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Graded Assignments
|Lab Due
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|Lab 2
|Complete entry assessment (2.5pts); Submit preliminary cross results Day 3 (1 pt);
Summarize experimental question, design; Diagram crosses using template provided; Explain data interpretation (9 pts). This assignment is described at: BISC219/F12: Assignment_1_Lab1
|Lab 3
Results Section BISC219/F12: Assignment Help- Data Analysis 1
Autosomal vs. Sex linked inheritance
|Lab 4
|Read Background information on your Series 2 Forward Genetics Project at BISC219/F12:_Gene_Mapping_Info. Submit statement of Series 2 experimental question & goals. Outline (or create flow diagram) our experimental process including : Mutant Phenotype description compared to WT; Linkage Analysis; Mapping the Mutation to a chromosome and to a particular chromosomal location; Complementation Analysis; Defining the gene sequence and protein change through DNA sequence analysis; & Bioinformatics to find homologues and to determine if the mutation is new or previously characterized. Write a narrative summary of the investigation.
Diagram the expected results (genotype and phenotype)for the crosses and self-fertilization progeny in the Linkage Testing work. Use only part (through Linkage 2) of the template provided. (The Mapping part of the template will be used next week). Include a narrative description of this experimental design that you have drawn out on the template and summarize what you will be looking for in the results that will allow determination of the linkage group to which your mutated gene of interest belongs. Find a rubric and more information about this assignment at: BISC219/F12: Assignment_Series2_Outline_Summary.
|Lab 5
|Explain complementation analysis in general and then explain specifically how you will use it in this investigation. Draw out the crosses that you set up using the templates provided. Assignment information and rubric found at: BISC219/F12: Assignment_Series2_Complementation
|Lab 6
|Diagram the expected results (genotype and phenotype)for the crosses and self-fertilization progeny in the Mapping work that you will do over the next several weeks by completing the templates provided. Make sure you highlight the progeny that will be used to continue each step of the process. Assignment information and rubric found at: BISC219/F12: Assignment_Series2_Mapping Crosses.
|Lab 7
|Analyze your mutant gene's DNA sequence using the instructions that you can download from Lab 6. Construct a Results and Discussion section, WITH A FIGURE, for this analysis. Assignment information and rubric found at: BISC219/F12: Assignment_Series2_DNA Sequencing
|See Calendar
|Scientific Research Report on Series2 work Classical (Forward) Genetics. Assignment information found at BISC219/F12: Assignment_ Series2_Classical Genetics Paper
|Lab 10
|Convert all Series3 Protocols, performed so far, as Materials & Methods (7.5) and write a draft introduction section ((7.5). Include properly cited references and a properly formatted Literature Cited page) section in this intro draft. This Assignment is described at BISC219/F12: Assignment_Series3_ Materials and Methods_Introduction. Also refer to BISC219/F12:Resources Guide to Scientific Writing.
|Lab 11
|Bring hard copies of the main journal articles you used as sources and referenced in your draft Introduction assignment.Construct figures/tables with properly formatted legends to illustrate the data or concepts that answer each of the questions posed in your final assignment (5pts). These figures are a draft of those that will be part of the answers to the questions in the Final Assignment for Series 3.More information on this assignment found at Final Assignment Reverse Genetics using RNAi
|Last Day of Classes
Tues. Dec.11
|Answer questions fully about your Reverse Genetics investigation. Assignment information found at Final Assignment Reverse Genetics Using RNAi. Assignment due for all students on the last day of classes.
|Exit Assessment participation. See Sakai Announcement for link and for instructions on how to receive your incentive points (2.5).
Assignments Due Date
Lab 2 Assignment: BISC219/F12: Assignment_1_Lab1
Lab 3 Assignment: BISC219/F12: Assignment Help- Data Analysis 1 Autosomal vs. Sex linked inheritance
Lab 4 Assignment: Assignment Series2 Outline/Summary & Linkage Analysis
Lab 5 Assignment: BISC219/F12: Assignment_Series2_Complementation
Lab 6 Assignment: BISC219/F12: Assignment_Series2_Mapping Crosses
Lab 7 Assignment: BISC219/F12: Assignment_Series2_DNA Sequencing
Lab 9 Assignment: BISC219/F12: Assignment_ Series2_Classical Genetics Paper Scientific Paper on Forward Genetics Project
Lab 10 Assignment: BISC219/F12: Assignment_Series3_ Materials and Methods_Introduction.Convert all the lab protocols performed so far for Series 3 so far into Materials & Methods & write a draft introduction to a paper on Project 3
Lab 11 Assignment Create draft figures and tables with formal legends and be prepared to present them to the class to support your conclusions in Project 3. Final Assignment: Final Assignment Reverse Genetics Using RNAi Full Scientific Paper on Reverse Genetics Project using RNAi


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'Lego Movie' built to be a better toy film
NEW YORK - Toy movies occupy a spot on the respectability meter somewhere between talking dog films and "Showgirls."
Even in a business not always known for the most honorable of ambitions, films based on toy lines smack of a crass grab at cross-merchandizing.
Since the popularity of the "Transformers" franchise, Hollywood has increasingly turned to Hasbro toys like G.I. Joe and Battleship to capitalize on their familiar brands.
Chris Miller and Phil Lord, co-writers and co-directors of "The Lego Movie," were well aware of the dim reputation of toy movies. But in their short but rapidly ascending careers, the comic duo has turned weak premises like a "21 Jump Street" remake and an adaptation of "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" into surprisingly fresh, crowd-pleasing hits.
"One day we want to work on a movie that sounds like a good idea from the start," jokes Miller. "Our success has been based on low expectations."
"The Lego Movie," opening Friday, is far more inventive and satirical than you might expect. Made with a conscious resistance to the pitfall of toy-based movies, it's imbued with a childlike playfulness and a subversive mockery of corporate control.
"We actually really enjoy a challenge and get excited by solving a seemingly impossible puzzle," Miller says. "Each one of those movies - 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,' '21 Jump Street' and 'The Lego Movie' - we were like, 'That sounds terrible. It's probably going to be terrible, unless unless, there is one way you could do it.'"
"That's basically our entire career," says Lord.
The concept that Lord, 36, and Miller, 38, came up with was to capture the experience of playing in a deep box of the interlocking plastic bricks. In a world composed of Legos, following the rules, or the instructions, is a way of life. Workers happily sing the anthem "Everything Is Awesome," and are pacified by bland state-controlled entertainment, like the TV show "Where Are My Pants?"
A law-abiding construction worker named Emmet (voiced by Chris Pratt) inadvertently stumbles across a rebellion against leader Lord Business (Will Ferrell), revealing a ragtag of mismatched characters, from Batman (Will Arnett) to Abraham Lincoln (Will Forte). A battle ensues between lock-step uniformity and creative chaos.
Saying just how much the movie mimics the experience of a child playing with Legos would spoil it. The Los Angeles Times called the film "the first-ever postmodern toy movie."
"It was as open and infinite as looking at a bucket of bricks itself," Miller said in a recent joint interview with Lord while the two stepped away from editing their upcoming sequel "22 Jump Street." "Our thinking was: What if this movie is told by an 8-year-old? We really wanted it to feel like it had the whimsy and randomness of being from the mind of a child."
The Denmark-based Lego Group was approached by Warner Bros. producers in 2007 about making a movie, with an earlier story outline by Dan and Kevin Hageman. The company has in recent years expanded beyond toy sets to build numerous international theme parks, release several lines of video games with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and air the Cartoon Network TV series "Ninjago" (for which there are movie plans, too).
"The last thing that we wanted to do was be perceived as 'Oh, this is just Lego trying to make more money, just to sell more toys,'" says Matthew Ashton, vice president of creative design for Lego and a producer on the film. "If you look at Lego as a creative medium, it's very much like modeling clay is in a 'Wallace & Gromit' movie. It's just a different way of expressing a story."
Ashton says filmmakers were given wide creative leeway and no featured toys were dictated by Lego: "Then we went through the script and cherry picked what we thought could make good toys and co-developed those things together."
Miller and Lord met as freshman at Dartmouth College, drawn together by their similar sense of humor. They both had comic strips in the school paper and churned out student videos (a sample: Lord's "Man Bites Breakfast" was told from the perspective of cereal).
Lord describes being skeptical about making what could be dismissed as a 90-minute commercial for Lego before they were energized by "a grassroots, bottom-up approach."
"Then it started to get really exciting and feeling like, 'Oh this can almost be subversive and cool and feel like we got away with something,'" Lord says.
Though Ashton says the pair challenged the Lego brand in a healthy way, Lord and Miller occasionally needed reminding that "The Lego Movie" was a family film.
"Our 'Clockwork Orange' sequence didn't go over very well," says Lord, laughing.
They initially penned a re-education scene for Emmet, with his eyes forcibly held open, after he strays too far from Lord Business' way of doing things. The Stanley Kubrick reference was deemed "not perfectly appropriate for family audiences."
Miller and Lord nevertheless chuckle at what they were able to get away with in the movie.
"A lot of people are surprised that we don't do drugs," Lord says. "We're able to access that childlike kind of thinking unassisted."


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The Bottle Rockets proudly call themselves 'The Best Band On The Planet!'…..OK…obvious hyperbole…but I was in the mood for a bit of rockabilly grunginess and it just so happened that Bloodshot Records is giving away 'Nothin' But A Driver' on one of their famous sampler albums on Amazon and y'all know I'm willing to listen to anything for free! The Bottle Rockets have been kickin' it since 1992 and were one of the reasons the term 'alt-country' got a Wiki page! They even had a major label deal with Atlantic Records until the whole record business went into the shitter…since then they've been doin' what all indie bands do…touring and releasing great music that few people ever get to hear! Along the way they put out ten albums…the most recent being Lean Forward, where 'Nothin' But A Driver' originally appeared. And since I haven't exactly been spittin' out the tunes on a regular basis, I've included a second track, 'Hard Times', that I found on the Bloodshot website.
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Publications of Guy DAENEN
HCV genotype 4 in Belgium: three distinct patterns among patients from European and African origin
Delwaide, Jean ; Reenaers, Catherine ; Gerard, Christiane et al
in European Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2006), 18(7), 707-712
Background Considered uncommon in western countries some years ago, hepatitis C virus of genotype 4 is now spreading in some areas of Europe. This is assumed to be due to immigration from a region of high ... [more ▼]
Background Considered uncommon in western countries some years ago, hepatitis C virus of genotype 4 is now spreading in some areas of Europe. This is assumed to be due to immigration from a region of high prevalence for this genotype and to propagation among drug users. In the south of Belgium, genotype 4 currently accounts for 10% of hepatitis C virus patients and its prevalence is increasing with time. Objective To better define the genotype 4 carriers' characteristics. Methods In a database comprising 1726 viraemic hepatitis C virus patients, the files of 85 genotype 4 carriers were reviewed. Results Beside the African (58%) and European drug user (15%) subgroups classically described, a third subgroup consisting of European nondrug users (26%) was identified as peculiar: these patients were older, had been mostly contaminated sporadically, presented a great diversity of subtypes, and were mainly of Italian origin. In this subgroup, contamination was supposed to be ancient, having occurred probably in Italy before immigration into Belgium. By contrast, European drug users were infected with only two subtypes (4c/4d and 4), an observation in favour of recent spread. Africans had a great diversity of subtypes, were young, and were mostly contaminated sporadically in their home countries. Despite their epidemiological differences, the clinical management, and in particular the rates of eligibility for treatment, were similar for these three groups. Conclusions Three different patterns of genotype 4 carriers were observed, corresponding to three different spreading profiles. They did not induce, however, different clinical management. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 65 (16 ULiège)
HCV genotypes 2 and 3: the predominant genotypes at the horizon 2020?
Delwaide, Jean ; Gerard, Christiane ; Vaira, Dolorès et al
in Acta Gastro-Enterologica Belgica (2005, January), 68(1), 25Detailed reference viewed: 65 (27 ULiège)
Evolution over a 10 year period of the epidemiological profile of 1,726 newly diagnosed HCV patients in Belgium.
Gerard, Christiane ; Delwaide, Jean ; Vaira, Dolorès et al
in Journal of Medical Virology (2005), 76(4), 503-10
In order to evaluate the future burden of hepatitis C, there is a need to quantify the evolution with time of some crucial parameters such as disease frequency and age, modes of infection and infecting ... [more ▼]
In order to evaluate the future burden of hepatitis C, there is a need to quantify the evolution with time of some crucial parameters such as disease frequency and age, modes of infection and infecting genotypes of patients presenting for the first time at consultation. The yearly evolution of these parameters was analyzed retrospectively in a cohort of 1,726 patients living in Belgium, who were diagnosed as hepatitis C virus (HCV) carriers by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) between 1992 and 2002. The epidemiological profile of HCV patients showed significant changes during this period. The number of new patients increased with time. The proportion of patients under 50 increased linearly at a rate of 3% per year. The rate of newly presenting patients infected by transfusion before 1990 decreased, but only by 2.7% per year. The proportion of intravenous (IV) drug users increased by 2.5% per year. Patients presenting "undefined" risk factors increased by 2.1% per year. Nosocomial acquisition of HCV infection exhibited a disturbing relative stability in time whereas dialysis tended to disappear as a cause of infection. There was a significant linear annual decrease of 2.3% in the frequency of genotype 1b, which was counterbalanced by a significant increase of 0.7% for genotype 1a and 1.1% for genotype 4. Genotypes 2 and 3 did not vary significantly with time. Such figures are useful for evaluating the epidemiological changes of C virus infection and for anticipating the future economical cost of hepatitis C treatment in the next few years. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 68 (6 ULiège)
HCV genotype 4 in Belgium: epidemiological characteristics
REENAERS, Catherine ; DELWAIDE, Jean ; GERARD, Christiane et al
in Acta Gastro-Enterologica Belgica (2004), (67), 03Detailed reference viewed: 46 (2 ULiège)
Incidence of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the Province of Liege (Belgium). La Societe De Gastroenterologie Liegeoise
Latour, Pascale ; Belaiche, Jacques ; Louis, Edouard et al
in Acta Gastro-Enterologica Belgica (1996), 59(1, Jan-Mar), 3-6
Up to now, as there is no national registry of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Belgium, the study of IBD epidemiology in our country is only possible through institutional or regional ... [more ▼]
Up to now, as there is no national registry of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Belgium, the study of IBD epidemiology in our country is only possible through institutional or regional series. Therefore we conducted a prospective epidemiologic study of IBD in the Province of Liege (1 million inhabitants). METHODS: 29 (out of 47) private and public gastroenterologists completed a standard questionnaire for each patient consulting for the first time with clinical symptoms compatible with IBD between 1/06/1993 and 31/05/1994. RESULTS: During that period 104 cases of IBD were recorded: 56 (54%) Crohn's disease (CD), 36 (35%) ulcerative colitis (UC) including 7 proctitis (19% of UC) and 12 (11%) unclassified colitis. The annual incidence was 5.5 per 100.000 for CD and 3.5 for UC. The sex ratio F/M was 1.7 for CD and 0.7 for UC. The median age at the time of diagnosis was 33.5 yrs for CD and 40 yrs for UC. The highest age specific incidence rate for CD and UC was between 20 and 29 yrs : 13.6 and 6.1, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: This first Belgian prospective study has shown an incidence rate for CD comparable with that seen in north European studies but lower than that seen for UC. These results were similar to those observed in the northern part of France. Belgium appears to be a privileged country to undertake a national register and to study epidemiological aspects of IBD. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 117 (12 ULiège)


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Hi, folks. Got some photos to share for ya. I would've posted them sooner but this past week was a little wonky for me. Got sick on Monday and still going through some of the yuckiness as I type this out. No fun. But last week's trip to Astoria to check out the Icons: The Day of the Dead group show opening was definitely fun! This time, Andrea went with me and the kids -- we didn't have as much time to hang out as I did with the kids the previous weekend when I dropped off the painting, but that's okay. It was just enough time to do some exploring around the small town and especially to check out the show itself.
We didn't get an early start, so by the time we got into Astoria, it was about 5:15pm -- basically dusk, thanks to the shorter days and the recent changing of the clocks. There was a great deal of activity on Commercial Ave., where Lunar Boy Gallery was located. Found out that there was an art walk happening, with various galleries in the downtown Astoria area open later in the evening. I thought it was cool that the people at Lunar Boy worked it out that the Icons show would open on the same night. It brought some extra foot traffic into the gallery.
We checked out the entire show, chatted with a few people (not many, though), but then headed out quickly with the kids to go eat.
After an hour and a half, we came back to the gallery and saw that it was more busy than before. Lots more people, and this time, some people that I recognized from LAIKA.
My piece with its neighbors. That's Tony Merrithew's piece on the right, with the skeleton holding the woman's face mask.
Ben Burch did the two paintings on the left there.
I like these ceramic skulls. They were painted by several artists.
Dick Daniels did the painting with the white background on wood. When I drove up to Astoria the previous weekend to drop off my painting, the gallery owner had just received in the mail those dolls over on the right there. I was very curious to see just how she was going to present them in the show.
I didn't know who that woman was with Ben Burch and Ben Adams, the two Bens who organized the show, but then found out that it was Ben Adams' mom. She created those ceramic skulls you see behind them. (She painted the colored ones, too!)
Me and the 2 Bens. We weren't trying to look like gangstas, it just came out like that. Ben A's got the power guitar stance going on.
Andrea took this one.
That's the back of Andrea's head there, buying something at the cash register.
So, yes, the opening was a blast -- the kids had a great time, nothing was broken, no one got hurt or sick -- a success for us! OH, and this gave us the perfect opportunity for us to take our brand new Nikon D40 out for its first stroll. Whee! To see more photos from our evening, check out the entire set HERE.
Hope you enjoyed the photos! Looking forward to doing some more painting, now. We'll see.


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By John Makulowich
Contributing Writer
Over the next few columns, I intend to probe what remains one of the more overlooked and underused resources on the Internet, especially given the current obsession with the World Wide Web. The resource I have in mind is the discussion group; that is, an e-mail-based list, either moderated or unmoderated, of "subscribers" interested in a specific subject, for example, an issue, individual or institution. The distribution of information can be one-way, with only the owner sending messages to list members, or two-way, allowing users to send mail back to the list for distribution to all subscribers.
I'll avoid going into all the variations of a discussion group in order to spare readers death by a thousand qualifications. For those who want to plumb the depths, I offer the URL for specific sites, for example, L-Soft International Inc. (http://www.lsoft.com/), the company that develops and licenses the Listserv software mailing list manager.
According to Liszt (http://www.liszt.com/), a Web site that contains a database of the great majority of discussion groups, there are currently in excess of 66,580 such groups on more than 2,225 sites.
While smaller discussion groups, for instance, 20 to 25 people, can be managed manually with the list owner adding names by typing them, most groups require the use of a list manager software program to gather and maintain subscriber information. The more popular managers go by such names as Listserv, Listproc and Majordomo.
The granddaddy of them all is Listserv, created by Eric Thomas in 1986 under the name revised listserv. One of its values is the extensive series of commands that allow users not only to search the archives of messages passed by subscribers, but also to identify subscribers by domain and country.
According to data at its Web site, Listserv is used for 11,744 public lists. Add another 40,789 local lists and the total number exceeds 52,500. Total subscriber membership is nearly 8 million with more than 20 million messages delivered the day of the survey. And those numbers do not include the Listserv program housed on intranet servers.
The software is now available for a wide range of operating systems, including VM, VMS, 13 brands of Unix, Windows NT and Windows 95. It is also being ported to the Macintosh and to MPE (HP3000).
The commands to subscribe to any given public Listserv-based discussion group are straightforward. Send a note to listserv at the domain in question. For example, if you wanted to subscribe to a discussion group for all the new groups that are created, you would send a note to firstname.lastname@example.com. In the text, you would write, "subscribe <the list name> <Your-First-Name Your-Last-Name>". In my case, it would be "subscribe NEW-LIST John Makulowich". Once you join a list, to send a note to all subscribers (versus subscribing), you send your message to the name of the list at the domain, for example, email@example.com. You can always get detailed information from any domain that hosts discussion groups using the Listserv manager by sending a message with the word "help" in the text to the address, for example, email@example.com.
John Makulowich writes, talks and trains on the Internet. Send e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com. The URL for his home page is http://www.cais.com/makulow/ or http://www.trainer.com/pub/journalism/
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Since The Guardian began leaking top-secret National Security Agency (NSA) documents just 11 days ago, several tech companies responded to the revelations about the PRISM program. The likes of Google, Facebook, and Apple objected to the tone of the press coverage, saying that any suggestion they've ever given a government agency direct access to their servers is false.
Over the weekend, tech companies started responding with additional transparency too. Facebook and Microsoft revealed ranges of how many government information requests they're getting about how many accounts.
Late Sunday, Apple jumped on the transparency bandwagon. The company published a blog post stating that in the past six months, it has received between 4,000 and 5,000 US law enforcement requests for information regarding 9,000 to 10,000 accounts. "The most common form of request comes from police investigating robberies and other crimes, searching for missing children, trying to locate a patient with Alzheimer's disease, or hoping to prevent a suicide," notes the company.
Every information request is evaluated by the company's legal team and interpreted narrowly, the post states.
Of course, there's a limit to what these transparency disclosures tell us. The tech companies can say no more than the government allows them to say, and no one knows how many of these thousands of information requests were connected to national security or terrorism.
The Apple disclosures include an interesting detail that the other companies do not: a list of several popular products that are spy-proof, because even Apple has no way to decrypt them. Some Apple services—FaceTime and iMessage, in particular—may be mighty useful to anyone not wanting to leave a digital trail for the government:
[C]onversations which take place over iMessage and FaceTime are protected by end-to-end encryption so no one but the sender and receiver can see or read them. Apple cannot decrypt that data. Similarly, we do not store data related to customers' location, Map searches, or Siri requests in any identifiable form.
Update: A reader points out a recent debate about whether iMessages can be deciphered by law enforcement or not. In April, CNET published a DEA memo suggesting iMessages were untappable, but a counter-theory was put forward that the DEA memo could be wrong, or even deliberate misinformation. "While Apple boasts of 'end-to-end encryption' it's pretty clear that Apple itself holds the key—because if you boot up a brand new iOS device, you automatically get access to your old messages," wrote Techdirt's Mike Masnick. "That means that Apple is storing these messages in the cloud, and it can decrypt them if it needs to."


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In Which We Blush and Bumble
For a person who deals with words I'm in the awkward position of not knowing how to express how very touched I am to be honored tonight with the title of 2016 Southern Humboldt Citizen of the Year.
The first thing you should know is the Southern Humboldt Chamber of Commerce and Visitor's Center invited you all to a dinner party and silent auction at the Mateel Community Center to celebrate. The price for tickets and what's included is posted below in the invitation.
The second thing you should know is that KMUD posted a lovely interview with me and since I don't know what to write, I'll let Izzy Vanderheiden help me use my voice instead.
The third and final thing you should know is that without my family's support (they are mostly good-humored as I work through birthday parties, burn dinners, leave the dishes in the sink and show up late for everything), without my incredible crew who work long hours for way too little, and without the photos, tips, and trust as well as the kind words of so many community members, there would be no Redheaded Blackbelt. I hope we get to bring you the news for many, many years to come.
Here's your invitation to join my family and friends tonight.
The Southern Humboldt Chamber of Commerce and Visitor's Center would like to announce a very special evening on September 7th at The Mateel Community Center.
In Recognition of the 2016 Southern Humboldt citizen of the year Kym Kemp!
We have a very special evening planned honoring Kym for all that she brings to our community. Kym has graciously allowed us to relay a bit of her history and her most momentous stories. We are blessed to have Kym in our Southern Humboldt community! It is time to celebrate and thank Kym for all that she does!
*Dinner buffet by Moses, Barbeque To You, no host bar
*Silent auction with ALL proceeds going to Heart of the Redwoods Community Hospice per Kym Kemp's request.
*Tickets $35 for Chamber members $45 for prospective Chamber members
*Chamber member business table purchase of 8 guests $350
***Space is limited -email Chamber with ticket reservation request and Chamber conformation of payment receipt is required.
Visit our website for more details wwwgarberville.org
***Save the date of September 7th! Celebrate with the Southern Humboldt Chamber of Commerce and Kym Kemp!


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Water Availability & Sustainability
Fresh water is a limited commodity. The GWPC recognizes this and is at the forefront in leading the nation in responsible usage as we continue to balance water supply and demand.
We can no longer put off the job of answering the essential and definitive questions of supply and demand: Will we have enough water, and what will it cost? Over withdrawal of ground water supplies can lead to dried-up wells and springs, shrinking wetlands, reduced stream flows and lake levels, saltwater intrusion in coastal areas, and land subsidence.
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Auntie Cassi's famous cookies, requested by all who come to stay with her.
2 tablespoons canola oil
2 tablespoons margarine
1 cup brown sugar
Blend together
Add and blend:
1 egg
½ cup apple sauce
1 teaspoon vanilla
Add and blend:
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
Add and blend:
1 ½ cups white flour
Mix in:
2 cups rolled oats
6 ounces chocolate chip
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African Cotton & Textile Industries Federation (ACTIF)
ACTIF is a regional trade body formed in June 2005 by the cotton, textile and apparel sectors from across sub-Saharan Africa to create a unified and recognized voice in both regional and global trade affairs.
Individual countries recognized the fact that they could no longer act in isolation or remain fragmented in the face of current and future challenges to the cotton and textile industry, hence the need for regional integration that would in turn lead to market discovery, increased business linkages, trade and investment.
ACTIF's mandate is to bring the disparate needs of the cotton, textile and apparel sectors into cohesive and consensus driven positions at regional and international trade and development forums.
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Like modern fantasy authors from Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald and C. S. Lewis to Gene Wolfe and John Crowley, Neil Gaiman writes about the worlds on the edges of this one -- just off the map, a bit to the left, inaccessible without the right mirror or rabbit hole or wardrobe. In "The Sandman" (1989-1996), the comic book that made his name, Gaiman revived a forgotten Jack Kirby series from the '70s and wove a kind of Blakean mythology around a cast of archetypes known as the Endless: Dream, Death, Destiny, and the like -- figures who preside over realms that exist alongside our own. Gaiman's first novel, "Neverwhere" (1996), follows a young girl named Door through London Below, among the Rat-Speakers, across the Night's Bridge, to the Floating Market and the Black Friars. "Stardust" (1999) is set in Wall, on the border of Faerie. Similar premises underlie "American Gods" (2001), "Coraline" (2002) and the new "The Ocean at the End of the Lane."
This novel — really a novella, barely 170 pages of story for 26 bucks — follows a standard fantasy plot: Shy bookworm finds himself threatened by forces beyond his ken, defeats them with help of magical friend. It's grating how frequently contemporary sci-fi/fantasy authors rely on a male ingénue to construct obvious allegories about the magic of storytelling. The protagonist here, clearly a stand-in for Gaiman himself, not to mention every last one of his male fans, disappoints his father: "He did not ask for a child with a book, off in its own world." Fantasy as a genre is richer in possibility than this. Just once I'd like to read a fantasy novel starring a rugby-playing girl who beats up nerds at school. But if anyone can hold my interest through yet another introverted-boy adventure, it's Neil Gaiman.
Most best-selling genre novelists, in any period, are hacks: J.K. Rowling and Stephenie Meyer never met a cliché they hated more than they love their royalty checks. Gaiman's no Ursula Le Guin, but he's a graceful writer who lays off the flash, and he knows that in fantasy it's the particulars that matter. What elevated "Sandman" (the rare comic with a substantial female readership) was the ridiculous level of detailed quirk Gaiman brought to the complex narrative. I haven't read it in 20 years, but I can remember everything about the panel at the end of the "Season of Mists" storyline that shows Lucifer, having abdicated his throne and closed down hell, sitting on an Australian beach. As he watches the sun sink into the ocean, he says, "The sunsets are bloody marvelous, you old bastard."
So then: There is a pond that is really an ocean. There is an 11-year-old girl who has been 11 for thousands of years, or longer. There is a lonely young boy who is a lonely young boy. There is an opal miner who commits suicide in the boy's father's Mini at the bottom of the lane (this is the autobiographical kernel of the story, according to Gaiman). And there is a tent monster beneath an orange sky whom the girl must bind with the language of shaping. But the monster leaves a worm that is also a tunnel in the boy's foot and becomes an evil housekeeper who has sex with the boy's father in the living room. And so there are hunger birds who eat an oak tree and a constellation and a fox.
The novella opens with the unnamed narrator returning to his Sussex hometown to attend a funeral. He finds himself driving to the Hempstock farm, down the lane from his boyhood home, where his friend, an older girl named Lettie, lived until she moved to Australia. That's how he remembers it, anyway, for the Hempstocks are magical beings of some sort or other and have removed his memory of the horrible confrontation with malignant powers that took place when he was 7. While he is on the farm, gazing into the pond that Lettie always called an ocean, he remembers, and his reverie becomes a story that is wry and freaky and finally sad.
If some of the tropes feel a tad too familiar, Gaiman enlivens them with unexpected grace notes. One morning, when the trouble with the housekeeper-thing is just beginning, the boy wakes with a shilling stuck in his throat. He takes it to Lettie, whose grandmother licks it and pronounces: "It's new. It says 1912 on it, but it didn't exist yesterday." The boy asks the old woman how she knows the coin is new. You expect some guff about sympathetic magic or a pretty evasion, but she says, "Good question, luvvie. It's electron decay, mostly."
This is how Gaiman works his charms: He comes on like 1912, but he's new-minted. Or is it the other way round? He crafts his stories with one eye on the old world, on Irish folktales and Robin Hood and Camelot, and the other on particle physics and dark matter. "I don't think I've ever created anything original," he said in a recent interview. "What happens is that you grow up surrounded by stories, surrounded by images and songs and poems and performances and films and all of this stuff. And it all goes in." This is true of most art, and certainly of most genre fiction. But who ever complained about a lack of originality, sitting around a campfire listening to a good ghost story expertly told?
Michael Robbins is the author of "Alien vs. Predator" and a forthcoming book of criticism called "Equipment for Living."
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EXCLUSIVE: Get to Know PRETTYMUCH
Brandon, Edwin, Austin, Nick, and Zion tell all!
October 3, 2018
PRETTYMUCH, the Simon Cowell brainchild, is growing to be one of the most popular boy bands of this generation.
Related: PRETTYMUCH Dish on What Simon Cowell is Actually Like
We had a chance to chat with Brandon, Edwin, Austin, Nick, and Zion to get to know them better.
Watch PRETTYMUCH reveal things, like which one sleepwalks, what kind of pets and house animals they have (a Mickey Mouse fish?!), and other things you may not already know.
What we found out may surprise you!
The crew also just dropped a new track featuring Rich The Kid, "Solita." Listen below!


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This site is the archived OWASP Foundation Wiki and is no longer accepting Account Requests.
To view the new OWASP Foundation website, please visit https://owasp.org
Top 10 2013/ProjectMethodology
The goal of this page is to provide the baseline of knowledge to begin a thoughtful conversation of enhancements and changes to continue growing the OWASP top 10.
This page is intended to provide greater clarity on the development methodology of the OWASP Top 10. This page provides information on the data sources used as input to the top 10, the current development processes, suggestions to improve involvement and participation, and also an FAQ to cover common questions & concerns.
This is a wiki and editable by anyone with an OWASP account. Please constructively contribute to the conversation. Additional discussions should also take place within the OWASP top 10 mailing list.
Current Methodology
The 2010 and later versions of OWASP Top 10 are organized based on the OWASP_Risk_Rating_Methodology, adjusted for the fact that the Top 10 is independent of any particular system. This adjusted methodology is documented in the OWASP Top 10 for 2010 here: Top_10_2010-Notes_About_Risk.
This resulted in 4 risk factors used to calculate the order of the Top 10, 3 Likelihood Factors and 1 Impact Factor. These factors are:
- Likelihood of an Application Having that Vulnerability (Prevalence)
- Likelihood of an Attacker Discovering that Vulnerability (Detectability)
- Likelihood of An Attacker Successfully Exploiting that Vulnerability (Exploitability)
- Typical Technical Impact if that Vulnerability is Successfully Exploited (Impact)
Each of these factors is scored on a scale from 1 through 3, except for XSS, which has a prevalence of 4
The Top 10 uses data sources provided by a variety of companies (see Top_10_2013/ProjectMethodology#Current_Data_Sources sources) to calculate Vulnerability Prevalence. We would love to use similar data to help calculate the scores for the other risk factors if that data is available (which is one of the improvement suggestions recommended below).
The process for producing an update to the OWASP Top 10 is generally as follows:
- Collect prevalence data from data suppliers.
- Rank prevalence data for each supplier and then aggregate the results to create an overall prevalence ranking for this update to the Top 10.
- Determine the values of the other risk factors based on professional opinion. (This step not done prior to 2010)
- Adjustments are sometimes done based on professional opinion (like adding CSRF in 2007, and Vulnerable Libraries in 2013)
- Calculate the Top 10 order
- Write a Draft/Release Candidate
- For 2010, a Draft was reviewed by the Data Contributors and other members of the OWASP Community, and the core commenters/contributors to the Release Candidate and Final Release were acknowledged here: Top_10_2010-Introduction (About 15 individuals/groups)
- Note, for 2013 this internal project review step was eliminated in order to get the release candidate out for public comment faster
- Publish Release Candidate for public comment (Prior to 2010 there was no release candidate, just a final release)
- Accept comments during a comment period
- Interact with comment providers to update the Top 10
- Publish all provided comments
- Publish a Final Release
This certainly doesn't cover every nuance of what it takes to produce the Top 10. For example, one of the most common comments is "Why don't you combine these two items into one to make room for my favorite Risk?". Like combining XSS into Injection, since XSS is really just a client side injection issue. The goal of the OWASP Top 10 is to raise awareness of the most important Risks, not to include every possible Risk we can stuff into the Top 10. So, in some cases, we've kept related issues separate to try to increase awareness of each issue. But there is always debate as to what's best, which is clearly subjective. In the 2013 release candidate, we combined cryptographic storage and communications into a single category, and then pulled use of known vulnerable libraries out of the Security Misconfiguration category in order to bring more attention to the use of Known Vulnerable Libraries since we believe this is an extremely important issue that deserves more attention as the use of libraries becomes more and more prevalent. In past updates, to make room for new issues, we dropped the least important issues, like error handling and denial of service, which some people agreed with, but others did not.
In 2010, the Release Candidate process worked like this:
- It was open for public comment for several months
- Dave Wichers, primarily, interacted via email with each comment provider to address their comments or provide rationale as to why no change was thought to be most appropriate.
- All provided comments were published at:
- The final version was published.
In 2013, the process is currently like so:
- Public comment period of Release Candidate is currently from February through end of March 2013. (This can be extended if necessary)
- We were planning on following the same process as for 2010 to complete the Top 10, but clearly the OWASP Community wants to get more heavily involved in producing the Final Release, which is great.
- So, at this point, the process for completing the 2013 Top 10 is TBD, subject to your input/suggestions.
Current Prevalence Data Sources
- Aspect Security
- HP (Results for both Fortify and WebInspect)
- Minded Security - Statistics
- Softtek
- Trustwave Spiderlabs - Statistics
- Veracode – Statistics
- WhiteHat Security – Statistics
If you would like to contribute your vulnerability statistics to the OWASP Top 10 project, please send your data to: [email protected] Please indicate if its OK for OWASP to publish this raw data. If you have already published this data, please provide us a link to the public posting.
Note: In the first version of the Top 10 in 2003, we started with the MITRE CVE data, and each update expanded the number of prevalence data contributors. Unfortunately, the CVE data for 2011/2012 wasn't available for the 2013 release, which is why its not included this year.
Suggested Enhancements
Note: This is a wiki - please add new suggestions into this page.
- Use a public wiki or google issues to capture feedback - mailing lists are tough and things get lost
- Use a public wiki to allow for public edits, not just feedback. These edits will all be tracked with rollback capabilities for editing and will allow the history of Top 10 edit history to be "public" for maximum "open" and "visibility".
- Establish a Top 10 panel to evaluate and make final decisions on inclusion & ranking
- Not feasible for everyone to vote on every item
- A diverse panel representing various verticals (vendor, enterprise, offense/defense, etc)
- Additional data sources could be considered (please add links)
- WASC Web Hacking Incident Database
- Firehosts Web Application Attack Reports
- Imperva's Web Application Attack Reports
- Prolexic Attack Report
- Additional reports could be considered:
- Annual Symantec Internet Threat Reports
- Datalossdb
- IBM XForce threat reports
- Akamai State of the Internet Reports
- Public forum to brainstorm and discuss key topics
- Remove corporate logos from the Top Ten PDF and provide a "Who we are" link similar to Apache for maximum vendor neutrality: http://hadoop.apache.org/who.html
1. The Three Cycle Reasons. Why OWASP Top 10 is release every three year cycle?
- Here are the reasons:
- a) The field does evolve pretty quick but Top 10 risks not substantially change every single year. Release every year is too much.
- b) It takes a lot of work to produce OWASP Top 10 update and spacing it out balances between the effort to produce and the amount of change when its updated.
- c) Lots of organizations, tools, etc, organize to the OWASP Top 10. So if it was published every single year, then everyone that chooses to align themselves to each update would have to do that work every year.
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Carriers aren't excited about the General Services Administration's plans for a follow-on contract to Networx -- tentatively dubbed Network Services 2020 -- because they want to see the U.S. government's procurement arm take steps to make the current contract more profitable for them.
"Hearing you mention NS2020 makes me want to put a gun to my head," joked one telecom executive when asked about the U.S. government's next umbrella contract for telecom services that would run from 2017-2027.
BACKGROUND: 'World's largest' telecom deal turns out to be a dud
NS2020 would provide telecommunications and infrastructure IT offerings. GSA has vowed that the contract will be comprehensive and easy to use, while providing significant cost savings to agency customers.
On Sept. 27, GSA held an NS2020 Roundtable for agency CIOs and their staff to present lessons learned from Networx as well as to gather input on emerging IT and telecommunications needs. GSA plans to release its NS2020 Strategy within the next 12 months. It's not clear yet whether NS2020 will be an omnibus contract like Networx or a portfolio of contracts aimed at particular services.
"I have heard rumblings that GSA is starting to talk about a follow-on program to Networx. People are scratching their heads because they haven't gotten this one right yet," says Ray Bjorklund, vice president and chief knowledge officer with Deltek, a Herndon, Va., consultancy.
Some Networx vendors question whether it makes sense for the U.S. government to award 10-year contracts given the rapid pace of change in network services.
"Nobody on the commercial side would execute a 10-year ... contract because you would be precluding yourself from competition, you'd be precluding yourself from greater cost reductions," says Edward Morche, senior vice president, general manager of the government markets group at Level 3 Communications. "On the commercial side, you want all the innovative ideas, and on the government side we actively discourage them. ... There are hundreds of other providers for wireline and wireless services who don't seek to be on these GSA contracts because there are too many barriers to entry."
Other carriers favor an approach that is closer to the GSA Schedule, which offers long-term government contracts where companies can provide their entire product line, plus the use of task-order contracts for telecom services.
"Commodities ought to be on the schedule, and solutions should be bought using things on the schedule but in a contract that is task order-oriented," says Diana Gowen, senior vice president and general manager of CenturyLink.
Among the issues that carriers want fixed for the Networx follow-on contract are:
-- A shorter transition time, with GSA more involved to help agencies switch contracts.
-- A streamlined process for agencies to choose a carrier from the contract. The so-called "Fair Opportunity" process in Networx required agencies to spend too much time running their own procurements after GSA had already vetted the Networx carriers.
-- Use of the same back-office systems as Networx.
"There was a very large infrastructure investment on the part of the vendors for the back-office capabilities GSA wanted on Networx," says Susan Zeleniak, senior vice president of Verizon Public Sector. "GSA can't do that again. ... If they make the back-office requirements dramatically different in the future, at that point it doesn't make any sense for the vendors."
Bob Woods, a former commissioner of GSA's Federal Telecommunications Service who runs Topside Consulting in Vienna, Va., suggests that GSA make more radical changes in the way it buys telecom services in the future.
For the Networx follow-on, GSA should "provide something that is secure and state-of-the-art ... a trusted service," Woods says. "They should rename Networx as Infrastructure Services and combine it with cloud. They should sell it on a per-drink basis on a transaction price basis. It will take a hellaciously complicated billing system to do it right."
"I would agree that the procurement model probably needs to be changed,'' Deltek's Bjorklund says. "These major programs take so long to develop, and by the time you award them you're already playing catch-up on the technology side. Maybe it should be more commoditized and more easily purchased through a schedule or open market. But having these very, very large contract vehicles take an enormous amount of time to award and manage."
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Futures were higher this morning… in fact they were substantially higher, but have since given all the after hours fluff back. The dollar, of course, took a plunge to allow the ramp in equities – the net effect is those in the market get to momentarily sustain their accounts while the rest of the world wallows to support them. It's a giant inequity in the making, look for more nasty "other events" which are now constantly in motion. Bonds are lower, oil is higher, gold reached an unbelievable $1,915 an ounce before pulling back under $1,900, silver is following, and food commodities are zooming just to add injury to the now obvious insult.
The only economic release today is New Home Sales which is released at 10 Eastern and will be reported inside of today's Daily Thread.
While on the subject of homes, I want to post an update to the Option-ARM reset chart since we are almost exactly at the peak of Option-ARM resets right now:
These mortgages must reset, and note that rates went down sharply right into the peak. Doesn't matter, many of those ARMS will reset much higher anyway because of the way they were written (to take advantage of the home "owner"), and those looking to refinance won't be able to because their McMansions won't appraise for their loan value. That means more people will fall behind and will simply be unable to keep their payments going, thus further injury to the fraud/fluff banks.
Still, reaching the peak in resets means that a very heavy anchor is about to get lighter very quickly – and that will mean that the housing market will at least begin not to have the crush of ever increasing inventory. This will take time, don't look for an immediate turn around, just that the pressure will begin to ease.
Let's take a moment to assess the situation in Fukushima. It's as ugly as ugly gets, the product of special interest pandering, unchecked growth, and greed, this should give tremendous pause to any nuclear advocate and yet here in the U.S. we are talking tough about coal, not nuclear despite the fact we have many vulnerable plants with waste stacked monumentally high. In the following video Arnie Gunderson once again rationally updates you on the situation:
New Data Supports Previous Fairewinds Analysis, as Contamination Spreads in Japan and Worldwide
We all need to get REAL folks, and stop supporting the criminals who brought this mess to you.


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Punch into Google 'blogging tips' and it throws back oodles of articles. So, where's a budding blogger meant to start? By talking to one.
There's some great ideas out there, courtesy of PR Daily and The Wall. But, the truth is that half of these articles won't make sense without practical examples. And, that comes from experience.
So, with my blog now in its 'terrible twos', I'm putting thumb to iPhone to share my golden nuggets. Tongue twister alert:
Prime Time's top 10 tips for taking your blog to the next level
1) Are you talking to me?
Know your audience. Assume a level of knowledge and don't patronise.
2) Develop a style and stick to it
The only reason you'd need to be corporate is if you were ghostwriting for your CEO. In all other circumstances, lighten up! It's likely your blog will be read in people's spare time, so cut them some slack and deliver informal, light-hearted and punchy content.
3) Write to be read
If you're finding a post hard to write, then it's probably going to be hard for your readers to digest. Before writing I identify an interesting news hook. But, if I can't think of at least three things to add value to the conversation, I scrap it.
It's also important to have an opinion. However niche your blog sets out to be, you will have competition. So, keep in mind why people should be reading yours instead of the blog next door.
4) Be on time
It doesn't matter if it's once a month or once a week, find a pattern and stick to it. There's nothing worse than finding a blog and realising it's not been updated for six months or shut up shop. What a waste of cyberspace!
5) Create a content calendar
To avoid hunting for stories every week, why not jot down key dates in advance? Whether it's conferences and events or film launches and X Factor results, it'll come in handy.
6) Tag!
Tag each post not only with key words you've included, but also those that link to the subject. It'll help direct more people to your blog.
7) You don't have to be in PR to promote your blog
Make the most of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and LinkedIn. You don't have to do them all, but do the ones you can, well.
Why not set a reminder on your phone to promote each post you write, in a variety of ways, for the next 30 days to ensure it's being read?
In addition to this, make sure you're capitalising on #TBT and #FBF (for going through the archive and bringing early posts up to par) and #FF (for connecting with influencers) – they're quick wins for getting noticed.
8) Maximising channels
Did you know you can publish direct from LinkedIn? It looks hot, so take advantage and stand out among your network.
Also consider using Twitter to feed into relevant conversations and plug your content e.g:
Looking forward to the @PaddingtonMovie? Then you'll probably hate my blog on the Peruvian bear! Check it out > http://wp.me/p2sMct-2dE
This could help your content to snowball outside of your network – which is the key to success.
9) You may have the penmanship of Shakespeare, but that's no excuse for shoddy images
Headers and images will be scanned before people start reading your blog in detail. Make sure they stand out and are engaging.
10) Have an 'About You' page
I've never been overly keen on blogs that use the first few posts as introductions. I'm going to say it like it is: it looks
a little very amateur. Put your background on a separate page and use your first post to get straight to the point.
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Our energy centers (chakras) connect us on a multidimensional level through the chakras of the body. These energy centers connect to our glandular functions. This is where disease originates. We come into this world with weakness and strengths. This is carried from our past lives, and the families we are born into give us the perfect opportunities for growth to heal our karmas. Energy healing can give you sight into what chakras or past issues prevent you from realizing your happiness. The planets are aligned with the chakras as in our solar system and problems within a birth chart will indicate the strength or weakness of a planet and therefore where your blockages are to your growth and happiness.
Our growth mentally, emotionally, and spiritually is the purpose for our life here and will lead us to discover happiness.
Understanding Energy healing and our chakras. It is our physical heritage as in the DNA and our spiritual heritage such as Karma. To understand this sector of the body will reveal the missing pieces of what blocks us from our spiritual transformation that we are here to discover. This is what we feel is always missing. Chakras indicate our soul essence.
Our past contains the basis of what our soul is here to learn.
It can be difficult to take an honest look at what we are suppressing. But it is definitely liberating. Growth is like child birth, it is painful but always creates a new beginning.
If something is not working in your life then the source or core reason needs to be addressed to cure your sense of unhappiness and produce the growth that leads to fulfillment and happiness. Money issues, relationship issues, career and self esteem issues are all symptoms of imbalances in the core, the chakras will give answers. But you must do the work to change your life, and the result is happiness.
Throughout the day, the week, when you feel that you are out of focus, stop and look at nature, feel nature and listen to nature, bless your lives, nature and everything that is around you with a simple short prayer. Create your own prayer if you wish.


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The Drawing Rooms
There was no reason to panic. The rooms had been this full before and the transporter crews had always come through. Anderson was anxious as always, transferring the black slick liquid from one room to another and watching the gauges. He checked which were filling up the fastest. Only six rooms remained unfilled, including the one we were now operating in. A small number decided to stay and control the drawing while most retreated to the upper levels of the temple. In the dark and slime stained rooms, Jefferson was reassuring everyone we would be OK. Rescue crews above us were drilling down as he spoke and, even though we were cut off temporarily, we would all laugh about this later over a drink.
In the twelve years since its discovery, the structure had only overflowed twice. Each time the staff had been evacuated before they could be suffocated in the rich thick fuel that flowed into the temple vaults. When the first crews had landed on the planet, the temple had been completely dry. There had been no signs anywhere of the civilization that had built it. Judging from the rich jungle surrounding it, the builders hadn't originated here. Situated on a high cliff several thousand miles above the canopies of the tallest trees, nothing else on the planet showed the complexity and skill. They began to explore.
After several months, they noticed that the floors of the lowers rooms were becoming slick with a substance rising from the ground. It was a rich hydrocarbon oil that, when distilled, provided an incredible fuel source. Geologists were brought in to survey the area but no-one could work out why the substance was rising up into the temple. It was as if it was drawn up from beneath the jungle floor, oozing along with a life of its own. They searched for any kind of extraction mechanism. They studied the rocks of the cliffs and searched for underground reservoirs. The rocks were porous but could never be used to replicate the process. Most surmised it had to be triggered by our arrival.
It wasn't long before the Stenson corporation arrived, installing in the lower chambers. The drawing room crews began their work; monitoring the levels, filling room after room while the transport crews shipped it back to earth for refinement. A whole new era of space exploration was being developed on the basis of this baffling discovery. It was lucrative for everyone to spend a cycle working in the rooms between transports. Risks were high but worth it. Now listening to the next room beginning to fill with the black slick; curdling and gurgling as it sloshed around, I thought on that. It was a matter of hours before everyone would be forced to evacuate into the jungle. There were predators down there, more dangerous than the fumes down here.
I could feel the walls vibrating as the crews drilled down to us. There was no need to panic.


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Picture yourself making your own peach preserves or removing a handcrafted (with your hands!) beautifully crusty baguette from the oven.
These are not merely the fevered apron dreams, but something you could do with a little instruction. Local cooking classes abound in strip shopping centers, restaurants and farms. They range from ethnic specialties to classes that focus on specific cooking techniques. Some come with a little harvesting of produce. Others take place in a cooking school or in cooking stores where you can finish up the class by picking up a few things for your kitchen. Whichever you choose, time to get cooking.
Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts
637 S. Broadway, Suite H, Boulder
One of the most popular options at the school, which also offers professional courses, is a five-day series of classes on basic cooking techniques, says Ellie Scott, manager of classes for the home cook.
"People come from out of town," she says of the class, which offers five intensive five-hour days at a cost of $645.
"Each day focuses on a classic French technique," Scott says. Those techniques include sauteeing, grilling, roasting, egg cookery and braising. During every class, participants prepare a five-course meal that teaches the technique of the day.
A similarly intensive Farm to Fork class teaches canning, pickling, cheesemaking and sausage making.
"The class brings back more the Old World technique … utilizing the ingredients you have on hand rather than purchasing ingredients based on a recipe," she says.
If such intensive classes are too much of a time and money commitment, Escoffier also offers one-time classes such that teach a particular dish or type of cuisine. "Primo Pizza" and "Northern Indian Kitchen" are two examples from this month. Such classes generally range from $65 to $95.
Sur La Table
Twenty Ninth Street Mall, Boulder
Danielle Edmonds, resident chef at the Boulder Sur La Table, says the store's classes "run the gamut" in terms of themes and techniques. Last week, for example, a class for teens made tres leches cupcakes. Edmonds says the class covered basic pastry techniques such as creaming butter and sugar, as well as alternating liquids and dry ingredients.
"Most people don't know how to make a cake from scratch," she says, although she adds that she has seen a wide variation in the many classes she teaches.
"I have come across adults not sure how to crack an egg," she says. "I've also seen some individuals who are true foodies."
Classes range from $69 to $250.
The wide skill range is accommodated in the class, Edmonds says. Newbie cooks learn the basics, while those with more experience get more complex questions answered. Edmonds says teaching techniques is key to helping cooks succeed at home.
"Anyone can do a recipe," she says.
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95th Street and Arapahoe Road, Lafayette
Classes focus on a technique, type of dish or course. The classes are on hiatus for the summer, but pick up again in the fall. The class schedule generally goes up on the store's website in July, and classes fill quickly, says store owner Luanne Hill, who also teaches the classes.
She says she used to teach more recipes, but now concentrates on technique. All classes are hands-on.
"People can go home and do it, because they've already done it once," she says.
The Kitchen (Upstairs)
1039 Pearl St., Boulder
If you'd rather taste than cook, the Kitchen (Upstairs) offers a wine and beer class the third Tuesday of every month. The classes include a four-course menu driven by seasonal ingredients. Each course has both a wine an beer pairing, often around a vegetable rather than the more typical beverage and protein pairing. The class for June features, rhubarb, for example.
Sara Brito, director of community, says the pairings are up for discussion.
"It's a great opportunity for wine lovers to explore beer. Likewise the beer lover who doesn't want to go to a wine dinner can dabble in the other world," she says.
After each course, the class votes on the better pairing.
"Rather than feeling that a pairing is objectively right or wrong, it's about cultivating conversation at the table," she says.
Colterra Food and Wine
210 Franklin St., Niwot
If you'd like to have a glass of wine, some nibbles and learn how to grill, Colterra Food and Wine is offering a Thrill of the Grill class at 4:30 on June 24. Cost is $35. The restaurant periodically offers classes.
1825 Pearl St., Boulder
Cured, the artisanal cheese and wine store on Pearl Street has changed its education emphasis from in-store to in-home. Called Homeschool, the store will bring a wine and cheese pairing class or the class on various blue cheeses to your home. Cost is $150 for six, with an additional $15 for each extra person.
Lyons Farmette
4121 Ute Highway
The Lyons Farmette, a 4-acre farm in Lyons, offers cooking classes about once a month. On July 8, a cheesemaking class will teach participants how to make ricotta and mozzarella at a cost of $45. On Sept. 9, a jarring and jamming class will cover basic canning and jam making for $50. The farm will also offer a pie making and a soup making class in late summer to early fall. Check website for dates. Farm Co-owner Betsy Burton says some farm dinners also let diners harvest a bit of produce and watch a cooking demo during cocktails before the dinner.
"It makes a farm to table dinner a farm to table education," she says.
Cure Organic Farm
7450 Valmont Road , Boulder
Here's a cooking class you might not have thought of: Learning to Love the Vegetables You Hate. That's offered several times during the summer at Cure Organic Farm. Those vegetables include greens, fava beans, beets and turnips. Classes, which cost $36, have only six participants to allow hands-on participation. Jam making, which follows the seasons with berries starts on June 30, runs monthly through September. Living Gluten Free, Eating Healthy also runs four times during the summer. Also, not yet listed will be a class on making Italian tomato sauce with San Marzanos and a butchering class. Check the website.
Roma Melrose
6940 N. 63rd St. Longmont
Roma Melrose, owner of the now-closed Royal Bengal restaurant and cooking instructor, offers classes in her commercial kitchen on her property in Niwot, generally for $80. Classes are also available in your home. While many classes reflect her upbringing in Kolkata, India, Melrose also offers classes on grains and gluten free foods.
Shepherd Valley Waldorf School
classes at various locations
If you're looking to get the family involved in cooking and other domestic projects with a nature-friendly emphasis, look no further than Family ReSkilling on the Farm classes, which include making fermented pickles, vermiculture and making brooms. Cost is less than $50 a family for most classes, which includes materials.
Shepherd Valley Outreach and Enrollment Coordinator Melanie Reiser says the classes reflect the Waldorf values of experience in the natural environment.
"These are activities parents and children are doing together," she says. "We promote those values, eating well and being outside together."


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Little noticed in the billion-dollar presidential election was a vote on the ballot in Puerto Rico. It asked Puerto Rican citizens the question, Do you want to become a state? This question has been on the ballot only three other times in the last half century. And each time, the answer has been no. We'd rather remain a commonwealth. This time the island voted by a nearly two-to-one majority, YES!
You might say, well, just because they ask to become a state doesn't mean we have to accept them as a state, and that is true. What it DOES mean, as it turns out, is that the U. S. Congress, by law, will have to consider the matter. And in the end, Congress will have very few grounds to turn them down. It's in our Declaration of Independence. It says that "a government's power comes from the consent of those governed." Puerto Ricans, an island governed by us, no longer consent to be a commonwealth.
Now, if you are a right-wing Republican you might ask, what gives this group of 4,000,000 Latinos on an island the right to be subject to our Declaration of Independence? And they want to become CITIZENS?
Well, guess what. They already ARE citizens. They have representatives in Congress. They pay many federal taxes. They can be drafted into the military in time of war. They can freely move to the 50 States from Puerto Rico and back. So forget it. They are not aliens. Their representatives in Congress have the right to talk, but they can't vote.
Some Puerto Ricans favoring statehood had something of a say in our recent presidential election. During the primary campaigns, Rick Santorum went to Puerto Rico to speak to some Republican supporters there. Puerto Rico was about to hold a primary (on March 18, 2012). They had 23 delegates coming to vote at the Republican National Convention. Yes! Puerto Rico has delegates!
Santorum drew a crowd of Puerto Rican Republicans. They all wanted to hear him repeat what he had said in prior speeches, which was that he favored Puerto Rico deciding whether or not they wanted statehood. So he did say that, but then he added something.
"Like in every other state, it [must comply] with this and every other federal law—and that is that English should be the main language."
It did not go well. There is no such federal law anyway.
There are lots of arguments both for and against Puerto Rico becoming our 51st state.
For one thing, if you've been to Puerto Rico, you know the landscape is stunningly beautiful. It has magnificent mountains and rainforests, beaches and waterfalls. If it became a state, as a resort destination, it could rival Hawaii. It is also of military significance, with naval bases and both air force and army bases. It also has a considerable pharmaceutical and electronics industry.
Unfortunately, in its longtime position as a "commonwealth," with non-voting members of Congress, it has had very little access or influence to get important federal infrastructure projects funded, and so, today, some of its roads and other facilities are not what they should be. If fixed up, Puerto Rico could truly be a treasure.
(An argument against statehood is that in the present system, the federal government grants the Puerto Rican government $10 billion in aid in place of infrastructure appropriations every year. But because this is not a state, there's no federal oversight of it so much of it is wasted. If it got statehood, we'd just call it federal money going to a state.)
Another argument from the right against statehood for Puerto Rico is, within the framework of the current population trends in America where "minorities" are slowly overtaking "whites," having 4,000,000 more "minorities" would just be the straw that breaks the camel's back—or to put it another way, hasten where we are already heading, down the road to ruination because of these new unwanted foreigners coming to America.
It's my opinion that the economic troubles we are now in are partially, maybe even primarily, caused by so-called "unwanted" south-of-the-border foreigners coming here illegally, working hard for little money, then sending it back to their home countries without having to pay any taxes on it because, since they are unwanted, we refuse to recognize them as citizens and so are unable to tax them.
Sounds like a little common sense—if we knight the unwanteds into citizens, we can tax them—would go a long way to solving that financial issue. But then we would be giving up on our immigration "quota" system, which lets this person in, but not that person, depending on where they are coming from. What are we defending here? A private club?
The quota system is not how it used to be, by the way. All that stuff about Ellis Island and the immigrants back around 1900 was designed to keep out people who were criminals or carrying infectious diseases. From Ellis Island you can look out to the Statue of Liberty. We all know what is inscribed on that statue. There were no quotas then. Quotas came in in 1921.
The law reads that those allowed in should be ethnically in proportion to the ethnic percentages of the ethnic groups already here. Therefore the majority ethnic group in place in 1921 would remain the majority ethnic group. At that time, some people believe, it was meant to stop Jews fleeing persecution from Europe.
Personally, I can think of only one really acceptable reason why we should not make the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico into a state, and that is because it would screw up the American flag.
We did fine with 13 states. We made the 13 into a circle of stars. Currently we have 50 states. They work in offsetting rows of stars. And before that we had 48 states, which made great cornrows of stars in straight lines. We even must have done beautiful things before we got Arizona and New Mexico as states back in the early 1900s, though I don't know what it was. All I do know is, with 51 stars you cannot make any pattern that would make any sense. It just won't work. Nobody would salute a flag with 51 stars.
There are, however, two solutions to this. One is that we throw one of the existing states out of the union when we invite Puerto Rico in. So we stay at 50. All we have to do is decide which one has to go.
The other is (and this works to keep everything in balance for those extreme right-wing Republicans) to take on a 52nd state that will counterbalance the minority immigrant state of Puerto Rico. And I know exactly what should be the 52nd state.
Nova Scotia. There hasn't been a minority person in Nova Scotia in years. It's an English-speaking province of Canada completely blocked in by French speaking provinces. (More dang foreigners.) So it would not be missed. Also, the way it is attached to the Canadian mainland geographically, as a big lump of fruit attached by some sort of stalk, it's absolutely ripe for picking.
Fifty-two. Now there's a number the designers can make work.
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