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Zugspitze Climber's Log
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|Eibsee Cable Lift
Date Climbed: Apr 12, 2012
|Unfortunately not the time of year for climbing. Still I wanted to visit the high point of Germany. Without any true effort on my part, it might be only fair that I couldn't got to the true summit cross which was 5 or 10 meters higher. I could see a way to get there but the unconsolidated snow covering the ferrata helped me decide not to try it.
|Posted Apr 29, 2012 8:26 am
|Great Tour
|Even with the people on the summit the Höllental is worth it.
|Posted Feb 29, 2012 1:33 am
|Andrew Rankine
|An attempt and a chairlift
Date Climbed: Jun 26, 2010
|Started from Ehrwald and attempted this. Too much snow on route, 3 feet covered the via ferrata cables. Then descended and took the chairlift.
|Posted Nov 2, 2011 12:20 pm
|Reintal Route
Date Climbed: Sep 4, 2011
|From Garmisch train station - Knorrhütte (6h) where we slept on Saturday. Knorrhütte - summit (2h) - Knorrhütte - Gatterl - Ehrwald on Sunday. Sunny weather, some clouds. Beautiful walk through the Reintal valley.
|Posted Sep 7, 2011 4:25 am
|Höllental, 1 day
Date Climbed: Jul 9, 2011
|Started from the parking lot at Kreuzberg at 6 o'clock. Superb weather and many people on the route most of them starting from Höllentalhütte. Reached the top after 6 hours. Had planned on climbing Jübiläumsgrat the next day, but weather was not too good, so I rode the train down in the afternoon.
|Posted Jul 26, 2011 5:22 am
|From Hammersbach -> overnight stay at Hoellental Hütte -> Top
Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2010
|Alex and I had a great trip - teamed up with Robert from Colerado and his girlfriend, son and friend.
We were slow but sucessfull
|Posted May 12, 2011 1:55 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 28, 2009
|Started from Garmisch-Partenkirchen, passed through Partnachklamm and Reinthal, spent the night in Knorrhuette and climbed the summit next morning.
That was great!
|Posted May 7, 2011 3:40 am
Date Climbed: Sep 14, 2003
|Started in Garmisch on Sep 13th in the rain to Knorr hut. Next day there was fine weather with some snow on the route.
|Posted Apr 27, 2011 8:09 am
Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2009
|nice climb
|Posted Apr 27, 2011 8:07 am
|Through the Höllental
Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2007
|There was no snow on the glacier. That was just what I had hoped for, because now I could easily avoid the crevasses. On my way to the glacier, I saw some people returning, looking unhappy - I believe they had wanted to cross the glacier without crampons, but that was virtually impossible. There even were big signs at the Höllentalanger Hütte saying that you would need them.
The climb was beautiful, but the summit experience is something else. I didn't stay long, and continued to the Knorr Hütte.
|Posted Mar 16, 2011 9:37 am
Date Climbed: Jul 2, 2010
|Walked all the way from the car parking at Kreuzeckbahn lift station (at 750 m above see level) via Höllental-klamm and the glacier. Reached the summit in 8 hours 45 minutes. Liked every single minute of the trip.
|Posted Mar 10, 2011 6:53 am
|Hoellental route
Date Climbed: Aug 20, 2010
|Long trip - 8 h from Grainau. But an interesting journey through different terrain: path in the forest, magnificent canyon, moraines, a small glacier and via ferrata.
|Posted Feb 8, 2011 1:04 pm
Date Climbed: Jun 13, 1992
|Good Time.
|Posted Jun 29, 2010 2:57 am
|Route climbed: Ehrwalder Alm - summit
|It was the most beautiful mountain route I've ever done (and I've done quite a few). The regular huts on the way up mean you don't need to carry a lot of food (although water and sun cream are essential!), and once over the top of the Ehrwalder Alm and round the back of the Zugspitze, the scenery was absolutley breathtaking. As a route, this isn't very hard, and even the last scramble can be avoided by taking the cable car (which I didn't do). Full route available at http://www.nsales.co.uk/hiking/hiking.htm
|Posted Apr 12, 2010 10:21 pm
|Top of Germany
Date Climbed: Sep 26, 2009
|Clasic way via ferrata from Ga-Pa (across the iceberg) to summit.
Nice but crowded way (summit totaly overcrowded by tourists)
Next day we went to Octoberfest in Munich as an reward:-)
|Posted Dec 27, 2009 10:40 am
|Highest point in Germany
Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2009
|Nothing like a Lowenbrau on the summit of the highest point in Germany...
|Posted Oct 14, 2009 11:21 pm
|Lukas Kunze
Date Climbed: Oct 3, 2009
|Started at 7am at Hammersbach. raced up to the glacier in order to save some time since us was told that the upper via ferrata is full of snow and ice. We overtook several people who started way before us. The sun did a great job on the ice and we didn' t have to wait at any time :) Phantastic views from the route and on the top. Great trip but the crowd on the summit is quite a contrast...
|Posted Oct 4, 2009 2:01 am
Date Climbed: Aug 15, 2009
|Started at Hammersbach in the morning after sleeping in the car and did it as a one-day tour.
Tooooo many people on this day and a crowded route made me wait several times.
|Posted Aug 26, 2009 4:30 pm
|From Hammersbach
Date Climbed: Aug 12, 2009
|via Höllental
|Posted Aug 15, 2009 4:36 pm
|Took the ski lift, but I was the only from our group to ski down it without wiping out!
Date Climbed: Mar 15, 1989
|Yeh, yeh, not really a traditional summit, but i did get up there and enjoyed some of the best skiing of my life.... so far...
|Posted Jan 12, 2009 10:15 pm


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Seniors Jon Feyer (pictured) and Sarah Outhwaite have created a show, "Flammentangel Kabarett," that uses live music, dance and satirical sketches to capture the atmosphere of Weimar Germany in the 1930s. The students both are earning certificates in theater and dance, and this is their senior thesis production. It will be presented Friday through Monday, Dec. 5-8, in the Matthews Acting Studio at 185 Nassau St.
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I think I made my very first and very small order from walter t kelley in perhaps 1962. seems to me that I also acquired my first packages of bees from kelley's. they have always seemed to me to be an extemely service directed outfit. I do shop elsewhere and sometimes buy elsewhere, but I alway look to kelley's first.
I've bought probably 2000 frames from Kelleys in the past 3 years.... Not a one of them was less then exceptional.....
I was at thier facility and asked about a new belt for their 12/21 frame extractor. I'm using the one my Dad bought around 20 years ago. The guy from the shop came and said they didn't make them in that configuration anymore and don't carry that size belt now. He left and I continued loading my things in the truck. After a few moments he came back and said "Hey, I looked around the shop and found a belt the size you need that is still in perfect shape. Here take it... I said "how much do I owe you"?... He said... Nah... just take it we can't use it anymore....
I was extremely appreciative. It made an impression. That guy didn't have to go to the trouble at all but he made the extra effort.
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Yep, I've ordered much from them over the years from queens to basswood boxes for comb honey. They really have an "old fashioned" sense of customer service and often stock items difficult to find elsewhere. Of course Walter Kelley really was the old school "Beeman"! His book , "Keeping bees and Selling Honey' is one of the best and most concise readings out there for the hobbyist.
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I have bought from most of the suppliers, but not from Kelly. I do a lot of price comparisons, and the combination of higher prices in general and higher shipping to my locality puts them off my list.
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Adi Pavlovic at the Sombrilla Plaza fountain
FYI Features: 'We want our fountain back' -- Student tells story of UTSA's fountain of luck
By Adi Pavlovic
Student Writer, College of Liberal and Fine Arts
(Feb. 3, 2006)--By now, everyone has noticed the hibernation of UTSA's beloved Sombrilla Plaza fountain, located outside the John Peace Library Building on the 1604 Campus. I realized the fountain has been closed since last semester, and there weren't any signs of improvement or that it would be turned back on.
According to a Facilities Services staff member, the annual fountain cleaning started during the winter break, but they were set back by water residue buildup. A shortage of manpower and an overabundance of maintenance tasks has also delayed the reactivation of the fountain. The cleaning is done every year during the break because of the loud noise of the power washer.
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It's rumored that touching the fountain with both hands brings luck to students right before finals week.
Faciities Services plans to start repainting the fountain in two weeks and the maintenance should be done within four. So, no need for panic among UTSA students -- the fountain will be revived long before finals.
The Fountain of Luck story
At Sombrilla Plaza, you will find a fountain some call the fountain of luck. It isn't an ordinary fountain, though. This fountain can make the difference between a 4.0 grade point average and failure.
Nearly 20 years ago freshman Brian O'Malley was not doing well in his studies. In fact, he was close to failing miserably.
Brian was not failing for lack of trying, though. He studied with friends for exams, but to no avail. He outlined chapters. He took copious notes. He asked his professors for recommendations on how to prepare for exams. Nothing worked.
Finals drew near. Brian knew he needed a miracle to pass. About a week before finals, he began to study nonstop day and night. Everywhere he went, he took his books with him.
At the barbershop, he studied for geometry. In line at the bursar's office, he read sociology. While waiting in his car for a parking space, he prepared for history. He left nothing to chance.
Often, Brian could be found studying near the fountain. He liked to sit outdoors and soak up the sun. A cool breeze would duck under the Sombrilla, making the South Texas summer heat bearable.
One day, Brian was studying with friends on a particularly hot and calm afternoon. His friend Jeremy was helping him study for the geometry final they would take Tuesday.
"Now remember," Jeremy said, "the sum of the interior angles of any triangle is 180 degrees. So if I had a triangle with interior angles of 26 and 54 degrees, what would the measure of the third angle be?"
Brian thought about the question for a minute. "Ten degrees, I think," he said. He became more frustrated as he answered each question.
"No, the correct answer is 100 degrees," Jeremy said. "You're going to need a miracle to pass this test. Or maybe just a bit of good luck."
"Thanks, Jeremy, but that really doesn't help." Brian couldn't keep the sarcasm out of his voice. He noticed a small child running for the fountain. Without taking off his shoes or socks, the child jumped into the fountain and started wading.
Jeremy turned his head in time to see the four-year-old splashing and with a big smile on his face. "That's a good idea," he said. He motioned toward the fountain. "But maybe we should take our shoes off first."
"I agree." Brian started to untie his shoes.
In the fountain, Jeremy turned to Brian. "This fountain reminds me of that big stone they have on the stage of the Apollo Theater in Harlem," he said. "You know, the one all the performers touch for good luck."
"Yeah, I've heard of it before. Does it really work?"
"I don't know," Jeremy said. :But maybe you should touch this fountain just in case. It might bring you good luck.
Brian laid both his hands on the fountain. What did he have to lose? The fountain was as ugly as sin, but maybe, just maybe, it had some luck in it somewhere.
Brian let his tingling hands rest upon the fountain for a minute or two. He felt a strange attraction. He could feel the flow of energy entering his body.
As it turns out, the fountain did have some luck in it. The geometry final Brian took came back with an A on it. In fact, Brain got As on all his finals that semester. Four years later, Brian received his diploma.
Since then, there have been rumors of students touching the fountain. It is often said by those who have tried and failed that the fountain's luck only runs during the week before finals. Touching it at any other time brings bad luck. But then, what have you got to lose?


text: A book reading in French, Dari & English by Atiq Rahimi, Afghan author Atiq Rahimi reads from his book The Patience Stone Tuesday, May 04, 2010 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM UCLA Faculty Center, Sequoia Room "For far too long, Afghan women have been faceless and voiceless. Until now. With The Patience Stone, Atiq Rahimi gives face and voice to one unforgettable woman-and, one could argue, offers her as a proxy for the grievances of millions...it is a rich read, part allegory, part a tale of retribution, part an exploration of honor, love, sex, marriage, war. It is without doubt an important and courageous book." from the introduction by Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns In Persian folklore, Syngue Sabour is the name of a magical black stone, a patience stone, which absorbs the plight of those who confide in it. It is believed that the day it explodes, after having received too much hardship and pain, will be the day of the Apocalypse. But here, the Syngue Sabour is not a stone but rather a man lying brain-dead with a bullet lodged in his neck. His wife is with him, sitting by his side. But she resents him for having sacrificed her to the war, for never being able to resist the call to arms, for wanting to be a hero, and in the end, after all was said and done, for being incapacitated in a small skirmish. Yet she cares, and she speaks to him. She even talks to him more and more, opening up her deepest desires, pains, and secrets. While in the streets rival factions clash and soldiers are looting and killing around her, she speaks of her life, never knowing if her husband really hears. And it is an extraordinary confession, without restraint, about sex and love and her anger against a man who never understood her, who mistreated her, who never showed her any respect or kindness. Her admission releases the weight of oppression of marital, social, and religious norms, and she leads her story up to the great secret that is unthinkable in a country such as Afghanistan. Winner of the Prix Goncourt, The Patience Stone captures with great courage and spare, poetic, prose the reality of everyday life for an intelligent woman under the oppressive weight of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Born in Afghanistan and educated in Kabul and Paris, Atiq Rahimi is an internationally-renowned Afghan novelist and film maker. Rahimi's writing career began in the 1990s with the publication of his first novel, Khakestar-o-khak (Earth and Ashes), in 2001. An immediate success, the novel was subsequently translated from the Dari original into English and other European languages. Later, a film based on Earth and Ashes won the Prix du Regard vers l'Avenir at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Atiq Rahimi's most recent novel, Syngué Sabour: Pierre de patience (Stone of Patience), is the author's first book written directly in French. In 2008, it won France's most prestigious literary award, the Prix Goncourt. Co-sponsored with Central Asia Initiative, French and Francophone Studies, Cultural Services of the French Embassy in United States ________________________________ Cost: Free and open to the public For more information, contact: Mona Ramezani, Center for Near Eastern Studies Tel: (310) 825-1455 cnes at international.ucla.edu http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/events/showevent.asp?eventid=8090 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.ucla.edu/pipermail/hum_events/attachments/20100503/7a39895f/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 4823 bytes Desc: image.jpg URL: <http://lists.ucla.edu/pipermail/hum_events/attachments/20100503/7a39895f/attachment-0002.jpeg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 83344 bytes Desc: image.jpg URL: <http://lists.ucla.edu/pipermail/hum_events/attachments/20100503/7a39895f/attachment-0003.jpeg>


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Mother of All Buddhas
Adapted from Joanna's Memoir, Widening CirclesMy encounter with the Mother of All Buddhas was preceded by a dreary spell of studying the Abhidharma, a canonical body of thought written three centuries after the Buddha. In it scholastic monks employed the tool of analysis to demonstrate the illusory nature of the self: they took ordinary experience and broke it down into tiny, ephemeral psycho-physical events called dharmas (with a small d). These dharmas with their subtle distinctions were enumerated and listed, categorized and classified, all with mind-boggling diligence and much debate. The entire exercise came to be understood as wisdom (prajna in Sanskrit, or panna in Pali).
My head swam. I was confused and bored with all this attention to hypothetical dharmas, and a little irritated, too. To view them as the building blocks of reality struck me as reductionistic--and, aside from that, the scholastic hair-splitting reminded me of the early church fathers.
I didn't stay sullen as a scholar for long, however. The next semester a teaching and a presence broke into my life--as happened for Buddhist India too, back in the first century of the Common Era. I was reading a scripture from the dawn of Mahayana Buddhism, a Perfection of Wisdom sutra. That was her name too: Prajna Paramita, Perfection of Wisdom. She was not a historical figure, but the symbolic embodiment of true insight. As such she was called the Mother of All Buddhas. It was she who brought them forth and nursed them to enlightenment.
As I became familiar with this text of hers, dauntingly entitled Perfection of Wisdom in 8000 Lines, I imagined her blowing into the scholastics' debates, scattering their arguments like dry leaves. I could almost hear her impatient, maternal voice: "Just stop it! This analytic exercise is not what it's about. You don't break free of the self by dissecting it into its components. The separate dharmas, with which you busy your minds, are empty! They're as empty of their own reality as the self is, and as all concepts and conjectures are." Sunya, empty, became one of her names.
Wisdom is not about bits and pieces, she said, it's about relationship. It's about the compassion that comes when we realize our deep relatedness. In this fashion, she brought forth in new words the Buddha's central teaching: the dependent co-arising of all phenomena. That's why her scriptures became known as the Second Turning of the Wheel.
To unglue the Abhidharmists' logic, she spoke in paradoxes. As you lead all beings to nirvana, the ultimate release from suffering, you lead them nowhere. Nirvana is no separate place. All is empty, there is no solid ground to stand on, but you can fly in that emptiness. It can hold you as the sky holds the birds.
Her scripture offered little to let me picture her, no physical descriptions, just attributes like "space" and "depth" and "endlessness." Her lack of features allowed images of my own to surface--images of strong gray arms and a rustling surround of sun-dappled green. With Prajna Paramita, I was back again in the maple tree on Ouie's farm, where changing light played through her leaves, and through me as well.
This text of eight thousand lines had much to say about those who venture into Prajna Paramita, trusting her wisdom of deep relation. These are the bodhisattvas. The hero model of the Mahayana is described here fully for the first time--not just as earlier incarnations of the Lord Buddha, but as a reality we each can be. Reading of their insight and compassion, I recognized the bodhisattvas who had graced my life, like Ouie and the Air Force chaplain at Blair, and Freda Bedi, Choegyal Rinpoche, Father Wendt, and Dr. King--even some Peace Corps volunteers I knew and some folks at the Urban League.
We can all be bodhisattvas--the Mother of All Buddhas was quite emphatic on this point. That's because we are, by our very nature, interdependent with all life and engendered by relationships. So we are perfectly capable of treating others as ourselves and opening to the world as to our own hearts.
It can be scary, of course, to discover that there's no separate self and no private salvation. That's why, over and over again, the Mother of All Buddhas says, "Don't be afraid." When, centuries later, images were made of her in the form of Tara, a celestial embodiment of compassion, her hand is raised, palm outward and open, in the gesture that means "Fear Not."


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The 2011 MTV Video Music Awards drew 12.4 million viewers on Aug. 28, a 9 percent increase over last year's broadcast and the largest audience in the history of the awards show. The show's 10.8 rating among the 12–34 demographic was an increase of 8 percent compared to 2009, marking MTV's most-watched telecast of all time in the demo. MTV.com attracted 2 million unique visitors and 10 million page views on Aug. 28, up 18 percent from 2010. Performances included Adele, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, and Bruno Mars, and Katy Perry was among the top winners, taking home three awards. (8/30)


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Merchants that don't accept American Express
quote:Hearing this BS from a merchant is insulting. Their presumption is that only merchants are privy to the fee structure and customers are clueless. It's disingenuous and opportunistic.
He wanted to explain to me how much more their fees were...
quote:I don't buy in to this for a minute.This is what unscrupulous merchants want you to believe. He can continue his no AMEX policy, and I can shop elsewhere. We do have a choice, and these merchants should pay particular attention to the online option.
First of all, it's not hurting business because you're buying there anyway.
quote:Why demonize AMEX? Don't kid yourself - the merchants know what percentage of their business is from AMEX transactions. Why can't they adjust accordingly - just like they do with VISA/MC. It's takes a little high school algebra. Not rocket science.
Look at it in terms of margin. If they are in a business that operates at say a 30% margin, your extra 2% is another 6.7% of their margin eaten up.
This is what unscrupulous merchants want you to believe.
I can shop elsewhere. We do have a choice,
He was also quick to inform me that they do accept Discover Card though.
I love how merchants complain about credit card fees but then willfully ignore the fact that accepting credit cards drives sales volume
quote:The presumption here is that the onus always falls on the customer to be loyal, regardless of the level of goods, services and value rendered by the merchant. You're also presuming the merchant is ambitious and has done his homework in building an A+ business model. That may or may not be, and always asking the customer to take a hit for the merchant's shortcomings comes into question. The perception here is that merchants have done everything they can to optimize a cost effective business model. Have they?
How loyal are you to your Optometrist?
quote:would you be ok if he charged you 114.15?
Rough estimate is $1.15 difference between his Amex and VISA fees.
quote:Yes. As mentioned, it's not the trifle difference that I'm annoyed with - it's the lack of convenience and his quibbling position that bother me. Just like he does with VISA/MC, adjust accordingly in the price - and let the customer make the decision on how to pay.... or do business with him at all. We all have our own thresholds of "value".
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Nilou Motamed of Travel + Leisure magazine suggests some colorful travel destinations where you can combine relaxation with your love of cinema by experiencing the locations of popular films.
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Movies do more than entertain; they can inspire you to travel. Travel + Leisure shows fans how to experience locations from recent movies such as "Midnight in Paris" that really captured a sense of place — and reveals hotels where celebrities stayed while filming.
'The Descendants,' Kauai, Hawaii
George Clooney scored an Oscar nomination for his role in "The Descendants," filmed on the southeast coast of Kauai.
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By Brad Locke/NEMS Daily Journal
STARKVILLE – Mississippi State has been a team of two halves.
In each of its last two games, MSU started hot and built up double-digit first-half leads, only to see second-half collapses. The Bulldogs blew a 12-point halftime lead in Wednesday's 55-49 overtime loss to Texas A&M, then lost an early 17-point advantage in a 69-68 setback to LSU on Saturday.
So what's been the problem? From a statistical standpoint, turnovers and, in the LSU game, missed free throws. Not to mention generally poor shooting.
MSU made 60.5 percent of its shots in the first half of those two games, then just 33.3 percent after halftime. It committed 41 turnovers in the losses.
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For coach Rick Ray, it's a matter of coming out of the locker room better prepared.
"We've got to fix our second-half starts," he said Monday. "That's also a by-product of how well we played in the first half; teams just get so much more aggressive, almost in a desperation mode in that second half to start off."
Sophomore Roquez Johnson said the problem starts during warmups just before the second half begins.
"We don't warm up as hard as we should to get loose," he said. "We wait until we get in the game, then we decide to get loose. We've got to play the first half and the second half the same."
The most disconcerting part of the LSU loss was the missed free throws. State made just 8 of 20 in the second half and missed 10 of its final 13 attempts. Several players have been putting up extra free throw shots since Saturday night, including freshman guard Craig Sword, who was 1 of 6 from the line.
"I've been shooting free throws since the game's been over with. It's been on my conscience," said Sword, who's shooting 50 percent from the line this season.
MSU (7-13, 2-6 SEC) has lost six consecutive games and will try to get things turned around Wednesday with a visit to arch-rival Ole Miss (17-4, 6-2). As he reviews the film of the last two games and talks to his players about what happened, Ray said he tries to find a balance in emphasizing the strong first halves versus the poor second halves.
He believes the first 20 minutes against Texas A&M and LSU were the best his team's performed in SEC play, even better than in the two wins over South Carolina and Georgia.
"I know we come out the first half, we play as hard as we can," Johnson said, "but the second half it seems like we sort of slack off, say, the first five minutes, and it sort of gets the other team back in the game. By the time we start back fighting, it's too late."


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Dorothy Birdie Stiemke, age 90 passed away Monday, December 4, 2012. Dorothy was born in Madison on April 1, 1922 one of 15 children to the late Hans K. and Birdie (Krueger) Anderson.
She was united in marriage to Oscar Stiemke. Together they lived in Oconomowoc until moving to Deerfield in 1993.
Dorothy enjoyed playing bingo and spending time helping other people.
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When it comes to green building rating systems, the majority of the debate this year has been over the impending changes to LEED with the launch of LEED Version 4 (v4) in a few weeks at Greenbuild in Philadelphia. However, as the tension around v4 seems to be easing slightly, the grass is looking decidedly less greener for the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) program.
A voluntary rating system for the sustainable design, construction, and maintenance of sites and landscapes, SITES was lunched in 2009 under the Sustainable Sites Initiative, a partnership between the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, and the U.S. Botanic Garden. According to the SITES website, to date 23 projects have received pilot certification, and the two-year pilot phase of the program closed in June 2012.
But things don't seem to be progressing toward full bloom, according to Stuart Kaplow's recent post on the Green Building Law Update. It appears that ASLA and UT are at legal odds over the SITES trademarks.
Two weeks ago, the ASLA filed a legal challenge in a Texas state court requesting judgment that the University of Texas unlawfully attempted to claim ownership of the SITES trademarks via a U.S. trademark application filed by the school in June. In its complaint, ASLA has requested a court order requiring the UT filings to be withdrawn.
The dispute over the trademarks arose earlier this year, according to a release from ASLA:
Despite joint development of the trademarks and the parties' oft-stated joint ownership of all SITES intellectual property, UT took it upon itself to file applications for registration of the trademarks in the name of the University of Texas Board of Regents. This unilateral action was undertaken over the strenuous objection of ASLA. Upon being pressed for the basis for its action, UT has taken the position that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the trademarks. This assertion is factually and legally wrong and cannot stand. In an effort to avoid legal action, ASLA has made numerous attempts to resolve the issue with the Wildflower Center and UT leadership and legal counsel. However, UT has refused to withdraw the trademark filings and reconsider its claim of sole ownership.
The association concludes by noting, "We regret the need to take this action. We look forward to a quick resolution and a successful rollout of SITEs v2."
In response to the ASLA filing, UT issued a statement noting that "UT has never had a formal partnership or any legal agreement with ASLA, despite our efforts over the past two years to develop one." This, in itself, seems surprising for a project that was in development for four years prior to the launch of the two-year pilot program.
The university also asserted that "UT initially considered registering the trademark jointly with ASLA and the U.S. Botanic Garden, but this was not feasible for a variety of legal reasons. Instead, UT sought to register the trademark in its name and then license all the rights associated with the trademark to ASLA at no cost and with no restrictions. Our intention was to grant a permanent license to ASLA that would essentially convey rights identical to the rights owned by UT. The U.S. Botanic Garden agreed to this arrangement, ASLA did not."
The UT statement goes on to say the school "has never and is not now trying to limit or withhold ASLA's use of the SITES trademark."
What this escalating disagreement means for the rollout of the next version of SITES—v2, which was slated to be finalized and released this fall—has yet to be formally addressed by either party.


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Currently raining, with occasional hail. It's around 40, and supposed to keep dropping tonight. And I have more unread new emails (42) in my inbox than degrees outside (41) now.
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Currently raining, with occasional hail. It's around 40, and supposed to keep dropping tonight. And I have more unread new emails (42) in my inbox than degrees outside (41) now.
Snowed here. :thumbsup:
BTW, not exactly a nitpick, but I've noticed everyone I've talked to in SoCal referring to small bits of ice mixed in with rain when the temperature is around freezing as "hail." I've always heard it as "sleet" or sometimes the less-eloquent "freezing rain" elsewhere. Is this just a regional difference, or is it because SoCal peeps are generally unfamiliar with ice falling from the sky and use only one term?
I know it sounds b****y, but I'm curious.
I always defined hail as able to stay frozen once it hits the ground (often it'll stay a brief time, then just melt; I'd call that sleet). This kept the grass white for a good 10 minutes, I'd say. Somebody might just have photographic proof of such, in a book of faces' Miscellaneous album, seen from a front porch. :I'mJustSayin:
The front page photo today reminded me of Marvel's 2nd issue of GI Joe, with either SWAT or some more-than-just-police-officers in snow gear searching for that crazy former-cop on the run, around the Big Bear region (which has an expected high of 35 today).
The sun is SCREAMING AT MY FACE, but it's only low 50s right now.
Sunny and 63 here
Todays high was about 30 with the sun out. It was pretty nice actually.
Very Spring-like during the day, recently. Upper 60s to low 70s. Still chilly at night by our standards (30s-40s).
Mid to high 20's today but the sun was out and it wasn't cloudy so it felt much warmer then that.
The sun was warm enough today that I put on the car's A/C for the first time this year.
Yesterday's low-80s/upper-70s and sun will be the last warm day for some time; supposed to be upper-60s today with clouds, becoming colder and rainier mid-week.


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Concept 1:
You wake up and find yourself in a small enclosed space. It doesn't take you long to realize you are in a coffin. You push up on the lid, but it will not open. Bracing your back against the bottom of the pine box, you use both hands to try to force your way out. You only manage to get a small opening, and some dirt spills in. Then it hits you: you've been buried alive. You punch and kick at the wooden ceiling until you shatter it enough to break through. Soil falls into your eyes, and splinters stab your skin, but you barely notice. Your mind struggles to grasp how you got here and why you were mistaken for dead while your body struggles to reach the surface. You claw and dig desperately upward just hoping to see light soon. Luckily the hole is still fresh, so the earth is still loose, and somehow, some way, you start to ascend. Your mind is racing and panic fills your very soul, but you cannot stop. Finally, you break through far enough to see a tiny glimmer of light. You wedge open the hole a bit further so you can get some oxygen. You stop digging for a moment to take in a deep breath of fresh air. You relax, because you know you'll be okay now. As your nerves calm, you finish clearing your path to freedom, and you climb out of your hole. You look around to see that you were not the only victim, as others are freeing themselves from their pine boxes. Now that you are free, you try to think back to how this happened. "Why did they think I was dead?" "How did I get here?" "Where is here anyway?" "Who are this other people?" "Wait, who am I?" The confusion clouds your mind. You have no memory of anything before waking up in your pine box bed. The others seem equally confused. Down the hill from your resting place you see a town. It's time for some answers.
Marshall's Note: I've had this idea for a while based loosely on a campaign example I read when first came across Deadlands years ago. Mysteries always have ways of finding plots twists along the way, especially when you don't even know who you are. This campaign would be focused on finding out who you are and who had you buried. Are you more focused on answers or simply revenge?
Concept 2:
Army regiments are running thin, so they have begun to contract freelancers to deliver supplies to some outposts. This can start one of two ways:
A.) You have been hired to deliver supplies to a Northwest Army outpost. This should be a simple mission. All you have to do is get the supplies to the Army outpost, and protect the wagon from any wild animals or bandits that might appear along the way.
B.) You have been hired to find out why the last supply run never made it back. You are to head to the Army post and watch for signs of distress along the way. If you find the supply wagon, get it to the Army outpost. Otherwise, report to the outpost and find out why the group never returned.
Whichever way it begins, this is where it goes from there:
It is near sunset, and you see the Army outpost in he distance. You can see the smoke from the fireplace, and the post looks well lit. Everything appears normal. As you approach, you notice the outpost is eerily quiet. You also notice that there are no horses tied to the posts where you would normally see them. You get to the outpost, and tie up your horses. You enter the main building and find no one. There is a stew cooking on the stove, but there are no other signs of anyone present. Your first thought is that the troops may all be out for the moment, but then you think it odd that no one was left behind to guard the outpost. It is a bad idea to amke the trek home at nightfall, so you will have to take refuge here for the night. Hopefully the troops will return soon. If not, you can investigate matters in the morning.
Marhsall's Note: This is another concept I have had for a while loosely based on the movie Ravenous. Instead of the wild west deserts the players would expect in this campaign, they have to adapt to a much more frigid environment. And once again, we have the element of mystery. Where are the troops? Will they return before morning? If they don't return, do you just go home and report their abscence, or do you investigate the disappearance? While investigating, how prepared are you for this environment, and how well do you know the area's wildlife? The ideal situation would be that none of the characters are built around the Northwest. You should be built just like a normal character in the West, and then quickly adapt to take this mission.


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Greg McEvilly: A Love for Adventure. A Love for People.
Launched in July, KAMMOK™ is already one of the top 20 highest-funded campaigns in Kickstarter history. The adventure brand does good, too: It donates 20% of profits to humanitarian aid. Ty Clark introduces you to the founder, and to the idea.