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The latest whirlwind controversy over at Hewlett-Packard sounds like spy wars.
It involves an investigation into who was leaking information to the press that ultimately resulted in the 2005 ousting of former CEO Carly Fiorina. Hewlett-Packard is based in Palo Alto.
Investigators, in a...
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In remeberance 9-11-01:
I am living a life on a path of least resistance.
I have no real committments outside of the home.
Sure, I go to work, help with the kid's activities, go to church, carve out family time and even work on my home from time to time.
But, I...
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HI,
guys i'm a little bored so email when you can,
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I am moving soon and need to get rid of some stuff, namely a couch and matching chair. I know back in the day you used to be able to get the Salvation Army to come out and pick it up (that is absolutely a must for me.)
Anyone know if they still do that? Any other charities around besides the...
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To go along with an L.A. Times story on Asian delicacies and the potential headaches they are causing food inspectors, I wrote a local take on it that ran Saturday in Eye Street.
For some more background on this issue, see my previous blog, "Bad food or Asian delicacy," from Sept. 5....
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The cadets spent their first day at the range of Friday. I'll be writing a lot about that in the next story, still at least a couple of weeks away. In the meantime, here are a few pictures I shot. A couple of things to note. One, you can really see the difference between my skill level and our...
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“Picnic” opened Friday night.
Saturday was (burn the witch) at the Empty Space in the afternoon-evening and then another round of “Picnic” at BCT.
Sunday was celebration of my daughter’s birthday – a bit late, but filled with excitement at...
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Someone broke into a neighbor's car the other night. Another neighbor had previously asked the landlord to install lights around the parking areas, and this incident expedited the process.
A few burglary prevention tips from the City of Pacific Grove:
Make your home look...
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“Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so.” On this date five years ago my daughter Karen was the only one who called me. The horrific Attack on America left us all numb at first, the horrifying scenes unfolding on our TV screens across America and throughout the world too...
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Reader: I understand the need to present news stories that might be of interest to your readers but I don't understand the need to print a picture of nude teenagers on the front page of your newspaper. Even the picture on the inside page was in poor taste....
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Twice in the past week I have been in a conversation where the topic of the lack of fancy restaurants in Bakersfield has come up. Not that I am rich and go out to fancy restaurants a lot. But sometimes I just want to get dressed up and go somewhere really expensive and splurge for a night.
But...
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Reporter Stephanie Armour of USA Today wrote a story about how sleep-deprived people get groggy at work.
The story says only about 26 percent of people get eight or more hours a night of sleep, down from 38 percent in 2001, according to the National Sleep Foundation.
Some companies...
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Pamela Yip of the Dallas Morning News wrote a story about how the 401 (k) is transforming.
It says that the average 401 (k) balance is $62,500.
There is some talk about making 401 (k)s more automatic and universal, and assuring company matches.
But my question is — does anyone...
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A Poem for James Kenneth Samuel,
victim of 9/11
by Bruce L. Thiessen
We lost you
One September morn
I don't know
much about your life
I heard New Jersey cried that morn
Hoboken lost a shining light
now we remember you this day
we're sad you had to go away
James...
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The events and ramifications of 9/11 are so widespread and encompassing that all of our lives have felt its impact.
It's there every time we travel. It's there on every news report about the deaths in New York, Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania.
And we see the survivors -- adults and...
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On 9/10 as I was sitting out in my backyard with my guitar, I reflected on the events of 9/11 as I experienced them in the city of Sacramento, where I lived on that date. Then I wondered how somebody else with a completely different life, living in a completely different part of the world...
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warned our mom to watch not even one frame... saw it this summer at a picture theatre in texas... thought maybe i imagined it to be so spectacular because i went alone & movies always digest better when viewed solo, so got an australian copy off ebay and yes, it was just as...
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It has once again come to my attention that we have no joke forum. Soooo here it is. Feel free to add any you'd like but bear in mind that if they'e considered too raunchy (by me), or too tasteless, they will be deleted.
Here's my first..I just got this in email...
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Driving cross country last week I heard a radio interview on National Public Radio. All I remember is the guy's last name is London and he lives in Austin Texas. He wrote what I have long considered to be the basis on how to get the binny bunny killed.
London had...
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Going through my mother’s scrapbook containing so many things surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor where she was at the time, it seems only a short time ago to memory this catastrophic event took place. And mom’s scrapbook is a kind of time machine transporting me back to that time...
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A short ten years ago, during the Clinton presidency, distrust of government among the American right wing was reaching fever pitch. Near the mainstream end of the American right, radio talk hosts like G. Gordon Liddy advised listeners on how best to ward off federal agents. ...
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An angry Bill Clinton is demanding ABC “correct” or pull an upcoming docudrama on 9/11 that blames his administration for the terrorist attacks.
An angry Bill Clinton is demanding that ABC “correct all errors” in its upcoming miniseries “The Path to 9/11“ or...
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This is the way Wear Drive looked in the 50's. We played all around the palm trees and in the summer when it was blistering hot, all the barefoot kids ran from one to the next to keep from burning our feet.
For those not familiar with it, it's the narrow paved road between Fruitvale...
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I posted this on the predictions thread, but I wanted to break it out for those of you who are interested. Was anyone else at the game? How about BHS and Stockdale?
In speaking with Coach Provensal after the game, he said that he wasn't worried about running between the tackles. His plan...
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I think this section would benefit from an online chat session feature. That way people could converse in real-time instead of having to post responses on blog boards.
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I have been trying to go see the movie Clerks II; however, as of yet, I have not found any place in BKFD that is showing it. Is there a restriction on this movie? I would like to know if anyone has seen it in BKFD, and where if possible.
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Testify
Current mood: weird
Category: Art and Photography
I saw "Fuddy Meers" last night at The Empty Space, and also had a chance to view some of the "Burn The Witch" art...and stuck around to watch Blacklist too. I must say...
Wow. Fuddy Meers is...
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Ah, gentle reader let’s hear a resounding round of applause for “National Brotherhood Week” and a national “Make Fun of the Handicapped” observance. Of course everyone hates everyone else and “everyone hates the Jews.” Before he threw in the towel and...
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A few weeks after 9/11, I received a letter from John, a student of a Psychology of Music class I was teaching at the time, who had been absent for a couple of classes. He warned me ahead of time, that he could be deployed at anytime. He wrote me from Afghanistan, where US and allied forces...
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On 9/11, a collosal ground swell of patriotism emerged from ground zero. For most of us, our sense of patriotism has diminished to some degree, only because of the passage of time has made the events of that horrific day seem decidedly more distant from our individual and collective psyches. In...
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The Filthies need you to be in their video!
Noveltown and Meatydish Productions (Meathead from KRAB Radio) will be at Beach Park today (Saturday morning) at 10am to film a portion of the Filthies Condorstown video. This video will be shown on the jumbotron at the Rabobank Arena during the...
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Was Jesse Jackson justified in breaking with liberals by remonstrantly standing in opposition to the decision to snuff out the life of Teri Shiavo? Researchers warn against generalizing recent findings to individual cases such as the Teri Schiavo case. But will new findings (involving brain...
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Just thought I would share a series of drawings I have been working on during my lunch breaks and in the evenings once the days are over. Each pencil drawing measures 4.25"x6.25" and are being framed three to a frame. Please let me know what you think of these and what would you like to...
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The Crocodile Hunter:
words and music by Dr. Bruce L. Thiessen, aka Dr. BLT c 2006
Here come the animals
two by two
the crocodile rocks
and the rattle snake rattles a tune/like a modern-day Noah
you were their good friend
and we're saddened to learn
'bout the way that your...
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PUBLISHED 9-11-2006
Sept. 11 has etched the memories of Americans in the same manner as the attack on Pearl Harbor did an earlier generation. But there is a difference this time. It is the degree of domestic politicization and divisiveness stemming from the war on terror.
Earlier traumatic...
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Hemp: a cover for legalizing pot.
Separating hemp reality from hemp rhetoric is like separating fleas from dogs: It's hard to do, and it's temporary. When one hemp fact is established, pro-hemp advocates rush in with another of their own facts. Should we really turn for facts to former CIA...
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PUBLISHED 9-10-2006
Two down and more to go. How many people must die before Bakersfield city officials do what is right, instead of just what is legally required?
City officials must make the new Park at River Walk on Stockdale Highway safer for all of us to use — even safer...
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PUBLISHED 9-10-2006
Drowning is the leading cause of children’s deaths in California and throughout the nation.
While most of the drownings occur in backyard pools, local waterways are plagued by these tragedies. Two deaths occurred recently in a lake in Bakersfield’s new...
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I am telling you I Love This Town!
We've only been in Bakersfield for 1 year but I am really feeling at home here. I have lived in Seattle Washington for most of my life.
Had a job transfer in 1983 to San Francisco and lived near Palo Alto and began to see that California had a lot more to...
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What are your favorite bars, clubs, hang outs in Bakersfield? I have lived here about 2 years now and have gone to some nightlife places in Bakersfield. I am not a big party person but like to go out sometimes! I thought this might be fun and helpful to people who are looking for places to go!...
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Im looking for a person I used to hang with.
I like to get emails wolfdaycare@yahoo.com
IF YOU KNOW MIKE GIULIETTI, TELL HIM HIS LITTLE GIRL LOVES HIM AND MISSES HIM. He means more to me than I can tell him...
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One of the more melancholy tasks I had to undertake here of late was making sure the Pearl Harbor material my mother had given into my keeping not long before she passed away was placed in the proper hands in order to assure it being available to serious students for historical study. Having been...
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JerSooz says ... this is a reminder that for 24 Hours straight Dr Mani will be running the Heart Kids Blogathon to raise Money for much needed Surgery for Kids with Heart Defects
We are asking as Dr Mani has ... that You Help contribute and if You can Please! Please! Please! Tell Others who...
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Most of us don't suffer from a full-blown clinical case of Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder). But it is rare for an individual growing up in this millennium to avoid the occasional mild identity crisis, marked by a sense that one's sense of self is...
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Get ready ...
Arvin (1-1) at Garces (2-0)
Garces is off to a fast start ... almost as
fast as its skill players. How will Arvin rebound after a loss to Foothill?
Garces, 35-10
Bakersfield (0-1) at Stockdale (0-1)
This should be a...
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Well, it's no secret that the DVD, United 93 is out, but perhaps the best-kept secret is the song---the unofficial theme song for the movie. It gets better. It's by a local, unofficial guy---the humble guy who happened to stumble over an invention called Blog n Roll. What's most exciting about...
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This is something I have struggled with my entire life.
When I was a kid, I was active. Up until age 13 or so, the thought of how much I weighed or what I look liked NEVER entered my mind. I was perfectly happy with myself and the world.
Then I grew up. And out. I was on a diet by sixth...
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re announcement that underground paper the blackboard will cease publishing - from posting to nick belardes on nlbelardes.com (i think):
the blackboard is an infamous name & very bakersfieldian. the name bears historical weight & the badge of the underdog. the paper was named...
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I still need posters from the Gaslight and Rat...but here's all the rest. If I'm missing any others, email or IM me.
Want to go see one? Theatre Calendar.
THIS WEEK IN BAKERSFIELD THEATER:
Week ending September 10, 2006
OPENING:...
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PUBLISHED 09-08-06
The shroud of secrecy covering police misconduct is nearly total following a ruling by the state Supreme Court.
The court ruled Aug. 31 that the public has no right to information regarding police officer discipline during administrative appeals, including those...
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