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I had a hard time sleeping last night thinking about Mootsie. In part because of my grief. In larger part because of all of the great memories of Mootsie that were flooding over me.
This morning, as I was going on my morning walk, obedience, and marking session with Dicca, who is about to turn six months, I had some time to reflect on the cycle of life.
First, isn't it a pity that it takes the loss of a loved one for us to reflect on what is meaningful in life? We get swept up in work, debates about entry limits - you name it. Our day to day concerns take us away from those things that bring a smile to our faces. Like watching Dicca tear across the field for her hand thrown marks, fully pleased with herself. I need to take more joy in those simple pleasures every day.
Second, isn't it great how friends and strangers reach out to you? All day long I have been fielding phone calls, texts, emails, and PM's from friends. And the out pouring of support on RTF has been great. All of us recognize how fleeting our dogs' lives are, how important they are to our lives, and the sadness that comes with their passing. And so we reach out to people we have never met in person. Both friends and strangers, I thank you all. Kindness is a great salve.
Third, as I sit at my desk looking at Molly's photos of Mootsie from the 2011 National Amateur in Klamath Falls, I think about some of the great memories I have of Mootsie:
Some National memories
- At the 2003 National Am, in which Zowie was a finalist, Cherylon working between series on Mootsie's water forcing. That was Cherylon, never resting, always working to get her dogs better.
- At the 2010 National Am, Mootsie and I in the holding blind, the best seat in the house, watching Pete Hayes and Buster, smoke the 9th series on the way to their win.
- At the side of the road at the 2011 National Am, when I rolled my truck, opened the crate door to see Mootsie staring at me with a "what the hell was that look" on her face
- Driving with Pete and Buster, who rescued Mootsie, me, and my puppy to the rental car agency. Pete amazed I was unhurt, me laughing about my good fortune.
Traveling memories
- Checking into the La Quinta in Casper, and getting a room with two queen beds. Putting Mootsie on one bed (she was too restless to sleep with), getting in the other, and waking in the middle of the night with Mootsie pushing me out of my bed.
- Having to pet Mootsie at night (I put an inflatable bed on the floor) until she was willing to go to sleep
- Driving down the road with Mootsie standing on the console, so she could be close to me
Training memories
- Mootsie stealing sandwiches, cookies, and crackers from unsuspecting victims. If someone new came to train with us, and we forgot to warn them, Mootsie would be in their cars or chairs in an instant - and they would be without lunch.
- When I wasn't training, everyone in the group got to drive Mootsie - Ed, Lainee, whomever. Hell, even Mike Baker got to run her. Mootsie could make a bad handler look good, and a good handler look great. She was that good on the line.
- Mootsie hunting bumpers with disdain. She really hated bumpers on marks. But because she was so good on short birds, we threw her bumpers instead of birds to make her work for her keep. She would find the bumpers, and make a circle or two before she would deign to return with one.
Her Bark
Mootsie had a very distinctive, irritating and piercing bark. I can remember walking 200 yards from the truck to the line in the Open, listening to her bark, hearing the judge say "what the hell is that?", and looking for a rock to crawl underneath.
I'm certain more memories of Mootsie will pop up, and I'll smile when they do.
Mootsie really was special. Not because of what she did in competition, but because of who she was.
Thanks again for all the kind thoughts.
I know each of you have your own Mootsie - a special dog with a special place in your heart.
What a wonderful thing for each of us to cherish

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Content-Centric Networking (CCN) as an alternative to IP
I've been meaning to read the CCN article from Van Jacobson and friends for months now, but I finally got around to it on this lazy Sunday. It starts with mostly synthesis of other research in the area of content-named delivery, but has a few major innovations that make it very interesting. In particular, it is designed around the same core philosophy as IP: mainly statelessness, automatic congestion control, and routing tables based on prefixes (though in this case the prefixes are names rather than addresses). The routing tables go so far that they even suggest using (unmodified!) OSPF for discovering topology. (I'm not convinced that part would actually scale, but maybe.)
The basic architecture is that a client sends out an "Interest" packet to register its interest in a particular named bit of data. Your (content) router receives that and forwards it to one or more onward routers, based on its (content) routing table (aka "Forwarding Information Base"), and so on, recursively. Finally the Interest reaches the end provider of the data, who sends back a response. So far, so simple. But the key innovation is what happens when packets are dropped or duplicated. If you get the same Interest from more than one source, you only forward it the first time; if you get the Data response more than once, you only forward it once (well, to each existing Interest) and then throw away the Interest.
That sounds simple for the same reason that IP itself is deceptively simple. But as with IP, the end result of this simplicity seems like magic. First of all, it eliminates the problem of "routing loops"; if router X is configured to send Interests upstream to Y and Z, and it receives the same Interest from both A and B, then it will only upstream that Interest exactly once (to Y, or Z, or both, depending how its routing table is set up). So in that example, if A, B, Y, and Z are actually peers, you don't have to worry about Y and Z looping Interests back to A and B. That is, they *will* forward to A and B, but since A and B have already seen that Interest, the buck stops there.
Secondly, if nobody on the whole network provides a given bit of data, it's no big deal; nobody will answer it. Routers will keep the Interest in their tables for a while (so they know who to forward the Data response back to if it shows up), but they won't send a response, because there is no response. As in IP, you can't automatically know the difference between "nobody is there" and "packet got dropped."
This, in turn, is how flow control / congestion control works. Routers don't ever resend Interest packets on their own; that's the job of the client endpoint. (Retransmits include a "nonce" - just a random number - to ensure that they don't get eaten by the anti-routing-loop logic above.) So as with IP, an overloaded router can simply drop excess Interest packets to slow down network activity. And just like with TCP, a client endpoint can create a "sliding window" implemented by having multiple outstanding Interest packets at once. How many at a time? That's your window size, and it depends on observed retransmit characteristics.
Apparently it's actually better than TCP's retransmit characteristics in the sense that the flow control is on a link-by-link basis instead of end-to-end. I don't really know how or why that's better; there's a note in the doc that says "We will cover this topic in detail in a future paper," which I hope is not equivalent to a "remarkable proof of this theorem which this margin is too small to contain." I haven't looked - maybe they published it already. For now, I'll take their word for it.
The design also mostly-transparently deals with support for multiple network interfaces - like a wired, wifi, and 3G network all at once - by allowing you to just forward all your Interest packets on all the interfaces if you want. Then, using techniques similar to ethernet bridging, you adjust your routing table priorities based on latency/speed/loss of responses received. You occasionally do an experiment by requesting an answer from a supposedly non-optimal interface just in case things have changed; if you don't get an answer back on the supposedly optimal interface, maybe it's dead, so you can failover right away.
Now, we all know failover is nice for content-named networks (along with caching, that's basically the whole point). But this is where things get really fun. You can carry a content-named network over IP network sessions; in fact, that's how their prototype was built. But what if you could carry IP network sessions over a content-named network?
Well, according to a later paper by the same team about VoCCN (Voice Over CCN), you can! And the way it works falls out naturally from the design. You just send out a *window* of Interest packets for stuff that doesn't yet exist. Initially, you get no response. But the unanswered Interest packets are remembered by the router nodes for a short time, so as the live data is created by the server endpoint, it just responds to the outstanding Interests and the data gets distributed back to the original client(s).
The reverse path, data sent from the client to the server, is encoded by registering Interests in which the last segment of the path is the actual data you want to send. The server can then send a small Data (acknowledgement) packet to state that it was received and doesn't need to be retransmitted.
They point out that one neat side effect of all this is if your client is multi-homed and one of its network links drops out or moves - say if you move from one wifi network to another, or from wifi to wired - then you can still recover, because the intermediate content routers have actually cached the data you would have lost by hopping networks, and you don't have to "reconnect" because your connection was always about the content, not the endpoint.
Internet-wide multicast-like behaviour - with scalable retransmits!! - is an inherent part of this design. Want to send something to more than one client with minimal load? Don't do anything special. Just respond to Interests. If there's more than one Interest for a given bit of data, any content router along the way can receive just one copy and fan it out to all the other recipients.
Symmetrically (but separately), you can use multicast or broadcast on a LAN to send out Interests, so if someone nearby has already seen what you're asking about, they can send it to you. Your local content router(s) could also choose to multicast Data response packets on the LAN if more than one local machine has expressed Interest in it, using whatever heuristics or conventions you want to use. Clients and routers that receive unsolicited Data packets just ignore them.
Finally, note that, unlike many recent trends in content storage, content is not named directly after its hash. As they point out, the problem with that method is you need a separate name-to-hash conversion layer, and that a client can't request data which doesn't exist yet - which prevents web-style dynamic page generation (based on query parameters) as well as disallowing any kind of two-way communication channel like they created in VoCCP. Hash-based naming also ends up necessitating things like DHTs for routing, instead of allowing the prefix-based routing they recommend. I have to say, prefix-based routing does have a lot of appeal to me, after having considered hash tables and DHTs pretty extensively. The problem with hash tables is you lose all locality of reference, so you end up with related data (for example, consecutive blocks of a big file, or several files in one directory) scattered all over the place instead of (if your cache is written carefully) stored consecutively on disk.
On the other hand, naming your content after its hash makes verification super easy; if you request block 234283123, and the hash of the received block is not 234283123, then you reject it. CCN, by comparison, if I understand their paper correctly, has on the order of 325 bytes of security crap for every 1024 bytes of content. (32% overhead?!) Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but I suspect not; the security section of their paper seems to be a complicated multi-layer abomination, leading me to suspect it was either an afterthought, or designed by someone totally different from the people who designed the core of CCN.
So the security part is definitely going to need more work, but I think it's not unresolvable, for the same reason that security over IP (itself not secure) is resolvable (by adding SSL). For example, with something like VoCCP, you could just rely on the datastream to itself be encrypted, using (literally) SSL, and leave it out of the transport layer altogether. That leaves you with a problem where an attacker could insert fake data into your SSL stream, which would be rejected by SSL, probably aborting the connection and leading to a denial of service. That's already possible with TCP, and hasn't been a huge problem, although it would be even easier to create this kind of attack in the case of a network that has lots of untrusted caches. (That is, you wouldn't need to be a man in the middle. Or if you prefer, there are more men in the middle.)
Anyway, there are lots of really great ideas in these two papers. The best part is the core concepts - datagram-based Interests and Data packets - that can be applied separately from the other parts (routing protocols, security protocols, tunneling protocols). Again, just like with IP.
I think something like CCN really may be the future of networking. It will take a bit of work first though. :)
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Binghamton University will host distinguished Latino author, poet, and storyteller, Piri Thomas on Saturday, April 9. At 2 p.m., Thomas will be featured in a presentation titled "Cultural Roots of Latino Identity" highlighting his struggles as a Latino in the United States. The presentation will be held in the former mini-mall of the University Union West. A $5 fee will be charged at the door.
At 7 p.m., Sigma Lamda Upsilon/Senoritas Latinas Unidas Sorority, Inc. will host their 5th annual banquet titled "Nuestra Noche: A Night of Floetry with Piri Thomas" in the Mandela Room of the University Union West. As the keynote speaker Thomas will discuss the importance of literacy, his life and works. For decades Thomas has used poetry to confront poverty, racism and violence while influencing generations of writers and spoken word artists. He is the first writer of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent to receive national recognition in the United States. Some of his acclaimed works include Down These Mean Streets, Savior Savior Hold my Hand, and Seven Long Times.
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Mississippi State catcher Nick Ammirati was named the SEC player of the week, while Ole Miss hurler Bobby Wahl earned co-pitcher of the week honors, the league announced Monday.
Ammirati, a senior, was 6 of 11 at the plate with three RBIs in MSU's
series win against Auburn.
Ammirati, who is batting .321 on the season, also threw out a pair of baserunners and handling a pitching staff that recorded a 1.33 ERA on the weekend.
Wahl, a junior righthander, threw his first career complete game, shutting out Tennessee on Friday to spark what would be a three-game sweep for Ole Miss.
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Description ADULT Has dark blue-gray upperparts, darkest on crown and palest on nape (creating capped effect). Underparts are paler and barred orange-rufous. JUVENILE Has brown upperparts and pale underparts with bold dark brown streaks.
Dimensions Length: 14-20" (36-51 cm); Wngspn: 28" (71 cm)
Habitat Widespread and common in wooded country. Northern populations move south in fall.
Observation Tips Seen mainly by chance.
Range Southeast, Rocky Mountains, Plains, Texas, Eastern Canada, Western Canada, California, Great Lakes, Northwest, New England, Florida, Mid-Atlantic, Southwest
Voice Utters kiek-kiek-kiek call at nest; otherwise silent.
Discussion Medium-sized accipiter. Catches larger prey than does Sharp-shinned. Compared to that species, note relatively longer wings, longer and rounded (not square-ended) tail, and appreciable neck. Plumage differences are little use in flying birds, but note Cooper's more fluid wing action in active flight, and wings held out straighter (not angled forward) when soaring. Seen perched, gentle slope of forehead is more continuous with line of thick bill (steeper forehead in Sharp-shinned). Sexes are similar; female is larger than male.


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Over the last couple of days, since I posted my Cold weather Camping Card, there has been a lot of discussion and email flying around about techniques, procedures, and skills needed for, in particular, cold weather camping.
I would suggest that as Scout leaders we take this very seriously.
If your unit goes out and camps in "Extreme conditions", treks out away from the fire rings and parking lots, then I would recommend that your adult leaders and youth leadership get additional training. And no, the BSA does not offer the kind of training I am suggesting.
OK, so your Trip permit requires CPR trained individuals, it requires Hazardous Weather training, safety afloat and Safe Swim defense as well as Youth protection… and you are required to read and agree to the safe driving policy. That is all well and good… until you strap on your snow shoes and head into the wilderness.
Wilderness First Aid courses and Cold weather skills training are a must. The BSA does offer the OKPIK training in certain Councils, but I would venture to say that you will not get the level of training that you will get through NOLS, Alpine Adventures, or most mountaineering or backpacking clubs.
Outfitters like REI and Next Adventure are also great resources for getting to training for your outdoor experiences.
I guess my point is that before you take a group of Scouts out into the wilderness.. you better go beyond what the BSA "requires" and get trained.
I take a lot of pride in the fact that I am an experienced Backpacker and have taken the time to go to training, become proficient in skills and have the ability to teach those skills. But what I have learned, among other things is that you never can stop learning. Techniques change with better understanding and time and it is imperative that we keep up with the changes.
Do not be the Scout leader that wanders off into the woods with a group of boys without training. We see it every year on the news were Scouts get hurt and no one knew what they were doing. It's not just camping.. its skills, attitude, knowledge, fun, and adventure. But we need to do it smart.
Seek out a wilderness first aid course, visit a local outfitter and find a course on what ever the skill you need training in. It will make you a better out doors person and better leader.
Have a Great Scouting Day!
PS. The two young men in the picture are from my troop camping in January on Mt. Hood.
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I work very hard and am attending college to obtain my degree in the Human Service field. Writing makes me feel alive and gives me the opportunity to touch those whom I would not be able to otherwise. Last but not least, I have been blessed with two amazing daughters who love me completely and support my dreams. Feel free to contact me with questions, concerns or feedback.
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Within a womb, a developing fetus receives nutrition. Positive or negative, the new creation thrives on whatever he or she receives from his birth mother.
After delivery each child requires so much more than simple cravings. He or she is now placed into the arms of the parent or parents who may or may not have been prepared for this blessing.
The maternal or paternal instinct of either parent may not be present. He or she may not have been emotionally, mentally or spiritually prepared to sacrifice for one, much less 18 plus years. This may eventually change and grow over time, yet if it does not, that child is left to starve. He or she will take steps to fill the voids necessary in order to survive.
Children who are void regarding emotional needs will reach out initially towards other adults or friends. It is a normal action due to the fact that we are born to bond. We desire to feel loved, important and special.
Many who fail to realize that such needs were not met will attempt to fill in many different ways. Alcohol, drugs, shopping, gambling, internet or sex, each in and of itself is the norm. It is a direction to avoid facing the truth. It is a way to numb the pain, if even for a moment.
As a child, I was starved within my home. My father provided financially, yet failed to hug, kiss, embrace or build us up regarding affirmations. My mother was a "do as I say" type of woman. I recall very few times when we were physically close or I felt emotionally safe. I utilized books, poems and initially friends as my way to avoid the truth. Eventually the void was filled with boys, dating and short or long term relationships, internet and many others.
It wasn't until recent that I realized, through counseling, that the voids within my home were not fault of myself. I began to realize that some simply cannot love because they do not love nor have they experienced unconditional love themselves. I have now come to know that I am a loving, kind, caring, compassionate person who must believe in herself in order to survive in this dog eat dog world.
I have talked with many women who, like me, did not feel loved in their childhood home. We have a connection, bond and finally have come to realize that we are not alone. Each one of us has used our own survival skills and have come to know love through our own children or friends. It is because of our own experiences that we pray and desire that our children never feel rejected or unloved. We do things different, as our parents did and believe we are hitting the mark and making progress for change.
What are our survival skills? Shopping, sex, food, alcohol, drugs, internet, dating, etc. We have used different avenues attempting to forget, numb and get through just one more day. It is not until we admit, open up and seek counseling that we begin the healing process. It is not an easy road, but when one chooses this route, it allows us to begin a road more traveled.
Admitting the route, out loud, to friends or therapists is initially shameful. It is not acceptable or womanly to do anything less than right. Family members would rather shove the truth under the rug than admit that the perfect family has one or more bad apples. Let's cover it up, pretend it's not happening, or, simply walk on eggshells until it goes away.
I am on my way. I am not perfect and have never claimed to be. I am doing my best in a world which shames women who have and will walk in my shoes.
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Soon it will be Two Thousand and Ten
Friends and family are set to celebrate again
Champagne will flow, caviar will be eaten
Their night of frivolity will not be beaten
Yet, for many who care for mother, father or lover
This will be a night like any other
With undergarments to change
Meals to make and wounds to cover
What I'd ask of you, my good dear
With the glimmering hope of a new year
Is to make a Caregiving Resolution
That caring for yourself is part of the solution
Hey, you say
"There are barely hours in the day
To do my chores
Go to work and mop the floors
Change the dressings and change the bed
Let alone shampoo Mom's head
Move her from prone to seated position
And drive her to the most recent physician
I have become changer of dressing and changer of
(not to mention bottom-wiper )
With fork in hand pleading, I argue for eating
I've got pills to give
And a life not to live
But do I complain?
Sing a regretful refrain?
I do not, for this is my labor of love
I am doing a chore
From way up above."
Before you deny my resolution request
I'd ask you to pass this one simple test:
Think of who'd care for you and your loved one?
Who do you think could get that job done?
Who do you think is solid and stable?
Who will do as you wish when you're no longer able?
So now that my sermon is done
Will your choice be brother, sister or son?
A choice which provides another good reason
In whatever the time and whichever the season
That caring for yourself is truly "Job One"
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It's always easy to forecast others' doom, announces Gil Scott-Heron near the end of his first album since 1994. Never having been one for the easy route — remember that, working in the early '70s, Scott-Heron did much of the heavy lifting involved in the invention of hip-hop — this most old-school of New York City griots instead examines his own drama here, narrating from a place he defines in "Your Soul and Mine" as both a wilderness of heartbreak and a desert of despair.
Drug trouble, family strife, too many years spent behind bars: Scott-Heron is unsparing in his confessions, as producer (and XL chief) Richard Russell fashions a kind of creaky industrial folk music out of beats, strums, even a looped snippet of Kanye West's "Flashing Lights." Playing Rick Rubin to Scott-Heron's Johnny Cash, Russell sets the singer/rapper on a number of unlikely covers intended to emphasize the effects of age.
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OXFORD – To some, a charter school is a lifeline for students in failing traditional public schools. To others, it's an elitist effort that siphons funding and loyalty from already struggling schools.
The Mississippi Legislature is debating those positions in considering bills that would provide for charter schools in lower-performing school districts.
State Sen. Hob Bryan, D-Amory, and Mississippi First executive director Rachel Canter debated the issue Friday at the University of Mississippi's Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics.
"There is no limit of opinions when it comes to education in Mississippi, and you can multiply that by 100 or 200 regarding charter schools," said Overby Fellow Bill Rose, who moderated the event.
"Charter schools in other parts of the country have shown us … that we can close the achievement gap if we structure our schools in such a way to provide our students the resources they need," Canter, who taught in Greenville before working with Chicago schools and the Mississippi Governor's Office.
Bryan argued that charter schools would threaten community cohesiveness.
"There aren't that many things we have in common anymore," said Bryan, a primary author of the 1997 Mississippi Adequate Education Program legislation. "We all need to come together as a community. Public schools do that for us."
He also argued that charter school supporters haven't made their case.
"It's almost as though the words 'charter school' are a talisman," Bryan said. "I keep asking, 'What makes a charter school better?' and I can't get an answer."
Canter said charter schools have more flexibility than traditional public schools, from longer school days and different curricula to higher teacher pay and frequent testing. She said some ideas developed in charter schools are now being tried in traditional public schools.
"Charter schools are not magic," Canter acknowledged before challenging that they are a proven way to improve educational outcomes for many students.
"We can sit here and dream about what we should do better, or we can do it," she said.
Bryan asserted that charter schools tend to be populated by students who already have educational and familial advantages, leaving traditional schools to educate the more challenging students. He added that he wants to see the charter concept implemented on a broad population.
"I keep asking why none of the charter school operators will take on an entire district," he said. "I can't get an answer."


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European Convention on Human Rights
On 4 November 1950 the "Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms", better known as the "European Convention on Human Rights" was signed at the Barberini Palate in Rome by member States of the Council of Europe. The picture shows Robert Schuman, Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, signing the Convention.
After 10 countries had ratified it, the Convention entered into force on 3 September 1953..
The Council of Europe has published the text as Convention no. 5 in the "Council of Europe Treaty Series" (CETS) and is searchable at the Treaty database.
Travaux préparatoires to the Convention
The "Travaux préparatoires" contain the various documents that were produced during the drafting of the Convention and its first Protocol. They contain reports of discussions in the Consultative Assembly and its Committee on Legal and Administrative Questions, as well as the Committee of Ministers and certain of its committees of experts.
The official version of the "Travaux préparatoires" are published in 8 volumes from 1975-1985 by Martinus Nijhoff in the Hague. The Registry's internal working documents provide a full text access.
Official version
Collected edition of the "Travaux préparatoires"
Original texts
The official original text dates from 1950. Since 1950 the Convention has been amended by further Protocols (P). Today, the text of the Convention contains the basic version as amended by Protocols 11 and 14, and 6 other protocols : the Additional Protocol (also called "Protocol No. 1") and Protocols Nos. 4, 6, 7, 12, and 13.
For the text of the latest edition in the 2 official languages, English and French, together with the non-official translations click here.
European Court of Human Rights
Until 1998 the two Convention bodies were :
• the European Commission of Human Rights, created on 18 May 1954, and empowered to decide on the admissibility of applications ("decisions") and to deliver "reports" (to encourage friendly settlements) in respect of applications found admissible; and
• the European Court of Human Rights, established on 21 January 1959, which, under certain conditions, could re-examine cases brought before the Commission and deliver "judgments".
On 1 November 1998, with the coming into force of Protocol No. 11 the system of the Court/Commission was abolished and replaced by a single Court to examine applications presented under the Convention and its Protocols.
Rules of Court
The Rules of Court were adopted on 18 September 1959.
The Rules are in a permanent state of evolution, and since 1959 to present there have been many amendments.
Strasbourg's case-law can be found:
Case law - HUDOC (online)
HUDOC – is the official case law database of the Court. It contains nearly all decisions and judgments of the Court, and the decisions and reports of the Commission.
The "User Manual" explains how to carry out an effective search, and details the contents of the database. The video version is also available.
HUDOC is a full-text database which can be used free of charge.
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Case law - Court (paper)
From 1996 to date
The official reference source is "Reports of Judgments and Decisions = Recueil des arrêts et decisions", published until 2012 by Carl Heymanns Verlag to vol. 2007-V. From 2013 produced by Wolf Legal Publishers (WLP) starting with vol. 2008.
Reports of Judgments and Decisions = Recueil des arrêts et décisions / European Court of Human Rights. - Oisterwijk : Wolf Legal Publishers. - Vol. 2008 - .
•Citation to 2007 : ECHR-2007-V
•Citation from 2008 : ECHR-2008
From 1960 to 1996
The judgments were published in "Série A : Arrêts et décisions = Series A : Judgments and Decisions", volume 1 (1960) to 338 (1996). This series was superseded by " Reports of Judgments and Decisions = Recueil des arrêts et décisions".
Série A : Arrêts et décisions = Series A : Judgments and Decisions / Conseil de l'Europe. Greffe de la Cour. - Köln ; Berlin ; Bonn ; München : Carl Heymanns Verlag. - Vol. 1-338
•Citation : Series A no. 139
From 1960 to 1987
There also was another publication, "Série B : Mémoires, plaidoiries et documents = Series B : Pleadings, Oral Arguments and Documents", volume 1, 1960-1961 (1961) to 104, 1985-1988 (1995) containing the pleadings, oral arguments, etc., in cases brought before the Court.
Série B : Mémoires, plaidoiries et documents = Series B : Pleadings, Oral Arguments and Documents. - Köln ; Berlin ; Bonn ; München : Carl Heymanns Verlag. - Vol. 1-104
•Citation : Series B no. 22, p. 6
Case law - Commission (paper)
From 1960 to 1974
The Commission published its decisions in 46 brochures making up the "Collection of Decisions of the European Commission on Human Rights = Recueil des décisions de la Commission européenne des Droits de l'Homme".
Collection of Decisions of the European Commission on Human Rights = Recueil des décisions de la Commission européenne des Droits de l'Homme / Council of Europe. European Commission on Human Rights. - Vol. 1-46
•Citation : Collection 14, p. 29-33
From 1975 to 1998
The decisions and reports of the Commission were published in "Decisions and Reports = Décisions et rapports", (94 instalments). Five indexes provide various possibilities of access, including by the number of the application.Decisions and Reports = Décisions et rapports / Council of Europe. European Commission on Human Rights. - Vol. 1-94B
•Citation : DR 56, p. 126
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Latest Commentaries and Manuals on the Convention
人權之跨國性司法實踐 : 歐洲人權裁判研究(四)/ 顏厥安, 林鈺雄 ; 延斯•梅耶-拉德維奇 ... [et al.] = Judicial practice on transnational human rights : research on European precedents of human rights (Ⅳ) / Juean Yan, Yuxiong Lin [eds.] ; Jens Meyer-Ladewig ... [et al.].- 臺北 : 元照出版公司, 2012. 386 p. ; 22 cm. - ISBN: 9789860331257 (pbk.)
Quel filtrage des requêtes par la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme ? / sous la direction de Pascal Dourneau-Josette et d'Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad ; [préface de Jean-Paul Costa]. - Strasbourg : Editions du Conseil de l'Europe, 2011. - 567 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9789287170286 (pbk.)
ISBN: 3883571288 (hbk.)
Internationaler Kommentar zur Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention : mit einschlägigen Texten und Dokumenten / hrsg. von Katharina Pabel und Stefanie Schmahl. – (W. Karl editor until delivery no. 13 (2010). - Köln ; Berlin ; München : Carl Heymanns, 1986- : 4 vols. ; 25 cm. (loose-leaf). - ISBN: 9783452199355 (hbk.)
Ευρωπαϊκή Σύμβαση Δικαιωμάτων του Ανθρώπου : Ερμηνεία κατ' άρθρο : Δικαιώματα, Παραδεκτό, Δίκαιη ικανοποίηση, Εκτέλεση / Διεύθυνση έκδοσης Λίνος-Αλέξανδρος Σισιλιάνος ; Πρόλογος Χρήστος Λ. Ροζάκης. - Αθήνα : Νομική Βιβλιοθήκη, 2013. – xxxv, 817 p. ; 25 cm. – ISBN 9789605621261 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9979-54-674-3 (hbk.)
Commentario breve alla Convenzione europea per la salvaguardia dei diritti dell'uomo e delle libertà fondamentali / [a cura di] Sergio Bartole, Pasquale De Sena, Vladimiro Zagrebelsky ; con la collaborazione di Silvia Allegrezza ... [et al.]. - Padova : CEDAM, 2012. - xxi, 940 p. ; 22 cm.
Konwencja o Ochronie Praw Człowieka i Podstwowych Wolności : komentarz do artykułów 1 - 18 (T.1) ; 19-59 (T. 2)/ redaktor Leszek Garlicki ; autorzy L. Garlicki, P. Hofmanski, A. Wrobel. - Warszawa : C.H. Beck, 2010-2011. – 2 vols. ; 23 cm. -
ISBN: 9788325513375 (vol.1) (hbk.) ; 9788325517144 (vol.2) (hbk.)
The Library of the Court holds a rich collection of periodicals covering human rights law and public international law.
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Dems are losing ground fast... According to Gallup...
Dems are losing ground fast... According to Gallup...
Bill Davis
thats great on a state by state level but in a winner take all electoral college level the two big prizes on both coasts Calif and NY are still Dem strongholds,take those two plus an Ohio, Penn. and a Florida and voila we have a Dem POTUS
Two years is a long time...
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Loggers manager Jason Nell to return in 2014
LA CROSSE, WI - The La Crosse Loggers announced manager Jason Nell will return for the 2014 season.
"What an unbelievable experience and an exciting year," Nell said in a team press release. "Although my personal goal was not met, I know we sent each and every Logger home a better player and more importantly a better human being. I truly think after just listening to them after the season, that the experience we offered and provided them was enjoyable and memorable."
"In order to continue to live up to our commitment of player development, we need an experienced leader and couldn't be more thrilled to have Jason returning again," Loggers general manager Chris Goodell said in the release.
Nell led the Loggers to a 43-27 record in his first season at the helm of La Crosse. The 43 wins was the second highest single-season win total in Loggers history and the third best record in the entire NWL this summer. The Loggers also produced the most post-season NWL all-stars with five and set new single-season records for hits (651) and RBI's (366).
Nell currently ranks fifth on the all-time career wins list for managers in the NWL with a 216-196 mark, good enough for a .524 winning percentage. He will enter the 2014 season just 14 wins behind former Madison skipper C.J. Thielke (230). Nell has also coached 60 players that have been taken in the Major League Baseball draft.
"The support from the city, organization, management, and the Copeland Crazies are second to none in the league. I am humbled to be back and to be associated with the Kapankes, Chris Goodell, UWL athletics and their baseball team and the efforts from the Skogens and many other generous people. Last and certainly not least are my assistant coaches who are a wonderful, passionate, dedicated and honest group of men. Surround yourself with good people and good things will happen. I certainly have. Go Loggers!!"
At Iowa Lakes College, Nell is also an instructor and works in the Success Center assisting students with a variety of needs. Nell currently resides in Estherville with his wife Lisa, and his daughters, Gracie and Chloe.


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Today, Lance Armstrong was officially declared a cheater, and had his titles stripped. As someone who was diagnosed with cancer on the same day his first book was published, and who looked upon him as a hero and someone to aspire to... I feel disgusted and betrayed.
So, I'm fighting against those feelings one of the best ways I know... Watching AMV's.
But, there's a bright side to this story. I am offering 100 (ONE HUNDRED) opinions, before the end of the year. (Hopefully, before December)
However, for each opinion... I want people to donate at least $1.40 to a CHILDREN'S cancer related charity.
I know this is an unorthodox offer and I doubt it's been done before. But I want to try.
I also know it's been several years since I've tried to do something like this, so there may no longer be people who remember, but I try to put in a lot of effort into my reviews
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Usefulness: 418.2 with 43 opinions
My only rule is that I'm a coward, and so I really don't like Horror videos. I might try to suffer through if it's low horror. The "When They Cry" series are off-limits, though.
So, TL;DR: 100 Opinions. $1.40+ Each. To Children's Cancer-related charity.
Think about it. You'll be giving to help kids in pain. You'll be getting a semi-free opinion. And we'll all feel good.
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EDIT: After getting in touch with Make-A-Wish and Jimmy Fund, I found out that they both have card-handling fees. Since I know Make-A-Wish uses Paypal, I've decided to increase the requested donation such that they will still get at least $100 if everyone donates the minimum.
In addition, M-A-W has suggested I set up a "Friends and Family" page, which will be for this fundraiser, so the link will now direct to that, instead of the top-level Make-A-Wish site. Thank You!


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Marshall is one of the only alpha WR's in the NFL and it would be nice to still have him on this team but the fact is he was a distraction. Philbin is a high character guy and wants to build a team with high character players who aren't going to be in the news every few months for getting in trouble with the law. Marshall threw both henne and moore under the bus several times and said he needed a real QB. He was tweeting all the time how he wanted to reunite with cutler. He started getting in verbal altercations with henne on the sideline and almost got into a bad fist fight. Players in the locker room were getting sick of his crap and he was rubbing people the wrong way. One more off the field issue and he will probably face a big suspension and trust me it will happen again. We wil get a #1 in the off season dont worry, we have options.
Because Brandon Marshall is a head case in love with Jay Cutler. Hell they are perfect for each other....short tempered cry babies.
Just wait until the Bears collapse in late Nov./Dec.
Nice Posts.
I created a thread a week ago and I can't find it anywhere. I am new here and I haven't figured out how to find my own threads and posts. I was asking this forum who they wanted to draft in 2013 since there are going to be a ton of good wide receivers. Since the Dolphins don't really have a true #1 receiver, which WR's would you like to see the Dolphins draft next offseason? Is there anyone you would want them go make a strong push for in free agency, like Wallace? Woods, Hopkins and Bailey would all make nice additions.
1. Keenan Allen, Cal
2. Robert Woods, USC
3. Tavon Austin, West Virginia
4. Justin Hunter, Tenn
5. Terrance Williams, Baylor
6. Da'Rick Rogers, Tenn Tech
I'd rather draft for our WR needs, but there should be some nice FA's next year. I don't want to trade away any of our picks for 2013, however, as we have lots of needs, unless someone makes us a deal we can't refuse.


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By NEMS Daily Journal
To say that the Mississippi Legislature guards its prerogatives jealously would be an understatement.
Lawmakers have been particularly vigilant this session to make sure that they hold local governments in check. Some of it has the look of a solution in search of a problem.
For instance, they've passed legislation prohibiting municipal or county governments from establishing local food ordinances. No New York-style restrictions on the size of sugary soft drinks or trans fats or requirements for posting nutrition information.
If there has been a great movement in that direction at the local level in Mississippi, we've missed it. In Tupelo, an initiative to get healthy shelves in convenience stores has picked up momentum, but it's strictly voluntary. Surely that's not objectionable to legislators in this most obese and least healthy of all states, but you never know.
Of course, it's fair to ask whether lawmakers – who steadfastly refuse to adopt a statewide ban on smoking in public places – regard ordinances in 68 Mississippi municipalities that do so as objectionable. Even if they do, the horse is out of the barn on that one.
Some of the food ordinances passed elsewhere that legislators want to prevent in Mississippi are examples of government overreach, no doubt. But why shouldn't local governments – those governments closest to the people – be able to make that judgment for themselves and be accountable to their constituents for it?
Similarly, why shouldn't local governments – subject to a 60 percent vote of their constituents – be able to propose a local sales tax for a specific, time-limited project without having to ask the Legislature for permission? Lawmakers every year reject local pleas for such latitude. They know best, of course – not the local elected officials and citizenry.
Finally, lawmakers want to make sure no local government raises the minimum wage, so they've voted to outlaw such a move. Again, what local governments are clamoring to do that? None that we know of, but the Legislature wants to make sure it never happens.
Mississippi legislators don't like it when the federal government tells them what they can and can't do. They are of a decidedly different mind when it comes to ordering local governments around. Do they notice the contradiction?


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By Tiernan Ray
AT&T (T) shares today closed down 9 cents at $34.22, despite positive responses from the Street to the company's announcement Friday afternoon that it expects to hit a record in sales of smartphones in the quarter ending this month, with its total count of smartphone users rising by more than 1 million users. However, AT&T also said that bump in Q3 would mean a year-over-year decline in smartphone sales next quarter.
AT&T's announcement came as Apple (AAPL) on Friday rolled out retail sales of the new iPhone 5S and 5C. After Apple this morning announced it sold 9 million of the new phones in the first weekend, many analysts were making the connection.
Nomura Equity Research's Adam Ilkowitz reiterated a Buy rating, and a $38 price target, like a lot of others, was cutting his profit estimates to reflect what will be higher subsidies from AT&T to support the smartphone surge, writing "This has led us to lower our 3Q13 Wireless EBITDA margin forecast from 42.5% to 42.0% and EPS for the quarter from $0.68 to $0.67."
Deutsche Bank's Brett Feldman, reiterating a Hold rating, and a $35 price target, cut his EPS estimate to 63 cents from 70 cents, to reflect higher subsidies, while raising his Q3 smartphone sales estimate to 6.9 million from 5.5 million units. Feldman sees the iPhone as being a primary driver, and he also cut his Q4 estimate to show a sharp decline at AT&T:
The key reason is an increase in our iPhone activations est to 5.1M from 4.0M. Other than adjusting for a late Sep launch, we believe that sales of older iPhone models may not have tapered off as much as usual into the launch of the 5s/5c. As a result, we now see a 3Q wireless EBITDA margin of 41.3% vs. our old est of 45.0%. However, we have trimmed our smartphones sales est for 4Q to 9M from 9.5M as we see upgrades declining 16% YoY due to the move to 24-month upgrade eligibility (from 20 months).
Citigroup's Michael Rollins, reiterating a Neutral rating and a $39 price target, cut his EPS estimate for the quarter by two cents to 65 cents, "to reflect the prospect of higher marketing costs associated with the iPhone launch and the company's new initiatives to improve sales productivity."
Michael Bowen of Pacific Crest reiterates a Sector Perform rating on AT&T, writing that it appears to him that "both the iPhone 5 and non-iPhone devices remained strong in Q3," meaning that, "Evidently, subscribers were not as willing this year to wait for the new iPhone."
Bowen thinks changes in upgrade policy are contributing to push some upgrades out of this year and into next:
AT&T expects total smartphone upgrades to be lower y/y in Q4, consistent with our 10% estimate versus 11.7% in 4Q12. In addition, AT&T expects lower Q4 upgrades overall as result of its 24-month upgrade policy announced June 9, which is pushing some upgrades to 2014.
Bowen's top pick in the group remains Verizon Communications (VZ), whose shares he rates Outperform.
While AT&T slumped, Synchronoss Technologies (SNCR), which handles behind-the-scenes activation of smartphones, rose 50 cents, or 1.3%, to close at $38.49.
John Bright of Avondale Partners, who has an Outperform rating on shares of Synchronoss, writes today that AT&T probably makes up half of the company's activation business, and so it is "validation of our thesis that SNCR's Activation momentum will continue in the September quarter."
But Bright thinks that higher results this year may present the activation business with tough comparisons next year. Hence, he suggests that investors focus on another part of Synchronoss's business, something called "Personal Cloud" services. That includes things such as storing smartphone users' data in its data centers as a backup. Synchronoss can charge carriers for the service, which they pass along to their smartphone customers as an enhancement to basic cellular service.


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Shindagha is one of the oldest areas of Dubai, and home to the al Shindagha Museum. This modest, two-storey dwelling was home to the visionary Sheikh Saeed Al-Maktoum, ruler of Dubai from 1912-1958 and grandfather of the present ruler. After his death, it lay abandoned until it was demolished, rebuilt next to its original site and opened to the public as a museum in 1986.
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I use to train the Golden in my avatar with the Springer Club every weekend. Some of the folks there would jokingly say, " if you painted him white & docked his tail, he could win a trial". I had started him off as a puppy just like a springer, encouraging his nose & quartering a field for planted pigeons. He hunted pheasant & grouse every year until he was 9 & tore his ACL.
In reality, although he was the best upland retriever I've seen, compared to a competitive Field Trial Springer, his pace was methodical & he just didn't have the stamina spaniels are known for. The other shortcoming I've noticed w/ retrievers in general is that they tend to trail running birds slower than a Springer. I can recall several wild birds that took us over a quarter mile before he produced them where my Springers can usually catch up to them quite a bit sooner.
Like most retrievers though, he was very intelligent & learned how to use the wind, running a textbook pattern appropriate for whatever the wind conditions & he found his birds from outrageous distances. There was never a question of when he made scent either, the hackles on his shoulders would raise & he drove like a missile into the bird.
He would have been very underwhelmed running a Master Spaniel test.
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Until the mid-1990s, Russia and Eurasia had relatively few cases of HIV. Today, however, this region is experiencing the highest rate of growth of HIV in the world. A report published by the Russia and Eurasia program for the center's HIV/AIDS task force highlighted the devastating consequences of this pandemic if it is left unchecked. According to the report, effective public policy could make a difference, but ineffective public policy could result in a political, economic and security disaster for the region.
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FBI investigates MILCO nuclear trigger smuggling to Israel
"...also met Benyamin Netanyahu while Netanyahu worked at Heli Trading..."
California-based MILCO International Inc. shipped 15 orders totaling 800 krytrons to the Israeli Ministry of Defense between 1979 and 1983. Israeli movie producer Arnon Milchan's Heli Trading Company brokered the transactions. A krytron is a gas-filled tube used as a high speed switch. Export from the US requires a US State Department munitions license because krytrons can be used as triggers for nuclear weapons. The US rejected several requests for krytron export licenses to Israel. MILCO obtained the krytrons from EG&G Inc.
A US Attorney tried to get MILCO President Richard Kelly Smyth to implicate Milchan in the illegal krytron export during plea bargaining. The negotiation failed, and in May, 1984, Smyth was indicted on 30 counts of smuggling and making false statements. Smyth and his wife fled the US and remained at large until captured in Malaga, Spain in July of 2001 after he applied for Social Security benefits. Smyth pled guilty to violating the US Arms Export Control Act. In November, Smyth was sentenced to 40 years in prison and a $20,000 fine, though he was free within four years. In 1985 a Federal Grand Jury was convened in Los Angeles to investigate potential Atomic Energy Act and Arms Export Control Act violations, but no charges were ever filed against Milchan or those who helped Smyth flee the US and covered his expenses abroad.
A 2011 biography called "Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan" claims Milchan was recruited into Israel's LAKAM economic espionage unit in his 20's and became a key operative for Benjamin Blumberg (head of LAKAM), and Rafi Eitan (who ran Jonathan Pollard and infiltrated NUMEC). Milchan is the confidant of Shimon Peres and Benjamin Netanyahu. According to the book, Blumberg taught Milchan how to establish front companies and secret bank accounts to launder millions in commissions obtained during LAKAM and Mossad transactions. Milchan encouraged Smyth in 1972 to incorporate MILCO to share profits on export sales with his Tel Aviv-based Milchan Brothers company. Milchan Brothers received purchase orders from Blumberg and sent them via secure telex to Smyth. MILCO did 80 percent of its business with Milchan, including transfers of other US technologies useful to Israel's clandestine nuclear weapons programs. (Gyroscopes, neutron generators, high-speed oscilloscopes, computerized flight control systems.) According to the book, after Smyth was ordered to appear before a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, Milchan claimed "I felt bad, but I was ordered to cut all contact with Smyth." Milchan officially denies any knowledge of MILCO or Milchan Brothers roles in krytron smuggling
The following FBI files reveal the FBI's interest in Milchan after a confidential informant revealed his ties to Smyth in 1992. The declassified but heavily redacted "secret" communications detail the bureau's fascination with Milchan, from his entry in "Who's Who" to star-studded associates such as Robert Di Niro and an Iran-Contra operative. The final page of the FBI file is a clipping of Thomas Friedman's May, 1985 New York Times interview with Milchan who had quickly left the US for Jerusalem. Milchan told Friedman "that a krytron was a small little gizmo which anyone can go buy freely in the United States. You can use them or all kinds of things, including, incidentally, making cholent." Friedman clarified that "Cholent is a stew of beans, carrots, potatoes and beef that is a traditional Jewish dish prepared on Friday night for eating on the Sabbath. Mr. Milchan said that with a krytron timer a stove could be set to turn on automatically to heat up cholent on the Sabbath without anyone working to light the fire."


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I had something come up right before I was about to bake this weekend, so I had to put everything on hold until later.64% hydration, 3% active starter. 20 hr bulk room temp fermentation (~72°). Balled about 3 hours RT then put the whole flat into the fridge until I could come back to bake about 5 hours later. Normally, these dough balls would have been completely blown out and over fermented by the time I got to them if I left them at RT. The fridge slowed them down perfectly, the balls didn't merge together in the dough tray. I let them warm up for about a half hour at 70° while my LBE warmed up. When I stretched them, they were still a little cold and tricky to open up. Not a deal breaker, but took some getting used to on the first couple. After shaping they had the tell tale signs of little dough air bubbles all over the skins. These were some of the best tasting and best oven spring pies I've made in a while. I was skeptical of the fridge retarding, but it worked great. Granted, it was a short-ish retarding, but it worked great and extended my service window. No pics as I was baking in the middle of the night, but they were great.
Thanks for the update!I've since stopped using Ischia for my NY pies, but I think I recall going 2 weeks in the fridge with still very good results. The only issue at 2 weeks was poor dough strength, which just meant I had to be much more careful when opening a skin. Does this produce an optimal pie? Probably not. But if your schedule changes, no need to toss the dough (pun intended)
JD,What is your protocol now for your new york pies if you're no longer using ischia?


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The Tucson Basin comprises a portion of the upper Santa Cruz Basin, a valley draining to the northwest and bordered by narrow, rugged mountain ranges. The Tucson Basin's northeastern boundary is formed by the Santa Catalina and Rincon Mountains, and its western boundary is formed by the Tucson Mountains (Upper Santa Cruz Basin Mines Task Force, 1979). Tucson is centrally located within the 1,000 square mile Tucson Basin and has an elevation of 2,300 feet. A geologic barrier near the town of Cortaro provides a reasonable dividing line between the ground waters of the upper and lower Santa Cruz Basins (Burkham, 1970). The Rincon Mountains reach a maximum elevation of 8,666 feet while the Tucson Mountains reach only 4,687 feet.
Rincon Mountain District and Coronado National Forest encompass the Rincon Mountains. The Rincons are composed of folded and foliated banded gneiss, schist, and granite of Precambrian age, draped over at their base by Tertiary and younger alluvial and colluvial deposits. Often the colluvium forms a thin cover over pediment surfaces. The TMD and adjoining Tucson Mountain Park cover most of the Tucson Mountains which are dominated by Permian and Cretaceous limestone, arkose, red beds, and Tertiary intrusives and volcanics. Quaternary gravels are also present and cover most of the pediments (Streitz, 1962). The lower flanks of the Tucson and Rincon Mountains are covered by terrace deposits or other alluvium ranging from 100 feet thick in RMD to 400 feet thick in TMD (National Park Service, 1995).
The Tucson Basin is filled with the fluvial, lacustrine, and debris flow deposits derived from the erosion of the surrounding mountains and ranges farther up the drainage. The center of the basin is a dissected graben structure where massive accumulations of fine-grained sediments and evaporites are present (Leake and Hanson, 1987). Alluvial fan deposits occur along the perimeter of the basin, while river channel and flood plain deposits are common in the center of the basin and make up the larger proportion of the fill. The basin deposits are typically Tertiary and Quaternary in age, and may be as much as 8,000 feet thick (Streitz, 1962). Geologic factors controlled the formation of the valley fill and determined the textural and structural relationships of the basin sediments. The characteristics of the sediments in turn control the occurrence and movement of ground water in the basin (Kidwai, 1957).
Standard soil surveys were completed for both districts in 1987 by the Soil Conservation Service. Soils are typically shallow, coarsely textured, and well drained on the mountain slopes. Soils on the bajada are alluvial and contain distinct areas of sandy or rocky soils with equally distinct plant associations (National Park Service, 1995). These soils lend themselves to rapid recharge, although recharge normally does not occur outside stream channels because antecedent soil moisture is usually very low, evaporation is very high, and rainfall amounts are insufficient to push the wetted front to ground water depths. An impermeable layer of caliche frequently forms at this depth, which can limit plant establishment and growth. Because alluvium within stream channels, fans, and bajadas are very permeable, streams spread out and rapidly lose flow as they leave the steep mountain gradients and enter the alluvial flats (Osterkamp, 1973a).
Both districts of Saguaro National Park have had some mining activity. However, mining was never widespread or intensive in RMD (Clemensen, 1987). Small scale lime kiln operations occurred between the 1880s and 1910s. The Loma Verde Mine reached 350 feet in 1902, but was not included on a list of mines just five years later. In the mid-1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps filled in 30 prospect holes in RMD.
Mining activity was more pronounced in TMD, where there are 150 mine shafts with associated tailings piles. Most of the abandoned mines are within designated wilderness areas. The two largest operations, the Gould and Mile Wide mines, have quite large tailings piles and some yellow staining in stream channels up to 1/4 mile below the piles. However, because the streams in TMD are only ephemeral, there is no possibility of impacting aquatic communities with mine land runoff. Although there is very little vegetation on these large refuse piles, vegetation below the piles appears to be little affected by runoff.
Ground water contamination by leaching from the tailings piles is unlikely because the rainfall/evaporation ratio is low and diffuse recharge provides little input to the underlying aquifers. The conclusion drawn by the Upper Santa Cruz Basin Mine Task Force (1979) was that ground water contamination from mining activities could not be detected in either the Tucson or Avra Valley basins, even from large active mines. The only potential for contaminant migration is during periods of intense thunderstorms when surface runoff could be generated from the tailings piles. During these events dilution would be high, and metals or other contaminants would be carried from the park down to the adjoining Avra Valley or Tucson Basin before significant infiltration could occur.
The 1994 boundary expansion of TMD encompassed the Old Yuma Mine Area, which includes a valid lode claim, a valid placer claim, and a disputed lode claim. Management of these claims transferred from BLM to NPS when the 1994 expansion bill was approved. Patent is being sought on the valid lode claim, and the claimant has submitted a plan of operations for the disputed lode claim. An approved plan of operations must be in place before any activity can occur on either claim. The placer claim consists of a refuse pile and two catchment basins which were built to process the refuse with cyanide leaching. There has been no indication to date that the claimant intends to pursue the placer claim.
Source National Park Service, Water Resouce Division
Burkham, D.E. 1970. Depletion of Stream Flow by Infiltration in the Main Channels of the Tucson Basin , Southeastern Arizona . U.S. Geological Survey Water Supply Paper 1939-B, U.S. Government Printing Office. Washington D.C.
Clemensen, A.B. 1987. Cattle, Copper, and Cactus: The History of Saguaro National Monument , Arizona . Historic Resource Study, National Park Service. Denver, CO. 271 pp.
Kidwai, Z. U. 1957. The Relationship of Ground Water to Alluvium in the Tucson Area, Arizona . M.S. thesis, University of Arizona . Tucson , AZ. 69 pp.
Leake , S.A. , and R.T. Hanson. 1987. Distribution and Movement of Trichloroethylene in Ground Water in the Tucson Area, Arizona . U.S. Geological Survey. Water Resources Investigation Report 86-4313. 40 pp.
National Park Service. 1995. Statement for Management. Saguaro National Park . Tucson , AZ , 33 pp.
Osterkamp, W.R. 1973a. Ground Water Recharge in the Tucson Area, Arizona . U.S. Geological Survey. Reston , Virginia . Map I-844-E. 1 map
Streitz, R. 1962. Subsurface Stratigraphy and Hydrology of the Rillito Creek-Tanque Verde Wash Area, Tucson , Arizona . M.S. thesis, University of Arizona . Tucson , AZ. 60 pp. 1 sheet.
Upper Santa Cruz Basin Mines Task Force. 1979. Upper Santa Cruz Ground Water Quality Baseline Report. Pima Association of Governments, 208 Program. Tucson , AZ. 71 pp.
The Struggle For Survival Begins
The saguaro begins its life as a shiny black seed no bigger than a period on this page. But what it lacks in size it more than makes up for in numbers. One saguaro produces tens of thousands of seeds in one year, and as many as 40 million in a lifetime of 175 to 200 years. But from the start the odds against survival are great. Out of all the seeds that one saguaro produces in its life, probably only one will live to adulthood.
Seeds and young saguaros have the best chance for survival if they are "cared for" by nurse trees such as paloverde and mesquite. Saguaro seedlings that grow under these sheltering plants are shaded from the desert's intense sunlight blanketed from winter cold, and hidden from rodents, birds, and other animals that eat them. Rocks provide similar protection for young saguaros. Saguaros do best on bajadas - gently sloping outwash plains at the foot of desert mountains.
Growth of a Green Giant
A saguaro's growth is extremely slow. Growth occurs in spurts, with most of it taking place in the summer rainy season each year. By the end of a year the saguaro seedling may measure only 14 inch. After 15 years, the saguaro may be barely one foot tall. By 50 years the saguaro can be as tall as seven feet. After about 75 years it may sprout its first branches, or "arms". The branches begin as prickly balls, then extend out and upward. This is also the stage of life when the saguaro begins to flower and produce fruit and seed.
By 100 years, the saguaro may have reached 25 feet. Saguaros that live 150 years or more attain the grandest sizes, towering as high as 50 feet and weighing 8 tons-and sometimes more-dwarfing every other living thing in the desert. These are the largest cacti in the Urged States. Their huge bulk is supported by a strong but flexible cylinder-shaped framework of long woody ribs.
Death . . . and Rebirth
Saguaros may die of old age, but they also die of other causes. Animals eat the seeds and seedlings, lightning and winds kill large saguaros, and severe droughts weaken and kill all ages. The saguaro is vulnerable during every stage of its life.
Where there is a balance of life and death, saguaro forests thrive. But in some forests in Saguaro National Monument deaths have greatly outnumbered the growth of new young saguaros.
- What has caused the decline in these areas?
- Biologists believe killing freezes are the number one cause of saguaro deaths in the park. The saguaros here are at the extreme northern and eastern edge of their range, where the coldest winter temperatures most often occur.
- Man, too, has played a part in the decline. Livestock grazing, which continued from the 1880s until 1958, devastated some forests. Many seedlings were killed outright by trampling or were unable to find suitable places to grow because the ground had been compacted and nurse trees killed.
Today, with grazing eliminated, recovery appears to be underway in several areas, where thousands of young saguaros have taken hold and are thriving. Still, natural forces, vandalism, and cactus rustling-the theft of saguaros for use in landscaping-continue to take a toll on the park's saguaro forests.
The General park map handed out at the visitor center is available on the park's map webpage.For information about topographic maps, geologic maps, and geologic data sets, please see the geologic maps page.
A geology photo album has not been prepared for this park.For information on other photo collections featuring National Park geology, please see the Image Sources page.
Currently, we do not have a listing for a park-specific geoscience book. The park's geology may be described in regional or state geology texts.
Please visit the Geology Books and Media webpage for additional sources such as text books, theme books, CD ROMs, and technical reports.
Parks and Plates: The Geology of Our National Parks, Monuments & Seashores.
Lillie, Robert J., 2005.
W.W. Norton and Company.
9" x 10.75", paperback, 550 pages, full color throughout
The spectacular geology in our national parks provides the answers to many questions about the Earth. The answers can be appreciated through plate tectonics, an exciting way to understand the ongoing natural processes that sculpt our landscape. Parks and Plates is a visual and scientific voyage of discovery!
Ordering from your National Park Cooperative Associations' bookstores helps to support programs in the parks. Please visit the bookstore locator for park books and much more.
Information about the park's research program is available on the park's research webpage.
For information about permits that are required for conducting geologic research activities in National Parks, see the Permits Information page.
The NPS maintains a searchable data base of research needs that have been identified by parks.
A bibliography of geologic references is being prepared for each park through the Geologic Resources Evaluation Program (GRE). Please see the GRE website for more information and contacts.
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Currently, we do not have a listing for any park-specific geology education programs or activities.
General information about the park's education and intrepretive programs is available on the park's education webpage.For resources and information on teaching geology using National Park examples, see the Students & Teachers pages.


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