Read my lips: Apple! Apple! Apple!
stores adjacent or directly across from that Apple Store.
employees, and that more importantly will solve the unemployment crisis?
(in spite of their costing four to five times their PC counterparts).
customers' future that their customers can't see now.
Apple is not alone in this. Successful movie franchises like Harry Potter, Batman and Spiderman seem to also have aspirational clarity.
are beyond their customers' imagination, but will be what they "gotta have" in the future.
clients will come… and then you will begin to hire people.
And that is one way to solve the unemployment problem.
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There may be one or two minor spoilers ahead.
By now we know what to expect from a Zack Snyder film, and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the first in a projected series of films about the superhero team that's been a staple of DC comics since 1960, doesn't disappoint. Stylised bouts of ultraviolence disrupted by slow- and fast-motion; fantastically detailed fan-pleasing set pieces; carefully composed shots rendered in the dark tones, high contrast and shadows of comic-book noir: all are present and correct. Characterisation, narrative logic and light and shade, not so much.
Still, although it's clearly less important than the apocalyptic action, there is a kind of through-line to the story of this long dark noisy film. The boss fight between Superman and General Zod that wrecks much of Metropolis towards the end of Man of Steel is shown again, this time from the point of view of Bruce Wayne. The skyscraper offices of Wayne Enterprises are demolished and many of his employees are killed; he wants to avenge them. Meanwhile, the government is trying to undermine Superman's reputation because they fear he is uncontrollable, and Lex Luthor, who bamboozles the government into giving him access to Zod's wrecked spaceship and Kryptonite technology, wants to get rid of him too. But first, he wants Superman to deal with Batman, who is causing all kinds of trouble for Luthor's criminal empire. Or maybe Luthor just wants to see a good fight -- played by with jittery malice by Jesse Eisenberg, he's given to fractured, inarticulate monologues that suggest he doesn't know himself.
Maybe, like the Joker in The Dark Knight, Luthor is into chaos, but at least the Joker had a coherent ideology. And while the Joker reveled in his villainy, Luthor seems to find it a burden. One of the film's problems is that no one seems to be having much fun. Poor Superman: only his mother and Lois Lane have faith in his innate goodness. And Batman's pursuit of vengeance is similarly joyless. In the Christopher Nolan films, Bruce Wayne was driven, but he had fun playing the recklessly flamboyant billionaire. Here, he's just driven, drowning the sorrow of a joyless one-night pick-up by chugging a bottle of vintage wine. All is grim and dark and gritty. There are explicit visual references to 9/11, and as in the aftermath of 9/11, the end justifies the means, from torture to pre-emptive assassination, the government is militarised, and there is much talk of vengeance, but no sign of forgiveness. Batman has reverted to his early, gangster-slaying incarnation, torturing criminals for information and branding them so that they'll be killed in jail by the other inmates. Despite the explicit code embedded in his origins, Superman (is that a bird about to crash into that building? is it a plane? no, it's . . .) continues to kill. If we get the superheroes we deserve, then the superheroes we get here mean that we're in deep trouble.
That's not the only problem. Motivation and characterisation are mostly realised through flashbacks, dreams, and terse statements of intent. There's much exposition via computer files, including teasing glimpses of the Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg. Superman's dead human dad shows up in a dream to give a pep-talk, because (I guess) the dead Kryptonian dad of a previous incarnation showed up as a hologram in Superman Returns. There's a dream sequence in which Superman commands stormtroopers whose uniforms are emblazoned with his sigil: a foreshadowing of a possible future storyline that will puzzle anyone who has only a glancing knowledge of the mythos.
It isn't an entirely terrible film. The fights are nicely choreographed, and there are some lovely moments of eye-candy (not a few borrowed from Miller's The Dark Knight Returns). Both Henry Cavill (Superman) and Ben Affleck (Batman) are excellent (Affleck's chin is definitive). Amy Adams does her best as the sparky girl reporter who keeps needing to be rescued. Laurence Fishburne continues to bring gravitas to Perry White. The acid quips of Jeremy Irons' Alfred are rare glimpses of humour. And Gal Gadot is a wonderful Wonder Woman, but doesn't have much to do until the final showdown, when her crooked grin suggested that she actually enjoys being a superhero facing up to a desperate fight to the finish with a super foe.
Such a shame, then, that the film too often strains for profundity it doesn't deserve, and its muddled, ponderous story hinges on the bathos of a stupid coincidence. Its relentlessly nihilistic grim one-note tone also threatens to taint the upcoming films in the League of Justice universe, whose inception, here, is almost an afterthought to the gladiatorial excesses. So far, Marvel's Avengers won't be quaking in their boots.
Adapting to the Anthropocene will be as challenging as colonising Mars, so we'll need all the ingenuity we can muster.
From the upcoming novel and four stories due to be published this or next year.
There were some days now when she didn't think about the ghost in her head.
The origin story we like to tell ourselves is that our little town was founded by a grumpy loner name of Joe Gordon, who one day quite early in the settlement of First Foot parked his RV at the spot where one of the ceramic roads left by an unknown long-lost Elder Culture cut across the new two-lane blacktop between Port of Plenty and the open-cast iron mine at Red Rocks.
On the sixth day of every month Fernanda Wright negotiates the rings of security around the Stratford tesseract and lays a flower at the tomb of her undead husband.
Mike Torres saw his first elf stone three weeks after he moved to the Antarctic Peninsula.
It really did look like Mars.


Here are some interesting free resources across the blockchain ecosystem that will help you stay informed and get involved in the community. Here, you can find free tools for making oracles (the data feeds that allow smart contracts to execute), videos that will expand your knowledge, and organizations that are shaping the future of the industry.
Factom, Inc., is a blockchain company that services the Factom open-source network. It builds custom blockchain applications for large corporations and governments. It has also built a blockchain as a service product for the U.S. mortgage industry.
Factom University was created by Factom, Inc., and is a growing knowledge base created to teach individuals about blockchain technology, the Factom platform, and APIs. It consists of videos and tutorials that will take you from novice to expert. Factom University has plans to launch a certificate program, so stay tuned!
Ethereum is an open-source crowdfunded project that built the Ethereum blockchains. It's one of the most important projects in the space because it has pioneered building a programing language within a blockchain. Due to its built-in programing language, the Ethereum network allows you to create smart contracts, create decentralized organizations, and deploy decentralized applications.
Ethereum 101 is a website started by the members of the Ethereum community. It's a curated repository for high-quality educational content about blockchain technology and the Ethereum network. Anthony D'Onofrio, Ethereum's Director of Community, oversees the project.
Ripple provides global financial settlement solutions. Its distributed settlement network is built on open-source technology that anyone can use. Ripple cautions that its blockchain capabilities should only be used by licensed financial institutions.
Ripple has developed a robust knowledge base for building on its platform. This knowledge base is geared primarily for developers. Ripple also offers some resources for financial regulators. It's worth a read even if you aren't a regulator, because it gives some insight into legal labilities that come up with blockchain technology.
DigiByte is a decentralized payment network inspired by Bitcoin. It allows you to move money over the Internet and offers faster transactions and lower fees than Bitcoin. The network is also open to those who want to mine its native token.
The founder of DigiByte, Jared Tate, created a video series on YouTube, called DigiKnow, that teaches you just about everything you need to know to utilize DigiByte. Here is a link to his first video, where he walks you through the basics of how blockchains work and how the DigiByte network adds value.
Blockchain University is an educational website that teaches developers, manager, and entrepreneurs about the blockchain ecosystem. It offers public and private training programs, hackathons, and demo events. Its programs are solution-oriented design thinking and hands-on experiential training. You can find Blockchain University in Mountain View, California.
Bitcoin Core was originally used by Satoshi Nakamoto to host his whitepaper on Bitcoin protocol. It's home to educational material on Bitcoin core protocol and downloadable versions of the original Bitcoin software.
The site is dedicated to keeping Bitcoin decentralized and accessible to the average person.
It's a community-run project, and not all the content is managed by the core team. Keep this in mind while perusing the site.
The Blockchain Alliance was founded by the Blockchain Chamber of Digital Commerce and the news organization Coincenter. It's a public-private collaboration by the blockchain community, law enforcement, and regulators. They share a common goal to make the blockchain ecosystem more secure and to promote further development of technology. They do this by combat criminal activity on the blockchain by providing education, technical assistance, and periodic informational sessions regarding Bitcoin and other digital currencies and those utilize blockchain technology.
Multichain is a company that helps organizations rapidly build applications on blockchains. They offer a platform that can issue millions of assets on a private blockchain and you can also track and verify activity on your network through their tools. Beyond their toolset and platform, they've been thought leaders in the blockchain space.
Paul Sztorc founded Truthcoin, a peer-to-peer oracle system and prediction marketplace for Bitcoin. It utilizes a proof-of-work sidechain that stores data on the state of prediction markets. Bitcoin can support financial derivatives and smart contracts through HiveMind, the platform developed out of the Truthcoin whitepaper. Check out their resources and education materials.


Remember the Australian Warren Rodwell shot, kidnapped, starved and held by Abu Sayyaf 2011 – 2013? Although now the longest held Australian captive outside war, it seems the Prime Minister downunder doesn't want to know Rodwell.
Nothing in the Philippines is straightforward, and sometimes there's a quite a blur between what's legit and what's counterfeit, what's old and what's new.
This problem needs to be resolved sooner,rather than later.


Started all 15 games for a combined 1,193 minutes ... Recorded one goal, one assist and three points ... Had two shots on goal out of his five shots taken.
Made 11 starts in the 2016 season and appeared in 12 games ... Recorded 1,030 minutes of playing time ... Recorded six total shots for the season with four being on goal.
Named a Summit League All-Newcomer member ... Appeared in 17 matches for the Golden Eagles while making 16 starts on defense ... Was a part of three shutouts for the Golden Eagles ... Took seven shots on the year with two on target for a .286 shot-on-goal percentage ... Recorded his first collegiate goal on a game-winner in a 2-1 win over Eastern Illinois September 26 ... Was carded five times in 1599 minutes on the field.
Represented Trinidad and Tobago at the U-17 level ... Played club soccer for Central FC under head coach Ross Russell ... Led his team to the Pro League Championship and the CFU Championship.
Son of Denise Nicholls ... Plans on majoring in international relations.


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Discover several untold aspects of Tippu Sultan and his reign as viewed by Kodavas during his period. Mr. Addanda Cariappa has evaluated several historical records to provide details about Tippu's influence and tyranny on Kodagu.
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David Dwight IV: Forged From Ferguson
March 30, 2019 | By Chris Andoe
Philadelphia-area native David Dwight IV, 25, didn't plan on sticking around after getting his biomedical engineering degree from Washington University in St. Louis. But his priorities and his trajectory had to pivot: During his final year, unarmed Ferguson teenager Michael Brown was killed by police, and things changed.
"The killing of Michael Brown Jr. and the young people who raised their voices in the streets pushed me to do more and raise my own voice as a young queer black man," Dwight says. "The tragedy of that event and the militarized response by the police demanded that we collectively be, and do, differently. Demanded that St. Louis examine ugly truths of life here. When a national call went out for students to stage a walkout on the first day of classes I co-led one at Washington University that brought out over 300 students, faculty and staff for a silent march across campus."
Dwight and other leaders from the march ended up connecting with students from other campuses to form St. Louis Students in Solidarity, which activated students to build community, join in protests and activism across the region, and leverage their privilege to achieve racial justice.
"It was messy and difficult work, but we delivered demands to the chancellor and provost of Wash U to make some major changes. We didn't get everything we advocated for, but our pushing caused them to direct almost half-a-million dollars towards equity initiatives and sparked an almost doubling of the black students in the following years."
Through that work, Dwight learned about the Ferguson Commission, a group charged by the governor with studying the response to Brown's death and charting a path forward. He was able to work with the commission as an intern, which led his career into a completely different space from the biomedical engineering track he'd initially considered. He now serves as senior strategy and partnerships catalyst for Forward Through Ferguson.
"One of the areas we've focused in on at Forward Through Ferguson are the huge rates at which our youngest black students, at seven to ten years old, are suspended out of school compared to white students," he says. "I helped launch the Keep Kids in Class campaign to combat it. We joined a group of community organizations to plan a regional school assembly where all of St. Louis' superintendents, all 30 of them, came together to take a hard look at the data, hear from parents and students, and make commitments to take action on reducing racial disparities."
Dwight has no regrets about the unexpected trajectory his life has taken.
"Being a doctor is great, and you can have that personal impact and relationship, helping people with health issues, but I realized I wanted to have a different kind of impact with my life," he has written. "I couldn't imagine not doing something that's related to these issues."
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I was trying to use Adobe Flash in Slax and noticed it doesn't work at all. The plugin was loaded, but a bunch of strange errors appeared on stdout and the flash animations simply didn't work.
I'm posting it here so google can possibly index it and provide solution to someone else who will face the same problem.
I'm going to email upstream (to Patrick, Slackware's author) to let him know he is missing libsasl2.so.* in aaa_elflibs. If there is a package aaa_elflibs, then it should absolutely have libsasl2 included.
What a strange bug... A library that should be included in aaa_elflibs is missing... I really do not know how you found out the solution if ldd did not show the library missing.
This doesn't sound like a dependency issue to me. Did you install cyrus-sasl directly to the live filesystem with 'installpkg', or did you convert it into a slax bundle and activated it after a reboot?
Here's an alternate scenario: one of your gtk caches has not been updated (and an update is needed in order for flash to work). When you install cyrus-sasl, the install script might update this cache for you (look at the install script). Many slackware packages aren't well suited to installing to a fakeroot directory when it comes to running updates such as ca-certificates, desktop-database, gconf-schemas, etc -- the commands are run but the caches aren't copied from the real filesystem into the fakeroot, so the resulting slax bundle will be missing those files.
I hope that helps -- I may well be off-base here, and apologize if that's the case.
1) flash worked on my FULL INSTALL (Slackware 14) but the same flash didn't work on Slax. Conclusion: there must be something in Slackware which makes it work, which I am missing in Slax.
3) So I tried to install all packages from /n/ series and flash started to work properly in Slax. Conclusion: it is some missing package from /n/.
I had flashplayer working in firefox without libsasl2.so up until somwhere around v18.0; then it quit & spewed out exactly the message to stdout that Tomas describes. I had not a clue until I read this thread. I'm on a "pruned" Slackware 14 distro. Just putting the sasl libs alone solved the problem.
Out of curiousity I ran ldd on every binary executable in the firefox dir & could NOT find a dependency. Weird!


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Dame Maggie Smith has never watched an episode of Downton Abbey
Tamara Hardingham-GillMonday 28 Dec 2015 9:18 am
Dame Maggie Smith has never watched Downton (Picture: ITV)
She played one of the most popular characters on Downton Abbey, but it turns out Dame Maggie Smith has never even seen the show.
The 81-year-old actress, who starred as Dowager Countess Lady Violet Crawley from series one, admits she hasn't tuned into a single episode of the hugely popular show.
However she's hoping to finally be able to sit down and watch the ITV period drama, which has just ended after six seasons, now that she has a bit more time on her hands.
'No. But they gave me the boxed set,' she told CBS News when asked whether she'd watched the show.
The actress says she may tune in now the ITV series has ended (Picture: ITV)
'And I'm going to do all sorts of things now, because I'm free!'
Maggie also admitted that she hated wearing corsets during filming so much that she often 'cheated' to avoid having to put one on.
'In actual fact, I have to say that I did cheat a bit,' she added.
'Because I promised that if I sat up, bolt upright, I made it look as though I were wearing corsets.
The Downton Abbey finale aired on Christmas Day (Picture: ITV)
'Don't tell anybody… I don't want it to be put around. I was tortured every day.'
The final episode of Downton Abbey aired on ITV on Christmas Day and Downton producer Gareth Neame recently revealed that it was Maggie's decision to quit that led to the series ending this year.
'We easily could have gone for a seventh season, but if I'd have said 'We haven't got Maggie' it would have been a shadow of itself,' he told The Sun.
'We all feel very blessed. Nobody regrets ending when we did.
The actress' decision to quit apparently led to the show ending this year (Picture: PA)
'We have a final season that's as strong as the first because we quit while we were ahead.
'We had the ambition that we had a complete show.'
However Gareth also revealed that he and fellow writer Julian Fellowes are considering making a Downton Abbey feature film in the future, so this may not be the last fans see of Lady Violet Crawley and co.
Watch some of Lady Violet Crawley's best moments here:
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A picture is worth 1,000 words. That may sound cliché, but for Srey Noun, a 17-year-old Cambodian girl born without hands or feet, the smile captured on camera when she was presented with custom made prosthetic hands revealed a life-changing moment. The hands, created using a 3D printer by Brother Rice High School engineering student Liam Coughlin, were delivered to Srey by Beverly/Morgan Park resident Paul Duggan at the end of March.
Duggan traveled to the small town of Poi Pet. Cambodia to meet Srey and, with the help of LWB staff and volunteers, present the prosthetic hands. The Brother Rice/Love Without Boundaries project was a perfect fit! Within a few minutes, Srey was learning to use her new hands.
The Maple Morgan Park Food Pantry, located in Morgan Park United Methodist Church at 11030 S. Longwood Dr., has shifted its services to the Client Choice model, per the Greater Chicago Food Depository updated standards. The Client Choice program allows needful families and individuals to shop the pantry just like a supermarket, giving clients numerous choices that will better serve their needs.
It has taken the 36-year-old food pantry nearly a year to revamp and reorganize the existing space to adhere to the new layout guidelines, including providing additional floor space, storage, refrigeration and shelving units.
Each client can choose a specified number of food and personal care items based on their family size.
"Clients can now choose between varieties of hot and cold cereal, oats and grits, tomato sauces, and numerous other options," Overstreet said. The biggest change for volunteers and organizers is ensuring that the shelves are well-stocked with a great variety of items. No longer will clients be simply given a bag of food, some of which they don't need, want or even like.
The Morgan Park Juniors have stepped up to this challenge in a new fundraising effort to support the food pantry. The group will host the movie "Big Night" on Weds., Apr. 10, 7:30 p.m. at the Beverly Arts Center, 2407 W, 111th St. This 1996 comedy/drama film follows two brothers who run an Italian restaurant in financial trouble, and their preparation for a feast to prove their worth to the community. Tickets are $10, and a cash bar is available. The Beverly Arts Center is donating the use of the Baffes Theatre, and all proceeds will help the Maple Morgan Park Food Pantry. Tickets can be purchased on the BAC website or at the door.
For those seeking to support the food pantry on a regular basis, Overstreet is hoping for 300 households to commit to donating money each month. "Our needs have changed so much that monthly contributors are welcome so we can renovate our space and continue to accommodate the community," she said.
For those needing food assistance, simply stop by the food pantry on Tuesdays or Fridays between 1 and 3 p.m. or call 773-239-3013 for information.
Lori Smith grew up on Chicago's West Side, attending Notre Dame School for Girls and Jones Commercial High School. In 1973, she married Jim Smith, a South Sider and they started their family. The only real "battle" they had was Chicago Cubs or Chicago White Sox, until 16 years ago when Lori was diagnosed with Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS).
DCIS, considered the earliest form of breast cancer, is noninvasive, meaning it hasn't spread out of the milk duct. This diagnosis was just three weeks after her mom received the same diagnosis. Smith was treated with a lumpectomy and endocrine therapy at Little Company of Mary Hospital (LCMH).
DCIS has an excellent prognosis with appropriate treatment, however, having a history of breast cancer increases the risk of a new cancer in the future, including an invasive carcinoma.
In June 2018, Smith went in for her annual mammogram. The initial images were "all clear," but next day, Dr. Jilma Patrick, fellowship-trained breast surgeon at LCMH, called Smith to schedule a biopsy because the full images of the biopsy showed atypical cells. In July, Dr. Patrick performed a lumpectomy that revealed an invasive papillary carcinoma. Smith had another surgery in August that showed no additional cancer cells.
Smith didn't need chemotherapy, but she would have to undergo 16 days of radiation and take an oral endocrine therapy pill for five years. She didn't let this setback stop her from staying positive and exuding a wonderful energy.
Every day after the 15–minute radiation treatment, her husband would take her back to their home in Palos Park. On day 16 when Smith came out of the radiation room, the team of doctors and technicians and her husband were there to celebrate the treatment's completion.
Continued self-care, including mammograms, is the next step for Smith. She also plans to do some traveling. Every five years for their anniversary Lori and Jim go on a trip. This past anniversary they celebrated 45 years, but they were unable to travel do to Lori's health, so Germany and Paris await this loving couple.
Smith is very appreciative for the LCMH staff, doctors, radiation technicians, her family and especially her rock, Jim. She knows she couldn't have made it through her diagnosis and treatment without them. Smith will be among the thousands of people who will participate in the 20th Annual Beverly Breast Cancer Walk (BBCW), Mother's Day, Sun., May 12, starting at 8 a.m., at Ridge Park, 96th and Longwood Drive.
Over the past 19 years, the BBCW has raised more than $6 million to support LCMH's award-winning Comprehensive Breast Health Center and impacted the lives of thousands of breast cancer survivors. This generous community support helps to sustain breast health programming, and last year to deepen its impact with the establishment of a BBCW Crisis Fund to assist LCMH breast cancer patients with emergent financial needs within our community.
Register for the BBCW early to receive a t-shirt with your $30 entry fee; the entry fee for children ages 18 and under is $15; same-day registration is $10 more for adults and $5 more for children 18. Register and find details at www.BeverlyBreastCancerWalk.org.
To schedule a mammogram, go to www.lcmh.org/onlinescheduling.
In late March, Beverly/Morgan Park resident Paul Duggan will be traveling to Cambodia with very precious cargo, a prosthetic hand custom-made by students at Brother Rice High School for a young girl attending a Love Without Boundaries school.
How Duggan was able to connect seniors at his old high school with a student halfway around the world is a story of how love leads to possibilities.
Duggan grew up in Beverly/Morgan Park, and graduated from Brother Rice, setting him on a path to his position as president of Jackson Boulevard Capital Management. Duggan is an active Rice alum who supports the school in many ways.
A little over 18 years ago, Duggan and his wife Debbie adopted twin girls from China, the perfect completion of their family. The Duggans joined a group of adopting parents on a chat board, and were introduced to another adopting parent, Amy Eldridge. Eldridge was committed to improving conditions for orphans in China, and when the Duggans learned she wanted to start a foundation, they opened their hearts, and stepped up with support.
Love Without Boundaries (LWB) was founded in 2003 with a mission to help improve conditions for orphans in China and today also brings humanitarian assistance to children in Cambodia, India and Uganda. Eldridge is the CEO and Duggan is Emeritus Chair.
Last year, the not-for-profit organization provided more than 1300 medical procedures and 92,000 hot lunches, as well as education for more than 700 children. LWB also offers healing homes for the children undergoing medical procedures, foster care and other services that put the needs of children first.
Brother Rice High School has always offered top notch education as well as a commitment to charitable acts. Duggan reached out to the school to support LWB. Through their homerooms, students donate a small amount each month toward the care of a child being served by LWB.
When Duggan was introduced to the capabilities of the recently added engineering curriculum at Brother RIce, he instantly recognized a way to fill a very specific need: creating a prosthetic hand for a girl born without hands or feet who attends a LWB school in Cambodia.
Brother Rice senior engineering student Liam Coughlin is leading the project, and assisting him is Matteo Valencia, a member of the Advocacy Club. Both students are part of Rice's award-winning robotics team.
The young men are using a manual developed by last year's seniors, the first class to use 3D printers to create prosthetic hands. Last year, students made several "generic" hands which were donated to a not-for-profit organization in South Carolina. The hands have articulated joints, and are wired, so movements in the wrist enable the fingers and thumb to bend, making the prosthetics are functional.
Creating hands custom-made for an individual and using measurements provided by the young girl's medical team in Cambodia has been challenging and rewarding for Coughlin and Valencia. Coughlin has devoted many after-school hours to creating three prosthetic right hands so the recipient can use the one that fits best and offers the most dexterity.
According to Daniel Mostyn, Science and Engineering teacher and moderator of the Robotics Team, Coughlin's work has taken the program to a much more sophisticated level.
Duggan will bring the prosthetic hand to the young girl in March, and he has high hopes that this very special delivery will not only change the life of a young girl but lead to even more life-changing opportunities for the children in LWB schools across the world and the dedicated students at Brother Rice High School to connect.
Love Without Boundaries has the highest ratings from Charity Navigator and Guidestar. For more information about the not-for-profit organization's work on behalf of children, visit www.lovewithoutboundaries.com.
Photo caption: Mark Donahue (Brother Rice High School President) , Dan Mostyn ( Brother Rice High School Engineering teacher and Robotics club moderator), Liam Coughlin (Brother Rice senior Robotics Club member), Matteo Valencia (Brother Rice senior Advocacy Club member), Bob Alberts (Brother Rice Principal), and Paul Duggan.
Anna Fratto is the latest addition to the BAPA team in the newly created role of Director of Economic Development. Beverly/Morgan Park current and potential small business owners have a dedicated resource to assist them with their opportunities and needs.
Fratto began working for BAPA in November, just in time to assist in BAPA's Holiday Cookie Crawl and the matching grant from the Richard H. Driehaus Charitable Lead Trust. She previously worked as the executive director for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and as the public affairs and community relations coordinator for CITGO Petroleum Corporation.
Fratto's work in both the non-profit and corporate industries gives her the knowledge to assist local small business owners with strengthening their businesses and to advocate for small business recruitment.
Her depth of experience in developing and implementing marketing and fundraising campaigns and coordinating special events is a perfect complement to BAPA's goals. Within her corporate experience, Fratto learned to manage volunteers, develop communication strategies, and foster relationships with schools and government organizations.
To connect with Fratto, email her at afratto@bapa.org.
City Year Chicago is making a big impact in the lives of nearly 15,000 Chicago Public School students on the south and west sides. City Year Chicago Executive Director Rebeca Nieves Huffman is a Beverly/Morgan Park resident who volunteered through the program from 1998 to 1999, and she now dedicates her career to helping other children reach their full potential and eventually make an impact in their communities.
The program is part of an initiative that pairs AmeriCorps volunteers with elementary and high school students in 29 cities across the United States to address the risks and long-lasting effects of student drop-out rates. As executive director of the Chicago program, Huffman is responsible for raising the resources necessary to run the programs and to be the face and voice for the city's youth.
With a son at Sutherland Elementary School and a daughter at St. Barnabas School, Huffman is entrenched in the variety of educational opportunities available here. "Schools are a reflection of the value of the community. I have two kids with completely different educational needs, and it's great that they can be met at these two separate learning environments," she said.
City Year Chicago is always looking for donations of money or time to help reach as many CPS students as possible. In April, the organization will hold its annual Ripples of Hope gala, which accounts for a quarter of their private revenue dollars. To find out more about City Year Chicago or make a donation, visit CityYear.org/Chicago.
Meet Maureen Gainer Reilly, BAPA board president. Gainer Reilly has served on the board for three years, the past two as president. Her role at BAPA is to work to promote the Beverly/Morgan Park community to residents throughout the city, while also connecting neighbors and acting as an advisor to BAPA staff.
Gainer Reilly spent the early part of her career in a variety of non-profit and social service organizations. In 2003, she started her own consulting firm, GO Consulting, which provides services in Project Management and Process Improvement. "My work enables me to assist BAPA and its small but mighty staff as they work to constantly improve the organization," she said.
Connect with BAPA in 2019; come to an event, read about neighbors in The Villager, volunteer, call the office for a quality trade referral, plant a tree with us, and help us make you Love Where You Live.
Cecil McDonald, Jr. fell in love with photography in college. He was in his final year of undergraduate school studying Fashion Merchandising when he signed up for an introductory class as an elective to pass the time. He's been hooked ever since.
McDonald, a resident of Beverly/Morgan Park for more than two decades, now works as an adjunct professor at Columbia College Chicago, the same school from which he received an MFA in Photography. His work has been showcased both nationally and internationally in galleries in Chicago, Denver, New Orleans, New York and Haarlem, Netherlands.
Last year, McDonald released "In the Company of Black," a book of photographs featuring African-American subjects whom he describes as "extraordinarily ordinary"— educators, artists, administrators, business owners, teachers and students.
"Cecil McDonald Jr.: In the Company of Black," photographs from the book, will be on exhibit Jan. 19 to Apr. 14, Chicago Cultural Center 78 E. Washington St. Admission is free.
The 144-page book began as a small project in 2007 when McDonald started to photograph his friends and family in attempt to showcase the difference between his fellow African-Americans and the African-American lifestyles portrayed to society.
Soon, McDonald began taking photographs of strangers, too. But it wasn't until several years later, while completing the Artist-In-Residency program at Light Work in Syracuse, NY, that McDonald was hit with the idea to create a book.
"I saw other residents trying to turn their work into books," he said. "So I thought 'hey I should try that, too'".
McDonald presented the idea to his former teaching assistant Matt Austin of Candor Arts, an independent art book publisher based in Chicago.
The book features an introduction written by Tempestt Hazel, a former student of McDonald, and was nominated for the 2017 Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Award. Last month, a selected portion of the photographs featured in McDonald's book were on display at Illinois State University Galleries. The same exhibition will be showcased at the Chicago Cultural Center in January.
For McDonald, the photographs are the most important part of his recent journey. They tell a story that challenges the roles designated to African-Americans by our cultural landscape, he said. While McDonald is humbled by the success of his book release, he believes it's the photographs themselves that have the potential to make the biggest impact.
In fact, McDonald hopes the photographs never return to Chicago. Why? Because the whole world needs to observe them, to understand their symbolism.
The Gandurskis bought their house in West Beverly a little over a year ago, and are finding it a great spot for their young children, Benny, 2, and Ellie, 3 months. Matt, a musician, music talent buyer, and bartender for Lagunitas Brewery's Chicago Taproom, grew up at 104th and Leavitt and Julie, a teacher in Chicago Public Schools, grew up in Orland. Why did they choose Beverly/Morgan Park when it was time to buy a home?
Thomas Chomicz got involved with the Beverly Area Planning Association (BAPA) through former BAPA board member Steve Murphy. The two served together on the Smith Senior Living board of directors, and Murphy believed Chomicz's skills and knowledge of the neighborhood were a good fit for the Beverly/Morgan Park umbrella civic organization.
"He said I could be helpful," Chomicz recalled, and certainly that is an understatement of the value he has brought to BAPA and our community.
With his professional experience and commitment to the work of the organization, Chomicz has helped BAPA make important improvements in programming, reporting and governance.
Chomicz is a retired attorney and CPA. Over the course of his legal and accounting career he has served on the boards of many not-for-profit organizations. He has been on the Smith Senior Living board for 30 years, serving as director and officer as well as on committees. For the Saint Xavier University board he served as a director for nine years and as chair for four years. He was a director for the Retirement Research Foundation, and a director and officer for The Stenning, a charitable foundation.
BAPA has benefited greatly from this diverse, high level board experience. In 2014, Chomicz rewrote BAPA's bylaws. He also enhanced the financial reporting to the board of directors and consistently provided thoughtful and informed leadership to guide BAPA in its work.
In his six years of service to BAPA, Chomicz has served on the organization's development, safety and nominating committees, as well as the executive committee. He is currently vice president of the board.
Chomicz will be retiring from the BAPA board in 2019. He encourages community residents to get involved in BAPA and use their skills to advance the organization as members, volunteers and on committees.
"BAPA is a quality community organization that highlights the positives, achievements and outstanding reputation of the Beverly/Morgan Park community," he said, adding that BAPA has a positive effect on local issues including housing, education, safety and community development.
Chomicz and his late wife Eunice moved to Beverly/Morgan Park in 1972 and raised six children here.
For more information on how to get involved with BAPA, contact BAPA Executive Director Susan Flood, 773-233-3100 or sfloood@bapa.org.


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Q: How to turn off ATI adapter on Acer Timeline 4810G with ubuntu 9.10 I can't turn off my ATI adapter. I have applied the fix, but still lspci | grep VGA gives
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M92 LP [Mobility Radeon HD 4300 Series] (rev ff)

and my power consumption is about 15W (Wi-Fi on).
I run ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-14-generic. BIOS version 2.30

A: I think that lspci still shows the ATI card after it has been disabled using the fix.
I just applied that fix on my Timeline 4810G running Ubuntu 10.04, the power consumption dropped from 22W to about 12W, but the ATI card is still listed by lspci.
So my guess is that your ATI card is disabled. You might want to check by looking for the following line in your /var/log/messages :
lenovo_acpi: disabled the discrete graphics card

A: There is another option that will not depend on the SO: The BIOS.
I found a MODDED BIOS that permits the selection between INTEGATED / ATI:
http://forum.ixbt.com/topic.cgi?id=17:38124:288#288
http://www.mediafire.com/?8jdklwcjovofzp6
I have it installed right now on a 5810TG (it fits the 4810 also) but I can see now why ACER did not release such an option: the 5810TG won't reboot properly if INTEGRATED is selected! (works fine though, as the SO recognizes only 1 card, and the other will presumably will stay turned off, not drawing any power).

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CULTURE, PLACE, PLANET ("The sense of smell explores." - Brillat-Savarin)
Last advice for a beautiful, struggling valley
Once upon a time a feature writer for the Washington Post was asked to take over the newspaper's wine column, more or less in his spare time. He agreed, using one day a week to actually find out something about the beverage and to write about its world. Soon styrofoam cartons started showing up on his doorstep. He could soon have amassed enough to build a styrofoam version of a hay bale house, but he also gained an incidental awareness of a place called Napa and found that considerably more interesting than wine itself.
This led to his writing a book about what had happened in Napa, a unique American triumph of agriculture, artisanship and conservation over maximum exploitation. The book was built on close reporting about the lives of those who wrought the extraordinary feat that became "Napa Valley" and that of their descendants.
In other words, he took the subject seriously in a way wine writing doesn't, including the human dramas and foibles. And many of those written about never forgave him. He was supposed to have labored, he realized, to praise them and their wine. Vintners wanted to be taken seriously in print and on on-line, often while behaving otherwise.
Those styrofoam packages are no longer landing on the wine writer's front stoop. He long ago realized that the so-called "wine press," however critical it might be of individual wines, is still an inherent part of the vast publicity machine driving wine sales and tourism. He gets no more invitations to faux "journalism" conferences at resorts, but he still lives in hope that wine journalism will someday throw off the styrofoam yoke and look a more deeply at the roots of all wine writers' enjoyed largess.
Meanwhile, three decades later, the face of the wine industry no longer bears any resemblance to a collective portrait of recent greats - Andre Tchelistchef, Warren Winiarski, even Robert Mondavi - but rather to a figurative representative, an overweight real estate developer with dyed yellow hair who's a lifestyle vintner in Virginia who also happens to be the president of the United States.
Many of the descendants of those who fought to create the agricultural preserve in 1964 have lost their idealism while pursuing wealth at the expense of place. What many of these "leaders" now take seriously is the milking of a cash cow until it expires. Climate change, which should have galvanized them, has instead inspired recklessness. Their concern is no longer the natural integrity of the valley, but maintaining the corporate attitude at all costs, which is getting yours before others get theirs, even when that means tanking the resource.
Much of the cadre that does take Napa seriously is sitting in this room, a remnant of Jeffersonian idealism working to limit developers and opportunists in the "hospitality" professions which unfortunately today includes wine. If it wasn't for people like you room these issues wouldn't be forcefully raised at all. But you need help if the bits of real Napa are going to be held onto, and I believe some of that help has to come from outside the county because the financial and social comfort of existing institutions here is so tightly bound up in the status quo ante.
Money and only money is the real interest of those in control today, and money is in this instance destructive. The philosopher, Edmund Burke, who referred to it as "gain," recognized gain's destructive power when it becomes the only value. Burke is the darling of so-called conservatives, but he acknowledged way back in 1756, in A Vindication of Natural Society, that, "The great error of our nature is not to know where to stop" and in the process "to lose all we have gained in an insatiable pursuit for more."
That pretty much sums up the tragedy of the commons now being played out in Napa. Napa has had more, in Burke's sense, for a long time, but unless current practices are curtailed it won't have it much longer. Wine alone, without the physical integrity of this beautiful place, will not sustain the valley in a time of climate change. Everyone knows by now that natural explanations for global warming are baseless and that human release of greenhouse gases account for almost all of it since Edmund Burke's time. They also know that the primary contributors are the burning of fossil fuels and the cutting down of trees.
The ramifications of all this are vast, but some real mitigation is still possible on the local level. Here are some obvious things that occur to me, admittedly just an on-looker but a concerned one with some knowledge of the place:
Keep a close eye on the privatization of public water sources by corporations and wealthy individuals. They typically want this most precious resource so they can eventually sell it back to you.
Systematically measure carbon and other emissions from existing wineries to establish a baseline that can be used in future disputes. Citizens are going to have to do this on their own, and it can be be done inexpensively, or so I'm told, by using drones, private planes and satellites.
Campaign for political contribution limits in county races that equalize a playing field now heavily weighted toward corporate and developmental dominance.
Sue the county to reverse the change in the definition of agriculture effected a decade ago to include marketing and by implication food service and entertainment. The change should have been subject to the popular vote and wasn't, a stealth move by outside corporations in Napa that recently announced, "We're no longer in the agriculture business. We're in the branding business."
Along the same line, start a fund exclusively for suing the county for failing to enforce all existing laws concerning development and wine production. These get insufficient attention and action from those paid to do just that, some of them elected.
And organize a boycott of wineries and corporations that work to elect candidates inclined to do their bidding. Today the internet is a powerful tool with which to find and inform possible allies all over the United States and affect sales in ways boycotts of the past could not. Publicize the names of the wineries and brands that ignore the law and conduct campaigns of disinformation.
My final suggestion may be the most important, and it concerns access to information that should be public. "Democracy dies in darkness" is Jeff Bezos choice slogan for the masthead of the Washington Post, but the phrase comes from a judge in pre-Watergate days discussing wire-tapping. Your darkness here in Napa isn't absolute, as far as published accounts of malfeasance are concerned; it's more like persistent twilight. Since the newspapers are all owned by a corporation located not in the Bay Area but in Iowa and it indirectly a dictates what Napans know and don't know about their issues. It reminds me of the ancient Romans sending the Britons encyclicals, after cutting down their sacred groves.
I have friends who work or have worked for the Register and they are fine journalists. But writers and editors are powerless against bosses who are closely in line with the valley's prevalent corporate attitude. Finding sustained, meaningful discussion of issues of real importance to Napans lies mostly in the Letters to the Editor section, and there's rarely real follow-up.
During the lead-up up to the vote on the oaks and stream set-backs initiative, the Register ran a purported list of names of opponents of the initiative without determining whether or not all those names were against it. (They weren't.) The paper gave credence to other specious claims by the opposition that falsely determined the outcome of the vote, and finally ran an editorial admitting that everything the initiative proposed would be beneficial to the county.
But the paper withheld its endorsement because - you got it - this wasn't "the right time" for such laws. Instead, the paper recommended more study. You will always know the enemy when he or she suggests forming a committee in lieu of actually doing something. It's the surest route, if slightly longer, back to where you already are.
The Register's circulation has fallen in the last couple of decades from 20,000 to about 8,000. But there's a hunger out there for in-depth reporting on what's happening, including investigations crying out to be done. There was a brief period when the St. Helena Star was in the hands of private investors, and it could have been a crusader for the valley's way of life and possibly its savior but they sold out to the newspaper chain in fly-over America.
However, there's another way in this, the new golden age of journalism under duress. The break-through is on-line, where virtual newspapers dedicated to social and environmental causes rising across America are buoyed by this hunger and America's precious Constitutional freedom of speech. Work is required, but willing workers there are, as you have proven.
Such an "e-paper," for want of a better word, would have to be general interest minus the boosterism and car chases, and unbiased as well as unsparing. I've done some asking around and getting started is easier and less expensive than you might think. So is the casting of light on activities and individuals who have operated with near impunity. Such publications are riding a wave of outrage breaking across the nation in communities deprived for too long of news and discussion by co-option of information by corporate mentality and outright falsehood.
I have it on good authority that such an on-line paper can be well-launched for as little as $50,000, though twice that is preferable. It's a long reach for many places, but not for Napa. Needed are a few determined people, a paid local reporter or two, a freelance editor, and contributors willing to report, write, and photograph for the sheer value - and joy - of it. They could quickly make an appreciable difference, and produce revenue through advertising and the selling of shares to interested people, as has been done recently in Sonoma and the East Bay. Berkeleyside, one of the best such publications, recently raised a million dollars, and a similar success could blossom here.
Napa's e-paper would have to be independent, generally focused, and unbiased. I believe it would make a crucial difference in a difficult and dangerous time, not just for the natural and cultural resources, but also for all citizens. It would have to be totally independent of Napa Vision 2050, of course, but the objectives would be the same: an informed public, elected officials held accountable, and a healthy environment which is the truest general interest.
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Important to remember where the "defeat" came from
A reader sent the following letter to me and to the Napa Register:
Can we be really clear on who is bank rolling the "No on C" campaign?
The "No on C" flier that was delivered to thousands of households through-out Napa County a few days ago was paid for by "No on Measure C, Coalition for Sustainable Agriculture – FPPC I.D. #1401241." It is listed as a "Campaign Finance Committee" on the CA Secretary of State's website. There are no names listed in association with the committee, but there is a phone number: (707)258-8668. This is the phone number of Michelle Benvenuto and the Wine Growers of Napa County.
That's not really much of a surprise. But what is interesting is that after digging a little more, I found the actual mission statement(https://www.guidestar.org/profile/68-0398209) of the Wine Growers of Napa County, as filed with the IRS when it received its tax exempt status in 1998:
A NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION WHOSE PRINCIPAL MISSION IS TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AS THE HIGHEST AND BEST USE OF THE NATURAL RESOURCES OF NAPA COUNTY IN TANDEM WITH THE PROTECTION OF WINERIES AND THEIR ABILITY TO PRODUCE AND MARKET WINE.
Please note the last part: "the protection of wineries and their ability to produce and market wine," because that part of their mission statement is often left off of any more recent descriptions of the organization.
This is the description of the organization as listed on their IRS on Form 990 in 2014, 2015, and 2016 (all public records):
"To promote and defend grape growing and wine making as commercial enterprises in Napa County."
That's pretty specific.
There is no website for the Wine Growers of Napa County, though they belong to both the Napa and St. Helena Chambers of Commerce. However, you can read much more about this organization in James Conaway's book, "The Far Side of Eden, New Money, Old Land, and the Battle for Napa Valley." Here is a short excerpt from page 183:
"Consider the state of the valley, advise, bankroll, and wield a big stick, that would be the role of the new Wine Growers of Napa County--"
If you dig a little more through public records you can find this: the president of the Wine Growers of Napa County as of December, 2016 was Chris Indelicato, who is also the president and CEO of Delicato Family Vineyards, which, according to an article that appeared in Napa Register, June 15, 2017 ("Delicato's growing presence in the wine industry—and Napa Valley") is the seventh largest wine company in America and the second largest wine company that has headquarters in Napa.
Other "officers, trustees, and key employees" in the public record of Wine Growers of Napa Valley include Michelle Benvenuto, Dave Pina, Tony Leblanc, Rob Mondavi, Mike Reynolds, & Carolyn Wasem.
The most troubling thing about all of this is how much money the No on C coalition (whose phone number is shared by the Wine Growers of Napa County) is spending and how many dirty political tricks they are playing to try to convince the voters that Measure C, if passed, will do the very things most residents in Napa County are worried about most: increasing traffic and the number of mega-mansions, tasting rooms, and event centers, especially when you consider that the original mission statement of the Wine Growers of Napa County is "to protect wineries and their ability to produce and market wine."
Do you really believe that the Wine Growers of Napa County will still be telling the voters that more event centers will lead to more traffic after this election? Or do you think they're doing their best to confuse and mislead you into voting against your best interest?
Make no mistake, the No on C effort appears to be bank-rolled by some very big money and big winery interests who have hired professional political operatives that are pulling out every dirty trick in the book, including push polls, a failed attempt to deceive the voters at the tax-payers expense, misleading billboards, and the very flawed and misleading mailers that went out last week. They are, just as James Conaway wrote, wielding a very "big stick," in this case, money, influence, and intimidation.
Do you really trust them to tell you how to vote?
Do you really think they have your best interests at heart?
If you want to do a little digging on your own, ask your mayor or supervisor if they accepted any campaign contributions from the Wine Growers of Napa Valley.
Follow the money.
Please, don't be fooled or confused by the dirty tricks. Vote Yes on Measure C. It's about protecting the watershed for the benefit of everyone that lives in Napa County.
Name withheld by request.
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They care in San Francisco
From San Francisco Magazine:
How Napa's Battle Over Blocking New Vineyards Almost Split the Valley in Two
James Conaway | Photo: Bob McClenahan | August 22, 2018
After the narrow defeat of a contentious ballot measure to limit new vineyards, defenders of Napa's past take stock of its future.
It's high summer in Napa Valley, and those of us who forgot to bring a hat regret it. We're standing on the edge of Deer Park Road, on the east side of the valley, almost directly across from the town of St. Helena and out of sight of most wine country tourists, looking up at acres of tumbled rock on 1,683-foot Howell Mountain. Our little group includes a community activist named Kellie Anderson, who belongs to Save Rural Angwin (Angwin being the town of about 3,000 located a thousand feet above us); Napa County's somber-looking director of planning, building, and environmental services, David Morrison; and two of his staff, gripping clipboards. Also present is retired Anheuser-Busch quality assurance manager Jim Wilson, who helped get a voter initiative called Measure C on the June ballot, a turn of events that split the valley in two politically.
The tour is designed to present county officials with the real-life consequences of government land-use decisions. Anderson gestures upward at the otherwise wooded mountain, which from our vantage looks more like the spoil from an open-pit mine. "What do we do with this mountain?" she asks. The question is rhetorical, but we know what's at stake: It's the very fiber of what makes Napa County so special, and also so coveted.
Measure C sought to protect trees close to streams and limit oak removal on Napa's hillsides. But as soon became clear, environmentalists' concerns were not exactly the main source of the conflict: Rather, the measure morphed into a broad referendum on the future of wine country. Would it, as supporters hoped, represent a first step in saying "no more" to the corporate interests transforming Napa into a booze-soaked Disneyland? Or was it the work of gray-haired NIMBYs turning their backs on a $9.4-billion-a-year industry that floats all boats? In the end, the question led to the pairing up of new and sometimes strange bedfellows, accusations of dirty dealing, and the perhaps-permanent bifurcation of the valley.
On Election Day in June, the measure fell short by 641 votes, out of 35,707 cast. The specifics put before voters may have been settled for the time being, but the larger question about the future of the region remains. "We know how an initiative is done now," Wilson tells me of the fight. "Our backers are in it for the long game. Moral outrage in the valley is mounting."
As I wrote in a trilogy of books about Napa, for over half a century the valley has attracted wannabe winemakers and tourists, at rates that have accelerated with every passing decade. One consequence is that the valley floor has simply run out of land for new plantings. In 1968, when Napa Valley's agricultural preserve, the first of its kind in the nation, was created, the county's vineyards amounted to just under 14,000 acres. Today, that number is 46,000. Comprising 65 wineries in 1968, the Napa Valley American Viticultural Area now includes 540. The remaining undeveloped land is mostly hillside—land once considered too unstable for planting—so new vineyards are perched atop knife-edge ridges on Howell Mountain and Atlas Peak. The latter borders the site of a decades-long dispute over a vineyard proposed by Hall Wines. It's currently tied up in appeals by activists fighting the 209-acre plan known as Walt Ranch (about 80 percent of the land burned during last October's fires).
More than three million visitors now flood the valley every year. Many existing wineries have taken to supplanting tasting rooms with "event centers"—a euphemism for full-blown restaurants and concert venues—in hope of luring even more tourists. For Wilson and others concerned about the strain placed on the valley by the extra traffic, the environmental damage wrought by farming runoff, and the loss of Napa's rural sense of place, the tourism dollars simply aren't worth the trade.
So Wilson and a retired commercial pilot named Mike Hackett, who lives in Angwin, set about crafting Measure C. Hoping to strike an agreement on the initiative, they met with members of the powerful Napa Valley Vintners, which had backed environmental measures in the past, including a hillside-erosion ordinance in 1991. Many vintners wanted to collaborate on Measure C. Some, among them Michael Honig, the president and CEO of Honig Vineyard & Winery, even helped to shape it. But at a meeting in September 2017, the association's board of directors voted to withdraw from negotiations. Ultimately, the vintners opposed the measure, and other trade organizations, including the Napa County Farm Bureau, Napa Valley Grapegrowers, and Winegrowers of Napa County, followed suit. The opposition campaign spent more than $835,000 to defeat the measure.
That's not to say that environmental activists and wine growers were perfectly divided. The Napa Valley Register hinted at that tension in its endorsement of a no vote, calling the initiative "the right idea in the wrong vehicle." Several prominent winemakers publicly supported Measure C, including Beth Novak Milliken, CEO of and heir to the venerable St. Helena winery Spottswoode, who voted in defiance of the trade group to which she belongs. "Something had to be done," she explains. "The valley has lost much of its agrarian character in my lifetime. We're letting this place slip away."
Back on our tour, the group stops at a bald spot atop Howell Mountain in the middle of what Wilson calls "primeval forest." Save Rural Angwin and others opposed the logging here, which clear-cut two parcels totaling 21 acres to make way for vineyards. "It's a blasting-exposed, baked ridgeline," Anderson says. Still, she and her allies remain undaunted. Tensions have risen and may not go down soon—the county board of supervisors has begun to put together a new strategic plan that would address the impact of tourism on quality of life for residents and the concerns about hillside vineyard construction raised by proponents of Measure C. The level of trust between activists and elected officials, however, remains low. For now, Hackett won't rule out another swing at the ballot box in two years. "If nothing substantive occurs between now and a year from now, we will be back with another initiative," he says, "and we will not be defeated."
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Bohemian Magazine says sun is setting on Napa
Napa Sunset
In book three of his trilogy, James Conaway writes of Napa's decline
by Jonah Risking
The traffic is horrendous, especially on weekends. The noise can be deafening on country lanes where big machines rip up the earth. Vineyards have spread everywhere, Pinot and Cabernet have never been more plentiful, and pesticides and herbicides have shown up in creeks and streams.
In a nutshell, that's the Napa County story, though the Mondavi clan and the folks at Yountville's Domain Chandon—which is French- owned—along with David Abreu and the notorious John Bremer, insist that they bring culture and civilization to a backward land and hand out millions to community groups. To be sure, Napa makes great wine. But at what cost to the land and to the people? That's the question.
James Conaway's muckraking tour de force Napa at Last light: America's Eden in an Age of Calamity recounts the secrets, the backroom deals and the hillside devastation that has shocked citizens and persuaded some winemakers and grape growers to call for reform. The book arrived in stores in March, three months before the June 5 ballot on Measure C. Widely read, it has strengthened the pro-C forces, though it has also helped fuel the anti-C folks.
Where Conaway's books are concerned, there's no neutrality. Indeed, his words can be intoxicating, especially when he writes about wine as the beverage that "sustains kings, poets, politicians, priests, lovers, idealists, the sick, the stricken, and all manner of rascals."
Measure C—known as the Napa County Watershed and Oak Woodland Protection Initiative of 2018—aims to limit hillside development for grape vines and "protect the water quality of Napa County's streams, watersheds, wetlands and forests, and safeguard the public health, safety and welfare of the County's residents."
Ironically, Conaway—arguably the author who has done more than any other single writer to raise awareness about the environment in Napa—can't cast a ballot on June 5.
Born and raised in Memphis, he divides his time between Virginia and Washington, D.C., though he often explores Napa County, where he has friends and some enemies too. He has been drawn to Napa because of its spectacular beauty, and also because he sees Napa as emblematic of California. In 2002's The Far Side of Eden, the second in the trilogy, he writes that "Napa Valley was California in microcosm."
In his latest book, he gives voice to the chorus of citizens who want to take back their county from what some see as the dominating influence of the wine industry. "To some, I'm a local hero," says Conaway. "To others, I'm an enemy of the people."
The battle over Measure C, which could have implications for vineyard development in Sonoma and Mendocino counties, has been a hard-fought campaign with its share of mudslinging. Misinformation, disinformation and outright lies have defined much of the campaign. So it's not surprising that Conaway has been demonized in some, though not all, viticultural circles.
A dozen high-profile grape growers and winemakers support the initiative. They include Andy Beckstoffer, one of the largest landowners in the county, and Warren Winiarski at Stag's Leap, which was one of the winners at the 1976 Paris tasting that put Napa Valley on the international wine map.
Opponents of Measure C have insisted that if it passes it will undermine private property rights and prevent future farming in agricultural watersheds.
Vintner Stuart Smith, who created a website called Stop Measure C, says, "The initiative was written by two people and lawyers in a backroom." Smith adds that you have to have "economic wealth" in order to create "effective environmental protection." (See this week's Swirl, p12, for more from Smith.) Conaway calls comments like Smith's "environmental McCarthyism."
Grassroots supporters of C have launched their own counter-offensive. In April, lawyer and Soda Creek Vineyards owner Yeoryios C. Apallas, filed a lawsuit that prompted the Napa County Superior Court to order the removal of false statements from the official voter information pamphlet. "I could not sit by while opponents deliberately misstated the facts to confuse voters into rejecting this important measure," Apallas said.
Among the most blatant misrepresentations was one which claimed that "measure C will prevent homeowners from making even the smallest changes to their land." That statement, and others like it, were removed from the pamphlet for Napa voters, though not all the misstatements were removed. Moreover, the campaign against the ballot measure agreed to pay $54,000 for the legal fees incurred by the "Yes on C" forces.
But the court ruling didn't prevent the proliferation of "No on C" signs that dot the landscape and which insist that, if enacted, the law would lead to more traffic, higher taxes and negative impacts on farmers and agriculture.
The signs for and against the ballot measure haven't surprised Conaway. Napa at Last Light completes the saga he began in 1990 with Napa: The Story of an American Eden and continued with The Far Side of Eden: New Money, Old Land, and the Battle for Napa Valley. In the second volume, Conaway notes that "tourists devour the thing they love." Sixteen years later, he says Eden is now all but lost, though if Measure C passes, he believes it will help to restore some of the original paradise.
Reviewers of the book, such as San Francisco Chronicle's wine, beer and spirits writer Esther Mobley, have insisted that Conaway's voice is now louder and angrier than it has been in the past. Attentive readers will also notice that Conaway is sadder than before about the triumph of money and power in the Napa Valley. One might subtitle Napa at Last Light, not "Grapes of Wrath," but "Grapes of Sorrow."
In the third volume of the trilogy, Conaway uses his skills as a writer of fiction—he's the author of three novels—to create memorable, real-life folk heroes, such as the aristocratic, French-born global wine baron Jean-Charles Boisset, who owns dozens of wineries, including the famed Buena Vista in Sonoma. His wife, Gina, belongs to the legendary Gallo clan.
Some of Conaway's sources are on the record, though not all. He calls one man "Deep Roots" and intentionally conceals descriptions that would give away his identity. He calls another source "the attorney." Outing him would cost the lawyer his reputation.
Geoff Ellsworth was a willing and a candid source. A St. Helena council member, artist and supporter of Measure C, Ellsworth has lived in Napa County for 50 years. For decades, he watched the slow, steady chipping away of the forests, the privatization of watersheds and the spread of roads, vineyards, wineries, tasting rooms, event centers and estate homes. Like Conaway, Ellsworth decries what he calls the "erosion of democracy" in Napa. He worries that if the dominance of the industry goes unchecked in his hometown, it can happen anywhere in the United States.
On a hot afternoon, as I tour the valley with him, Ellsworth says that while he believes the ballot measure will pass, he also argues that "neither drought, nor flood, nor fire will keep corporations from gobbling up resources in Napa."
As a kid and young man who grew up in St. Helena—his parents supplied equipment to the wine industry—Ellsworth assumed that Napa County would accept limits on tourism and stop the expansion of vineyards on steep slopes. He also assumed that citizens would decry the loss of habitat for endangered species like the spotted owl.
"We're nearly at the point where advocating for clean water for everyone is beginning to look revolutionary," Ellsworth says. "It looks like Napa is turning into the 'valley of the oligarchs.'"
His friend and feisty ally, Kellie Anderson—who once worked for the wine industry as well as for the Napa County agricultural commissioner—describes some wineries as recreational playthings for wealthy owners and absentee landlords.
"Sometimes a vineyard comes with a Ferrari and a trophy wife," Anderson says. "Meanwhile, watersheds are destroyed and citizens are screwed."
Like Ellsworth and Anderson, Conaway wants to stop, or at least slow down, the runaway wine and tourism juggernaut before more of what makes Napa special is lost. "The time has come to say 'No More,'" Conaway writes in his new book.
During a phone conversation in which his Memphis accent gives away his Southern roots, he says, "I like Pinot, though I can't afford Napa Cab, which wine makers now call 'rocket juice.'" (A bottle of premium Napa Cabernet can easily cost $100.)
Conaway is optimistic, but he can't help but see doom and gloom. He wants things to be right, but he imagines they'll go wrong. So he's divided in his feelings about Napa, and both pleased and alarmed at what he sees in neighboring grape-growing, winemaking counties.
"Sonoma County still feels rural, and that's good," Conaway says. "But Sonoma will probably go the way of Napa. It's just too damned attractive for big money."
Indeed, whether C wins or loses, pockets of Napa's beauty will endure. Is that enough?
Napa at Last Light ends with the sound of a screaming hawk and a prophetic view of a time when "many are likely to pass though these lovely mountains and will pause as they do now, nature-struck, all momentarily struck by the beauty of this place."
Jonah Raskin is the author of 'Field Days: a Year of Farming, Eating and Drinking Wine in California' and an occasional contributor to the 'Bohemian.'
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What Napa must do to survive
After considerable reflection I have come up with a list of things I believe Napa must do if it is to hang onto what's left of its physical beauty and social cohesion. Most require some legal assistance and direct action, and all are discussed or illustrated in some degree in my book, Napa at Last Light. But the determining factor in accomplishing them is public outrage, and public action.
1. Take steps to prevent the privatizing of public water sources.
2. Using drones, private planes and/or satellites, measure carbon and other emissions of all individual wineries to establish a baseline that can be used in broad on-line mailings and future legal actions.
3. Pass contribution limits in county races that equalize a playing field heavily weighted toward corporate dominance of Napa's barely functioning democratic processes.
4. Start a boycott of wineries and corporations that work to elect candidates inclined to do their bidding, rather than pursue the general good. Today the internet is a powerful tool with which to find and inform possible allies all over the United States and affect sales in ways boycotts of the past could not. Publicize not just the names of the wineries but also their individual wines and encourage boycotting all who ignore the law, exploit their power, and conduct campaigns of disinformation.
5. Urge - nowadays that of necessity means "sue" - the county to force reconsideration of the change in the definition of agriculture includes marketing and by implication food service, entertainment, and much more. This was a stealth move to cripple a sacrosanct law that must now be restored.
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Major media covering Napa's seminal land fight
Is Napa growing too much wine? Residents seek to preserve treasured land
Industry insiders and local environmentalists fear agricultural development has become untenable, threatening the valley's future
by Charlotte Simmonds in Napa Valley
The rise of Napa began with an upset. Warren Winiarski would know – his wine, a cabernet sauvignon, was a firm underdog at a legendary 1976 blind tasting in Paris, which pitted the best of France against the little-known California region.
His winery, Stag's Leap, shocked the wine world by taking top honors. "It broke the glass ceiling that France had imposed on everyone," he recalls. "People's aspirations were liberated."
Today Winiarski, 89, is speaking not of liberation, but of limits. A growing coalition of industry veterans and longtime residents fear that Napa has become a victim of its own success, pointing to the ecological transformation of the valley floor from dense oak woodland to a sea of vine-wrapped trellises. And they are posing a thorny question: has a unique agricultural region reached a tipping point at which agriculture itself becomes the threat?
"We're not thinking ahead," says Winiarski. "What's at stake is a national treasure."
Against this backdrop, a local environmental initiative has sparked fierce debate. The effort, known as Measure C, would cap the amount of oak woodland that could be cleared for future vineyards – in effect limiting the growth of some of the world's most famous wine brands.
Napa Valley is small, just 30 miles long and five miles wide. Nearly 500 wineries now call this slim stretch home; it welcomes 3.5 million visitors a year. Global recognition has attracted big beverage companies. Tourists have clogged the narrow two-lane roads. Wealthy "lifestyle vintners" have scooped up second homes and attempted to build private helicopter pads.
"With great success came great money and outsiders," explains James Conaway, a journalist and author who has been covering Napa since the 1980s. He describes the valley of 30 years ago as egalitarian and idealistic, a mixed agricultural community that raised wine alongside livestock and fruit trees. "Now it's monoculture with a vengeance. Hundreds of miles of steel trellising holding up the vines from one end of the valley to the next. It has an industrial sheen."
Through the windows at Winiarski's hilltop home, the transformation can be surveyed with ease. Vineyards stretch in all directions, rows of green as orderly as soldiers. The Silverado Trail, a famous wine tasting route, cuts a path to the west. To the east lie hills covered in oaks – trees that, Winariski points out, once carpeted the valley floor.
Napa's oaks have become a flashpoint in the story of wine's takeover. Ninety-five per cent of those on the valley floor have been felled, the vasty majority replaced by grapes. Now developers are eyeing the surrounding hillsides.
Napa county has California's densest concentration of oak woodland, thanks to the rich foliage that still carpets the hills. While much of it is privately owned and not public land in the classic sense, the woods are regarded as a public resource – a place of recreation and biodiversity, a vital part of the valley's watershed and a fierce point of pride. But more than a third sits on potentially agriculturally productive soil – a 2010 management plan estimated that by 2030, up to 3,065 acres of mixed woodland would be lost due to vineyard development.
"Forests are the best negative emissions technology we have," says Jim Wilson, a former brewing quality manager at Anheuser-Busch and a leader in the band of grassroots activists behind Measure C. "Should Napa's wine industry get a pass?"
The measure is the culmination of years-long battle – one that's involved knocking on doors, gathering thousands of signatures, and fighting an opposition which, according to a private newsletter seen by the Guardian, plans to spend nearly $1m to defeat it. Wilson's side, by contrast, has raised just over $160,000. The effort has consumed his life, but then, Napa is his life.
"I was born here in 1955," Wilson says. "I raised a family on my wife's ranch." Their home – a patchwork of steep hills, creeks and woodlands on the county's east side – is wild and uncultivated. During a walk beneath the oaks on a recent morning, his love for the forest is palpable.
"When you take forest out, you negatively impact carbon sequestration," he explains. The trees play a crucial role in capturing rain and replenishing groundwater, he said, while their root systems prevent soil erosion.
Voters will decide on the proposal by 5 June, but the campaign has sharply divided the wine community. Veteran vintners like Winiarski have gone against the industry trade groups, who are united in their opposition. The Napa Valley Vintners, a key trade body, initially supported the measure but later pulled a surprise U-turn. Wilson and his co-organizers say pressure from powerful industry figures turned the tide. The Vintners declined to comment on the reversal, but an official statement said the majority of its members "conveyed opposition".
"This decision does not change our longstanding commitment to promoting, protecting and enhancing the Napa Valley and to upholding its goals of advocating for the local wine industry while preserving this special place for future generations," it added.
Ryan Klobas, the policy director for the Napa Valley Farm Bureau, warns the measure is "full of unintended consequences" and calls its proposed regulation too complicated for voters to grasp. "You're asking everyone to become a technical expert overnight. This is an issue better left to the board of supervisors."
But longtime residents such as Ginny Simms – an environmental advocate who served on the county's board of supervisors in the 1970s – believe corporate greed is at the root. Napa today is a multibillion-dollar industry, where global beverage companies such as Treasury Wine Estates, Gallo and Constellation – which own brands such as Corona and Svedka vodka – have acquired smaller wineries for their portfolios.
"The real issue here is power," says Simms, 90. "Opponents want to run the county in a way that is favorable to the expansion of all wineries and wine events. Which leaves the people of Napa voiceless."
Despite the talk of pushing back against power, some worry more regulation would actually favor the wealthy by boosting the price of the little free land that remains. Don Clark is a mid-sized grape grower and vineyard manager from Texas, who came to Napa in 1994 and was lucky to buy affordable land.
"We may have been the last generation who could come here as a young farmer," he says. "The barriers to entry are almost impossible now." Startup costs have soared – Clark's last vineyard development client spent half a million dollars on various legal, consultation and county fees, as well as archeological and environmental studies, he says.
Clark and others point to a landmark 1968 ordinance known as the Agriculture Preserve – the first of its kind in the US – which deemed agriculture the "highest and best" use of Napa's land. Measure C therefore undercuts a fundamental right to farm, these opponents argue.
But proponents say the measure is born of love, not reproach, for the wine world, and is simply about responsible farming. "Something's very wrong with the way we are thinking about our resources," Winiarski says. "They are finite. And yet we go on with development as though we could do that indefinitely."
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The truth about oak woodlands in a time of deception
Clarity bought to the watershed debate by a veteran vintner and grower
Title: Here's the Science – Yes on C
On April 13, Stu Smith published a letter in the St. Helena Star opposing Measure C, which is designed to protect the Napa Valley watershed. Before I address his letter, I would like to clarify some misinformation re my vineyards. I have been fortunate enough to have only removed ONE tree, a sick one, to plant our vines. Even if I had done extensive logging in the '80's, as many did back then, and continuing into 2016, I would have realized that things must change. We must start to aggressively take care of our environment. So, all you ex-loggers are welcome to join our cause.
The team behind Measure C have a very simple proposition, which is supported by much of the citizenry and by science: Stop deforestation of oak woodlands and destruction of critical riparian areas so that the water services of the watershed will be protected. Save the environment so that the population, including winegrowers, will not experience the predictable harms that follow deforestation.
Mr. Smith sounds the drumbeat of "where's the science?", knowing full well that there is ample science. The Watershed Task Force compiled and summarized the science associated with protecting vs. deforesting watersheds. The Dunne report (2001) systematically detailed the cumulative and permanent impact of deforestation. Mr. Smith has been an active participant in consideration of the science involved, and his claim that none exists is disingenuous. What science would he like to argue with?
The beneficial services of oak forests? The negative impact of deforestation? The benefits of setbacks from tertiary and secondary streams? The detriment of Roundup to our waterways? Higgins(2018)? Would he like to argue that vineyards don't use water drawn from the water table? He begins to sound like the climate change deniers who look straight at the science and declare it to be opinion. Can he show any science that shows that deforestation is good? A single case? No, I didn't think so.
Mr. Smith also contrives an argument to make the landowners of Napa Valley an oppressed minority that is being done wrong by the "tyranny of the majority". He argues that the initiative process by which citizens create laws directly when their representatives are unresponsive is somehow an injustice. He calls Measure C an oppression of a minority group. I confess I laughed hysterically when I got to that line. Napa wine growers as small family farmers is mostly a myth now. They do exist, but the lion-share of land holdings are owned by one per-centers and mega corporations. The idea of the super-rich being an oppressed minority is laughable.
Mr. Smith is from a previous era, when responsible vineyard developers could figure out how best to create a winegrowing business. Because the Napa brand has attracted people with less knowledge and commitment to sustainability, we need to create rules. Because we are so densely developed, we have to create rules and guidelines that consider cumulative and aggregate impact.
This one very simple measure has a very clear objective, to protect the watershed forests that assure our water supply. You can complicate it and make up ideological arguments to distract people from the simple necessity to protect the watershed, but it remains that deforestation will lead to bad effects for us all, protecting the watershed is one thing we can do right now to protect our future.
Please vote YES on C. Randy Dunn
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Q: Cancelling external event handler raised inside task Quick question, I'm running a task that's raising an event which some other object is subscribing to. Is there a way to cancel that object's event handler mid-execution? Attempted to do that using cancellation tokens,
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The idea here is I'm starting a new task, t, which raises an event, OnUpdate, which is caught and handled by an external object. I want the task to cancel if it's taking more than 8 seconds to handle the update which was the idea behind the cancellation token usage. However, even if I call cts.Cancel(), the external event handler still runs to completion. Is there anything I can do?
Edit - for clarity as a commenter pointed out, I'm stuck with using Action here as this is a public-facing API I'm editing. I could potentially move to spawning new Threads instead of tasks and then calling Thread.Abort() but that seems rather brutish; I would prefer a much nicer solution.

A: Unfortunately, a CancellationToken can only do it's job when it is actually observed.  On the plus side, this allows you to ensure your application can clean up it's state before returning early from a task.  However, it requires the code in the task to actively interact with the CancellationToken.
In the case where you want to terminate an event handler that's completely out of your control, you don't have enough granularity to force the check after a period of time.
Important: If you are using Task Asynchronous Protocol (TAP), never call Task.Wait().  That is a blocking call that prevents your application from doing anything.  You might as well just call the handler directly and avoid the headache.  If you didn't care how long the callback takes and you simply want to do something after it's done, then the proper technique is to use async/await.  In that case the solution would change to something like this:
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Grey County ist ein County im Südwesten der kanadischen Provinz Ontario. Der County Seat ist Owen Sound. Die Einwohnerzahl beträgt 93.830 (Stand: 2016), die Fläche 4.513,50 km², was einer Bevölkerungsdichte von 20,8 Einwohnern je km² entspricht. Benannt ist das County nach dem 2. Earl Grey. Es liegt am Südende der Georgian Bay des Huronsees.

Mit dem Craigleith Provincial Park liegt einer der aktuellen Provincial Parks in Ontario im Bezirk. Im Norden des Bezirks liegt an der Küste ein großes Übungsgelände der kanadischen Armee, das "4th Canadian Division Training Centre Meaford" (ehemals "Land Force Central Area Training Centre Meaford").

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