2010." They probably ought to include their FPPC identification, but that's a quibble.
But if you click on erichogue on Twitter, there's no way to know that the screeching right-wing tweets from the conservative radio commentator just might be influenced by that $1,000 payment he got in the last reporting period from the Whitman campaign.
So what's his Hogue News? He'd like us to believe his site is "news media." But he's already proved he's a for-rent mouth breather. Trouble is, the only people who know are those who've followed the arcane news about campaign finance or those who've read through Whitman's expenditure reports and stumbled across the payment to him.
It won't do for the FPPC to define "news media" in a way that includes only the dead and dying old media, as the current regulations do. But it also won't do to ignore the fact that some online practitioners feel no compunction to level with the public about their status as paid advocates.
Plenty of free parking: Calbuzz would be happy to participate in further discussions with the FPPC on these issues. And if the FPPC would like to buy an ad on our site, they can find the rate card right here.
Tags: Blogging, California Working Families, Eric Hogue, FPPC, FPPC report, online advertising, Political Reform Act, Red County, regulation, Twitter, YouTube
Posted in Blogging, California Governor's Race, California Politics, Campaign Advertising, Campaign Contributions, Campaign Finance, Campaign Regulation, Meg Whitman | 4 Comments »
Calbuzz Snubbed in GOP Debate; Payback Looms
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
This just in: Calbuzz was not chosen to be on the panel of reporters in the Great Debate between Republican candidates for governor Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner. We're shocked – shocked! - outraged and distraught. Cold revenge is on the menu.
For now, the debate is scheduled for 2 pm Sunday, May 2 at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, with KQED's John Myers as moderator and panelists Carla Marinucci of the San Francisco Chronicle, Josh Richman of the Oakland Tribune, Jack Chang of the Sacramento Bee, Michael Blood of the Associated Press and Santiago Lucero of Univision. A solid enough lineup except for, well, you know . . .
Now Poizner is tweaking Whitman by arguing that she's trying to limit exposure, and the California Accountability Project, sourcing a KTVU-TV report, is suggesting eMeg is lying about who picked the time. According to Sam Rodriguez at Comcast, the actual start time is still being discussed – by the campaigns.
Not that it'll make much difference. Comcast is going to make the coordinates available to any TV station that wants them and they can broadcast it whenever they want to; Comcast will air it live on its Hometown Network, where it will be replayed many times; the California Channel is scheduled to air it live, as will others. Whether it's at 2 pm or 5 pm on a Sunday makes little difference. More people will see it in the clips and the re-broadcast than will see it live no matter when it airs.
Why? Because it's a "debate" between Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman ferheavensakes!
Which is why, for the entertainment value alone, Calbuzz is rooting for Jerry Brown's drive – with a petition campaign started about 5 pm Sunday – to get eMeg to agree to join him and Steve in a series of three-way debates. Now that could be fun to watch.
So far, Meg's not budging. (And why should she, really?) Even though Brown had racked up 4,500 signatures in the first 24 hours. "We're hoping eventually to get 100 signatures for every million Meg Whitman has spent on her campaign," said Brown flack Sterling Clifford. "We have 1,400 to go."
Press clips – rant of the week: When we launched Calbuzz a little over a year ago, our Department of Churning It Out and Doing It Daily wrote that our role models were "Boys on the Bus" Hall of Fame partners Jules Witcover and Jack Germond (as noted at the time, we had little choice but to view ourselves as "the fat man in the middle seat," the title of one of Germond's campaign memoirs).
So we were delighted to find an online version of a dead-trees-and-ink column by Witcover, bringing his famed analytic powers to the task of dissecting, um, online journalism.
Taking as his point of departure the recent announcement that the Library of Congress intends to start archiving hundreds of million of Twitter tweets, Witcover thundered against the evils of modernity, weaving into his screed the disgraceful case of CBSNews.com fronting a blog post that contained a quickly discredited assertion that Solicitor General and possible Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is a lesbian:
The tweet, which seems too often to be an unedited burp from the mouth of a diner overfed with trivia, strikes me as a poor cousin of the blog, that unlimited and too often also unedited vomiting of opinion, diatribe, rumor or just plain bigotry and hate.
The magazine Wired quoted one Matt Raymond, identified as the Library of Congress' blogger, saying: "I'm no Ph.D., but it boggles my mind to think what we might be able to learn about ourselves and the world around us from this wealth of data." One also can only wonder, however, what we might be able to learn from more fully expressed ideas, particularly when submitted to responsible, professional editing…
When rumor, prospective slander, libel or just plain inaccuracy gets through, the credibility of all journalism suffers.
We have no argument with our hero on that point. Despite Witcover's lament that it was otherwise, however, the plain fact is that in the Wild West world of new media, it's the content consumer who's running the show, not the content provider. So the bottom line is: let the buyer beware, while the market sorts it all out.
Three reasons we love newspapers: Margot Roosevelt's report detailing the big bucks efforts of oil giants Valero, Tesoro and Occidental Petroleum to qualify an initiative rolling back AB 32; fellow LATimeser George Skelton's takedown of PG&E over Proposition 16, its outrageously phony rip-off measure that would enshrine a monopoly for the utility under the guise of the "taxpayer's right to vote act"; the SacBee's Kevin Yamamura's smart takeout on eMeg Whitman's proposal to eliminate the capital gains tax, likely to become a campaign issue.
Three reasons we love the Internets: The Oracle of Cruickshank's trenchant, from-the-left post-game analysis of the Democratic convention over at Calitics; Steve Malanga's from-the-right indictment of the role of public employee unions in California's budget mess, at the Manhattan Institute's City Journal; Danielle Crittendon's ordinary folks look at what a shameful dog-and-pony wheeze Sarah Palin performs for big bucks in the hinterlands
We wish we'd said that: Better late than never kudos to Chronicler Debra Saunders for a clear- eyed look at the dust-up at San Jose's Mt. Pleasant High School over Steve Poizner's memoir of the year he spent teaching there.
Today's sign the end of civilization is near: Jamie Jungers and Bombshell McGree, together again.
Tags: bloggers, Blogging, California Accountability Project, California Channel, Carla Marinucci, Comcast, debate, Debra Saunders, Elena Kagan, Hometown Network, Jack Chang, Jack Germond, John Myers, Josh Richman, Jules Witcover, KQED, KTVU, Michael Blood, PG&E, Prop 16, Proposition 16, Sam Rodriguez, Santiago Lucero, social media, Sterling Clifford, Tech Museum of Innovation, tweet, tweeting, Twitter
Posted in California Governor's Race, California Politics, Campaign Advertising, debate, Meg Whitman, Newspapers, Steve Poizner | 4 Comments »
Should the FPPC Regulate Tweeters, Facebookers?
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
By Steve Maviglio
In the Age of the Internet, when campaigns, advocates, consultants and engaged citizens are using all forms of social media — Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Gmail Buzz, etc. — to communicate about politics, the Fair Political Practices Commission is struggling to figure out what in all that constitutes political communication that ought to be regulated — like paid advertising — and what is purely a function of free speech.
It's a fair question.
Last week, I testified (and Tweeted) before the FPPC's Subcommittee examining electronic communication in political campaigns as part of a panel of political consultants (also at the table was Julia Rosen, the Courage Campaign's Online Political Directorm and Bryan Merica from ID Media and Fox & Hounds Daily). We were followed by Kim Alexander of the California Voter Foundation, Derek Cressman of Common Cause, Tiffany Mok of the ACLU and Professor Barbara O'Connor, Sacramento State University.
The subcommittee wanted to hear from us if it should develop, in the words of Chairman Ross Johnson, "appropriate responses to new political realities."
My advice was straightforward: do no harm. Don't regulate independent bloggers. Don't do anything that will stunt the growth of the Internet to attract and involve voters. But do provide clear guidelines for disclosure if there's campaign money involved. And while you're at it, provide clarity on the advice campaigns are getting from the commission, and conform to Federal Election Commission requirements.
Halfway through my testimony — where I was trying to detail the multiple changes on Facebook that would make it difficult for the FPPC to mandate where disclosure requirements might be posted — I looked up and saw all three commissioner's with "what the hell are you talking about" faces. They were clearly baffled by technology they'd never dealt with personally (indeed, there was no wifi in the room, the hearing wasn't webcast and the three commissioners admitted to never having used Twitter). That wasn't encouraging.
But while three commissioners were dazed and confused by comments about pixels and Google Adwords, they seemed get what all the panelists were saying: proceed with caution. As commissioner Tim Hodson told me afterward, the hearing "underscored both the perils of addressing such wide open and ever changing area and the need to ensure minimal disclosure."
Hodson and his fellow commissioners are picking up on FPPC's decade-long review of political campaign activity on the web. Back in the stone age of internet campaigning, Assemblyman Keith Olberg penned AB 2720, which created a Bipartisan Commission on Internet Political Practices. The Commission's job was to determine if and how web-based communication could confirm to the mother of California's campaign law, the oft-amended Political Reform Act, which was authored in 1974, well before Al Gore invented the Internet.
After toiling for a year, the Internet Commission reported "we do not think it would be wise or necessary to adopt new laws or a new administrative vehicle specifically aimed at limiting or regulating the use of the Internet by political actor."
The December 2003 report also presciently warned of regulating ever-changing web campaign technology:
When government attempts to regulate the use of technology, what we do not know can indeed hurt us. The speed of technological change and the ability of practitioners to adapt to new rules make regulatory efforts in these areas difficult. Swift changes can make old rules inoperable or inappropriate.
Technological changes that affect how hyperlinks are generated, how content from one Web site is framed by another, how online advertising is delivered to users, and how lists for unsolicited email campaigns are constructed, for example, could all change the meaning and the impact of regulations written prior to these innovations.
And things did change. Twitter, Facebook, viral YouTube videos, and Google email blasts all have become de rigueur elements of modern campaigning. First Democrats Howard Dean and then Barack Obama, set the pace for developing innovative electronic communications. In January, Scott Brown dumped more than 10 percent of his advertising budget in online advertising, and credited it, in part, for his win.
This may be just the tip of the iceberg, as campaigns get smarter about microtargeting on the web. A recent study by Tulchin Research found that 57 percent of Californians access political news and information via Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. Some 40 percent of social media users are following or supporting candidates for office via Facebook and Twitter. One in five voters use their smart phones to get political news and information.
FPPC Chairman Ross Johnson seems to be hinting that he's not inclined to do anything to hamper this rapid growth electronic communication. And that' s good.
"The Commission is not interested in requiring individuals to report as committees when they are merely exercising their First Amendment rights, but if this is paid political speech, then perhaps tighter regulation requiring greater disclosure and transparency is in order," he said in a press release before the hearing
That's the path I'd expect the FPPC to go: requiring greater disclosure, somewhere, somehow on all campaign-paid electronic communication. That's not as easy as it sounds, though, and the commission has its work cut out for it to make that regulation work.
Later this year the subcommittee will present its findings to the full Commission for consideration of whether new rules are necessary to require the disclosure of who is behind electronic messages advocating for or against the election of California's state and local candidates or ballot measures.
These changes could require the adoption of regulations by the Commission, or entirely new state laws, which must be adopted as a bill by the Legislature, or as a proposition by a vote of the people.
The Commission is right to investigate this new landscape as long as it first does no damage.
(The FPPC will hold another subcommittee hearing from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. , March 24 at the University of Southern California Law School, Ackerman Courtroom, Room 107, located at 699 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles. Full information can be found here.)
Tags: AB 2720, ACLU, bloggers, Blogging, Buzz, Facebook, Fox and Hounds, FPPC, Julia Rosen, Keith Olberg, microtargeting, online advertising, Political Reform Act, Ross Johnson, Scott Brown, social media, Steve Maviglio, Twitter
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Dr. Hackenflack Returns: Special Carly Edition
Calbuzz staff psychiatrist Dr. P.J. Hackenflack has been on a leave of absence, serving as a special consultant on health care reform to Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D. He returns today to catch up on the Old Mailbag and answer reader questions on some recent political developments.
Dear Dr. Hackenflack,
I see that former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is running for the U.S. Senate and wondered why she's known as "Hurricane Carly"?
– M. Whitman, Silicon Valley
Wherever she goes, she leaves destruction in her wake.
Attention: Dr. P.J. Hackenflack,
I thought the Calbuzz reference to Senator Kent Conrad as "a four-eyed, hose-nosed twit" very nearly almost came close to bordering on incivility. How do you respond?
– Earnest Bill, Superior, Wisc.
You should have seen it before the copy desk toned it down.
My Dearest Dr. Hackenflack,
I've enjoyed Senator Abel Maldonado's fascinating tweets about what he eats during late-night legislative sessions but would like some information about what Assemblyman Chuck Devore does for snacks?
– Julia C., Montecito
Generally, he just chews on Carly Fiorina's ankle.
Yo Hack!
Garry South said that Jerry Brown has had "more positions than the Kama Sutra." What's his favorite one?
– Ms. Cosmo, N.Y. N.Y.
Loosely translated it 's "Old Gray Stallion Trots to the Left Then Gallops to the Right," according to Calbuzz's Department of Sanskrit Documentation.
Dear Colleague: Is it true Steve Poizner recently had surgery?
– B. Casey, M.D., Hollywood
Yes. I'm happy to report he's recovering nicely from a charisma bypass.
Dr. H,
I understand that as S.F. mayor, Gavin Newsom ignores and blows off the Board of Supervisors. What does that portend for how he'll deal with the Legislature as Governor?
– Aaron P., Civic Center
How he'll deal with the WHAT?
Mein Lieber Herr Hackenflack,
A friend of mine compared Carly Fiorina to Marie Antoinette. What in the world could these two have in common?
– Deborah B., Sacramento
Neither of them ever voted. Zut alors!
I heard on the street that Meg Whitman is running her own campaign, modeled on Lincoln's 1858 Senate race. What's her expert opinion on how Abe managed his election operation?
– Fleischman Flash, Gettsyburg, Pa.
She's sure he blundered by agreeing to all those pesky debates with that guy Douglas.
Dear Mr. Big Shot Shrink,
So Tom Campbell says he should be governor cuz he's a big brain Chicago School economist who trained with Milton Friedman. Big deal – I wonder how many of those guys it takes to change a light bulb.
– A. Bunker, Queens
None. If the light bulb needed changing the market would have already done it.
I can't thank you enough for publishing that short sample of Barbara Boxer's new novel, which I greatly admired for its literary quality. Do you perchance have an excerpt of the roman a clef Carly Fiorina is supposedly writing?
– Bulwer Lytton, Knobworth House
Sure: "Cara Sneed caught an approving glimpse of herself in the glass reflection of the post office window. "Yum, you look good, girl," she chuckled with amusement to herself.
Entering through the entrance door, she caught the admiring glimpse that the shabby tech geek standing on line gave her, and imagined to herself a little thought balloon bouncing in the air above his head – "Whoa, she looks good – I bet that woman can move some digital printers." Then she softly tee-heed once again to herself.
She gently slipped her absentee ballot into the yawing maw of the patriotically colored mail box, and pivoted gracefully on her strappy Manolos to saunter out through the door, when a sudden flash of dread struck her in the tummy.
"Oh no," she thought, "I forgot to put a stamp on it again."
Tags: Abel Maldonado, Garry South, Hackenflack, Hurricane Carly, Kent Conrad, Marie Antoinette, Twitter
Posted in Barbara Boxer, California Politics, Carly Fiorina, Gavin Newsom, Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman, Steve Poizner, Tom Campbell | 1 Comment »


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President Truong Tan Sang visits the Thuan Lan dragon fruit farm in Ham Thuan Nam Commune. — VNA/VNS Photo Nguyen Khang
HA NOI (VNS) — Binh Thuan Province should review the prospects of local key staples for further investment as it prepares to meet challenges posed by global integration, including formation of the ASEAN Community late this year, President Truong Tan Sang said yesterday.
He urged provincial authorities to concentrate on three important targets – infrastructure, human resources development and administrative reforms, saying this was needed for the province to achieve a developmental breakthrough.
The President's advice was rendered during working sessions held with key provincial officials during a two-day visit to Binh Thuan that ended yesterday.
He suggested that the province temporarily halt investments in areas where it is not competitive and prioritize major projects that apply scientific and technological advancements.
The President noted that Binh Thuan should be supported financially to develop fishermen's off-shore fishing operations as it holds a strategic position in safeguarding the national sea and island sovereignty.
He asked the province to address existing problems, especially in preparation for Party congresses at all levels and the 12th National Party Congress.
Over the past five years, Binh Thuan has recorded an average annual growth of 8.9 percent. It has focused on setting up specialised areas for growing dragonfruits and rubber – the two local major products.
t is focusing financial sources on upgrading irrigation systems as well as giving a facelift to rural areas and those inhabited by ethnic minority communities.
However, more efforts must be made to improve the living standards of residents in far-flung areas, the President said.
He visited the Thuan Lan dragon fruit farm in Ham Thuan Nam Commune.
A key agricultural product for the province, dragon fruits from Binh Thuan are popular in the domestic market and exported to China, India, Europe, the US and Japan.
The President also inspected the new-style rural area being developed in Phan Thiet City's Thien Nghiep Commune, combining crop cultivation with animal husbandry.
Visiting the Phu Hai fishing union in Phan Thiet, the President underlined the need to support fishermen to make regular offshore fishing trips, and their skills should improve.
He also lit incense at a monument dedicated to late President Ho Chi Minh in Phan Thiet. — VNS


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Yogi Bera famously said, "Nostalgia just ain't what it used to be." In a small town it's easy to get wrapped up in the gold glow of how things were and lose sight of how things are shaping up to be. With the amount of growth Sanborn County has experienced in these last few years, folks are giving a second look to all kinds of traditions and habits that have been with the county since it started. Some inconveniences were assumed to be part of life because there simply was not a better option when the first version was set in motion. Take our public transportation for example. There has never been a need for more than 2 buses in town because Frank and his twin brother Hank drove the North/South and East/West buses respectively on such a consistent schedule there was no need for backup. Now our towns traffic is getting so backed up we are opening a carpool lane to help encourage ride sharing and decrease congestion. Infrastructure at the city level isn't the only thing that folks are re-imagining.
Just about every home in town was built by the same developer when the county was first incorporated. Now that 1940's style wood-on-wood paneling is starting to wear and folks are remodeling their homes left and right. Bulky pine cabinets and ranch-style interior trim are being replaced with wood-grain, tile flooring and Carrera marble counter tops. Bathrooms and kitchens that previously shared the same history of the town in their worn wood and distressed years are being redesigned into unique and modern statements. Creaks and cracks were simply a symptom of a town that did not have time to care about the layout of a living space. Inspiration is now striking these forgotten dwellings and delivering a stunning show of form and function.
There are some things that should not be left with a bygone era: craftsmanship, longevity, and service. Fortunately the new remodeling contractor that moved into town shares these same values with the foremen before him.
The shift from subsisting to abundance is not an immediate one. Watch a town closely enough and you can miss that progress or regress never slows down. Homes in Sanborn are certainly experiencing the former with the help of Inspired Remodels. Simple touches of luxury bloom their way into the hearths and staircases of the most historic homes in town until neighborhoods, blocks, and towns transform to reflect the abundance that every resident radiates.
There is a profound impact that a bathroom or kitchen remodel has on a home. It's takes the hand of a truly talented remodeling contractor to elevate the warmth and tradition of an old house into the timeless elegance of a long-standing home. Nostalgia makes for excellent stories but it has a tendency to weigh too heavily on the potential for progress. To live is to grow and it takes an inspired eye to add progress to history like the rings in a tree. Give Inspired Remodels a call when the itch for inspiration overcomes your resignation to reminiscence.


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Starring Patrick Troughton, The Dominators follows the Second Doctor's battles with a cruel alien race set on spoiling the Doctors holiday!
The Dominators, self-acclaimed masters of the ten galaxies, and their robot servants, the Quarks, arrive on the planet Dulkis with evil intentions as the Doctor and his friends touch down for a peaceful holiday. Life is about to change dramatically for the pacifist Dulcians who, with no weapons on their planet, soon become enslaved to the Dominators.
The Dulcian Councillors, refuse to retaliate, however Cully, the rebellious son of their leader Senex, has already joined forces with the time travellers. The fight is on!
The Doctor, Jamie (Frazer Hines) and Zoe (Wendy Padbury) join a handful of determined Dulcians bent on outwitting the Quarks and struggling to escape the violent brutality of the Dominators. But the whole planet is doomed to become a mass of radioactive material – fuel for the enemy's invasion fleet whose war mission will even spread to Earth unless the Doctor can devise an infallible plan…
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Staff photo/Tate Thomson Cyclists disembark on the ferry to San Juan Island.
San Juan County to consider cyclists, hikers in street designs
Mandi Johnson
Sat Dec 1st, 2018 1:30am
Walkers, cyclists and drivers are all critical to San Juan County road planners.
County council unanimously approved an ordinance on Nov. 27 that requires public works to offer solutions for every method of transportation along with standard road improvements when designing a roadway in the county. The increased considerations of all users of a roadway are part of a statewide initiative called Complete Streets.
Complete Streets is a program developed by the Washington state Department of Transportation to encourage road planners to assess the needs of pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders on roads throughout the state. It requires a municipality to agree to draft street-design plans that accommodate all modes of transportation. However, it does not stipulate that the final design must include those details, nor that any predetermined set standards be applied.
"Every time we do something for a road it needs to have a solution that provides pedestrian and bicycle pathways," Councilmember Rick Hughes said.
Several roads in the county do not have accommodations for pedestrians or bicyclists. San Juan Island resident Julie Weaver applauded the project, in the transportation improvement plan approved by council on Oct. 23, to build a new road and trail to allow direct access from the town of Friday Harbor to Jackson Beach.
"Our streets are really unsafe for pedestrians," Weaver pleaded during the public hearing before the council vote. "If we want to make our living by tourism, then we need to help them out."
Concerned county residents brought the concept of Complete Streets to Huntermer earlier this year, who then drafted an ordinance to present to council in mid-October. One of those originators was Dave Zeretske.
"Completes Streets is a means to an end; it's not the end. There's just no model for a complete street," Zeretske said during the Oct. 15 county council meeting. "There's no such thing as a complete street. There's only neighborhoods with different needs and different circumstances."
For Hughes, an admitted big proponent for trails across the island communities, the ordinance may be too overreaching – not every county road requires consideration of pedestrian and cyclist traffic. Councilman Jamie Stephens countered that this ordinance adoption allows the county to gain access to more state funding for road projects while not requiring a commitment to make the suggested changes, only to consider them in the planning process.
"I think this opens a whole new avenue on funding and whether we do something on roads such as Crow Valley [Road, on Orcas,] or not; at least it makes us aware of it and makes us take it under consideration," Stephens said. "And if there is a better way of doing it, then we can identify that better way of doing it and more forward from there."


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My thoughts turned back to history. After the Treaty of Frankfurt which ended the Franco-Prussian War in which the German military humiliated the French military, Alsace was annexed by the Germans. France was "seeing spies in the trees". Dreyfus, a 35 year old captain, an Alsatian, became the scapegoat. He was falsely accused of giving French defense positions to the Germans, thus causing the French to lose the war. Lying witnesses were called to a secret court martial and Dreyfus was was publicly degraded, stripped of his epaulets and medals and he was sentenced to a life term on Devil's Island. The Dreyfus story has a happy ending, if you can call it that, because the real villain, a Major Esterhazy was found, and ultimately Dreyfus was released after spending many years in "hell" and humiliation. It was not until l906 that Alfred was totally exonerated. It was to the credit of writer Emile Zola that Dreyfus was ultimately freed. Zola risked his reputation and his freedom. He was accused of libel and had to escape to England to escape incarceration for being a just human being.
There are many lessons to be learned from history. One is that history repeats itself; there is sometimes justice in the world; that antisemitism is still alive and that we must stand up for our fellow Jews, our brothers. Am Yisroel Chai! Shalom!


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Q: Can't get the text next to the radio button via JQuery I have the following Jquery code:
      $("button#submit").click(function () {
                $.ajax({
                    type: "GET",
                    url: "process.php",
                    data: { 'value1': lastRefId,
                        'value2': selectedStatusID
                    },
                    success: function (msg) {
                    //Get the text next to the radio button
                      var selectedText = $('input:radio:checked').next().html()
                        alert(selectedText);
                        $("button.btn.btn-default,button.btn.btn-primary").removeClass("disabled");

                    },
                    error: function () {
                        //code
                    }
                });

With the following HTML code:
<form id="pick-status-form">

<input type='radio' name='statusesList' value='1' class='statuses-list'>1

<input type='radio' name='statusesList' value='2' class='statuses-list'>2

<input type='radio' name='statusesList' value='3' class='statuses-list'>3

<input type='radio' name='statusesList' value='4' class='statuses-list'>4

I want to get the text after the radio button (just befor the closing label tag).
I tried the code:
   var selectedText = $('input:radio:checked').next().html()
   alert(selectedText);

But I get undefined every time.
How can I fix it?

A: html() does not account for text nodes. You can try getting text() of parent instead:
var selectedText = $('input:radio:checked').parent('label').text();
alert(selectedText);

You might want to trim the text down using $.trim() too.

A: Why dont you try $('input:radio:checked').val() , as the text next to radio is the same as the value.

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import React, { Component } from 'react';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';

class Toggle extends Component {

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    this.handleHide = this.handleHide.bind(this);
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    fetch(url, {
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        'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + sessionStorage.access_token,
        'Content-Type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
        'Origin': window.location.hostname
      },
      body: JSON.stringify({
        'hidden': !this.state.hidden
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    })
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Toggle.propTypes = {
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The Drawing mode will allow you to draw a Carbon on your spectral window just by clicking on any empty field. Clicking on any existing atom will add an additional carbon. If you click on a single bond, you will get a double bond (clicking on a double bond will draw a triple bond).
You can also change the symbol just by hovering the mouse over the atom and typing the applicable letter (this tool works only for one-letter elements such as C, P, N, O…) When you select an atom, move it over another one and release the mouse button, only the last atom will stay (except when the first selected atom is non-carbon and the second atom is carbon).
Use these buttons to draw stereobonds.
Use this button to delete an atom. This scroll down menu, will allow you to draw cycles.


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This Brother-Sister Team Brings Innovation to the $3.5 Billion Candle Industry
Entrepreneurs / By Jessica Cohen
For more than 5,000 years, people all over the world have used candles to add a little light to their lives. In the United States, the slow burn in candle sales really began to ignite in the mid-1980s, with an increase of consumer interest in scented varieties. That trend continued into the 1990s, and for the first time in more than a century, agricultural chemists started to develop new types of waxes to replace the commonly used, fast-burning paraffin.
Courtesy of Siblings
Siblings co-founders Eva Eckerblad and David Bronkie.
Fast forward to the present day, and candles are still enjoying a moment of massive popularity — perhaps more so than ever before. As of 2019, the candle industry was valued at a staggering $3.54 billion, and that figure is expected to grow to $6.64 billion by 2027. Like those in many industries, however, candle-sellers face a new challenge moving forward, one fueled by the purchasing power of sustainability-minded millennials and Gen Zers: how to create a high-quality, eco-conscious product that people can feel good about.


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Since 1981, School Time Travel has been helping teachers and their students visit our nation's capital, Washington, DC. 2019 will be no different.
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I was born in a hoarders home. She had a lot of stuff piled everywhere, so there wasn't much room for the pets there, even before my brothers and I were born.
As soon as I could walk, I was put in a cage. And left there- I guess they didn't want me walking around the dangerous piles of stuff. Sometimes I was fed and watered.
Life was sad and grim, each day melted into the next as there was no breakup of the day. I was infected with fleas and itched so much that my for feel out in patches.
We were rescued and I was placed in a rescue home. I was skittish at first, as I wasn't used to humans and being touched. But before long I was running and climbing and frolicking, and enjoying warn laps and full belly.
Soon I was adopted by a lady who loves to travel! I got to see so much of the world!
We're currently living in Paris. I get to enjoy the finest cheese- a temptation I've acquired, and have my own window perch to bask in the sun.
My name is Shadow, and I was left in a box in the woods with my littermates when I was just six weeks old. Thankfully, a kindly person heard our sad meowing and took the box to the local shelter... and now I have a safe and loving forever home!


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Q: React.js build enviroment doesn't show other routes thant the root one I cannot access the routes that I have set up in my app when running from the build version. I can access them on dev enviroment though when my react app runs at a different port than the server.
I have included the below in my express server in order for it to serve the react app and only the root page is showing.
app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, 'build')))

app.get('/', function (req, res) {
  res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname, 'build', 'index.html'))
})

A: React Router does all the routing in the browser, so you need to make sure that you send the index.html file to your users for every route.
This should be all you need:
app.use('/static', express.static(path.join(__dirname, '../client/build//static')));
app.get('*', function(req, res) {
  res.sendFile('index.html', {root: path.join(__dirname, '../../client/build/')});
});

A: I found the solution of my issue.
I was having the HTML anchor tags instead of the Link attribute of react-router to my code.
Replaced them accordingly and my app is operating normaly.