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I was at my grandparents’ house the other day, and found out some more information on my great-great-grandfather, Sidney Forward Hadsell: SIDNEY F. HADSELL. A well-known educator and business man of Fresno county, Sidney F. Hadsell is a worthy representative, born in Calhoun county, Mich. July 13, 1843, a son of Martin and Susan (Forward) Hadsell. The former, a native of Connecticut, went to New York, thence to Ohio, and finally, in 1837, located in Michigan near Battle Creek, where…

If I wasn’t already settled in Oakland, I might consider this. RADIO, TELEVISION STRINGER POSITION VOICE OF AMERICA – DAKAR, SENEGAL Looking for Television/Radio reporter to become stringer based in Dakar, Senegal for Voice of America, West and Central Africa bureau. Great experience for recent graduates with interest in international reporting. Recent stringers have gone on to work for Bloomberg, United Nations news services, al-Jazeera English, DPA German news service, German television, CNN, NPR … New position is opening up…

JournalismJobs: JournalismJobs.com: How does a weekly news magazine stay relevant in this up-to-the-minute news world? Karen Breslau [San Francisco bureau chief, Newsweek]: Just because people are pelted with information from morning until night, they haven’t lost the basic human hunger for a good story. In that sense, a good newsmagazine story is the un-blog: it’s richly reported, it’s coherent, it puts things into context, it gives you ideas to think about for more than 3 seconds and for God’s sake,…

Ron Thompson’s Feet, Caffè Trieste, Berkeley Photo by Alan Wiig

I will be performing in the pit orchestra for a middle school production of “The Music Man” this week in San Leandro! Come see a really fun and great show! May 3, 5-6 at 7:30 pm Bancroft Middle School Gym 1150 Bancroft Ave, San Leandro, 94577 General Admission: $8.00, Students/Seniors: $7.00

MuniWireless: Santa Monica, California has issued a request for proposals (RFP) seeking a vendor to deploy, operate and maintain a ubiquitous wireless mesh broadband network in the city. Santa Monica covers an area of 8.3 square miles and has 87,000 residents; it lies on the coast within greater Los Angeles. Responses to the RFP are due back to the city by 5:00 PM, Friday, June 30, 2006 (see the RFP for details). . . . The vendor will deliver Internet…

Paul Boutin is at it again, this time with his sights on MySpace (it’s what the kids are into these days) and YouTube. Slate: But the focus on the collaborative nature of these sites has been nagging at me. Sites like Friendster and Blogger that promote sharing and friend-making have been around for years with nowhere near the mainstream success. I’ve got a different theory. YouTube and MySpace are runaway hits because they combine two attributes rarely found together in…

To add to my love of Lost, I just recently discovered that Daniel Dae Kim was in one episode of Star Trek : Voyager that I just watched (and three in Star Trek : Enterprise). On top of that, Terry O’Quinn played a really badass admiral in one episode of Star Trek : The Next Generation!

I’m going to Sasquatch, the Sunday show. Of these bands, what 10 tracks should I buy on iTunes? What I’ve already bought: Blue Scholars – Blue Scholars Pretty Girls Make Graves – “Speakers Push the Air” Pretty Girls Make Graves – “Ghosts in the Radio” We Are Scientists – “It’s A Hit” We Are Scientists – “Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt” Update: The DJ from Blue Scholars is Persian!

Although you wouldn’t know it given the tundra-like weather we’ve been having lately, it’s almost summertime. What does summer mean? That’s right, it means my favorite music festival (that I haven’t been to in several years, but still) : Paléo Festival Nyon. So if I was in Switzerland in late July this year, this is where I’d be: Who’s on tap this year? My favs: July 18: Ben Harper Pixies July 19: Depeche Mode The Dandy Warhols Ziggy Marley July…