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Cheap Divorce Lawyer Pittsburg
Cheap Divorce Attorney Pittsburg
If you're headed towards an uncontested divorce in the Pittsburg area, one thought you might be trying to avoid is that of hiring a cheap divorce lawyer in Pittsburg. Hiring a cheap divorce attorney may bring to mind the analogy of hiring a cheap brain surgeon. You don't want to do that.
However, the analogy with hiring a cheap divorce attorney in Pittsburg is not valid. In fact, if you have an uncontested divorce, you DO want to hire a cheap divorce lawyer! Handling an uncontested divorce has its skillset, but it is not brain surgery. You just don't want to hire a bad or inexperienced divorce lawyer. So you want to make sure that you hire a cheap divorce attorney that handles a lot of divorces. When you handle a lot of anything, it makes you good at it. It also makes you cost-effective. So in an uncontested divorce, good and cheap often go hand in hand. That is unlike many other professional services, such as brain surgery or handling a contested or complex divorce.
So while you can tell your friends and relatives that you got a smart divorce or a low-cost divorce, if you prefer, let's face it. What you should be looking for in order to get the best uncontested divorce possible is a cheap divorce attorney who handles a lot of cases in Pittsburg.
If you're still having trouble with the concept of a cheap divorce attorney in Pittsburg because you think that professional services must be reassuringly high in order to be of high quality, there's one additional factor I haven't yet mentioned. And it is breaking the taboo of cheap divorce lawyers all over the country, not just in Pittsburg.
If your case really is uncontested (you and your spouse/partner are in agreement on all issues of the divorce and will remain so), the best way to proceed is to keep the costs down with (1) an online divorce in (2) an unbundled (sometimes called "limited scope representation") hiring of a local divorce lawyer right there in Pittsburg. That's the factor that changes everything in your favor – unbundled legal services, but you do have to know about it, and now you do. Read on.
Let's look at what each of these two components means – online divorce and unbundled services.
Online Divorce Lawyer in Pittsburg
From the perspective of the divorce consumer, the primary component of online divorce is a secure online divorce interview that can be completed on any Internet-connected device from the comfort of your home or office in one or multiple sessions. Your data is securely stored and passed only over an encrypted connection so that when you leave the online interview, your info is saved and will be secure and waiting when you log back into the online interview using your secure password. The traditional alternative to an online divorce interview would be an insecure 20-page hard copy questionnaire, much of which would not have applied to your case, to be filled in by hand by you.
Online divorce interviews cut down drastically on clerical errors in your data and with a proper help system built-in, they guide you through the process of what information is required, thereby empowering you in your own divorce case. You know your data better than anyone else and if there is a help system and a local lawyer standing by on email to answer any legal or strategic questions, an online interview is cost-effective, empowering and more accurate.
Additionally, an online divorce interview is interactive. If you have no children of the marriage, you don't see any interview pages that ask questions about children, custody, support, etc. If you have property and debt to be added to your case, you will see a page on which to do that. Online divorce interviews don't waste your time on unnecessary screens or data requests. It asks you only for what is needed in your case based on the information you've already entered,
The other major component of online divorce is the cloud-based app that takes all of the data you've entered into your interview and populates it accurately across the state of California's and your local county's divorce forms. It does so correctly, on the correct number of docs and in the correct sequence of docs. Online divorce software has become much better and more powerful over the years. It crunches the huge California divorce paperwork load and keeps the costs way down. It also knows all of the logic that is required to prepare the dozens of complex multi-page docs that are involved in all California divorce – uncontested or contested.
And now recently, a very few Pittsburg divorce lawyers are finally beginning to use wicked-cool online divorce software to fight back against the completely unregulated, unlicensed and completely incompetent online divorce mills that have controlled California uncontested divorce for the last 20 years. California divorce lawyers are using that online divorce software to offer you, the Pittsburg divorce consumer a much better, cost-effective and more efficient service. And they're doing it unbundled.
Unbundled Divorce Services in Pittsburg
Unbundled legal services are not new. The California Bar Association had ethics opinions and other materials telling lawyers how to offer unbundled services as far back as January 2004. Even individual Superior Courts are touting the value of unbundled legal services.
However, lawyers were slow to recognize the opportunities. They preferred to think narrow-mindedly that unbundled services would simply mean a lower fee per case. They failed to realize that unbundled services would take less of their time and that therefore unbundled could be as profitable on an hourly basis as a traditional full representation. Also, more unbundled clients would mean a larger and more quickly developed client base to which other legal services can be offered ethically. Approaching a former client to offer services is not considered unethical soliciting because there has been a prior professional relationship. Cross-selling legal services to former clients is also highly profitable. Lawyers should be more interested in the Lifetime Value of you as a client and not just the quick short-term profit, no matter how good it is on an hourly basis.
Lawyers' traditional reluctance to embrace technology and adapt it to their law business also served to slow down their acceptance of unbundled services until quite recently, just like their reluctance to use online divorce software. The two go hand in hand. If you don't have online divorce software, the unbundled service makes less sense. And while a lawyer could certainly use online divorce software on a full representation basis in an uncontested case, both the lawyer and the consumer are somewhat missing the point of keeping costs down and handling the case efficiently.
So what are unbundled services? I'll let the American Bar Association tell you that: "Unbundling, or limited scope representation, is an alternative to traditional, full-service representation. Instead of handling every task in a matter from start to finish, the lawyer handles only certain parts and the client remains responsible for the others. It is like an à la carte menu for legal services, where: (1) clients get just the advice and services they need and therefore pay a more affordable overall fee; (2) lawyers expand their client base by reaching those who cannot afford full-service representation but have the means for some services; and (3) courts benefit from greater efficiency when otherwise self-represented litigants receive some counsel.
Typically, in an uncontested divorce situation, unbundled will mean that you complete the online interview, file your case at your local Superior Court and, under the instructions of your online divorce lawyer, arrange for service of the divorce case upon your spouse. You do the legwork where no legal input is needed. That's where the savings are. The online divorce lawyer will check your interview for legal correctness and to forecast any potential problems in your case. After appropriate discussion with you, s/he will then download your batches of divorce docs (there are three batches in most cases) and provide instructions how to file (it's easy – if you can go to the DMV, you can do this) at your local Superior Court and serve process on your spouse. You are using the lawyer only where legal insight and advice is needed. That's where the efficiency is.
The Best of Both Worlds – online divorce by a Pittsburg divorce lawyer
However, a small problem is that Pittsburg divorce lawyers who offer unbundled services are still not standing around on street corners. Most local lawyers will not know what you're talking about (or at least will claim that they don't know) or will tell you that unbundled services are somehow dangerous. Yeah, they're dangerous to the bottom lines of Pittsburg divorce lawyers who do not want to provide uncontested divorce services in Pittsburg at a competitive price. And the reason unbundled services are dangerous is that they are slowly putting old dinosaur lawyers out of business. In other words, unbundled is dangerous to such lawyers, not to you.
If you have an uncontested divorce in Pittsburg, don't waste your time with lawyers who do not respond positively, even enthusiastically, to your inquiry about unbundled online divorce. Also, don't educate them. They don't get it in more ways than one.
Instead, click to call 1-800-DIVORCE to be connected to your local Online Divorce Lawyer or if you prefer to have them contact you, just complete the form below. Remember that each online divorce lawyer you find is independently owned and operated. So be sure to check what is included in the unbundled service and what will be the cost.
This is the best of both worlds – online divorce by a local Pittsburg lawyer. Online and unbundled are great features to keep your costs down, but there are two additional factors that make hiring an online divorce lawyer in Pittsburg a no-brainer:
- Online Divorce Mills Are Crap: When California divorce lawyers failed to take advantage of the Internet's opportunities circa 1999, the result was that the usual Internet con-men rushed in and have controlled the California uncontested online divorce industry ever since. They are bad. They are unlicensed, unregulated, unaccountable, usually fraudulent and fundamentally incompetent. There are about 2 dozen of them. They are almost all out-of-state. Some of them are in India and Dubai. They use rampant price fraud and trickery, never-ending up-selling and they know nothing about your local Superior Court's rules or practices. They provide no legal advice or legal rights checkup at all. They know very little about the law, and you will pay for their mistakes forever. Your local Online Divorce Lawyer is licensed, bound by a strict heavily enforced Code of Ethics, is educated in the law and is subject to strict continuing legal education requirements. Your local Online Divorce Lawyer will be well aware of your local Superior Court's rules and policies.
- The Insurance Policy Provided by Hiring a Local Online Divorce Lawyer in Pittsburg: Sometimes things will go wrong – even in an uncontested case. Unforeseen problems arise that will either cause the case to blow up into a contested case or one that requires mediation or some additional legal advice. These are not things you want to dwell on, and they probably won't happen. But if it does happen, you'll be prepared with an online divorce lawyer. You've already got a local lawyer on your team. Your online divorce lawyer knows your case from the beginning. Yes, it will be on a different pre-agreed fee basis, but your online divorce lawyer is now your divorce lawyer and will hit the ground running. You do not have to hire a Pittsburg divorce lawyer from scratch and wait for him or her to get up to speed on your case.
Online Divorce Lawyers in Pittsburg are bold, creative, business-savvy, want your business, have a modern business profile and in short, have earned your business. Please reward them. Thanks for reading. Hope this has helped get you on track.


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Chocolate-Mint Ice Cream Cake
May 6, 2010 at 7:58 pm 44 comments
Where to begin the story of this chocolate-mint ice cream cake? Sure, it technically begins with a cool carton of cream and a stack of cracked egg shells. But I think it really starts two years ago, when my mother decided she wanted to remodel our backyard.
Our yard is L shaped, wrapping around our house. One of the strips is nice, just cool green grass and evergreen trees. But the other strip of yard, the one visible from the kitchen window and the dining room, was once utterly unimpressive. It was brimming with uneven grass, moss that squished under each footstep, and unappealing patches of yellow. My mother began sketching out designs, writing down ideas, until she'd come up with an ambitious blueprint.
She wanted to remove all the grass in that section and fertilize it. Then she wanted to transform it into something stunning, a rainbow of growing, breathing plants. Lime-green creeping bugleweed, black stemmed rhododendrons, pink-throated lilies, pure white bleeding hearts in the shade… And a natural stone path weaving through it all. Maybe a birdbath in the corner.
I thought it was wishful thinking, but my dad told her, "Let's do it."
We did it all ourselves that summer, and it was more work than any of us expected it to be. I imagined the process of removing grass to be a very simple, straightforward one. I didn't realize that we'd have to lift up the sod, like heavy strips of carpet. We sifted through all of the rocks and roots by hand, which is every bit as laborious as it sounds, and turned the soil with fertilizer.
Forming the stone path felt like the bane of my existence. It needed to be nine inches deep, three feet wide, curving like a snake from one end of the yard to the other. After that, we had to smooth it out, fill it with gravel (wheelbarrowful by wheelbarrowful) and then with dirt (shovelful by shovelful.) By the time we began to fit in the rocks, I had complained enough for the whole summer.
We went to the nursery every week and drove home with a lush jungle spilling out of the car trunk; I'd sit in the back seat with silvery leaves and purple flowers brushing my cheek. We planted hummingbird-friendly flowers near the kitchen window and spindly ferns in the shade. We carried in an old stone bird bath. We even dug out a fire pit at the end of the path and built it with leftover slabs of stone.
We'd turned our backyard into something so much more than an offhand glance out the window.
The next spring, despite an unusually freezing winter, my mother's garden grew back like some kind of miracle. It's even fuller, even greener, and there's a palpable buzz, a pulse. It's bursting with life. I remember the thrill of our first hummingbird, hovering in the air like a jewel. The first time we saw a blue jay sipping cautiously from the birdbath. The first baby green leaf in a vine we though had been choked by the cold.
We have already gotten so much from our yard, it's easy to forget how much work went into it. We cuddle up in lawn chairs around the fire pit, setting pumpkin spice marshmallows on fire and running out for hot dogs. We look up between sips of coffee at breakfast to see the flowers shaking off dew and waking up with us. Oh, and the herb garden…
It might be my favorite spot in the whole yard now. I squat down and just rub my fingers over everything: pebbly sage leaves, then the gold-edged leaves of lemon thyme, then the thick, soft stalks of rosemary. The fragrance of fresh herbs is so comforting. It smells like handwritten recipes and golden midafternoon sunlight and "Let's eat on the patio tonight."
And ever since the chocolate-mint plant has taken root, it has clung to life vivaciously. It's spread faster than any of our other herbs, growing rounder and rounder, so that we're forced to pick leaves and pull roots to keep it in check. It's no surprise that ever since last summer, I've wanted to make mint ice cream.
I finally got the chance a couple weeks ago. One of my best friends, M-, has a thing for chocolate mint ice cream cake. What kind of friend would I be if I didn't make one for his 18th birthday, using the freshest, sun-kissed mint I could find?
I brought it to school and we devoured it in the cafeteria. I stole a slice and a plate from the teacher's lounge and took these photos in the courtyard. When I came back, only half of the cake was left, and by the end of the day the only evidence that it had ever existed was my camera full of photos and the lingering grin on M-'s face.
Mom and Dad two years ago, taking a break from an afternoon of yard work
Mom last year, drinking tea into the twilight on the patio. Someday, you won't even be able to see the ground – all of those green plants will spread out to the stone path winding through them.
[PS: My camera is finally fixed! I got it in the mail today and went a little crazy. It's been three weeks and I've missed it like a picked peach misses the sunshine. And I finally hit 1,000 fans on Facebook, thank you all!
PPS: Dad, I know I didn't get your permission to publish a photo with you in it, but mom said it was okay.]
I found David Lebovitz's recipe for mint ice cream, which uses the same base as the incredible vanilla bean ice cream I made a few months ago. It's so thick and creamy, but it's smooth, too, and it scoops like butter straight from the freezer. I used our chocolate-mint, a type of mint that has a distinct chocolate scent and a more delicate flavor. It came out the palest green. When M- cut the cake, he was surprised that the ice cream was nearly white in the sunshine, but the flavor is clear with the first bite. It doesn't just taste like mint, it's saturated with the fragrance of it, and it fills your mouth with every spoonful.
I found a cake recipe that sounded perfect for an ice cream cake: it's moist, easy to work with, has good chocolate flavor and stands up to freezing and refreezing. I wanted to make a small cake, so I used little 6″ pans, and just sort of guessed as I went. I'm giving the recipes below as I originally found them, so they don't quite mesh together, but you can alter how much cake/ice cream you make to make it work.
The method of making an ice cream cake is still the same. You line your pans with plastic wrap and spread softened ice cream in them. Then you freeze until the ice cream is completely solid, remove them, and use those pans to bake the cake. Then you stack them one on top of the other and freeze until cold enough to frost. I frosted the cake with a cocoa whipped cream frosting. A word of warning, this frosting isn't sweet. I wanted to balance the sugar in the ice cream and cake, and this frosting isn't sweet on its own. But with everything else, it's perfect.
Chocolate-Mint Ice Cream
From David Lebovitz via Orangette
Makes 1 Quart
1 cup whole milk
¾ cup sugar
2 cups heavy cream
Pinch of salt
2 cups lightly packed fresh mint leaves [I used chocolate-mint]
5 large egg yolks
Heat the milk, sugar, salt, and 1 cup of the cream over medium heat. Stir occasionally until it begins to steam. Then stir in the mint leaves so that they're covered in liquid. Cover the pot, remove from the heat, and let steep at room temperature for one hour.
Strain the mixture into a medium saucepan, squeezing on the mint leaves to get out as much juice as possible. Discard the mint leaves. Pour the remaining 1 cup cream into a large bowl and set aside.
Rewarm the mint-infused mixture over medium heat until it begins to steam. In a separate medium bowl, whisk together the egg yolks. Slowly pour the warm mint liquid into the egg yolks, whisking constantly; then scrape the warmed egg yolks back into the saucepan.
Stir the mixture constantly over medium heat with a heatproof spatula, scraping the bottom as you stir, until the mixture thickens and coats the spatula. Pour the custard through a strainer into the large bowl containing the cream. Stir until cool over an ice bath.
Chill the mixture thoroughly in the refrigerator, then freeze it in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions.
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Chocolate Cake
From Baking Bites
Makes a 10″ by 15″ Cake
2 cups sugar
2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 large eggs
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup hot water
Preheat oven to 350F. Grease a 10×15-inch jelly roll-type pan with cooking spray and line with parchment paper. Leave some paper overhanging the edges of the pan.
In a large bowl, whisk together sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
In a medium bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, buttermilk, vegetable oil and vanilla extract. Pour into flour mixture and stir until just combined.
Pour hot water (not quite boiling) over batter and stir until smooth. Pour into prepared pan.
Bake for about 25 minutes, until cake springs back when lightly pressed and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Let cake cool in pan for 15 minutes, then use the parchment paper to transfer cake to a wire rack to cool completely. Do not remove parchment paper.
Cocoa Whipped Cream Frosting
2 cups heavy whipping cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/2 tablespoons cocoa powder
2 tablespoons powdered sugar
Whip the cream and vanilla extract with an electric mixer on medium speed. Slowly add the cocoa powder and powdered sugar (I suggest you sift these first) and increase the speed to high. Beat until stiff peaks form. Frost the cake immediately.
Assembling the cake: I didn't give recipes that mesh with each other, but here's what I suggest for a 9″ round cake. Line a 9″ pan with plastic wrap and spread a layer of ice cream in it. Freeze until solid, then lift out the ice cream and return to the freezer. Use two 9″ pans to bake the cake. Use the cake recipe as written, and divide it between the two 9″ round pans. I'm not sure what the baking time will be, so just check frequently and bake until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes, then turn out onto wire racks and cool completely.
Take a layer of cake and top it with the layer of frozen ice cream, then the second layer of cake. Return to the freezer and chill until solid. Meanwhile, make the frosting. Spread it all over the cake and chill. Remove 20 minutes prior to serving.
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Entry filed under: Cake/Cupcakes, Frozen Desserts. Tags: cake, cream, frosting, frozen, herbs, ice cream, layer cake, mint, summer.
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That sounds absolutely delicious! You've inspired me to hunt out chocolate mint for my herb garden now…
I have been wanting to change up my backyards for years now, this post has inspired me to get started this summer. and what a great friend you are, this cake looks great and perfect for summer.
I have finally become more than just a hand model…woohoo, I am somebody!
Note The depth of the path was 9″: 4″ of gravel, 2″ of sand and 3″ deep to accommodate the 3″ thick flagstones to bring the path to grade. It is also 38″ wide (34″ for the path plus 2″ on each side for gravel and a support frame to keep the stones from shifting).
The path opens to a 14 foot wide circular seating area with a fire pit in the center and is situated between a triangle of 3 Ponderosa pine trees that are over 100 feet tall. A project full of sweat and the occasional, why did we do this?!, but well worth the effort.
Glad to have my daily photos back again!
Love the shot of the mint!
Dear Elissa,
Thank you so much for your blog. It has been such an inspiration for me. You have no idea how much I get out of your posts, your pictures especially.
I made the buttermilk-pound cake the other day. It was so good, it was worh waiting for!
I'm 12 and I don't think I ever heard such encouraging things as I do from your blog in my life.
Again, thanks so much!
Hi Elissa, I recently discovered your blog and have absolutely loved reading through it. If it weren't chilly and raining here today, I would definitely be making a cake like this. Thanks for all the wonderful ideas!
Oh gosh, this whole post described my life right now. The minute I arrived home from my first year of college, my family was continuing the step of turning over the land and pulling out roots, rock, branches, etc. Yesterday they went to see if they could find fertilizer. Mom dreams of a no-brown garden; just one with grass and some tomatoes on the side :)
And the cake looks delicious! It's a combo of all of my favorite things, so I'll have to try it out sometime!
MMM must the name "chocolate mint" is beautiful. You sound like you have a beautiful family and a great relationship with your parents. The cake looks awesome too!
That looks fantastic. I love the flavour fresh mint has. Infusing all of your senses. Looks delicious.
This looks amaaazing. I asked for an ice cream maker for my birthday, and if I get one, I'm going to be so happy and this will definitely be on the list of things I'm making with it. :)
And congrats on the 1,000 fans! Yippee! :)
i just wanted to say that
"It smells like handwritten recipes and golden midafternoon sunlight"
is possibly the best metaphor you've ever written. it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Wow, Elissa! That cake is a beauty. Ice cream cake is my husband's idea of heaven on earth, and you've certainly made me a believer!
elissa, i wish i had a dad as cool and fun as yours. Mine's the most un-fun dad on earth. sigh.
in any case, that is one awesome-looking ice cream cake! and thanks for the frosting recipe. A lightly sweeten one is what i've always been looking for (:
Another wonderful story, and another fabulous looking cake. You never cease to amaze me. Thank your mom for giving you permission to post the photo of her and your dad. I enjoyed it. So glad the camera is back where it belongs.
That sounds so pretty, and wonderful!! The mint ice cream looks really good!!!
Sounds like your yard is fabulous, worth all of the hard work. The cake looks amazing. Your friend is very lucky:)
Hi Elissa,
This sounds awesome. A quick question though. When you bake the cake do you find that it domes while cooking and that you have to cut of some of the top to level it out? Or is this just my bad baking skills? :p
Keep up the good work, look forward to more magical recipes.
You mean there's actually a mint plant that is chocolate mint? Wow it must smell really really really good!! I hope I can find them here in Malaysia :(
What a gorgeous ice cream cake!
It's beautiful although I don't like the taste of mint. Gorgeous photos!
Such beautiful photography and amazing looking food! I'm very happy to have found your blog and look forward to all your wonderful posts to come! (Plus, I always love finding other Seattlites–I don't live there anymore but it will always be home.)
Thanks for the inspirational ice cream cake recipe.
The cake looks delicious! I'm inspired to try to make my own! :)
Very cool story. I love David's L. ice cream they are so rich and creamy! Your mint ice cream looks delicious and the cake is pretty cool too.
very nice looking cake, and I'm at your blog for the first time and enjoyed it very much. Cheers.
Oh geeze – I'm heading to the gym right now but now I'm thinking about getting ice cream after! Can't wait to try this one!
oh YUMMY! that's a beautiful cake! ur parents must be so proud of u; u're just so talented!
Love the frosting on this cake – so simple, I'll have to try it soon.
And my Dad doesn't like to be photographed either, much less published!
…the garden sounds so inviting.
Wow, that cake looks fantastic! What a delicious treat!
THis sounds so good. I would love to have a big piece of it. You do such a fabulous job.
please come to ireland and make it for me!
where o where did you find a chocolate mint plant??
awesome, i have choc mint just taking off immensely. Out of all the herbs I put in at the same time, this wouldve been the last one I wouldve said would come up so brilliantly. So heres the thing, we have our sons 1st bday coming up nxt Saturday and I have to convince my wife to try this recipe with me, and in the shape of a Monkey. My sons in the cheekee Monkey year.
Thanks again
Aussie Dame
heyy.. u r good baker.. i like it!! im impressed! thx for sharing wif' us though.. :))
Un gros bravo à l'auteur du blog
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"In the last 30 years, more than 440,000 people have perished in this country due to alcohol-impaired driving. What will be our legacy 30 years from now? ... If we don't tackle alcohol-impaired driving now, when will we find the will to do so?" - National Transportation Security Board (NTSB) Chairman Debbie Hersman. The NTSB recommended today that the legal blood-alcohol content for driving be lowered from .08 to .05, according to CNN.
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Wednesday marks the 75th anniversary of Orson Welles' electrifying War of the Worlds broadcast, in which the Mercury Theatre on the Air enacted a Martian invasion of Earth.
"Upwards of a million people, [were] convinced, if only briefly, that the United States was being laid waste by alien invaders," narrator Oliver Platt informs us in the new PBS documentary commemorating the program. The panic inspired by Welles made War of the Worlds perhaps the most notorious event in American broadcast history.
That's the story you already know—it's the narrative widely reprinted in academic textbooks and popular histories. With actors dramatizing the reaction of frightened audience members (based on contemporaneous letters), the new documentary, part of PBS's American Experience series, reinforces the notion that naïve Americans were terrorized by their radios back in 1938. So did this weekend's episode of NPR's Radiolab, which opened with the assertion that on Oct. 30, 1938, "The United States experienced a kind of mass hysteria that we've never seen before."
There's only one problem: The supposed panic was so tiny as to be practically immeasurable on the night of the broadcast. Despite repeated assertions to the contrary in the PBS and NPR programs, almost nobody was fooled by Welles' broadcast.
How did the story of panicked listeners begin? Blame America's newspapers. Radio had siphoned off advertising revenue from print during the Depression, badly damaging the newspaper industry. So the papers seized the opportunity presented by Welles' program to discredit radio as a source of news.
The newspaper industry sensationalized the panic to prove to advertisers, and regulators, that radio management was irresponsible and not to be trusted. In an editorial titled "Terror by Radio," the New York Times reproached "radio officials" for approving the interweaving of "blood-curdling fiction" with news flashes "offered in exactly the manner that real news would have been given."
Warned Editor and Publisher, the newspaper industry's trade journal, "The nation as a whole continues to face the danger of incomplete, misunderstood news over a medium which has yet to prove … that it is competent to perform the news job."
The contrast between how newspaper journalists experienced the supposed panic, and what they reported, could be stark. In 1954, Ben Gross, the New York Daily News' radio editor, published a memoir in which he recalled the streets of Manhattan being deserted as his taxi sped to CBS headquarters just as "War of the Worlds" was ending. Yet that observation failed to stop the Daily News from splashing the panic story across this legendary cover a few hours later.
From these initial newspaper items on Oct. 31, 1938, the apocryphal apocalypse only grew in the retelling. A curious (but predictable) phenomenon occurred: As the show receded in time and became more infamous, more and more people claimed to have heard it. As weeks, months, and years passed, the audience's size swelled to such an extent that you might actually believe most of America was tuned to CBS that night. But that was hardly the case.
Far fewer people heard the broadcast — and fewer still panicked — than most people believe today. How do we know? The night the program aired, the C.E. Hooper ratings service telephoned 5,000 households for its national ratings survey. "To what program are you listening?" the service asked respondents. Only 2 percent answered a radio "play" or "the Orson Welles program," or something similar indicating CBS. None said a "news broadcast," according to a summary published in Broadcasting.
In other words, 98 percent of those surveyed were listening to something else, or nothing at all, on Oct. 30, 1938. This minuscule rating is not surprising. Welles' program was scheduled against one of the most popular national programs at the time — ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's "Chase and Sanborn Hour," a comedy-variety show.
The new PBS documentary allows that, "of the tens of millions of Americans listening to their radios that Sunday evening, few were tuned to the 'War of the Worlds'" when it began, due to Bergen's popularity. But the documentary's script goes on to claim that "millions of listeners began twirling the dial" when the opening comedy routine on the "Chase and Sanborn Hour" gave way to a musical interlude.
"Just at that moment thousands, hundreds, we don't how many listeners, started to dial-surf, where they landed on the 'Mercury Theatre on the Air,'" explained "Radiolab" this weekend. No scholar, however, has ever isolated or extrapolated an actual number of dial twirlers. The data collected was simply not specific enough for us to know how many listeners might have switched over to Welles — just as we can't estimate how many people turned their radios off, or switched from "Mercury Theatre on the Air" over to NBC's "Chase and Sanborn Hour" either. (Radiolab played the "Chase and Sanborn Hour's" musical interlude for its audience, as if the song itself constituted evidence that people of course switched to Welles' broadcast.)
Both "American Experience" and "Radiolab" also omit the salient fact that several important CBS affiliates (including Boston's WEEI) pre-empted Welles' broadcast in favor of local commercial programming, further shrinking its audience. CBS commissioned a nationwide survey the day after the broadcast, and network executives were relieved to discover just how few people actually tuned in. "In the first place, most people didn't hear it," CBS's Frank Stanton recalled later. "But those who did hear it, looked at it is as a prank and accepted it that way."
The legend of the panic, however, grew exponentially over the following years. In 1940, an esteemed academic solidified the myth in the public mind. Relying heavily on a skewed report compiled six weeks after the broadcast by the American Institute of Public Opinion, The Invasion From Mars, by Princeton's Hadley Cantril, estimated that about 1 million people were "frightened" by "War of the Worlds." But the AIPO survey, as Cantril himself admitted, offered an audience rating "over 100 percent higher than any other known measure of this audience."
Cantril defended his reliance on AIPO data by noting that it surveyed homes without telephones and small communities often overlooked by radio ratings agencies. But this cherry-picked data set was clearly tainted by the sensationalistic newspaper publicity following the broadcast (a possibility Cantril also admitted). Worse, Cantril committed an obvious categorical error by conflating being "frightened," "disturbed" or "excited" by the program with being "panicked."
In the late 1930s, radio audiences were regularly "excited" and "frightened" by suspenseful dramas. But what supposedly set Welles' show apart was the "panic," and even terror, it instilled in its audience. Was the small audience that listened to "War of the Worlds" excited by what they heard? Certainly. But that doesn't mean they ran into the streets fearing for the fate of humanity.
And yet such behavior has become part of the "War of the Worlds" myth, as highlighted by the PBS program. "As Welles ran out the broadcast, the deluge of calls continued to light up switchboards across the country," narrator Oliver Platt explains. "In some quarters there were even vague reports of suicides and panic-related deaths." But just as the size of Welles' audience has been exaggerated, so have reports of audience hysteria.
Wire service reports did relay sensational stories of (unnamed) panicked listeners saved only by the timely intervention of friends or neighbors, but not one newspaper reported a verified suicide connected to the broadcast. Researchers in Princeton's Office of Radio Research, working under the direction of Cantril, sought to verify a rumor that several people were treated for shock at St. Michael's Hospital in Newark, N.J. The rumor was checked and found to be inaccurate.
When the same researchers surveyed six New York City hospitals six weeks after the broadcast, "none of them had any record of any cases brought in specifically on account of the broadcast." No specific death has ever been conclusively attributed to the drama. The Washington Post reported that one Baltimore listener died of a heart attack during the show, but unfortunately no one followed up to confirm the story or provide corroborative details. One particularly frightened listener did sue CBS for $50,000, claiming the network caused her "nervous shock." Her lawsuit was quickly dismissed.
"By the next morning … the panic broadcast was front-page news from coast to coast, with reports of traffic accidents, near riots, hordes of panicked people in the streets, all because of a radio play," the PBS documentary recounts. But did armed citizens and National Guardsmen really assemble throughout America? Did mobs rove the streets? Not really. While newspapers made Oct. 30, 1938, a memorable night in the history of the United States, in reality it was a normal fall Sunday evening throughout North America.
Four days after its initial, sensational report, the Washington Post published a letter from one reader who walked down F Street during the broadcast. He noticed "nothing approximating mass hysteria." "In many stores radios were going, yet I observed nothing whatsoever of the absurd supposed 'terror of the populace.' There was none," the reader reported. The Chicago Tribune made no mention of frightened mobs taking to the Windy City's streets.
If "War of the Worlds" had in fact caused the widespread terror we've been told it did, you'd expect CBS and Welles to have been reprimanded for their actions. But that wasn't the case. It's true that Federal Communications Commission chairman Frank McNinch quickly obtained informal agreement from the radio networks that fictional news "flashes" would not be used again, but no official rulings or regulations were promulgated. Nor were CBS or Welles sanctioned in any manner. (In fact, the FCC prohibited complaints about the program from being used in license renewal hearings.)
For the FCC and the networks, the sensationalized newspaper reports were at worst a nuisance. Janet Jackson's 2004 "wardrobe malfunction" remains far more significant in the history of broadcast regulation than Orson Welles' trickery.
In 2012, Cathleen O'Connell, the producer and director of the PBS documentary, telephoned one of the authors of this piece (Michael Socolow) to discuss the recent scholarship questioning the scale of the panic. The documentary does acknowledge this new work but relegates it to one line, late in the program: "Ultimately," Oliver Platt intones, "the very extent of the panic would come to be seen as having been exaggerated by the press."
But that one line fails to balance the accounts of hysteria peppered throughout the script. Director and Welles collaborator Peter Bogdanovich tells us that Welles "scared half the country." The documentary further claims that "newspaper coverage about the broadcast … continued unabated for two full weeks and amounted to some 12,500 articles in total." Yet in his comprehensive analysis of contemporaneous reporting on the panic, American University professor W. Joseph Campbell found that almost all newspapers swiftly dropped the story.
"Coverage of the broadcast faded quickly from the front pages, in most cases after just a day or two," Campbell writes, arguing that had the hysteria truly been widespread, "newspapers for days and even weeks afterward could have been expected to have published detailed reports about the dimensions and repercussions of such an extraordinary event."
Much like the broadcast itself, newspaper coverage was dramatic and sensational — but ephemeral. The PBS documentary, like so many accounts of "War of the Worlds" before it, can't resist the allure of the myth.
Why is this myth so alluring — why does it persist? The answer is complicated, most likely reflecting everything from the structure of our commercial broadcasting system and of our federal regulation, as well as our culture's skepticism about the mass audience and the fear that always accompanies the excitement of new media. Even today, broadcast networks must convince advertisers that they retain commanding powers over their audiences.
As such, CBS has regularly celebrated the "War of the Worlds" broadcast and its supposed effect on the public. In 1957, Studio One, a CBS anthology series, dramatized the panic as "The Night America Trembled," and when the network celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2003, War of the Worlds was a noted highlight. On the other side of the coin, federal regulators must still persuade politicians that there exists an important protective role for the guardians of the airwaves. For both broadcasters and regulators, "War of the Worlds" provides excellent evidence to justify their claims about media power.
Some portion of the blame must also go to Hadley Cantril. His scholarly book validated the popular memory of the event. He gave academic credence to the panic and attached real numbers to it. He remains the only source with academic legitimacy who claims there was a sizable panic. Without this validation, the myth likely would not be in social psychology and mass communication textbooks, as it still is today — pretty much every high schooler and liberal arts undergraduate runs across it at some point. (Both the "American Experience" and "Radiolab" segments rely on his work.) Though you may have never heard of Cantril, the "War of the Worlds" myth is very much his legacy.
But the myth also persists because it so perfectly captures our unease with the media's power over our lives. "The 'panic broadcast' may be as much a function of fantasy as fact," writes Northwestern's Jeffrey Sconce in Haunted Media, suggesting that the panic myth is a function of simple displacement: It's not the Martians invading Earth that we fear, he argues; it's ABC, CBS, and NBC invading and colonizing our consciousness that truly frightens us.
To Sconce, the panic plays a "symbolic function" for American culture — we retell the story because we need a cautionary tale about the power of media. And that need has hardly abated: Just as radio was the new medium of the 1930s, opening up exciting new channels of communication, today the Internet provides us with both the promise of a dynamic communicative future and dystopian fears of a new form of mind control, lost privacy, and attacks from scary, mysterious forces. This is the fear that animates our fantasy of panicked hordes — both then and now.
Jefferson Pooley is an associate professor of media and communication at Muhlenberg College. Michael Socolow is an associate professor of communication and journalism at the University of Maine. The authors published a study of Cantril and the Welles broadcast in the new book "War of the Worlds to Social Media."


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David H. Gorski, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S. is an academic (i.e.: egg-head, paper-pusher, apparatchik) surgical oncologist specializing in breast surgery and oncologic surgery
Gorski is no H.G. Wells
Wells could, at least, tell a convincing lie; as he did in War of the Worlds
Gorski'd likely #fail as his evil half-brother, "H.G. #Fails", in World War Peed, and probably didn't think his readers would get the double-entendre'
Gorski is more famouser for pie in the sky
He'll never be likened to Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or receive a "Mark Twain Award"
He's an unlicensed Hackademic Quackademic who believes that bad press is good press, any press is good press
Gorski is the "Guy" who felt he was Scroogled by Google, when he and his public relations (P.R.) team; which reside in the hyperthalamus section of his brain, decided on 12/5/2012 to go pure pseudononsense pseudononscience:
Critiquing: Stanislaw Burzynski: On the arrogance of ignorance about cancer and targeted therapies [1]
wherein he quoted
Dr Burzynski:
"I published the review article in a peer-reviewed journal almost 20 years ago on the principles of personalized gene-targeted therapy"
"Curious as to just what the heck Burzynski was talking about here, I searched PubMed for this alleged review article"
"I couldn't find it on PubMed"
"His only publications from the 1990s had nothing to do with cancer as a "genetic disease" or "personalized gene-targeted cancer therapy" and everything to do with antineoplastons"
"Perhaps Burzynski proposed this "revolutionary"
new idea in a peer-reviewed article that's not indexed in PubMed, but if he did I couldn't find it using Google and Google Scholar"
"I was in graduate school 20 years ago, and was taught back then that cancer was primarily a genetic disease.. "
"There's a term called "oncogene," which describes genes that, when either mutated or too much is made, can result in cancer"
Gorski would have the reader suspend belief, and believe that he's not smarter than a fifth-grader; which is entirely plausible
That he could not do a search on the words:
and find anything whatsoever
and that he did not have the cranial capacity to access the Burzynski Clinic web-site's Scientific Publications page:
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did NOT have any problem finding it
Pg. 24
1997 – Burzynski. S.R. Antineoplastons. oncogenes and cancer. Anti-Aging Medical Therapeutics, Vol.1. Klatz RM.
Goldman R. (Ed). Health Quest Publication 1997; Marina del Rey, CA. USA
Click to access burzynski_fdauntitled_promo_2012.pdf
This, from a doctor, eager to prove to the world, just how smart he is, because of:
12/.5/2011 – "positions I hold at an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center" [2]
12/13/2012 – "positions I hold at an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center" [3]
3/7/2013 – "my last two jobs have been at NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers" [4]
11/2/2012 – "Personally having pored over Burzynski's publications" [5]
2/18/2013 – "I've read many of Burzynski's papers" [6]
5/8/2013 – "I've searched Burzynski's publications" [7]
6/5/2013 – "I do know cancer science" [8]
6/10/2013 – "I do know cancer science" [9]
6/7/2013 – "Unlike Mr. Merola, I am indeed very concerned with getting my facts correct" [10]
The same "Guy" who claimed:
Burzynski never explains which genes are targeted by antineoplastons
A statement which I showed to be incorrect, by pointing out at least 18 different Burzynski scientific publications which did what Gorski claimed they did NOT [11-12]
When Dr. David H. Gorski said:
"Personally having pored over Burzynski's publications"–11/2/2012
"I've read many of Burzynski's papers"–2/18/2013
"I've searched Burzynski's publications"–5/8/2013
exactly what did he mean by "pored over," "read," and "searched" ?
Some Bill Clintonesque definition designed to try and stump anyone who's not smarter than a fifth-grader ?
("It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is,' is")
You don't have to be smarter than a fifth-grader to understand that if Dr. Gorski actually did what he said he did, that he should have been able to conclude without any hint of doubt, that Burzynski explains which genes are targeted by antineoplastons
Where was your head ?
Was your head in Mississippi ?
Was your head like a hole ?
Or was your head so far up your "Show Me State" pal Robert J. (don't call me "Bobby") Bob (I'm not a doctor, I just pretend like I'm one on the otherburzynskipatientgroup (TOBPG) and houstoncancerquack) blatherskite Blatherskitewicz (known liar) Blaskiewicz's AstroTurf campaign, that you couldn't see what you were not doing ?
This is a guy who has been funded by:
a) the Department of Defense (DOD)
b) the NIH (National Institutes of Health)
c) the Conquer Cancer Foundation of ASCO
d) the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
and this is the kind of supposed "Science-Based Medicine" (SBM) "results" he produces ?
This guy is proclaimed as:
"a prolific essayist and managing editor of Science-Based Medicine, a highly-respected blog that exposes non-scientific research and practices"
A "highly-respected blog" ?
really ?
Really ??
You've gotta be kiddin' me !!!
"For the last ten years, he has been a major voice — as himself and pseudonymously — for science-based medicine"
You mean that "Orac" Hack ?
"Dr Gorski also runs an active research laboratory at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute"
Research ?
Is it similar to his "research" which I exposed here?
And yet, after showcasing such "brillianot" research skilz, Tuesday, 7/30/2013, Dr. Gorski was appointed / named program co-director of Michigan Breast Oncology Quality Initiative (MiBOQI); a state-wide initiative to improve the quality of breast cancer care using evidence-based guidelines [13]
He "will be involved in many aspects of the quality initiative"
Let's hope that one of those aspects is NOT the "research" one
"Dr. Gorski has the breadth and depth of knowledge to effectively lead our very strong Breast Multidisciplinary Team," said Dr. Bepler
"I have every confidence that Dr. Gorski will continue this very high standard of care."
Perhaps Dr. Bepler is out-of-touch with reality when it comes to Gorski's "research" and "standard of care" abilities
I wonder how long it is before his effort at infiltrating evidence-based guidelines with his Science-Based Medicine, raises its ugly hypocritical head ?
During the Holidays, maybe Dr. Gorski will have time to celebrate his promotion with his wife with an evening out, and before he pops the surprise to her about his retirement plans for Castro's Cuba, he can take her by the hands, stare into her eyes with his big brown eyes; they have to be brown, right (?), because he's so full of "it," (?) and tell her these heart-warming words:
Darling, I know, that you know, that what I do brings home the bacon, and so it makes a difference in Michigan
In fact, I wanted to let you know how much of a difference I'm helping to make
1997 thru 2001, African American women breast cancer death rates per 100,000 in Michigan; as reported in the American Cancer Society Cancer Facts & Figures for African Americans, 2005-2006, listed Michigan as the state tied with the 20 most breast cancer cases per 100,000, with 36.2
I'm proud to announce that for the last 2 reporting periods (2011-2014), covering 2003 thru 2009, Michigan is no longer tied with the state with the 20 most cases of breast cancer per 100,000
Michigan is now the state with the 11th most cases of breast cancer in African American women, which rose .5 from 33.8 to 34.3 over the last 2 reporting periods
And that's not all
African American women breast cancer incidences in Michigan, per 100,000, rose from 119.0, 2000 thru 2004 as reported in the 2007-2008 report, up .4 to 119.4, 2006 thru 2010, as reported 2013-2014
Additionally, African American women breast cancer death rates in Michigan, per 100,000, rose from 33.8 for 2003 thru 2007, as reported for 2011-2012, up .5 to 34.3 for 2006 thru 2010, reported 2013-2014
And furthermore, breast cancer incidences in Michigan, per 100,000, were 119.4 for African American women for 2006 thru 2010, reported 2013-2014, and 118.7 for 2006 thru 2010 for white women, reported 2013-2014
So African American women had .7 more breast cancer incidences than white women
And also, the breast cancer death rates in Michigan, per 100,000, was 34.3 for African American women 2006 thru 2010, reported 2013-2014, 11.5 more than the 22.8 for white women for 2006 thru 2010, as reported 2013-2014
And I thought you'd be very pleased to know that the estimated new breast cancer cases in women in Michigan, rose from 6,120 in 2008, to 8,140 in 2013
An increase of 2,010
And, Michigan went from being the state with the 9th most cases of estimated new breast cancer cases, to the 8th
And as if that were not enough great news for you, the estimated breast cancer deaths in women in Michigan, rose from 1,350 in 2004, to an additional 10 more women, 1,360 in 2013
And just like with the estimated new women breast cancer cases, again, Michigan went from being the state with the 9th most cases of estimated breast cancer deaths, to the 8th
And last, but certainly not least, Michigan cancer death rates dropped from 25.8 in 2008, 1.8 to 24.0 in 2013
However, Michigan went from being the state tied with the 18th most cancer cases per 100,000, to the state tied with the 11th most
But don't worry honey
If you're white like me, because you're in Michigan, the breast cancer incidence for you per 100,000, went from 133.9 for 1998 thru 2002, as reported 2005-2006, down 15.2 to 118.7 for 2006 thru 2010, as reported 2013-2014
And, even better, white death rates in Michigan per 100,000, dropped from 27.3 for 1996 thru 2000, as reported 2003-2004, 4.5 to 22.8 for 2006 thru 2010, as reported 2013-2014
And best of all, sweetie, if you do get breast cancer and you're white, you have a 9% better 5-year overall survival rate (69% – whites / 60% – African Americans, and for each stage of diagnosis for most cancer sites)
And I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that life expectancy is lower for African Americans than whites among women (77.2 vs. 80.9 years) (2013-2014)
If that's not job security for me, I don't know what is
The mistake that Gorski made is that he did not take into account that this is not the age of Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Mussolini, etc
In this day and age, people canNOT get away with adopting lying as a part of a strategy, because the NSA is watching, and so are We, the People
Remain calm
Germans subjugated themselves to Hitler, the Soviets, Stalin, Italians, Mussolini, Cubans to Castro, and none of them were worth subjugating oneself to
None of them were worth being put on a pedestal
None of them were greater than you or I
Gorski is NOT the greater good
Gorski has a degree in "B.S." from the University of Michigan
I do not have a "B.S." degree
I'm the one NOT full of "B.S."
Now that sounds like a story ripe for a journalistic investigation
So, I guess that means Bob Blaskiewicz's fave "journalist," Liz Szabo, and USA TODAY, are out of the running for this type of "reporting"
But look on the bright side:
"In his new role, he will work with the Samuel Silver, M.D., Ph.D., who is the MiBOQI program director, as well as assistant dean for Research and professor of Internal Medicine/Hematology-Oncology at the University of Michigan Medical School"
Maybe "the Samuel Silver, M.D., Ph.D." will be GorskGeeks "checks and balances"
"Our only goal is to promote high standards of science in medicine"
Such risible hyperbole would induce fits of laughter in me if it weren't such a complete lie
I'm just glad dad got outta Kellogg country while he could
P.S.: Per Dr. David H. Gorski, anything which might erroneously be perceived as a lie about Burzynski, is NOT anything wrong, per Wayne State University [14]
[1] – 12/5/2012 – Stanislaw Burzynski: On the arrogance of ignorance about cancer and targeted therapies
[2] – 12/5/2011 – "positions I hold at an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center"
sciencebasedmedicine . org
[3] – 12/13/2012 – "positions I hold at an NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center"
scienceblogs . com/Insolence
[4] – 3/7/2013 – "my last two jobs have been at NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers"
National Geographic's #NatGeo Science Blogs
[5] – 11/2/2012 – "Personally having pored over Burzynski's publications"
scienceblogs / Insolence
[6] – 2/18/2013 – "I've read many of Burzynski's papers"
Science Based Medicine
[7] – 5/8/2013 – "I've searched Burzynski's publications"
Respectful Insolence
[8] – 6/5/2013 – "I do know cancer science"
[9] – .6/10/2013 – "I do know cancer science"
[10] – 6/7/2013 – "Unlike Mr. Merola, I am indeed very concerned with getting my facts correct"
Nat Geo
[11] – 8/7/2013 – Critiquing: Dr. David H. "Orac" Gorski, M.D., Ph.D, L.I.A.R.:
[12] – 9/21/2013 – Critiquing: The Institute of Medicine report on cancer care: Is the system "in crisis"?:
[13] – .7/30/2013, Tuesday – Karmanos Cancer Center's Dr. David Gorski appointed program co-director (named co-director) of Michigan Breast Oncology Quality Initiative:
[14] – 8/27/2013 – Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, quickly realized that David H. Gorski, MD, PhD, FACS is NOT doing something wrong when he LIES about Burzynski:


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Today in the News: Netflix pricing takes aim at Amazon Prime
Quote of note
"The new plan likely has at least two goals: 1. Attract the more value conscious consumer. 2. To more effectively compete with Amazon Prime." - Analyst Arvind Bhatia, talking about Netflix's plan to change its pricing structure. Netflix will offer a $6.99 streaming plan that prohibits accounts from using more than one screen at a time. The current monthly fee is $7.99, which allows for two screens at the same time. Netflix hopes to raise more money to create more original content and buy more movies and TV shows.
News to know
Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that about 2.1 million people have signed up for "Obamacare," three months into the sign-up period. The Obama administration originally expected 3 million subscribers by this point, but glitches with the website likely put a dent in the number.
Hot video: Lights out for 60- and 40-watt bulbs
Production of the 60- and 40-watt incandescent light bulb will end starting in January. Yet one manufacturer claims only 40 percent of people it surveyed are aware of the changes.
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Spring rains and snow have made it unlikely there will be a repeat of last year's wildfire season — during which six people died and about 650 homes were destroyed — but fire crews in Colorado are prepared for the worst.
Crews are stationed across the state, and fire management officers are looking for ways to mobilize equipment and firefighters to wildland blazes within hours instead of days.
Still, Coloradans must remain vigilant during what is predicted to be an average, and yet challenging, fire season in most areas of the state, Gov. John Hickenlooper said Thursday morning during his annual fire briefing.
"It's important to recognize that it's not fighting fires, but preparing to fight fires," he said. "Coupled with that preparedness is prevention."
By this time last year, the Lower North Fork wildfire had already scorched thousands of acres in Jefferson County after embers from a state prescribed burn sparked the blaze. Local emergency-response agencies struggled to assess the speed of the fire and waited to order evacuations as the fire burned toward homes.
Three people were killed in the fire, and almost two dozen homes were destroyed.
After that fire, Hickenlooper moved the firefighting and controlled-burn responsibilities of the Colorado Forest Service and the state Division of Emergency Management under the command of the Colorado Department of Public Safety.
Under the new structure, and using lessons from multiple massive, devastating wildfires last year, state fire management officers spent the fall and winter months working with local responders to develop plans to mobilize and organize emergency resources faster, said Paul Cooke, director of the Division of Fire Prevention and Control at the Colorado Department of Public Safety.
As part of this year's plan, some of the state's 32 wildland fire engines will be stationed across the state. Each engine will be staffed with a state firefighter and two local firefighters who will learn the terrain and be ready to share information with federal and itinerant teams called in if a big fire breaks out. The idea is that crews will be better informed about the conditions in the area and how to communicate with multiple agencies.
"We think we are better prepared," Cooke said. "When it comes time to work together, they'll trust each other."
Hickenlooper and Cooke said that efforts are ongoing to create better integration between local, state and federal officials for assessing what resources are available when wildfires grow out of control.
They are trying to develop a single database and communication system that allows decisions about how fires will be fought to be made "in hours and not days," Hickenlooper said during the briefing at Centennial Airport. He was joined by fire managers from federal, state and local agencies.
State officials will continue working to "fill the gap" between federal and state air support this summer, Cooke said. Currently, the U.S. Forest Service has nine helicopters available in Colorado.
With wide bipartisan support in the legislature this session, lawmakers passed a bill allowing the state to form its own air fleet to fight fires, although for the next year the effort is likely to remain in a holding pattern since it lacks funding.
Senate Bill 245 would create the Colorado Firefighting Air Corps under the Division of Fire Prevention and Control in the state's Department of Public Safety. But the bill was amended to make the funding discretionary instead of mandatory.
Lawmakers met with Hickenlooper in April, urging the governor to help find money for the leased fleet.
On Thursday afternoon, during a briefing with Capitol reporters, Hickenlooper said he's "trying to figure out where the money is."
"This is a resource that doesn't affect everybody in the state," Hickenlooper said. "Finding money for more narrow things is oftentimes harder."
But the keystone in preparing for this year's wildfire season — clearing fuels from around homes, developing evacuation plans, using fire-resistant building materials — rests on the shoulders of property and homeowners, Hickenlooper said earlier in the day.
"Every Coloradan has a role to play in fire preparedness and prevention," he said. "You get lulled into a sense of security when you have a couple of weeks of rain. But we have to be vigilant."
Despite heavy spring snows and rains in north and central Colorado, drier conditions are expected to develop statewide later this month.
Drought conditions still exist in southern Colorado, where above-average fire conditions are expected to develop later this month and last through mid-July.
Jordan Steffen: 303-954-1794, email@example.com or twitter.com/jsteffendp
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DISCLAIMER: I have NO connection whatsoever with this company. I received 4 bars to taste for this review.
I rarely do product reviews, so for those of you who are curious about that please know this: I love easy, accessible gluten-free foods, but I'm picky! If I can make a better version in my kitchen, I don't typically write a review of it. That being said, I actually have three products that I want to review in the next few weeks. Oh yes, gluten free foods are getting better, people! (And my life is manic, which has helped usher in a new appreciation for prepared gluten free goodness. Life with one child? Busy. Life with two (ages 2 and under)? INSANE, joyous, fabulous and utterly EXHAUSTING.)
This first product is one my to-order list. And right at the top of it, too. And I honestly was a tad leery at first. Not only was it a protein bar (something I never thought I would be packing in my car/purse) but the name made me giggle.
You see, when Elliott (one of the owners) contacted me and I saw the name "GFB" (The Gluten Free Bar), my mind flashed back to the books I would read to my elementary school kids. Roald Dahl (who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, etc) wrote a book called the BFG. It's about a gentle giant who lives in the land of kid-eating giants (don't worry…it's not freaky). The giants choose their "dinner entrees" based on country names. The kids from Turkey? Taste like turkey, of course. The kids from Chile? Yeap. Chili. The kids from Greece? Ew. Not so tasty unless you are in to sinew and stuff. So now that you have had that lovely adventure through my mind's eye, you can see why I was chuckling at the email and completely willing to try the protein bars.
The guys (there are three of them) manufacture these bars in Chicago. A fact I missed until they arrived and I saw the return address. And now I know. Chicago tastes like peanut butter goodness. Well, at least it does according to these yummy bars. Definitely a fact I missed even though I lived there for ten years. (We HEART Chicago and miss it dearly. But peanut butter is definitely not the flavor profile I would give to that city of FANTASTIC food! You gotta travel there to believe me, but it's true. GF Dining isn't so tough with that many options about…. but I digress. Let's get back to these bars.)
I have struggled with the adjectives that I want to use to describe these bars. I really think there are so many protein bar options on the market because it is SUCH a huge personal choice/preference. Unlike cereal, which 90% of us can agree SHOULD be crispy even with milk, protein bars have a wide variety of textures, flavors and feel when you eat them. I think I like these so much because if I were to make a protein bar, it would be like these.
These bars are moist (the peanut butter version moreso than the chocolate-peanut butter, IMHO) and slightly chewy. There is just enough of a crunch from the peanuts, brown rice and flax seeds to let you know that you are tasting something fabulous. You gotta have crunch. But not so much that I fear for my teeth and hope for a huge bottle of water. This crunch is perfectly subtle and delectable.
I tried the first bar on a morning when I had rushed about for the two girls. It was a choatic morning. By 2:30pm, I was so hungry I was truly contemplating munching on my own person. The baby was asleep on the couch in a room that is attached to the kitchen and the toddler was asleep on the other end. Since they had both been fussy (colds, etc) and hard to get down for naps, I didn't dare "whip up"something in the kitchen. In fact, I was even considering eschewing the plastic wrapper on the GFB (almost typed BFG there again….yikes). I snuck into another room and open the package, hopeful that I would truly find something to satisfy my hunger least I have yet one more crabby girl in the house.
And it was great. The bars are slightly sweet (they contain brown rice syrup, dates and agave) but not so sweet that I would have thought it was a candy bar. In fact, it was appropriately sweetened for my tastes. Since they are slightly soft/chewy (not overly like a taffy or a fig bar, but a thickened peanut butter style), it was easy to eat and enjoyed without having a million crumbs hit my lap.
And the best part? This bar plus a glass of water completely satisfied my hunger. Really. And not just as a temporary swing either. I was perfectly content until dinner time. In fact, dinner was LATE that night because I was truly satisfied and hadn't even thought about dinner.
Elliott was kind enough to send me 4 bars (2 peanut butter, 2 chocolate-peanut butter). As soon as I figured out that the bars were tasty and worked well, I packed one in my car and another in my purse (for my desk at work). The remaining bar (a chocolate-peanut butter one) was "sacrificed" recently just for this post. 😀 (Hey, somebody's gotta do it, right?) I wanted to be able to write about the chocolate version too.
I like the chocolate one as well. It's NOT a sweet chocolate bar (I was relieved), but since it has the addition of cocoa, it is not quite as moist (very slightly so – may have even just been that bar) as the peanut butter one. But it is definitely tasty too.
I will be ordering some of the peanut butter bars for our house and my travels. With the two kids, I find that sometimes I am prepared for their snacks/meals, but not my own. And then, by the time they are fed and satisfied, I'm starving. These bars are going to be quite a help and relief when those moments hit. Once we are back to the gym routine, I know this bars will be a great energy boost then too.
So are you interested yet? I hope so!
The cost of the bars work out to about $2.00 per bar. They are sold in very limited retailers (although, I am going to ask GF Joe to see if he can get them!). So you will have to order online (as will I). Elliott and the gang have offered FREE SHIPPING for Gluten Free Gobsmacked readers AND the first two commenters will receive their own sample pack (like I did).
To get your free shipping, when checking out, enter the coupon code: gobsmacked
Order yours here: http://theglutenfreebar.com/
Interested in the give-away?
Do tell: What do you seek in a protein bar? (Texture? Content? Taste? Sweetness?)
Happy Gluten Free Protein Bars, All.
I sincerely wish The Gluten Free Bar guys the absolute best in their journey as a new GF company. Every little bit helps – and their tasty contribution to our community is quite appreciated by me. 🙂
PS. I just saw an offer on their site to TRY their protein bars and if you don't like them, they will give you a refund – NO QUESTIONS ASKED! Seriously? You gotta try these. 🙂


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Today's News: Our Take - Diff'rent Strokes Star Conrad Bain Dies at 89
Conrad Bain, the actor best known for playing Phillip Drummond on Diff'rent Strokes, has died. He was 89.
Bain died of natural causes Monday in Livermore, Calif, his daughter Jennifer told The Associated Press. Speaking of her father to TMZ, which first reported the news, she said, "He was an amazing person. He was a lot like Mr. Drummond, but much more interesting in real life."
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Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, Bain served in the Canadian Army during World War II. Later, he studied at America Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1946 and graduating in 1948.
He started his acting career on Broadway, with credits including The Iceman Cometh and Uncle Vanya. Upon switching to television, Bain appeared on Dark Shadows and as Bea Arthur's nemesis on Maude. But he is best known for his Diff'rent Strokes role of Mr. Drummond, the Park Avenue millionaire who adopts two African American boys from Harlem (Gary Coleman and Todd Bridge) after their mother, Drummond's former housekeeper, dies. Bain reprised the role on the series finale of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1996.
In addition to his daughter, Bain is survived by three sons and a twin brother. His wife, Monica Sloan, died in 2009.
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Have you ever read a Government publication that discussed such topics as the Hermetic tradition, astrology, demonic and angelic magic, alchemy, the Cabala, and the history of Hindu-Arabic numerals?
I thought not.
All of those esoteric subjects and more can be found in The Voynich Manuscript: An Elegant Enigma, published by the National Security Agency (NSA). The Voynich manuscript, often dubbed "the world's most mysterious manuscript," is a remarkable conglomeration, written in an unknown script and language and profusely illustrated with carefully rendered images of unidentified plants, enigmatic astronomical drawings, and puzzling human figures. Known to have existed since the late 16th century, when it was owned by the physician of that most enigmatic of rulers, the Emperor Rudolf II of Austria, it has been labeled variously as a magical manual, a herbarium, and a hoax. NSA's interest stems from the widely held belief that the manuscript is enciphered. The noted American cryptologist William Friedman, as well as many other professionals and amateurs, have tried without success to crack the code – if code there is.
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Is it a hoax? If so, the hoaxer must have labored for years to create it – surely too much effort for very little known return. Given the penchant of early modern scientists and philosophers to disguise their researches through the use of symbols and allegory, its obscurity is not unprecedented, although obviously extreme. One clue may reside in this book's reference to the Art of Memory, a system of using physical or mental landmarks to enable the memorization of incredible amounts of information. Is the Voynich manuscript a colossal "memory palace"?
The Voynich Manuscript is more evidence that the world of Government publications is almost infinitely vast and surprising. It tells a great story and provides enough decipherment tables to delight the amateur and aficionado alike. You can read this very unusual publication here, order your own copy, find it in a library, or, to get a real feel for thee original (and maybe solve the mystery!), you can study the real thing, page by page. Note: Some readers have run into a problem in downloading the PDF of the Voynich Manuscript. Try clicking the link that says "PDF with text," which downloads much quicker.


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