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|February 18th, 2008, 02:50 PM
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Michigan BRC Announcement
Came in my email today so I'm posting FYI.
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Michigan Department of Natural Resources Seeks Public Comment on Revised ORV Management Plan
Dear BRC Action Alert Subscriber,
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources in cooperation with the Off-Road Vehicle Trails Advisory Board just announced the release of a revised draft management plan for ORV use in Michigan. A copy of the news release is pasted below.
Please take a couple of minute to check it out. Please pass this information along to other recreationists.
Thanks in advance for your support,
Ric Foster
Public Lands Department Manager
BlueRibbon Coalition
208-237-1008 ext 107
__________________________________________________ ____
DNR Seeks Public Comment on Revised ORV Management Plan
Feb. 13, 2008
CONTACT: Steve DeBrabander 517-241-3687 or Mary Dettloff 517-335-3014
Agency: Natural Resources
State recreation officials today announced the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, in cooperation with the Off-Road Vehicle Trails Advisory Board, has released a revised draft management plan for ORV use in Michigan.
Revisions to the plan were made in response to public comments on the initial draft plan that was presented to the public in August 2005. The plan provides strategic direction for management of ORV use on public lands administered by the DNR.
The substantive changes to the 2005 draft plan are the inclusion of actions the DNR will take to address illegal ORV use. This includes actions and recommendations from the ORV strategy task force that was established as a result of forest certification, which Michigan achieved from the Sustainable Forestry Initiative and Forest Stewardship Council in 2006.
The new plan also addresses other influences that have come into play since 2005, such as legislative boilerplate language regarding trail expansion and pending legislation concerning ORV operation on public roadways.
The revised draft plan can be viewed online by going to www.michigan.gov/dnr, then clicking on the Recreation, Camping & Boating link to locate the ORV/ATV page.
Public comment on the revised plan, which may be submitted via e-mail at email@example.com, has been extended until midnight EST, Feb. 25, 2008.
The DNR will present the revised draft plan to the Natural Resources Commission for information in April, at which time there will be additional opportunity for public comment. Final approval of the plan is scheduled for the NRC monthly meeting in May.
"Public review and comment are integral to the planning process," said Lynne Boyd, DNR Forest, Mineral and Fire Management chief. "All public comments will be taken into consideration as we finalize the plan."
The DNR is committed to the conservation, protection, management,
use and enjoyment of the state's natural resources
for current and future generations.
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I'm not quoting idiots who promote unsafe recovery strap techniques anymore. :miff:
|February 18th, 2008, 07:21 PM
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January 11, 2008
Statutory regulation of Off-Road Vehicles (ORVs) began in Michigan with 1975 Public Act
(PA) 319 (Act). The Act required the Department of Natural Resources (Department) to develop
a comprehensive plan for the management of ORV use of areas, forest roads and forest trails,
under the jurisdiction of the Department.
The Department published the first ORV plan in 1979 and recommended:
· Minimizing social conflict
· Meet outdoor recreation needs
· Protect environmental integrity by confining ORV use on state public lands to the state
forest roads and a system of designated ORV trails, routes and areas.
1991 PA 17 further restricted the use of ORVs on public lands in the Lower Peninsula to only
designated tails, routes and areas. This Act closed undesignated forest roads on state forest lands
to ORV use throughout the Lower Peninsula. In the Upper Peninsula, state forest roads and
designated trails remained opened to ORVs unless posted closed.
ORV Plan Process
In spring 2004, the Department initiated a public planning process to update the 1979 ORV plan
and assess program needs from a variety of perspectives, from land managers to trail riders.
In May 2004, Michigan State University (MSU) was hired to facilitate this plan update and
began the public input process with the ORV Advisory Board presentation.
· There were meetings held for public input at Lansing, Gaylord and Marquette;
· Workshops were held with ORV trail maintenance and site restoration grant recipients;
· Meetings were conducted with Department field personnel and the Forest, Mineral and
Fire Management (FMFM) Management Team;
· Opportunities were provided for written comments; and
· Surveys were mailed to Michigan county sheriffs, northern Michigan Road Commission
managers and ORV program coordinators from 49 states.
In August 2005, MSU submitted the draft plan based on the public input process to the
Department. The Department initiated a review process of the recommendations involving
Recreation and Trails Program staff, the FMFM Management Team and the Department
Management Team. The MSU plan includes forty-four specific recommendations grouped into
eight topic areas:
Draft #1 January 17, 2008
1. The designated ORV trail system
2. System maintenance
3. Enduro Motorcycle Events
4. Program Administration
5. Damage Restoration
6. Law Enforcement
7. Safety Education
8. Licensing
There are several good ideas and recommendations in the plan that would require changing
existing law in order for them to be accomplished. Modifications to the current grant funding
allocations would also be required in order to accomplish trail expansion and other
recommended program enhancements.
The Departments number one priority is to bring the existing trail, route and use area
infrastructure up to standard before adding new trails on state-owned lands. The Department
does recognize the legislative requests for trail expansion to meet existing constituent demand;
however, it is imperative to manage the current designated system to meet the Departments
mission of resource conservation and protection, meet outdoor recreation needs and safeguard
The Department needs land manager partners, including local units of government, major
corporate land owners, utilities and private land owners, as well as partnerships with
manufacturers and dealers, to address the plan objective of trail expansion. This is especially
true of increased demand for riding opportunities in Southern Michigan.
Public comment on the plan has been supportive of recommendations to increase opportunities to
ride. This need is related to the type of machine the rider has, ranging from motorcycles to street
legal four-wheel drive vehicles, and it is related to having riding opportunities near where they
live so they can ride during weekdays. This is particularly true of comments we have heard from
riders in Southern Michigan, where most riders live. This same comment was heard again
during the public input meetings held for the State Forest Plan.
Forest Certification and Other Plan Influences
In December 2004, Governor Jennifer M. Granholm signed 2004 PA 124, a bill that required
Michigans state forest lands be certified under at least one forest certification program by
January 2006 to demonstrate sustainable forestry management and keep Mic higans timber a
marketable commodity. The certification process overlapped the ORV plan review process and
public comment period. In December 2005 a corrective action request (CAR) was issued by the
Forest Stewardship Council and Sustainable Forestry Initiative forest certification auditors to
address illegal ORV use on state forest lands. Chief Lynne Boyd, FMFM, appointed an ORV
Task Force and charged the group to propose a strategy to address this CAR and illegal ORV use
in three topic areas: User Education, Law Enforcement, and Restoration / Maintenance of
damaged lands. The task force completed its charge in June 2006 and submitted several
Draft #1 January 17, 2008
These recommendations were supported by the FMFM Management Team and submitted to the
forest certification auditors at the 2007 annual surveillance audit. The auditors found these
recommendations adequately addressed their request to develop a strategy to reduce or eliminate
illegal ORV use and considered this CAR completed. The auditors then established a new CAR
(CAR 2007.4) which requires the Department to incorporate and implement the
recommendations into the ORV Management Plan.
In addition, Section 807 of 2005 PA 154, was signed and required the Department to submit a
comprehensive plan to expand the current ORV trail mileage by at least 25%, or 796 miles, over
the next four years. The Section 807 report was issued June 2006 and focused on upgrades of
the existing designated ORV system to meet maintenance standards, and it also cited several
opportunities for growth beyond the traditional boundaries of the state forest lands and onto
lands managed by local units of government or private lands. Trail advocates were identified as
a crucial element in the success of this initiate for trail expansion.
In 2006, the topic of counties designating their roads open to ORVs in the Upper Peninsula and
Northern Lower Peninsula created considerable discussion and resulted in a letter of guidance
from the Office of the Attorney General, and a response from the legislature with a bill that
would address the issues raised in the letter and provide the counties with broader authority to
designating roads open to ORVs. The bill passed the House unanimously but was not taken up
by the Senate. The Department responded with a letter to all county road commissions
encouraging them to work together with the Department in formally designating ORV routes and
trails that would connect the state designated ORV motorized trail system with local
communities and services.
This introduction to the public planning process and the political influences provide the
background to the following ORV Trails Program Strategic Plan of Action.
Maintenance of Existing Designated Trails/Routes/Scramble Areas:
1. The Departments number one priority is to bring the existing trail, route and use area
infrastructure up to standard before adding new trails, routes or scramble areas. While
the Department recognizes legislative mandates for trail expansion to meet increasing
demand, it is imperative to manage the existing designated system to meet the
Departments mission of resource conservation and protection, meet outdoor recreation
needs and safeguard riders.
2. Maintain existing trail system at a good or higher level based on the 2005 Nelson
report. The initial evaluation completed by Nelson indicated some trails were being
maintained at a level less than good. The Department took action and brought the
maintenance level up to good or higher on all trails. It is the Departments intent to
continue to maintain the trail system at a good or higher level. This can be accomplished
through the increased use of annual maintenance grants to complete trail brushing,
signing and grading, or through contracts.
Draft #1 January 17, 2008
3. The Department will use established criteria for prioritizing maintenance projects on an
annual basis and securing grant funding.
4. Currently, ORV clubs complete trail maintenance through a grant program with the
Department. Where deficiencies in trail maintenance are discovered, the Department will
work with trail sponsors in an effort to correct the problem prior to accessing penalties.
The Department will continue to strictly enforce penalties for unacceptable trail
maintenance as defined in the program handbooks.
5. The Department recognizes the need to recalculate and update trail maintenance
reimbursement rates paid to non-profit organizations in an attempt to improve trail
maintenance. A consumer price index inflation rate adjustment was made for the 2008
season. Further evaluation is needed to determine appropriate rates for the future. If
increased reimbursement does not result in improved trail maintenance, the Department
will consider contracting trail maintenance work as opposed to the current method of
working with non-profit organizations. A pilot project of maintaining one or two trails
through a multiple- year contract may be a good way of evaluating this method.
6. The Department will conduct annual trail inspections; however, due to practical
constraints such as current staffing levels, these inspections will be conducted on a
random audit basis.
7. The Department supports the idea of no net loss of trail quality and quantity where the
trail is impacted by timber harvesting or other land management activities. However, it
may not be possible in every instance because of the stand type and prescribed forest
treatment. User preference to keep trails in forested areas is recognized and this
preference will be accommodated where conditions support it. Trail users are
encouraged to attend pre-harvest forest management unit open houses to share their
concerns and suggestions so they can be considered.
Trail Signage:
1. Maintain obvious trail corridors through proper brushing, signing and grading. The better
a trail is maintained, the less chance trail users will mistakenly leave the designated trail
and venture into an area that is not designated for use. Illegal spur trails should be
blocked as soon as they are found.
2. The Department will initiate the use of higher visibility sign styles such as installing
yellow backers behind conventional trail signs based on the results of a recent pilot sign
project. This pilot project, known as the AuSable Pilot Project, utilized yellow backers
behind signs to make ORV signs more visible. The results of the AuSable Pilot Project
indicated that utilizing the yellow backers was very helpful to both users and law
enforcement officials. The Department will implement these signage improvements on a
statewide basis.
Draft #1 January 17, 2008
3. The Department supports the development of regulatory sign plans for each trail. This
process has been initiated by the Department through a limited amount of data collection
of existing signage locations through GPS mapping activities. This initiative could be
accomplished in cooperation with grant sponsors, and/or private contractors.
4. The Department supports combining signage between motorized recreational programs
(ORV and Snowmobile) where possible. This will result in less duplication of signage
between programs and reduce overall costs and signage on the trails.
Trail Mapping:
1. The Department will provide improved ORV trail maps by making accurate Global
Position System (GPS) maps available to the public through the Departments website on
the internet. This mapping system will be updated as new trails are developed and
existing trails are rerouted or closed.
ORV Operation on State-owned Lands:
1. The Department will maintain the closed unless posted open management approach in
the Lower Peninsula, with consideration for additional area, trail and route designations,
to link trails and communities together.
2. The Department will maintain the current management approach in the Upper Peninsula,
(i.e. ORV operation permitted on designated trails, routes and areas, and state forest roads
unless posted closed). The Department will monitor resource damage related to illegal
ORV use, and impacts of having state forest system roads open to ORV use. The
Department will reevaluate this policy as the United State Department of Agriculture
(USDA) Forest Service moves forward with implementing its new travel management
initiative to consider consistency on the management of ORVs on federal and state lands.
Safety Education:
1. The Department supports the recommendation of providing safety training access in
every county through classroom education conducted by county Sheriffs, with optional
hands-on training by willing certified instructors to complement the mandatory
classroom training and written certification exam.
2. The Department supports mandatory certification for all persons born on or after
December 31, 1988. Providing for mandatory ORV safety certification for anyone born
on or after December 31, 1988, and increasing grant eligibility to non-profit organizations
will require a change in the law.
Draft #1 January 17, 2008
Expansion of Designated Trails/Routes/Scramble Areas:
1. The Department recognizes the need to expand riding opportunities to meet increasing
demand. Expansion will be accomplished through partnerships with trail advocates,
other public agencies and the private sector.
2. Trail expansion on non-state land will be considered through partnerships with other land
managers. This includes the United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service,
local government and major corporate land owners, such as forest products companies
and utilities, and private land owners. It is unreasonable to expect all trail riding
expansion to occur on state forest lands. This is especially true of a potential scramble
area in southern Michigan.
3. The Department supports partnerships with local government, and encourages
designation of local access routes to link designated trails and riding areas, and provide
access to local services.
4. The Department will pursue development of Destination trails, which will require
partnerships with other land managers, and private land owners. Opportunities will be
considered on a case-by-case basis, and should be accomplished off public roadways and
road shoulders, wherever possible.
5. The Department will use established criteria for evaluating trail, route and scramble area
expansion proposals, on a continuous basis as proposals are developed and received.
6. The Department will consider development of parallel trails on a case-by-case basis. The
location of these parallel trails must be considered in light of other state land management
objectives and resource protection.
7. The Department will continue to support improvements at St. Helen Motorsport Area.
This will be accomplished in cooperation with user groups and/or local government who
should take the lead in implementing projects through grants from the Off-Road Vehicle
Trail Improvement Fund Program.
8. The Department recognizes the desire of user groups for additional scramble areas.
Existing compromised sites, such as borrow pits, mines, quarries and pre-existing ORV
damage sites located on state forest lands, will be evaluated to determine potential for use
area designation or restoration. The location of these areas must be considered in light of
other state land management objectives and resource protection.
9. The Department has long recognized the need for an ORV riding area in southern
Michigan. The Departments Southeast Michigan Off-Road Vehicle Report (1991)
reiterated and explored this need in depth. Other than at Genesee County's Mounds
Off-Road Vehicle Park, southeast Michigan residents in search of legal riding
opportunities on public lands must travel at least as far as Gladwin County. The
development of an ORV park in southeast Michigan remains a high priority today.
Draft #1 January 17, 2008
In the Departments experience with The Mounds ORV Park, and in other instances when
the idea of an ORV park has been discussed, we believe the best chances for advancing
the idea would involve a partnership made up of state, county, and local governmental
units, or the private sector. Substantial local advocacy and support will be critical to the
success of this endeavor, so involvement of constituent groups and other private local
interests would also be beneficial.
Throughout the Southeast Michigan report mentioned earlier, the need for early local
community involvement was recognized as a basic principle for successfully planning
and establishing an ORV park. To provide a greater degree of confidence in the ability to
address local concerns, needs and benefits, we suggest that a county or local unit of
government be the lead partner. Further, we believe that ownership and operation by a
county or local unit of government will be more acceptable to local residents than state
ownership and operation. The Department would provide technical, planning and
financial assistance to the private or local unit through various state and federal funding
sources, and would be interested in being involved in any other way, and to the extent
desired, by all partners.
10. As the ORV trail system is expanded, connecting existing trails and routes to each other
to provide for more connectivity will be a priority. This would fulfill the publics desire
for longer riding/touring opportunities. This could be accomplished by trail sponsor
advocates taking the lead role working with the local land manager to designate the
connections, or with the county road commission for specific designated routes on the
county road shoulders. This will be accomplished through the trail proposal process and
will be dependent on the feasibility of making the connections. Creating additional riding
opportunities in the Southern Lower Peninsula remain a priority.
11. Riding advocates are encouraged to work with local units of government and private land
owners to secure lands or trail easements nearer the population centers in Southern Lower
Michigan. This would address the continuous requests to the Department for riding
opportunities near the riding public. In most cases, Department owned Park, Recreation
or Wildlife lands near these population centers have legal land management requirements
that do not permit ORV riding. Therefore, the best chance for additional riding
opportunities in southern lower Michigan will be on non-state-owned lands.
12. The Department will encourage manufacturers and dealers of ORV/ATVs to work with
local units of government to secure lands or trail easements, for the purposes of having
riding opportunities closer to the known populations centers of most state riders in
Southern Lower Michigan.
13. The Department will pursue acquisition of an available abandoned rail corridor in the
West Upper Peninsula that directly connects Michigans Iron River to Marinesco Route
to the designated Wisconsin ORV trail system. This would open hundreds of miles of
new riding opportunities for residents of both states.
Draft #1 January 17, 2008
ORV Events on State-owned Land:
1. The Department will evaluate Event Permit Applications for motorized trail events on the
designated ORV trail system and forest roads. In general, the Department supports these
events and will evaluate them on a case-by-case basis.
2. Enduro Motorcycle Events While the Department recognizes the desire to have Enduro
motorcycle events (riding events not on a designated trail), it must balance these desires
with other resource uses and impacts. The Department prefers Enduro motorcycle events
to be located on designated trails and/or at sites of proposed timber harvests (1-2 years
prior to harvest). In general, the Department does not support proposed events located
off designated trails and will review requests for Enduro events on a case-by-case basis.
Approval of these events will be at the discretion of the District Supervisor.
3. Increase the presence of Conservation Officers (CO) and County Sheriffs at trail riding
events for public relations, and to enforce resource protection and trail riding compliance.
Licensing of ORVs:
1. The Department supports the concept of providing licensing solely through point of sales
terminals to provide accurate and timely information about ORV licensees.
2. The distribution of ORV rules and safety information at the point of license purchase will
be a fundamental component of the Departments comprehensive public information
3. The Department will establish a Workgroup to develop a long-range financial plan for the
future management and long-term sustainability of the ORV program.
4. The Department will annually review ORV license fee revenue, expenditures, and access
program needs.
5. The Department will work with constituent groups and the legislature to maintain a
license fee structure that will sustain long-term program viability to meet public demand.
1. The Department will integrate the ORV program into each Forest Management Unit to
assist in the administration of the grant program with trail sponsors so it parallels
snowmobile trail program administration, and assure uninterrupted service to the grant
2. The Department will continue to clarify responsibilities and strengthen working
relationships among Department personnel/divisions involved in ORV program delivery.
Draft #1 January 17, 2008
3. The Department is continually seeking program improvements to clarify program
responsibilities, and strengthen working relationships among Department personnel
through staff training and operational meetings. Program manuals will be maintained and
updated annually to clarify program procedures, as needed. Additionally, in response to
Forest Certification audit findings, corrective action responses (CARs) and work
instructions have been developed to help clarify staff responsibilities.
4. The Department will investigate streamlining grant processes to gain efficiency and
increase the number of cooperators.
5. The Department is continually looking at ways to conduct business more efficiently and
will continue to investigate ways to streamline the grant process within the legal
requirements established by law.
8. The Department will periodically survey ORV users to assess needs, shifts in use,
economic and environmental impacts, and gauge rider reaction to trail management. The
Department will encourage including questions regarding ORV use in other surveys
related to forest land use.
Addressing Illegal ORV Use:
A. Education:
1. In an attempt to reduce or eliminate illegal ORV use, the Department will adopt a catch
phrase campaign or theme that would last 12 to 24 months. This theme should be
developed either in- house, through an advertising company, a university, or the
Department could utilize an existing theme such as Tread Lightly.
2. The Department will utilize various magazines such as those associated with the
Michigan United Conservation Club s (MUCC), Hunting, 4-wheel drive, etc., to promote
the theme. This is one opportunity to reach various user groups to get the message out.
3. The Department will partner with surrounding states, such as Wisconsin and Minnesota,
to learn how they are managing illegal ORV use. The Department hosted officials from
the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in the summer of 2006 to share
experiences related to ORV management and enforcement, as a part of this effort. This
effort will continue with additional communication between these great lakes states.
4. Networking with the trail riding community including clubs, grant sponsors and the ORV
Advisory Board for support of the campaign, will be a priority of the Department. The
Department cannot achieve success in reducing or eliminating illegal ORV use without
the support of the riding community.
Draft #1 January 17, 2008
5. The Department will review and update the existing ORV Education video tape and
provide it to any interested partners and user groups including Hunter Education courses,
to promote legal ORV riding.
6. The Department will work with ORV manufacturers and dealers as a partner in an effort
to utilize posters and billboards to promote the theme. The use of billboards in strategic
locations is another important opportunity to get the message out to the public that illegal
ORV use is unacceptable.
7. The Department will update and maximize the use of the Departments web page to
promote the theme and to provide information on the damage caused by illegal ORV use.
8. Where possible, the Department will utilize Public Service Announcements (PSAs) as an
opportunity to promote the theme. These announcements can be created in-house,
through an advertising company, university or utilize existing PSAs such as those that
exist through Tread Lightly.
9. The Department will display the theme at all Operation Service Centers and field offices,
and request that the Michigan Department of Transportation display the theme at all
Welcome Centers and Rest Areas. Outdoor banners, placed in highly visible areas, could
be utilized at these locations. Posters should also be placed indoors in high traffic areas.
10. The Department will revise all Department guidebooks such as the Hunting Guidebook,
Fishing Guidebook, Firewood Guidelines, Recreation and Camping Guidebook, etc. The
revision should include the theme and emphasize the legal use of ORVs, the
environmental damage caused by illegal ORV use, the consequence of being ticketed for
illegal use and the potential loss of ORV riding opportunities if illegal use continues.
B. Law Enforcement:
1. The Department will continue to use the Handbook of Michigan Off-Road Vehicle Laws
to promote legal use of ORVs and to explain the negative impacts of illegal use. An
example of this initiative is the letter that has been placed in the 2006 ORV Handbook
from the Chiefs of Law Enforcement Division (LED) and Forest Mineral and Fire
Management (FMFM), regarding Forest Certification and the negative impacts that result
from illegal ORV use.
2. The Department supports requiring the ORV Youth Education/Certification Program to
be mandatory and emphasize the importance of legally operating ORVs. The program
would also emphasize the environmental damage that results from illegal ORV use. This
is an opportunity to teach our youth about riding only on designated trails/areas.
3. The Department will increase enforcement through priority violations such as
emphasizing law enforcement initiatives for violations that occur off-trail, in wetlands, in
streams, and along lakeshores.
Draft #1 January 17, 2008
4. The Department will increase the use of Conservation Officer (CO) group patrols to deal
with illegal high environmental damage/high use sites.
5. The Department will consider increasing the number of COs in order to have adequate
staffing levels to effectively enforce this initiative.
6. The Department will explore the potential of increased ORV law enforcement funding in
order to fund additional law enforcement activities.
7. The Department will utilize a 1-800 (toll- free) number for reporting illegal ORV use,
similar to the Report All Poaching (RAP) line; possibly using the same 1-800 number and
same operators as the current RAP line. The new reporting number could be called the
RED line (Report Environmental Damage), as an example. The 1-800 number should be
incorporated into the theme and be prominent in all publications, the Department web
site, video, billboards, etc.
8. The Department will consider the feasibility of reformatting the ORV license to include a
readily identifiable number for law enforcement use.
9. The Department will continue to improve its partnership with local law enforcement
officials through improved coordination in the field. The Department must also
communicate its enforcement priorities to local law enforcement agencies. The
Department should consider increased funding for local law enforcement officials for
ORV enforcement and also develop an improved evaluation process of how these funds
are utilized. Finally, the Department should develop an ORV Enforcement Program for
local enforcement officials to allow enforcement by part-time officers similar to the
snowmobile program.
10. The Department will seek an increase in penalties for illegal ORV use. Currently, when a
user is fined for illegal ORV use, the penalty may be so insignificant as to not be a
deterrent to a user to stop that illegal use. This would likely involve educating local
prosecuting attorneys and judges as well as legislative action. The Department (possibly
the Conservation Officers should make presentations to the Prosecutors Association and
Magistrate meetings conveying these recommendations.
C. Restoration of Environmentally Damaged Sites:
1. The Department will improve documentation of existing environmental damage areas
caused by illegal ORV use. The Department has recently completed the development of
a database known as the Resource Damage Report (RDR). This database is being used to
document environmental damage sites, including those caused by illegal ORV use. The
database can also be used for determining the overall scope of this problem on a
statewide basis.
2. The Department will use established criteria for prioritizing restoration projects on an
annual basis and securing grant funding.
Draft #1 January 17, 2008
3. The Department will increase the use of non-profit groups (such as ORV clubs,
environmental groups, soil conservation agencies, etc.), to complete restoration projects.
The Department does not have enough staff to complete all restoration projects with
existing staff. In order to make significant progress in restoring damaged sites, the
Department must rely on, and work with outside interests.
4. The Department will improve accountability regarding who is responsible for project
management. There have been some communication breakdowns between the restoration
grant requestor, grant management and the project manager. It must be made clear on
every project who the responsible party is for assuring the project is completed.
5. The Department will consider hiring additional staff, or receive assistance in completing
projects the Department identifies by contracting the project oversight, including project
development and completion.
6. The Department will consider contracting a significant number of outstanding restoration
projects to a single contractor. The contract should include project oversight.
7. Include a management plan to correct initial cause of problem at environmentally
damaged sites. There have been examples of restoration projects that have been
completed successfully, only to be damaged again by illegal ORV use. A management
plan must be developed to evaluate and resolve the initial cause of the damage. A Land
Use Order by the Director may be necessary to prevent a reoccurrence of the problem
during and after restoration work. A Land Use Order by the Director is necessary to
close forest roads.
|February 18th, 2008, 08:49 PM
Senior Member
So what's the down side? This sounds pretty good:
I'm not quoting idiots who promote unsafe recovery strap techniques anymore. :miff:
|February 19th, 2008, 02:36 PM
Senior Member
"6. The Department will work with ORV manufacturers and dealers as a partner in an effort to utilize posters and billboards to promote the theme. The use of billboards in strategic locations is another important opportunity to get the message out to the public that illegal ORV use is unacceptable."
The more I think about this the less I like it. In other words, bad behavior will be advertised to the general public with no balance by advertising good behavior. The end result: general public will be left with an impression that ORV users do bad things. It might be OK if say the billboard were split with images of good behavior by ORV enthusiests (say cleaning up trial system and fire lanes) juxteposed to poor behavior on the same board.
I'm not quoting idiots who promote unsafe recovery strap techniques anymore. :miff:
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What Not to Say at an Airport – Statements like these not only delay the people who said them but can also inconvenience many other passengers if the checkpoint or terminal has to be evacuated:
- A passenger flying out of San Juan told the ticket agent that her bag contained a bomb and she was going to blow up the plane. After it was all said and done, her bag didn't have a bomb, but as a result of her threat, the ticket counter, checkpoint, and terminal were closed for nearly an hour. There were consequences.
Unfortunately these sorts of occurrences are all too frequent which is why we talk about these finds. Sure, it's great to share the things that our officers are finding, but at the same time, each time we find a dangerous item, the throughput is slowed down and a passenger that likely had no ill intent ends up with a citation or in some cases is even arrested. The passenger can face a penalty as high as $7,500.00. This is a friendly reminder to please leave these items at home. Just because we find a prohibited item on an individual does not mean they had bad intentions, that's for the law enforcement officer to decide. In many cases, people simply forgot they had these items.
*In order to provide a timely weekly update, I compile my data from a preliminary report. The year-end numbers will vary slightly (increase) from what I report in the weekly updates. However, any monthly, midyear, or end-of-year numbers TSA provides on this blog or elsewhere will not be estimates.

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The TONY Alt-Canon
Which 25 movies deserve promotion? We rank them.
Tue Aug 25 2009
Despite the best efforts of scholars, critics, college professors, bloggers, blowhards and Paul Schrader, no one has ever established an official film canon. The key word, however, is official; there is a handful of titles that are considered the movie masterpieces you must see in order to be cine-literate. They show up in Film History 101 curricula, they fill up the Sight & Sound best-of polls every decade, they are the ones that all experts agree are the crme de la crme. If you haven't seen Citizen Kane or The Rules of the Game, Ugetsu or Battleship Potemkin, The Seventh Seal or Steel Magnolias, then you haven't seen what the art form is truly capable of accomplishing. (We're kidding, of course; not everyone favors Potemkin.)
Keeping in mind that these films rank among our respective all-time favorites, we've often wondered: If one were to skip over to a parallel universe and construct an alternate film canon—in which the usual suspects didn't necessarily have to be chosen—what would be in it?
After many painstaking arguments, gallons of shed tears and several old-school barroom brawls, TONY's film critics have come up with more than two dozen contenders that we feel deserve to be considered among the best that cinema has to offer. Don't think of them as replacements for the tried-and-true greats of the past century-plus; they're more like worthy, well-earned additions to the pantheon.
(One disclaimer: Titles that were released over the past 30 or so years that are widely considered "modern classics"—think Pulp Fiction, Raging Bull, Fanny and Alexander—were purposefully left out; they're closer to standard-canon fodder that just haven't been incorporated into the usual first-tier roundups yet. Check back with us when we compile our "25 Modern Classics" list, coming soon to a computer browser near you. And feel free to let us know about your own personal alt-canon picks in the comments section.)
Without further ado...the Alt-Canon.
Long considered the runt of the Val Lewton--at-RKO litter, this seafaring entry doesn't feature jungle-cat predators or zombies; there's not even a ghost in it, title be damned. What director Mark Robson and the producer do deliver is something more impressive than Lewton's highly touted minimalist spookfests: an exploration of abuses of power. After new recruit Russell Wade reports for duty, captain Richard Dix starts sputtering Nietzchean platitudes about playing God. Then sailor Lawrence Tierney gets a giant hook dropped on him after standing up to his superior, and Wade smells something fishy going on. Made while an Austrian megalomaniac was waging global warfare, this oddity uses Lewton's less-is-more dread to fashion the single most oblique critique on warped authority ever to come out of Golden Age Hollywood. The horror doesn't come from haunted spirits or even the blatantly creepy Skelton Knaggs—whose pockmarked mute offers up surprising melancholia—but from everyday men corrupted by their ability to control their fellow citizens' fates. All this in a modest 69 minutes. Take that, bloated Oscar-bait epics.—DF
It's been gratifying to see Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke ascend to the top of the world-cinema pack and become one of the foremost chroniclers of the 21st century's global-econ fallout. So why, pray tell, is his third movie—a 360-degree drama that charts a student theater troupe's decade of travels—rarely mentioned? Filtering his country's transition from Cultural Revolution comrade-erie to the capitalist boom years through interlocking coming-of-age stories, the director follows his protagonists as they grow up and adapt to the changing climate of contemporary Asia. Some of them will jump on the get-rich bandwagon; others will form the Fengyang County's first "All-Star Rock and Breakdancing Electronic Band." East (Canto-pop tunes) meets West (blue jeans, high-end materialism), while the director's penchant for long, static takes lends an almost anthro-doc feel to the proceedings. Social-history narratives are rarely this satisfying, and the fact that Jia's sprawling portrait of a generation feels far too short at three hours is a credit to how compelling Platform is. It's the Chinese equivalent of Nashville.—DF
As brilliant as the entire career of France's Robert Bresson is, certain favorites have emerged, particularly Pickpocket and the stunning prison-break drama A Man Escaped. But Bresson reached an unusual concentration of formal precision, spiritual depth and emotional sympathy with Mouchette, the ultimate lost-girl film. Impressively carried by the teenage Nadine Nortier (who never made another movie), the tale unspools in a rural town, where the title character—nicknamed "little fly"—weathers the pain of an abusive parent and the disaffected looks of boys and men. The movie feels incredibly modern, mainly due to Bresson's insistence on avoiding excessive emotional displays; the result is a heartbreaker. You can see this film's looming influence over everything from the Dardenne brothers' Cannes-winning Rosetta to Lukas Moodysson's Lilya 4-Ever. No less a figure than Jean-Luc Godard cut the trailer, convinced of the work's greatness. Fortunately for you, there's a beautiful disc of it available from the Criterion Collection.—JR
It's difficult to choose the crowing achievement in the filmography of Japanese director Mikio Naruse, whose work remains criminally underseen stateside. My vote would be for this black-and-white widescreen character study. It features Naruse's frequent muse, Hideko Takamine, as war widow Reiko, who whiles away the days in the grocery store formerly run by her deceased husband. She has to deal with meddling in-laws who want to sell the store, as well as a much younger delinquent brother-in-law, Koji (Yuzo Kayama). It's a routine that she's learned to live with, but then Koji confesses that he's been in love with Reiko for years and her world comes tumbling down. What follows are some intensely emotional argument scenes that build to a moment of seeming calm and clarity. Reiko—ostensibly unburdened of her former life—leaves town by train. But Koji follows her, and the two eventually retreat to a fog-shrouded mountain town. It is in these final sequences that Yearning becomes one for the ages, capped by perhaps the most devastating close-up in cinema history.—KU
Playful and cat-obsessed, the unclassifiable art-diarist Chris Marker has made a huge impact on modern cinema, especially as the creator of the 28-minute sci-fi short "La Jete" (1962), the basis for Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. Elsewhere, he's assembled massive amounts of political footage, testimony to a serious revolutionary stripe. But Marker's lovely 1983 Japan travelogue, Sans Soleil, may be his most lasting work: a mind-expanding and entertaining assemblage of first-person musings, evidence of technological modernization and late-night-TV static. As always, Marker's chief subject is memory—how it plays out in a changing landscape—and his documentary is nothing short of a personal riff on the great Vertigo (which gets namechecked here). Young people who pick up a camera instinctively gravitate toward this kind of filmmaking, banally expressed by American Beauty's floating-plastic-bag video. If only they watched Marker first; they'd know how high they have to reach.—JR
Say "Anthony Mann" and people think of the director's "adult" Westerns starring Jimmy Stewart, the no-nonsense noirs he made with cinematographer John Alton or possibly the lumbering epic that is El Cid. Few mention this ragged combat flick, which is a cryin' shame: It's the perfect example of the filmmaker at his termite-art best. Robert Ryan leads his platoon through Korea's killing fields and stumbles across Aldo Ray escorting a catatonic colonel to safety. The presence of these two slabs of red-meat masculinity at their stubbliest is enough to make this a Father's Day staple. But the film's existentialism owes more to Beckett than Back to Bataan, with a seriously nihilistic starkness countering both the genre's usual gung ho notions and its broader (Sam) Fuller brushstrokes. "Tell me the story of the foot soldier," cries the opening disclaimer, "and I will tell you the story of all wars." Mann hard-boils that statement further: All wars are hell; only the dogfaces change.—DF
John Cassavetes's follow-up to A Woman Under the Influence traces the tragic life and slow death of strip-club owner Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara). He's a compulsive gambler who's cleared himself of debt at film's start, only to return to it during a back-alley casino bender. The trade-off, as the title pulpily hints: kill a Chinese bookie who's an enemy of Cosmo's mobster creditors. It's a simple setup that Cassavetes does everything in his power to make strange. The film moves to its own slow, mesmerizing offbeat; there's no cheap milking of suspense, and any genre theatrics are consistently upended. The clearest example is during the warehouse shoot-out sequence, in which Cosmo—pursued by a gun-toting thug—just walks out of the scene before the conflict is resolved. The borders of Cosmo's world are malleable. By the end, in pure existential fashion, he even seems aware of himself as a character, monologuing incoherently to an offscreen audience as he comes to terms with his inevitable demise.—KU
Writer-director Ira Sachs's debut feature begins as a character study of Lincoln (Shayne Gray), an affluent and ostensibly "normal" white Southern teen who sneaks off to cruise local parks and other queer establishments. It's difficult to tell whether his homosexuality is a true reflection of his character or a way to rebel against his moneyed malaise—probably a bit of both. On one of his excursions, he meets a half-black, half-Vietnamese immigrant named Minh (Thang Chan), with whom he forms an intense, short-term bond. During the languorous middle section, the duo steals a boat and sails along the Mississippi River like a modern-day Huck Finn and Jim. Yet Sachs negates any facile slave-master parallels via a last act narrative coup, as Lincoln disappears from the film entirely and Minh assumes the prominent role. The Delta doesn't begin again at this point so much as respond to the first section's privileged, class-specific focus in disturbing and audacious ways.—KU
It's no accident that the heroine of Jacques Rivette's Secret Dfense is a scientist. Much as Sylvie (Sandrine Bonnaire) intently scrutinizes the numerous components of human life, Rivette places movies and their many facets under his own high-powered microscope. He's examined musicals (Up, Down, Fragile), period pieces (Joan the Maid), fantasies (Duelle) and literary adaptations (Wuthering Heights); this is his thriller, though don't expect a pulse-pounding sit. Rivette stretches each and every moment beyond any normal sense of film time. When Sylvie journeys from the city to the country to kill the man (Jerzy Radziwilowicz) who may have murdered her father, Rivette gives us what seems like the entire train journey, focusing throughout on Bonnaire's minute changes of expression. He never lets Sylvie's retributive impulses sustain themselves—they ebb and flow, as do all human emotions. Eventually, plot and motivation are lost amid verbose conversations and labyrinthine conspiracy theories (a Rivette staple: narrative collapses, life emerges). And the final image is a delirious tableau vivant that closes this cinematic puzzle with a theatrical flourish.—KU
We genuflect at the altar of Sam Peckinpah's elegiac The Wild Bunch (1969). But the director only got angrier, more ornery and, it can be argued, better. (Brace yourself for our No. 10.) Five years after The Wild Bunch, he was smack-dab in the middle of the sweltering Mexican underbrush with his scrappiest leading man, Warren Oates, making a modern tale of a loser's redemption. Oates plays Bennie, an awful cockroach-bar piano player who takes a shady job collecting a wanted man's head for a father whose daughter has been compromised. The movie is filled with delirious rants by Bennie (to the dismembered head) as his car fills up with flies and his psyche breaks down. Beyond bizarre, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia is 1970s filmmaking at its most indulged; you can see its influence recently in the Tilda Swinton drama Julia. It was the only movie on which Peckinpah had final cut; he told interviewers that he did exactly what he wanted.—JR
Fans of the stonerrific The Big Lebowski ought to know that their Southern Californian hero has a very specific ancestor in Elliott Gould's lackadaisical Malibu gumshoe at the heart of The Long Goodbye. Massively irreverent for its day, this detective tale sets Philip Marlowe on his head, force-feeding him pot brownies in the process. Gould was an unusual leading man, loose-limbed and sardonic. Yet in the context of the film's frighteningly glib 1970s Los Angeles—a fearscape of alcoholic writers, wealthy cheating wives and post-Manson paranoia—he becomes an anchor of realness and sympathy. The director is Robert Altman, who will forever be associated with Nashville and his dazzling career rebound, The Player. But could this be his masterpiece? In it are all his signature moves: the shifting, sliding camera; the rich ensemble acting; the politically conscious critique of American greed. When today's filmmakers return to Altman's work, it's often here.—JR
Steven Spielberg seems an unlikely choice to adapt Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning epistolary novel, but his populist instincts actually lend the proceedings a potently subversive charge. Walker's narrative touches on incest, lesbianism, cultural identity, race relations and masculine oppression. How could the man who gave us E.T. possibly relate? The simple answer is that he finds a correlating visual language to the author's concepts. When brash juke-joint singer Shug Avery (Margaret Avery) romances the film's introverted heroine, Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), Spielberg blocks their prekiss interaction as if it's a sensual pas de deux. Shug's goal: to move Celie's hands away from her face and uncover her smile (the outcome, when achieved, feels orgasmic). Shug unlocks Celie's emotions; her missionary sister Nettie (Akosua Busia) provides enlightenment via a hidden stash of letters that speak of a world much larger than Celie has ever known. Spielberg charts an expected course through resolution and redemption, but he leaves these inherited characters in a collapsed-perspective final shot, which reminds us of the hardships they've suffered to attain this fleeting moment of clarity.—KU
Does any film by Dutch deviant Paul Verhoeven belong on this list? Surely. A strong case could be made for his grungy action landmark, RoboCop, and perverse fans could even argue on behalf of the campy greatness of Showgirls (she's a dancer, people). But when the dust settles on this unusually bold Hollywood career, we think Verhoeven's gooey, gory sci-fi epic will be seen as his most subversive achievement. Funded as lavishly as any Michael Bay blockbuster, Starship Troopers pushes deeply into hard-R territory with its insectoid bug war and frontline fresh ripping. (More than a decade later, it's still pretty gross.) But by subtly undermining novelist Robert Heinlein's optimistic heroism with a cast of gorgeous, trigger-happy morons—chiefly Denise Richards and Casper Van Dien—Verhoeven struck a devastating blow, articulating the idea of world-raping Ugly Americanism. The satire flew over the heads of most gung ho viewers, but a critical comment was fully intended. Thank this film for District 9 and Team America: World Police alike.—JR
Judy Garland's final film is a cutting depiction of overemphatic mother love—Kill Bill as a backstage musical instead of a martial arts free-for-all. The acidic head-to-heads between Garland's Jenny Bowman, a boozy prima donna, and David Donne (Dirk Bogarde), the father of her illegitimate son (Gregory Phillips), are the meat of the movie. These scenes are often filmed in long takes and performed with such caustic conviction that they approach John Cassavetes--level psychodrama (strangely, Garland starred this same year in that director's troubled Hollywood feature A Child Is Waiting). The soul of the film, though, are the musical numbers, which Garland throws herself into as if they were her last will and testament. A haunting interpretation of Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's "It Never Was You" is the standout, not only for the singer's performance, but for how it is photographed. Starting at a wide angle and a long remove, the camera slowly cranes in toward Garland until she is isolated in side-profile close-up. The song ends and the stage goes dark. But there is no applause.—KU
Joe Dante fully recaptures the spirit of the Termite Terrace gang with this anarchic take on the globehopping Hollywood blockbuster. Chaos reigns from frame one as Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny reenact their most famous routine ("Duck Season! Wabbit Season!"), then effortlessly join a real world populated by stuntman—and acknowledged Brendan Fraser look-alike—D.J. Drake (Brendan Fraser). From there, our motley crew traverses from a Man and a Woman--scored Paris to the infinite reaches of outer space. High- and low-culture touchstones abound—what other film features cameos from both Pointillist painter Georges Seurat and Doctor Who villains of choice the Daleks? Dante continually bites the corporate hand that feeds, most notably through the casting of wild-and-crazy-guy Steve Martin as an overgrown-child-cum-capitalist-figurehead. The film's greatest triumph is that it reclaims these beloved characters from a years-long corporate devaluation that culminated in the atrocious Space Jam (brilliantly taken down a peg here in a throwaway gag). That alone warrants its inclusion in our alterna-pantheon; moments like Bugs's hilarious dig at Disney Corp. ("Well whaddaya know, I found Nemo!") are added bonuses.—KU
Other than Jesse James and Wyatt Earp, no Western figure has been mythologized more than Billy the Kid. Sam Peckinpah's oater about the outlaw, however, splits its focus in half; the Wild Bunch director is just as interested in how Billy's old compadre and killer, Sheriff Pat Garrett—played by James Coburn in prime stoic-gruff form—sold out his maverick ideology. Most '70s revisionist Westerns hijacked the genre for sociopolitical critiques (Vietnam, racial discrimination), but this retelling of Billy's death goes after even bigger game: the corporate takeover of the frontier and, by extension, contemporary America. Cash rules everything around the duo; lest we miss the point, the Kid even shoots a deputy with buckshot made of nickels. Peckinpah famously fought with the studio over the film and lost, and it wasn't until a "restored" version popped up in 1988 that people recognized the film as one of the auteur's stronger works. That's still giving it short shrift: As a Nixon-era damnation of how the West was lost, this cynical cri de couer is peerless.—DF
The first half of director Jonathan Demme and writer E. Max Frye's contribution to the "unleash the rebel within" genre is sheer bliss. White-collar yuppie Charlie Driggs (Jeff Daniels) gets taken for a ride by the Louise Brooks--bewigged Audrey "Lulu" Hankel (Melanie Griffith). He's initially reluctant, until open highways, impromptu sex and a Feelies concert break down his resistance. There's hardly anything more elating than watching Charlie bust a white-boy move on the dance floor, and it's at this point that the psychopathic Ray Sinclair (Ray Liotta) is introduced. He's Audrey's ex-husband, and also the devil come to collect on Charlie's newfound hedonism. The joys of the first half aren't negated by the horrors of the second—it's an organic growth that Charlie goes through, from uptight straight arrow to bruised and bloodied defender. But it's the knife-wielding climax that launches the movie into the stratosphere. Charlie delivers a killing stroke with more awkwardness than grace, and Demme makes first use of his now-trademark subjective POV shot that somehow gazes, long and hard, into each character's soul.—KU
Stream-of-consciousness narratives work better in novels than in movies; cinematic attempts to ape the wandering mind inevitably come up short compared with the writings of Joyce, Proust or Faulkner. Andrei Tarkovsky's 1975 remembrance of things past, however, is the one film that deserves to be mentioned in that literary company. This semiautobiographical stroll down memory lane digs deep into its bag of tricks: Film stock changes at a moment's notice, and actors have a tendency to play several parts. The only constants are the Russian countryside and a narrator prone to reading poems (written by Tarkovsky's father). Yet even more than the transcendental biopic Andrei Rublev (1966) and his slippery sci-fi trip, Solaris (1972), this may be the Soviet filmmaker's crowning achievement; unhindered by linear storytelling, the filmmaker's famously slow-and-low aesthetic takes on even greater symbolic weight. No one has been able to replicate the flow of memory on the screen with such fidelity. It remains both a reflective glimpse backward and, in terms of formal possibilities, a huge step forward.—DF
Imagine the anxiety of it: You are director Fritz Lang, the monocled genius behind German superproductions Metropolis and M. But there you sit in Hollywood, years after fleeing the Nazis, unable to get a decent job, the rumors of your total assholishness finally caught up to you. What do you do? Double down, of course, with this savagely nihilistic cop thriller, a low-budget noir whose influence is still being felt in movies like David Fincher's Seven and Zodiac. Meat-and-potatoes detective Glenn Ford plunges nose-deep into a hornet's nest of city corruption that turns intensely personal. As shocking as The Big Heat's plot turns are, you most remember the characters on the periphery: Lee Marvin's coffee-flinging thug and Gloria Grahame's slinky femme fatale. Lang captures the cynicism with rigorous visual precision, orchestrating the production with a confidence many had thought he'd lost. The movie is studio filmmaking at its darkest, and as good as anything its director would ever do.—JR
Eric Rohmer's deceptively lighthearted comedy focuses on the romantic travails of the eponymous heroine (Amanda Langlet) and her elder cousin, Marion (Arielle Dombasle). Three men are juggled between them: self-proclaimed "wolf" Henri (Fodor Atkine), hunky yet needy Pierre (Pascal Greggory) and young, impressionable Sylvain (Simon de La Brosse). Typical for Rohmer, the characters talk about potentialities more than they engage in direct actions, which doesn't stop rumors from spreading. The film tellingly opens with a proverb from the French poet Chrtien de Troyes—"A wagging tongue bites itself"—and chillingly concludes with Pauline and Marion agreeing to never again speak of their summertime trysts. It's practically apocalyptic for any Rohmer character, let alone two of them, to refuse conversation; for this very Catholic filmmaker, it's like a pact made with the devil. And as implied by the bookending shots of a closed wooden gate, what happens at the beach stays at the beach. More so than any other of the writer-director's films, the mysteries and tragedies of the world seem to be contained in every gorgeously sun-dappled image.—KU
Part nonfiction essay, part neorealist drama and totally revolutionary, Abbas Kiarostami's live-or-Memorex portrait doesn't break vrit rules so much as make them irrelevant. Kiarostami's dramatic method of incorporating blatant re-creations and lyrical tangents into a documentary wasn't unprecedented (see Morris, Errol). But the way he uses these tactics, as well as the story of the movie's subject—Hossain Sabzian, a film fanatic who impersonated director Mohsen Makhmalbaf—to examine cinema's power and question its limits is spellbinding. Ironies begin to pile up: The man is a fraud, but an honest one; the movie acts like its objective but isn't. Sabzian pretends to be someone who makes films, and thanks to Kiarostami, he ends up starring in one—as himself. Then the actual Makhmalbaf shows up, and the impostor's cry (before the sound conspicuously goes out all together) becomes the most genuine thing you've ever heard. Close-Up's influence on Iranian cinema has already been established; its status as the postmodern masterpiece of the 1990s, however, has long been overdue.—DF
The missing link between the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine, this adaptation of "Ole" Olsen and "Chic" Johnson's Broadway revue takes the anything-goes ideology of the era's screen comedy and turns the whole shebang into a meta--hall of mirrors. It opens with a chorus line sliding into Hades (!), then segues into the two stars arguing with the film's creators and a theater projectionist played by Stooge Shemp Howard about the movie they're in—coincidentally named Hellzapoppin'. (You can imagine Tex Avery taking copious notes.) Even when the film makes concessions to its vaudeville roots, the emphasis is less on showcasing performers than whipping up delirium—hence, a trout-mouthed Martha Raye crooning while extras acrobatically belly flop into a pool, and a 200mph Lindy Hop number that stops the show. Film comedy's self-awareness begins with Keaton's Sherlock, Jr., but this is where the notion of breaking the fourth wall becomes refined and fuel-injected. In a perfect world, this rarely revived classic of id--ber alles cinema would play at MoMA in an endless loop.——DF
David Cronenberg, the cerebral specialist of Fangoria-friendly body horror, worked his way through Hollywood and beyond with classy movies like Dead Ringers and the Cannes-celebrated Crash. But his revolution starts here. As vital a movie as the 1980s produced, Videodrome is a prescient indictment of TV's omnipotence and the dark appetites it would one day feed. Weaselly James Woods makes an unlikely but appealing hero as a feisty cable-station owner increasingly turned on by pirate broadcasts of what appear to be real-life torture sessions. Soon enough, the transmissions start having a serious impact on his mind, his love life and, er, his abdomen. (Who knew a VHS cassette could fit in there?) Cronenberg's menace is routed in a deep anticorporate mistrust; this was no mere B-flick, but a broadside against forces of enslavement that only media theorists knew we faced. Provocatively, the director suggests that the "new flesh" might not be so bad. We'd call the movie as essential as Network—if we didn't actually think it to be superior.—JR
He'd already rewritten the rules with Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, but when David Lynch ponied up for his first film of the new millennium, he caught the world completely off guard. Originally intended for television yet aborted by shortsighted execs, Lynch's Hollywood fable was reclaimed by its director and expanded into a legendary Buuelian mind-fuck, the savvy filmmaker turning his trademark lulls into a nightmare of self-delusion with the turn of a key in a mysterious blue box. Mulholland Drive launched the career of the spectacular Naomi Watts, here articulating two fully formed characters: one, a chirpy up-and-coming ingenue, the other, a bitter thrown-off lover. Who really was Betty (or Diane)? How could her entire universe be so radically altered in the space of a moment? What did she do wrong? Was it all just a dream? At the time of the movie's release—October 2001—these were questions on everyone's mind. It's a movie unerringly of its moment, and also timeless.—JR
Our consensus choice by a wide margin, Stanley Kubrick's elegant Napoleonic-era epic is the movie most deserving of a reevaluative boost to the top ranks. Its director does not lack for critical attention, typically lavished on 2001: A Space Odyssey and Dr. Strangelove. But did Kubrick also make the definitive fancy-costume period piece, as keenly critical of social codes as cinema can muster? Barry Lyndon is, simply put, the story of a gambler. Penned by William Makepeace Thackeray, the novel became a proving ground for the ferociously ambitious director who, eschewing an adapting screenwriter, invested it with his obsessions for military folly and human mendacity. To watch Ryan O'Neal (never again this impressive) transform himself from a callow Irish youth to a resigned fly caught in the web of snobby peerage is to understand how emotional—yes, emotional—Kubrick could be. Framing the entire picture is the director's frighteningly perfect technique, made especially apt in service to a tale of fatalistic entrapment. If you need an example of everything film can and should do, a new Citizen Kane, here it is.—JR


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can anyone recommend any cleaning supplies that are best for cleaning a glock? and any other supplies that may be linked to cleaning?
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can anyone recommend any cleaning supplies that are best for cleaning a glock? and any other supplies that may be linked to cleaning?
CLP or FP-10 is all I use on my G-19 and other tupperware that I have.
Gunscrubber (get the one marked for Synthetic), here is a picture:
thanks all
About every fourth trip to the range (figure 100-200 rounds per trip) I clean with a copper solvent (Sweets 7.62) in addition to my usual cleaning solution (Usual is Hoppes Elite). I don't use it on a Glock but since a pair of S&W M&P's are included in the arsenal,and I haven't had any issues, I'd imagine it is going to be safe on a Glock. I also like to store them with a very light coat of Hoppes #9 Lubricating Oil on them.
I have a hard-on for Hoppes #9 Lubricating Oil, I've done three tours to Iraq, carrying M-4's, SAW's and a tricked out M-14, and every single time and with every single weapon I had a spray can of Hoppes Lubricating Oil on me (not the teflon shit, regular Hoppes lube). It works, and it works really well. I don't use the Spray can's on my pistols, but the same stuff in the little orange bottle is awesome, its like 4 bucks online, probably about the same in a store, and you will never go wrong having about three bottles in your shooting gear.


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a feeling of being very tired and sometimes confused because of the lack of sleep caused by looking after a very young baby
'It's a feeling all new parents are more than familiar with. Not enough sleep at night leaves you feeling like a zombie during the day; caring for your baby and yourself while continuously craving nice, deep sleep. Now it's got a name; Baby Lag …'PR Newswire 17th October 2012
'I'm 82% babylagged! Basically I'm bloody knackered with a teething 9 month daughter, lively toddler, stroppy teenager, travelling husband and part time job!forum post, www.netmums.com 17th September 2012
Have you ever, like me, had the experience of being so consumed by tiredness that you do something a bit strange? My own particular favourite is, after brewing a cuppa, putting a jar of instant coffee in the fridge while returning a carton of milk to the cupboard. Thankfully, I'm normally lucky enough to get plenty of rest these days, so such mental aberrations are pretty unusual, though I do recall a particular time in my life when sleep wasn't so regular and plentiful, and such temporary lapses of concentration were relatively frequent. I'm talking about the early stages of motherhood, when I felt so unbelievably tired that it was at times tricky to string a sentence together. Familiar to so many of us, this intense fatigue caused by looking after a young baby now has its own term of reference – babylag.
lack of concentration leads to such bizarre things as falling asleep in the shower, dressing in the wrong clothes, or pouring baby milk onto breakfast cereal
A survey of 1000 new parents undertaken in 2012 revealed that around 50% get four hours or less sleep per night, a good deal less than the optimum eight hours that we're supposed to have. Nearly a third of parents questioned were woken up three times or more, on each occasion being up for at least an hour. The problem with continually being woken up in this way is that the body has little chance to enter a stage of 'deep' sleep and thereby be recharged for the day ahead. The result is a feeling of exhaustion which has been likened to the sensation of jet lag, though, unlike the latter, it can't be recovered from within a couple of days.
Though most new parents, myself included in a former life, would say that tiredness in early stages of parenthood is no laughing matter, babylag does appear to have its funny side, with many of the parents surveyed reporting odd behaviour caused by sleep deprivation. Lack of concentration leads to such bizarre things as falling asleep in the shower, dressing in the wrong clothes, or pouring baby milk onto breakfast cereal. The survey also revealed the amusing fact that, although parents wouldn't 'trade' their offspring for a peaceful life, they might be prepared to make other sacrifices for the promise of a good night's sleep – such as giving up chocolate, refraining from buying new clothes, or even paying £500!
If you're a new parent yourself and can identify with the zombie-like existence this often entails, then you might get a bit of light relief by checking out this interactive quiz which is designed to assess just how babylagged you are.
The expression babylag hit the mainstream media on both sides of the Atlantic in September 2012, in the context of a survey commissioned by the Johnson's brand of baby products (in part a promotional tool for their baby 'bedtime' range of toiletries). Reports claim that sleep expert Dr Dev Banerjee, a consultant at the Heartlands hospital in Birmingham, coined the term, observing the likeness between symptoms experienced by parents and jet lag – the fatigue associated with travelling across parts of the world where the time is different. In fact, however, it's not the first time that the connection between the two situations has been made, there being evidence of isolated, word play use of babylag as far back as the early nineties.
Mirroring the use of jetlagged from jet lag, babylagged has also begun to pop up as a derived adjective. The phrase jet lag first appeared in the mid-sixties, combining jet in reference to aircraft powered by jet engines and the word lag, possibly of Scandinavian origin and associated with the idea of 'going slowly'. In recent years jet lag also spawned the expression social jet lag, coined to refer to a feeling of tiredness when returning to work after a holiday.
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ARSC T3D Users' Newsletter 30, April 7, 1995
The Switch to the 1.2 Programming Environment
This Monday April 10th we will switch from the 1.1 Programming Environment (PE) to the 1.2 PE. For the past two weeks the 1.2 product was available to users by using a special path but on April 10th it will be the 1.1 PE product that will be accessed with a special pathname and the 1.2 products will be in the default locations. After April 10th, if there are any problems you feel are due to the new 1.2 PE please contact Mike Ess.
Besides being generally faster and having fewer bugs, the 1.2 PE also has new features and some differences from the 1.1 PE. Here is a brief list of these new features and differences:
New Fortran 90
- Limited implementation of the Fortran 90 Standard
- Doesn't Support Craft Fortran Extensions
- Does implement a 32 bit float (REAL*4)
- Implements many Fortran 90 intrinsics for shared and private data... (I'll list the entire Fortran 90 feature list in the next newsletter)
- New assembler CAM and new C++ compiler
New libm routines
- New 32 and 64 bit routines for SQRT, SIN, COS, EXP, ALOG, TAN, COT, ACOS ASIN and ATAN.
- New error handling policy (see below)
New libsci routines
- New BLAS routines, CGERC, CGERU, SSYR, SSPR, CHER, CHPR, CSYR, CSPR
- New mixed radix FFT routines, CCFFT, CSFFT, and SCFFT
- New PBLAS routines
- New SHMEM 32 bit routines (libsma.a)
- Totalview can now start up both the debug and program in one step
- Apprentice can now save results to a file
- New versions of "network" PVM and the T3D PVM that follow PVM 3.3 from ORNL
Using the new Fortran 90 Compiler on the T3DWith the new 1.2 Programming Environment there are two new products for the T3D, a Fortran 90 compiler and a C++ compiler. I believe that in the future CRI will use these two products as their vehicles for introducing new features into the T3D/T3E world. One of the features in the Fortran 90 compiler that will not be added to Craft Fortran is the 32 bit float implemented with the REAL*4 declaration. On ARSC's 8MW node this allows the user to have a single array of 14.5 million 32 bit reals.
One of our users, Dr. Alan Wallcraft a scientist with the Naval Research Center in Stennis, Mississippi, sends us this description of using the 32-bit float with Fortran 90:
> Mike, > > REAL*4 seems to work ok, but it would be much cleaner to have a -r4 > switch (or something) that set the default REAL to REAL*4 (and DOUBLE > PRECISION to REAL*8). I had no problems using the REAL4 data type from > PVM to transfer 32-bit numbers (just declare data to be transfered as > REAL*4 and use REAL4 in place of REAL8). > > In general, you can convert to 32-bit by: > > a) Unless using IMPLICIT NONE, add IMPLICIT REAL*4 (A-H,-O-Z) to all > programs and routines. > > b) Replace REAL with REAL*4 throughout. > > c) Either use the -d p switch to f90, or replace DOUBLE PRECISION with > REAL*8 (I have only tested -d p). > > d) You may get mixed-type errors from INTRINSICs, e.g. replace: > REAL*4 R4 > R4 = MAX( 1.0, R4 ) > with > REAL*4 R4 > R4 = MAX( 1.0, REAL(R4) ) > or with > REAL*4 R4,ONE > ONE = 1.0 > R4 = MAX( ONE, R4 ) > because 1.0 is a REAL*8 constant. > > e) Mixing REAL*4 and REAL*8 or INTEGER in COMMON is probably a bad idea. > You may already have encountered this on other 32-bit machines with > REAL and DOUBLE PRECISION in the same COMMON, but note that here INTEGER's > are 64-bit so they should also not be mixed with REAL*4's. On a typical > 32-bit machine mixing REAL*4 and INTEGER in the same COMMON would be ok, > but mixing REAL*8 and INTEGER would be dangerous. The only safe strategy > is: ONE DATA TYPE PER COMMON. > > f) Replace REAL8 with REAL4 in PVM calls. > > g) Use a compile line such as: > env TARGET=cray-t3d /mpp/bin/f90 -V -f fixed -O 2 -d p file.f > I discovered the "env" command today, it is particularly useful when > compiling via make (e.g. FORTRAN = env TARGET=cray-t3d /mpp/bin/f90) > > I think the resulting program will probably still work with cf77, except > that REAL*4's will be treated as REAL (i.e. REAL*8) so the PVM REAL4's > would need to be put back as REAL8's. > > Alan.
Using the new C++ Compiler on the T3DThere is now a C++ compiler available for the T3D. It is derived from ATT's cfront product so it produces a C program that goes through the C compiler. Like any new product it has shortcomings when compared to the mature existing compiler. The makefile I used to access the compiler is something like:
CC = /mpp/bin/CC CFLAGS = -O2 -X 1 -c CLD = mppldr CLDFLAGS = -lC -lfi .c.o: $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $< main: $(SUBS) $(CLD) $(CLDFLAGS) -o main $(SUBS)The manpage for CC on denali gives some of the command line options available. To get the C programs running using the C++ compiler, I usually need to add the following include files:
#include <stdlib.h /* get exit(), ... */ #include <malloc.h> #include <stream.h> /* get printf( ... ), ... */This is the first release of the C++ compiler for the T3D and it probably has some bugs to be found and corrected. One of my C regression tests which runs OK on the C compiler fails on the C++ compiler with the message:
/mpp/bin/CC -c -O2 -X 1 -c main.c CRI C++: compiler limit exceeded: "main.c", line 152: blocks too deeply nested 1 error Make: "/mpp/bin/CC -c -O2 -X 1 -c main.c": Error code 1As the product matures these problems will be fixed. To do some rudimentary timings, I add the following line to a C++ program:
extern "C" double second();and link in the object file made from this C function:
double second() { double junk; fortran irtc(); junk = IRTC( ) / 150000000.0; return( junk ); }I have a C version of the old whetstone program from Netlib at Oak Ridge National Labs and I use it as part of my regression tests for the C compiler. With a few changes, it goes through the C++ compiler and I tested the effect of some of the optimization switches on both compilers.
Performance of the Whetstone Benchmark (in whetstones, bigger is better): Compilers on the T3D ----------------------------------- compiler option C++ /mpp/bin/ccnew /mpp/bin/cc --------------- ----- -------------- ----------- none 31779 36146 32095 -O 31779 36145 32095 -O1 52447 70004 53028 -O2 54314 68959 53578 -O3 52091 69021 53951C++ has many more features than just being used as a C compiler but we'll cover those later.
Using the new Math Intrinsics (libm.a) on the 1.2 PEOne of the tests I've run on the new 1.2 PE is the ELEFUNT package of Cody and Waite and distributed by ORNL through Netlib. This package tests the accuracy and behavior of the Fortran intrinsics (SQRT, SIN, COS, EXP, ALOG, TAN, COT, ACOS, ASIN and ATAN). The new 1.2 PE intrinsics are generally more accurate as measured by the ELEFUNT package. But the ELEFUNT package also calls the intrinsics with values that should produce a floating point error because the intrinsic is not defined for that input or a reasonably accurate result can not be produced for that input. For such inputs, the 1.1 PE intrinsics would return an IEEE NaN or an Infinity, in the 1.2 PE the intrinsics aborts with a floating point interrupt message. There are proponents of both strategies but I just want users to know that the CRI implemented strategy has changed.
A Description of What's in BENCHLIB for the T3D, the Utility perf (lib_util.a)At the Denver CUG, Jeff Brooks gave a 2 hour description of Single PE Optimization on the CRAY T3D that generated a lot of interest in BENCHLIB. Basically BENCHLIB is a collection of very fast unsupported routines for the T3D. Jeff has let ARSC distribute the BENCHLIB source through the ARSC ftp server. Using the anonymous login id you can find the BENCHLIB source, and postscript files of this paper and slides from the Denver CUG. The ftp site is ftp.arsc.edu and the files are in the directory pub/submissions, the files are:
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp other 1634893 Mar 24 13:33 cug_slides.ps.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp other 144153 Mar 24 13:17 libbnch.tar.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp other 69077 Mar 24 13:33 t3d_opt.ps.ZBENCHLIB consists of 6 libraries of optimized routines:
lib_32.a lib_scalar.a lib_util.a lib_random.a lib_tri.a lib_vect.aThese libraries are available on Denali in the directory:
/usr/local/examples/mpp/liband sources in:
/usr/local/examples/mpp/srcIn the library lib_util.a is a utility called perf that can "prefetch" values into cache before they are used, this gives a software capability of managing cache. The utility perf is described in Jeff's paper. Below is the example given in Jeff's paper for multiplying "bars" of 3 by 3 matrices.
call mm3v4p( a, b, c, 1024 ) . . . subroutine mm3v4p( a, b, c, n ) real a( 3, 3, n ), b( 3, 3, n ), c( 3, 3, n ) do l1 = 1, n, 32 l2 = min( l1+31, n ) call pref( 72, a( 1, 1, l1 ), b( 1, 1, l1 ) ) do l = l1, l2 c(1,1,l)=a(1,1,l)*b(1,1,l)+a(1,2,l)*b(2,1,l)+a(1,3,l)*b(3,1,l) c(2,1,l)=a(2,1,l)*b(1,1,l)+a(2,2,l)*b(2,1,l)+a(2,3,l)*b(3,1,l) c(3,1,l)=a(3,1,l)*b(1,1,l)+a(3,2,l)*b(2,1,l)+a(3,3,l)*b(3,1,l) c(1,2,l)=a(1,1,l)*b(1,2,l)+a(1,2,l)*b(2,2,l)+a(1,3,l)*b(3,2,l) c(2,2,l)=a(2,1,l)*b(1,2,l)+a(2,2,l)*b(2,2,l)+a(2,3,l)*b(3,2,l) c(3,2,l)=a(3,1,l)*b(1,2,l)+a(3,2,l)*b(2,2,l)+a(3,3,l)*b(3,2,l) c(1,3,l)=a(1,1,l)*b(1,3,l)+a(1,2,l)*b(2,3,l)+a(1,3,l)*b(3,3,l) c(2,3,l)=a(2,1,l)*b(1,3,l)+a(2,2,l)*b(2,3,l)+a(2,3,l)*b(3,3,l) c(3,3,l)=a(3,1,l)*b(1,3,l)+a(3,2,l)*b(2,3,l)+a(3,3,l)*b(3,3,l) enddo enddo endWithout the call to perf, the subroutine call takes .00162 seconds, with the call it takes .00127, which is a good speedup for a one line change.
Additional Information from the Denver CUGI have copies of the following papers that I can mail to anyone who contacts me:
- Operation of the CRAY T3D as a National Facility, Michael Brown, University of Edinburgh, (paper and slides)
- Steve Johnson's Hardware Report (slides only)
- T3D at ECMWF (paper only)
ARSC T3D Future UpgradesWe are testing the upgrade to the T3D 1.2 Programming Environment (libraries, tools and compilers.) The new compilers and libraries are available for users to try out. The command on denali:
news compilers morewill provide the details of the names and paths to these new versions. This upgrade includes the new Fortran 90 and C++ compilers for the T3D. If you have any problems or find any differences please contact Mike Ess.
List of Differences Between T3D and Y-MPThe current list of differences between the T3D and the Y-MP is:
- Data type sizes are not the same (Newsletter #5)
- Uninitialized variables are different (Newsletter #6)
- The effect of the -a static compiler switch (Newsletter #7)
- There is no GETENV on the T3D (Newsletter #8)
- Missing routine SMACH on T3D (Newsletter #9)
- Different Arithmetics (Newsletter #9)
- Different clock granularities for gettimeofday (Newsletter #11)
- Restrictions on record length for direct I/O files (Newsletter #19)
- Implied DO loop is not "vectorized" on the T3D (Newsletter #20)
- Missing Linpack and Eispack routines in libsci (Newsletter #25)
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