I don’t want to seem goulish, but a lot of planes must of been lost in the Sierra’s during World War Two. Every other year there is another “iceman” found in the mountains. In some cases its a mystery that lasts years. But luckily they find some identification and or they can [...]
Saturday was spent enjoying the local Town & Country Fair with friends. And the evening enjoying one of the highlights of the Fair;,The Dutch Holland Demolition Derby. Spread across 2 days, I only caught the first day, but it was a good 5 total heats. They had 3 main heats, a Consolation [...]
A MAKE Magazine contributor Colin Berry did a radio piece last week about how a school in Santa Rosa, CA is training dogs to identify vineyard insect pests by scenting their sex pheremones.
A very different kind of environmental damage is found each year in California Wine Country. The damage doesn’t come [...]
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Every year they throw the Skip Long Memorial Car Show in memory of the 25 year old car builder who had died. And each year it seems it gets beigger, and has better cars. This car show has everything from hot rod cars from the 30’s to classic restored cars from the 50’s, [...]
OK… so this weekend I read about how South Africa is one of China’s biggest sources for copper… but has no copper mines. Basically thieves steal copper lines and sell it to recyclers. Enough so that they have become a major source. Then last night my wife gets a call to let [...]
I’m a ALICE 97.3 fan. I won’t say a huge one, since I’m sure they have fans that go to all their functions and parties they throw. But i do listen to it as my primary radio station. On the morning show they have a guy by the name of Hooman, who [...]
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A wine war is pitting consumers - who want the option to purchase wines directly from wineries and retailers - against the wine wholesaler cartel, who are threatening consumers and winemakers with jail time if they bypass the middlemen.
Free the Grapes! is a national, grassroots coalition of consumers, wineries and retailers [...]
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Napa resident Eric Copple pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to two counts of first degree murder in the Nov. 1, 2004, slayings of Adriane Insogna and Leslie Ann Mazzara in a west Napa home.
Copple, 27, agreed to a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole at a Napa County Superior Court hearing, [...]
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UPDATE: So far, Boing Boing readers have promised to close BofA accounts totaling over $75,000 because of the way Bank of America treated a fraud victim like a criminal. Details below. In August Matthew Shinnick sold a pair of bikes on Craig’s list for $600. After shipping the bikes, he received a check for $2000, [...]
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It’s been more than two years since two Napa women were stabbed to death in the upstairs bedrooms of a west Napa home, and the court case against accused murderer Eric Copple is beginning to heat up.
The brutal stabbings of Adriane Insogna and Leslie Mazzara, both 26, in the early morning hours of Nov. 1, [...]
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