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AMES, Iowa—Camping experiences provided at the Iowa 4-H Center by the Iowa 4-H program are changing this year – what isn't changing is Iowa State University Extension and Outreach's commitment to providing camp experiences for young people through its 4-H youth program.
"We understand the decisions at the Center impact Iowa families, especially those who look forward to attending camp every year, and camp alumni who serve as counselors and interns at the Center," said LuAnn Johansen, assistant director for the ISU Extension and Outreach 4-H youth program, referring to a Feb. 25 ISU Extension and Outreach announcement.
"We want Iowans to know the Iowa State 4-H program remains committed to offering camps and other educational experiences throughout Iowa – and throughout the year," she said. "The goal of 4-H is to reach as many young Iowans as possible – and that means offering programs closer to home, and at convenient times."
Recent camp enrollments indicate refocusing efforts to bring programs closer to home for the campers represents the best use of Iowa 4-H resources and, in ISU Extension and Outreach's view, will provide the greatest benefit to Iowa youth.
"Local 4-H camp programs are strong and growing – our focus needs to be on growing local programs," said Johansen. "We have great examples of local residential and day camps in Iowa. Our 4-H youth coordinators across the state are doing a great job identifying local interests and offering camp experiences."
Examples of local camps include GEAR TECH-21 day camps for youth grades 4–9. GEAR TECH-21 focuses on robotics and is offered by multiple Iowa counties. Kossuth County 4-H held a Fantastic Food Fun camp for youth grades 4–6 last summer. Winneshiek County is home to Pinebluff 4-H Camp where many area 4-H camps and club camping adventures take place.
The good news is local camps across Iowa are experiencing increasing participation. More and more youth are attending day camps and other activities nearer to their homes. Last year alone, more than 5,000 youth attended local day and overnight camps.
The reality is only a small number of Iowa youth attend camp at the Center, and unfortunately, the numbers are decreasing. Fewer than 700 youth attended camp at the Center in 2012.
Twenty Iowa counties didn't send a single child to the Center. Of these 20 counties, nine were in the northwest corner of the state, five were in the northeast corner and four were in the southeast corner. A specialty camp for children with parents in the military represented 11 percent of the total campers in 2012, but was discontinued because of expired funding.
This trend is not specific to 4-H, or to Iowa. Residential camps across the nation are experiencing similar declines, and many have closed or scaled back their camping programs.
"Fifty Iowa counties sent two or fewer children to the Center last year," said Sherry Glenn, assistant vice president for Extension and Outreach. "Of the nearly 700 youth who attended camps at the Center in 2012, 38 percent were from Boone County, where the camp is located, and the six bordering counties. These seven counties were also home to over a third of the participants of specialty camps available to non-4-H members."
Three ISU Extension and Outreach regions will continue to host their annual camping events at the Center this summer. These three camps represented 25 percent of the total campers in 2012.
The Center is essentially serving as a regional camp. Registration fees don't cover the costs of camping at the Center. Iowa 4-H, as a state-wide ISU Extension and Outreach program, must focus funds where participation is growing, said Glenn.


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Tracks in snow lead to missing Prineville woman
Rescuers find 76-year-old who wandered from home
PRINEVILLE, Ore. - Crook County rescuers followed tracks in the snow Monday morning to find a 76-year-old Prineville woman who vanished from her home overnight, deputies said.
Sheriff's deputies were dispatched shortly after 8 a.m. to SE Davis Loop and Southwood Drive on a report of a woman missing from her bed overnight, said Undersheriff John Gautney.
Deputies learned after arriving that the woman's husband was at the home and reported his wife was missing, he said.
There were tracks leaving the residence in the snow that fell the night before, Gautney said. The snow and ice, combined with very cold temperatures, made for life-threatening conditions for anyone out in the elements and not dressed for it, he said, adding that the woman could be suffering from a medical condition.
Crook County Search and Rescue was activated and members went to the area to assist, as was an ambulance from Crook County Fire and Rescue, Gautney said.
As SAR members began to arrive, deputies who had been following the tracks from her home found the woman about 100 yards from her home, Gautney said.
She had fallen in an area away from the road, and was unable to get up, the undersheriff said. She was obstructed from view by tall brush in the area.
The woman was suffering from hypothermia and was taken by ambulance to Pioneer Memorial Hospital for treatment, Gautney said.

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No great BIN story this time, just old fashioned bid auction action. Paid all of 80% book value for this near mint celluloid-covered gem. Just a hair over 2 3/4" length, I was a little surprised by its wee size. I love the smalls just as much as the big pieces. Mirror edge is marked "J.B. Carroll, Chicago" in tiny black font, then, not much larger white font "Duplicate Mirrors 5¢ Postage. Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, GA". 104 yrs old.
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La modélisation climatique est-elle de la science?
This means that validating these models is quite difficult. (NB. I use the term validating not in the sense of 'proving true' (an impossibility), but in the sense of 'being good enough to be useful'). In essence, the validation must be done for the whole system if we are to have any confidence in the predictions about the whole system in the future. This validation is what most climate modellers spend almost all their time doing. First, we look at the mean climatology (i.e. are the large scale features of the climate reasonably modelled? Does it rain where it should, is there snow where there should be? are the ocean currents and winds going the right way?), then at the seasonal cycle (what does the sea ice advance and retreat look like? does the inter-tropical convergence zone move as it should?). Generally we find that the models actually do a reasonable job (see here or here for examples of different groups model validation papers) . There are of course problematic areas (such as eastern boundary regions of the oceans, circulation near large mountain ranges etc.) where important small scale processes may not be well understood or modelled, and these are the chief targets for further research by model developers and observationalists.
Then we look at climate variability. This step is key, but it is also quite subtle. There are two forms of variability: intrinsic variability (that occurs purely as a function of the internal chaotic dynamics of the system), and forced variability (changes that occur because of some external change, such as solar forcing). Note that 'natural' variability includes both intrinsic and forced components due to 'natural' forcings, such as volcanoes, solar or orbital changes. A clean comparison relies on either being able to isolate just one reasonably known forcing, or having enough data to be able to average over many examples and thus isolate the patterns associated solely with that forcing, even though in any particular case, more than one thing might have been happening. (A more detailed discussion of these points is available here).
While there is good data over the last century, there were many different changes to planet's radiation balance (greenhouse gases, aerosols, solar forcing, volcanoes, land use changes etc.), some of which are difficult to quantify (for instance the indirect aerosol effects) and whose history is not well known. Earlier periods, say 1850 going back to the 1500s or so, have reasonable coverage from paleo-proxy data, and only have solar and volcanic forcing. In my own group's work, we have used the spatial patterns available from proxy reconstructions of this period to look at both solar and volcanic forcing in the pre-industrial period. In both cases, despite uncertainties (particularly in the magnitude of the solar forcing), the comparisons are encouraging.
Recent volcanos as well have provided very good tests of the model's water vapour feedbacks (Soden et al, 2002), dynamical feedbacks (Graf et al., 1994; Stenchikov et al., 2002), and overall global cooling (Hansen et al, 1992). In fact, the Hansen et al (1992) paper actually predicted the temperature impact of Pinatubo (around 0.5 deg C) prior to it being measured.
The mid-Holocene (6000 years ago) and Last Glacial Maximum (~20,000 years ago) are also attractive targets of model validation, and while some successes have been noted (i.e. Joussaume et al, 1999, Rind and Peteet, 1985) there is still some uncertainty in the forcings and response. Other periods such as the 8.2kyr event, or the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum are also useful, but clearly as one goes further back in time, the more uncertain the test becomes.
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Thanks everyone for the advice. I went with lovin's suggestion and just bolted it up with three bolts.
Maybe I'll find a powerplant that will justify the use of the dormant three pads down the road. So I guess, in hindsight, I'm glad I accidentally bought the 6 pad...one less thing to upgrade in the future!
Converter bolt spacing
GM flex plates often have dual bolt spacing (6 bolt holes) to fit a torque converter with either a 11.50" and 10.75" bolt pad spacing. The TH350 and TH400 torque converters come with 3 bolt pads but may have either bolt spacings. If your flex plate only has 3 bolt holes and they don't fit the bolt spacing on your new torque converter, you will have to purchase a flexplate that has a dual bolt circle.
I went through this puzzle with my '91 S10 Blazer 4.3L V6 engine when I had the engine built with 350 Chevy forged pistons and internally balanced. The 4L60 (700-R4) transmission in my S10 Blazer use counter-weighted flex plates for externally balanced engines. When I had the engine built and internally balanced, I had to use a heavy duty (0.125" thick) 168 tooth flex-plate, 3" flange bolt circle for the one-piec e seal without a counter weight and was zero blanced.
My engine builder knew exactly which HD flex plate to use. He provided an ATI #915534 non-counter weighted dual pattern flex-plate to use with a torque converter that has either a 10.75" and a 11.50" bolt circle, 168 tooth starter gear, a 3" crank flange bolt circle and zero blanced.
|Had the same thing when I went from big block to small block, 454 used six bolts and the 350 only used 3, called the tranny shop and they said three is fine for the 350.
6 Pad Converter
Dont Redrill Anything! Just Put The Three Bolts In It,u Wont Have Any Problems,and Yes The 6 Pad Is Just For High Output Torque
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|Redrill the plate for the additional 3 holes. The six bolt converters were usually for bigger trucks/motor homes/diesel rigs. I don't think I'd just not not bolt them on, they may create a vibration/noise issue, and you'll be back under there again correcting it. Would they possibly exchange converters for you? You could also buy another flexplate already drilled for the six bolt converter.
6 pad torque converter
When I ordered the torque converter for my rebuilt th400, I was asked if I wanted a 3 or 6 pad version. So I peaked under my truck at the flexplate, saw 6 mounting holes, and based on that info I ordered the 6 pad. I guess I was wrong, though, because now that it's all mounted (yes, without verifying fitment) I see that three of the six mounting locations on the flexplate don't line up with the TC (they create a pattern that is of a smaller diameter than the six on the TC). I assume that this is to provide compatibility for two different kinds of three pad TC's (a small and large bolt pattern diameter).
So now to the meat of the issue: can I safely bolt this 6 pad torque converter to my flexplate using just three bolts?
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Pancreatic Cancer Celebration of Lights
Jill Peet Saponaro & Friends
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (CST)
Who's Going
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Event Details
Celebration of Lights
Celebration of Lights is an event to promote and raise awareness of Pancreatic Cancer in the Chicagoland area. November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness month and many prominent buildings in the area shine purple to celebrate our survivors and honor those we have lost to the disease. This venue has a beautiful view of the purple lights! We will have Senate President John Cullerton discussing the recently passed Recalcitrant Cancer Research Act and Dr. Mark Talamonti speaking of breaking medical advancements. Appetizers and beverages will be served. It is our hope that through events like this, awareness will be increased, and funds will be raised resulting in earlier diagnoses and improved survival rates. Our Vision of Progress is to Double the Pancreatic Cancer Survival Rate by 2020.
Register Early. Event closes at 100 people. 100% of Net Proceeds to benefit The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM (CST)
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I lost my husband to this insidious disease in 2009. He was diagnosed and died 15 months later. I have two amazing boys and it turned our lives upside down. We miss him every day. I decided I would not not rest until something was done about this under researched, under funded, and under supported disease. I would love to call this Chuck's Purple Lights, but I know there are 44,000 other families that go through what I went through every year.
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Marching Toward Justice exhibit at Wayne State University
DETROIT (Sept. 8, 2011) – Wayne State University Law School's Damon J. Keith Law Collection of African American Legal History is pleased to announce that the exhibit Marching Toward Justice: The History of the 14th Amendment will be featured in Wayne State University's Community Arts Auditorium through Oct. 20. The display coincides with today's Keith Biennial Lecture featuring Harry Belafonte and the grand opening ceremony of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights on Oct. 19.
Marching Toward Justice is part of the Keith Collection, a central repository for the nation's African American legal history. The exhibit was created to inform the public about the fundamental importance of the 14th Amendment and our nation's ongoing quest to realize the high ideals of the Declaration of Independence. It tells the story of our government's promotion of justice and equality for some while condoning the enslavement of others. Since its inaugural exhibition at the Thurgood Marshall Federal Judiciary Building in Washington, D.C., Marching Toward Justice has traveled to more than 40 sites, including locations in San Francisco, Chicago, Topeka, Kan., Boston, Dallas, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
"The Marching Toward Justice exhibit celebrates the courage of civil rights pioneers who, like Mr. Belafonte and Judge Keith, fought for justice and equality," said I. India Geronimo, director of the Keith Collection and former law clerk to the Hon. Damon J. Keith. "As Harry Belafonte shares his lecture, 'Where We Are Headed,' and we celebrate the Keith Center's grand opening, it is important that we reflect on our past and where we have been. The Keith Collection strives to serve as that reminder."
Contact Geronimo at 313-577-6530 or firstname.lastname@example.com for more information or to schedule the Marching Toward Justice exhibit in your community.
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Published 4:00 am, Tuesday, January 23, 2007
On PBS recently there was a four-hour documentary called "China From the Inside." It was a little ponderous and didactic, but it was also in many ways a revelation. One part of the documentary addressed the problem of pollution in China, specifically toxins in the rivers. The combination of human waste and industrial effluent has made a third of the rivers useless for drinking, bathing, fishing and irrigation.
One of the primary effects of river pollution is cancer. The documentary showed some cancer victims. One of them was an old woman in the final stages of esophageal cancer. She was skeletal; her skin had shrunk away from her ribs, leaving her looking like an anatomical drawing. She was suffering, hardly conscious; the narrator said the woman died a few days after the segment was shot.
But here's the thing: The woman's breasts had been digitally blurred. Because she was so thin, she didn't really have breasts, but she had nipples, and those were apparently arousing enough to cause the PBS censor to step in. See, it's not prurience that's bad; it's not sexual exploitation that's bad; it's breasts that are bad. Any breasts, even the breasts of an elderly Chinese woman dying of cancer. Your breasts are bad. Speak to them severely.
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I don't think that the government had to order this documentary altered. The FCC probably didn't know anything about it before it aired. No, PBS is so terrified that it didn't need a cautionary letter; it went ahead and did it anyway, just in case someone's mother somewhere writes the FCC saying, "My son saw the breasts of a terminally ill Chinese woman, and now he's playing in a heavy-metal band."
It's this whole Janet Jackson thing. She showed her breast -- not even her whole breast; a pastie was involved -- on national television, and the world exploded. Part of the argument was, she did it at the Super Bowl! The wholesome American God-fearing Super Bowl, where brain damage is just part of the fun! And ever since then, over-the-airwaves breasts have become verboten, no matter what the context.
The FCC doesn't do context. It has a fundamentalist Christian view of nudity, that it's always bad because it's always erotic. Leaving aside the loathsome equation erotic = bad, the reasoning is adolescent. Adults are able to hold several views of the body simultaneously. Certainly naked bodies can be used to attract sexual partners, but bodies spend a lot more of their time as machines, processing air and water and food, breaking it down into necessary chemicals, excreting the rest. Eventually the machine breaks beyond repair.
Doctors and nurses deal with this reality every day, and they are able to make the distinction. They have normal sex lives, or at least as normal as the rest of us.
Our culture fetishizes breasts; other cultures choose other parts of the body for erotic attention. The particular irony here is that breasts are also a common locus for cancer. Extreme modesty about them can actually be dangerous, even as extreme modesty about sexual intercourse is a hindrance in the fight against AIDS. But all that is context and, as I said, the FCC doesn't do context.
And it's all so beside the point. Premium cable television is not under any strictures, nor does it voluntarily censor itself. Therefore, the same TV set that cannot broadcast pictures of an old sick naked Chinese woman can broadcast pictures of naked healthy women of all races doing all manner of things, many of them erotic. The government and the industry may see the distinction, but it's hard for the consumer -- it's all available on the same screen in the same room at the same time.
Censorship is based on a totally fictional Edenic concept of the American home. In that home, the home that is referenced in the phrase "family values," everything is pure and wholesome, and children are innocents whose state of grace is constantly being threatened by the media, which puts the idea of sex into their minds. (However did people go about procreation before television?)
And the seductions of sex come in many guises. It's not just pornography, it's suggestive lyrics in rock songs, it's salacious halftime shows, it's sitcoms where gay people appear to be living happy and fruitful lives, it's the breasts of female adults constantly tempting, tempting, tempting. It's a view very much like that of conservative Islamic societies, where women must be covered because their bodies are so alluring that men cannot help themselves when exposed to their full power.
And because so many American children are likely to watch four-hour documentaries about China, vigilance is necessary there too. It's just lunatic, and it seems unlikely to change.
They're all over, hiding, waiting for you to let down your guard just for a second. Then they will appear as if out of nowhere: breasts!


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Starting in 1857, Boston took what were the tidewater flats of the Charles River and turned it into gold by filling it in to create the Back Bay.
Begin your tour at the corner of Massachusetts and Commonwealth Avenues and proceed down the (1) Commonwealth Avenue Mall, a 100-foot-wide (30.5-meter) swath of grass, trees, and an odd assortment of statues. The statues range from the obvious (William Lloyd Garrison, the outspoken abolitionist and Boston activist) to the obscure—Domingo Sarmiento, the former president of Argentina. Of particular interest are the (2) The Vendome Memorial, a curved ridge of polished granite evoking the Vietnam memorial, yet topped with a bronzed jacket and hat, and (3) The Boston Women's Memorial featuring Abigail Adams, Lucy Stone, and Phillis Wheatley.
As you approach the Public Garden, on the other side of Arlington you will see the (4) George Washington statue rising above the traffic to welcome visitors to the Public Garden. The world famous (5) Swan Boats are just behind the statue. In 1877, Robert Paget introduced these boats, modeled after ones seen in the Lohengrin opera, and his family has operated the business ever since.
After your swan ride, head back to Arlington Street, turn left for one block, and then walk back up Newbury Street into the heart of Boston's trendy shopping district. Here you will find (6) Louis Boston (234 Berkeley Street; www.louisboston.com) famous for high-end clothing, furnishings, and accessories; two (7) Jasmine Sola locations (329 and 344 Newbury Street) where trendsetters shop for clothes; (8) Gallery NAGA (67 Newbury Street; www.gallerynaga.com) featuring contemporary New England furniture and paintings; and (9) Newbury Comics (332 Newbury Street; www.newburycomics.com), a treasure trove of music, movies, and pop culture goods. Foodies will delight in the freshness of (10) Stephanie's on Newbury (190 Newbury Street; www.stephaniesonnewbury.com) or the people-watching potential of (11) Sonsie (327 Newbury Street; www.sonsieboston.com). (12) Deluca's Market (239 Newbury Street; www.delucasmarket.com) offers fresh picnic makings if you want to bring food back to the Public Garden or Common.
Continue down Newbury to Arlington Street where prices drop and funkiness rises. Stop by (13) Trident Booksellers & Café (338 Newbury Street; www.tridentbookscafe.com) for a cappuccino and a magazine, or end your tour with a stop at (14) J.P. Licks (352 Newbury Street; www.jplicks.com), the local homemade ice cream café chain founded in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood, which has made great inroads in a city that knows ice cream.
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Welcome to our Press Conference Digest.
We'll list the headlines from Arsène Wenger's pre-match media briefing right here so you can 'digest' the main news before our pre-match stories appear on the homepage.
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Were animals harmed in the making of this movie?
posted at 12:08 pm on November 25, 2013 by Ed Morrissey
If you go by the screen credits on almost every Hollywood film released to theaters, you'd assume the answer was no. According to The Hollywood Reporter, though, the American Humane Association that awards that status has taken a remarkably nuanced approach to that designation:
As a representative of the American Humane Association — the grantor of the familiar "No Animals Were Harmed" trademark accreditation seen at the end of film and TV credits — it was Johnson's job to monitor the welfare of the animals used in the production filmed in Taiwan. What's more, Johnson had a secret: She was intimately involved with a high-ranking production exec on Pi. (AHA's management subsequently became aware of both the relationship and her email about the tiger incident, which others involved with the production have described in far less dire terms.) Still, Pi, which went on to earn four Oscars and $609 million in global box office, was awarded the "No Animals Were Harmed" credit.
A year later, during the filming of another blockbuster, Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, 27 animals reportedly perished, including sheep and goats that died from dehydration and exhaustion or from drowning in water-filled gullies, during a hiatus in filming at an unmonitored New Zealand farm where they were being housed and trained. A trainer, John Smythe, tells THR that AHA's management, which assigned a representative to the production, resisted investigating when he brought the issue to its attention in August 2012. First, according to an email Smythe shared with THR, an AHA official told him the lack of physical evidence would make it difficult to investigate. When he replied that he had buried the animals himself and knew their location, the official then told him that because the deaths had taken place during the hiatus, the AHA had no jurisdiction. The AHA eventually bestowed a carefully worded credit that noted it "monitored all of the significant animal action. No animals were harmed during such action."
A THR investigation has found that, unbeknownst to the public, these incidents on Hollywood's most prominent productions are but two of the troubling cases of animal injury and death that directly call into question the 136-year-old Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit's assertion that "No Animals Were Harmed" on productions it monitors. Alarmingly, it turns out that audiences reassured by the organization's famous disclaimer should not necessarily assume it is true. In fact, the AHA has awarded its "No Animals Were Harmed" credit to films and TV shows on which animals were injured during production. It justifies this on the grounds that the animals weren't intentionally harmed or the incidents occurred while cameras weren't rolling.
The full scope of animal injuries and deaths in entertainment productions cannot be known. But in multiple cases examined by THR, the AHA has not lived up to its professed role as stalwart defenders of animals — who, unlike their human counterparts, didn't themselves sign up for such work. While the four horse deaths on HBO's Luck made headlines last year, there are many extraordinary incidents that never bubble up to make news.
This is what happens when a voluntary industry regulator gets too close to the industry itself. This isn't a good case for government intervention, though, as (a) it wouldn't work anyway, (b) would cost taxpayers rather than the voluntarily self-selecting population of theater-goers, and (c) would create even more confusion than what presently exists. If the AHA and the film industry want to get serious, they would farm this out to a really unaffiliated group, perhaps like Underwriters Laboratories or something similar.
One would think that the rise of CGI would alleviate the need for this kind of animal use anyway. Perhaps stories like this will provide further incentives for that outcome.


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Colorado Fourteeners Initiative highlights work on Holy Cross
June 22, 2012
Colorado Fourteeners Initiative kicks off its 2012 field season protecting summit hiking trails on Colorado's 14,000-foot peaks with an evening program and book signing featuring award-winning author Mark Obmascik on Tuesday at the Walking Mountains Science Center in Avon.
A reception begins at 6:30 p.m., the presentation follows at 7 p.m. and the book signing will occur after the
"The seasonal migration of 14er hikers from across the country to Colorado's high peaks is already under way," said Colorado Fourteeners Initiative Executive Director Lloyd Athearn. "We want to kick off the season in style with an evening that both celebrates 14er hiking and educates the public about the tremendous efforts required to build, maintain and restore trails on these high-altitude peaks. Nobody can do that better than Mark Obmascik, someone who has chronicled the 14er experience and seen firsthand the work produced by past CFI trail crews."
Obmascik is best known to climbers through his book, "Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled-and Knuckleheaded-Quest for the Rocky Mountain High," that chronicled his effort to climb all 54 14ers in a single year. The book is packed with humorous stories about the colorful characters he encountered and climbed with along the way. The book won the 2009 National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor Literature.
Obmascik was the lead writer for the Denver Post team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, and he is the winner of the 2003 National Press Club award for environmental journalism. His prior book, "The Big Year," was recently made into a movie starring Owen Wilson, Jack Black and Steve Martin.
The 14ers are Colorado's signature mountains that exceed 14,000 feet in elevation. Collectively, the peaks experience an estimated half-million visitor-use days annually, with most of that use occurring between early July and late September on the accessible peaks in the Front, Tenmile, Mosquito and Sawatch ranges.
CFI partners with the U.S. Forest Service, youth conservation corps and numerous local businesses, youth camps, schools and colleges to build sustainably located and designed summit trails, maintain previously constructed trails, close and restore user-created trails and educate the hiking public about "Leave No Trace" practices that help limit impacts.
While climbing all of the 14ers, Obmascik became a fan of CFI's alpine trail-building and restoration work, since it helped facilitate access to many of the summits. "My time in the mountains convinced me that these peaks need help," wrote Obmascik in "Halfway to Heaven." "One of the best ways is to donate time or money to the trail builders of the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative."
The season kick-off event will also feature a multimedia presentation of CFI's extensive trail reconstruction work slated for nearby Mount of the Holy Cross, the closest 14er to the Vail Valley.
The peak's primary ascent route, the Halfmoon trail, is notoriously difficult to follow in places – especially on the descent. The poorly delineated trail has caused hikers to get off route, precipitating many search-and-rescue efforts in past years to find lost or injured hikers. Trail reconstruction is designed to make the route easier to follow, which will limit trampling of very sensitive alpine vegetation through which the trail passes.
Work on the Mount of the Holy Cross summit trail began during the summer of 2010 with the assignment of a three-person mobile CFI trail maintenance crew during a three-week period. The crew quickly sized up the scope of the project as being well beyond their capacity.
A year later, bolstered by significant grants from the Colorado State Trails Program and the National Forest Foundation's Ski Conservation Fund, CFI began a two-season, base-camp supported project that will put an estimated 1,100 person-days of labor into the project. Most of this labor will be provided during the three-month-long field season by CFI's two seasonal project leaders and a 10-person Rocky Mountain Youth Corps crew. Several "Adopt-a-Peak" volunteer projects will augment the crew's work.
Beyond more clearly delineating and constructing a sustainably located route to the summit of Holy Cross, CFI will close and restore user-created campsites along East Cross Creek, designate campsites in more durable locations farther from the creek and clear downed trees from the Notch Mountain trail.
The Holy Cross trail reconstruction project is one of three that CFI will conduct this summer. The other two projects, both of which are starting the first of two anticipated field seasons, will take place on North Maroon Peak near Aspen and San Luis Peak near Gunnison.
To date, CFI has constructed 24 sustainably located 14er summit trails on 22 peaks. The organization has been recognized many times by the Forest Service, foundations and other organizations for the high-quality and innovative work CFI completes in some of the most difficult locations in the country.
CFI's Tuesday kick-off event is free. However, attendees are asked to respond in advance by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. Walking Mountains Science Center is located at 318 Walking Mountains Lane in Avon.


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Well this is not out package or problem. This is an upstream package.
Just as a general FYI if you run the following and insert a given package name.
You will see who maintains this package, along with other useful information.Code:root@bt:~# apt-cache show eclipse
As you can see this package is maintained by ubuntu.Code:Package: eclipse Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 416 Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Further since this tool is not really appropriate for a penetration testing distro, I doubt it will be added.


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United Nations aid workers in the Horn of Africa are warning of an impending crisis for millions of its inhabitants as drought and rising food prices are reducing people to the position of beggars in their own land. Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed his children three meals a day, pancakes for breakfast, spaghetti for lunch, and beans for dinner, but now they subsist on porridge once a day. "A kilogram of beans used to cost a few cents, now it's a dollar." More than 14 million people across the Horn of Africa rely on food aid and other assistance in order to survive. According to Mark Bowden, of the UN, "this had led to more than belt-tightening. People are reducing their food intake– we have only months before we go into a major crisis."
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Levmore is a renowned academic and currently the William B. Graham Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, where he was dean from 2001 to 2009. Prior to joining the University of Chicago faculty in 1998, he was the Brokaw Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, and a visiting professor at Yale, Harvard, University of Michigan, Northwestern University and University of Chicago. He has taught courses on torts, corporations, nonprofit organizations, comparative law, public choice, corporate tax, commercial law, insurance, contracts and copyright. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a past president of the American Law Deans Association, and a trustee of the Law School Admissions Council.
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MUSKEGO, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – Junior Grace Abitz (Appleton, Wis.) and freshman Katie Pokrandt (Eau Claire, Wis.) matched each other with rounds of 80 and 81 to finish in a tie for fourth place as the Green Bay women's golf team dropped a dual match with Valparaiso 620-651. The 36-hole event was played Sunday and Monday at Muskego Lakes Golf Course in Muskego, Wis.
On Sunday, the Phoenix shot a team score of 324 with freshman Steph Laude (Slinger, Wis.) carding the squad's best score at 6-over par 78. Pokrandt shot a score of 80 while Abitz posted a score of 81.
In Monday's round two, sophomore Renee Christensen (Greenleaf, Wis.) carded a 79 to shave 10 strokes off her first round score and lead Green Bay. Abitz and Pokrandt tallied scored of 80 and 81, respectively on Monday to finish at 161 and in a tie for fourth.
Valparaiso's Michelle Kleckner shot rounds of 75 and 76 to shoot a 36-hole total of 151 and beat teammate Erika Pfaender by three strokes.
Green Bay will next be in action in the Chicago area, competing in the Loyola Horizon League Championship Preview on April 20-21 at Golf Club of Illinois.
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Christina De Boer, 85-88=163
Renee Christensen, 89-79=168
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Marshall leads the team standings with a two-round score of 571, while Columbia sits in second place with a 582 score. Christopher Newport is third at 583, while Penn and Hofstra are tied for fourth place with 589 scores. The host Patriots are sixth at 598, La Salle sits in seventh place at 602, and the Blue Hens and Villanova are tied for eighth at 606.
Blue Hen sophomore Kyle Martin and junior Niño Rosal each carded rounds of 75 and 74 on the par 71, 6,857-yard Laurel Hills Golf Course, ending the day tied for 24th place in the individual standings at seven over par 75-74-149. Junior Fraser Graham, who fired an 11 over par 76-77-153 on Saturday, will enter Sunday's final round tied for 40th place.
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|September 13th, 2007, 05:57 PM
KITM orv park in Decatuar
here is a letter i received address to me personally from the attorneys representing Hamilton Township
Dear Club President: (funny we do not have a club president)
I am writing to inform you that this law firm represents Hamilton Township in the Van Buren County Circuit Court case entitled Hamilton Township v David Stasiak, Carol Stasiak, and Kids in the Mudd Extreme Farm Inc. Pursuant to this ongoing Litigation, the Circuit Court Judge has issued a Preliminary injunction prohibiting Kids in the Mudd from changing the use of the land without the express permission of the township and from operating an ORV/ATV for-profit amusement facility. As you are no doubt aware, Hamilton Township has denied Kids in the Mudds request to operate such a facility. As a result, Kids in the Mudds contuing use of the property in violation of the zoning ordinance is considered to be in violation of the court order.
It is out understanding that your club intends to hold a United States Marine Corp-sponsored Toys for Tots toy run at the Kids in the Mudd on Dec 1, 2007. Be advised that this office considers this action to be a violation of the zoning ordinance and the court ordered injunction. Any such action subjects Kids in the Mudd, its owners, your club, and any participants to further legal action.
Further, the intended use of the property, as evidenced by last years similar event, constitutes a violation of Michigan Law, to wit MCL 324.81133 (a), (e), (o), (q), and ( r ). Every person found to be in violation of the aforementioned law is subject to criminal penalties. Violation is a misdemeanor, pursuant to MCL 324.81147, those found guilty face up to 90 days in jail, no less than $50.00 nor more a $1000.00 fine, or both, for each violation.
It is our understanding that the charitable org. that sponsored the previous events at Kids in the Mudd were misled as to the severity and nature of the ongoing litigation. Please be advised that this office will be in contact with the United States Marines to ensure that they are not misled into sponsoring an event that could tarnish their name or reputation. Using a charitable org to promote an illegal activity is beyond reproach.
Hamilton Township and its residents have exercised considerable restraint during the course of this lawsuit. However, continuing, deliberate, and flagrant violations of the Hamilton Township Zoning ordinances and the preliminary injunction will no longer be tolerated.
okay now i personally have never even been to the park, nor has our club ever held an event there. We had a few attend last years Toys for tots and that has been the only time any one from CheapThrills has even been on the property........................
|September 13th, 2007, 06:07 PM
apparently they have been shut down from any use of any kind, atleast thats what i got from the letter, just not sure how they got my information and club info, and where they got teh idea that we were even putting on the toys for tots???
i like how the township has used restraint..............
|September 13th, 2007, 06:09 PM
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I know this may not be the intent of your post, although it is crazy that you got a letter about it.
This KITM crap is so stupid. What's the reasoning for them not being allowed to be used as a ORV park? There's no good logic behind why they cant use their land for whatever they want. Especially with how little public offroading there is in Michigan.
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and yes it is stupid. sounds like some uptight neighbors are causing some problems.
He had a steady job and watched what he spent.
He'd say I don't believe in payin' no goddamn rent.
I'll squirrel away every goddamn cent
and buy my own damn house in Kalamazoo.
|September 13th, 2007, 06:19 PM
yeah its zoned arig. the township says it needs to be zoned commercial, they won't rezone so the owners have been having events and rides as donation only, no charge adn from what i gather from the letter thats not gonna happen anymore either
|September 13th, 2007, 06:31 PM
Fire fire!
|September 13th, 2007, 06:47 PM
i can only assume that they seen the club logo on our shirts when we were at the meeting for the township, the lawyer must of got my info and assumed i was the president because the domain name for the club is in my name???????????
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This is what I found online about the law stated in the letter. I am only quoting the sections that they list in the letter.
Act 451 of 1994
324.81133 Operation of ORV; prohibited acts.
Sec. 81133.
A person shall not operate an ORV:
(a) At a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, or in a careless manner having due regard for conditions then existing.
(e) In a state game area or state park or recreation area, except on roads, trails, or areas designated for this purpose; on state owned lands under the control of the department other than game areas, state parks, or recreational areas where the operation would be in violation of rules promulgated by the department; in a forest nursery or planting area; on public lands posted or reasonably identifiable as an area of forest reproduction, and when growing stock may be damaged; in a dedicated natural area of the department; or in any area in such a manner as to create an erosive condition, or to injure, damage, or destroy trees or growing crops. However, the department may permit an owner and guests of the owner to use an ORV within the boundaries of a state forest in order to access the owner's property.
(o) In or upon the waters of any stream, river, bog, wetland, swamp, marsh, or quagmire except over a bridge, culvert, or similar structure.
(q) In a manner so as to leave behind litter or other debris.
(r) In a manner contrary to operating regulations on public lands.
|September 14th, 2007, 07:34 AM
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This is where I wish we (GLFWDA) had the financial ability to have a friendly attorney to respond back.
I did not read the injunction, but the Attorney's own letter indicates that they are not permitted to use the park on a for-profit basis. Since there is no profit motive in the TFT run, as long as no money changes hands, how can the private operation of ATV/OHV on private land be in violation of the court order?
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|September 14th, 2007, 07:40 AM
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I would guess that if this were pushed into the media that you could get an attorney to represent the cause free of charge.
Media loves to push anti goverment so I think someone should make some calls and compile facts then contact local media sources.
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x2 ..
He had a steady job and watched what he spent.
He'd say I don't believe in payin' no goddamn rent.
I'll squirrel away every goddamn cent
and buy my own damn house in Kalamazoo.
|September 14th, 2007, 08:03 AM
KITM has had an attorney through out all of this start to now. it wasn't until recently the township got an attorney.
just talked with Dave at KITM, and this letter totally blindsided him, hes getting a copy of it to his lawyer today. NEEDLESS to say he was not happy about it. And he told me that at one of his court proceedings the judge nailed home the fact that as long as they do not charge or make profit they can do whatever and have as many poeple on the property as they choose.
should read the front page on their site, see how many $$$ the township has spent
|September 16th, 2007, 02:29 PM
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the " neighbors " are camped out in a popup camper across the street from the entrance to kitm , and are video taping and photographing vehicles leaving the property . ( aiming at the license plate #'s ) for what intended purpose ?..... legality ?
could this be considered a violation of my / our privacy ? , or intimidation ?
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It sounds like a bunch of whiners down there. When we have people at our place we invite the neighbors over for a cookout and buy them beer. They seem to enjoy what we do. I have talked to the a member of the township board, as he is a fellow wheeler and member of our club, He told me that as long as we dont charge a for sure price of attendance we are fine. That is why we just ask for donations. It Is our property and we can do as we please as long as we dont make a profit. Just my .02
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I have been working on a research document, to be published this quarter, on the impact of 8-socket x86 servers based on Intel's new Xeon 7500 CPU. In a nutshell, these systems have the performance of the best-of-breed RISC/UNIX systems of three years ago, at a substantially better price, and their overall performance improvement trajectory has been steeper than competing technologies for the past decade.
This is probably not shocking news and is not the subject of this current post, although I would encourage you to read it when it is finally published. During the course of researching this document I spent time trying to prove or disprove my thesis that x86 system performance solidly overlapped that of RISC/UNIX with available benchmark results. The process highlighted for me the limitations of using standardized benchmarks for performance comparisons. There are now so many benchmarks available that system vendors are only performing each benchmark on selected subsets of their product lines, if at all. Additionally, most benchmarks suffer from several common flaws:


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Utah will be the centerpiece of ABC Family Channel's annual 25 Days of Christmas event albeit in disguise.
"The Mistle-Tones," the cable network's first musical, was filmed in Salt Lake City, Ogden, West Valley City and Pleasant Grove back in March. While the TV movie is set in the fictional, non-specific town of Ridgefield, it has Utah flavor.
"I don't want to say it has a Disney feel here, but it has a nice family feel," said director Paul Hoen, who helmed three previous made-in-Utah TV movies. "It's sort of like the old Main Street USA kind of feel that doesn't really exist anymore, but it seems to still exist in Salt Lake City."
In "The Mistle-Tones," Tia Mowry ("Sister, Sister") stars as Holly, a young woman with a great singing voice who auditions for a spot in a legendary local Christmas group her late mother founded years earlier. But the group's leader, Marci (Tori Spelling, "Beverly Hills, 90210"), gives the spot to a mildly talented friend. Holly forms her own group the Mistle-Tones setting off a competition between the two groups.
It's light-hearted fun with a message about the true meaning of Christmas and lots of traditional carols "so everybody can sing along at home," said executive producer Maggie Malina. "That's part of the fun."
This was the first musical for both Mowry and Spelling and neither had ever sung in a project. They both found that part of the movie "intimidating" and "nerve-wracking."
"I was really shy at first," Mowry said. "And then when I got into the recording studio, the guy said, 'Just belt it, Tia. Just sing.' And I was, like, 'OK.'
"And sometimes when I hear the playbacks, I'm shocked. It's like, 'That's me?' "
Spelling was less enthusiastic about her recording sessions, but no less excited about the movie.
"I love the character," she said. "I don't get many opportunities to play the mean girl. It's really fun. And any time I can infuse comedy into a character, I love that."
Which is why she took the role, despite her apprehensions about the singing and dancing it required.
"I have to tell you, if you take all the fear and the nerves away, it's like this is any girl's dream!" Spelling said. "This is what you do at home when no one's looking, and now I get to do it in a 'Dancing With the Stars' gown in front of everyone."
ABC Family Channel's sister network, Disney, has shot several movies in Utah, including the "High School Musical" trilogy.
"It just seemed like an ideal place to shoot a Christmas movie," Malina said. "Disney has a great history of success here with musicals, so why not come back?"
Malina, Hoen, Mowry and Spelling were all effusive in their praise of the locals from crew members to extras to the people they met on the street.
"Everybody's so nice. They're warm. They're extremely helpful," Mowry said. "And they've been doing these movies for a while here, so they know what they're doing."
The crew was predominantly local, and there are plenty of Utahns on screen. Mostly extras, of course, but also in a few small roles most notably Sydney Sorenson and Britani Bateman as two members of Marci's singing group, the Snow Belles.
"I think the community and the city are part of the success of the movie," Hoen said.
A successful Christmas movie can have a particularly long shelf-life. Odds are "The Mistle-Tones" will still be part of the ABC Family rotation a decade or two from now. Or more.
"So I hope the performances are good," Spelling said with a smile.
"It could be classic," Mowry said. "And that was another reason I decided to do this, because I knew that one day my son could see his mom sing and dance and have a great time in a movie."
'The Mistle-Tones'
The made-in-Utah TV movie musical premieres Sunday, Dec. 9, at 9 and 11 p.m. MT.
It repeats Thursday, Dec. 13, at 6 p.m.; Tuesday, Dec. 18, at 1 a.m.; and Thursday, Dec. 20, at 4 p.m.


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USA Today's Tom Pelissero reports Derek Carr's five-year, $125-million extension contains $40 million fully guaranteed.
The Seattle Times' Bob Condotta said his "best guess" is Eddie Lacy and Thomas Rawls will "take a fairly equal share of the basedown carries."
The Nashville Tennessean's Jason Wolf speculates Tajae Sharpe (foot surgery) may have a "tenuous grasp on a roster spot" entering training camp.
Raiders signed Derek Carr to a five-year, $125-million extension through 2022.
Steelers.com's Bob Labriola wrote he "cannot imagine a realistic scenario" in which franchise-tagged Le'Veon Bell holds out into the season.
Eric Ebron believes the Lions' offseason additions at tight end will allow him to "do the things that I'm best at."
ESPN's Adam Schefter reports the Raiders and contract-year QB Derek Carr are finalizing a long-term contract extension.
Eric Decker's one-year contract with the Titans is worth $3.85 million.
Patriots signed ILB David Harris, formerly of the Jets, to a two-year, $5 million contract.
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