HAPPY FRIDAY, NEIGHBORS!!!

July 21, 2023

Everybody was a photog this week with the gorgeous sunsets. Thank you for sharing this shot from your porch, Trena. A watercolor.

I LOVE HUMANS WITH NON-HUMANS...WHO ARE PEOPLE TOO. Thank you, Catherine, for sharing.

FOR THE CALENDAR. COME JOIN THE CELEBRATION

TODAY'S QUIZ

I ALWAYS WONDERED WHY IN SCHOOL WE HAD TO MEMORIZE THE DATES. NOW I KNOW. IT'S SO I CAN ANSWER TRIVIA QUESTIONS.

Famous historical dates

On the 79th anniversary of D-Day, today’s trivia is all about important historical dates. We’ll give you a date, and you have to figure out what major event happened on that day.

1. March 15, 44 BCE
2. June 15, 1215
3. October 31, 1517
4. December 16, 1773
5. April 15, 1912
6. August 28, 1963
7. February 24, 2022

ANSWER SOMEWHERE NEAR THE BOTTOM OF THIS NEWSLETTER.

What heat?! It's cold n this hospital.

OK, GETTING ON MY SOAPBOX. When we ban books we are banning the development of freedom, right vs wrong, empathy and a conscience.

I love seeing this father and son. Yoshi's son loves working with his dad. They are building a showcase garden. Yoshi is a great parent. Once it is done we will have an open house to show off his talent for landscaping design. He and I think alike. We think "weeds" have a purpose if managed.

if you would like Yoshi to to do some unique landscaping contact him:

707-245-4951 (probably best to text)

lakeport-gardenscape@kodeland.com

THEY SAID WHAT?!

THESE ARE PRICELESS. I do not know who compiled this list.

How Children perceive their grandparents.

1. I was in the bathroom, putting on my makeup, under the watchful eyes of my young granddaughter, as I'd done many times before. After I applied my lipstick and started to leave, the little one said, "But Grandma, you forgot to kiss the toilet paper good-bye!" I will probably never put lipstick on again without thinking about kissing the toilet paper good-bye....

2. My young grandson called the other day to wish me Happy Birthday. He asked me how old I was, and I told him, 68. My grandson was quiet for a moment, and then he asked, "Did you start at 1?"

3. After putting her grandchildren to bed, a grandmother changed into old slacks and a droopy blouse and proceeded to wash her hair. As she heard the children getting more and more rambunctious, her patience grew thin. Finally, she threw a towel around her head and stormed into their room, putting them back to bed with stern warnings. As she left the room, she heard the three-year-old say with a trembling voice, "Who was THAT?"

4. A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like. "We used to skate outside on a pond. I had a swing made from a tire; it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the woods." The little girl was wide-eyed, taking this all in. At last she said, "I sure wish I'd gotten to know you sooner!"

5. My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, "Grandma, do you know how you and God are alike?" I mentally polished my halo and I said, "No, how are we alike?'' "You're both old," he replied.

6. A little girl was diligently pounding away on her grandfather's word processor. She told him she was writing a story.

"What's it about?" he asked.

"I don't know," she replied. "I can't read."

7. I didn't know if my granddaughter had learned her colors yet, so I decided to test her. I would point out something and ask what color it was. She would tell me and was always correct. It was fun for me, so I continued. At last, she headed for the door, saying, "Grandma, I really think you should try to figure out some of these colors yourself!"

8. When my grandson Billy and I entered our vacation cabin, we kept the lights off until we were inside to keep from attracting pesky insects. Still, a few fireflies followed us in. Noticing them before I did, Billy whispered, "It's no use Grandpa. Now the mosquitoes are coming after us with flashlights."

9. When my grandson asked me how old I was, I teasingly replied, "I'm not sure." "Look in your underwear, Grandpa," he advised "Mine says I'm 4 to 6." (WOW! I really like this one -- it says I'm only '38'!)

10. A second grader came home from school and said to her grandmother, "Grandma, guess what? We learned how to make babies today." The grandmother, more than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool. "That's interesting." she said. "How do you make babies?" "It's simple," replied the girl. "You just change 'y' to 'i' and add 'es'."

11. Children's Logic: "Give me a sentence about a public servant," said a teacher. The small boy wrote: "The fireman came down the ladder pregnant." The teacher took the lad aside to correct him. "Don't you know what pregnant means?" she asked. "Sure," said the young boy confidently. 'It means carrying a child."

12. A grandfather was delivering his grandchildren to their home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog. The children started discussing the dog's duties.

"They use him to keep crowds back," said one child.

"No," said another. "He's just for good luck."

A third child brought the argument to a close. “They use the dogs," she said firmly, "to find the fire hydrants."

13. A 6-year-old was asked where his grandma lived. "Oh," he said, "she lives at the airport, and whenever we want her, we just go get her. Then, when we're done having her visit, we take her back to the airport."

14. Grandpa is the smartest man on earth! He teaches me good things, but I don't get to see him enough to get as smart as him!

15. My Grandparents are funny, when they bend over, you hear gas leaks and they blame their dog.

SEND THIS TO OTHER GRANDPARENTS, ALMOST GRANDPARENTS, OR HECK, SEND IT TO EVERYONE. IF THEY'RE NOT ALREADY GRANDPARENTS, MAYBE SOMEDAY THEY'LL GET LUCKY AND BECOME ONE! IT MIGHT JUST MAKE THEIR DAY!

ALMOST THERE!

"THE HAPPY FRIDAY, NEIGHBORS COLLECTION OF RECIPES, ANECDOTES & STUFF"

I have received 36 recipes from neighbors from all over! I need more dinner recipes. Some very tasty food & wonderful history. I'm shooting for a minimum of 52 recipes.

I LOVE THE FOOD RELATED POEMS I HAVE RECEIVED FOR THE COOKBOOK. PERFECT.

I would like to ask all of you HFN subscribers to send me a family recipe (ingredients & prep instructions) with a background story, and a picture. Categories include:

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Entrees

Desserts

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FROM HR BREW

RECRUITMENT

Better JDs for Gen Z

A job description is a bit like a dating profile. As a recruiter, you’re putting your best foot forward, hoping to get some good bites from a very large pool.

Ask yourself, however: Would you swipe right on your job description?

Younger generations have evolving preferences for what they’re looking for in a job, making this a good time to consider rewriting job descriptions in order to attract Gen Z and adapt to the post-pandemic labor market.

“It never hurts to jazz up your job description a little bit, make it fun,” said Sam Chen, founder and CEO of Fetti, a software that matches job applicants with employers based on personal fit. “People want to know that they’re working at someplace enjoyable. And this could be just putting in an extra five minutes of effort to jazz up the tone a little bit.”

What do you want? Younger generations have made their concerns and preferences for the workforce clear. Many align with what workers want overall: transparent, flexible organizations that have a commitment to social good and offer strong mentorship, development, and career-path opportunities.

“[Gen Z] really want[s] to be at a company where they can contribute,” Chen said. “Highlighting what you can give the candidate beyond salary or benefits, highlighting things like growth opportunity, mentorship opportunities, or even just giving them a realistic preview of what the day-to-day of that job will look like” are all good ideas, he said.

Prioritize mission and values. Companies looking to better attract Gen Z should consider leading with their values, Chen explained.

Visualized: The Daily Routines of Famous Creatives

What is the best daily routine to unlock creativity, or is there such a thing?

Many modern suggestions for optimizing creativity—like scheduling time for “deep work,” and building small, sustainable “atomic habits”—can be traced back to famous creatives in many different eras. And though they all found success, they employed different methods as well.

In this unique visualization, RJ Andrews from InfoWeTrust has charted how notable creatives in different fields spent their days. He picked 16 of the 161 “inspired minds” covered by Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, a book by writer and editor Mason Currey published in 2013. 

How Much “Creativity Time” in Famous Daily Routines?

Dividing the day into 24 hours, Andrews denoted certain categories for daily activities like working creatively, sleeping, and other miscellaneous endeavors (meals, leisure, exercise, and social time). 

For the creatives with a separate day job—Immanuel Kant and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—their ordinary labor is also counted in miscellaneous activities. 

Below is a breakdown of the daily routine of all 16 people featured above:

The average and median amount of time spent on creative work for these individuals was just over 8 hours a day. At the extremes were two French novelists, Honoré de Balzac with 13.5 hours daily spent on creative work, and Victor Hugo with only 2 hours. 

Interestingly, the allocation of creative work time was different in almost every daily routine. Maya Angelou’s routine resembles the modern work day, with the bulk of her writing between 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Others like Kant and Mozart had creativity blocks when time allowed, such as before and after their teaching jobs. 

Then there are outliers like Honoré de Balzac and Sigmund Freud, who worked as much as they could. Balzac wrote from 1:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. with just an hour and a half nap break in between, fueled by up to 50 cups of coffee. Freud split up his creative work into three different blocks: analyzing patients in the morning, consulting in the afternoon, and reading and writing journals into the late evening.

But somewhere in their days, most of these brilliant minds made sure to get a good rest, with an average of 7.25 hours of sleep across the board.

Schedule Yourself to Create Success

Creativity may ebb and flow, but these great minds had one clear thing in common: scheduling time for creative work.

The perfect daily routine was usually what fit in with their lifestyle (and their bodies), not based on an arbitrary amount of work. For example, night owls with later chronotypes worked late, while socialites and politicians found time outside of their commitments.

They also found time to move and enjoy life. Half of the people in the dataset specified exercise in their accounts—either leisurely strolls or fast walks. Many also scheduled social time with partners, friends, or children, often paired with a meal. 

Perhaps the greatest insight, however, is that the day-to-day routine doesn’t have to look extraordinary to be able to create extraordinary work.

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The best time to go solar is always NOW! Whether we're discussing the federal ITC, state incentives, utility rebates, or SRECs, the people who go solar early save the most - and earn the most - from going solar. When it comes to solar, it never pays to wait if incentives are available, and those who wait the longest miss out on the most financial benefits. Interested in solar, battery, car charger package? Email, call or text me.

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ONE OF MY FAVORITE AND EASY TO MAKE COMFORT FOODS.

CACIO E PEPE

Tom Schierlitz

Literally “cheese and pepper,” this minimalist cacio e pepe recipe is like a stripped-down mac and cheese.

Ingredients

2 servings

• Kosher salt
• 6 oz. pasta (such as egg tagliolini, bucatini, or spaghetti) MOM LIKES LINGUINI, BUCATINI OR FETTECINI 
• 3 Tbsp. unsalted butter, cubed, divided
• 1 tsp. freshly cracked black pepper MOM SAYS IT HAS TO BE FRESHLY GROUND
• ¾ cup finely grated Grana Padano or Parmesan
• 3/4 cup finely grated Pecorino (WE JUST USUALLY USE PARMESAN TO KEEP IT EVEN MORE SIMPLE.)

Preparation

Step 1

Bring 3 quarts water to a boil in a 5-qt. pot. Season with salt; add pasta and cook, stirring occasionally, until about 2 minutes before tender. Drain, reserving ¾ cup pasta cooking water.

Step 2

Meanwhile, melt 2 Tbsp. butter in a Dutch oven or other large pot or skillet over medium heat. Add pepper and cook, swirling pan, until toasted, about 1 minute. (WE ADD ADDITIONAL FRESH PEPPER GRINDER AFTER PASTA IS COOKED AND READY TO BE SERVED.)

Step 3

Add ½ cup reserved pasta water to skillet and bring to a simmer. Add pasta and remaining butter. Reduce heat to low and add Grana Padano, stirring and tossing with tongs until melted. Remove pan from heat; add Pecorino, stirring and tossing until cheese melts, sauce coats the pasta, and pasta is al dente. (Add more pasta water if sauce seems dry.) Transfer pasta to warm bowls and serve. IMPORTANT NOT TO OVERCOOK THE PASTA. NEEDS TO BE AL DENTE. (in my opinion all pasta should be Al dente…don’t get me started.)

This recipe looks more complicated than it is...basically it is:

• Cook pasta in salted water to Al dente 
• Cheese butter and cheese etc toss cooked

parts in 

• And Finish with fresh pepper 

SF fights a guerilla war against robotaxis

Did you know you can disable a Waymo or Cruise robotaxi by placing an orange traffic cone on its hood?

A group of activists in San Francisco found out you can, and they’re using the tactic to protest driverless taxis taking over their city’s streets. The group, which calls itself Safe Street Rebel, has been putting traffic cones on robotaxis’ hoods to stop them from operating and has been giving instructions on social media to encourage others to make their own immobile orange unicorns.

The anti-robotaxi vigilantism comes ahead of a major hearing this week that could allow Cruise and Waymo, two autonomous vehicle companies with robotaxi services in SF, to expand their operations in the city to a level comparable to Uber’s and Lyft’s.

Why the pushback?

As regulations on Waymo and Cruise have slowly lifted, they’ve become a “ubiquitous presence” in San Francisco, the Washington Post reports. But without a human at the wheel, these cars have gotten into situations that could be set to the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme music—for example, a swarm of them stopped moving at an intersection last summer, blocking traffic for hours.

But frustrated people in San Francisco say they didn’t sign up to be guinea pigs in Big Tech’s experiments. And safety leaders are sounding off: The city’s fire chief, Jeanine Nicholson, told MarketWatch that malfunctioning robotaxis have blocked first responders from getting where they need to go, and in the case of a growing fire, every second matters. “They are not ready for prime time,” Nicholson said of the autonomous vehicles.

The coneheads have been called “anti-progress”

Robotaxi companies and proponents of driverless cars say these hiccups are just the growing pains of a complex technology that will ultimately save many lives. Human drivers are incredibly lethal, after all, and a robot never needs to check its texts while driving. Accessibility advocates, economic development organizations, and elected officials are in Waymo’s and Cruise’s corner, so the robotaxi expansion is expected to pass at the hearing later this week.

Looking ahead…proving that driverless cars can successfully navigate SF’s hilly and winding roads would be a big step for Waymo and Cruise as they aim to bring robotaxis to other US cities.

Interesting true story. I think their is a message here. Never assume until you have exhausted 2nd, 3rd opinions.

"I never spoke a word until I was nine years old. I only clucked and motioned for what I wanted. Lots of people thought I was an idiot because I could not talk. I may have looked like one, for I was a little old country boy that never cut my hair in those days only about twice a year, and I wore a big checked cotton shirt and old jeans pants made by my mother and old yarn socks, and 70-cent stogie shoes with brass toes. This was my winter suit and my summer suit was only a big yellow factory shirt and no hat or shoes.

At the age of ten I was taken by my mother and uncle, Gid Hogg, to Whitesburg, Ky., the county seat of Letcher County, a distance of about eighteen miles. We rode an old mare named "Kate," without any saddle, and when I was taken off I could not walk I was so stiff, and that made everybody think I was an idiot sure enough. So when Judge H. C. Lilley opened court on Monday, February 12, they taken me before the judge. The judge ordered old Black Shade Combs, then the sheriff, to summons twelve jurors and two doctors. One doctor thought I had been born an idiot, and Dr. S. S. Swaingo, of Jackson, held out that I was all right of mind, and so the case was put off until 10 a. m. Tuesday. Then Dr. Swaingo got old Dr. McCray and gave me a thorough examination. The doctors found by examining my neck,

where the small tits in one's neck are, that the tit in my neck had grown together. After the doctors cut the tit loose in my neck I began to talk and to have a good joke. The doctors took me to a one-horse barber shop and had my hair cut and fixed me up and presented me on Tuesday morning to Judge Lilley, and he was surprised beyond reason that I was Fess. So that was Fess's first miracle. Later on they have all been worked out to the present.

When my mother took me back home everybody was surprised and people came miles and miles to see the boy that was so much talked about and to see the boy that had been made to speak after ten years of worthless tongue.

Ford to reduce price of electric F-150 Lightning models by approximately $6K to $10K; company sold 4,466 models in Q2 (More)

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ANSWER

1. Julius Caesar was assassinated.
2. The Magna Carta was issued.
3. This is allegedly the date that Martin Luther posted his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, sparking the Protestant Reformation.
4. The Boston Tea Party took place.
5. The Titantic sank.
6. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington.
7. Russia launched its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

This pic keeps popping up. Back in my TV news days. I have some funny stories from those days.

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FOR BEER GROUP GOGGLES ONLY

HERE YOU GO, GENTS. YOU CAN HAVE YOUR SALMON AND DRINK IT TOO. ALWAYS HAVE A BEER WITH YOU WHILE FISHING. THEY APPARENTLY LIKE BEER.

"Of all the traits that make salmon extraordinary migrants—their leaping prowess, their tolerance of both fresh and salt water, their attunement to the Earth’s magnetic fields—the most impressive might be their sense of smell. Guided by the odors they imprint on in their youth, most adult salmon famously return to spawn in the stream where they were born. No one knows precisely what scents young salmon memorize, but it’s probably some combination of mineral and biological signals, such as distinctive metals and the smell of their own kin.

Several years from now, however, if scientists at the Oregon Hatchery Research Center have their way, some chinook salmon will be chasing a very different scent: the rich, beery bouquet of brewer’s yeast. The alluring aroma of ale is a bid to solve a sticky conservation conundrum: how do you get hatchery-reared salmon to come home?

Though the vast majority of salmon return to their birthplace to spawn, they sometimes slip up. A small portion naturally stray into other streams. “From an evolutionary standpoint,” says Andy Dittman, a Seattle, Washington–based biologist at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, “it’s an important alternative strategy” that helps populations survive disaster and expand their range.

After Washington’s Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, for example, steelhead trout, a close salmon relative, ditched the ash-choked Toutle River and bred in nearby watersheds. And as climate change shrinks Alaska glaciers, salmon have begun to trickle into newly exposed streams and lakes.

But hatchery-raised salmon take straying to an extreme. Many hatchery fish are released in unfamiliar streams or turned loose during developmental stages when they don’t readily imprint. As adults, these fish often cruise past their home hatcheries and mate with wild-born fish, distorting wild gene pools that have been finely tuned by thousands of years of natural selection. On the Elk River, this problem was historically acute. Some years, recalls Dittman, more than half of breeding fish were hatchery-born salmon that wandered into wild spawning grounds.

In 2016, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife tasked the state’s hatchery research center with solving the problem. Could scientists get juvenile hatchery-reared fish to imprint on a scent of their own choosing, one that would lure them home years later?

Finding the perfect scent fell largely to researcher Maryam Kamran. Much as Pavlov trained his dog to slobber at a sound, Kamran dropped various smelly compounds into tanks full of pinkie-length salmon fry, then added food pellets to get the fish to associate the odors with their meals. If she could then add only the odor to the water and watch the fish still dart with excitement, she knew they could cue into that scent.

Kamran tested a vast—and occasionally weird—array of aromas, among them extract of shrimp, tincture of watercress, skin of steelhead, and bile of minnow. She mixed and matched various proteins and hormones and pheromones. You’re trying things that will give the fish information, Kamran says. “Is there a predator? Is there a mate? Is there food? What is the quality of habitat?”

In his Seattle laboratory, Dittman supplemented Kamran’s efforts. He placed electrodes on the salmon’s smell receptors, then spritzed them with Kamran’s chosen scents to see how their neurons responded. “Whatever odors we picked,” Kamran says, “we had to see if the salmon noses could actually detect it.”

After several years, a leading candidate emerged: a cocktail of amino acids purchased from a commercial laboratory. In 2021, managers at the Elk River Hatchery released the first chinook salmon fry imprinted on those acids into the wild, along with others reared on minnow bile and other compounds. Yet the amino acid mixture, for all its promise, proved prohibitively expensive to deploy in large quantities. So the quest for a cheap odor continued—which, this spring, led the scientists to beer.

The idea came from Seth White, director of the Oregon Hatchery Research Center. White, an amateur beer maker, knew that brewer’s yeast contains glutamate, an amino acid on which salmon are capable of imprinting. And he knew exactly where to find it in bulk.

One day this March, White visited Newport, Oregon, where the brewmaster of Rogue Ales turned a lever on two vats of beer and poured out pitchers of trub—the yellowish sediment of malt particles, coagulated proteins, and settled yeast that’s left behind by the brewing process. White packed plastic bags of trub in a cooler and drove the hour to the hatchery research center. “I felt like Ulysses on a quest,” White says.

His journey wasn’t in vain, as Dittman quickly found young salmon are highly sensitive to the trub. “It seems to be a good candidate,” White says. “It’s working out really well so far.”

Of course, it’s one thing to get juvenile fish to imprint on an odor, and quite another to get adult salmon to chase it back to their natal hatchery. This past winter, the first males imprinted upon the amino acid cocktail began to trickle back into the Elk River, although scientists haven’t yet analyzed the data. As for the beer, White says the Oregon Hatchery Research Center still has experiments to conduct before hatchery managers consider exposing their fish to trub. If it someday succeeds, though, he already has a name picked out for the brew: Olfaction Pale Ale.

This article first appeared in Hakai Magazine."