Humboldt County Jail Reports: Daily Booking Sheet – May 11, 2026

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Humboldt County Correctional Facility [Photo by Mark McKenna]

The Humboldt County Correctional Facility’s Daily Booking Sheet. This is information from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department. This shows individuals booked into the jail or given supervised release. Any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:

BRIAN DEAN HARRISON

Arrested: May 10, 2026, 10 a.m. Arresting agency: Eureka Police Department, Officer Taylor Charges:

  • PC 647(f) — public intoxication (misdemeanor)

Released: May 10, 2026, 2:32 p.m., per PC 849(B)(2) (release without further charges)


SHANTELLE MARIESHAY DINSMORE

Arrested: May 10, 2026, 12:47 p.m. Arresting agency: Eureka Police Department, Officer Mihalov Charges:

Released: May 10, 2026, 2:27 p.m., own recognizance


CHARLES KEMPF

Arrested: May 10, 2026, 2:15 p.m.

Arresting agency: Arcata Police Department, Officer Ault Charges:

Released: May 10, 2026, 6:50 p.m., own recognizance


GARYGLEN THAI MENDOZA

Arrested: May 10, 2026, 2:09 p.m. Arresting agency: California Highway Patrol, Officer F. Mederos Charges:

  • VC 23152(a) — driving under the influence of alcohol (misdemeanor)

Released: May 10, 2026, 6:49 p.m., own recognizance


SUNSHINE WANG SOUA THAO

Arrested: May 10, 2026, 2:22 p.m. Arresting agency: California Highway Patrol, Officer F. Mederos Charges:

  • PC 647(f) — public intoxication (misdemeanor)

Released: May 10, 2026, 6:51 p.m., per PC 849(B)(2) (release without further charges)


HANNAH RACHEL MULLEN JONES

Arrested: May 10, 2026, 4:51 p.m. Arresting agency: Fortuna Police Department, Officer J. Gier Charges (fresh arrest):

  • VC 23152(A) — driving under the influence of alcohol (misdemeanor)
  • VC 23152(B) — driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.08% or higher (misdemeanor)
  • VC 14601.2(A) — driving on a license suspended for a DUI conviction (misdemeanor)
  • PC 148(A)(1) — resisting, obstructing, or delaying a peace officer (misdemeanor)

Additional charges (bench warrant):

  • VC 23152(A) — driving under the influence of alcohol (misdemeanor)
  • VC 23152(B) — driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.08% or higher (misdemeanor)
  • VC 23578 — DUI sentencing enhancement for blood alcohol content of 0.15% or higher, or refusal to submit to chemical testing (2 counts, special allegation)

Released: May 11, 2026, 3:10 a.m., own recognizance


DYLAN SKY BAKER

Arrested: May 10, 2026, 8:53 p.m. Arresting agency: Eureka Police Department, Officer Ben Altic Charges (bench warrant):

  • HS 11395 — treatment-mandated felony; possession of a hard drug (fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, or PCP) with two or more prior drug convictions (felony)

Custody/bail status: No release listed at time of booking sheet printing


TIMOTHY WILLIAM OBRIEN

Arrested: May 10, 2026, 9:52 p.m. Arresting agency: Blue Lake Tribal Police Department, Officer Mayr Charges (bench warrant):

  • HS 11364(a) — possession of drug paraphernalia (misdemeanor)
  • VC 23152(a) — driving under the influence of alcohol (misdemeanor)
  • VC 23152(b) — driving with a blood alcohol content of 0.08% or higher (misdemeanor)
  • VC 23578 — DUI sentencing enhancement for blood alcohol content of 0.15% or higher, or refusal to submit to chemical testing (special allegation)
  • VC 16028(a) — failure to provide proof of financial responsibility/insurance (infraction)
  • VC 14601.5(a) — driving on a license suspended for refusal to submit to chemical testing or for excess blood alcohol (misdemeanor)
  • VC 4000(a)(1) — driving an unregistered vehicle (infraction)

Custody/bail status: No release listed at time of booking sheet printing


KARYN LORENE BROWN

Arrested: May 10, 2026, 11:18 p.m. Arresting agency: Blue Lake Tribal Police Department, Officer Mayr Charges (bench warrant):

  • HS 11377(a) — possession of a controlled substance (misdemeanor)

Released: May 11, 2026, 1:36 a.m., own recognizance


NENA BREEANNE WILLPRECHT

Arrested: May 11, 2026, 1:40 a.m. Arresting agency: Arcata Police Department, Officer Shannon Charges (arrest warrant, case CRCR2501539):

  • PC 148(a)(1) — resisting, obstructing, or delaying a peace officer (misdemeanor)
  • HS 11377(a) — possession of a controlled substance (misdemeanor)

Charges (bench warrant, case CRCR2500337):

  • PC 148(a) — resisting, obstructing, or delaying a peace officer (misdemeanor)
  • PC 422 — criminal threats (misdemeanor)
  • PC 415(1) — disturbing the peace: willfully fighting or challenging another to fight in public (misdemeanor)

Released: May 11, 2026, 3:10 a.m., own recognizance


BARBARA JONES

Arrested: May 11, 2026, 3:14 a.m. Arresting agencies: Eureka Police Department, Officers Ziepseerder and Barrett Charges (fresh arrest, case 26-001695, Officer Ziepseerder):

  • PC 245(a)(4) — assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury (felony)
  • HS 11364(a) — possession of drug paraphernalia (misdemeanor)
  • HS 11377(a) — possession of a controlled substance (misdemeanor)

Charges (fresh arrest, case 26-001697, Officer Barrett):

  • PC 422(a) — criminal threats (felony)
  • PC 417(a)(1) — brandishing a deadly weapon (other than a firearm) in a rude, angry, or threatening manner (misdemeanor)

Custody/bail status: No release listed at time of booking sheet printing


Note: This list above was compiled by AI using the Booking Sheet from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. All information was current as of the time the HCSO booking sheet was completed. Note the time on the original booking sheet for that information. AI can make errors — if you notice one, please reach out to us at [email protected]. Additionally, if a charge is later dismissed, reduced, or you are formally cleared and can provide official documentation (such as a court order or a letter from the District Attorney’s Office), we will update the log to reflect that change in status. We do not remove accurate historical booking information but will note verified updates to the official record.

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Farce
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Farce
23 days ago

2026 Iran Massacres. It’s a very relevant read.. After checking this out you might find it hard to blame any American President (of either party) for blowing up the assholes running Iran and ordering the mass executions of 30,000 unarmed protestors. I thought we were all supposed to be against that kind of stuff- Remember guys?! …https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres

Farce
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Farce
23 days ago
Reply to  Farce

Lots of reasons to dislike Trump. Many things you can criticize. But can you really blame him for blowing up these brutal killers? I won’t…

Angie O Genesis
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23 days ago
Reply to  Farce

You are too sensitive.

melanopsin
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23 days ago

Nobody can be too sensitive imo…

Angie O Genesis
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23 days ago
Reply to  melanopsin

Personally, as an artist. I absolutely agree. Sensitivity is bread and butter in the arts. It affects line quality in drawings and ability of singers to draw the listener into the terrain of the song .
Sensitivity is something abusive people tend to point out. I’ve been finding great comfort in mirroring abusive behavior in an oblique way by using the generic awful things men say to women back to men.
I am prepared to point out men being irrational and when they’re over reacting.

melanopsin
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23 days ago

got it!

Bill Hogoboom
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23 days ago
Reply to  melanopsin

Oh sure you can. There are snowflakes who can barely make it through a day of modern brutal reality for all their sensitivity. The folks who weep during SPCA commercials.

Angie O Genesis
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23 days ago
Reply to  Bill Hogoboom

In the arms of an angel. . .

melanopsin
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23 days ago
Reply to  Bill Hogoboom

We’re not talking about the same sort of sensitivity.

Farce
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Farce
23 days ago

It’s true that I am. As a child my father always told me so. I’ve grown a skin but still I am quite sensitive. So I manage through dark/gallows humor, sarcasm and satire. What people do to each other in this world is incredibly brutal and evil. As a person in my lifetime hoping to make it better I’ve stood up against racism, apartheid, genocide in Bosnia, genocide in Rwanda, Central American policy under Reagan, Israeli apartheid policies, mistreatment of women and sexism in general and of course chopping down of old growth forests and environmental destruction…I don’t see any difference with what happened this January in Iran. The people who gave the orders for the mass executions were obliterated by the US bomb attack and that is a good thing in my perspective. Evil people who do such things should be stopped, not negotiated with or let go about their business. I used to think we all believed in that principle but I’m concerned we are losing our focus….

Angie O Genesis
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23 days ago
Reply to  Farce

You’re going to be singing with me at a protest real soon. Your heart is calling out to us. Join us. You’re not alone.

Allen
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Allen
23 days ago
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You took the highest estimate , that 30,000 is unverified not to justify it but 

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/1/31/appropriating-the-death-count-manufacturing-consent-for-an-attack-on-iran

These numbers have been verified
Gaza death toll: 38,000 women and girls killed in Israeli bombardment and land military operations.

https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/feature-story/2026/04/who-are-the-women-and-girls-behind-gaza-wars-horrific-casualty-toll

Farce
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Farce
23 days ago
Reply to  Allen

You never read my wikipedia link but that’s okay…I did not take the highest estimate- there are estimates that are higher.
It’s also terrible what’s happening in Gaza. But you threw that out as a red herring. Different situation. Citizens in Iran were simply protesting. Hamas invading and killing Israeli citizens at a festival is quite different! No- I’m not justifying the murders in Gaza just pointing out the differences that you avoided in your response to my original comment…

Allen
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Allen
23 days ago
Reply to  Farce

It is not different, the issue is the killing of innocents So why are we not bombing Israel

Tim
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Tim
23 days ago
Reply to  Farce

You can strongly dislike what was going on in Iran and also strongly dislike the ineptitude and repercussions of going to war with the government responsible for it. We got played by Israel. By Netanyahu and the militant right-wing of Israel specifically.

Fly On The Wall
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23 days ago
Reply to  Farce

The sad reality is that the Left’s hatred for President Trump and for this country has completely eaten away any remaining shred of honor, integrity, or common sense they ever had.

Angie O Genesis
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23 days ago

You’re being irrational.

Mr. Clark
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23 days ago

Irrational is killing 30,000 citizens you rule over with the iron fist of alla.

Angie O Genesis
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23 days ago
Reply to  Mr. Clark

People kill in the name of Jesus and he specifically asked them not to so I’m inclined to agree with you. I’m an old stock American. My people have been here way before this was the United States. Some of them left somewhere else and came here to believe whatever sparked in their souls rather than what the government told them to believe.To be free from this form of state religion is real freedom.

Testy
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Testy
23 days ago

There’s an irony here. You openly criticize others for emotional excess while visibly running on pure emotional improvisation. 

NorCalNative
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NorCalNative
23 days ago

I believe the real problem lies with those who normalize and rationalize the behavior of a malignant narcissist. Hate the man? Or, hate the mental pathology he brings to the office?

Angie O Genesis
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23 days ago
Reply to  NorCalNative

Politics is personal. People that love Trump personally identify with his behavior. They are just those men and women with no regard for other humans except in the ways they can abuse other humans. They are all bound together by racism and being ok with hurting others.
Politics are personal. People that love Trump personally identify with his behavior. They are just those men and women with no regard for other humans except in the ways they can abuse other humans. They are all bound together by racism and being ok with hurting others.

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Fly On The Wall
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23 days ago

Angie O Genesis and NorCalNative, thank you both for proving my point so clearly.

Can we at least agree that the Iranian regime slaughtering thousands of its own unarmed citizens is evil — regardless of who is President?

Angie O Genesis
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23 days ago

Of course.

I am an old Army brat. I was at a base in Hanau during the Hostage situation. I was a 3rd grader. We had to learn military songs to sing to them on the tarmack. I was so glad they picked some other class. I was always so worried about being killed by Russians or Middle Eastern folk. There had been a bombing the housing quarters. I saw the missiles stored at the base we lived at. My dad was in aviation, the crew chief to the base’s general. The dads would play Risk around us.
A lot of us figured out stuff about the world real young.

Angie O Genesis
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23 days ago

Fly on the Wall?
Can we agree that all lives are sacred?

Fly On The Wall
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23 days ago

Angie, “all lives are sacred” is a broad statement that can be used to blur important distinctions. I believe innocent human lives are sacred. That’s exactly why the Iranian regime’s deliberate slaughter of thousands of unarmed protesters is evil. There’s a profound moral difference between a dictatorship gunning down its own civilians and holding the people who ordered and carried out those killings accountable. Do you agree that the regime and its security forces bear primary responsibility for those deaths?

Angie O Genesis
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23 days ago

Probably.
I’m such an army brat that I’ve got a Geneva Convention birth certificate as I was born to a US service member on a NATO base and my mother who worked for the department of army. When she moved up her next position the housing secured for her was previously the home of John Poindexter’s mother.

We are supposed to watch and wait. They are being too messy.
Sometimes I wonder what type of Americans think so much about that part of the world still when there’s so much wonderful stuff here to fix and enjoy together.

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Mr. Clark
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23 days ago

Trump is the one being abused.

Screenshot-2026-05-11-at-16-06-00-20-Facebook
Angie O Genesis
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23 days ago
Reply to  Mr. Clark

Well. It is his own fault. Elected people are held accountable now. We are in the modern world and can see everything. Lord. Maybe it IS that like how he liked Stormy spanking him with rolled up magazine. OMG. Men with sex problems are the WORST.

CsMisadventures
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CsMisadventures
23 days ago
Reply to  Farce

Iran government hit back at Karoline Leavitt announcing her new baby. Anybody else notice she’s closer in age to her newborn than she is her partner?

I mean, they’re not wrong. Not saying their government is also crap, but OOof.

“”Congratulations to you. Children are innocent and lovable. Those 168 children that your boss killed in the school in Minab, and you justified, were also children,” they wrote.
“When you kiss your baby, think of the mothers of those children,” the embassy addressed Leavitt.”

Fly On The Wall
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23 days ago

The irony is staggering. The Iranian regime — which executes dissidents (including minors), forces child marriages on girls as young as 13, mandates hijabs from age 7, and brutalizes women for “improper” clothing — lecturing anyone about innocent children. Maybe focus on the mothers in Evin Prison or the girls you won’t let go to school first.

Kicking Bull
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Kicking Bull
23 days ago
Reply to  Farce

Propaganda
govern (control) ment (mind)
enter (go in) tain (possess) ment (mind)
Pile bullshit in there and the brain will remain an unpleasant place to be.
In this business the mind is the commodity
https://youtube.com/shorts/AREos7mzIlU?si=FApoHJ47Q3PGKYMs

Angie O Genesis
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23 days ago
Reply to  Kicking Bull

I know that’s right!

I got a bunch of songs, flowers, and sweet stuff washing around in my brain pan. I’m a monster. I wake up *happy.

D'Tucker Jebs
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23 days ago
Reply to  Farce

One can be against the Iranian regime’s use of violence on it’s own citizens and also be against using violence to address the problem.
When the US and Israel started killing Iranian civilians, we legitimized the regime because they could point to us as the aggressor that the people need protection from.
Trump and Netanyahu just gave the Iranian hardliners a new lease on their despotic rule.

melanopsin
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23 days ago
Reply to  D'Tucker Jebs

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Angie O Genesis
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23 days ago
Reply to  D'Tucker Jebs

I agree. There’s something to that an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Bill Hogoboom
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23 days ago

When asked for his favorite Bible verse, all trump could come up with was “eye for an eye”.

Mr. Clark
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23 days ago
Reply to  D'Tucker Jebs

violence is all the muslim will understand.

Angie O Genesis
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23 days ago
Reply to  Mr. Clark

Be that as it may but the actual US military that is ALWAYS in charge regardless of who sits in the oval office is quite pissed off about ANY casualties in any situation American soldiers may find themselves in and have long since moved on to a battle style that favors precision over brutality.

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D'Tucker Jebs
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23 days ago
Reply to  Mr. Clark

Others say the same about us.
Some estimates put the number of people killed by US military actions at over 12 million since World War II. https://www.worldfuturefund.org/Reports/Imperialism/usmurder.html
The real number is impossible to calculate because wars cause so much collateral damage.
Economies are destroyed, healthcare, public safety, and public education systems shut down, power struggles and civil wars emerge, famine spreads, etc.
There is a reason that international surveys place the US at 128 out of 163 on the Global Peace Index. https://www.visionofhumanity.org/maps/
Even some of our staunchest allies such as the UK, Canada, Germany, and France say the US is causing more problems than we solve.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/23/us-allies-trump-trust-poll-00702908

CsMisadventures
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CsMisadventures
23 days ago

Bamboo emerging as a viable bioplastics alternative. Paper here. Why not? Bamboo when it gets established is every bit as difficult to get rid of as scotch broom or Himalayan blackberry. Might as well get some use out of it. Speaking of which…

melanopsin
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23 days ago

Controversy on the toxic nature of deep eutectic solvents and their potential contribution to environmental pollution

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9813709/

CsMisadventures
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CsMisadventures
23 days ago
Reply to  melanopsin

Sec. 3 “3. Biodegradability of DESs” in your link does suggest in at least in lab studies, biodegradability is problematic in that it appears the 60% oxygen demand threshold was achieved in only 2 of 8 instances to be considered biodegradable. Not sure how that measures up out of a lab other than toss it in the compost and hope for the best?

melanopsin
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23 days ago

Chinese have made paper & cardboard from bamboo for many centuries…

Angie O Genesis
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23 days ago
Reply to  melanopsin

You probably have to have pandas to really make it work.

CsMisadventures
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CsMisadventures
23 days ago
Reply to  melanopsin

Oh I know. It’s been used in US printing for longer than I’ve been alive, and also screen printing as a textile for clothing. Hemp too for that matter. It makes for a good artisan paper, but is kinda hell on presses as it leaves a lot of long fibers in the paper that also leave lots debris in the rollers. It has a million uses for something that’s technically a grass, but as a bioplastic is a new one for me.

melanopsin
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23 days ago

I tried for many years to get book printers to stop using paper made from trees. Or to at least use recycled paper. Since, as many years have passed, still cutting trees. Mostly Canadian trees.

Chinese books are often made using bamboo paper…durable…

Chinese have also mastered making plastic wrap thinner and stronger.

Remember those Chinese candies eaten wrapper & all? 🙂

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Bill Hogoboom
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23 days ago
Reply to  melanopsin

I don’t see cutting trees for paper as a problem at all. 85% of American wood pulp comes from privately owned tree farms in the SE.

D'Tucker Jebs
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23 days ago
Reply to  Bill Hogoboom

Those tree farms could be forests if we used less, recycled more, and used more environmentally friendly products.

Bill Hogoboom
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23 days ago
Reply to  D'Tucker Jebs

It would be nice to sell it to Bambi but I don’t think he could afford it. If the market for pulp wood dries up, the private land owners are more likely to find another crop or sell it for a data center.

Angie O Genesis
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23 days ago
Reply to  Bill Hogoboom

It’s true. Down in Alabama the pine trees are planted in straight lines waiting to grow into books. On some summer nights you could smell the stink of the paper mill down in Port St. Joe on the Gulf, 100 miles away.

CsMisadventures
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CsMisadventures
23 days ago
Reply to  Bill Hogoboom

Softwood conifers like pine mostly. Which is a lot of land on the east coast from Maine to Florida.

CsMisadventures
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CsMisadventures
23 days ago
Reply to  melanopsin

tl:dr if you don’t want…

Good luck getting a global consensus on that. Useage has a lot to do with the grain of the paper, that is the condition, length and such of the fiber material. Anything woody or fibrous can be made into “paper”. Hemp, coconut shells, or any sort of thick stemmed plant if you’re feeling industrious. Or celery for that matter. Dead roots too but you gotta sterilize them. Recycled paper fiber starts to degrade and gets real messy in a large, high speed press because the integrity of the paper reduces and ends up leaving a lot of debris and dust in the machine that makes it onto that nice book cover you’re trying to print or just fold into a box for..other boxes. That cleaning results in a lot of down time and a LOT of waste paper that was already recycled. At that point it’s only good for recycling into pulp with some grass or tree seed, a little fertilizer and restart a forest.

Ever see that bright green stuff along roadways when construction is done? That was probably a box or a magazine at one time. You also have to contend with all the inks, dyes (if you want white paper to begin with) and adhesives to remove. It’s a very resource consuming process. Removing trees from the mix doesn’t eliminate the other steps. So a different medium is needed. Bamboo is one. Hemp, corn husks, cattail reeds…Heck I’ve even seen people try to make a sort of papyrus out of dried kelp. But you’re going to need enough of anything to print 500,000 copies of any random person’s book on the NYT lists. Takes a lot of fibrous material to do that, and trees have naturally very long fibers which gives them superior paper strength over other. Not that alternatives are bad, they’re not, but trees are preferred.

Virgin paper, especially sustainably sourced (e.g SFI certified) is getting harder to come by. Canada is a big supplier, as is Germany and Norway. South American forests and jungles are still robbed of trees but there’s been concerted efforts to stop that practice. If anything, plants, like animals have DNA that can be identified out of a vat of mixed pulp. Recycling does reduce the need of first-run materials but each generation gets more limited by what it can be used for. Easy way to tell how much recycled post-consumer fiber is in a cardboard box? How easy it cracks and breaks when folded. The fibers don’t have the inner connectivity and length anymore.

And yes, bamboo is very durable and probably as good as any tree, really but it’s just not as much to start with being it’s hollow and all. It’s fibers for one, are very long and that gives a lot of strength to the paper or board you’re trying to make or use. It’s also flexible in paper. The drawback is that natural fibers are not white like your printer paper you buy at Staples. Natural fibers are more tan in color. Also, heat-dependent applications such as screen print or some processes tend to bake and discolor larger bits of material and a lot of customers find that aesthetically unpleasing. It does cause hell with ink adhesion so you have to add ore of that or coatings at the end. And those coatings, especially UV resistant like you’d find on outdoor signage or playing cards is anything but organic. Some of it will down right make your skin blister. So you have to add white dyes (or maybe titanium dioxide white) or bleaches to get that 96 or 100 brightness and that in turn damages the paper fiber.

Now since I’m getting way deep into paper, that debris, if not mitigated early will wreck your whole print job. And now you have an acre’s worth of forest that just got destroyed because you can’t keep the debris out from bad quality paper (or a lousy pressman, either or).

Case study: a plant I worked for back east did the Medical school finals and thesis materials (400 page books for several hundred med school students) for Duke University. Debris in a press wasn’t caught and made it into a photo of an X-ray scan showing various tumors. The “hickey” appeared as a type of carcinoma and was misidentified as such. That was one of a handful. We didn’t know there was and issue even though the material was proofread prior to print, and checked during the run. But being none of us were MD’s and don’t read x-rays we had no idea that a tumor was actually an error caused by press debris that was flaking off the paper. The problem caused a handful of would-be PhDs to fail portions of their finals. We had the Regents themselves all over our ass when we took a first run original and went page by page to find the offending image out of a dozen. That was a million dollar job that was redone for free and students, happily were awarded changes in their grade due to our error that was no fault of their own. And three days to reprint everything. Those guys got a lot of overtime redoing the job. But that sort of thing happens when you have low quality or difficult material. And from I remember it was ~50/50 mix of hardwood and softwood stock that came from Germany I believe. China is the largest supplier, US then Japan and Germany, and the US is the largest consumer of it.

Short answer is, other tree-less materials are fine. Use whatever you got. But one of you better have some knowhow about materials or you’ll be wasting a lot of it, even if it’s been recycled three times.

melanopsin
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23 days ago

Aha! Now I know why Jeff Bezos was so keen on e-books! And why nobody listened when I wanted book printers to stop cutting trees, well, that and because they considered me one of “those Northern California tree huggers.”

Thanks for taking time to explain all that!

CsMisadventures
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CsMisadventures
23 days ago
Reply to  melanopsin

Bezos went all in with eBooks. Skipped the printing entirely and saved a mountain of money. Printing is expensive and pressmen don’t work for free. For example a Komori L540 6-color, one of 8 the plant had, billed at $500 per hour. We had an experimental 12-color super perfector that billed at $1250 per hour. That was in 2005. Now have those machines run 20 hours a day, 6 days a week (1 for maintenance) and that adds up if a big job takes a 2 weeks to finish. Then you have all the ancillary things like die cutters, trimmers, folders, wire-Os, punches, bookbinders, slitters…for one project. A Yellow pages book that’s 300 pages might also take 50 people to create it, package it and deliver it (we had our own trucking companies).

It becomes very evident why Bezos went deep into eBooks. Zero printing, just the cost to develop and build the tablets. And the only operator is YOU, and maybe the people that put it in the Amazon box to send.

Printers still aren’t going to fully switch over to bio-papers or such. There’s been a lot of changes in materials, but there will always be a need for paper. Why? It works. It’s cheap. Sourcing is a massive problem because there are far more paper manufacturers than there are biosolids or plastics. If anything, our digital world and constant need for instant connectivity is reducing the need for paper. Why mail when you can text? So you are getting your wish if from a different perspective. Printing always evolves as new tech comes out and it could be in a generation little to any trees are needed.

melanopsin
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22 days ago

You’re correct about being so obvious why Jeff was so keen on e-books — and why. I knew that already. In like 1995 or so. 🙂

You’re one of the Print on demand people, eh?

Ever hear of PGW? One thing I did for them was create a digital archive system for business paperwork to eliminate an entire warehouse just for storage. Helping Independent Publishers create e-books was another project. Barcoded Inventory System. Online Publisher Reporting system. Online ordering for Independent Bookstores, and the chains. Custom pick pack ship system. Custom returns processing. We were cutting edge at the time…

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Kris
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23 days ago
Reply to  Tim

Dozy Don, great new name. They will have to keep him amped up for his China visit.

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CsMisadventures
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CsMisadventures
23 days ago

Trump awards Lincon Memorial pool paint job to contractor that also worked on his golf course.

When President Trump decided to paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue, he reportedly laid the groundwork to award a $6.9 million no-bid contract to someone he said worked on his swimming pools.

Now, I read numerous articles that post the $6.9 million cost, but the ACTUAL award was much higher.
$13.1 million for a job expected to last just 6 weeks.(actual reward, public domain info)

Now before anybody gets too bent about the cost, keep in mind Obama spent upwards of $35 million keeping it maintained and Biden a smaller amount, and keeping national points of interest in good condition isn’t cheap. I’m ok with that. But it’s not that it’s being worked on it’s how the contract among all others, what with it being no-bid and all, and for whom it was rewarded.

D'Tucker Jebs
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23 days ago

Well, of course he didn’t have time to shop around… or to follow the normal review process.
He clearly stated that renovating the pool was so urgent that delaying it would cause “serious injury” to the government. https://newrepublic.com/post/210248/trump-sued-reflecting-pool-renovation-cost-skyrockets

melanopsin
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23 days ago
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30 Examples of Virtue Signaling https://simplicable.com/society/virtue-signaling

melanopsin
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23 days ago

Musical Break:

Make You Feel My Love – The Petersens (LIVE) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKJV3WU8nHM

Crazy – The Petersens (LIVE) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7iuiW4ng6M

Our House – The Petersens (LIVE) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVuNLdsD4Xw

Mama Tried – The Petersens (LIVE) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzVOEz93_-0

melanopsin
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23 days ago
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Can’t get enough?

Cloudy Days – The Petersens (LIVE) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0Gid1GRUf0

California – The Petersens (LIVE) – A Katie Original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqOzG_A8tMs

Caledonia – The Petersens (LIVE) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGPWI-IW_y0

The Fox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLrekNbkZOk

Bear Tracks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pTKysRXSd0

CsMisadventures
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CsMisadventures
23 days ago

Spencer Pratt of reality TV fame is running for Los Angeles Mayor. His wholly-AI developed ad is something to behold.

(disclaimer: this does not in anyway constitute my support for said candidate or even like the guy, but I haven’t seen any better ones yet).

Bug on a Windshield
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Bug on a Windshield
23 days ago

Not sure where else to post this.

Mr. Clark,
It has come to my attention that a comment was made in which I told you where to go. While I may not always agree with you, I assure you I did not write that. It is my belief that someone may have used my moniker to insult you. As I have told Kym, I do not have enough knowledge on the real estate topic to even be offended by what it was you, or anyone else, were talking about. I haven’t been able to pinpoint exactly which comment this was supposed to have been directed. I understand if you do not believe me, all I can offer is my word. I regret that this happened to you, Kym, and myself.