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Sounds like a fun trip. I live near Beaverton, wouldn't take much more than an hour or two to get to Camas. I've got a couple friends who might be interested, and we could take a Jeep or a 4x4 Kia.
BTW, what did they mine there?
Hi All, I was reading a local history book called "Across Rushing Waters" A history of the Washougal River and Cape Horn.
I was curious if anybody has been to any of the old mining sites that are in the book (Skamania Mine, Last Chance Mine, etc. ?) The one I am most interested is Mabee Mines. According to the author (written in 1982) there are still lots of things that were left behind, partly due to it's remoteness. The mine would be over one hundred years old now.
And last, if anybody is interested in checking it out (spring or summer would be best). I am going to post a map from the book on the web. and USGS Topo for GPS users. I guess it's easy to get lost in the wrong canyon up there.
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Sounds like a fun trip. I live near Beaverton, wouldn't take much more than an hour or two to get to Camas. I've got a couple friends who might be interested, and we could take a Jeep or a 4x4 Kia.
BTW, what did they mine there?
I have tried several times, without success to find this mine. I have done quite a bit of research on old maps and have thought that I had the location, but have been unable to find it. It is an extremely rugged area and very difficult to hike. I've found several other mines in the area that are much more accessable, but not this one.
In regards to what they mined for at Mabee mine, it was most gold, silver, and copper ore coming out of this area.
Ah, copper ore makes sense, I drove from Vancouver to Washougal last week and saw the current mining/quarrying operations on the eastern edge of Vancouver by the Columbia river. It seems to be above-ground work, and entire hills are gone, half eaten up by the mining. You can come from the north and see high hills with trees on them, pass them and see from the south that sheer drop-offs are on the other side. Like the mountain Half-Dome, in Yosemite. The results make it appear that hydraulic mining has taken place there, I suppose the end result is the same; they are just killing the hills in a much slower manner...
The dirt there looks reddish-yellow, and wouldn't surprise me if it contained copper.
Anyway, have you guys heard of Mabee Mines road? It's on the Mapquest/Googlemaps sites. I got excited about it, until I found there's a car dealership on that road, sounds too urban.
Hi Gixxerdawg and Tsarevna.
Gixxer, Do you have the book I refered to in my first post? The author drew a map of where Mabee Mines is supposed to be. He has other mines on his map as well. I am assuming he hand drew this map. It looks like Mabee Mines is on Shirt Creek. He has some pictures in the book of some of the junk he found up there as well.
I also have the author's phone number. I was thinking about calling him and seeing how to get to Mabee Mines.
Here is the map from the book.
Tsarevna, It sounds like Gixxer would have to be our guide. I have input some waypoints into my GPS to locate Shirt Creek. I looks like we would have to wade across the Washoughal River from what I can tell.
I was thinking that in the summer we possibly could come in from the north via the Bluff Mountain trail ? Of course it looks steep and I don't know what the terrain is like.
I was checking out the area via the 3D terrain from the Google Earth program.
Talk to you soon,
Ryan E.
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Hey Ryan,
Yeah, I have that book. It was actually what got me started with the whole thing. I used the maps in there and tried to overlay with some actual USFS maps to determine the GPS coordinates.
I have tried it a couple of times, from a couple of different starting points, in different seasons.....and I think I have gotten pretty close, but never hit the jackpot.
The terrain is crazy rough....slick in winter, brushy as heck in the spring/summer. Also alot of blind canyons, so its easy to get going up the wrong one and have to backtrack. At one point, I came to a cliffy area that would have required ropes, and that turned me around.
About Mabee Mines road.....its not really anywhere near the mine. My Dad has some property up there, so I know it pretty well. Its also not very "urban". I think the guy with the so called "car dealership" is just a guy working out of his shop that buys and sells alot of cars. Its not the traditional type of car dealership!
There is also a pretty neat old dam site up Mabee Mines road on McCloskey Creek. It has long since been dynamited, but alot is still there, and there is 18" iron pipe running all along the upper part of the road that used to carry water from the dam down to a powerhouse. All this stuff is right off the road and is easily accessable.
Hi all,
My son found this site while researching for a college project and told me about it. I have been to the Maybee mines about 8 times over the past 20 years. The last time was about 3 years ago when I took my 3 oldest boys (10 - 15) and some family friends.
A friend and I got interested in the Maybee mines while researching the Copper City mines over on the Copper Creek side of the Silver Star Mtn. In fact, we have been to almost 50 mines surrounding all sides of Silver Star mtn. We have them all plotted on a map we updated as we found them. Many of the mines are fairly short (20 - 50 feet long). But at least one we got into was close to 3,000 feet long.
As far as the Maybee Mines go, they are blown closed, so you can't get in them currently. And yes there is a lot of stuff laying around including boilers, mining cart track, and a lot of other stuff. I have some pictures from the last time we went up there.
As far as getting there, you don't want to do it until the water goes down, preferably July or later. And the old trails that were pretty good when we started in the mid 80's are almost obliterated as of 3 years ago.
There are a couple of ways to get there. The easiest way, if you can get permission, is to go through the green gate up the Washougal river where there are houses. One of the property owners gave us permission the first time we went to find it, but unfortunately we took a wrong valley and wasted that day. But that is the easiest way as there is a bridge across the Washougal and still part of the original road that ran up there. So it is easy going for a little while. We've not been able to get permission to do that since, so we go around it from the north. There is an old trail heading south from up above (very overgrown now, but passable with work). You can take it for about a mile and then cross the Washougal on the remains of an old log bridge (now only a couple of huge logs spanning the river). Then you need to go either overland to connect into the aforementioned road, or head back upstream on the Washougal until you come to (Bluebird creek, I think it was called on the map). Then walk it upstream (very hard going) until Shirt creek peels off (very hard to see), follow it upstream for about a quarter mile, and then you will run into a huge tailing pile on both sides of the creek and lots of metal things up from the creek. You can see where the openings to the mines were by the depressions in the hillside on both sides of the creek. There was supposed to be another opening on the North side up higher, but we aren't sure we found it.
The other way in is from the top from Bluff mtn. When we first did that around 1990, the trees and brush was very small. In fact, we pretty much sat down and slid down on top of the brush and trees to get to the bottom. It only took us a bit more than an hour to get to the mines. The bummer was climbing back up. It took us about 8 hours to climb back up as the ground was sandy/gravelly and so it was like climbing a sand dune. Unfortunately, the brush grew downhill a bit then curved upward. Pushing through that on the sandy ground about killed me. I seriously thought I was going to have to spend the night there. It was way after dark when we got back to Bluff mtn and our Motorcycles. This last time, we thought we would be smart and have some one drop us off up at the top of Bluff mtn again. But then walk out to the Washougal river and have that person pick us up at the bottom. Unfortunately those small trees and brush had turned into 30 foot fir trees planted tightly together with huge amounts of dead branches that we had to push through. Instead of taking one hour to get down, it took us about 6 hours to get to the Maybee mines. About the same time it takes from the bottom, but much harder.That is not the way to go anymore.
My boys wanted to go up there again this past summer, hike in, spend a night of two at the mines and explore them further. But we never made the time to do it. They are talking about it for this summer again.
How do I post pictures on this forum? I can show you some pictures we took on the last trip up there.
I look forward to continuing the conversation. Kirk
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Then you click on the "Insert Image" button when you are replying on the forum (looks like a little mountain with a sun in the sky behind it.) There, you enter the http: location that your image is stored at.
Once you've got your image on imageshack.us, you have a list of http: web addresses shown next to the photo. Some are for viewing from a forum (as would be the case here) some are for putting it as an inline image on a website like ebay...just choose the correct purpose for your photo.
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After typing text, scroll down past "submit/preview" button to Additional Options and "Manage Attachments". Pic's sizes are supposed to be limited to no larger than 59kb, IIRC, so you may have to resize.
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Ryan Braun issued a public apology Thursday for his connection to performance-enhancing drugs. A look at the path of contrition others before him chose:
STATEMENT: Braun's apologizing for doping
Who apologized: Jason Giambi
What prompted it: The San Francisco Chronicle reported in December 2004 that Giambi had told a grand jury investigating the BALCO case that he used steroids and human growth hormone.
The mea culpa: In a news conference before the 2005 season, the New York Yankees first baseman made an apology without specifying what he was apologizing for. Two years later, he told USA TODAY, "I was wrong for doing that stuff,'' and said all of baseball should say it was sorry for the steroid mess.
Aftermath: Giambi played four more seasons with the Yankees, hitting at least 32 homers in three of them, and is currently in his 19th year in the majors, now as a DH with the Cleveland Indians. The Colorado Rockies interviewed him for their managerial opening last offseason. Asked Sunday whether coming clean had helped him, Giambi smiled and said, "I'm still playing.''
BRAUN: Apologizes, says he 'lived in denial'
Who apologized: Andy Pettitte
What prompted it: Days after signing a free-agent contract to stay with the Yankees, Pettitte was named in the Mitchell Report, which came out in December 2007. The report said trainer Brian McNamee, claimed to have injected Pettitte with human growth hormone 2-4 times.
The mea culpa: Pettitte issued a statement saying he only used HGH twice when he was trying to recover from an elbow injury in 2002, not as a way to improve his performance. The statement painted Pettitte as a committed teammate desperate to heal and help his ballclub.
Aftermath: Pettitte's reputation for upstanding character during 13 seasons in the majors, served him well. He was welcomed back to New York when he came out of retirement in 2012, though his HGH episode may not bode well for his Hall of Fame chances.
Who apologized: Brian Roberts
What prompted it: The Mitchell Report accused the Baltimore Orioles second baseman of using steroids "once or twice'' in 2003, based on information from former teammate Larry Bigbie.
The mea culpa: Roberts said in a statement, "I took one shot of steroids,'' and called it, "a terrible decision.'' He said he hadn't used PEDS before or since.
Aftermath: Roberts, the Orioles' longest-tenured player with 13 years, had two more highly productive seasons after his admission. His career has been derailed by injuries the last four years.


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English Game Fowl, like this one, were bred for cockfighting.
Ryan Protz poses with a Polish chicken.
Rare and unusual breeds of chickens scratch the dirt in Colonial Williamsburg.
Spring and summer bring chicks to the coop.
Though bred to fight, the English Game Fowl also yielded high-quality eggs and meat.
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Colonial chickens browsed a buffet of garden waste and table scraps.
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UPDATE: Staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau informed ALTA that its trial disclosure program is not intended to be used for the RESPA-TILA disclosures, rather it is part of a larger effort to develop or revamp financial disclosures like credit card and student loan disclosures.
Bureau Reaffirms Commitment to Improved Consumer Disclosures through its Project Catalyst Initiative
WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced its proposed policy to allow companies to test new consumer disclosures on a case-by-case basis. As part of its Project Catalyst initiative, and in line with its statutory authority, the Bureau's goal is to encourage banks, credit unions, and other financial services companies to propose and conduct trial disclosure programs.
"As part of our efforts to foster innovation in consumer financial markets, the proposed policy will allow companies to conduct real world trials of disclosure alternatives," said Richard Cordray, Director of the CFPB. "That will help the Bureau identify what works and does not work to provide consumers with the clear information they need to make financial decisions in a marketplace of evolving programs and products."
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which created the CFPB, authorized the CFPB to facilitate innovation and to approve trial disclosure programs. As a part of that commitment, the Bureau launchedProject Catalyst in November. Project Catalyst is an initiative designed to encourage consumer-friendly innovation in markets for consumer financial products and services.
The Bureau is continuing to foster new ideas with today's proposal. Under the proposed policy, the Bureau would approve individual companies, on a case-by-case basis, for limited time exemptions from current federal disclosure laws in order for those companies to research and test informative, cost-effective disclosures. The companies involved will then share the results of their trial disclosure with the CFPB. The CFPB will use that information to improve its disclosure rules and model forms. The public will have input through the rulemaking process.
When deciding whether or not to grant a company a waiver from current disclosure requirements, the Bureau proposed policy would evaluate a number of factors including:
Today's proposal builds upon the CFPB's broader dedication to improving disclosures for consumers. Through its Know Before You Owe initiative, the CFPB has been working to create clear, easy-to-understand disclosures that allow consumers to better understand products such as mortgages, student loans, and credit cards. The proposed policy also builds on the Bureau's streamlining initiative, which intends to update, modify, or eliminate outdated or unnecessary provisions in the Bureau's inherited regulations.
A copy of the proposed policy can be found at: http://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/201212_cfpb_trial_disclosures.pdf
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Hi, Guys! Anne-Marie here. I live waaaay up north, in the beautiful state of Maine (State motto: "Crap, it's cold!").
In case you were wondering:
1. No, we do NOT all own snowshoes and snowmobiles.
2. Yes, we CAN make it to the bathroom in the middle of the night without the use of a jacket or a flashlight.
3. Yes, we actually DO use the word 'wicked' in everyday conversation, and not just for the entertainment of you tourists.
Next, a few more Maine factoids:
State flower: The Pine Cone. Sure it smells like sap and dirt, but when your nose is frostbitten, everything pretty much smells the same anyway.
State pet: Moose. (Granted, this isn't terribly realistic. I mean, that grass is green.)
State Bug: The Lobster. Break out the butter, folks!
So there you have it: A summary of all things Maine. Next time you're up here, make sure you try the bug. It's only two bucks a pound, ayuh!
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It would be unthinkable to chop and modify the only 77th straight-six '53 Corvette today, but in 1959 it was written off, valued at $75, and chopped up into a radical V-8 Kustom. Sometime between 1966 and 1989, it was stripped and dumped before being rescued and beautifully restored. The Kustom shown here has been featured in many major magazines in its time, although its biggest score was landing on the front cover of Motor Trend in 1959. Like many significant works of art, it speaks to new generations and is always worth revisiting.
The original customizer, Buster Dobbs, would probably have laughed his head off if anybody had called him a visionary automotive sculptor. It's true that he just cut up an existing crashed car and added a few bits and pieces of other cars to it, but the key point is that he added the right choice of bits in exactly the right places and transformed the '53 Corvette body styling from a mixture of slightly boring shapes and fussy detailing into a much cleaner and more dramatic look. I know I'm not supposed to say that about the treasured '53, but just look at the Kustom and a C1 side by side and tell me I'm wrong. It's a shame that General Motors didn't look at Motor Trend, track Buster down, and drag him into Chevrolet's styling department, but of course the next and much sexier generation of Corvette was well on the way by then anyway.
The story of the Kustom Corvette begins in 1953, when Beaty Chevrolet, located in Knoxville, Tennessee, was having a hard time getting Corvettes off its forecourts, just like many other Chevrolet dealerships back in the day. Eventually one Joe Morris was offered a sweet enough deal and drove away in the white Corvette. It was probably a trade price, as Joe was a former Beaty employee and owned the Morris Pure Oil Service Station on nearby Henley Street. He must have liked the car, as he kept it and installed a 283 V-8 later in 1957. That was also when the hood got its scoop. The old Blue Flame engine was bought by Ed Cureton, who fitted a hot Howard cam, shaved the head to raise the compression to 9.5:1, and used it in his '52 Chevy race car.
In 1958, Joe traded the '53 in on a new fuel-injected Corvette, and the very same Ed Cureton bought it for $1,980. In 1959 Ed totaled the car in the wet as he "was driving careless and slid it into a wall." Corvettes are tough, but not as tough as walls-the car was written off and offered back to Ed by the insurance company for $75. He passed on it, and local body-shop owner Buster Dobbs bought it. Buster had seen another customized Corvette in Custom Cars magazine and used that as inspiration for creating his own piece of auto art.
We don't know whether it was a happy coincidence that the right brightwork and lights were lying around Buster's workshop or whether he picked them specially, but the list looks quite contemporary rather than being old junk. The frenched headlights and surrounds are from a '58 Lincoln, probably a Continental or Premiere; the square radiator grille is from a '56 Studebaker Hawk; and the rear lights beneath the new tail fins are from a '56 Dodge, probably a Coronet or Royal. The Lincoln headlight surrounds are mounted at a more aggressive forward-facing angle compared to their vertical angle in the Lincoln, which could explain why spotlights have replaced the original conventional headlights, probably because the original headlight mounts wouldn't have been able to work at that angle. After its transformation, the car was painted flat white, and later sprayed blue and fitted with a rollbar.
Much of the research on the early part of this car's life was carried out by Byron Cooper, who, as an awestruck kid of 14, watched it being built. He finished up promoting the Corvette Expo in Knoxville, so the car obviously made a huge impression on him. The custom-car scene was primarily happening in California, so Buster was rather out on a limb in Tennessee and kept in touch by reading customizing magazines.
In 1963, Buster sold the by-now 10-year-old Corvette for $1,000 to Stanley Stevens, who had just come back from serving in the U.S. Army in Germany. At that point the Corvette was running an injected '57 Corvette V-8. Stanley already knew the car, as he'd previously worked at Rogers Cadillac in Knoxville, across the street from Morris' service station. He had sat in the '53 as a kid, caressing the steering wheel and gazing down the long bonnet at distant imagined horizons, then admired it rumbling down the street on many occasions, and finally he owned it. It would've been a moment of pure joy for any gearhead.
Stanley drove the '53 to Florida and used it daily for a couple of years, changing the injection system for a single two-barrel carb when it became troublesome. In 1966 he moved to Atlanta and sold the car in Charlotte for $1,200. At this point the car's history comes to an abrupt dead end-nobody knows what happened to it between 1966 and 1989, but none of it was good. It finished up wrecked, stripped, and abandoned with a bashed-in right-hand door and only a few remnants of its blue paint job still adhering to it.
As early Corvette values rose, Ted Harris of Harrisburg, North Carolina, rescued the remains and offered it for sale. East Tennessee Corvette Club member Wayne Pope went to look at it, but decided the $10,000-plus asking price was too high for a wreck. The word spread, and finally Steve McCain of Greensboro bought it with the intention of restoring it to stock. However, the car's character got to him, and he spent 6,000 hours restoring the car back to Buster's version of it. Steve probably put many more hours of work into the car than Buster, so he was entitled to rename the car "Harerazn" and to add a period-permissible caricature of Bugs Bunny on the trunk lid. Steve's months of labor paid off as the car won many awards and magazine articles, including Chip's Choice at Carlisle, Boyd's Pro Pick at Indy, ISCA Best Radical Custom, and Top 25 Customs of America.
The car then was sold at a Barrett-Jackson auction to Terry Michaelis of Pro-Team Corvette Sales. Terry in turn brought the car full circle back to the Knoxville Expo, just a few miles away from Beaty Chevrolet's original Knoxville location. Buster wasn't there to see it, as sadly he died in a car crash in Alabama in 1999. However, his daughter Tracey was presented with the three awards the car won at the Expo on its 50th birthday. She hadn't yet been born when the customized car was first sold.
The '59 V-8 engine and mechanicals were long gone, as the car reappeared in 1989 as a stripped wreck. The current engine is a 283 with three two-barrel Rochester carbs, which look absolutely right and make full use of the hoodscoop. The gearbox is a Muncie four-speed, and the axle is a '56 Corvette posi. The rest of the replaced missing parts are a mix of rebuilt original pieces and restoration replica parts. The interior in Shoreline Beige is brand-new, and as the car has only been driven a few miles since restoration and will only be driven a few miles a year from now on, it should remain that way. The Kustom and the other cars in John Goodman's collection are all started up at least once a month, although the fact that he races several of them means that concentrating on prerace maintenance and prep work cuts down the time available to be spent on the road cars.
A brief ride down to the fish docks under the Ballard Bridge in Seattle in the Kustom was memorable. On the day of the shoot, the Corvette was reluctant to start but eventually fired up, spluttering and spitting as it warmed up. Keeping three carbs in tune is a pain anyway, and in a barely-used car it's worse. Triple SU carbs are one reason why so many E-Type Jaguars finished up with Chevy engines. The idle finally settled down enough to drive off, and the heavy clutch and gearbox and the large gobs of available torque are a disincentive to changing gears, so Second and Third did nicely. The ride is fairly stiff but still very acceptable even on some rough Seattle side roads.
If I owned this car, I would probably drive it everywhere, so it's probably for the best that John owns it instead. The thermostat may be sticky, as the very cool-looking temperature gauge suggests a rather uncool tendency to boil. Fortunately, the dockside location isn't far from the building that houses the Goodman collection, so the engine was switched off and left to cool down quickly as the photo session proceeded.
After a few hours of looking through a Nikon at the car, I still think it's more fab than the already-fab stock C1 Corvette. I will be gently pushing John to take it to a few shows next year so that more Corvette enthusiasts can get a look at it. Hopefully he can take a hint.


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INDIANAPOLIS -- Quarterback-needy teams find themselves in a tight spot this offseason.
Free agency doesn't offer many riches, and the 2013 NFL Draft class is thin on gems. The drought under center makes two potential trade targets -- Alex Smith and Matt Flynn -- more attractive than they might be otherwise.
The San Francisco 49ers clearly are open to shopping Smith, and Seattle Seahawks general manager John Schneider isn't shooting down the possibility that Flynn could be on the market soon -- for the right price.
"We're going to listen to everything," Schneider told reporters Thursday at the NFL Scouting Combine.
Flynn was signed last March to solve the Seahawks' problems at quarterback, but he attempted just nine passes all season as rookie Russell Wilson calmly guided Seattle into the playoffs. There will be no competition under center this time around, but Flynn's relatively affordable $5.25 million price tag makes him logical trade bait.
Flynn also could be released if the Seahawks don't want to pay that kind of money for a backup, but Schneider said Seattle's primary plan includes keeping the quarterback on the roster in 2013. Schneider repeatedly said the organization is "blessed" to have two capable signal-callers but acknowledged Flynn might not feel so blessed.
"I don't think anybody in the National Football League's content to be a backup, so I wouldn't think he's content, no," Schneider said. "I think that he obviously would want an opportunity to start, and he's extremely confident in his abilities. That's why he came to Seattle. He wanted this to be his team."
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The NYPD Sent Two Officers To The Kenyan Mall Shooting And Their Findings Are Directly Contradicted By The FBI's Report
from the TEAM-NYPD:-WORLD-POLICE dept
Just recently, we covered the NYPD's insistence on playing police force to the world by sending officers to foreign nations to impede investigations and damage international relations. Not only were these officers' presence unwelcome, but they were in no position to gather local intel as they lacked the security clearance needed to work directly with local law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
The biggest motivator of the NYPD's Ugly American program was its feeling that the FBI wasn't sharing enough intel with it. Or doing it fast enough. Or competently enough. So, to beat the FBI at its own investigative game, Police Chief Ray Kelly sent NYPD officers to various locations around the world to gather better, faster intel for the city's anti-terrorist division. As Kelly himself noted as he exited office, the FBI just "can't be trusted" to protect New York from terrorist attacks. That's why local police officers have been stationed overseas for more than a decade at this point.
Inside officials, however, declared the program to be a waste of money that generated no useful intelligence, hardly an equitable exchange for arriving unbidden at crime scenes and annoying local agencies.
The flow of useless intelligence is still ongoing. As The Guardian reports, an FBI official's statement on the Kenyan Mall attack directly contradicts an earlier report compiled by officers sent by the NYPD.
Dennis Brady, the FBI legal attache in Nairobi, said in an interview posted Friday on the bureau's website: "We believe, as do the Kenyan authorities, that the four gunmen inside the mall were killed."This statement diverges greatly from the report compiled by two NYPD officers sent unbidden to Kenya while the siege was still underway. According to that report, the four attackers most likely escaped after turning away cameras recording their ad hoc HQ and making their way through the "loose perimeter" set up by the Kenyan military.
"Our ERT [Evidence Response Team] made significant finds, and there is no evidence that any of the attackers escaped from the area where they made their last stand," he said. A very secure crime scene perimeter made an escape unlikely, Brady added.
"Additionally, had the attackers escaped, it would have been publicly celebrated and exploited for propaganda purposes by al-Shabaab. That hasn't happened."
The State Dept. wasted very little time distancing itself from this report, stating the NYPD's report "did not reflect the US government position."
The FBI, which beat the NYPD to the scene (arriving on day one), maintains that the perimeter was "secure." The NYPD claims the opposite. So, who's right? Well, if you consider the sources and what they respectively have to lose if they're wrong, it would appear that the FBI's conclusions are more apt to be accurate. After all, it does have an international presence and the clearances needed to work with local intelligence officials. The NYPD has none of these advantages and, as was noted earlier, a tendency to offend local agencies with their very existence. It's kind of hard to compile useful intel if the locals won't talk to you.
Worse, though, is the fact that the NYPD's overseas deployments tend to show up uninvited, giving law enforcement and intelligence agencies one more thing to worry about when securing a scene or, in this case, hunting down four terrorists in a crowded mall. Even if the NYPD's investigators are more skilled than the FBI's, the simple fact that they're uninvited renders them mostly useless. People expect the FBI -- a federal agency -- to appear at occurrences like these. What they don't expect to run into is an officer from a police department halfway around the world. The NYPD's foreign placements aspire to out-FBI the FBI, but undercut their own goal simply by existing.


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The whole Korrasami debate seems to be a hot topic amid the LoK fandom right now so I thought I'd give my input on it.
For starts, my major reason for liking Korrasami is that it is such a huge step in western animation. We finally have some LGTB representation in 'children's' media. And this isn't just some show with a small fanbase--the Avatar franchise is huge and widely popular--so for this show of all shows to have canon bisexuals is pretty cool in my opinion. I do understand that not everyone is comfortable with homosexuality but this is a pro-Korrasami article so I...
On her list of top ten weirdest things she was forced to do, this one hit the top. Once more, she found herself behind the wheel as the designated driver. In the back slumbered a passed out armless waterbender and an oddly emotional and secret spilling metalbender. Both of which hit the alcohol laced eggnog a bit too hard.
About an hour or so into their drive home Kuvira had taken to singing a super slurred and off key version of 'walking in a winter wonderland'. Which, on its own was bad enough without the addition of 'jingle bells' and 'deck the halls'. But of...
Don't get me wrong, I did like the finale however there was one thing that annoyed me more than anything; that they didn't redeem Kuvira. Again, don't get me wrong her actions were not by any means in the right but I do think there was a lot of room for her to be redeemed. Sorry if this article is poorly written, I'm kind of watching Divergent as I type. :P
First and foremost, Kuvira, started out as a really good person. She, in the beginning was one of the people to help save Korra when the Red Lotus attacked Zhao Fu. She also saved Korra's father's life. My point is, she was...
It was cold and rather dark. Her body still ached and pulsed all over. She tugged the blanket over her body. It was a thin flimsy thing. Kuvira shivered. She squeezed her eyes shut. She was alone, and completely so.
She felt another pulse of pain shoot over her stomach and over her sides. She turned to lay on her back, her thoughts shifting from the physical pain to tortured memories and agonized thoughts. She had ruined her engagement, her ties to Su, the rest of the 'family', and her future, among other things.
I am not trying to be rude but I have a hard time to like Asami. Somehow I think that she is a boyfriend stealer and please don't say that Korra kised Mako first when they were dating. Mako enjoyed it and you know it. Just every time I see her I see a too emotional girl that in 4 season wants to forgive his father for wanting to destroy Republic City. Sorry bakes2389 if this is too offensive to you. I didn't mean to insult anyone. She irritates me with her praising about that she is not a fragile girl. We know that.
Well, why do people hate Korra I just don't understand it. This is a site about Avatar: Legend of Korra fans, not some people that say bad words about her. I love Korra and there are a lot of fans that love her too. Why do people say bad words about her here.Don't say bad words about it just stop watching it.If you don't like it don't watch it.And some say that the characters aren't developed good.If I don't like something I would say that the characters aren't developed. Just give me a reason to hate her.
Alright, so this past episode we got a clips episode and seeing the position that Bryke was put in by Nick, it's understandable that they went the avenue they did. So I'm not angry for them to have made a clip episode in order to make sure that their staff would stay. What I am and angry with however is the way they executed the episode.
This isn't just the last season of The Legend of Korra. This is the last season of the entire Avatar series as a whole. Alright so if you have to make a clip episode, why don't you include things from the original series too? Right now a...
So quite a few people here seemed to hate season 4 episode 8. Whilst I agree that it wasn't the best, Bryke gave us a pretty good reason for that on their offical tumblr;
[i]In a couple hours the eighth chapter of Korra Book 4 will be released online, and I suppose, if you are none the wiser, a few minutes into it you will feel duped and yell at your screen, "Hey! This is a crummy clips episode!" And that is (almost) exactly what it is––except we all worked really hard to make sure at the very least it isn't crummy. I'm here to explain why we ended up having to do...
So in my last article I mentioned that I wanted to compare two of my favorite characters; Azula and Kuvira. And that's just what Imma do.
First and foremost they are both cunning and manipulative. The two of them share that crazy ability to just twist their words to make their will appeal to their opposers. In the way Azula got Ty-Lee to join her side, Kuvira was able to get that one small Earth village on her side.
Likewise both seem to have this large interest with politics and military. They both have very meticulous strategies as to how to take the next place....
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San Diego Comic-Con is only a few days away, but Mondo is already showing off some the awesome collectibles that will be on display for the very first time.
Where Doug walker and his brother Rob talk about the latest episode and the monstrosity of Nicks "online only" campaign I agree with everything they said on that matter.
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Running BT4 Rev 1 through VMWare Fusion 3
wlan0 is my WUSB54Gv4 (rt2570) linked through usb into VMWare
the router I'm trying to tap is my D-Link DIR-628 and it's secured with WPA
Here is the error:
root@bt:/pentest/wireless/wifitap# ./wifitap.py -b 00:26:5A:XX:XX:XX -i wlan0
I'm sorry if the answer is painfully obvious, I've googled numerous times with varying pieces of the error and have been trying to solve this for the past four hours.
Psyco optimizer not installed, running anyway...
INFO: Can't import PyX. Won't be able to use psdump() or pdfdump()
INFO: Can't open /etc/ethertypes file
IN_IFACE: wlan0
OUT_IFACE: ath0
BSSID: 00:26:5a:XX:XX:XX
tcpdump: SIOCGIFHWADDR: No such device
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./wifitap.py", line 156, in <module>
filter = "link[0]&0xc == 8 and link[1]&0xf == 1")
File "/pentest/wireless/wifitap/scapy.py", line 8718, in __init__
attach_filter(self.ins, filter)
File "/pentest/wireless/wifitap/scapy.py", line 2348, in attach_filter
raise Exception("Filter parse error")
Exception: Filter parse error
Also if this has anything to do with sysctl, I had an error with that as well that I'm not sure is relevant, let me know if you'd like me to post it.
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Given an ring extension of a (commutative with unit) ring, Is it possible to give a "good" notion of "degree of the extension"?. By "good", I am thinking in a degree which allow us, for instance, to define finite ring extensions and generalize in some way the Galois' correspondence between field extensions and subgroups of Galois' group.
I suppose one can call a ring extension $A\subset B\ $ finite if $B$ is finitely generated as an $A$-module, and the degree would be the minimal number of generators, but is that notion enough to state a correspondence theorem?
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I became addicted to adobo while living in Brooklyn. Albert, my roommate from Guam, made chicken adobo one night and handed me a plate with some fat chicken thighs, a thick brown sauce with onions, and a clump of rice. Keep in mind that at this time, I was making dainty hors d'oeuvres everyday in culinary school and hadn't eaten good home-cooked braised meat in months. One bite and I was in heaven.
"What's in this?" I asked.
"Soy sauce, vinegear, honey, pepper."
"No, there's something else," I insisted.
He whipped out a small spice bottle. Mrs. Dash Original Blend. Just what his mom used to use.
Now, I know Filipino and South Pacific families each have their own ways to cook adobo, a way of stewing meat in soy sauce, vinegar, bay leaf, and black pepper. Albert's method was not the precise formula of cookbooks. He sautéed his chicken legs and wings until crispy and brown, then threw in a rice-measuring cup filled a third of the way with vinegar and two-thirds with soy sauce. He dumped in another rice cup full of water. After 15 minutes he took a bear-shaped bottle of Busy Bee honey and squeezed enough onto the chicken to make your teeth tingle just to watch. He threw Mrs. Dash into the skillet like he was scattering seeds. This haphazard cooking produced some of the most sublime chicken I had ever tasted.
I made chicken adobo, in this exact manner, every week for the next year. It was easy and hot comfort food, perfect for dinner in a chilly apartment. When I ran out of Mrs. Dash, a single sharp bay leaf provided enough flavor to do without the spice blend. I substituted brown sugar for honey, and tried cayenne, paprika, and chilis.
Recently, I started making pork adobo instead of chicken, mostly for convenience. One-inch pork cubes take half the time of chicken thighs to cook. You can use pork belly or spare ribs or another fatty cut. I threw in some cherry tomatoes, though I've seen other versions with button mushrooms or eggplant. This pork adobo recipe is adaptable and easy. And who doesn't have some soy sauce and vinegar handy?
Pork Adobo
Serves 4
- 1 1/2 pounds pork belly or spare ribs, chopped to 1-inch cubes
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1/4 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup vinegar (white or apple cider)
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 8 to 10 cherry tomatoes, halved
- In a medium to large pot, heat the oil over medium-high heat and cook the pork until brown and crispy on the outside, about 3 minutes.
- Add the onions and garlic and cook until the onions are caramelized, about 2 minutes. Add the soy sauce, vinegar, water, bay leaf, paprika, and black pepper. Simmer for 20 to 25 minutes, until the sauce is slightly thickened. Stir in the brown sugar to melt.
- Add cherry tomatoes and cook for another minute. Serve with rice.


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In this blog I talk about some of the personal programming I do as a hobby. By trade I'm a Java and database developer but I've dabbled in Haskell, front-end development, etc. I'm currently working as an architect but still enjoy getting my fingers dirty in code!
Friday, May 15, 2009
Adding a Writer Monad transformer
I wanted to give the user more feedback that they currently got about what was going on in the game, and at the same time I wasn't happy with what I had written previously: I had the output messages as part of the method signature:
myFunction :: Type1 -> Type2 -> (Type3,[String])
So I decided a Monad was called for. The Writer Monad, in this case, which lets us append stuff together to get it all back at the end. I already had most of my game running in a monad transformer, so it was **just** a matter of figuring out how to wrap everything in a WriterT. I had a bit of fun at first, then got it working. So now my game runs in a
WriterT a (RandT (StateT b IO)) c
Where a b a are various types for the things I need: a is the type of messages I write, b the state I keep, and c the return value. RandT gives me random numbers, StateT gives me a state, IO allows me to do IO operations when I need to save the game or something like that.
The amazing thing, well, for me, is that a lot of my functions do not need to be aware of the whole transformer stack, but of only the type classes that they care about. My final transformer is an instance of both MonadWriter and MonadRandom. So my method that needs to write messages becomes:
myFunction :: (MonadWriter [String] m)=>Type1 -> Type2 -> m Type3
And I can write my code calling the MonadWriter methods to add messages. It's in a monad, but it's still purely functional: I return a Type3 object and write Strings. If my function needs random numbers:
myFunction :: (MonadRandom m, MonadWriter [String] m)=>Type1 -> Type2 -> m Type3
and I get random numbers capabilities!
The final code is now much cleaner than before (I actually don't use [String] directly for the MonadWriter type but an alias for it, so I can replace it with Seq String or something faster the day I fancy it). I think I now understand monads and monad type classes better, and I understand better how using a monad doesn't automatically mean using the IO Monad and lose purity. Haskell Nirvana is not far off, says he naively...
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- ryani said...
I hate when my monad stacks have IO at the bottom. It just feels like I'm doing something wrong, although it's always "easier" to write the code that way.
But I find I feel much better when I explicitly list all the I/O operations I expect my code to do. Take a look at Control.Monad.Prompt on hackage and see if you can't put (Prompt GameIO) as the bottom monad in your stack. (You define GameIO yourself, of course)
This way, you can build tests for your game code that do not rely on IO at all; the code that would do IO is now part of the "runPrompt" for Game, and you make the dependencies of that I/O explicit.
- JP Moresmau said...
Hello, thanks for the tip. As I said, only some functions use the full stack of transformers, because they need to do IO to save the game state to disk (after every operation the game is saved), but most ancillary functions use type classes to define which part of the stack they use.


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Agnostic Aussie philosopher: Neo-Darwinism's failings
The late agnostic Australian philosopher David Stove's hilarious book, Darwinian Fairytales (Aldershot UK: Avebury, 1995) is once again commercially available
(Note: I intend to do a wrap-up on the Pianka affair this weekend, but for logistic reasons, I am posting this now.)
The gist of Stove's argument is this: Darwin wanted to demonstrate that human development is controlled by natural selection. (Yes, Darwin talked about animals and plants, but the real quarry was always humans. However, he did not directly address humans until his later book Descent of Man (1871).)
Following Thomas Malthus, Darwin thought that natural selection was fueled mainly by the fact that food, unlike many resources, is not sharable. (If one wolf eats the rabbit, another doesn't.) Thus, he focused on food issues as a source of natural selection.
The problem is, as Stove notes, the known history of the human race has never demonstrated that Malthusian principles are true (more on that later), and there is good reason to think that they are not true of many animal species either.
Note: Stove is not arguing that evolution does not occur. His argument is explicitly with the Darwinist/neo-Darwinist/population genetics/inclusive fitness approach to understanding evolution does not accord with the facts for many animal species and does not at all accord with the facts for humans.
Below, I offer the briefest of introductions to each essay, offering some of the points he makes. along with links to my further comments at the Access Research network site. I suggest saving this post, as a handy introduction to some of the issues, with links to more (until you have time to read Stove's book):
Read more at Preface
Essay 1: Darwinism's Dilemma
Stove starts out by pointing out a fact that should be obvious, but, in a culture like ours, is not:
"If Darwin's theory of evolution were true, there would be in every species, a constant and ruthless competition to survive: a competition in which only a few in any generation can be winners. But it is perfectly obvious that human life is not like that, however it may be with other species." (P.1)
Hence the need to propose weird theories such as the selfish gene or evolutionary psychology, to try to explain how natural selection would work in situations where it really doesn't.
Read more at Chapter 1.
Essay 2:Where Darwin First Went Wrong About Man
Darwin found a plausible mechanism for evolution in Malthus's theory that population increases geometrically, but the food supply only arithmetically, and thus numbers are kept in check by starvation. In that case, the fittest slight variations in every population would survive and breed, and by slight progressive changes, form new species.
But. Stove asks, is the mechanism correct? Is it true that population always exceeds the food supply (which both Malthus's description and Darwin's mechanism of natural selection would require)? Certainly not with humans!
Read more at Chapter 2.
Essay 3: But what about War, Pestilence, and All That?
Stove shows that Malthus and Darwin tended to go well beyond the evidence in assuming the importance of the food supply, as opposed to other differentials, in determining birth rates. Generally, human birth rates crash with affluence, as they have done in North America and Europe.
It is not clear that animal birth rates always rise with affluence either. One thinks, for example, of wolf packs, where the jealousy of the alpha male likely prevents his subordinates from mating, even if food is plentiful.
Read more at Chapter 3.
(I can't make this link work either, currently. Go here: http://www.arn.org/blogs/index.php/2) Scroll down.
Essay 4: Population, Privilege, and Malthus' Retreat
Darwin simply refused to acknowledge that the actual pattern of human population growth and decline refuted his and Malthus's ideas. Stove notes, "He was temperamentally allergic to controversy, and would always, if he could, either ignore or else candidly expound a criticism of his theory, as a substitute for answering it." (p. 46) In this case, he had good reason because, whereas his theory should have explained human population patterns, it was consistently falsified by them.
Malthus himself eventually gave up the idea that humans were just like other animals and admitted that his biology had been wrong. Darwin and Wallace never did. (p. 50).
Read more at Chapter 4
Essay 5: A Horse in the Bathroom or the Struggle for Life
Stove begins Chapter 5 by clarifying his position on evolution:
I have no difficulty in accepting the fact of evolution. The proposition, for example, that existing species have all evolved from others, is not at odds with any rational belief that I know of. But I do not believe the Darwinian theory or explanation of evolution. There are several reasons. One of them is, that if that theory were true, then a struggle for life would always be going on among the members of every species; whereas in our species at any rate, no such struggle is observable.
Read more at Chapter 5.
Essay 6: Tax and the Selfish Girl or Does "Altruism" Need Inverted Commas?
Stove points out that many animals might well spread their selfish genes much more effectively by behaving otherwise than they do. For example, a female chimpanzee could let other females raise her infants and have many more of them, but if anyone thinks she herself is likely to see the matter in that light, one would give little for his chances of reasoning with her in the primate enclosure. Again, among the most important motivators of human beings are that we hate to be alone for long, even if it would be in our interest, and we love to communicate, even when it harms our interest. These primary human motivators may help or hinder survival or passing on genes, but they are actually irrelevant to that project, just as the mother chimpanzee's attachment to her baby (or to another chimp's baby if she loses her own) is irrelevant to it.
Read more at Chapter 6.
Essay 7: Genetic Calvinism or Demons and Dawkins
Incredibly, Dawkins insists at one and the same time that altruism "has no place in nature," but nonetheless asserts "let us try to teach generosity and altruism." (p. 126) But how can we? How are we to acquire altruism if it has no place in nature, let alone teach it? And remember, we are but puppets of our genes. At this point, it is fair to say that Dawkins isn't making any sense.
Stove usefully contrasts the scientific discoveries related to genes with the entertaining but useless intellectual froth associated with Dawkins's notion of the meme (pp. 132–33).
Read more at Chapter 7.
Essay 8: "He Ain't heavy, He's My Brother," or Altruism and Shared Genes
Stove introduces the basic sociobiological belief that generally, how altruistic (unselfish) an organism is toward another of the same species depends on the proportion of genes they share. This is part of the theory of kin selection or inclusive fitness — inclusive means that you will care about someone according to how many genes you share. Altruism has always been a problem for Darwinism.
He raises a number of problems, including the fact that identical twins, however emotionally close, do not consider their interests identical (pp. 146– 47), but inclusive fitness would suggest that they should. If anyone wonders about this, a simple test would be to watch what happens when an identical twin steals her sister's boyfriend. The most altruism you are likely to get from the bereft twin is, "Well, honestly, I would have shot her, but Mom would be devastated ... " It's hard to imagine that matters are any different among twins in the animal world.
Read more at Chapter 8.
Essay 9: A New Religion
Stove talks about the way in which sociobiology has become a religion. Now, Stove has not much time for any religion, but of sociobiology in particular, he says, "Socibiology is not incomprehensible, but it is one of the religious that are obviously false. The only part of it that is true is the doctrine that genes are invisible. But this is not something peculiar to sociobiology. Everyone agrees that genes are invisible .... " (p. 175)
The problem is that genes are so unlikely to really function the way the sociobiologist needs them to that the self gene hypothesis can only be held on faith as a religion:
Read more at Chapter 9.
Essay 10: Paley's Revenge or Purpose Regained
Stove shows that if Darwinists were prevented from smuggling teleological language into their descriptions of the activity of genes, they would not be able to demonstrate that genes ever even "try" to get themselves replicated at all. How could they? They are rows of molecules, not mail order brides.
Read more at Chapter 10
Essay 11: Errors of Heredity or The Irrelevance of Darwinism to Human Life
In the eleventh and last chapter, Stove addresses the fact that, from a Darwinian perspective, humans must be a biological error. "A biological error, or error of heredity, is an organism which does not have as many descendants as it could have. ora characteristic of an organism witch prevents it having as many descendants as it otherwise could." (p. 212)
Now, he reasons, among plants or cockroaches, there is no biological error. They do not fail to have as many descendants as they can. Yet humans routinely do so, for a number of reasons, ranging from natural or voluntary celibacy through lifestyle choices that reduce fertility right through to heroic self-sacrifice.
Read more at
Chapter 11
If you like this blog, check out my book on the intelligent design controversy, By Design or by Chance?. You can read excerpts as well.
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An ID Timeline: The ID folk seem always to win when they lose.
The Pope using the term "intelligent design" to describe the Catholic view of origins, go here.
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