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- Network: NBC
- Series Premiere Date: Sep 12, 1959
- Starring: Dan Blocker, Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts
White-haired Ben was the proud patriarch of the Cartwrights, the family at the center of one of TV's most beloved and long-running series. Their ranch, the Ponderosa, was 1,000 square-miles (600,000 acres) in size and sprawled from mountainous shores of Lake Tahoe to the desert terrain nearWhite-haired Ben was the proud patriarch of the Cartwrights, the family at the center of one of TV's most beloved and long-running series. Their ranch, the Ponderosa, was 1,000 square-miles (600,000 acres) in size and sprawled from mountainous shores of Lake Tahoe to the desert terrain near Virginia City in the Nevada Territory. Ben oversaw his frontier empire with the help of his three sons: Adam, Hoss, and Joe. The series was set in 1859 when the series began and would progress through and following the Civil War.
Series creator and producer David Dortort, who oversaw the series during its 14 year network run on NBC, says he first first got the idea for the series writing the 1953 episode of "Fireside Theatre" titled "Man of the Comstock."
By 1959, NBC wanted a big filmed series to promote the sales of color television sets. NBC was the only network investing in color programs since its parent company RCA owned the electronic color transmitting system used by TV. "Bonanza" was just the type of show the network needed to "show off" its living color. In its initial season, it floundered in the ratings on Saturday nights against CBS' "Perry Mason"; it's said its renewal had a lot to do with its being shot in color. In the second season, "Bonanza" more than held its own in the Nielsens. It was the network's decision to move the series to Sunday nights that allowed it explode into a Top-10 hit.
"Bonanza" differed in many ways from the dozens of other westerns on the air during its run. It relied more heavily on the characters than it did on action--though there was plenty of that. Good and bad weren't always as simple as "black hats" vs. "white hats"; many times, good people didn't live happily ever after. Despite that, Ben imparted a high code of ethics upon his sons. Among the principles: 1-Intolerance and bigotry were not acceptable. The Cartwrights often came to the defense of Indians, Chinese, and others who were the targets of the narrow-minded.
2-Once a man had paid his debt to society and was released from prison, he deserved a clean slate and a chance to start over.
3-The land was sacred. Ben's greatest business headaches came from his refusal to allow his land to be polluted and destroyed for profit. When the Cartwrights cut down a tree for lumber, they planted another. Their environmental concerns remain unique for a television series.
Ben's path to his dream home of the Ponderosa (named for the Ponderosa Pine, plentiful in that area) was a long time in coming. He was a seaman, acting as first mate for Captain Abel Stoddard, when he met his boss' daughter Elizabeth and fell in love. She died after giving birth to first child Adam. Leaving the sad memories behind in the Northeast, he traveled to St. Louis and opened a trading company. He met and married the Swedish stunner Inger Inger Borgstrom who loved horses and shooting. She gave birth to son Hoss en route to the frontier, but was killed by an arrow during an ambush. Moving to New Orleans, Ben became an importer/exporter and fell for Creole beauty Marie DeMarigny. He made her wife number three and finally made it to the West. They established the Ponderosa and she gave him another son, Joseph. Marie died several years later in a riding accident. The story of each of these romance were detailed in individual episodes early in the series' run.
The high mortality rate of women encountered by Ben and his sons, known jokingly as the "Cartwright Curse," became a running gag among comedians and viewers alike. If a female became a love interest to any of the show's men, even money says she'll be sick, dying, or dead by the end credits.
Location filming kept the series from feeling "studio bound" and gave Bonanza a chance to highlight its color cinematography. Though much was filmed on a huge sound stage at Paramount Studios, scenes were regularly shot on the studio's outdoor "Western Street" and on locations throughout Southern California and Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The rising cost of shooting at Paramount eventually forced a move to the Warner Brothers studio in Burbank. To explain the new appearance of Virginia City, Season 12 began with "The Night Virginia City Died" where a huge fire destroyed the "old" town.
Changes inevitably took place among cast members during "Bonanza"'s long run. After several years of complaining about being held back from a movie career, Pernell Roberts was finally sent on his merry way after of Season 6. Prior to that, amid fears of Roberts' departure, Guy Williams was brought in for a few episodes as Ben's nephew Will Cartwright. It's said the cast resented his character being added and he disappeared after five appearances. Beginning with "Sense of Duty" in Season 9, David Canary joined the cast as Ponderosa ranch foreman Candy Canady. He practically became a Cartwright, appearing in roughly a third of the series' total episodes. He disappeared with no mention at the end of season eleven after failing to get a raise from producer Dortort. Young orphaned teenager Jamie Hunter did become a real fourth Cartwright son when he was taken in by Ben in Season 12 and legally adopted in "A Home for Jamie" the next season. In the wake of Dan Blocker's death following Season 13, the cast was beefed up. David Canary returned as Candy (reportedly Michael Landon personally asked him to appear) and Tim Matheson was added a Griff King, a young man paroled into Ben's custody who was hired as a ranch hand.
The loss of Blocker left a hole that simply couldn't be filled. This, combined with the show's move to Tuesday nights after eleven years on Sunday, dealt the series a death blow. Ratings took a nosedive and Bonanza aired it final episode in the middle of Season 14 on January 16. 1973.
After all these years, Bonanza remains hugely popular. Besides the quality of the program itself, having filmed in color has kept it from looking "old". Episodes began to be released by CBS/Paramount on DVD beginning in 2009, and were uncut from their network airing with all the original music intact. … Expand
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US Secretary of State John Kerry is about to bring over six months of frantic shuttle diplomacy to a climax by presenting a firm American proposal for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.
That according to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who is close to the Obama Administration.
"After letting the two sides fruitlessly butt heads for six months, [Kerry's] now planning to present a U.S. framework that will lay out what Washington considers the core concessions Israelis and Palestinians need to make for a fair, lasting deal," Friedman wrote on Tuesday.
As the columnist explains it, the US plan sees Israel withdrawing from Judea and Samaria in stages, but not from 100 percent of the territory. Large Jewish settlement blocs would be left intact and under Israeli sovereignty, and Israel would compensate by surrendering some of its territory to the Palestinian Authority.
Jerusalem would be divided, and the eastern half recognized as the capital of "Palestine." Speaking of recognition, Israel would be explicitly acknowledged as the nation state of the Jewish people.
The proposal does not allow for the mass entry of so-called "Palestinian refugees" into Israel.
For those familiar with the conflict, as Friedman purports to be, the proposal and his eager approach to it are baffling.
How many times does Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas have to reject the notions of recognizing a Jewish state or relinquishing a Palestinian "right of return" before America will take him at his word?
Abbas has staked his political legacy on achieving a "right of return" for Palestinians to Israel-proper, and has been so adamant about never calling Israel a "Jewish state" that it is somewhat unreasonable for anyone to expect him to change his mind now.
And those aren't the only insurmountable obstacles.
Kerry and Friedman seem to be forgetting about Hamas, which on Tuesday issued a statement reiterating that it would never accept a two-state solution or give up even "one inch of the land of Palestine," which the group considers to include the entirety of the Land of Israel.
Nor can Hamas' extreme positions be ignored, as the group has demonstrated its ability to win Palestinian elections and ascend to the highest positions of power, be it through democratic processes or force of arms.
There is also the matter of Israeli Arabs who would become Palestinian citizens as part of the proposed land swaps. Almost to a man, Israeli Arabs and their representatives in the Knesset have rejected such an outcome.
Last but not least, Israeli Jews have made it abundantly clear in surveys carried out over the past two decades that they will not accept the re-division of their ancient and sacred capital. Any prime minister who agrees to such a concession is very likely to be voted out of power before he or she has a chance to actually implement the agreement.
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Chapter 1. An Introduction to Structure and Bonding.
A. The Sources of Carbon Compounds.
B. More About Hydrocarbons.
C. On the Nature of the Chemical Bond.
Chapter 2. An Introduction to Spectroscopy and Selected Spectroscopic Methods in Organic Chemistry.
A. General Introduction.
B. X-Ray Crystallography.
C. Photon Spectroscopy.
D. Mass Spectrometry.
Chapter 3. Structure: The Nomenclature of Hydrocarbons and the Shape of Things to Come.
A. Introduction.
B. Nomenclature and Spectroscopy.
C. Physical and Chemical Properties; Oxidation and Reduction of Hydrocarbons.
Chapter 4. An Introduction to Dynamics.
A. Introduction.
B. Review of Some Energy Considerations.
C. The Barrier Between Reactants and Products.
D. More About the Transition State.
E. Rotation About Sigma (s) Bonds in Acyclic Alkanes, Alkenes, Alkynes and Alkyl Substituted Arenes.
F. Conformational Analysis of Medium-Ring Cyclic Alkanes .
G. The Conservation of Symmetry During Reactions.
H. The Measurement of Chirality.
Chapter 5. Classes of Organic Compounds - A Survey. An Introduction to Solvents, Acids and Bases; Computational Chemistry.
A. Introduction.
B. General Characteristics of Functional Group Placement.
C. The Functional Groups and Their Names.
D. An Introduction to Solvents.
E. Acids and Bases.
F. Computational Methods.
Introduction to Part II Middleground.
Chapter 6. Reactions of Hydrocarbons: Oxidation, Reduciton, Substitution, Addition, Elimination and Rearrangement.
A. Introduction.
B. Alkanes.
C. Alkenes.
D. Alkynes.
E. Arenes and Aromaticity: Special Introduction.
Chapter 7. The Reactions of Alkl, Alkenyl and Aryl Halides: Oxidation Reduction, Substitution, Addition Elimination, and Rearrangement.
A. Introduction.
B. Fluorocarbons.
C. Oxidation.
D. Reduction of Alkyl, Aldenyl and Aryl Halides.
E. Nucleophilic Substitution.
F. Addition Reactions.
G. Elimination Reactions of Alkyl and Alkenyl Halides.
H. Rearrangement Reactions of Alkyl and Alkenyl Halides.
Chapter 8. Part I The Reactions of Alcohols, Enols and Phenols: Oxidation Reduction, Substitution, Addition Elimination, and Rearrangement. Part II Ethers. Part III Selected Reactions Of Alkyl and Aryl Thiols and Thioethers.
Special Introduction.
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B. Oxidation of Alcohols, Enols and Phenols.
C. Reduction of Alcohols, Enols and Phenols.
D. Substitution Reactions of Alcohols, Enols and Phenols.
E. Addition Reactions of Alcohols, Enols and Phenols.
G. Rearrangement Reactions of Alcohols, Enols and Phenols.
Part II. Ethers.
I. Introduction
II. The Reactions of Ethers.
Part III. Thiols, Thioethers, and Some Products of Their Oxidation.
Chapter 9. Part I The Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones: Oxidation, Reduction, Substitution, Addition Elimination, and Rearrangement.
Part II The Reactions of Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives:
Oxidation, Reduction, Substitution, Addition Elimination, and
Part I. Aldehydes and Ketones.
A. Oxidation of Aldehydes and Ketones.
B. Reduction of Aldehydes and Ketetones.
C. Addition to Aldehydes and Ketones.
D. Substitution Reactions Producing Aldehydes and Ketones.
E. Rearrangement Reactions of Aldehydes and Ketones.
Part II. Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives.
A. General Introduction.
B. Oxidation.
C. Reduction.
D. Substitution: Addition and Elimination.
E. Additional Reactions and Rearrangements of Esters and ß-Dicarbonyl Compounds.
Chapter 10. Part I The Reactions of Amines: Oxidation.Reduction,
Addition, Substitution and Rearrangement. Part II Some Organo-
phosphorus Chemistry. Part III Some Organosilicon Chemistry.
Part I. The Reactions of Amines: Introduction.
A. Oxidation of Amines.
B. Reduction of Amines.
C. Addition and Substitution Reactions of Amines with a General Introduction.
D. Addition and Rearrangement Reactions of Amines.
Part II: Some Organophosphorus Chemistry.
Part III. Some Organosilicon Chemistry.
Introduction to Part III Foreground.
Chapter 11 An Introduction to Carbohydrates, Acetogenins and Steroids.
I. Introduction.
II. The Calvin Cycle.
A. Biosynthesis.
B. Chemistry.
C. Oligosaccharides.
D. Polysaccharides.
IV. Actetogenins.
A. Acetyl Coenzyme A.
B. Acetyl CoA to Fatty-Acids and Related Compounds.
C. Isoprenoides: To Dimethylallyl Diphosphate and Beyond.
Chapter 12 An Introduction to Amino Acids, Peptides and Proteins, Enzymes, Coenzymes and Metabolic Processes.
I Introduction.
II Amino Acids.
A. Biosynthesis.
B. Synthesis.
III Peptides and Proteins.
A. Amino Acids from Peptides.
B. Peptides from Amino Acids – in vivo.
C. Peptides from Amino Acids – in vitro.
IV. The Coenzymes.
A. Pyridoxal Phosphate.
B. Lipoic Acid.
C. Thiamin Diphosphate.
D. Biotin.
E. Adenosine.
F. Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide (NAD+).
G. Coenzyme A (CoA-SH).
H. Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide (FAD).
I. S-Adenosylmethionine.
J. Tetrahydrofolate.
Chapter 13 An Introduction to Alkaloids and Some Other Heterocyclic Compounds.
I. Introduction.
II. Tropane Alkaloids.
A. Chemistry of Hyoscyamine.
B. Chemistry of Nicotine.
C. Biosynthesis of Hyoscyamine and Nicotine.
III. Morphine (and Codeine and Thebaine).
A. Chemistry of Morphine (and Codeine and Thebaine).
B. The Biosynthesis of Morphine (and Codeine and Thebaine).
C. The Synthesis of Morphine.
IV. Vinblastine.
A. Chemistry of Vinblastine.
B. Biosynthesis of Vinblastine.
V. Caffeine.
A. Some History and the Synthesis of Caffeine.
B. Biosynthesis of Caffeine.
Chapter 14 Part I. On the Genetic Code: Unity and Diversity. Part II The Tetrapyrrolic Cofactors: Unity and Diversity.
Part I. Introduction (The Genetic Code).
Part A The Bases of Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA and Ribonucleic
Acid (RNA).
A. Deoxynucleotides.
B. The Role of Phosphate
Part B.
A. The Sequencing of DNA.
B. Chemical Synthesis of DNA.
C. Modification to DNA.
Part II The Tetrapyrrolic Cofactors.
A. Introduction.
B. Some Early Chemistry.
C. Current Biosynthetic Understanding.
Appendix I The Schrodinger Equation.
Appendix II The Literature.
""It provides the reader with the necessary support to learn and properly understand organic chemistry, and with a good overview of this interdisciplinary field and its relationship to other branches of chemistry and natural sciences." (Angewandte Chemie, 2012)
- Includes broad coverage of all topics relevant to organic chemistry
- Suitable for chemistry majors rather than just pre-med students, setting it apart from other competing textbooks
- Directs the reader to question present assumptions rather than to accept what is told, unlike other books that stress uncritical thinking and applications
- Provides an easy-to-use one volume textbook for all students of chemistry
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I was a competitive swimmer from 8-18, then stopped during freshman year due to burn-out. Got back to it at 40 (1 year ago). Was up to 90 minute swims using workouts from the internet. My goal was to enter a Masters swimming meet in distance freestyle without drowning. I was on my way. Enter health issues which have since resolved themselves :::crossing fingers:::, and had to be on bed rest for 6 months.
Have slowly started exercising again since November and finally felt good enough to jump back into the pool last week. This morning I swam for 1 hour, 3300 yds., which included 500 kick and 3 100 IM's with no rest, just to tease. Felt great, could have continued. That was my 4th "workout". Of course I'm eyeing that Master's schedule again and notice there is a meet coming up June 8 in my backyard. I'm wondering if I should just go for it, or if it would be too much too soon. There isn't too much of an offering of events, so I was going to start with the 800 free, since I have no sprinting ability whatsoever, yet my endurance has stayed with me.
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The LinuxJournal posted a great article about good and bad consequences of technology.
I have had similar thoughts. What people may forget is the problems you may get into with machines and that they do make mistakes. But let me tell you what happened to me.
I went to buy train tickets. They were non-refundable day tickets valid for one day only (not 24 hours).
I went to the machine. I chose the type of ticket. Then I chose a date. Then I chose to take two of them. Then I paid and left. A few hours later I looked closely at my tickets and found out that it did not apply the choice of date to both tickets. One of them was valid only for yesterday. I had bought them at about 11.45 pm. And yesterday was now already past.
Okay, there were several problems: The machine should have warned before selling you a day ticket that would be valid only for 15 minutes. It should actually automatically select the next day then. But the very least it must of course apply your choice of day to the tickets when in the last step it asks you for the number of tickets.
Okay, I thought, no problem. Luckily there are still humans. I went to a service person. The date and time of purchase were printed on the ticket, so it was an obvious situation. I told them about it and was quite surprised about their reaction.
The tickets are non-refundable they told me. That I aleady knew. I said again that I told two tickets and that the date was not applied. They told me I must have made a mistake when ordering them, so it was my fault. That kind of remark is hard to deal with, especially if you're earning money with IT services. I tried to explain this to them and they informed me that machines don't make mistakes.
Ah. That was new to me. I gave up with her and went to another service person somewhere else:
I: Hi, I've gotten the wrong ticket from the ticket machine.
S: Well, the tickets are non-refundable.
I: Oh yes, I know. But I didn't choose that ticket.
S: Then it wouldn't have printed it - you must have made the wrong choices.
I: Aha. (explaining the choices). Could the problem be with the machine?
S: No, there is no problem with the machines. You should simply buy the tickets one by one.
I: And now?
S: You're too late to exchange it now. Try writing a letter to the central custumer service department.
By now I had no time to buy new tickets and had to run to catch my train. It turned out that the train personell didn't even notice the difference in dates when checking my tickets. So luckily in the end a human error helped me avoid problems after the machine's error.
In the end I quite agree with his critic view on technology: One should always keep in mind that machines do make mistakes. And when they do, it can be extremely hard to impossible to convince people of it.
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- 1 cup of good ground coffee per(flavored coffee a plus)
- 1 Tblsp. of sweetened condensed milk per cup
- Brew coffee, stir in milk while it's still hot.
- Chill completely, stir and serve over ice.
- Whipped cream and cinnamon are optional . . . taking a break to enjoy this - is not!
- Make this easy!
- Fill your 12 cup drip coffee maker with water to make 12 cups.
- Add 12 Tblsp. of ground coffee to the filter basket. Brew.
- Stir in one 14 oz. can of sweetened condensed milk.
- Chill completely.
- Invite your friends over and serve in tall glasses over ice.
- I like a little whipped cream and a sprinkle of cinnamon, but I hear a dash of cayenne pepper is pretty popular these days.
- Also try cardamom, almond extract, or other dessert spices.
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HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's labor secretary told lawmakers Tuesday that state police are investigating whether the state's hotline for jobless benefits was sabotaged, even as she assured them that the problems plaguing it in recent months are improving.
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania's labor secretary told lawmakers Tuesday that state police are investigating whether the state's hotline for jobless benefits was sabotaged, even as she assured them that the problems plaguing it in recent months are improving.
Labor and Industry Secretary Julia Hearthway said at a legislative hearing in the Capitol that she considers the phone system "largely fixed" and expects to see call volume continue to drop.
"I think this next six months will be critical," she said. "We are working on this around the clock."
Calls to the state unemployment compensation centers skyrocketed in September to 8 million, up from about 900,000 a year earlier. The calls exceeded 15 million in November but were down to fewer than 7 million last month.
Hearthway said police were notified because of the volume of calls, and there also were questions about where they originated.
"We don't know whether there's any intentional activity or not," Hearthway said. Police may not be able to determine whether sabotage was involved, she said. A call seeking comment from state police headquarters was not immediately returned.
Hearthway said whether the overall problems are improving will become clearer in a month or two, because January and February are traditionally busy months for unemployment claims.
She said the situation was worsened by a $30 million reduction in federal funding, support that could fall by an additional $10 million next year.
She also blamed a new phone system for exacerbating the problems, along with cellphone applications that automatically redial after reaching a busy signal.
"It did choke the system and probably explains a good chunk of the 15� million calls that erupted in November," she said.
Hearthway said she hoped to have more claimants use the Internet, as is more widely done in other states. Florida, she said, requires claims to be made over the Internet.
"The phone system is largely fixed at this point, and I feel we've turned the corner," she told legislators.
Having people contact the agency through a fax has helped the situation, Hearthway said. She told lawmakers that faxes from legislative offices go to a dedicated line, with its own team, rather than the fax number given out to the wider public. She said Labor and Industry receives about 1,300 faxes a week.
Calls are more frequent earlier in the week, she said, suggesting that people who call on Thursday or Friday are less likely to encounter delays and busy signals. Another tip for callers is to call from landlines, not cellphones.
The Labor and Industry Department stopped evening and weekend hours because they were underused by the public.


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When I was little, I took stories my parents told me and added to them as I drifted to sleep. My mind would take a story and turn it into something very different. Bedtime stories becomes so much more than just stories in the imaginative minds of children — they become worlds.
Thanks to independent publishing, children and parents are using teamwork to create polished novels that can be shared with other young readers. A profile in Wired details how a father and his two young sons were able to collaborate on a successful fantasy book for children. Nimpentoad, which the family published independently, has been a success as well as a learning experience for the two young authors, Josh and Harrison. The boys have been selling their book at farmers' markets, participating in public speaking engagements and agreeing to interviews for profiles in Young Entrepreneur Magazine. They are learning at an early age that publishing is just one step in the process of becoming a successful author.
Josh, Harrison and their father, Henry, are part of a long history of intergenerational writers who have used writing as both a teaching experience and a way to bring generations together by changing storytelling into a more participatory process. Writing groups around the country use intergenerational writing practices to keep seniors and young people interacting with one another.
Intergenerational writing can also help children with learning disabilities by encouraging them to continue to write outside of the classroom setting. Hal and Alex Malchow wrote their fantasy novel, The Sword of Darrow, when Alex, who is dyslexic, needed encouragement to continue his uphill climb toward reading at his own grade level. Alex was able to use the confidence from writing the book to tackle his own disability.
What intergenerational writing have you done? What have you learned from young storytellers, and what is your best advice for them?
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Gyoza aka 锅贴 (read as guo tie) aka pan-fried dumpling, one of our favourite dishes. Usually I make it with ready-made dumpling wrappers but tonight I used the homemade wrappers. The wrappers were made with the ban mian dough, rolled out fairly thin on the lightly floured surface and cut with cookies cutter.
Ingredients (10 pcs):
10 sheets dumpling wrappers (ready-made)
½ tbsp cooking oil
¼ -½ cup hot water
100gm mince
1 tsp finely chopped ginger
1 tsp oyster sauce
¼ tsp garlic powder or finely chopped garlic
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tsp mirin (optional)
¼ tsp salt or to taste
¼ tsp ground white pepper
½ tbsp corn flour
½ cup finely chopped cabbage*
*Can be substitute with other vegetable such as leek and chives, or combination of cabbage and other vegetables.
- Filling: Bring together all ingredients except cabbage in a medium mixing bowl, mix well and marinate for 10-15 minutes. Stir in cabbage and set aside for later use.
- Assemble: Place one tablespoonful of filling in the middle of each wrapper. Wet the edges of the dumpling with water in necessary. Fold the wrapper over the filling into a half moon shape and pinch the edges to seal.
- Cook: Heat oil in a medium size non-stick frying pan, arrange dumplings in the pan. Pour in hot water and cover the pan immediately. Dumplings will be cooked by the hot steam. Listen to the sizzling sound, once the sizzling sound goes off remove the cover. Let it cook further for 1-2 minutes. Flip dumplings over, pan-fry the other side until lightly browned.
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Icelandic whaling, Mr Loftsson's costly hobby
As the longest day passes in Iceland and despite the very sad fact that it has taken the deaths of two more endangered fin whales to reveal it, a new day may be about to dawn for whales in that beautiful country.
As threatened, Kristjan Loftsson recently sent out his whaling vessels and a few days ago one of them returned with the carcass of a 21-metre fin whale lashed to it.
The fin whale is the second largest whale only after the blue whale – so it is too big to be carried onboard Mr Loftsson's 1940s steam driven whaling boats.
Mr Loftsson is Iceland's lone, and some say maverick, fin whaler. This is the first time his boats have been out in three years. In the past he's enjoyed making a song and dance about the landing of the first whale.
Usually, the press and TV cameras gather around to watch Mr Loftsson and some of his friends as they proudly cut the whale to pieces in the open air. Mr Loftsson seems to think that this moment needs to be celebrated.
If so, he must have been a bit surprised this year.
This is because while Mr Loftsson was doing his gory job, up on the hill overlooking the whaling station were a group of Icelanders holding banners that reviled his so-called trade.
One of the banners read 'Whales are not dog food'. This was because it had recently come to light in the Icelandic media that some of the meat from the whales that Mr Loftsson's company kills ends up as food for Japanese dogs.
So, the next day, instead of the Icelandic papers being full of a proud Mr Loftsson with the bloody remains of a flensed whale, the papers were full of photos of the demonstrators and their banners. The editorial message behind the photos was negative towards this anachronistic activity.
The papers also reported that the Icelandic Tourism Association (SAF) was deeply critical of Mr Loftsson's whaling. SAF seems to agree with the Icelandic whale watchers' association (Icewhale) that killing whales is not only bad for the whale watchers but for the tourism industry as a whole.
More and more, Mr Loftsson's activities are being seen in Iceland as increasingly harmful to Iceland and its economic interests and furthermore they are cruel and unnecessary.
It seems like Mr Loftsson is on his way to being seen as an old fashioned diehard who is determined to use his wealth to kill whales that are increasingly hard to sell.
Even his fellow shareholders in his company are getting tired of his whaling and are beginning to publicly call for this loss-making enterprise to stop.
Here at the International Fund for Animal Welfare we've never understood why Mr Loftsson wants to kill whales – it's never looked commercially sound; as the EU accession talks are now grinding to a halt, it's not politically convenient.
Perhaps it's just the wistful hobby of a wealthy man hankering after old times.
If so, it's a hobby that Icelanders are beginning to recognise as costing them dear.
Visit our Defending Whales campaign page for more information on our efforts to end the killing of whales for commerce.


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Regular-season winners often struggle in NFL playoffs
The Denver Broncos and Atlanta Falcons, who tied for the league's best record at 13-3, are well aware of one of the NFL's biggest truisms: more often than not, the regular season is for suckers.
Over the past decade, just two of the 13 teams that had the best regular-season record — or tied for the best mark — went on to win the Super Bowl: the 2002 Buccaneers and the '03 Patriots.
The past eight teams to enter the playoffs with the best record bowed out before they could put their fingerprints on the Lombardi Trophy and revel in a rain of confetti.
The Broncos and Falcons are promising to practice like champions this week and not allow rest and relaxation to turn into rust and ruin.
In the past seven seasons, three No. 6 seeds and a No. 4 seed ended up winning it all, giving hope to the likes of the Ravens, Redskins, Bengals and Vikings in this year's playoff pool.
A year ago, the Green Bay Packers rested their regulars in the season finale, and they lost their edge, becoming the first 15-1 team to lose its first playoff game — to a New York Giants team that was 7-7 in mid-December and went on to win it all.
"That's kind of what it was for us when I was in Indy," Broncos wide receiver Brandon Stokley said of the 2005 Colts, who went 14-2 but lost to the Steelers in the divisional round. "We kind of rested the last week; then we had a bye. It's too much. So I like just grinding every week, just playing football."
That's exactly what Peyton Manning's new team did, securing the AFC's top seed Sunday with its 11th straight win.
Along with the Falcons, Patriots and 49ers, the Broncos get a break this week, one that can prove a pitfall as much as a profit.
"We've just got to practice like we're playing this week," Denver receiver Eric Decker said.
While the Broncos stormed into the playoffs, the Falcons, who already had the NFC's top seed secured, didn't gain any momentum Sunday, losing to Tampa Bay.
"Before this game was played, we were the No. 1 seed in the playoffs. At the end of the game, nothing has changed," Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez reasoned. "We're a very good team; we'll just use this as a wake-up call."
Added another Atlanta veteran, Asante Samuel: "We're going to practice like champs. And we're going to play like champs from now on."
So will the Broncos.
Coach John Fox is using the bye week to stay sharp, calling for short, crisp practices Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and a mandatory weightlifting session Saturday, mainly to keep the team "focused, not concerned with flights to other states and those type of things, especially close states."
It's not just the NFL where the season's best team usually falters in the playoffs.
In the past 10 seasons, only two teams in each of the other major pro sports leagues parlayed the best regular-season record into a title, according to STATS, LLC. They were: the 2007 Red Sox and the '09 Yankees, the 2002-03 Spurs and the '07-08 Celtics and the Red Wings in 2001-02 and '07-08.
Since the first Super Bowl, the team with the best regular-season record has won just 21 of 46 titles (46 percent), which is more than in the NHL (42 percent), NBA (41 percent) and MLB (28 percent), according to STATS.
"Everyone wants to have the best record, win the division and play at home for the playoffs, but in my opinion, the team that is playing the best has the best opportunity," former MVP and Super Bowl champion Kurt Warner said. "This game is always about confidence and momentum."


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OAPA held a first-time Town Hall conference call on August 30. Leading the call were GAC Chair Josanne Pagel and OAPA lobbyist Greg Lestini with Bricker and Eckler.
Ms. Pagel reviewed the history of HB284, the bill that contains Schedule II language, as it went through the House Health Committee process and resulted in the addition of birth control language that divided the committee along party lines. Even though it was passed by the House Health Committee it has not yet gone to the House floor due to the birth control language.
She then advised that Health Committee Chair Wachtmann has offered to have the birth control language removed from HB284 prior to it going to the House floor. OAPA has been told many times by legislators that they could have supported the bill except for the birth control language. OAPA has also been told by Senate leadership that the bill should move quickly once it reaches the Senate if the language is modified or removed.
Mr. Lestini addressed why Representative Wachtmann has changed his stance over the summer. There is always a sense of urgency for legislation when the end of the General Assembly approaches (December 31) and, more importantly, the removal of the birth control language should not hurt the Representative's re-election chances and it may actually be to his benefit to remove language that is so controversial. Mr. Lestini reminded those on the call that Representative Wachtmann has always supported PAs and will continue to do so in the future. HB284's co-sponsor Ann Gonzales shares his support of PAs and is considered to be on track for future leadership. Both will continue to support PAs now and when new PA legislation is introduced.
Ms. Pagel then announced that OAPA and AAPA are reviewing the Ohio Revised Code and will spend the fall drafting language that will improve the PA Practice Act in Ohio. The association hopes to have a bill and sponsor ready to go early in 2013.
Some of the changes that are being considered are switching from the Supervisory Agreement to a Delegatory Agreement, revising the 60 minute rule and the number of PAs a supervising physician can supervise at one time and removing the list from 4730.
If you have any suggestions for improving your practice where the law in concerned, please forward them to the OAPA office (firstname.lastname@example.com or 800/292-4997).
Mr. Lestini reminded those on the call that they had received an invitation to an OAPA fundraiser for Representatives Wachtmann and Gonzales in Cleveland on September 17. Independently of the fundraiser, the Representatives will receive a tour of the Cleveland Clinic where they can see first-hand the importance of PAs in health care delivery.
The fundraiser is to thank them for their continued support of PAs and we encourage you to attend and share the invitation with your supervising physicians.
Ms. Pagel closed the call advising that the Annual Conference will provide 20 CME hours with 14 of them in pharmacology. The first day will be devoted to drug abuse issues and the speakers will be from the Office of the US Attorney General.


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Jeffrey Levinton, "Life in the Tangled Lane," a review of Stuart Kauffman, The Origins of Order, Evolution 49 (1995): 575-577.
In this review of Kauffman's magnum opus, Levinton (Ecology and Evolution, SUNY Stony Brook) is cheerfully skeptical. "Kauffman's model," he writes, "is at once pervasive, explaining everything. But equally, it explains why we may never be able to explain anything in particular, which makes it come pretty close to Zen" (p. 575). Levinton argues that while "very powerful," Kauffman's central theory--the NK model of rugged fitness landscapes--is vastly overextended, into "great leaps" and "soaring flights of exciting and probably fanciful discourse" (p. 576). The data needed to test Kauffman's ideas, Levinton worries, are not at hand. "At the morphological level so familiar to organismal biologists," he writes, "we know essentially nothing about the role of complexity, even if so many choose to write about the subject at length. I suppose that this degree of confusion is why one can see prominently featured within the same journals one-parameter-tells-it-all optimal models along side of some prosody to the pervasiveness of contingency in evolutionary history. We are still in the dark, which leaves lots of room for nearly boundless assertion" (p. 577). In The Origins of Order, Levinton concludes, "you may see the future. Then again, you may be looking down a blind alley, poised on the edge of chaos" (p. 577).
Laura J. Snyder, "It's All Necessarily So: William Whewell on Scientific Truth," Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 25 (1994): 785-807.
Snyder (Philosophy, Johns Hopkins) takes up William Whewell's "antithetical" philosophy of science, so-called "for its attempt to combine seemingly opposed empirical and a priori elements" (p. 785). Whewell (1794-1866) was a mathematician, astronomer, and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, but is perhaps best known as among the first rank of English philosophers and historians of science in the mid 19th century. Snyder argues that one can make sense of Whewell's "antithetical" epistemology only by looking to its theological foundation. "...without properly understanding the role of Whewell's theology," she notes, "it is impossible to understand not only Whewell's notion of necessary truth, but also his resolution of the ultimate problem of his epistemology" (p. 795). Whewell anchored his understanding of knowledge on God's authorship of the world. "On his view," Snyder writes, "we are able to have knowledge of the world because the Fundamental Ideas which are used to organize our sciences resemble the Ideas used by God in his creation of the physical world."
"The fact that this is so is no coincidence: God has created our minds such that ?they can and must agree with the world.' God intends that we can have knowledge of the physical world, and this is possible only through the use of Ideas which resemble those that were used in creating the world....the Divine origin of both our Ideas and our world is what enables Whewell to claim that axioms knowable a priori from the meanings of our Ideas are informative about the empirical world, and necessarily true of it" (p. 796).
Lucy G. Sullivan, "Myth, metaphor and hypothesis: how anthropomorphism defeats science," Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 349 (1995): 215-218; and Richard Dawkins, "Reply to Lucy Sullivan," Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B. 349 (1995): 219-224.
A print debate between Richard Dawkins and an Australian critic of Dawkins's theory of the "selfish gene." Ms. Sullivan, the critic, complains that Dawkins's writings have led to "a proliferation of pseudo-theories, who claim on our attention lies more in the realm of literature than of science" (p. 215). Dawkins, for his part, argues that Sullivan "unfortunately demonstrates that she has never read The Selfish Gene, never read Darwin," and has misunderstood what she has read, leading to a "complete, root and branch, catastrophic misunderstanding of Darwin's central idea of natural selection" (p. 219).
Stephen G. Brush, "Prediction and Theory Evaluation in Physics and Astronomy," in No Truth Except in the Details, eds. A.J. Kox and D.M. Siegel (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995), pp. 299-318.
Historian and philosopher of science Stephen Brush (University of Maryland) has long been studying what he terms "the dynamics of theory-change in science." In this article, he presents several case studies (e.g., the Big Bang vs. steady-state cosmology, the origin of the Moon, gravitational light bending, and Hannes Alven's plasma physics) to examine the impact of predictions on theory acceptance. Brush concludes that confirmed predictions provide "corroboration" of a hypothesis, but only in the minimalist sense of scientists voting with their publications (so to speak). Corroboration "merely makes it more reasonable to pursue that hypothesis than one that has not been corroborated," and thus "there was a significant increase in publications on the theory [i.e., those theories in the case studies] that led to the prediction" (p. 314). Brush also stresses, however, that "if one's basic assumptions and method are considered unacceptable by other scientists, no amount of empirical confirmation will force them to accept it. I say this not as a criticism of the scientific community, but simply as a fact about science which many philosophers of science ignore" (p. 307).
Gordon McOuat and Mary P. Winsor, "J.B.S. Haldane's Darwinism in its religious context," British Journal for the History of Science 28 (1995): 227-31.
English biologist and science writer J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) was one of the founders of the neo-Darwinian synthesis.
This article describes how his role "as an opponent of orthodox religion" (p. 228) was central to Haldane's defense of evolution in general, and natural selection in particular. "Clearly," McOuat and Winsor write, "Haldane believed that if could make natural selection more credible to his fellow biologists, he would be striking a blow in the war between science and religion. Haldane always loved a good fight" (p. 231).
B.J.T. Dobbs, "Newton as Final Cause and First Mover," Isis 85 (1994): 633-643.
Until her death in 1994, Betty Dobbs was Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. In this lecture, she evaluates the distortions of scientific histories, which may lead us to see thinkers of the past, such as Newton, in our own image. "...we unconsciously assume that their thought patterns were fundamentally just like ours. Then we look at them a little more closely and discover to our astonishment that our intellectual ancestors are not like us at all: they do not see the full implications of their own work; they refuse to believe things that are now so obviously true; they have metaphysical and religious commitments that they should have known were unnecessary for a study of nature; horror of horrors, they take seriously such misbegotten notions as astrology, alchemy, magic, the music of the spheres, divine providence, and salvation history" (p. 640). Newton's system, Dobbs argues, "was very quickly coopted by the very -isms he fought, and adjusted to suit them. He came down to us as coopted, an Enlightenment figure without parallel who could not possibly have been concerned with alchemy orwith establishing the existence and providence of a providential God" (p. 643).
Sheldon Penman, "Rethinking cell structure," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 92 (1995): 5251-57.
While his ideas of a complex cellular matrix are controversial (see, e.g., Science 268 [1995]: 1564-65), Sheldon Penman doesn't apologize for them. Current cell biology is stuck on "solution biochemistry," he argues. When the field awakens, however, it will turn to "cell architecture," and realize that cytoskeletal structure can "illuminate that most vexing and refractory of puzzles--the nature and location of the genomic instructions dictating the form of cells, tissue, and, ultimately, organisms" (p. 5251). In this review, Penman (a member of the National Academy of Sciences and cell biologist at MIT) urges that conventional electronic microscopy has misled biologists, because it fails to reveal "most of cells' architectural components." This is critical, Penman is persuaded, to understanding the open questions surrounding the specification of biological form: "Form and structure are not natural subjects for biochemistry that, in the macroscopic world, deals with scalar quantities--i.e., amounts, rates, etc. Building the complex designs glimpsed in any anatomy or physiology text requires, at the very least, instructions that are vectorial--i.e., that specify direction and place. These instructions are encoded somewhere--it seems very likely that they reside in the heavily transcribed but "non-protein coding" DNA. Building staggeringly complex organs--e.g., brains or kidneys--by simply specifying the constituent protein components (as suggested by the more extreme formulations of molecular biology that genes are simply proteins) is unlikely. Such a strategy would be tantamount to trying to specify a bridge or an edifice by merely giving a list of parts. Indeed, Gray's Anatomy, seen with an engineer's eye, suggests that the complexity of the instruction sets for mammalian morphology require large regions of the genome: very likely much of most of the currently ignored, non-protein coding, 90% (or more) of the genome. I suspect that future cell scientists will marvel at the density and ingenuity of genome instructions for structure while wondering how we could overlook them for so long" (p. 5257).
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For the fourth year running, the Colorado Rapids and Dick's Sporting Goods Park will host the 3v3 Live Rocky Mountain Regional Tournament this Saturday, July 14. The tournament is open to boys and girls ages six to adult who want to earn the chance to qualify for the 3v3 National tournament in Orlando, Florida.
Each team receives four tickets to the Rapids vs FC Dallas game, which takes place later that evening. The two finalists will play in the Regional Finals match inside the stadium immediately following the Rapids game on July 14. For more information and to register CLICK HERE.


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My occasional technical diary of thoughts, tips, and tools from some of the more interesting things I'm playing around with at the time. That means all things Web, Open Source, Polyglot-programming, Electronics and Data, or just my latest rant.. who knows!
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Running Cocoon with Oracle OC4J
After building Cocoon, I simply used a manual installation with the standalone version, which simply required $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/home/config/application.xml and $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/home/config/http-web-site.xml to include the Cocoon webapp.
The only "fixup" required - and this is for a non-fatal SAX processing error - is to force Cocoon to use the XML parsers etc that are included in the Cocoon distribution instead of the default (Oracle) parsers included in the OC4J distribution. The fix is to force "search-local-classes-first. To do this edit $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/home/application-deployments/<your Cocoon deployment path>/orion-web.xml. Uncomment the line:
<web-app-class-loader search-local-classes-first="true" include-war-manifest-class-path="true" />
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Hey paul -- was that success with 10.1.2 or 10.1.3? The use of xerces, xalan, etc. which are all inextricably linked into cocoon is somewhat complex with 10.1.2. With the classloading model in 10.1.3 its a whole lot simpler.
- Paul said...
Buttso .. confirmed, 10.1.2.0 (I was using stand-alone OC4J). Version by version its getting easier;) I found 10.1.2 not too bad as long as you aren't scared of the deployment files.


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ST. SIMON'S ISLAND, Ga. – The Georgia Independent School Association (GISA) is set to hold the 2014 GISA Coaches Clinic, with Georgia College assistant coaches on the schedule as guest speakers. GC Men's Basketball assistant coach Mark Gainous and GC Women's Basketball assistant coach Toby Wagoner will join the clinic July 16 and 17.
Gainous, a 12-year vet of the Georgia College sidelines, will talk over the dribble-drive Thursday, July 17. Wagoner is in his fifth season with the Bobcat women, but also has experience with the Bobcat men, multiple other colleges and at the high school level. Wagoner will share his expertise on the "Pack" defense.
The clinic will be held at Frederica Academy, encompassing all high school sports. For more information, visit the GISA online at www.GISASchools.org .
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee have been exploring whether attractive CEOs add to shareholder value.
Previous studies have found that more attractive executives receive better pay. However the new research explored whether that higher pay actually contributed to shareholder returns.
The study, by Joseph T. Halford and Hung-Chia Hsu, looked at the Facial Attractiveness Index of nearly 700 CEOs, based on their facial geometry.
It used images of the executives scoured from Google and ran them through Anaface, an online tool to assess FAI scores.
The researchers then compared the FAI scores to the executives\' pay and their company\'s stock performances on their first day on the job, on merger announcement days and on days when they appeared on CNBC.
The FAI scores of the CEOs studied ranged from 4.01 to 8.80 on a scale of 10. The average score was 7.29. The average compensation for the CEOs was $10.34 million and the average age was 56.
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— More attractive CEOs receive higher total compensation. This finding confirms the existence of the "beauty premium" in CEO pay.
— More attractive CEOs are associated with better stock returns around their first days on the job.
— There is \"a positive and significant effect of CEO attractiveness on acquirer returns around merger announcement dates.\"
— More attractive CEOs are associated with better stock returns on CEO-related television news days.
Overall the study found that \"more attractive CEOs receive higher compensation for a reason: They create value for shareholders through better negotiating power and visibility.\"
The study has drawn criticism in some circles, notably from Forbes contributor Andrew Cave who called it an unwelcome distraction from the issues facing CEOs. Cave noted that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer scored an 8.45 in the Halford and Hsu rankings, but has faced harassment from at least one Yahoo shareholder at the company\'s annual meeting.
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Frozen Eyelids and Other Signs It's Time to Head Indoors
While out for an early morning run the other day a frigid gust to the face instantly coated my eyelashes with crunchy icicles.
"Whoa! I think that's No. 8, or maybe No. 7," I said to my buddy Bob, who, unlike me had wisely donned sunglasses before we set out.
"You know, the Fagin Coldness Scale," I reminded him.
I couldn't see his face because we were loping side-by-side, and anyway he was wearing dark glasses, but I'm sure Bob rolled his eyes. Over the years of running together we've learned to put up with each other's inane observations.
Short of dashing indoors and soaking your head in warm water, the fastest cure for frozen lashes is to remove the gloves and cup your hands over your eyes while exhaling onto your palms – but in extreme conditions this maneuver can induce frozen fingers, which as I recall rated No. 6 or 5 on the FCS.
Pick your poison: If you don't sacrifice digits while thawing out eyelashes your eyelids get stuck, which rates even higher on my coldness scale.
Years ago I devised the FCS to measure the relative effects of gelidity, modeled after the Beaufort wind force scale.
Developed in1805 by Francis Beaufort, an Irish Royal Navy officer, this scale references observable effects of wind speed, often with descriptions that convey force more colorfully than simple numbers.
For instance, so-called "light air," rated No. 1 on the Beaufort scale, produces ripples without crests on the ocean surface, while on land slowly drifting smoke indicates wind direction, but leaves and weather vanes remain stationary. Higher on the scale, No. 5, a "fresh breeze" of 13-17 mph creates many whitecaps and small amounts of spray, while on land branches of moderate size move and small trees in leaf begin to sway.
As wind intensifies the seas heap up, spray reduces visibility, huge waves crash, shingles rip from roofs, trees snap – and by the time you reach the end of the scale, No. 12, a hurricane with winds exceeding 74 mph, the sea is completely white with foam and spray, while on land windows smash, sheds and barns topple, and debris and unsecured objects are hurled about.
I've never reached No. 12 on my FCS, in which you basically turn into a contemporary version of
Otzi the Iceman (a.k.a "Frozen Fritz,") the well-preserved natural mummy of a man from about 3300 BC, found in 1991 in a glacier of the Otztal Alps near the border between Austria and Italy – but I'm pretty sure I've gotten to 10 or 11. Various stages en route to these levels include having spit freeze before hitting the ground, involuntary shaking as if you were operating an invisible jackhammer and explosive outbursts of profanity.
I'm thinking of one long night years ago on Camel's Hump in Vermont, in which the temperature inside a dilapidated shelter where some friends and I hunkered down dipped to about 20 below zero and a water bottle that I had placed inside my sleeping bag next to my body nonetheless froze solid.
On another occasion, some of these same friends and I climbed New Hampshire's Mount Washington in February when the mercury plunged to about 30 below and the wind howled above 100 mph. There's no point in calculating wind chill in those conditions, because it applies only to exposed skin, and you'd have to be really reckless to leave even one square inch of flesh uncovered.
On a separate Mount Washington excursion in comparably Arctic conditions I accompanied a madcap band of meteorologists from the summit weather observatory to the base by riding plastic sleds down the Auto Road. I hadn't planned on this adventure and didn't think to pack a face mask.
As I recall by the end of that wild 7.6-mile descent, when I'm sure we hit speeds in excess of 30 mph, it took a few hours for my face to thaw out sufficiently so I could speak English rather than some unintelligible, aboriginal language comprised of numb-jawed mumbles.
A few years ago I spent a week in late January, mostly alone, as winter caretaker at a near-mile-high hut in the White Mountains, and occupied myself in the sub-freezing darkness by waving my arms and pacing for hours around an unlit wood stove (fuel was in extremely short supply).
At least I was warmer than the time I flipped my kayak in an ice-choked river without wearing a dry suit. A friend with matches managed to get a fire going long enough for me to dry out and resume our voyage.
Friends who don't share my passion for winter recreation sometimes ask, "How can you stand the cold, and I answer, "I can't." In fact, I hate being cold.
Even now, seated at my computer near a roaring wood stove I'm wearing fleece pants, polypropylene jersey and a wool sweater.
As I've often remarked, there's no such thing as bad weather – only inappropriate clothing. Like many of my friends who savor the outdoors, I literally am a man for all seasons.
During my forays into the mountains in winter I don an expedition parka, double-insulated plastic mountaineering boots with supergaiters, Gore-Tex wind pants, a heavy balaclava, ski goggles, neoprene face mask and overmitts containing chemical handwarmers. For the most part I remain comfortable.
I once spent a night in a blizzard in a bivvy sack – basically, a cross between a tent and a sleeping bag – and actually managed to get some sleep.
We are now entering the coldest part of the coldest season, and I'm looking forward to heading north soon to the mountains – with, of course, appropriate clothing and adequate gear.
I've taken a course and have been certified in ice-climbing, and own crampons, an ice ax and other equipment, but for the most part I enjoy simply tramping around woodland trails, following animal tracks in the snow and embracing elegance underscored by winter's rich contrasts.
The booming echo of cracking lake ice shatters the night stillness like a rifle report; during the day trees creak and groan; ravens squawk and jays shriek shrill alarms. Boots crunch. Amid so much seemingly lifeless gray, cardinals flit by like crimson darts; jagged icicles glitter in slanted sunlight from emerald boughs of spruce and hemlock.
Before long, skunk cabbage and crocuses will poke through the snow, maples will drip sap and peepers will begin their cacophonous vernal chorus.
We have only a few weeks to savor the season, so get out there and enjoy it – and stay warm, my friends.
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My husband did the research and found Burley. We feel it's very safe & secure for our daughters, and it rides smooth. It's easy to attach to the bike and is a great stroller as well.
We love how easy it is to switch from trailer to stroller mode. Our son likes riding in it and we've used it a lot.
I was just out running in poor weather to try it out. But the top quality is so poor i can't recommend taking it out in bad weather. Water is RUNNING through the sealing. Is like a river in each stitches in top cover. The water sticks to the fabric and gets through. I spend 3000 danish croners on a trailer that is NOT water resistant. It's water attracting. Had it for 2 yeara now. But i allways wondered where the water got in. But my daughter just told me today. Ussually doesnt take them out in bad weather.
I bought this at the beginning of the summer so I could ride my bike, while my 4 yr old daughter rides hers, and my 18 mo old son could enjoy a ride also. He loves riding in it ( my daughter does too on occasion) and it's so easy to pull. With only my son in it, I rarely feel the trailer. When both of them are in it, I can feel it but it's smooth riding and not an issue. I LOVE the big pocket; my diaper bag fits in it and could easily fit in another small bag if needed. I also love the drink holders! The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars was due to my son's helmet. He's a little guy now so sits lower and his head and helmet don't fit in the mesh part above the seat. His head seems to be at an awkward angle and his helmet pushes forward almost over his eyes. As he gets bigger, I hope it doesn't continue to be a problem.
We bought the honeybee to use behind our bike but it has gotten so much use from being used as a stroller! It's light weight and easy to maneuver. It takes only seconds to collapse. Our daughter is so comfortable inside. It has a ton of storage room as well! Fantastic and worth the investment!
I love how this so quickly and easily can change from stroller to trailer. It has helped us almost never need to use our car!
I love this trailer and so does my son. It needs an adjustable back so that when the kids are smaller you don't have to prop them up so much with blankets.
Quality materials and construction. Very well designed.
We have had our honey bee trailer for almost three months and have used it every week, often multiple times in one day. It is very convenient to bike to the grocery, then take it off the bike and shop with it as a stroller. We also like to take it on trails and around the neighborhood. It is light weight, offers a smooth ride, and has ample cargo space-we can all of our swim gear in there, which is saying a lot! It gives enough room for our 4 and 1 year olds to sit and not complain. :) Overall a great design, with just a few things that I wish were different- The cup holders are placed in such a way that they take away space from where the kids sit. It can get hot inside even with the mesh cover-I wish it had lighter colors than red and black to perhaps make it cooler The attachment to the bike can be tricky-we have gotten our fingers pinched a few times. It'd be nice to have pocket space in a different location in the cargo spot-I had my phone in the back pocket and it came out during a ride, even with the top velcroed down. Thankfully it was ok! All in all, this is a fantastic trailer that we are happy to use, and it has been a fun way to get outside and explore for our entire family.
I bought this last fall so I could continue to ride with my 2 year old son (another one coming and can't wait to get both of them out). I can be set up and ready to ride in 1-2 minutes and the ride is incredibly smooth. One of the great features of the Honey Bee is that it easily converts to a stroller. In fact, the stroller itself is as good a ride as any stroller we've tried. The ride is smooth, lots of storage, and folds up for easy travel. The only negative to the product is the inability to use some of the other attachments that Burley offers (running stroller wheel, ski attachment, etc.). I can't wait for when they release those things for this model.
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FAYETTEVILLE � Arkansas coach Mike Anderson has not spoken to forward Marshawn Powell or guard BJ Young about their plans for next season.
So Anderson said Friday he wouldn�t guess whether the Razorbacks� two leading scorers will return for the 2013-14 season or start professional basketball careers.
�I don't deal in speculation. I never have,� Anderson said. �So once those guys get back (from spring break) and we get an opportunity, I'll sit down with those guys as well as the rest of our team. I do that with everybody, all our kids. All our players.
�And in the meantime, if they come to me before then and want to address it, then we'll address it. But I don't deal in speculation.�
Anderson couldn�t provide much clarity on Young and Powell, who are considering their options now that 2012-13 has ended. Both players ranked among the top 10 in the Southeastern Conference in scoring and accounted for roughly 40 percent of Arkansas� point production, combining for 29.7 this season.
Their status is one of the biggest questions surrounding the Razorbacks as they move into the offseason. Both Young and Powell said they weren�t thinking about the future as Arkansas prepared for the SEC Tournament earlier this month. But the early exit means they may have played for the final time as Razorbacks.
�Who knows what I might choose,� Powell said about his future after the Hogs struggled in their loss to Vanderbilt. �I really don�t like to go out the way I went out like that. I don�t want to leave a bad taste in people�s mouths. So it depends.�
Powell has spent four years on campus, but missed most of 2011-12 after suffering a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his knee. He returned to form last season and averaged 14.5 points and 5.4 rebounds.
Young � who explored the draft as a freshman before returning to Arkansas � led the team in scoring (15.2 points) and improved in a few areas as a sophomore. But he struggled from the perimeter, shooting 22.7 percent (25 of 110) from 3-point range.
A 2013 NBA mock draft by CBSSports.com listed Young as a second-round pick (the 45th overall selection) Thursday. Powell was not among the selections.
Arkansas didn�t have any seniors on its roster last season so 12 scholarship players � including Powell and Young � are eligible in 2013-14. The Razorbacks have signed two players in forwards Bobby Portis and Moses Kingsley, which would put them over the NCAA maximum of 13 scholarships granted each season.
It means Arkansas will be without at least one scholarship player from the 2012-13 roster. Anderson said the Razorbacks are still recruiting players, too, which means the number will rise if Arkansas adds to its 2013 class during the late signing period.
�As I always say, we are always recruiting,� Anderson said. �You never stop recruiting. I have been in this business long enough to understand that part of it. And when you talk about scholarships and what we have available, I am sure when that time comes it will work itself out.�
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Pac-12 Morning Five: 11.09.11 EditionPosted by Connor Pelton on November 9th, 2011
- Washington State heads into this season with lower-than-normal expectations after the departures of Klay Thompson and DeAngelo Casto. Thompson and Casto were arguably the best two players on the roster a year ago, so this season the Cougars will need to rely on experience and chemistry if they are to return to a major postseason tournament. If they are to make the NIT or NCAAs, it will be because of their guard play. Marcus Capers and Reggie Moore both return in the backcourt, and with the additions of Fresno State transfer Mike Ladd and freshmen DaVonte Lacy and Dexter Kernich-Drew, the Cougars feel like they can go up against any group of guards in the nation. Washington State's season will get underway next Monday night when they take on Gonzaga in Spokane [ed. update: head coach Ken Bone said Tuesday that Moore is questionable for Monday's game with a groin injury].
- Three regular season games have already tipped off across the nation, but the season doesn't officially start at most places until Friday. That means the previews are still rolling out, including this look at each Pac-12 team and the best players in the conference. They have California guard Jorge Gutierrez and UCLA center Joshua Smith highlighting the first All Pac-12 team, while Oregon guard E.J. Singler and California forward Harper Kamp highlight the second. The All-Freshman Team includes four guards, highlighted by Arizona's Nick Johnson and Washington's Tony Wroten, Jr.
- Bakersfield High (CA) combo guard Tyrone Wallace committed to California on Monday, and in this interview with Jim McGill he talks about his decision. "I'm going to play the one and two, play combo," says Wallace. "It depends on whatever we need. I'm versatile so Coach (Mike) Montgomery said they'd play me where I'd fit best at any given time." Wallace is a four-star recruit coming out of high school and could see some major minutes next season with Gutierrez graduating. Wallace was down to Cal and Colorado before his commitment.
- Not only did Utah lose a game last Friday night, but they also lost a pair of key players for several weeks. The biggest loss was to starting center David Foster, who is out indefinitely after a foot injury. "We need Dave," Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak said after the game. "When Dave went down, it put us in a little bit of a whirlwind." The Utes have also lost junior shooting guard Chris Hines to a rib injury. The designated "sixth man" of the team will be out three weeks. The injuries mean that the Utes will only have eight scholarship players for their first six games of the year. Expect them to struggle mightily.
- Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins is hoping that the meaningful minutes most of his freshman played last year will translate into victories this season. While Dawkins knows that the majority of his team is still mostly sophomores (seven of them, to be exact), the Cardinal doesn't have much of a choice. If players like forward Dwight Powell, guard/forward Anthony Brown, and center Stefan Nastic all have big years and get some help from senior center Josh Owens, this team could be on the rise again.


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Resilience is a term that gets used a lot in sustainability circles. It can apply to ecosystems, human communities, institutions, and individuals alike. Here is a look at personal resiliency and how it intersects with environmental sustainability.
Psychology Today defines resilience as "that ineffable quality that allows some people to be knocked down by life and come back stronger than ever. Rather than letting failure overcome them and drain their resolve, they find a way to rise from the ashes." The American Psychological Association (APA) says resiliency is "an individual's ability to properly adapt to stress and adversity."
As anyone who regularly engages with environmental issues knows, it's easy to get overwhelmed. When the environmental news includes severe drought, honeybee deaths, the collapse of the Western Antarctic ice sheet, and other potentially civilization-threatening events all in one week, the complexity and enormity of the situation can become too much. Environmental disasters, or imminent disasters, can cause ongoing stress and anxiety, especially if someone you love is involved.
There are many techniques to help people cope with stress, techniques that can help those working in the environmental field as they face the challenges involved with building an ecologically sustainable future. The work is hard enough—developing resilience can help alleviate some of the anxiety that goes with working in this field.
How can we become more resilient?
Omega recently asked permaculture teacher Eric Toensmeier how he remains grounded, even in the face of environmental tragedy. He responded, "My experience has been that permaculture gives me hope to keep going. I look at the bad things, but I'm working on solutions. The more I learn about how agricultural styles like permaculture can fight climate change, the more hopeful I am. The amount of hope I have increases as the amount of work I do on solutions increases."
Eric's reply demonstrates several ways the APA says we can all build resilience: Maintain a hopeful outlook; move toward realistic goals, even if they seem like small accomplishments; take decisive action; and avoid seeing crisis as insurmountable.
You can also make connections with close family members, friends, and like-minded groups; accept change as an essential part of living; keep a long-term perspective; and take care of yourself through exercise and relaxation, including meditation and mindfulness practices.
As the APA points out, being resilient doesn't mean you don't suffer difficulty or distress, emotional pain, or trauma. Resiliency is not something you either have or don't have. Rather, it's a practice involving "behaviors, thoughts, and actions that can be learned and developed in anyone."
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