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California's crazy budget laws make it an extreme case, but that doesn't mean it's alone in financial duress - there are plenty of other states in serious hot water. (See how Americans are spending...
...take a seat, and you sweat everything out." She asks Todd how hot it usually gets. "220 [degrees Fahrenheit] is too hot," he says. "190's good." "Too hot for me," she says. "But these guys do it. So, everybody comes in after fishing and gets buckets of water, and the steam lets you sweat everything out, and it's all guys and it's all gals. That's the tradition...
...cannot predict what's going to happen. I don't know what doors will be open or closed by then. I was telling Todd today, I was saying, "Man, I wish we could predict the next fish run so that we know when to be out on the water." We can't predict the next fish run, much less what's going to happen...
...Will you be setting benchmarks? There are a lot of efforts to set benchmarks. I think we have to be careful in that, because if they are too brittle - if you say 60% of people must have running water or whatever - you run the risk of that not being a really accurate assessment of the situation. So it has to be a lot more subtle. But you do have to have a way of pulling these together and knowing when you are making progress...
...there, several things struck me. We had a vision of what it would be like, and we were planning to offer the villagers a road to the area. First thing that struck me was that there were electric lights - in the middle of nowhere. They had a little water-powered generator system. And then as we talked with them, there was a countergovernment feeling there, but it wasn't ideological. It certainly wasn't Islamic extremism. And we told them we were going to bring them a road. And they said, "Oh no, no roads. If you put a road...