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Preference cascade: How solid are Obama's favorability numbers?
I wonder about the validity of these sorts of numbers:
While rising 14 points since February, Romney still trails the president, who currently has a 56% favorable rating, with 42% saying they hold an unfavorable opinion of Obama. The president's favorable and unfavorable ratings are unchanged from CNN polls in March and April.
"The biggest gap between Obama and Romney's favorable ratings is among younger Americans. More than two-thirds of those under 30 have a favorable view of Obama, compared to only four-in-ten who feel that way about Romney. Romney is much stronger among senior citizens, but the gap is not nearly as big," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "Romney may have a small advantage among independent voters, but that is offset by his lower favorable rating among Republicans than Obama has among Democrats."
A couple of things – how strong, really, is Obama's favorable ratings among a demographic scared to death of being called a racist if they happen to have an unfavorable view of our first black president? That's a legitimate question.
Old folks, for the most part, don't give a damn about that and may more closely mirror the real feelings out in fly over land.
The reason I say that is Obama's "favorable ratings" have continued to stay high while his job performance numbers have continued to fall. That seems somewhat unlikely. Usually the two show some movement in the same direction even if one is higher than the other.
Romney is going to grow on Republicans if he continues to attack (i.e. not be the designated place holder for the GOP and refuse to do what is necessary to win as did John McCain), keep the campaign focused on the real issues of the campaign (and Obama's record) and not fall for the distractions that are sure to be tossed out to the media every week by the Obama campaign. Republicans are eager for someone, anyone, who will carry the political battle to the Democrats.
John Hayward talks about the Glenn Reynolds "preference cascade", a phenomenon Reynolds notes while talking about the collapse of totalitarian regimes. Hayward describes it here:
A large population can be dominated by a small group only by persuading all dissenters that they stand alone. Most of their fellow citizens are portrayed as loyal to the regime, and everyone around the dissident is a potential informer. A huge dissident population can therefore be suppressed, by making them believe they're all lonely voices in the wilderness… until the day they begin realizing they are not alone, and most people don't support the regime. The process by which dissent becomes seen as commonplace, and eventually overwhelming, is the preference cascade.
This analysis doesn't have to be confined to the study of repressive, dictatorial regimes, or even politics. Consider the phenomenon of celebrity without merit – that is, people who are famous for being famous. Their popularity tends to evaporate in a preference cascade eventually, as people in the audience begin wondering if anyone else is tired of hearing about the ersatz "celebrity," and soon discover that everyone is.
He then applies it to the politics of this race:
That's what began happening over the past couple of weeks: a large number of people discovered it's okay to strongly disapprove of Barack Obama. His popularity has always been buttressed by the conviction – very aggressively pushed by his supporters – disapproval of his personal or official conduct is immoral. You're presumptively "racist" if you disagree with him
That's what began happening over the past couple of weeks: a large number of people discovered it's okay to strongly disapprove of Barack Obama. His popularity has always been buttressed by the conviction – very aggressively pushed by his supporters – that disapproval of his personal or official conduct is immoral. You're presumptively "racist" if you disagree with him, or at least a greedy tool of the Evil Rich, or a "Tea Party extremist."
A negative mirror image of this narrative was installed around Mitt Romney, who is supposedly a fat-cat extremist (and, thanks to the insidious War On Mormons, a religious nut) who nobody likes… even though large numbers of people in many different states voted for him in the primaries. Of course he has his critics, and I'm not seeking to dismiss the intensity or sincerity of that criticism… but the idea was to make Romney supporters feel isolated going into the general election, particularly the people who don't really get involved in primary elections.
Both of those convergent narratives began crumbling this week: Obama is deeply vulnerable, and his campaign has no real answer to criticism of his record – they've even tried floating an outright fraud, the now-infamous Rex Nutting charts that presented Obama as some kind of fiscal hawk. (Stop laughing – major media figures took this garbage seriously for a couple of days, and Team Obama did push it.) Major Democrats, beginning with Newark mayor Cory Booker, expressed criticism of the Obama campaign… and the Left reacted with shrieking hysteria and vows of personal destruction for the "traitors."
Meanwhile, Mitt Romney effectively presented both substantive criticism of Obama, and a positive agenda. Attacks on his business record that were supposed to destroy him through class-warfare tactics failed to draw blood. The idea that he can win became widely accepted. That doesn't mean he won the 2012 argument… but unlike Barack Obama, he is offering one.
What is beginning to lose its effectiveness, it's cache, is, as Hayward notes, " … disapproval of his personal or official conduct is immoral. You're presumptively "racist" if you disagree with him …".
But when polled, especially among younger voters, that presumption is still powerful enough I would guess, to see those voters lie to pollsters. It is a sort of social conditioning that has taught them to avoid such a label even at the cost of a lie (and even when speaking to a pollster).
So, and it is merely a guess, but based on a life long study of human nature, there is a distinct possibility that the "Tom Bradley" effect may be pumping up Obama's popularity numbers.
And, as Hayward points out, as it becomes less and less effective or acceptable to accuse those who do not like Obama of being racists, the possibility of a preference cascade negative to Obama's favorability is a distinct possibility.
No one who has watched the beginnings of this race can, with any credibility, claim the Obama campaign isn't struggling. Donors are deserting him, his record is an albatross around his neck, there is strife between his administration and campaign and many of his political supporters seem luke warm at best with any number of Democrats running for reelection in Congress content not to be seen with the man. Too many indicators that point to the probability that the numbers CNN are pushing aren't quite as solid as they may seem.
Hayward concludes with an important update:
I should add that the most powerful cascades occur when an artificially imposed sense of isolation crumbles. That's very definitely what is happening here. Widespread popular discontent with the Obama presidency has been suppressed by making the unhappy campers feel marginalized. The failure of that strategy is akin to watching a dam burst under high pressure.
The race, once it gets into high gear, is what will cause the "dam burst" as more and more Americans discover they're not alone in their feelings about the President and that they are not at all on the margins, but very mainstream.
Once that happens (and it will), when everyone finally realizes they're not the only one who has noticed the emperor has no clothes, the chances of a one-term Obama presidency increase exponentially.
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Numbers from CNN….. Accurate numbers from the most watched new network in the world, just ask them.
I tell you, I can feel it, baby…!!! You have Deemocrat bigs stepping away from Obama, knowing they will get tarred by their fringe.
I could see myself giving Obama some sort of favorable rating just based on an experienced guy being thrust in this position…catastrophic electoral success.
His really nasty stuff like flipping off the camera in speeches or attacking the SCOTUS in the SOTU speech are under the radar for most people.
Before becoming too enamored with Mitt Romney, maybe you followers should read this: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/06/04/494282/5-facts-about-the-massachusetts-economy-under-mitt-romney/
Hey, thanks for the DNC talking points.
They don't call it Taxachusetts for nothing.
The price of divided government is that you have to payoff the other side in legislative goodies (i.e. Bush years) to get anything done.
What does that BULLSHIT have to do with the gathering wave against Obama?
…enamored…? …followers…? You seem confused. We are not Deemocrat voters.
Like any good Democratic shill, Tad is payed by the numbers of sites he hits with his drivel. He just has to come and fly the flag, it doesn't have to have any bearing on the post, or make sense even, much like it's not necessary that an actual living human eligible to vote American citizen be represented by the name on the voter registration lists turned in by organizations like ACORN. It's like Soviet quotas. Tad have quota, he meet quota! Da!
New to Taxachusetts and the Massachusetts Mirage are ya Tad?
My biggest problem with Romney was that Massachusetts elected him at all. Smells like a Democrat to me Taddy.
Right now I'm just looking for a guy who will let up on the "hell bound!" throttle, and Romney is all there is.
I always get my most trusted information from George Soros funded smear-merchants.
I've lived in Taxcachusetts for the last fifty-five years, don't try to lecture me sonny-boy.
Should have posted as a reply to tadcf: I always get my most trusted information from George Soros funded smear-merchants.
� I've lived in Taxcachusetts for the last fifty-five years, don't try to lecture me sonny-boy.
Geeze, they're going to take away your citizenship in the Commonwealth if they find you posting here!
I'm a North Shore man myself, but I came south a long time ago.
The only poll that matters is the one on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November.


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UC Irvine will receive $14 million in public and private funds to expand autism research and create a comprehensive clinic that will offer autism diagnostic services and treatment.
The gift, to be announced today, comes from the Children and Families Commission of Orange County, which allocates state tobacco tax money, and the William and Nancy Thompson Family Foundation in Newport Beach. The latest estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say as many as 1 in 88 children nationwide have autism.
The $7 million from each group will fund drug discovery research and create the Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders of Southern California, which will be headed by pediatric neurologist Joseph Donnelly.
"I'm thrilled and overjoyed," Donnelly said. "We have always really felt that partnering with, supporting and educating families is critical. Now we hope to be able to do that in a much more comprehensive, robust and in-depth way."
The funds will dramatically expand the services at Donnelly's existing clinic in Orange, located near UC Irvine Medical Center and Children's Hospital of Orange County. He expects to triple the staff of 15 and begin seeing patients up to age 22 rather than only children up to age 6.
The new center will offer services in psychology, physical, occupational and speech therapy and nutrition. CHOC will fund several positions at the center, including a neurologist and psychologist.
Donnelly said children now receive a medical diagnosis but then must be referred out for other types of evaluation as well as for treatment. He said that will begin changing in the spring.
"We'll be able to have a team, a one-stop shop where families can come and get full evaluations and treatment," Donnelly said. "They won't have to travel all over Orange County."
He said most types of insurance will continue to be accepted, including CalOptima, the county's Medi-Cal program.
Michael Ruane, executive director of the Children and Families Commission, said autism is an important area because of the growing prevalence. Autism is believed to be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors.
"The earlier you can identify and intervene, the better are the outcomes for those children and families," Ruane said. "That's what drove it as a priority investment."
William Thompson, chairman of the foundation and former CEO of Pimco, said he and his wife became interested in autism after their daughter worked with children with the disorder. In 2005, they gave $8.5 million for an autism and research center at his alma mater, the University of Missouri at Columbia.
"It just was kind of inspirational to us," Thompson said. "In our home region, the idea that there wasn't anything like this, it just seemed like a really important opportunity."
The Thompson foundation is also giving $800,000 to Chapman University to fund two educational initiatives with the center.
Donnelly's autism clinic can be reached at 714-939-6118.
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HOUGHTON – Michigan Technological University's Van Pelt and Opie Library will be offering a new resource this fall. After nearly a year of communication, the Undersecretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property has officially designated the library as a Patent and Trademark Resource Center.
"We've been working on it since November of last year. It's a little bit of a lengthy process that involves a lot of back and forth between the library and the US PTO (Patent and Trademark Office)," said Sarah Lucchesi, an instruction and learning librarian at Michigan Tech who played a main role in obtaining the designation. "The Patent office is actually very excited about us doing this – they've wanted one in the Upper Peninsula for a long time. They like to have one in every state and every one in Michigan is downstate, so this service hasn't been available here."
According to a press release, the motivation for seeking the PTRC designation was due to the dedication of Jim Baker, executive director of innovation and industry engagement, to instructing graduate students about patents. Christa Walck, associate provost, originally developed the program with extensive involvement by Baker and Nora Allred, copyright and scholarly communications librarian.
A PTRC is a valuable tool for individuals trying to obtain a patent or trademark and for researchers, Lucchesi explained. Part of the patent and trademark process involves researching other patents that may be similar to your own, which can be a cumbersome task without the proper resources. Researchers benefit from access to patents that contain technical information that may not be available elsewhere. The PTRC, which is funded by the US PTO, will be available to the public as well as to Michigan Tech students and faculty. PTRCs are not usually located in rural areas, Lucchesi said, so access to the information was limited for people in the Upper Peninsula and neighboring communities.
"The PTRC is meant by the US PTO to be open to everyone," said Lucchesi. "There are some locations in lower Michigan and Wisconsin but it's still pretty far so we see us working with people not only from the U.P. but from northern Wisconsin as well."
This fall the PTRC will open with informational and training sessions. Although an official date for the opening event and workshops has not yet been decided, Lucchesi expects it to occur sometime between mid-October and early November. After the opening, the library will continue to run workshops, provide informational material and work with people on a one-on-one basis to help navigate the system.
"For most part everything is done online," Lucchesi said. "We will be helping people search via the US patent searching website – which is free available to everyone – but we will also have access to official databases that only PTRCs have access to that help a lot and make the search process easier."


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There's yet another new music series here in San Diego: Connections Chamber Music. I reported earlier this year on their concert featuring Reich, John Adams, Daugherty, and Matthew Tommasini (the series director). For their last concert, they programmed the Quartet for the End of Time. Before I went to the concert, I marvelled at how I've heard the Quartet more frequently than plenty of 19th century chamber works just as great such as Beethoven's op. 132. And–well, read my thoughts and review of the concert here.


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Integrating the Arts — Rachel Silverman's Art Class
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Last month my post featured 3rd grade teacher Jennifer Upright, whose positive outlook infuses her classroom, and this month I visited art teacher Rachel Silverman. Rachel Silverman, a third-year art teacher at Buckland-Shelburne Elementary, in Shelburne Falls, MA, believes "the future of elementary arts education is its connection to other subject areas. Giving art a context interweaves it into life."
In Rachel's studio, her students revisit topics they've studied in other classes and explore their new knowledge through art. Students use their imaginations as they make choices, express themselves, and solve problems. Rachel fosters the development of critical thinking skills among her students. She focuses on "noticing and reflecting on art, not judging."
A rotating book display features books on social studies topics, artists, and illustrators, as well as books from various literary genres.
Examples of Art Integration
The best way to understand how Rachel connects art to other subjects is through the thoughtful projects she assigns her students. Below you can see some of the amazing work done by her students in grades 2–6.
Rachel told students a Native American tale entitled "Salmon Boy." Then students created salmon in the style of Northwest Native Americans. The use of a limited color palette was challenging. (Grade 5)
A lesson about making secondary colors from primary colors was also a science lesson about tropical fish. (Grade 2)
During Black History Month, students learned about Kenya and portrayed African elephants in their natural habitats. (Grade 2)
Tessellations = art + math. (Grade 6)
A Third Year Teacher
As a beginning teacher, Rachel is still deciding how to structure her classes. She believes structure is helpful to some students, so she limits the scope of projects and gives students a variety of launching points. Her specific, detailed directions, modeling, and exemplars build success for all students. Rachel said, "I still feel like a new teacher. I'm refining what I teach, how I teach, the order I teach it in, and how to synch my lessons with the curriculum."
Rachel grew up in a family full of educators, which may account for her easy confidence. She is a natural-born teacher, who makes juggling the responsibilities and personalities in a class look easy.
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Art studios can be chaotic! Rachel has a classroom management system that's sophisticated, and it works! Below are two of Rachel's handmade posters that illustrate her classroom management strategies.
Open Studio — All Rachel's art classes have opportunities to earn Open Studio time through positive behavior. Open Studio is a group reward. This privilege is earned by following behavioral expectations at the beginning and end of each class.
Thinking Chair — Rachel's Thinking Chair is a reminder designed to stop minor disruptive behavior without taking time from the rest of the class. It's "an opportunity to pull it together and move on feeling good and clear. It's mostly really successful." Students can be directed to this chair verbally or nonverbally. A student in the Thinking Chair is still responsible for listening to directions so she can fully participate when she rejoins the class.
Rachel Silverman grew up in New Hampshire. A graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, she majored in studio art. The position of art teacher was one Rachel envisioned herself filling. "Just being an artist wasn't enough for me. Teaching makes art more powerful."
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Your art projects are inspiring Rachel. Ruth, I like the idea of sharing terrific ideas from terrific teachers.
Fantastic teacher, mother and daughter as well
I would be super impressed even if she weren't my niece! I would buy almost all of the art work done by her 5th graders. I love the non judgmental idea of the thinking chair, in place of time out too. What a beautiful person. The children and school are very lucky to have her.
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Elaine Hsiao (JD '09, LLM '10) always envisioned herself as an environmental conservationist rather than an attorney. After being involved in environmental and international activism, Elaine was convinced that the environment underpinned all of the social and ecological injustices of our time. This prompted her to attend Pace Law School and pursue a degree in international environmental law.
During her first year at Pace Law, Elaine approached Professors Gayl Westerman and Nicholas Robinson about summer internship opportunities abroad in which she could make a difference in environmental issues. At that time, Elaine was introduced to the idea of peace parks—transboundary conservation areas developed to protect biological diversity (natural and cultural resources), while promoting peace and cooperation—which prompted Professor Westerman to suggest doing an internship based on peace park research. Professor Pablo Martinez de Anguita, principal promoter of a peace park initiative on the border of Honduras and Nicaragua, invited Elaine to join a team of his students and suggested that Elaine base her research out of the UN University for Peace (UPeace). This led to Elaine spending her summer in Costa Rica outlining the legal framework for establishing a transboundary peace park in the post-conflict mountain forests between Honduras and Nicaragua, an experience she thoroughly enjoyed. "If it involves peace and parks, I like it," says Elaine.
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As part of her LL.M., Elaine also studied community conservation around Parque Internacional La Amistad (PILA) between Costa Rica and Panama. Her work with PILA communities led her to design a service-learning expedition, which she co-leads as the Mesoamerican Coordinator of International Peace Park Expeditions every January.
After completing her LL.M. Elaine received a Fulbright Grant, the most prestigious scholarship offered by the U.S government, to study transboundary collaboration and community conservation in the Central Albertine Rift based out of Uganda. At the conclusion of nine months of field research, Elaine has written an article and given presentations promoting the development of networks of local water user groups for community-based transboundary integrated water resources management. In her final days in Uganda, Elaine helped film a series of interviews for a documentaryon transboundary conservation in the Central Albertine Rift which she hopes to screen in the villages of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Uganda via bicycle-powered cinema.
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In September 2011, Elaine began a Ph.D. in Resource Management and Environmental Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver with a full Four-Year Fellowship and is a Liu Scholar at the Liu Institute for Global Issues. She continues transdisciplinary work with peace parks and is looking forward to joining the Pace Center for Environmental Legal Studies delegation again at the 5th IUCN World Conservation Congress in Jeju, South Korea in September 2012.


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Under the Big Top
Fox Hill, Freelance Writer and Photographer
This is my favorite time. I'm sitting on the side of a friend and dive-master's boat, above the reef called
Punta Dalila
. My tank is hanging over the edge, supported by the straps on the back of my equipment. I know its only gravity pulling it toward the water but it feels like much more. A while ago, we had a dive where nothing seemed to go smoothly. Afterwards, while waiting to be picked up, the dive-master apologized and said, "The reef just didn't want us here today." This day is different. The reef does want us here this time, and my tank just knows it. It tugs at my shoulders impatiently, the way an eager boy might tug at his fathers pant leg, as if to say, Come on, lets go! Were gonna miss it! The author Dave Barry once wrote, "Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent. Well, the circus is about to start. I watch the captain, waiting for his signal; usually a brisk nod and a hurried "go!" Soon it's my turn; everyone is clear, and I get the nod. I give in to the tanks eager tugging and feel myself roll backwards. This is the moment. This tiny free-fall that marks the beginning of another hour spent in a world most people will never see. My tank hits the water first, and pulls me under quickly in a swirling explosion of bubbles that is the curtain going up. During training, an instructor said I would see things so beautiful while diving that I would want to cry. His words come to mind once again as the bubbles clear, and I see it's not just any circus today; it's a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey three-ring extravaganza. I'm in the middle of a hundred or more Creole Wrasse, looking like cobalt blue torpedoes flying in every direction. "Laydeeeez and Gentlemen, high above the center ring, it's the Flying Creole Brothers " I hustle to rig the lights on my video camera and clear the bubbles from the lens. I don't want to miss any of this.
I live here and this is my Cozumel. Before I moved here I managed a couple of telecommunications stores where we tried to convince people that a cellular phone, or pager, or some other electronic gadget would make their lives better. Every day I did that emptied me out a little bit more, and took me a little farther from the real sources of happiness life has to offer. Now I dive, write, shoot photographs and video, and spend my time trying, as Gordon Downie puts it, " to do one true, beautiful thing." I don't have a car -- they're not needed here -- a bicycle will do, or a taxi in a pinch. I have no phone line -- though I do have a cell phone -- but it's a servant now, not a master. No Internet connection, and consequently no life-sucking surfing to eat up the hours. An occasional trip to the Internet cafe to check for e-mails from friends and family is more than enough. No television either -- at least no television signal -- though I do have a TV and DVD player to watch rented movies now and again. All of these things are available here, but something about Cozumel made me recognize they don't really matter. I thought I might waste away without them, but exactly the opposite occurred; I woke up.
Descending below the Wrasse, I see the second act is starting their performance. Dozens of Sergeant Majors, the official models for reef photographers everywhere, are decorating the reef with their black and yellow stripes like self-propelled Christmas tree ornaments. Now its countless Blue Tangs, swirling together with a surprisingly large group of Ocean Triggerfish (normally seen alone or in pairs). A crop of Garden Eels disappears into the sand like retractable blades of grass as we approach. Like the first time, like every time, I'm awestruck. I think of this as "The Riot of Life," where the interaction of different life forms is played out like a Technicolor ballet right before your eyes. The reef makes it so obvious each creature depends on another for its survival. I shoot as much tape as I can, but the current is really flying today, so we don't have long to enjoy these opening performances. We go deeper into the warm, blue waters of the Caribbean, our world compressed now, focused, and extending only to the limits of visibility.
The hands of the clock don't move any slower here, they just don't matter. If you're married to the idea of firm schedules and on-time performance, you'd better stick to Cozumel as a tourist destination. Living here requires a more relaxed attitude than I was accustomed to back home. At first, I had trouble accepting the offhand manner in which people would fail to keep appointments - and promises. Later however, I saw it for what it was, a part of a simpler and less rigid view of our place in the world. There was an electrical problem in the house we are renting that took almost two weeks to get fixed. Once upon a time, that would have really bothered me. Now it's an accepted part of a more relaxed rhythm of life, swimming with the current, and not against it.
It's a good day for flying. Our group is blowing through the water, propelled by the high current, with the reef slipping by a few feet beneath us. This always looks so cool in person, but I know from experience that it looks terrible on videotape. I decide to just relax and enjoy it, so I let the camera dangle on its lanyard, and stick my arms out like the wings of an airplane. (I know it doesn't really do anything, but somehow it feels more like flying this way). My dive partner notices an enormous Nurse Shark lying under an outcropping of reef. Usually, they have their heads in a hole with only their tails sticking out, and consequently don't photograph very well. This one is lying curved in a "C" shape with its head looking out from the reef. For this shot, I guess I'll just have to swim against the current a little bit. Kicking like crazy to hold position, I move closer and closer to the shark, finally bringing the camera within eighteen inches of its snout. I concentrate on composing the shot and holding the camera steady, but I can't help wondering if today is the day that things will go horribly wrong. However, the shark is accommodating, and remains still as we let the current pull us away to continue our flight.
I always thought a big income meant certain happiness. Everything around me seemed to indicate that money was the key to enjoying life. The time I spent in the telecommunications industry was like winning a small lottery. They were dumping money on me with a front-end loader, yet I was miserable. It didn't make any sense to me. So I spent most of that money diving in expensive places, trying to find the happiness I was supposed to have. It was in Fiji, while staying at a thousand dollar a day resort that I first realized money and happiness have nothing to do with each other. We visited a traditional village of two hundred people on a neighboring island. Their lives had not changed significantly in hundreds of years (except they now had motors on their boats). By the standards set in North America, these people had nothing, yet they were indeed the happiest people I had ever seen. Later, back in our room, I couldn't help but wonder if being happy for three weeks out of every year was really good enough. This was the beginning of a new path for me, or at least a fork in the road. I don't have much money now, but
I've still got a thousand PSI of air in my tank. This is the second dive though, and the computer says I've had the recommended daily dose of nitrogen. It used to be I ran out of air long before nitrogen was a problem, but not any more. Slowly, I rise to safety-stop depth and begin the five minute wait to ascend. The reef is too far away to videotape now, so I shut down the camera and drift with the current. Its not as exhilarating, but this "high-altitude flight over the reef is equally beautiful. This is a quiet time with few challenges, a time to reflect. It's been a good day, and maybe I got some nice tape. I hope the shark footage comes out well. Now, very slowly to the surface, turning, watching for boats, my hand, arm, and finally head, break into the sunlight. I'm back outside the circus tent, smiling at my friend the dive-master a few feet away. I thank him for presiding over yet another beautiful experience. He says, "You're welcome, but it was the reef; it wanted us here today."
...I'm happy.
©2004 Fox Hill
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The color is so intense in the setting sunlight that it doesnt even seem real. The locals are fearless about their use of color in decorating, with vibrant yellows, blues, and reds everywhere. My neighborhood back home was brown and gray.
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Here's how RW members rated this race (311 votes).
In short: Well organised, excellent pre London training runIn full: The organization was excellent, well marshalled and plenty of water stops - many thanks again to the couple with Jelly Babies. You could teach the Sussex Beacon crowd a thing or two about how to operate an event! Many thanks.Date of review: March 28, 2010
In short: a charming road raceIn full: a great road race with the option of doing the 15 or 21 during the run. lovely scenery along the route and the race was very well organised and well marshalled.an ideal prep race for london.Date of review: March 28, 2010
In short: Looks like the preparation of choice for the FLM!In full: As one of life's slow runners, I worried that there would be too many serious FLM participants. I needn't have worried, there were many who were much better than me, but a few who were just as slow.I thought the start was a bit vague, the marshalling very good, the support sparse but enthusiastic and the finish a bit vague as well.Overall, a good experience and thanks to the organisers and volunteers.Date of review: April 21, 2009
In short: great prep for flm. Date of review: April 12, 2009
In short: This is the best pre London race going. It lets you know where you are on a great course !Date of review: April 12, 2009
In short: great race and perfect for the long run before LondonIn full: Well organised race and choice of distance on the day - what more can you ask for!!Date of review: April 11, 2009
In short: Great FLM prep, good organisation, tough raceIn full: This was great prep for the FLM - the perfect distance (and I loved that it was exactly 21.2 miles). It's a runner's run I'd say - without the fun runners and glitz you'd get from the big Half's (Brighton, Hastings etc). That's not a criticism, just an observation. The support was good, but due to the nature of the course there are long periods without support.I found the race tough, but purely because of the distance - I'm glad I was able to do my longest run as a well placed race though, it would have been hard to have kept going if I was just doing it alone.My only two comments for improvements were the finish was a bit hazardous with the cars - and I wasn't even sure where it actually was as it was around a corner. Also I'd agree that it wasn't clear where the drinks were when you crossed the line, I had to ask a marshal. I think after doing a race of that length you need to literally be able to see them in front of you - I wasn't in any state to be wondering around trying to work out where they were!All in all a valuable race, perfect for the FLM training schedule, well organised and good value for money too.Date of review: April 6, 2009
In short: Friendly, well organised and great weather. Good management from start to finish with good local crowds to cheer you on!Date of review: April 5, 2009
In short: Excellent Weather - Mostly Traffic freeIn full: I spectated last year as my Big Sis was running. The weather this year couldn't have contrasted more, as we both ran the 21 miles this year. I didn't know what quite what to expect as this was my longest race to date. The rather gentle looking hill that you do at 14 and then again at 20, did for me finishing the race in my estimated time (thats my excuse anyway). Any way i shall definetly try and make it back for more Jelly Babies next year as I know have a target to beat. I think this race was excellently organised apart from the Finish which others have commented on here. My suggetion should the race organisers be reading this would be to move the Finish down the Downs Link path so the race finished near to one of the Football pitches near the leisure center. This would make the course a few hundred yards longer. However This would however keep spectators and tired runners away from Cars and delivery Lorries on the narrow road where the current finish is. It would also be nearer to the race HQ in the bandroom and Leisure Centre showers should people wish to use them.Date of review: April 3, 2009
In short: Well orgainsed, good value eventDate of review: April 3, 2009
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For all the acrimony and anger created by its production, Butterfield 8, Daniel Mann's adaptation of John O'Hara's 1935 novel about a part-time prostitute (played by Elizabeth Taylor), should have been a catastrophe. Even the New York Times critic Bosley Crowther though so: "By the odds, it should be a bomb. But a bomb it is not, let us tell you. At least, it is not the sort of thing to set you to yawning and squirming, unless Elizabeth Taylor leaves you cold." O'Hara's novel was based on the true-life misadventures of Starr Faithfull, a beautiful young woman who was found dead in Long Beach, Long Island in 1931. While too risqué to adapt for years, MGM decided to push it into production in 1959 while Taylor was still under contract with the Studio. But Taylor, who was looking forward to starring in the big-budget production of Cleopatra, wanted nothing to do with this story. "I hate the girl I play," Taylor declared publicly. "I don't like what she stands for––the men, the sleeping around." Next she went after the story, exclaiming that "it's the most pornographic script I've ever read," an insult novelist John O'Hara humorously greeted in print with the declaration, "The cracks Miss Taylor has taken at my novel gave me some bruises which were healed by the MGM accounting department with their tender, loving royalty checks." In the end, Taylor's taunts may have actually helped the film by giving it the appropriate aura of scandal. The film's $2.5 million budget brought in $9 million domestically, and, best of all, Taylor won her first Oscar after being nominated (and losing) the three previous years for Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and Raintree County (1957).


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August 21, 2006 WIC Update
SUBJECT: Map and Phone List of Technical Assistance Contacts for Local WIC Providers
SUBJECT: 2006 Enhancement Grant Billing
SUBJECT: Microcuvette Survey: Time to order microcuvettes for the next 6 months
SUBJECT: Availability of Gentlease
- Map and Phone List of Technical Assistance Contacts for Local WIC Providers: Beginning with the FFY 2007 Local WIC Provider Contract, the Technical Assistance Contacts displayed on the attached map will be effective. For many Local WIC Providers there will be no change in service. WIC Monitor Staff will be different from the Technical Assistance Staff serving each agency. The Technical Assistance Staff are available to answer questions, give suggestions, and generally support the WIC Program. If you have questions, please contact your local Technical Assistance Contact or email@example.com
- 2006 Enhancement Grant Billing: Deadline September 30, 2006 Enhancement Grantees have completed various projects across the state and now is the time to bill for reimbursement on the approved budgets. If you have not or will not be billing for your entire budgeted amount, please let us know. If you require a minor revision to the budget that resulted from some items not costing as much as budgeted, please email Kathleen Davis with a request for a change. She will review the request and let you know by email if the change can be approved. All funding must be spent by September 30. 2006. After that date we are not allowed to spend this funding. You may bill on your September WIC-24 for the costs incurred up to September 30, 2006. If you know now that you will not be able to spend the funding as budgeted, please let us know, so it may be used to benefit the program in another way before the end of the budget period. Questions: 573-526-2821 email@example.com.
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Release date: 3/4/2004
Letters from Cooper promising action on clean air go out to six other AGs
Raleigh: Other states must cut down on pollution that is dirtying North Carolina's air, Attorney General Roy Cooper wrote to attorneys general in six states this week.
"Numerous studies show that North Carolina received transported pollution from several other states, including your state," Cooper wrote in letters to attorneys general in Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan and Pennsylvania. "Clean air is essential to our health and important to our economy. We cannot wait unduly for improvements to be undertaken elsewhere."
This week's letters are highly similar to letters Cooper wrote to seven other states in December: Georgia, Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
Cooper's letters indicate that his office is preparing 126 petitions against sources of pollution in upwind states. Under Section 126 of the Clean Air Act, North Carolina can petition the US Environmental Protection Agency to stop out-of-state polluters from interfering with the state's ability to meet air quality standards. Cooper's letters point to evidence that upwind polluters are causing North Carolina to violate acceptable levels for ozone and fine particulate matter.
In the letters, Cooper touts North Carolina's Clean Smokestacks Act, which he has encouraged other states to use as a model. "By enacting the Clean Smokestacks Act, North Carolina took responsibility for doing what is needed to clean its own air with emissions levels that are more stringent than required by the federal Clean Air Act," Cooper wrote. "However, our legislature properly recognized that air pollution does not respect state boundaries."
Cooper also cites Section 10 of Clean Smokestacks, which directs him to "use all available resources and means" including "litigation to induce other states…to achieve reductions in emissions."
Approved by the General Assembly and Governor Easley in June 2002, Clean Smokestacks is expected to lead to fewer cases of lung disease and asthma, less smog and acid rain, and lower mercury levels in the state's lakes and rivers. The law requires the state's 14 largest coal-fired power plants to reduce harmful emissions of nitrogen oxide, sulfur dioxide and mercury.
Other states instead use the federal approach, which relies on a system of pollution credits that can be bought and sold by utilities. It requires power plants to cut back emissions only during the peak of the ozone season, April through October.


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Collections represented by finding aids in this portal are housed in the following libraries:
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June 13, 2005 WIC Update
SUBJECT: HANDS Training
SUBJECT: Educational Opportunity - Nutrition Training Institute August 4
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- HANDS Trainings -Beginning with the June 2005 HANDS training, the start time on Day 1 has changed. HANDS class will now begin at 11a.m. on Wednesdays instead of 12:30 p.m. on Wednesdays. This change is necessary due to additional agenda items.
- The Nutrition Training Institute, WICNS Unit, is offering a training on child nutrition issues on August 4 in Jefferson City. The goal of the program is to identify early nutrition concerns in children, and to implement strategies to foster healthy outcomes. Jamie Stang, PhD, MPH, RD, renown child nutrition expert, will be the presenter. This will be an interesting and information filled session that you won't want to miss. See attached brochure for additional information
- FFY06 LAP Training- Are you signed up?
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. (One-hour lunch break)
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7/18 & 27 Central District (WIC training facility): WIC Nutrition Training Room, 930 Wildwood, Jefferson City
7/29 Eastern District: 220 South Jefferson, St. Louis
7/1 Northeast District: 708 Patton, Macon (6/30 is full)
7/6 & 7/7 Northwest District:3717 Whitney Ave., Independence
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7/19 & 20 Southwest District: 1414 West Elfindale, Springfield
This year's LAP training is mandatory and registration forms are due by June 15, 2005. Please read the following and reply with the attached LAP training registration form.
The Missouri WIC Program is providing LAP Preparation Training for all Local WIC Providers. The one-day sessions will provide attendees with updated information about using current reports and data to correctly fill out a newly revised LAP tool. Special attention will be paid to setting appropriate goals and objectives for the next five years.
The training will be hands on and delivered in person to facilitate the answering of specific questions your agency may have about your particular LAP. Our sessions in the district offices will depend on trainees from each agency sharing a laptop computer. We currently have six available computer laptops for each of these trainings; we do not have enough for everyone. We know that many of you have laptops available as well. If you have a laptop available to use for this training, mark this on the registration form and please bring your computer laptop with you. Contact us if you have any questions about if your laptop will work.
We will have sessions at each of the district health offices as well as here in Jefferson City throughout the month of July. Space and our laptops are limited at each site, so fax or e-mail your registration to the State WIC office as soon as possible. Due to limited space we ask only two people from each agency attend. We suggest you send the person primarily responsible for the budget sections and the primary person responsible for filling in the nutrition sections. The June 30 session scheduled in the Northeast District is full and others are filling quickly.
Please register using the attached LAP Training Registration form only. If questions, please reply to Glenn Studebaker, Technical Assistance Coordinator, at the State WIC office at (800) 392-8209 or by e-mail at email@example.com.
- Fit WIC has some good information/ideas that may be useful while developing the 2006 LAP. The material can be found at: USDA WIC Works Resource System, then click on 'Fit WIC'.
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Laptops on the flight deck – Oh My!Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Perhaps it was the ultimate attempt at multi-tasking that proved to be so damning. That two airline pilots were computing away at FL 370 while nobody was minding the store on their Airbus flight deck is quite a revelation. As everyone knows by now, they were incommunicado for over an hour.
Laptops and Electronic Flight Bags are appropriately used in flight when they are used for operational purposes and don't interfere with the primary job of running the aircraft. That doesn't seem to be the case here.
Fatigue conspiracy theorists will bet that the crew was sleep-deprived and that sounds more defensible than this explanation but we'll ultimately find out. Either way, it's a bad deal.
Aside from the expected media circus, let's hope that the FAA, NTSB and congress have a sensible response. While I empathize with the two crew-members who may have used really bad judgment since they will likely be joining the unemployment lines, the airline and the authorities need not over-react. By my count, at least four rules were violated and sufficient to quietly dispatch these pilots:
91.123 Compliance with ATC Clearances and instructions.
91.135 Operations in Class A Airspace
91.183 IFR communications
91.13 Careless and reckless operation
Let me add three more aviation axioms that were ignored: Aviate, Navigate, Communicate.
In our hyperactive world, this should be a reminder to all that texting, even when using a laptop in the not-so-wide-open spaces of the flight levels, just isn't smart. It's such an extreme case one could almost let it go, but it serves as a solid case study regarding distraction in the cockpit. Think you can do it all with no degradation? The facts and science say otherwise.
If fatigue was the problem, it broadens the discussion but why would the crew lie? That just compounds the difficulty.
This is a mess for the airlines. If this had happened to a GA aircraft, it would have been a PR disaster. You can't defend the indefensible.


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Color: Gold with Black accents
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Known Problems: None gun shoots like a dream
Asking Price: 500 mostly looking for trades
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What is Included: Marker and two-piece .689 bore barrel
This marker is extremely accurate and a pleasure to play with. Shoots ropes with little to no recoil and you forget your shooting its so quiet. Has been well maintained and is only used with premium paint. I personally have shot at least 5 cases through this marker and not one ball broke. The reg is amazing, operates at super low psi and is very consistent. looking to even trade this marker as i do not have the cash flow right not to offer more then 100 to 150 for trade. Give her a chance you will not regret it.
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Son's first backcountry trip
I am in the preliminary stages of planning my 11 year-old son's first backcountry camping trip. I am looking at cabin flats off of the Bradley fork trail in the spring. While my son has no experience with this, I have experience in both camping and navigation (13 years in the Marine Corps reading topo maps and navigating in unfamiliar terrain). Any suggestions/input would be greatly appreciated. In addition I am looking for a good book to get him for Christmas that would help introduce him to the skills that would be needed, again input would be greatly appreciated.
John,you will not need any navigation skills just follow the signs.The Curtis Creek Manifesto by Sheridan Anderson is the best primer for catching trout out of creeks I have ever read.
John--You don't say how old your son is, but Cabin Flats is a pretty long haul (5.5 miles with 1,000 foot change in elevation). It is a beautiful place. On the fishing side of things, the stream size should be conducive to easy wading, but it will be pretty tight from a casting perspective. Getting there is no problem--just follow the trail.
When it comes to woodscraft (and again I don't know the age, and this is a factor), arguably there's never been a finer primer written than Horace Kephart's "Camping and Woodcraft." It is extremely long and 100+ years old, but other than changes in technology it is as relevant and helpful today as when it was first published. Incidentally, it is one of the ten bestselling outdoor books of all time, and it has never been out of print. The Univ. of Tennessee Press has a paperbound reprint for which I wrote a lengthy Introduction, and you can find it listed on my Web site. I have lots of problems with Kephart as a man, and even more with the tone and tenor of his best-known book, "Our Southern Highlanders," but he knew his woodscraft as few ever have.
As for books, are you looking for a general primer which covers everything from knots to casting techniques or a guide to how to fish small streams. Let me know and I'll make some suggestions.
Jim Casada
you might look at back country 18 on west prong....it's not a difficult hike in, pretty site, and fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high ( well the trees are)
I started with nothing, and I have most of it left.
John--Just realized, in re-reading, that you did say how old your son is. If he is fit, Cabin Flats is probably doable. However, I'll posit some other destinations. SAmmcdonald's suggestion is a good one. On the N. C. side, you might want to consider Bearpen Branch on Noland Creek or Bumgardner Branch on Deep Creek. I took my daughter to both when she was around your son's age, and she handled it just fine (of course her mother slipped and broke an ankle at the latter site, something which occasioned quite a bit of trouble before we dealt with it after a harrowing and painful night for her).
In the Bradley Fork drainage, you might also want to consider Chasteen Creek. Over in the Cataloochee area, Pretty Hollow is 1.9 miles from the trailhead and is a lovely place.
There are, obviously, lots of possibilities, and my apologies for missing the obvious on the lad's age the first time around. Hope this helps a bit.
Jim Casada
P. S. I personally think 5.5 miles could be a bit much, but by that age I had made half a dozen trips to the Bryson Place, and that was when the Deep Creek Trail still featured more than a dozen fords. That's about the same distance as what you are contemplating, and the going on Bradley Fork is basically fairly easy (unless you are old and overweight, like me, then it is arduous--but I plan to go there in the spring).
I ordered two books from you site tonight, but never saw the area where I could ask you to sign the books. If you see this in time please sign the books, and thank you for the information.
You might consider site #50. I have been by there several times and have been amazed at how easy of a hike it is. It might be perfect for a youngster. The site is very pretty and really close to some good water.
Sam is also right about #18 which is another nice little hike and great site. #18 might "feel" like you are a little further away from things than you are.
jasonkelkins at yahoo dot com
John--I've already acknowledged the order and I'll be delighted to sign the books. I actually sign anything I sell which I have written or edited as a matter of course, but now I will personalize them as well. Thanks. As for the PayPal form, I think you enter requests like this in the special instrucitons area. At least that's where folks usually indicate they want a booksigned (although I'll confess I don't know doodly-squat about the technical side of things--my webmaster, who lives a country away in Missoula, MT, sets up all these things for me).
Jim Casada
When my son was the same age I took him up to #24 above Elkmont...this is a 4.2 mile hike but is not a hard climb...the water up there is fairly wide open and you can catch all three species of trout up there. Most of the hike is along the Little River and it has a way of taking your mind off the walk and putting it on the fishing.
In the mid 80's when oldest son was 6, we made our first jaunt up to Cabin Flats, easy walk up a service road for at least 80% of the trip.
Great place to get lost for a few days, we were up there 6 days and didn't see a soul until day 5 and it was a fellow from Florida who had taken a tumble coming off the AT, said our hellos and he was on his way.
Had a young cub in camp a couple night, someone had left trash at a site below us, few wild boars and a bobcat.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The $1.2 million Hambletonian is reverting to a single-day heat format and the head of trotting's most prestigious race hopes the change creates more excitement and betting.
"We definitely wanted to create a better experience for the fans," Hambletonian Society president and chief executive Tom Charters said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Thursday. "We were unanimous on that. This is a spectacle like no other in sports and with the information we have now, I think we can maximize the wagering opportunity both on-track and off."
The return to heat racing certainly got owners and trainers interested. Twenty-three 3-year-olds were entered on Tuesday. They will compete in three heats early on Saturday's card. The top three finishers in each heat and the fourth-place finisher with the most earning will advance to the final, where it is winner take all.
Royalty For Life, Wheeling N Dealin and Corky have been made the favorites in the three eliminations.
Charters said the Hambletonian Society will re-evaluate heat racing after the race at the Meadowlands, but he clearly favors it.
The Hambletonian switched to a single dash for the championship in 1996, deciding to hold eliminations a week earlier to determine the field of 10 for the final.
Charters knows some animal rights activists are opposed to having a horse race twice on the same day.
"I get the feeling that animal righs people who feel that way might even feel the same way about racing itself," he said.
Charters said the society asked two veterinarians and a few trainers for their advice before making the changes. Among the different from the early days of the Hambletonian, the horses will get a couple of hours to recover before the final. In the past, they had to race in heats roughly 25 minutes apart, he said.
Driver John Campbell, who has driven a record six Hambletonian winners, said the change will influence drivers.
"It's always going to be in the back of your mind: 'How much do you use your horse,'" said Campbell, who will drive Possessed Fashion in the third heat. "You want to save you horse as much as possible because you know you're going to have to ask him again. Every driver knows as long as I get in the final, I have a chance."
Campbell, whose last Hambletonian win came with Glidemaster in 2006, said the drivers with the top horses will be looking to avoid problems, while those in the middle of the pack might have to work harder to make sure their horses get every chance to advance to the final.
Royalty For Life is the 8-5 favorite from post 8, the outside slot, in the first heat. He won the Stanley Dancer at the Meadowlands this month and has captured his last two races.
Wheeling N Dealin, last season's champion 2-year-old trotter, is the 2-1 favorite from the rail in the second elimination with eight starters. Sylvain Filion will be in the sulky for trainer Dustin Jones.
Seven line up for the third heat where Corky, winner of the Beal Memorial at Pocono Downs, is the 2-1 favorite. The colt will start from post No. 5 with David Miller driving for trainer Jimmy Takter, who will be looking for his third Hambletonian win.
Here are the fields from inside to outside for the Hambletonian heats with horse and driver:
Heat 1: Punxsutawney-Tim Tetrick; Smilin Eli, Tim Tetrick also named to drive; Dewycolorintheline, Ray Schnittker; High Bridge, Yannick Gingras; Super Classic, Sears; Dreams Of Thunder, George Brennan; E L Rocket, Gingras also named and Royalty For Life, Sears.
Heat 2: Wheeling N Dealin, Filion; Aperfectyankee, Jim Oscarsson; Your So Vain, Andy Miller; Jacks To Open, Jim Morrill, Jr.; Celebrity Maserati, Tom Jackson; Caveat Emptor, Steve Smith; Dontyouforgetit-, Gingras and Creatine, Mike Lachance.
Heats 3: Possessed Fashion, John Campbell; Murmur Hanover, Randy Waples; Banco Solo, Ron Pierce; All Laid Out, Tetrick; Corky, David Miller; Spider Blue Chip, Pierce also named; Lauderdale, Corey Callahan.
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DescriptionJuab, Millard, Sanpete, Sevier and Utah counties�Boundary begins at US-6 and I-15 at Spanish Fork; southeast on US-6 to US-89 at Thistle Junction; south on US-89 to Salina and SR-50; northwest along SR-50 to I-15 at Scipio; north along I-15 to SR-132 at Nephi; east on SR-132 to USFS Road 015 (Nebo Loop Road); north along this road to Payson and I-15; northwest on I-15 to US-6 at Spanish Fork. The Deep Creek, Levan, Fountain Green, and Spencer Fork Wildlife Management Areas are closed to motorized travel 12/1 � 5/30 and the Loafer Mountain Wildlife Management Area is closed to motorized travel year-round. USGS 1:100,000 Maps: Delta, Manti, Nephi, Provo, Salina. Boundary questions? Call Springville office, (801) 491-5678. This map is provided for general reference only and does not constitute a legal hunt boundary. The Division does not guarantee access to any private or public land. Hunt unit boundaries may include private property or other excluded areas.
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Alan Kupperberg attended the High School of Art and Design in New York City, graduating in 1971. He began illustrating and scripting for Marvel Comics in 1977, working on titles such as 'Amazing Spider-Man', 'Incredible Hulk', 'Iron Man', 'Savage Sword of Conan', 'Dr Strange', 'Thor', 'Captain America', 'Beavis and Butthead', 'Transformers' and many others. He had runs on teambooks like 'The Invaders', 'The Avengers' and 'The Defenders', and also contributed to the 'What If?' title.
In 1978 he took over the 'Howard the Duck' weekly comic with Marv Wolfman, and also worked on the short-lived 'Incredible Hulk' newspaper strip. Kupperberg has also worked for Marvel Custom Comics, with clients such as Campbell's Soup, the U.S. Department of Energy, Sylvan Learning Center and The Dallas Times Herald. Kupperberg is responsible for the successful one-shot comic, 'Obnoxio the Clown vs. The X-Men', for which he did the writing, illustrating and lettering.
From the mid 1980s to the early 1990s, he moved over to DC, where he had a run on the successful 'Justice League of America'. He then worked on 'Warlord', 'The Fury of Firestorm', 'DC Comics Presents, 'COPS' and 'Dragonlace', and had a long run on 'The Blue Devil'. Kupperberg has done illustrations for Archie Comics, National Lampoon, Cracked Magazine, Spy and McClannahan Books. Kupperberg drew the 'Little Orphan Annie' comic strip for Tribune Media Services from 2001 to 2004.
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In addition to illustration, Kupperberg has done design work and scripting for numerous advertising and production agencies. He worked on script development and character design for Sullivan Bluth Studios' 1990 animated feature 'Thumbelina'. From 1994, he worked with Nickelodeon/Viacom on the 'Tom Terrific' animated project. His autobiographical strips have appeared in Comic Art and in the 'Streetwise' book. Alan Kupperberg died of thymus cancer in 2015


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Gun control?
Dear editor:
When the present laws are not enforced and government hogties law abiding citizens to make it harder to obtain guns and ammunition because criminals use them is to tell the innocent and law-abiding that their rights and liberties depend not on their own conduct, but on the conduct of the guilty and the lawless, and that the law will permit them to have only such rights and liberties as the lawless will allow. For society does not control crime, ever, by forcing the law-abiding to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of criminals. Society controls crime by forcing the criminals to accommodate themselves to the expected behavior of the law-abiding. This is my editing of Jeff Snyder's original work.
Sen. Toomey's amendment would not prevent any mass shooting. He is not thinking logically. He is simply aggrandizing his position for personal political gain.
Toomey was elected to represent the people of Pennsylvania. He does not do that. He ignores the PA Constitution and the right to bear arms. He defiles his oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
It is my sincere hope that his actions have ended his political career. I found his canned reply to my letter asking him not to vote for gun control issues but to uphold the present laws a failure of to faithfully represent his constituents.
With disdain,
Daniel Reiff