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Light, Lighter, Lighest
Fastpacking ins and outs in Canyonlands National Park
Photos by Matt Vukin
"The Needles District?" he asks. The puzzled look on his face makes me think he is envisioning a vacation in a sewing-machine factory. I'm trying to convince Bryon Powell, my 32-year-old boyfriend, to fastpack with me in Utah's Canyonlands National Park.
A decade ago, I car camped with friends in the northern portion of Canyonlands. We stayed long enough for red dirt to stain my tent's floor and for gravity-defying rock formations to etch into my memory. Now, with Bryon and an ultralight pack, I want to return and experience more.
I open up the computer to the park's website and wander from the room to let the Internet do the persuading. I know Bryon about as well as I know the back of my hand and its crisscrossing veins. I expect that he will navigate first to the website's photos, to check out the spindly spikes of red and yellow sandstone for which the Needles District, the southeast quadrant of Canyonlands, is named. I know he will probably click to the district's map and let his eyes trace the dashed lines representing trails. And, I expect, it will take just a few minutes for him to decide that, indeed, we must go.
Bryon pours from the door of his home office, the tiny headquarters of iRunFar.com, and says, "I'm in."


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Seasons here in Montana are never neatly defined. Especially spring. It can be any combination of cloudy, snowy, rainy, sunny, windy, stormy. But, yesterday was, what I would call, the quintessential spring day; warm, sunny, whispy clouds, and a tiny breeze to blow the hair out of your face. It was the kind of day we long for and picture in our mind in the darkest of February days.
We found this robins nest in a wooden box hanging outside of our house right next to our front door. Asa had made a mud and straw nest at school, and placed it in this box a few weeks ago. Apparently the robin saw some great nest making potential in it. She added more straw and shaped it like a perfectly sculpted bowl, and now resides in it when we are not around. I'm not sure how long she will stick around, as every time we open the door, she gets spooked and flies away. Andy put a worm in her nest, hoping she would translate that as a peaceful gesture. But, I'm not sure she noticed or cared. We sure hope she stays.
We went hiking with some friends up Waterworks Hill. The cowboys decided to join us, just in case their were any wild horses that needed to be wrangled. All the kids played for a long time, loving it, as were the mama's. It's amazing how much visiting you can get done, when your kids are entertained. I'm thankful every day for these friends of mine. They listen to my stuff, I listen to theirs. Sometimes they offer advice, or exclamations, but mostly they just listen, which is all I really want. This whole child rearing thing would be a lot harder without them around.
After our lovely hike we went fishing with Grandpa Eric who is visiting for the next few weeks. We didn't catch anything, but it didn't really matter. It was more about being outside, near water, watching geese chase each other, and casting our hooks out into the water.
Axel's face describes how all of us felt yesterday. The sunshine melted our troubles away. Until about 9pm when I realized that the same sunshine that made us so happy, also gave us all sunburns. Axel had a very red neck, despite the hat and the neckerchief I had him wear all day. Any of you natural products lovin' mama's have good sunscreen advice? Recommendations? What do you think about it in general?
Happy Wednesday!

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Mayor O'Neill Joins President and Secretary Riley at White House Hispanic Education Summit
By Josie Hathway
Long Beach Mayor Beverly O'Neill participated in a high-level strategy session on Hispanic Education at the White House recently. President Clinton thanked Mayor O'Neill for her leadership on this issue as well as the other elected officials including Representatives Ruben E. Hinojosa (TX) and Silvestre Reyes (TX), Senator Jeff Bingaman (NM) and Governor Parris Glendening (MD). Department of Education Secretary Richard Riley, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Maria Echaveste, and White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Mickey Ibarra also participated. Secretary Riley has discussed Hispanic education issues with mayors on many occasions at the Conference of Mayors Jobs, Education and Workforce Standing Committee, chaired by O'Neill.
Mayor O'Neill and other leaders in education provided proposals for action to achieve the Administration's goals for educational attainment for Hispanics. These goals, presented at the Summit and listed below, are designed to narrow gaps in educational achievement of Latinos over the next ten years:
The Administration's Goals for Improvement in Hispanic Education Achievement by 2010:
"Closing this knowledge gap is a challenge that must be met. The educational achievement of our rapidly growing Hispanic population is essential for the progress of our communities and the continued growth of our economy," said O'Neill. O'Neill also pointed out that Hispanics are underrepresented in the information technology (IT) industry, where there is a growing shortage of skilled workers. The U.S. Conference of Mayors President Boise Mayor H. Brent Coles recently appointed Mayor O'Neill to co-chair a task force on Workforce Technology Training. This presidential transition team task force will define mayoral priorities related to the skills shortage in the IT economy and ensure that both presidential campaigns include these priorities in their campaign agendas (see cover story).
The White House also released a study by the President's Council of Economic Advisors, which shows that while Hispanic students are achieving academic success, too many are lagging behind. The report indicates that high school completion rates for Hispanics are about 63 percent, while completion rates for both blacks and whites are about 88 percent. The number of Hispanics who earn degrees from four year colleges is less than half that of white students. The report also indicated that lower levels of education severely impact income potential in today's economy. A male Hispanic student who graduates from college can expect to earn 146 percent more than a male Hispanic student who does not graduate from college, as opposed to 20 years ago when the average earnings difference was 67 percent.


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Synergy opens their airball field this weekend.
Wish I could make it.
Synergy Airball
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Posted 20 September 2012 - 06:14 PM
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Posted 21 September 2012 - 10:24 PM
are you serious? also how much they charging?
Posted 21 September 2012 - 10:36 PM
I dunno. It looks nice from the picture. Sexy new grey bunkers. From the way the email read, if you have your own gear, your purchase is 10% off.
Or you could text "gotpaint" to 90210 to get like $10 off a case.
Or you could text "gotpaint" to 90210 to get like $10 off a case.
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Hi TeaChat,
I've been hunting down this info everywhere and I can't find a good call on it. As Pu'erh tea yeld 2 tons of infusions, is it possible to save the leaves for the next day or it can lead to molds and that kind of stuff?
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Protection of endangered Siberian Crane and crucial wetland sites connects biodiversity and human development
Bonn, 14 June 2010 - New conservation plans for the Siberian Crane Grus leucogeranus covering its entire range and migration routes that span continents have now been endorsed to save the species from extinction. During its annual migration, the Siberian Crane travels 5,000 kilometers from its breeding grounds in Yakutia and western Siberia, intermediate resting and feeding places, to its wintering sites in southern China and Iran respectively.
During these extensive journeys along three migration routes, called flyways, they overcome considerable obstacles such as high mountains and vast deserts. Major threats like hunting in West and Central Asia and the drainage of critical wetlands in East Asia put them at an even greater risk. Only 3,000 to 3,500 birds remain globally.
During the last century agricultural use, dams, pollution and inappropriate water management, oil and urban development have destroyed 60% of wetlands in Europe and 90 % worldwide.
The United Nations Environment Programme's Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) convened this meeting in Bonn to enhance the future of this bird species protected under the auspices of the CMS Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) concerning Conservation Measures for the Siberian Crane. This conservation tool, which was established in 1993, provided the framework for the ambitious Siberian Crane Wetland Project (SCWP) supported by UNEP's Global Environment Facility (GEF). Under the project, Government officials as well as experts and conservationists came together to adopt strategies to reduce hunting, improve water management and mitigate the impact of climate change.
CMS Executive Secretary Elizabeth Maruma Mrema said: "During the International Year of Biodiversity, CMS continues to protect this majestic bird and its wetland habitats that are critical to humans and species alike. Not only these wetland ecosystems supply drinking water, but they act as a flood defence and as carbon sink to mitigate climate change."
Captive breeding and the reintroduction of the species into the wild in West Siberia during the last 20 years have been conducted in response to significant declines in the Western and Central Asian populations, largely due to the loss of birds from hunting. The use of satellite technology for crane tracking, raising awareness at community level and better education of hunters form significant components of this conservation strategy.
The revision of the current strategy to include responses to existing and emerging threats, knowledge transfer from Europe and North America and improvements to national legislation will contribute towards a regional framework for sustainable hunting. Monitoring and research to better explore migration patterns and determine wintering grounds will help to protect the Siberian Crane across its range.
Loss of wetland habitats is a major threat to the Siberian Crane. Water management for wetland areas is therefore crucial. Agricultural use, diversion of water resources and channels has resulted in severe water shortages at Siberian Crane critical habitats. Mismanagement is being enhanced by the effects of climate change such as droughts and intensifies the pressure on species and humans in the long term.
The International Crane Foundation and Wetlands International are preparing plans with CMS and governments in Central Asia to improve the resilience of key wetlands for migratory waterbirds to climate change.
In particular, improved water resource management is envisaged at sites designated under the Western/Central Asian Site Network for the Siberian Crane and Other Migratory Waterbirds launched under the Memorandum. In this regard, the meeting designated two new sites as part of the network - the Thanedar Wala Game Reserve (Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa) and the Taunsa Barrage (Punjab), both located in Pakistan - in recognition of their importance for migratory waterbirds and potential for the Siberian Crane.
The Siberian Crane Wetland Project with US$10.3 million in GEF financing, which was initiated to make the journey of Siberian cranes and other waterbirds safer by securing major waterbird habitats, was successfully completed earlier this year. It has played a catalytic role in implementing the CMS Siberian Crane MoU and succeeded in safeguarding a network of 16 critical wetlands for waterbirds in China, Iran, Kazakhstan and Russia while securing water flows to sustain wetland ecosystem services including supplying purified water to millions of people in the Eurasian region. An expansion of the critical site network and infrastructure established earlier during the project will now be applied to hotspots in 11 countries that are signatories to the CMS Siberian Crane's MoU.
The Siberian Crane is the third most endangered crane species in the world, facing a range of threats. The ecological integrity of its main wintering site at the Poyang Lake in China's Jiangxi Province is a cause for serious concern in the face of water regulation projects affecting the system, in particular a proposal for a new dam across the connection between the Poyang Lake and the Yangtze River that may impact critical habitats required by the Siberian Crane and many other waterbirds. As Poyang Lake is the wintering site of 99% of the world's Siberian Crane population, this area is a crucial site for the future of the species.
The global population cranes come from Eastern, Central and Western Asia. The Central and Western populations are almost extinct mainly due to unsustainable and illegal hunting. Efforts focus on restoring these populations and reducing hunting pressure.
Measures against threats to habitats as a result of rapid economic development are foreseen along the Eastern Flyway. Threats to migratory waterbirds along their flyways continue to be addressed through monitoring, management and education of diverse audiences at site, national and international levels.
The Siberian Crane MoU continues to urge participating governments to expand partnerships and to fulfil their commitments towards saving the Siberian Crane and its habitats through the exchange of information and conservation action at important sites across the three flyways from Russia, to Azerbaijan and Iran in the West, through Uzbekistan to India in Central Asia and to China in the east.
Notes to Editors:
The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (Bonn Convention) is an intergovernmental treaty concluded under the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and focusing on the conservation of migratory species and their habitats. Its membership includes 113 Parties from Africa, Central and South America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. The CMS Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) concerning Conservation Measures for the Siberian Crane provides the basis for governments, NGOs and scientists to work together to save the crane species and its habitats. 11 countries and five cooperating organizations are signatories to the MoU.
At the global level the Siberian Crane is classified as "Critically endangered" by the IUCN Red List. It is included in CMS Appendix I and II and legally protected in all range states.
Global Environment Facility (GEF):
The GEF unites 179 countries in partnership with international institutions, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and the private sector to address global environmental issues while supporting national sustainable development initiatives. Today the GEF is the largest funder of projects to improve the global environment. An independent financial organization, the GEF provides grants for projects related to biodiversity, climate change, international waters, land degradation, the ozone layer, and persistent organic pollutants. Since 1991, the GEF has achieved a strong track record with developing countries and countries with economies in transition, providing $8.6 billion in grants and leveraging $36.1 billion in co-financing for more than 2,400 projects in over 165 countries. www.thegef.org
Siberian Crane Wetland Project (SCWP):
The project with the Siberian crane as flagship species to protect migratory birds was launched in 1998 with US$ 10.3 million in GEF funding to enhance public awareness and collaboration among governments, conservationists and local communities to safeguard wetlands across Eurasia. It was implemented by China, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and the International Crane Foundation with support from CMS, and provides some benefits to other range states through regional activities. www.scwp.info
International Crane Foundation (ICF):
The International Crane Foundation (ICF) is a non-governmental organization based in Wisconsin, United States, that works worldwide to conserve cranes and the wetland and grassland ecosystems on which they depend. ICF programs stress the interdependence between wildlife and their habitats and the relationships that exist between wildlife, habitat and people in Eurasia and has served as the international executing agency for SCWP. www.savingcranes.org
Wetlands International (WI):
Wetlands International (WI) is a non-governmental organisation based in Ede, the Netherlands with a mission "to sustain and restore wetlands, their resources and biodiversity for future generations". WI promotes the flyway approach to manage migratory waterbirds and their wetland habitats through building local capacity and awareness. We support the establishment and management of international networks of protected and well managed wetlands along flyways that benefit migratory waterbirds, other biodiversity and people that depend on them. www.wetlands.org
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the voice for the environment in the UN system. Established in 1972, UNEP's mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations. UNEP is an advocate, educator, catalyst and facilitator promoting the wise use of the planet's natural assets for sustainable development. It works with many partners, UN entities, international organizations, national governments, non-governmental organizations, business, industry, the media and civil society. UNEP's work involves providing support for: environmental assessment and reporting; legal and institutional strengthening and environmental policy development; sustainable use and management of natural resources; integration of economic development and environmental protection; and promoting public participation in environmental management. www.unep.org
International Year of Biodiversity
In a bid to curb the unprecedented loss of the world's species due to human activity - at a rate some experts put at 1,000 times the natural progression - the United Nations is marking 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity, with a slew of events highlighting the vital role the phenomenon plays in maintaining the life support system on Planet Earth. www.cbd.int/2010/about
For more information please contact:
UNEP/CMS Secretariat, Veronika Lenarz, Public Information, Tel.: +49 228 815 2409 or e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. www.cms.int
Further Resources
UNEP-GEF Flyaway Paper
UNEP: International Year of Biodiversity
Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Convention on Migratory Species (CMS)
International Crane Foundation (ICF)
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July 20, 2009 WIC Update
SUBJECT 1: Local Agency Plan (LAP) for 2010
SUBJECT 2: Breastfeeding Conference – September 2009
SUBJECT 3: 2010 Outreach Funding–How to Apply?
SUBJECT 4: Educational Opportunity: Understanding and Recommending Probiotics and Prebiotics
SUBJECT 5: SAVE THE DATE: Nutrition Educational Opportunity
SUBJECT 6: Update: Blood Work - Hemoglobin for Infants and Children
SUBJECT 7: Updated WIC Supply Request Form (WIC 8)
SUBJECT 8: Shipping Plan - New WIC Food Resource
SUBJECT 9: FY 2010 Local Agency Nutrition Services Contract Scope of Work
SUBJECT 10: HANDS Check Inventory
- Local Agency Plan (LAP) for 2010: Enhancements to the online LAP application have been completed and will be included in the FFY2010 LAP Training. Since the training this year is optional, a list of enhancements to make the LAP more user-friendly is included in the attached document for those who will not attend training. ASAP instructions for access to the online LAP are also attached. LAP Data will be updated and the online LAP will be ready for entry on Wednesday, July 15, 2009. If you have any questions about the ASAP instructions, LAP Training or the LAP Enhancements, you may contact Betty Cassidy at 800-392-8209 or by email email@example.com.
- Breastfeeding Conference-September 2009: Pettis County WIC and State Fair Community College are hosting a breastfeeding conference on Thursday, September 17, 2009 titled, Working Together to Promote Breastfeeding Success, A Day with Dr. Mom®. Marianne Neifert, M.D., M.T.S., nationally known as Dr. Mom®, will be the guest speaker for the daytime session. This free one-day conference will be held at the State Fair Community College in Sedalia, Missouri. Topics include: The Successful Initiation of Breastfeeding, Extending the Duration of Breastfeeding, and Troubleshooting Breastfeeding Problems. The evening session is limited to physician and hospital staff only. To attend the daytime session, please fax the attached registration form to Mary Lou Shane at 660-827-1141. For more information contact Kathy Mertzlufft at 573-526-4792 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- 2010 Outreach Funding–How to Apply: Funds will be available to develop and implement Outreach Projects for 2010.
- What has changed? Changes for this year include sending an email to your District TA Team to request the funding available to your agency. When you email your request to the TA Team, your allocation will be loaded into the LAP, allowing your detail budget to be entered. Goals, funding amounts and suggestions have remained the same as last year.
- Who can apply? Current WIC agencies
- How much funding is available? $495,000 is allocated for agencies according to the size of the agency WIC program. Amounts can be found in the guidance.
- Deadline? Each agency must request the funding by an email to their TA Team by August 1, 2009. Amounts will be loaded for each agency requesting funding. The agency will be required to enter a budget for approval on the LAP.
- Questions? Contact your District TA Team
- Educational Opportunity: The American Dietetic Association and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services' Nutrition Training Institute (NTI) will present the teleseminar, Understanding and Recommending Probiotics and Prebiotics, on Thursday, August 27, 2009 in Jefferson City. This teleseminar will help you to recognize which products meet specific scientific criteria and to make appropriate recommendations concerning Probiotics and Prebiotics. Please see the attached site registration form for details or contact Michelle Nienhuis at email@example.com with questions.
- SAVE THE DATE-Nutrition Educational Opportunity: WIC Registered Dietitians, Nutritionists, Registered Nurses, Certified Nurse Midwives, Nurse Practitioners, Physicians, and other Public Health Professionals who serve preconceptual, pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women will want to take advantage of this two-day National Maternal Nutrition Intensive Course, shown by video stream on September 9 - 10, 2009 in Jefferson City. This year's continuing education program focuses on the improvement of maternal and infant health through the delivery of risk-appropriate high-quality nutrition services. This training is presented by the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Bureau of WIC and Nutrition Services, Nutrition Training Institute; and sponsored by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration at the U.S. Department of Health and the Human Services and Food and Nutrition Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. More information will be available at a later date. If you have any questions, please contact your district nutritionist.
- Update: Blood Work - Hemoglobin for Infants and Children: The state WIC office has received concerns from local WIC providers (LWPs) about the frequency of bringing infant/child participants into the clinic for blood work. In order to meet Federal Regulation guidelines, the LWP shall continue to have blood work collected for all infants between 9 and 11 months of age.The hemoglobin may be skipped at the 12 month (1 yr.) recertification of the child. (In order to accomplish this, a new exception reason has been created.) The LWP will then collect blood for a hemoglobin test at 18 months when the child comes in for recertification. Example:
- an infant comes in at 9 months of age, blood work is taken and result entered in MOWINS;
- that child comes in at 12 months (1 yr.) of age, blood work is not taken, reason blood work was not collected "skip until 15-18 months of age" is selected;
- the child returns at 18 months of age for recertification, blood work is taken and result entered into MOWINS.
Effective August 1, 2009, when the child comes in for recertification at 12 months (1 yr.), within the Add Blood Measurement Screen the LWP will select "Skip until 15-18 months of age" as the "Reason blood work was not collected". Do not make the selection "delayed blood work" for the child at this time. ("Delayed blood work" and "Reason Blood Work was not collected" should never be selected at the same time for any participant.) Please contact the district nutritionist assigned to your county if you have further questions.
- Updated WIC Supply Request Form (WIC 8): The WIC Supply Request Form (WIC 8) has been updated. Please begin using the updated WIC 8 form effective July 20, 2009. If you have any questions, please contact Takako Tagami at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Shipping Plan - New WIC Food Resource Items: The State office has been developing various kinds of new resource materials for the WIC New Food Package Implementation which has been scheduled for October 1, 2009. The items below will be shipped to all local WIC providers early September 2009:
- Missouri WIC Approved Food List (Effective October 1, 2009 - September 30, 2011)
- Missouri WIC Approved Fruit and Vegetable List (Effective October 1, 2009 - September 30, 2011)
- Shopping Guide for Buying Fruits and Vegetables
- Using Whole Grains
- Buying Fruits and Vegetables
- Cooking Beans
- Cooking With Evaporated Milk
- Soy Food Recipes
- Mom & Baby Food Package Summary
- Food Packages for Children
- Food Packages For Moms to Be
Please check the WIC Weekly Updates for shipping dates for the WIC new food and food package posters. In the meantime, please feel free to download items from the WIC website. These items will be translated into 11 languages. The State office will notify local WIC providers when a shipping date is determined. If you have any questions, please contact Takako Tagami at email@example.com.
- FY 2010 Local Agency Nutrition Services Contract Scope of Work: Now that the online Local Agency Plan is available, you can enter your fiscal year (FY) 2010 local WIC provider plan. Knowing what changes the contract will include is an important part of that planning process. Attached is the draft version of the FY 2010 Local Agency Nutrition Services Contract Scope of Work for local WIC providers. In some instances wording was revised for clarity or changes resulting from the implementation of MOWINS. A few sections are new this year. Significant changes from the previous fiscal year are highlighted in yellow. The per-participant rate has increased from $10.00 to $10.30 for the 2010 contract year. Please contact your district technical assistance staff with any questions about the scope of work.
- HANDS Check Inventory: Please audit your COMPUTER and MANUAL check stock and send to email@example.com an e-mail listing the beginning and ending check numbers of each box of COMPUTER and MANUAL checks remaining in your inventory. After she receives the listings and compares the reported inventory to her inventory records she will send an e-mail stating that the remaining stock of HANDS and MANUAL checks can be destroyed (shredded/burned).
3-Attachment 3 - Outreach Project SOW 2010 Draft
2010 Scope of Work-Draft
Breastfeeding Conference Sept 2009
LAP Enhancements 2010
Outreach Project-2010 Guidance
Probiotics and Prebiotics Registration Request Sheet
WIC-8 Supply Request 07-17-09 Version


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So how do I tell the difference between the two?
Without going into details about the internals (which I will later on in this thread) spool valve markers tend to shoot much quieter and smoother than poppet valve markers. Spool valve markers tend to have a much smoother sound like a "shuu" kind of sound, like we hear with Luxes and DM series markers, while with poppet valve markers you tend to hear a loud "pop" kind of noise, like we hear with Egos and Intimidators.
What's best for me?
It's all personal preference on the way they shoot. If you like having a super smooth, quiet marker, with almost un-noticeable "kick" and don't mind replacing the extra o-rings and lubing the bolt more often, then spool valves are probably the right marker for you. If you like having a low maintenance, super air efficent marker, and don't mind the extra "kick" you get with poppet valve markers, then poppet valve markers are generally the best bet for you. Again, you should try out both kinds of markers, as they both have a different kind of feel to them.
Why do Poppet Valve markers have more kick than Spool Valve Markers?
It's generally due to the fact that they are a "poppet" valve. They use a hammer to open the valve, which is normally closed. That is extra force that spool valves do not use, giving them more "kick"
Edit: Kowz_76 has a point on his statement aswell. The actual bolt/rammer on a poppet valve weigh more than a spool valves bolt would weigh. That also contributes to kick.
How do spool valve markers work?
Spool valve markers usually have much fewer moving parts than the poppet valve markers, but have more o-rings.
The spool valve works when the solenoid tells the bolt to move forward, and as it pushes the ball past the detents, there is a blast of air that comes from behind the bolt. When the blast of air reaches the paintball that is past the detents, the ball is fired through the barrel at the target.
Here is an animation that should hopefully help you understand this better.
How do poppet valve markers work?
Poppet valve markers use a hammer, or rammer, to hit a poppet valve that is shut when not hit by the rammer. The solenoid tells the bolt/rammer to move forward. When the rammer hits the poppet valve, pressured air is let through a pathway, to the bolt. The air then rushes through the bolt, that has pushed the ball through the detents while the rammer is moving toward the poppet valve, toward the ball, which is fired through the barrel at the target. Here is an animation that should hopefully help you understand this better.
Most poppet valve markers are stacked tube designs, with the exception of the Angel. Most spool valve markers are single tube designs.
Hopefully, I clairified any confusion you have with poppet/spool valve markers.
If you have any questions, or anything to add, please, reply to this thread, or shout a pm to me!
Mikes video:
For other animations please visit http://www.zdspb.com...animations.html
EDIT: Here is some work by Lotus, explaining the differences between low end spools and poppets, and how they work.
This is an attempt to explain the different internals and also what differentiates the low-end, the mid-end, and the high-end markers. It can also help you understand exactly how your marker operates. Keep in mind this is going to be very technical, so be prepared.
Poppet Valve
Poppet Valves are basically a rubber seal held in place by a spring. They are opened by either a rammer striking it and opening it, or being pulled open. In paintball, we typically see the former. Most poppet valve designs are actually based off of the Spyder, seen below:
This basic design is typically referred to as a stacked tube "blowback" poppet. The bolt and ram are connected with a pin, and the ram is cycled backward and forward. At rest, the spring is compressed. When the trigger is pulled, a sear releases the rammer allowing the spring to move the rammer and bolt forward. At the end of the forward stroke, not only has the ball been sealed in the breech, but also the rammer strikes the poppet valve opening the airways not only to propel the ball forward, but also to push the rammer back to rest. While the rammer is returning to its resting position, it brings the bolt back with it. In this original Spyder design, the mechanisms used to cycle the rammer and hold it in place are 100% mechanical.
This changes in Dangerous Power's Fusion design, seen below:
Those moving red dots represent a spring in this diagram. You can see them being compressed to the right of the rammer (the rammer is green). This design is referred to as a FASOR design: forward air, spring operated return. Although this is still an electro, the solenoid only needs to direct air to one spot: behind the rammer. This air propels the rammer forward which then opens the poppet firing the ball. The spring which has been compressed during the forward movement then returns the rammer to its original position. Because air only needs to be directed to one spot, this marker makes use of a one-way solenoid. The use of a spring means a cheaper cost, but increased NVH (noise vibration harshness) and it can lead to more kick.
This is different from the Intimidator/Ego design seen below (note, this is an Ego. Intimidators are extremely similar but have one minor difference that I don't think is important enough to discuss)
As you can see, in this design the ram is cycled solely by air and there are no springs present. Also, the air is low pressured fed by an Low Pressure Regulator (LPR), making it smoother, gentler on paint, and more efficient. You'll also notice that the solenoid must direct air to two different locations in this design. First the air propels the rammer forward like the Fusion design, but there is no spring. Instead the return mechanism is air directed to the other side of the rammer. Because air needs to be directed to both sides of the rammer, a two-way solenoid is needed. This means this marker is going to be more expensive, but also higher performance since it will not require a spring and therefore has less NVH and kick than the Fusion design.
That's the basic hierarchy of the Stacked Tube Poppet. Next are two completely different and independent poppet designs. The first is the Marq series:
This is an in-line poppet, similar to the Intimidator/Ego design, except it has all been placed in the upper tube. This still requires a two-way solenoid and an LPR, and there are no return springs present. Also, since the rammer and bolt are in-line, there is greatly reduced kick to this marker because there is no off-axis forces (don't worry about that sentence if you didn't understand it. In short, in-line poppet = less kick). However, you can see that the compressed air used to fire the marker has area to expand before firing the ball, so this decreases efficiency. Maintenance is also more difficult, as you can imagine. However, the efficiency is still good and maintenance is very similar to a spool-valve, and it is also smooth.
Then we have the Invert Mini. I'm willing to bet that some of you will not be able to understand the following diagram, but I'll do my best to explain it:
Again, those red moving dots are a spring. This spring keeps the bolt held back in place. This uses a one-way solenoid to move the bolt forward against the spring. As you can see, when the bolt has moved forward all the way, there is an opening connecting the air pushing the bolt forward to the firing chamber. You'll see the purple air expand in both directions when this opens up, both towards the ball and towards the poppet. This opening I'm talking about is actually a spool-valve incorporated into the design. The air, after pushing the bolt forward, goes to the rear of the firing chamber, and then hits on the poppet. While this air strikes the poppet on one side, you can see that the pressure drops on the other side. This pull/push opens the poppet, thereby firing the ball. Yes, in this case the air is the rammer that opens the poppet. It's very strange, and I hope you can follow that because it's not the easiest to explain. This is also an in-line poppet. However, it uses a spring to return the marker to rest and uses a one-way solenoid. This means that it will have increased NVH and kick. Also, due to the way the air travels, it will not be as efficient as any other poppet since it is also a spool-valve. Worse even than the Marq. Also, maintenance is more difficult, however it's still not bad.
Spool Valves
A spool-valve is a valve design where the bolt opens up an air chamber when it moves forward. The basic spool-valve design is the ProtoMatrixRail/Ion/Vibe design. The Ion and Rail have virtually the same valve design, with the rail having a weird extra feature that vents some excess air out the back of the bolt while sealing the firing chamber (don't worry about that). Here is the diagram:
As you can see, there are no springs. Spool-valves are typically smoother than Poppets, but less efficient and arguably harder to maintain due to the increased amount of moving O-Rings. The air is constantly applied to the rear of the chamber, with a one-way solenoid directing air to the front. When firing, the solenoid cuts off air flow to the front of the bolt. The constant air supply to the rear propels the bolt forward, eventually opening up a passageway for the air in the rear to launch the ball. The solenoid then re-applies the air to the front of the bolt to return the marker to rest. There are three important aspects to this design. First, there is no LPR. Second, it only requires a one-way solenoid. Third, the air acting on the two sides of the bolt are different from one another, or in other words this is an unbalanced spool-valve. These are very cheap to produce due to the one-way solenoid and lack of an LPR, yet are still very smooth with little NVH because there are no springs present. However they aren't as efficient or as smooth as the following designs because the valves are unbalanced and, to some degree, there is no LPR. Also, the increased amount of moving O-Rings in this design means that it is prone to bolt-stick, and will be a bit harder to maintain.
This is the Threshold/G3/Rev-I design:
This is very similar in principle to the Rail/Ion/Vibe design, but very different in practice. As you can see, it still uses a one-way solenoid holding the bolt back, there is no LPR, and the valve is still unbalanced. However, as you can also see, the bolt is very simple, much lighter, and it has fewer O-Rings. This means it is less prone to bolt stick, it can be more efficient, has less kick, and is also a bit easier to maintain. However, remember this is still cheap to produce and unbalanced so there's still room for improvement.
The Matrix Design (Proto Matrix and Dye Matrix, this is NOT the PMR design. the PMR's design is the same as the Ion's design):
This is similar to the Rail/Ion/Vibe design. However it has two major differences. First, the air cycling the bolt back and forth are applied to the exterior of the bolt in an even fashion by a two-way solenoid. This means that unlike the previous designs, the Matrix is actually balanced. It will be even smoother than the others. The second major difference is that the firing chamber seals itself when the marker fires. In all the previous designs, the firing chamber stayed open to the HPR the entire time. In this design you can clearly see how the air flow from the HPR is cut, or sealed during the firing cycle by those two rear-most o-rings. This seal means that the HPR's recharge rate does not effect the consistency of the marker at all. In other words, these markers are more consistent. The Matrix design also makes use of an LPR to cycle the bolt.
This is the Shocker/Luxe design:
As you can see, very similar to the Matrix design. The valve is balanced and fed by a two-way solenoid. However, where the Matrix's air was input near the rear, the Shocker is fed from near the feedneck. This does not use an LPR to cycle the bolt.
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The review in question is not a fundamentalist screed against defamers of the faithful, but the voice of Rutgers professor Jackson Lears, whose critics describe him as a "man of the left" in a "magazine of the left." Lears reviews three books by Sam Harris, who to Lears is a "scientific fundamentalist." Harris, in turn, has responded that Lears's review is "idiotic." It isn't.
We can only hit some high spots of Lears-on-Harris and hope that readers will all follow through by reading the whole article, one of the best short criticisms yet of the old/new or new/old atheism.
Lears locates the genre in a "back-to-1910" cultural fashion in which now "deregulation" and "starvation of the public sector" have returned to the pre-World War I style. The key in philosophy, including manifestly in Harris's works, "depends on the reductionist belief that the entire universe, including all human conduct, can be explained with reference to precisely measurable, deterministic physical processes." The positivists, their outlook revisited by Harris, "assumed that science was the only sure guide to morality, and the only firm basis for civilization." With them came "pop-evolutionary notions of progress," "scientific racism and imperialism" and, most measurably, "eugenics" and the like.
Sociologists of knowledge (Karl Mannheim, Peter Berger, Thomas Kuhn and others) countered positivism, but it has come back in the works of authors Lears cites. They were also countered, in turn, by fellow scientists who found it philosophically and scientifically weak. But since 9/11 it is back again in Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and, of course, Harris, who now "press the case against religion with renewed determination and fire."
The Christian Right's absolutism next provided a fat target, and Islamic fundamentalism one even fatter. Its presence legitimates torture — in Harris's books, at least — while "multiculturalism, moral relativism, political correctness, tolerance even of intolerance," writes Harris, hobbles "the West" in its war against "radical Islam."
Harris argues that to be un-hobbled, the West must reject "both religion and cultural relativism, and [embrace] science as the true source of moral value." Lears praises sciences but rejects the implicit (and sometimes explicit) metaphysic, which the new atheists do not discern in their putatively scientific empirical approach to morality. How Harris roots his metaphysic in brain research, which is his main work, and how Lears criticizes it is a story too complex for this brief article, but is available in Lears's essay.
The title term "Infidelity," the colonial and early modern word for atheism, agnosticism, and radical religion through three centuries, was the topic of my Ph.D. dissertation in 1956 in "The Uses of Infidelity." Protestant conservatives would show how unmoored Christianity and faith in general were when infidels, never great threats on their own, got a hold of them. Now again, it is usually "infidels" who do the most telling reviews of fellow infidels' books. Conservatives through the decades hollered, and gave those of other faiths and no faiths a potency they had otherwise not known. Now, again?
Martin E. Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at The University of Chicago. He's authored many books, including Pilgrims in Their Own Land and Modern American Religion.
This essay is reprinted with permission of Sightings from the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School.


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so... got some blackboard paint. wondering what dimensions of board I should make.
suggestions that we talked about at the meeting were to have a hinged kind of thing that you can take down and whatnot and then suggestion that it goes above the coffee machine in front of all the weird and somewhat random/rarely used things on the shelves there.
so what do you reckon ?
I can measure that up & make a board to fit so that you can move it, it's hinged on the top (probably holes in the board on to nails much like event board) and not too big so it doesn't interfere with the coffee machine.
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Skip to comments.Rubio went to a Mormon church as a kid
Posted on 02/23/2012 7:47:04 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
From the Miami Herald, a little-known detail about Sen. Marco Rubio's personal story:
When Marco was 8 years old and living in Las Vegas, the Rubio family attended a Mormon church for a few years.
It's a tidbit just released by the publisher of his memoirs. It's also a piece of the history of Rubio, a rising party star and one of the best-known Hispanic officials in the GOP, that comes as a surprise.
UPDATE: The incomparable Molly Ball points out via Twitter, "Rubio's cousin Mo Denis is Mormon D state sen. in NV." Rubio is a practicing Catholic.
His spokesman, Alex Conant, fills out the history a bit, saying, "His family attended Mormon church in Vegas starting when he was around 8 years old, and then returned to the Catholic Church when he was around 11. He received his first communion in Catholic Church in Las Vegas in 1984, and subsequently was confirmed and married in a Catholic Church."
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
OMG!! Is he damaged?
Thank God, he left! Many like me are saved from Mormonism.
Possible reason for Paul giving Romney a pass in every debate and playing his attack dog against any conservative that showed promise?
Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals #4 "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules
Is Paul an enemy in our midst?
Another reason to like this family, they were smart enough to leave.
Does the Mormon church allow latinos? Maybe they were pretending like they were Italian.
I am LDS and do not hold it against him or his family that he left the LDS church. Everyone has the right to make their own choices. I would expect nobody should hold it against an 8-11 year old that his parents chose to attend and LDS church for those years when he was a child.
They used their own free conscience and their rights to worship as they see fit and made the choice they desired and felt was right in their heart. God bless them...they are good, decent, honest people.
He is also a strong conservative and loves this nation and its constitution.
I'd vote for Marco Rubio in a heart beat and know he would do far, far better for this nation than anyone in the Obama admin, and most in the GOP if the truth be told.
Oh No!
The implication is he is a stealth Mormon?
What a stretch.
The horror! He may end up as damaged as our contingent of mormon-obsessed posters! Arggghhhhh!
What a strange statement Jeff. It does say much about lds, however.
Rubio is trying to normalize his endorsed candidate, Bishop Romney.
At least the Mormons don't behead you if you leave.
Oh the humanity!
There are some here on FR who, at the mere mention of the word 'MORMON' begin jactitating like gut-shot coyotes...
Let me see, we have a counterfeit christian in the whitehouse one whose "religion" no one was to mention during his election so it was never reported. On the other hand, we have a guy who has said he is not running in an election but the dutiful press scanning the horizon for anyone who might just some day appear as a boggy on His Excellency's relection screen, so they have to blast him for his adolescent years in a church.
But they NEVER report that Obama attended a madrasah in Indonesia.............
**Rubio is a practicing Catholic.**
A convert from Mormonism! I know many who have become Catholic after practicing mormonism for awhile.
They didn't like the secrets and disobeying God's laws.
...and what on earth does that simple statement say about LDS in generl, svcw? That we do not hold it against people for making a free will choice?
You may stretch it out to be some kind of conspiratal statement about LDS folks in general if you want...but it is a rediculous stretch.
My advise would be to give it a rest. You're seeing shadows behind every corner in the broad daylight.
"At least the Mormons dont behead you if you leave".
They used to. Read up on Bill Hickman, Porter Rockwell, Brigham Young and Blood Atonement. Check out the pre-1990 temple ceremony, where they did a throat slashing oath.
Leaving the LDS church is a sin that earns the violator eternal Outer Darkness.
"Rubio is trying to normalize his endorsed candidate, Bishop Romney."
Or maybe it's the opposite. The bishop trying to normalize his planned VP pick.
Jeff, good job of deflection.
I know people who have left mormonism who have been shunned by their families, former friends and co workers. Their decision to leave mormomism nearly destroyed them personally because of the way they were treated by these "good" people. I know people who do not leave (so much for free choice) because they know how they will be treated.
I stand by my statement, your statement was strange and it says much about lds.
Who reads Politico anymore? It has become a stinky piece of Lib feces.
No sweetie, just a heads up.
It is mormonISM that is the issue not mormons.
It is exposing mormonISM, there's no jactitating about that.
Try and keep up.
No wonder Romney's looking at him, I'd check for the all seeing eye tatoo under the hairline, it's usually right at the crown of the head. It's all true, can I get a Amen.
Gee, and I thought the article was about Rubio attending a Mormon Church as a child?
You and your ilk will not be satisfied until the last Mormon is dragged through the streets to Smithfield.
No deflection meant or attempted, svcw. That's just more shadow boxing you're engaging in.
If you want to go there, then you better include Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Church of Christ, Lutheran, Amish, etc., etc. (almost any religious denomination) in your definition. I've seen people shunned in many denominations in my 56 years because they left their church...or married outside of it, etc..
So, sure, some people shunm others because they leave the "faith." As I said, it happens in all religions. Families do it, former friends do it, etc.
It does not make it right, it does not make it Christ-like, and it certainly does not say anything about the broader population of those denominations any more than it does about the LDS. Most good people in all of them...and that is the majority of people in all of them...do not do so.
As I said...you ought to give it a rest. With all due respect, there's really not a bad Mormon boogey-man hiding under every rock..
No damage done, just shows how smart they were.
Correction: You got that right, they got out....
Oh, honey try and keep up.
It's not secret, it's sacred, lol.
Good job, answering statements not presented.
This thread is about Rubio's family walking away from mormonISM, I say good for them.
You want to defend shunning of members who leave by trying to change to subject, go ahead, it shows you have learned your lessons well.
Ron Paul is a hypocrite. Romney is the opposite of what Paul says HE stands for, yet he has never said an negative word about him. He is manipulating people (young people are easy to convince and control) and he is using this process, not to win, but to alter the outcome for Romney. I wish more people (besides Conservatives) would recognize this.
This talk of VP for Paul is either crazy (9-11 an inside job) or not true.
Defending? You need a course in reading comrehension. I did not defend it. I said it was wrong and something I would not and do not do.
I simply stated that it occurs in all religions and your statements that it somehow says something about the LDS that I indicated I did not hold it against them somehow implied LDS were guilty of the same would have to be expanded to include those others who do the same thing.
...and that's just the truth. I also indicated that the fact that a few people do so, does not indict the much larger populations in all of those denominations who do not...as you would like to indict the LDS church membership at large.
Jeez, talk about a strecth!
Anyhow, I did want to say that I agree wholeheartidly with your post on your FR page about the aims and steps the Islamics take in a nation such as ours to destroy our liberty and ultimately institute Sharia Law.
You ought to write a whole thread about that. It is a danger we all can and should untie to defend against and I would ping many people to it.
There is a big different between Christanity that has been here for 2000 years and a cult that was started 187 years ago. People better start talking about mormon beliefs because obama WILL What happens when obama tells people (how many Christians/Catholics are in this country?) that mormons believe Jesus is satans brother or that they think they are a lessor god and will become a greater god on there own planet. He will have hollywood writing about this and snl doing cornhead skits again of romney on his planet. That is just a few of the things they believe. I think we have to talk about this and not silence people. If mormons are so sure of there beliefs why do so many want to call themselves christians or try to hide or deny what they believe. If they want to deny it, obama won't let them.
Wow, this is really bad...imagine if he had attended services at a synagogue. That would really make him an evil person.
"Or maybe its the opposite. The bishop trying to normalize his planned VP pick."
I have been listening to Rush. Rush is pointing out that Romney and Ron Paul have made an alliance. Ron Paul cuts down every other candidate except Romney. The alliance is when the time comes the VP pick will be Rand Paul.
I watched last nights debate and I think Rush is right on.
Given he was born to foreigners, yeas, he is "damaged" (as far as being qualified for VP or POTUS).
Ya. Ron is paving the way for Rand. I felt that from the gitgo. Ron just too old to be Pres. VP, etc. However, I in no way predicted Ron would be running as strong as he appears (in some areas).
Rubio belongs to the Christ Fellowship nondenominational Church in West Kendall, Fla., where he has attended for the last six years.
Blood atonement for apostasy
Most discussion of blood atonement during the Mormon Reformation concerned the killing of "covenant breakers." The greatest covenant breakers were thought to be "apostates," who according to early Mormon doctrine would become sons of perdition and for whom "there is no chance whatever for exaltation." Nevertheless, Brigham Young believed that blood atonement would have at least some benefit. Young's first discussion of blood atonement in 1845 concerned a man who may have been considered an apostate in Nauvoo, Illinois . On February 8, 1857, Young said, regarding apostates, that "if their blood had been spilled, it would have been better for them." Young warned these apostates that although "[t]he wickedness and ignorance of the nations forbid this principle's being in full force, ...the time will come when the law of God will be in full force," meaning that apostates would be subject to theocratic blood atonement.In August 1857, Heber C. Kimball echoed Young's statements about apostates, stating that "if men turn traitors to God and His servants, their blood will surely be shed, or else they will be damned, and that too according to their covenants."
Apostle Heber C. Kimball (1802 - 1868):
I have not a doubt but there will be hundreds who will leave us and go away to our enemies. I wish they would go this fall: it might relieve us from much trouble; for if men turn traitors to God and His Servants, their blood will surely be shed, or else they will be damned, and that too according to their covenants.
- Apostle Heber C. Kimball, Journal of Discourses, v. 4, p. 375; online at http://journals.mormonfundamentalism.org/Vol_04/refJDvol4-70.html
I don't know how old you are, but I am old enough to remember all the times Ron has run and his crazyness. The young Mush heads in school now and the 40-50 generation don't know all that and they love the fact he talks about getting rid of the war on drugs, bring all military home, no bases in foriegn countrys etc;
No, they do stop just short of that. they take your prooerty, and try to take your wife and kids. Read The God Makers. Ed Decker left the LDS church. He is the co-author.
No, they do stop just short of that. they take your prooerty, and try to take your wife and kids. Read The God Makers. Ed Decker left the LDS church. He is the co-author.
You must live an unusual life to have witnessed so many shunnings from so many various Christian denominations, most of us have never seen a single "shunning" from a Christian denomination.
Many, or even most non-Mormons married outside of their own denomination for instance, and we never even heard of "shunning" until we read about Mormons.
Don't you find it almost amusing that so many mormons know all these "things" Christians do to their members and if you say "what" they accuse you of being blind to your own denominations.
I have seen churches split of really stupid stuff and still get together for pot lucks once a month or so because they are all still brothers and sisters in Christ after all.
obvious left propaganda to try and undermine rubio politically
Rubio is as much of a digbat as Willard Romney. This article says Rubio was baptised in the Morman faith. He went from being a Catholic to being a Morman, now back to Catholic again. He's not much of Catholic and commits a sin against his Church by not going to Mass, by now attending a Baptist church. This is a weird man folks.
He sounds to me like a big time opportunist who plays to whatever crowd he's trying to get a vote from.
His family was Catholic and went to lds when he was a kid. As an young adult he returned to Catholicism, now attends a Baptist Church, which he and his family have been attending for years.. I am not sure why that is an issue.
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Meet Rowland Jefferies Cutler,
production designer and art director for Saving Dinah
Saving Dinah Productions was fortunate to have the talented Toronto production designer/art director, Rowland Jefferies Cutler, generously volunteering his time and expertise on the sets of Saving Dinah. Not only does Rowland design for film and television, he also is a sought after interior decorator for many notable and prestigious clients; his specialty is ecologically-sustainable interior design.
Animal Alliance and Saving Dinah Productions have much to thank Rowland and his partner Zana Ancerl for having provided us with professional furniture, props and police cars hot off the sets of some of Toronto's hottest TV shows. Zana is a buyer with several popular TV programs shot in Toronto. Without Rowland and Zana, the footage of Saving Dinah would not look as good as it does. And it does look good.
Lucky for me, Rowland graciously agreed to let me interview him about his professional work as well as his love for animals.
Karen: Rowland, you have a relationship with Animal Alliance of Canada. Could you tell me something about that?
Rowland: My partner Zana and I have donated and been on the Animal Alliance of Canada mailing list for years, which led to our meeting Liz and thru Liz, Stephen Best and Barbara Kyle.
(Liz, of course, is Liz White, the executive director of Animal Alliance and the executive producer of Saving Dinah. Stephen Best and Barbara Kyle make up the writing team behind the script, Saving Dinah, and Stephen, who is the founder of Environmental Voters and the force behind the Animal Alliance Environment Voters federal political party, also directed the production.)
Karen: What is it that you do for a living?
Rowland: I am a Toronto-based, freelance designer with a background in film production as Set Decorator, Art Director and Production Designer, and Interior Design. Visit: www.sustainable-living.ca
Karen: Liz mentioned that you had some connection to the film, Easy Rider, and were also in a rock band. I'd love to hear about this.
Rowland: I managed a musical group The Holy Modal Rounders and negotiated for several of their songs to be incorporated in the film. Group affiliations The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and the Jon Lee Group.
Karen: Why did you offer to volunteer for the set design on Saving Dinah and what made you personally interested in the project of Saving Dinah?
Rowland: Both the writing and the subject offered something of quality to work with. As Production Designer and Artistic Director, my job is to visually interpret the story and add a sense of allure, drama and glamour to the sets and character of the actors.
Karen: You have created incredible sets for Saving Dinah. Do you have any favourites and if so, why?
Rowland: No. They all sell the story equally.
Karen: Has there been one memorable day on the Saving Dinah set that you could tell about? It could be a
great day or a tough day that stands out in your memory.
Rowland: Each day was an incredible success in visual and composition dynamics. Stephen, ( who was brilliant with the cast in pulling stellar performances from them) at the end of the day came away with great footage. Some days were more challenging because of the record breaking temperatures.
Karen: Do you live with companion dog? If so, what breed?
Rowland: This is one of the few times we haven't had a dog. Our last dog , 'Singi' , was a Basenji .
Karen: Has there been an experience with a dog that has changed your life? If so, how?
Rowland: Companion animals enrich life. Their unconditional love heals. They keep you in touch with your soul.
Karen: Did you know anything about the issues that companion animals face before Saving Dinah? If so, what? And how did you learn of them?
Rowland: Yes, for many years, through Animal Alliance and other animal cause organizations. Dinah is important because the plot sheds light on animal cruelty and the human condition and 'arrangements' that allow it. A zeitgeist for issues that need to be addressed. It has 'cult' potential.
Karen: How has working on the Saving Dinah project changed you?
Rowland: I've lost weight ! Hah !
Karen: Is there anything else you'd like people to know about you? Your family? The work or hobbies you have outside of theatre? Anything?
Rowland: Thru my partner, Zana's connections, the Dinah production was able to have expensive scenes with police uniform$, police car$, a police $tation, a complete ho$pital room, co$tumes, fabric$, pillow$ etc.,which our budget could not afford. Zana Claus made it possible!
Karen: Where do you go from here? Will you be working on another set or designing a home?
Rowland: We are breaking ground on an Alternative energy house design of mine ECOHAUS 1300 (using solar and passive solar materials, heat storing concrete floors) and other off grid solutions. Visit: www.sustainable-designbuild.ca
Karen: Wow! That's all I can think to say! Rowland, you can design for me any time. Can you design around dust bunnies of dog and cat fur? But I do want to add that Rowland is one of the most gracious and humble professionals I have met in the film industry and we could not have been more fortunate to have him and his partner Zana contributing their talents and genious to our production. When we screen Saving Dinah, you can be sure that Rowland and Zana's stamp will be on every scene.


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From Concrete to what Louis Armstrong sangPosted Tuesday, September 13, 2011, at 9:20 PM
I thought I'd share my weekend trips with you. Now that I'm back in town for the year/Fall/Winter/Spring ...I have to do a bit of commuting. I could stay home, and long for the open valleys and high mountain tops. But I choose not to. In less than (sometimes) 3 hours, I can go from hard tops to a little red roof house in the valley. I noticed things as I was going along, and thought I'd record the drive.
these are just taken with my phone, so 'scuse the quality
This is along the highway alongside Boise
Along the State Highway, after Eagle
To the right of me, is what is called "Avimor Estates"
I LOVE when I can start seeing the signs to McCall! Yay!
I also love when I can start seeing glimpses of the Payette River
It's funny, when Wayne saw this picture he said "It's funny you got a picture of that bus. It went right by our house" So, if you don't feel like you'd want to drive, there are buses to take you on a pleasant excursion.
It's starting to smell soooo good.... I wish this blog site had a "ScratchNSnif" capability!
It's just a bit pretty huh?
I'm so close now, and now things are so beautiful to see, I'm relaxing already.
Scout is anxious to get there also. He is sure the pups have been "bad" while he is gone. But he comes home with "Mom" to be the guardian. He will beat them up though, ever so lovingly
The concrete is fading from my mind, ...can you possibly wonder why I love this?
Is this what Louis Armstrong sang of...Skies of BLUE?? And of course, Clouds of WHITE
Then I get there, and see my horses.....all is well
How do you do?
I see babies...I watch them grow
We go for a drive, and maybe do some salting ...and go by the lake and the trees of Green
And Scout wants his picture taken
What a Wonderful World
You may have a different world, but however it is, you need to enjoy it. It's YOURS
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Thanks Skeeter. I know some people think that horses being worked is mean. But, My horses ARE happy. They come a runnin'/trottin' when we call. We let them have their thoughts, and encourage them. We also have strict structure for them. I believe horses and children prefer structure and "lines" ..without that, they would always be looking for the line. My kids, grand kids and horses KNOW what's allowed and what's NOT allowed, so they can be happy not wondering. And they get plenty of love and fun too....
they are healthy and happy.... what's not to love
Thanks for appreciating them
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Thu, Sep 15, 2011, at 12:23 PM
Nice. Horses look especially healthy and happy.
-- Posted by skeeter on Thu, Sep 15, 2011, at 5:47 AM
We must be like twins, they keep getting our blogs mixed up.
Thank you for your kind words. I am pretty comfortable in what I believe and there are very few things that make me mad, but I do have limits. We cannot keep stepping on each others toe with comments that are thoughtless and personal.
If you take some pics of Camp Cascade, they have a long driveway and I think that there is a gate there too. It has been over 35 years since I was there.
Thank you for keeping the beauty of God's Creations alive for us all.
-- Posted by KH Gal on Tue, Sep 13, 2011, at 10:22 PM
Bonnie, very pretty pictures. I've made that drive a few times myself and love it. One of my other favorite drives is up Grimes Creek Rd. up past the end of the asphalt all the way to Centerville. I am just about ready to try and get away for a day or 2.
-- Posted by royincaldwell on Tue, Sep 13, 2011, at 10:08 PM
Bonnie, you just have to be like me in some ways. Sometimes you just can't make "those folks" think nice,....
I prefer to live in "My World" .... but for sure I see the stuff that is ugly and dismal. I worry, and yep, sometimes they get me down. The thing is, I KNOW I"M RIGHT.
Years ago, I was frustrated at someone who didn't believe in Jesus, etc. I was horrified and shocked, dissappointed, and afraid that I wouldn't be able to "say the right things" I can't quote scriptures much, or versus..etc... but my faith is so strong, that I wasn't comfortable saying nothing. It wouldn't have mattered, but it was someone so near and dear to my heart and soul. Another dear friend of mine said, and this is not verbatim. but something along the lines of
When you know, you know, What IS, is. It doesn't need to be defended or convinced of. It will never change. And it/HE will be there when anyone/everyone is ready, and it's inevitable, they will come in their own time.
I have rarely wasted another second/minute on worrying about that, because HE will take care of it, in his Forgiveness
I worry, but I have Faith and GREAT OPTIMISM. And the World is a Wonderful Place...and I'm reveling in it. I"m sharing the beauty as best I can, and helping as many as I can to appreciate what is available out there. As are you, in your way.
Don't let them get ya down!
hey...I saw on my way home a sign saying "Camp Cascade" last Sunday. Whatcha wanna bet I go in and take some pics next time??????
Chin up! And keep doing what you're doing. Don't give the satisfaction!
-- Posted by jessiemiller on Tue, Sep 13, 2011, at 9:40 PM
I needed some of that beauty, thank you. I am so disappointed in some people right now.
I shouldn't be out trying to run with the big dogs.
I love the pics. It makes me homesick. I remember that particular ride to McCall.
Thank you for continuing to make the world a beautiful place with your pictures.
-- Posted by KH Gal on Tue, Sep 13, 2011, at 9:25 PM
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Ethel C. Anderson
Ethel C. Anderson, 91, of Warren, Pa., passed away Sunday afternoon, July 21, 2013, at Warren Manor Nursing Home.
Born Dec. 22, 1921, in East Hickory, Pa., she was the daughter of the late Johnathan Elmer and Mary Herman Combs.
On Oct. 21, 1943, in East Hickory, Pa., she married Robert "Bob" Anderson, who died Sept. 15, 2003.
Ethel was a resident of Warren for most of her life, and was employed with the former Solar Electric making invasion tubes during World War II. She had also been employed with Sylvania and New Process Co. Ethel was a member of Grace United Methodist Church, where she was a junior choir helper and was a member of the funeral luncheon committee. She was also a member of the Warren Women's Christian Club, the Alaskan Children's Circle and the Frewsburg (NY) American Legion Ladies Auxiliary. Ethel had been a member of the PTA and was a former Brownie and Girl Scout leader. She was known for her personality and for her heart of gold. She could strike up a conversation with anyone. Ethel loved her family and enjoyed her grandkids' baseball games, cooking, baking, canning, gardening and loved visiting with neighbors and helping others.
Ethel is survived by three daughters: Gayle Toner of Warren, Pa., Kimberley M. Hawley of Penfield, N.Y., and Lynda (Randy) Grey of Frewsburg, N.Y.; and seven grandchildren: William W. (Sandrita) Toner II of Columbia, Md., Susan Toner Hoover of Erie, Pa., Brandon M. Hawley, Mitchell Hawley and Pierce G. Hawley, all of Penfield, NY, Kyle A. Grey and Connor R. Grey, both of Frewsburg, N.Y., one great-grandson, Ronin Toner of Columbia, Md.; and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, and husband, Ethel was preceded in death by three brothers, Jonathan Elmer Combs, William "Boots" F. Combs and John F. Combs; and four sisters: Mary Firster, Mabel Holtz, Nettie Jane Combs and Elizabeth Kingston.
Friends may call from 2-4 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, July 24, 2013, at the Donald E. Lewis Funeral Home Inc., 304 E. St., Warren, Pa., using the rear entrances. Friends may also call on Wednesday at Grace United Methodist Church, Pennsylvania Avenue East and Prospect Street, Warren, Pa., from noon until 1 p.m. at which time funeral services will be held with the Rev. Kevin Haley, pas-tor, officiating. Interment will follow in Oakland Cemetery.
Those wishing to place memorials may do so through Hospice of Warren County, 2 Crescent Park, Warren, PA 16365, or to Grace United Methodist Church, Pennsylvania Ave-nue East and Prospect St., Warren, PA 16365. E-mail condolences may be sent by visiting www.lewisfuneralhomeinc.


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The Web site never really intended to change the way human relationships were conducted. With 50-million members, that just happened.
By ERIC DEGGANS
Published February 18, 2006
In St. Petersburg, a single mother is using it to jump-start her longtime dream: a jazz singing career. In New York City, a comic long on show biz credits and short on name recognition has used it to build a nationwide fan base for his work.
And in Brandon, police arrested a high school teacher they say used it to talk about sex with an underage girl.
Welcome to the wild universe of MySpace.com, where more than 50-million users are redefining the nature of human relationships, taking the world's most successful online networking service in directions likely never intended by its creators.
"You know you've got a good piece of software when people use it for purposes for which the designers never intended or designed for," said Clay Shirky, an associate instructor at New York University who researches electronic networks and their effect on the social lives of users.
"MySpace's success is a big surprise," he said. "But underneath that is the idea that someone made software that allowed people to talk to each other in a fresh way. And there is a bottomless desire . . . in the amount and ways people want to talk to each other."
On MySpace, people talk by creating profiles: a page on the service's Web site which can feature a picture, blurb about yourself, a Web log (basically, an online diary), information on schools you've attended, bands you like, movies you idolize and even a sample of your favorite song.
Once your profile is established, you can ask other users to join your circle of friends, who can share material with ease. The free service cleverly bundles a range of popular features - photo galleries, e-mail, blogs, Web pages and instant messages - in a highly addictive format, which grows virally as more users get involved.
"What appealed to me about MySpace . . . was a way to have a direct relationship with people who enjoy your stuff," said Jim Gaffigan, a stand-up comic who once starred in his own TV sitcom, CBS's Welcome to New York, and now has a performance special airing on the Comedy Central cable channel. "Silly as it sounds, it's kind of flattering to go through 15 pages of people who want to be your friend."
Gaffigan maintains his MySpace account personally (unlike some stars), answering e-mails from fans and alerting them to shows coming up in their area - sometimes amassing a backlog of 400 messages.
"On MySpace . . . the whole demographic of the stand-up comedy fan has changed," said Gaffigan, 39. "It's like an indie band thing. People think they've discovered you."
Some users collect friends like baseball cards, racking up large tallies of contacts the same way teenagers once traded telephone numbers. Others keep a tight circle of pals they have already met offline, using the service to communicate faster.
Over MySpace's two-year existence, such users have reinvented what friendship means, creating an online universe of connections they may never have met - and whose true identities they may never learn - but who still know quite a bit about them.
Fifteen-year-old Christine Foster joined the service about 18 months ago, mostly because so many of her friends from St. Petersburg High School - 20 or so, by her offhand count - were already there.
Then 14, Christine lied about her age to avoid the service's screening software, which bars young users from accepting messages sent by strangers.
Her mother, Wendy Foster, insisted Christine reconfigure her page, concerned that some of the photographs and information was inappropriate. This is a common tale among parents whose young children use MySpace, where anonymity and an uninhibited atmosphere encourages edgy content.
Christine's current profile is a collection of tidbits about her life - pictures of friends, a list of interests (Jesus Christ and basketball), a desire to meet President Bush - set to automatically play a tune by indie-rockers the Scene Aesthetic.
Already a veteran of Xanga (another networking Web site like Friendster and Facebook), she is careful to keep her last name and telephone number off her profile. And even though Christine's list of contacts has swelled to 287 people, the teen insists she mostly uses MySpace to talk with real-life friends and check out new, undiscovered bands.
"People automatically assume I'm out there to meet up with a bunch of strange people, but that's a big stereotype," said Foster, who spoke with a reporter only after checking with her parents. "I have, like, no desire to go visit random people's pages."
Still, Shirky said youths may be drawn to MySpace for the chance to inhabit different personas.
He was referring in part to James Dungy, the son of former Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Tony Dungy, whose MySpace page - filled with references to gangsta rap, violence and drugs - drew nationwide attention after his suicide late last year.
"It attracts people for whom playing with identity is an attractive thing, . . . people in their late teens and early 20s . . . who are trying on different kinds of identities to see what they want," said the professor.
It was dubbed a "friendly reminder and a wakeup call," in the February newsletter for Coleman Middle School in Tampa. The message: Students are accessing MySpace and parents should keep a close watch.
Mary Davis, a technology specialist at Coleman, said faculty grew concerned after hearing students talk about their friends' profiles. Davis had to explore it from home; like school districts in Pinellas and Polk counties, Hillsborough County schools had already banned MySpace from the district's computer system.
"I was shocked by one person that literally was talking about making pornographic movies," said Davis. "People were responding to her and telling her how great her movies were. And I was thinking, "This is what my middle schoolers can access.' "
Indeed, users don't need to travel far to find sex on MySpace: profiles exist for porn stars such as Jenna Jameson and Heather Hunter. Playboy magazine has created its own page to find women for a planned "Girls of MySpace" nude pictorial.
And the danger can be more than theoretical. Police in December arrested a 42-year-old English teacher at Seminole High School on computer pornography charges after he attempted a late-night meeting in Brandon with a 14-year-old Tampa girl he contacted using an alias on MySpace.
Bob Breeden, an expert on computer crimes at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, said social networking sites such as MySpace give predators information they can use to build bonds with potential victims. Even without a last name, a potential stalker with a picture and a school name can grab a yearbook and quickly discover the child's identity.
"It's critical parents look at children's MySpace pages to determine if there is too much information there," said Breeden. "A lot of these kids are suffering from self-esteem issues, they may be struggling with their sexuality and they find the Internet as a place of connection. But for pedophiles, that gives them an opportunity."
Representatives of MySpace did not comment by press time. The Web site offers online safety tips, warning users not to reveal their full names or telephone numbers while encouraging them to report abuses and underage people.
MySpace owner News Corp. also plans to appoint a safety czar for the service, launching a media campaign to educate parents and young users about the site while implementing measures to make it tougher for pedophiles to locate teens, according to a recent Wall Street Journal story.
But they face a tough challenge: The freewheeling atmosphere of MySpace, which makes the site so appealing to underage users, could fall apart if the service requires a stricter level of registration.
A cursory spin through profiles reveal several users who seem to have lied about their ages (people routinely say they are 100 years old) or posted images that skirt the service's prohibition on explicit photos (the women aren't totally nude, but they're close).
But the features that make MySpace so popular - user anonymity, the capacity to assume fake identities and the ability to contact many people at once - also make social networking sites a useful tool for pedophiles.
"Pedophiles are in no hurry, and the Internet gives them the ability to groom multiple victims at once," Breeden said. "People feel safe and anonymous when they're online, so they give away far too much information."
These concerns likely weren't on the radar screen when co-founders Chris DeWolfe and Thomas Anderson first dreamed up MySpace as a site for linking music fans.
"What MySpace did was start with music and that (bond) fans have in relation to their favorite band," said NYU's Shirky. "And if you're someone who is unsettled, trying to forge some kind of identity in the world, allegiance to a band isn't just about the music. It becomes a declaration of who you are."
That bond, entertainment companies know, can also be a powerful selling tool. Which may explain why media mogul Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace's parent company for $580-million in July, touting his News Corp.'s need to develop a higher profile in cyberspace.
Now the service has partnered with Universal Records to create its own record label and announced a deal allowing cell phones to access MySpace. Projects as disparate as the film Final Destination 3 and the FX series Nip/Tuck have used MySpace to push their wares at the service's youth audience.
But MySpace's unique community has also proven useful to smaller entertainers such as Cheryl Hawkins, a Tampa-based single mom and aspiring jazz singer who now has nearly 900 people in her friendship network - from rappers in Tampa to artists in Canada and Europe.
"Especially for people who are in the industry and nothing's happening for them . . . it can put your name out there much more than even a paid Web site," said Hawkins, who spends about four hours a week searching out new friends to add to her network.
"It feels like you're accomplishing something, whether you are or not," added St. Petersburg-based percussionist Gumbi Ortiz, who introduced Hawkins to MySpace.
"The object is to keep active, on a daily basis, your dream. And for a lot of people, to see so many people on their site, it's like hearing your music on the radio. In a weird way, MySpace is fulfilling a lot of dreams for a lot of people."
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