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AP PHOTOS: 4 fateful and deadly days in Egypt
Clashes among police, supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi and armed vigilantes have killed more than 800 people in Egypt since Wednesday. A timeline of key events:
Aug. 14 — Riot police backed by armored vehicles and bulldozers clear two sprawling encampments of supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, sparking clashes that kill at least 638 people. The presidency declares a monthlong state of emergency across the nation as Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei resigns in protest over the assaults.
Aug. 15 — The Interior Ministry authorizes police to use deadly force against protesters targeting police and state institutions after Islamists torch government buildings, churches and police stations in retaliation against the crackdown on their encampments.
Aug. 16 — Heavy gunfire rings out throughout Cairo as tens of thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters clash with armed vigilantes in the fiercest street battles to engulf the capital since the country's Arab Spring uprising. The clashes kill 173 people nationwide, including police officers.
Aug. 17 — Security forces raid a mosque in Egypt's capital where protesters supporting the nation's ousted president had been barricaded inside overnight. Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood's political arm announces that the son of its spiritual leader Mohammed Badie had been killed in clashes the day before.
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M'Hamid is a small village in Zagora region of Morocco, 98 km after Zagora, one of the two places in Morocco where Sahara begins (another is Merzouga). M'Hamid gets fewer visitors than Merzouga and is arguably more "authentic." It is about 7-8 hours by car from Marrakech and 5 hours from Ourzazate. It is "The end of the road" (the last point of The route national N°9), after it is only sands of Sahara, shepherds and caravan trails.
M'Hamid is next to the last major oasis one encounters on the way south into the greater Sahara. The area was historically important as the site (Sidi Khalil) where trade caravans gathered (some as large as 5,000 camels) before setting off to Timbuktu and other destinations. Little of its interesting history is to be found on websites or in tourist guide books, but knowledgeable locals share the facts and stories with pride and a touch of melancholy.
M'Hamid is also known as Bounou, once a thriving village made out of a mix of local Ait Atta berbers, Local drawa, and local Hassani tribes. The villages of Oulad Youssef, Oulad Mhaya and Ezouaya, amongst others, are scattered throughout the oasis. Local people get around on foot but small motorbikes are very popular too. Donkey carts are in widespread use for transporting goods.
The environment is harsh and fragile. You are urged to appreciate how scarce water is in the town. In the past taps went dry by early afternoon on many days. Despite this and to the severe frustration of locals, a number of the hotels have swimming pools. Choose wisely where you invest your money... it seems more sensible to head to the Moroccan coast if you are keen for a swim, desert temperatures notwithstanding.
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By car
Around 2005, an asphalt road came to M'Hamid so you can reach the village from Ouarzazate by virtually any car. The trip from Ouarzazate is memorable, passing through small villages, the regional center of Zagora, and over a pass into the open desert.
By bus
You can take a CTM bus from Casablanca, Marrakech, or any city along the N9 road (Ouarzazate, Zagora, Tagounite). From Ouarzazate the trip is something like DH80; from Marrakech it is DH110 (as of 3/2011). CTM leaves from Marrakech around 12:30 and from Ouarzazate at 16:15 and reaches M'hamid anywhere between 21:00-11PM (as of 3/2011). Other bus companies exist, like SupraTours, Voyages Farah, et al.
Get around
M'Hamid is a small town that is easily explored by foot.
There is a mosque in town, but as with the rest of Morocco, is not open to non-muslims. A Kasbah is located about 2Km away on the road out of town (take a left at the mosque). The kasbah is inhabited by black Africans who came from Mali many years ago.
Other than this, the main attraction are the Erg Chigaga dunes which are about 60 km from the town. Overnight trips can be arrainged by many outfitters in M'Hamid.
The main thing people come to M'Hamid for is trips to desert.
Getting out is basically what one does in M'Hamid. Camping in the desert, trekking and expeditions to the high dunes are very popular. You can do them overnight or for several days, by camel, 4x4, motor bike or quad bike.
If you plan to take two activities in desert, consider starting with a less intensive experience and proceeding to a more adventurous.
Camel trips and 4x4
Camel trips and 4x4 are provided by many outlets in the village.
Quad bikes and buggies
Quad Evasion, (5 km before M'Hamid), [12], +212 661 775478 or +212 544 848692. Seemingly the only provider for quad bikes and buggy rental--but is doing that professionally. Quad bikes are one-driver-a-time, while buggies are two-persons-at-once. Serves both 1 or 2 hr trips and multiple-day advanced tours.
Tent rental
Most tourist companies working in town offer tent rental for your own trip to desert.
No rental available in the town, still every week several groups of enthusiasts come to ride bikes in a desert.
Markets on Mondays: vegetables and fruits brought from other regions by camels.
Besides that, nothing special--typical tourist shops selling mediocre carpets and usual stuff.
There are no bars in M'Hamid. It is a very conservative town that strictly observes local laws banning alcohol.
Ensure that you carry sufficient supplies of water if venturing into the desert.
There are numerous begging children in the village, presumably thanks to many tourists arriving directly from the airport to M'Hamid to spend large sums on 4x4 treks.
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David Behrman: Composer as Record Executive
from "Don't Quit Your Day Job"
By Kenneth Goldsmith
© 2000 Originally published in New Music Box / American Music Center
David Behrman | David Soldier | Joan La Barbara | Stephen Vitiello | Morton Subotnick
Among kids today there's a fetishization of old avant-garde vinyl. Just walk into hipster stores like Other Music in downtown New York City: lining the walls of the store are scads of discs with hefty price tags that just a few years ago you couldn't give away. Recently Stockhausen's out-of-print 1966 Hymnen on Deutsche Grammophon was fetching 125 bucks, an outrageous price I thought. I was wrong--two days later the disc was gone. When I reported this to David Behrman, the well-known electronic and computer-based composer, he found this surprising. As a producer of avant-garde vinyl for Columbia in the 1960s, Behrman's discs--which included pianist Jeanne Kirstein playing John Cage, Terry Riley's A Rainbow in Curved Air and In C and the seminal New Sounds in Electronic Music--are all fetching phenomenal sums of money and are much sought-after items among many of the new electronica artists.
Behrman couldn't have foreseen any of this when he started working at Columbia in 1965. He got the job through his dad who was a friend of Columbia Records president and composer Goddard Lieberson, an old-fashioned record exec who seemed to care as much about making good music as he did about making money. Lieberson encouraged an open-minded attitude among his staff and was responsible for a huge discography of adventurous recordings in the 50s and 60s by mainstream modern composers like Webern and Stravinsky.
Behrman, a classically trained musician, started working overnights as a tape editor. His job was to make splices on the master tapes of Columbia's recording sessions including Glenn Gould, Robert Craft's recordings of Stravinsky, and the first recording of Ives Fourth Symphony. By doing this type of work, Behrman sensitized his ear to the delicacies of recording techniques, which would later inform his own compositions and recordings of his work; indeed, to this day Behrman is keenly involved with his recordings and personally oversees the technical end of the sessions to his satisfaction. It was also through this work that Behrman fell in love with the beauty of recorded sound; in those splicing rooms, he was exposed to the best speakers, the best recording devices, the best amplifiers and listening to the fresh master tapes knocked him out.
Behrman reported to John McClure who, at the time, ran Columbia's subsidiary Masterworks label. McClure was as open-minded as Lieberson and saw it as his duty to keep his ear to the ground. In 1967 with the counterculture was in full swing, McClure thought it'd be a good idea to get involved with the avant-garde and experimental side of things. Company philosophy in the mid 60s dictated that if it was once considered wild and crazy, it now had the potential to be a big hit: It was just a matter of going out and finding it. Behrman, who was deeply involved in the New York experimental music scene started to bring in suggestions to McClure who, in turn, began to trust his employee's tastes (Behrman would run downtown on his "lunch hour"--8 to 9 PM--to catch snatches of avant-garde concerts and then dash back uptown to the office to finish his work).
Behrman soon found himself in the position as producer of the Music of Our Time series on Columbia's budget label Odyssey. He not only dreamed up the projects, but arranged for the recordings to happen, even at times commissioning the compositions themselves, e.g. A Rainbow in Curved Air and works on the Extended Voices LP which included Robert Ashley's "She Was A Visitor" as well as music by Alvin Lucier, Morton Feldman, John Cage, Pauline Oliveros and Toshi Ichiyanagi. His only restriction was that things had to be produced cheaply--which usually was not an issue since the works were made downtown on a shoestring anyway. For instance, an electronic music project might simply require buying a tape from a composer.
His first release was New Sounds in Electronic Music which included Pauline Oliveros' "I of IV," Richard Maxfield's "Night Music," and Steve Reich's "Come Out"--one of Reich's first mainstream exposures. It was very well distributed through Columbia's massive network--regardless of what kind of music it was, 2000 copies would go out to stores upon release--and even today, the disc can easily be found at used record shops and flea markets. Over the course of the next three years, Behrman went on to produce 10 of the most adventurous and critically acclaimed American records of the period. Their success is measured by how fresh they sound and how visionary they appear some three and a half decades later.
Almost everything he produced sold between 3000-6000 copies in the first year they were released. Early on in Behrman's career, Columbia was making so much money with acts like Bob Dylan and The Byrds that they didn't keep close tabs on sales figures for the experimental stuff. As a result, Behrman had an incredible amount of freedom to do whatever he wanted regardless of the ultimate sales figures. He was supported by Lieberson, who's attitude was that if a record broke even or made a couple of thousand dollars profit, then it was a success--a far cry from today where, in major label terms, a small success isn't enough. A Rainbow in Curved Air, which sold between 10-12,000 copies the year it was released, was an unexpected cult hit even spawning a namesake rock band, Curved Air.
However, within a few years, things began to unravel both personally and within the company. Behrman felt the inevitable contradiction of being in a position of power to get challenging material out to the record buying public, but was uncomfortable with the choices to be made amongst which of his peers he would select for his projects. In addition, Behrman felt a conflict working for a big company during the Vietnam War era.
Toward the end of Behrman's tenure at Columbia accountants started walking down the corridors with computer printouts of sales, spelling the kiss of death for Behrman's position. With the counterculture now generating huge profits, Columbia's focus moved more toward sales figures and away from adventurous material. As things turned more conservative, Behrman found it increasingly difficult to get projects approved: his pitches for LaMonte Young and Philip Glass discs were rejected (ironically, Columbia went on to release Glass just a few years later when he was a proven quantity). As a result, in 1970, Behrman lost his job and never returned to work in the record industry. But he still recalls the best of the period with pleasure, reminiscing of a short utopian window in time when the ideals of the avant-garde meshed with the concerns of big business.
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|MH-223 Thavius Beck - Decomposition
The sprawling arrangements on Thavius Beck's Mush debut, Decomposition burrow into the listeners brain with a mix of melodic samples, chopped breaks, pulsating synths, and head-swirling delay, then morph into genre-bending sound paintings adorned with hallucinogenic vocal samples. Four vocal tracks, "Open Your F*@!ing Eyes" (featuring vocals by Thavius Beck himself), "June Gloom" (vocals by Subtitle), "Amongst the Shadows" (vocals by Cedric Bixler-Zavala of Mars Volta), and "Demons of Destruction" (vocals by Longevity of Darkleaf) find homes among instrumental tracks that are as densely layered and expertly crafted as is found in modern electronic music. Decomposition is a work worthy of extended headphone listening.
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|The sprawling arrangements on Thavius Beck's Mush debut burrow into the brain with a mix of melodic samples, chopped breaks, pulsating synths and head swirling delay, and then morph into genre-bending sound paintings adorned with hallucinogenic vocal samples. Four full vocal tracks one featuring Thavius himself, one with GSL artist Subtitle, one with Cedric Bixler of Mars Volta, and one with Longevity from Darkleaf. The rest of the album is a collection of densely layered and well crafted electronic instrumental music. - Piccadilly


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At a news conference in 2009, Mayor Richard Daley battled with his inner Mayor Chucky.
That's the terrifying mayoral persona that often reveals itself when he's angry. Daley's hair perspires and curls up in frightful wings over his ears. His face gets red, and the jaw juts forward, just like the evil Chucky doll in the movies.
But Daley won this time.
"I don't get mad," Daley told reporters. "Don't say I'm mad or I'm upset. You'll say that in your articles. I know you will. Are there any other questions? You do that, you know. You want to get the mayor impatient and mad and face like John (Kass), all red up."
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He knows my face isn't red. It's olive. I'm Greek. But I started to blush.
And he kept mentioning me:
"John, my statement speaks for itself. I'm glad you finally showed up to one of my press conferences."
And "I've answered a lot of questions, John. This is the first press conference you've attended in a couple years."
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Elkhart, Ind.-based Lippert Components Inc. (LCI) announced that it is partnering with Ashley Furniture Industries Inc. to provide customers with top-quality designer furniture for RVs.
"Ashley Furniture is one of the largest furniture manufacturers in the country. By offering this line to our customers, we are giving them a widely-recognized consumer brand that will add value to every RV they manufacture," said Vice President of Lippert Interiors Ryan Smith in a press release.
LCI will offer a full line of Ashley sofas, sectionals, theater seating and recliners to the RV industry. The relationship between LCI and Ashley allows LCI to provide customers with extensive furniture options to choose from and allows Ashley Furniture to expand into a new market.
Smith noted the arrangement with Ashley Furniture is another example of LCI's commitment to offering the best products to fit the customers' needs. "We believe that offering the Ashley Furniture line, along with our other quality furniture lines, provides our customers access to the broadest furniture product line in the industry," he said.


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RICHMOND — This marks the first season since 1985 that VCU has cracked the Associated Press' national college basketball poll. The Rams are ranked 19th this week and own Division I's second-longest winning streak at 13 games, three behind Kansas.
But if recent history is an accurate barometer, complacency won't be an issue for coach Shaka Smart's program.
The bane of any competitive group, satisfaction didn't linger after VCU's stirring run to the 2011 Final Four. And the Rams appear to have responded similarly to last season's NCAA tournament success — they defeated Wichita State before losing to Indiana — and this year's accolades.
In short, VCU continues to play at a frantic, inspired and withering pace that often exacts a toll on opponents that can not match the Rams' depth or conditioning.
"Our plan is, over the course of a 40-minute game, to wear the other team down, to get to their legs," Smart said Tuesday at the Siegel Center. "Hopefully we practice that way more than they do. … Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. …
"(Depth) is extremely critical. I wish we had more depth than we had. Not to look into the future, but I think next year we should have a deeper team than we have now. … We … love to play 10, 11 guys, and some teams play only six or seven. Again, over the course of a 40-minute game, that's got to work to your advantage, if you get the game going fast."
Few teams have slowed the Rams (16-3, 4-0 A-10). They have failed to score 70 points only four times, and not coincidentally, they are 1-3 in those contests, falling to Wichita State, Duke and Missouri, and surviving Lehigh.
As throughout Smart's four seasons, VCU creates tempo with baseline-to-baseline defense that attempts to contest every dribble, pass and shot. The Rams led the nation in steals and turnover margin last season and lead both categories this year — they average 12.9 steals with a turnover margin of plus-8.9.
Briante Weber ranks second nationally in steals at 3.4 per game despite averaging a modest 22.2 minutes. He's among 10 Rams averaging at least 9.5 minutes, and he's not a full-time starter.
VCU's depth and balance extend to its offense. Treveon Graham averages 16.2 points to lead four double-figure scorers. Three others average between 5.8 and 6.6 points.
Most important, the Rams are shooting 45.8 percent, 60th nationally. Last season, they ranked 279th at 41.0 percent.
"I give all the credit to Coach Smart on that," senior guard Troy Daniels said of players avoiding the rear-view mirror and relishing the past. "He keeps us focused on winning games. … When we blew a team out by 20 or 30, Coach Smart came in the locker room like we lost."
Daniels couldn't recall the particular game — the Rams housed Western Kentucky, Longwood and Fairleigh Dickinson in late December — but understands the psychology.
Meanwhile, Smart appreciates this team's methodical approach, which he said contrasts sharply from the Final Four squad led by Joey Rodriguez and Brandon Rozzell.
"Joey was really big on these rivalries," Smart said when asked about Thursday's game at neighboring Richmond. "Brandon, those guys would get caught up in the drama, the buzz. Our guys are pretty business-like. 'This is our next game. Richmond's got a good team, this is what we need to do.'"
The Rams dusted the Spiders by 21 last season at the Siegel Center, but in 2011 at the Robins Center, Richmond led by as many as 30 before winning by 12.
The Spiders (12-7, 2-2) are coming off arguably their best performance this season, an 81-61 victory over Charlotte in which Darien Brothers scored 39 points and made eight 3-pointers.
Saint Joseph's is the only team to score more than 70 against VCU, but defense, depth and clutch baskets by Daniels and Darius Theus late in regulation allowed the Rams to escape 92-86 in overtime.
That game, last Thursday, was compelling television and showed why VCU's style, even on sub-par nights, will be difficult to counter come postseason.
Smart called the Hawks' 80 points in regulation "unacceptable," but such lapses from his team have been rare.
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Popular people are the trendsetters of society, especially when it comes to the next flu outbreak, according to preliminary research from Harvard University.
During last fall's H1N1 pandemic, researchers tracked and compared the spread of the disease in a random sample of students and a group of more socially dominant students at the university.
While both groups ended up coming down with the flu in similar numbers, the more "popular" group of students got sick about two weeks ahead of their less socially-connected peers, making them a potentially useful gauge of when and to what extent a flu outbreak will occur in that population.
Because individuals who are more connected within their social network are more likely to come into contact with any given individual in that network, the logic goes that these social butterflies are also more likely to be the first to catch whatever communicable bug is going around.
"People who are very active socially and spend time with other people will have a higher risk of contagion. It's kind of intuitive," says Dr. Christopher Ohl, associate professor of Infectious Diseases, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.
"Here we are focused on early detection. Think back to last fall and we had to make hard choices about who had to get vaccinated first. If you could have these "friend" sensors and know which part of the country were getting the flu earlier, it would give you more time to get vaccines there," says co-author James Fowler, a professor specializing in social networks at the University of California, San Diego.
While tracking high-risk individuals in a population in order to gauge the spread of the disease is not a new concept, public health experts say Fowler's approach is novel, and potentially useful.
"There is a tradition of defining sentinel populations for public health -- 'canaries in the coal mine' based on risk factors," says Stephen Eubank, professor of Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech. This research applies this practice to theories about how to identify people who are socially central in a population, he says.
Charting Social Dominance, Following the Flu
To identify the students who were at the center of the student body social network, researchers played off of something called the friend paradox.
Researchers asked a random sample of students to name a few of their friends and then enlisted as many of these friends as possible into the study as members of the "friend" group. Any person in the "random sample" group who was named by another as a friend was bumped into the "friend" group.
"It's an old idea in social network analysis: if you randomly chose someone in the population and asked them how many friends they have and then talked to one of their friends. That friend, on average, will have more friends than the original person you asked. In short, your friends have more friends than you do," Fowler says.
Researchers also performed traditional mapping of social dominance of the sample and verified that the "friend" group represented the more socially central students.
The two groups were monitored for symptoms of flu both by bi-weekly self report and visits made to the university health services. About 8 percent of the total sample was diagnosed with the flu by health services and 32 percent were displaying flu-like symptoms based on self-report. The only difference between the two groups was that the "friends" group began getting the flu and had a peak of flu incidence 13.9 days before the others.
"The whole epidemic curve is shifted forward in time by two weeks. This group is like looking into a crystal ball," Fowler says.
This is the first time this "friend sensor" method for predicting disease spread has been tested in this way, but Fowler and co-author Nicholas Christakis, of Harvard Medical School, feel that the tool has the potential to be applied nationally during epidemics or for charting changes in non-biological factors such as drug and alcohol use or obesity.
From Harvard to the World at Large?
The two biggest limitations of this study are its novelty and its study population. Because it is the first study of its kind, it's too early to know whether the robust results seen would be true in other cases of disease or behavior contagion.
The fact that subjects are students who are part of a particularly socially integrated environment -- the college campus, also calls into question how applicable this approach would be in the population at large who does not, for example, share a dining hall.
The same method that works on a social college campus most likely will not apply to a larger population, says Dr. Pascal James Imperato, dean and distinguished service professor at the SUNY Downstate School of Public Health.
"In a large city center, for instance, your population could be defined by the use of public transportation, and that setting could provide greater exposure to disease than kids on the Harvard campus interacting with a set friend group," he says.
The hypochondriac effect may have also exaggerated how predictive the friend group was, says Ed Hsu, associate professor of Public Health Informatics at the University of Texas. Those in the friend group are more likely to know someone who has the flu and hence may be more likely to think (and report) that they are coming down with it themselves.
Given its limitations, could there be a place for this friend metric in public health monitoring?
Experts were divided, but many thought it might have special applications in smaller social networks.
Given public health departments already monitor high risk groups, such as school children and health care workers as a means of predicting outbreaks, Imperato says that using the friend metric for tracking flu in the general population would be redundant.
Ohl agrees, but notes that for emerging infections or more unusual or behavioral (such as drug use) outbreaks, the "friend sensor" could provide a valuable tracking tool.


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NASCAR sucking the air out of the room.
I've heard about it.
The part about Danica Patrick in NASCAR hasn't come true. She signed in July with Andretti Green Racing for 2007.
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To hear the reporter or her interview with Jeff Burton, NASCAR is boldly going where no race series has gone before [using unleaded fuel instead of leaded fuel], is so environmentally sensitive as to make the Sierra Club and Greenpeace look like fronts for the "wise use" movement.
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By JIM PEDLEY
The Kansas City Star
In January 2005, NASCAR made one of those announcements that elicits more yawns than headlines.
Then came last week's racing at California Speedway. And suddenly, the topic of using unleaded fuel in NASCAR vehicles was burying the needle on the buzz-o-meter.
This week, in the wake of a California Nextel Cup race that featured a high number of blown engines, NASCAR observers are wondering about the effect of unleaded gasoline on the situation.
NASCAR has traditionally been exempt from provisions of the Clean Air Act of 1970, which mandated use of unleaded fuel in automobiles. But that didn't mean NASCAR was comfortable with its use of leaded gas.
Over the years, NASCAR began testing alternative racing fuels, but none were deemed usable. In 2004, NASCAR began testing an unleaded formula from Sunoco.
In January 2005, NASCAR announced the fuel showed promise and would be used beginning with the 2008 season. A year and a half later, officials said the schedule for using unleaded fuel had been accelerated.
The fuel was first used in a Busch series race last July at Gateway International Raceway near St. Louis. A couple of other Busch and Craftsman Truck series events featured the use of unleaded last year.
NASCAR took the data gathered from those races and studied it. Afterward, officials announced that unleaded fuel would be put into use full time beginning with last weekend's races at California.
In the days leading up to the race, several engine-builders talked about the potential effects of unleaded fuel on engines - and on racing.
Doug Yates, one of the most respected engine-builders in the garages, said the concern was lubrication. Leaded fuel, he said, has lubricating properties that unleaded does not.
"What we have problems with is valves and valve seats, and we've been through a very intense process of trying to find the right coatings to protect the valves from wear," Yates said. "That's one of the issues that we have, and hopefully have done our homework and we won't have any problems with those."
During the race, five cars retired because of what were listed as engine problems: one Ford, one Dodge, one Toyota and two Chevrolets.
The precise cause of the failures will not be known until the engines are taken apart and analyzed.
But Ken Schrader, who drives a Yates' powered Ford for the Wood Brothers, said: "That's very unusual for a Roush-Yates motor. They're good, dependable engines. It could be a little bit of that (unleaded fuel)."
Jack Roush, owner of Roush Fenway Racing - whose driver, Matt Kenseth, won Sunday's Auto Club 500 - went out of his way to praise the unleaded fuel after the race.
"I want to compliment Sunoco for this environmentally friendly, lead-free fuel that caused us no problem," Roush said. "We went through testing, practice and qualifying and we looked at the valve seats and inspected the engines carefully. We didn't have an issue with valve-seat recession or anything else that was a concern. From what I can see, the people that had trouble, it didn't relate to the fuel. The fuel gave us good fuel mileage and it performed admirably."
The topic of using even cleaner fuels arises in NASCAR from time to time. For example, ethanol, which is being used in the Indy Racing League.
More problems would probably ensue for the big V-8 pushrod engines in NASCAR vehicles - and would have to be solved.
But, Yates said, NASCAR engineers probably would be quite capable of solving associated problems.
"The environmentally conscious side of me," Yates said, "says that we need to be more proactive on all of these fronts, and everything takes time, but if we plan it and do our homework, we need to be leaders, not followers, in the fuel category."
"Right now our whole country is in a bit of a crisis. What the people in the stands see, they go out and usually follow suit, so if we could be leaders in that way, I would be proud to be part of that."
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So … what happened at the March for Marriage last week?
If you know, you must have been there because the various news media enforced a near-total blackout on the event.
Let's think about that for a moment.
Gay marriage is what you might call a "big" story. The Supreme Court was hearing two cases that have the potential to upend 2,000 years of teaching, law and culture concerning the fundamental unit on which all of Western civilization is built. That makes it an important story. Public conversation about this issue is focused and combative. That makes it a ratings grabber. The March for Marriage was the "other" side of the argument finally getting its act together and stepping up to public protest, which made it a man bites dog story, providing a new twist to a story that had already been done to death. That makes it interesting.
So. We have a story that gives a new angle to an important topic, that draws widespread public interest at a time when public interest is already focused on the issue. Sounds like a win-win-win for the media. All they had to do was cover it.
Which they did not.
I repeat: What happened at the March for Marriage last week? I would not be surprised if most of the coverage of that event that you saw was right here on Public Catholic and other Christian blogs and web sites. You may have, as I did, had to go to the Facebook page sponsored by the March for Marriage organizers to get any news of the event.
This was the news story that wasn't. Because the media is promoting gay marriage. They are hard-selling it. And this march ran counter to their true objectives, which appear to be not so much to inform the public as to propagandize the public.
There are a number of reasons why public support for gay marriage appears to be reaching a tipping point in favor of it. The continuous, completely biased and often inaccurate media propaganda in favor of it is one of them.
From The World Tribune:
By Cliff Kincaid
Significant news came out of last Tuesday's March for Marriage demonstration in Washington, D.C. But it didn't make "news" in the major media.
As one who covered the event, it was significant that there were so many members of minority groups. This was not a mostly white crowd. In addition to the presence of black, Hispanic and Asian supporters of traditional marriage, there were some notable Democrats, such as New York State Senator Ruben Díaz, and he let people know he was several minorities in one.
"I'm Puerto Rican," he said. "I'm black, with kinky hair. I am a Democrat and I am a senator. I'm against abortion. I'm against same-sex marriage, and I won the last election with 89 percent of the vote."
J.C. Derrick of World magazine has a good analysis of how the major media, led by The Washington Post, virtually ignored the March for Marriage. But unless you actually see what happened on the ground, as the thousands of traditional marriage supporters held their demonstration, you would miss the true significance of how dishonest the media's coverage of this issue has become …
… The video excerpts are interesting, in that a self-proclaimed homosexual man, Doug Mainwaring, co-founder of the National Capital Tea Party Patriots, was also shown opposing homosexual marriage …
… His speech at the March for Marriage included the admonition that the Supreme Court should "ignore the media's relentless, manufactured urgency to institute same-sex marriage."
That media campaign, as we revealed in a recent column, includes the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA), funded by all of the major news organizations. Natalie Morales of NBC's Today Show was the host of the March 21 New York fundraiser for the group …
… But the omissions and distortions don't end there. On the NBC Nightly News on Tuesday night, host Brian Williams claimed that a majority of Americans now support homosexual marriage. But the Reuters Corporation recently released the results of a huge poll finding only 41 percent of America supports it.
The company tried to mask the results by highlighting majority support for benefits for "same-sex couples." But the story about the poll notes in the fourth paragraph that only 41 percent of people say same-sex couples should be permitted to marry …
… Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council commented, "If 41% was all the support Reuters could scrounge up for same-sex 'marriage,' then you know they exhausted every avenue trying to push that number higher — and couldn't."
NBC News correspondent Kristen Dahlgren did a story on Tuesday's Brian Williams newscast on "TV's impact on the gay marriage debate" which totally ignored the role of NBC News, which like CBS News and Fox News, funds one side of the debate — the NLGJA. (Read more here.)
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Shopping for Portable External Hard Drives: What to Consider & 10 Under $100
External hard drives have become incredibly affordable and arguably necessary peripherals, offering an easy option for both backup and storage extension, especially for bulging photo collections and music libraries. Filtering through all those options can be difficult, so we've created a short buyer's checklist for choosing the latest in external hard drive storage, alongside model options to supplement your desktop or laptop all for under $100.
Things to consider when choosing an external hard drive:
1. Size & Use: Most external hard drives on the market today are tiny and light - some are literally smaller than your wallet. Size probably won't be a big concern, but consider whether you'll be keeping a model deskside or throwing it into a laptop bag regularly.
2. Capacity: You do want to consider what you'll be storing on your drive and how much space you need. Smaller portable hard drives generally range from 500 gigabytes up to several terabytes (1000GB = 1TB). 1 terabyte would equal 1 million photos (at 1 MB each), 250,000 songs, or 300 hours of high-quality video. Portable drives under $100 fall normally between 500GB-1TB, but occasionally sales will bring 2TB models under the mark (as noted below).
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A great night for New London, not for McMahon
I think Linda McMahon might have done better at Monday night's Senate debate with Chris Murphy if she had simply taken out a cigarette lighter and set hundred-dollar bills on fire.
At least that's how I have seen McMahon's performance in the last three debates of the race; there goes a lot more of the McMahon fortune down the drain.
She lost all three.
I used to think McMahon, who, after all, made a fortune creating fake television characters, was a natural at the political debate game, poised, smiling and even-tempered.
She held her own against popular Richard Blumenthal in the 2010 Connecticut Senate race and she gained the upper hand early in her primary campaign debates this year against former Rep. Christopher Shays, letting his increasingly shrill attacks roll right off her back.
She was sweet grandma to Shays' big bad career politician.
But from the outset of her first debate against Murphy, grandma's mask noticeably slipped as her opponent relentlessly belittled her as a rich CEO who denied medical payments to employees, outsourced jobs overseas and wants to go to Washington primarily to enact a plan that would save herself $7 million in taxes.
In all three debates, Murphy very successfully wrapped McMahon in Republican paper, saying she will advance GOP agendas in all kinds of ways that would be unpopular in blue Connecticut, from deficit-growing tax cuts for the wealthy to denying women abortion and contraception access.
When he said she would empower a Tea Party Senate, he tied the whole McMahon campaign up in a big GOP ribbon. He said her coddling of rich taxpayers wouldn't trickle down.
"Linda McMahon will go to Washington to toe the Republican party line," Murphy said.
McMahon responded that she is an independent thinker, but try as she might she couldn't untie that ribbon.
McMahon put in a smarter performance in New London Monday than in the first two debates. But she seemed surprisingly unprepared for many of the same policy attacks Murphy has gotten good at.
She is also not good at personally delivering the character attacks against Murphy that have been the centerpiece of her expensive, television-centric campaign, crafted by professional political bullies.
I used to think Vince McMahon, co-founder with his wife Linda of the WWE wrestling empire, was the brawn behind the operation and Linda was the brains.
I am not so sure now, after watching Linda McMahon fumble through so much of her three debates with Murphy, answering robotically with canned answers and often not even using her allotted time.
No matter which candidate you liked, Monday was a great night for politics in New London.
I doubt there has been as big and noisy a political rally in the city in a generation. The last time I saw such a big and engaged crowd at the Garde Arts Center was to hear Bob Dylan sing.
And despite the hecklers on both sides in the audience, Monday's debate proved to be a great airing of a lot of issues, highlighting the clear and distinct choice that Connecticut voters face next month, a choice that could help shape national policy for a generation.
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I never expected to celebrate my 70th birthday in America. My
tastes and traditions have always been bound, up with English country
life and I have always avoided living in cities, nevertheless when I was
so unexpectedly invited to Harvard I never felt the least doubt or hesitation
in accepting the invitation. All my life for 50 years I have been writing
on one subject and for one cause - the cause of Christendom and the study
of Christian culture. When I began, it was in the days of Charles Peguy
and Belloc and Chesterton and my eyes were fixed on Europe and the European
tradition. But today I have come to feel that it is in this country that
the fate of Christendom will be decided. For on the one hand, the United
States has been the creator and inventor of the technological mass culture
that is transforming the world; and on the other, America has a young and
vigorous Catholic tradition which has grown up with the new urban culture,
especially here on the Atlantic coast, and which has refused to be swamped
by the secularism that seems inseparable from modern mass civilization.
Although American Catholics are a minority, they are such a large
minority and such a well organized one, that they are strong enough to
transform American culture and change the course of world history, if only
they were aware of their opportunity and capable if using it. In the past
they have not made much impression on the Protestant and secular character
of American culture. And that was not surprising, since American Catholicism
started in the 19th century without any strong cultural tradition of its own.
It had to contend for the bare rights of existence. Now all this is changed.
Catholics have an opportunity of taking a full share in the intellectual and
cultural life of the nation. And you have your own educational system which
is almost the only complete system of religious education that exists in
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Easy Homemade Profiteroles Recipe
This recipe is for the homemade profiteroles filled with fresh whipping cream and drizzled with chocolate sauce. They are really very east to prepare even though they look like a complicated dessert.
(Makes about 20-24 small profiteroles)
1 cup water
6 Tablespoons butter
pinch salt
1 teaspoon granulated sugar
1 cup all purpose flour
4 eggs
Whipping Cream:
1 cup heavy cream
1 Tablespoon confectioners' sugar
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Chocolate Sauce:
Makes approx. 1 1/2 cups chocolate sauce
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 Tablespoons all purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/4 cups milk
2 Tablespoons butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, or more to taste
pinch of salt
Preheat the oven to 425F.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
Put the water, butter, salt, and sugar in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Stir to combine. Shut off the heat.
Stir in the flour and mix in until it all comes together.
Reheat and beat vigorously until all the batter is off the sides of the pan. The dough will lump together and there will be a film at the bottom of the saucepan.
Transfer the mixture to a mixing bowl and using an electric mixer on low-medium beat the batter to break it up.
Beat in the eggs one at at time and keep mixing until the batter comes back together.
Transfer the batter to a piping bag.
Pipe 20-24 drops onto the prepared baking sheet.
Place into the preheated oven and bake for 15-20 minutes until the profiteroles are puffed up and golden brown.
Remove and place onto a cooling rack. Let sit a few minutes then slice off the top with a sharp knife.
Whipping Cream:
Chill a mixing bowl and the beater in the freezer for 15 minutes.
Using the chilled bowl, pour in the heavy cream and beat with an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Add the confectioners' sugar and vanilla and beat until firm peaks form.
Chocolate Sauce:
Stir the sugar, flour and cocoa powder together in a bowl. Use a whisk and make sure there is no lumps.
In a small saucepan heat the milk and butter over medium heat, stirring gently until the butter melts. Stir in the vanilla.
Use a whisk to mix the dry ingredients into the hot milk mixture. Increase the heat to medium high and bring to a simmer. Cook for about 6 minutes, stirring constantly. Turn off the heat, stir in the pinch or salt. Shut off the heat.
You can use this as a hot chocolate sauce or transfer to a container with a lid, refrigerate and use as needed.
To Serve:
Pipe fresh whipping cream into each one, put the top on and drizzle chocolate sauce on top.


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As said, this is a world not travelled for me, so please bear with me, and feel free to give me a proper beating if I get anything wrong. HP has made available a few of its Reverse Polish Notation calculators for the iPhone and Windows. The iPhone gets the 12c financial calculator and the 15c scientific calculator, while Windows gets the HP 35s scientific calculator, the 12c Platinum financial calculator, and the 20b business-consultant calculator.
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They're not exactly what you'd call cheap; the 12c comes in at USD 14.99, while the 15c goes for USD 29.99. It is important to note, though, that "real" versions of these calculators are a lot more expensive (some still get made). Since these software variants are a lot cheaper to make, this is a clever move by HP. The Windows versions work with the touchscreen PCs HP puts out, making it all a little bit more realistic.
I love the attention to detail HP has put into these applications, and I'm sure many geeks with fond memories of these calculators will appreciate that HP is making them available software-wise.


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The July 1 crop report shows Georgia's wheat yield was down from the June 1, forecast, according to the state's agricultural statistics service. Based on a sample of growers contacted on or about July 1, wheat averaged 45 bushels per acre, down two bushels from the June 1 forecast.
The dry winter and spring months had a more adverse effect on the crop than earlier thought. Acreage harvested for grain is estimated at 130,000 acres, 10,000 acres below last year. Production now is expected to total 5.85 million bushels, 20 percent less than in 2005. Harvest was nearing completion by the end of June.
The July 1 survey indicated Georgia's 2006 tobacco yield will be above last year's yield. This initial forecast puts Georgia's average yield at 2,100 pounds per acre, 365 pounds more than in 2005. Tomato spotted wilt virus has been a problem, but it somewhat eased toward the end of June. At the end of June the crop was considered in fair to good condition.
Acres are up this year, with harvested acreage expected to total 18,000 acres, up 13 percent or 2,000 acres from 2005. If these projections are realized, production will amount to 37.8 million pounds, 36 percent more than in 2005.
The second forecast for Georgia's 2006 peach production is down. Hot and dry conditions during June reduced potential production and fruit size. The dry weather, however, has produced an excellent quality peach.
Production is now expected to total 42,000 tons, down 8,000 tons from the June forecast but 2,000 tons more than in 2005. Harvest of this late maturing crop continues more than a week behind normal. The crop was considered to be in fair to good condition. By the end of June, just over a third of the crop had been harvested, which is behind normal.


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NBC Sports Group will broadcast three soccer games this weekend with MLS coverage Friday and Sunday on NBC Sports Network, and the women's gold medal USA team in a friendly against Costa Rica from Sahlen's Stadium in Rochester on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. on NBC. MLS action starts Friday when the Portland Timbers host the Colorado Rapids live from Jeld-Wen Field in Portland at 10:30 p.m., and continues on Sunday when the San Jose Earthquakes host Chivas USA at 9 p.m.
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Chances seem to be dwindling for a deal in time to avert deep, automatic government spending cuts from beginning on March 1. The Republican-controlled House remains at loggerheads with the Democratic-led Senate and President Barack Obama over key issues.
With no top-level talks under way and Congress off until next Monday, each side is blaming the other.
The so-called sequester cuts "won't help the economy, won't create jobs, will visit hardship on a whole lot of people," Obama said Tuesday. "Congress didn't come together, do their jobs. And so as a consequence we've got these automatic, brutal spending cuts that are poised to happen next Friday."
Obama wants both more tax revenues and spending cuts.
Congressional Republicans oppose further tax hikes. "Just last month, the president got his higher taxes on the wealthy and he's already back for more," says Republican House Speaker John Boehner.
The scheduled cuts would trim roughly $85 billion from military and domestic spending in this budget year. Spending on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and other "entitlement" programs would be spared.
One reason there's little progress toward a deal is that there's yet another deadline ahead -- March 27, when a temporary budget agreement expires and Congress must scramble to find funds to run the entire government.
During those negotiations next month, the most damaging automatic sequester cuts could be repealed or softened, the thinking goes. That effectively buys more time. And lawmakers seldom miss chances to put things off.
Meanwhile, deficit hawks Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles are offering a new deficit-reduction plan they see as a possible compromise for Democrats and Republicans.
It combines rewriting the tax code -- to eliminate many deductions -- with deep spending cuts for some $2.4 trillion in deficit-reduction over 10 years.
Of the current impasse, "everybody's at fault," says Simpson, a Republican.
"Not only do we not have a long-range plan, we don't even have a budget," says Democrat Bowles. "We're operating this country on a month-to-month basis."
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It's crunch time, people. There are only a few days left before Halloween, and if you're reading this, you're probably still in need of a costume. But don't fret! These 35 ideas are totally doable at home, and all you'll need is a lot of confidence and a little DIY spirit.
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Pig and beef carcase classification: if you don't comply
What happens if an inspector finds you're breaking regulations on grading pig carcases or classifying beef carcases.
If a licensed abattoir doesn't comply with the Beef and Pig Carcase Classification (England) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/1090) (as amended) or the Beef and Pig Carcase Classification (Wales) Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/1826 (W. 198)), the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) can take a range of actions.
Types of enforcement action
RPA can take 4 levels of action:
- deficiency notices - these are informal warnings giving you time to resolve the problem; you will get a verbal warning at the same time and sometimes a letter as well
- enforcement notices - these are issued where the inspector finds the problem hasn't been resolved when they visit again; the notice states the offence the inspector believes you are committing and specifies the measures you must take within a specific time; it also informs you of your right to appeal
- penalty notices - these are issued if you don't comply with an enforcement notice; a penalty notice imposes a fine and gives you 28 days to pay
- criminal prosecution - if you don't pay the fine imposed in the penalty notice; you can also be prosecuted if you fail to comply with an enforcement notice
If a high proportion of the carcases inspected are involved, or if you've committed an offence before, RPA can issue an enforcement notice without giving a deficiency notice first. The same goes for serious offences relating to a failure to notify, licences, and records and marks.
If you've committed 2 or more offences before, RPA can issue a penalty notice or initiate a prosecution straight away.
If an inspector finds more than 1 problem on a visit, RPA will consider each one separately. This means you could receive more than 1 notice after an inspection.
If RPA prosecutes you, and you're convicted of an offence relating to marking or labelling carcases in a way that is likely to mislead, there is no limit to the fine the court can give you. Other offences carry potential fines of up to £5,000.
How to appeal
The only type of action you can appeal against is an enforcement notice. There are two ways to do this:
- email or write to the Meat Technical Schemes team at RPA as soon as possible, enclosing any evidence that was not available during the inspection
- make a complaint to a magistrates court, which can make an order revoking the notice
You have 1 month from the date of the enforcement notice to make a complaint to a magistrates court.
More information
The RPAprovides further information on what RPA does when abattoirs breach the rules.
Email: email@example.com
Telephone: 03300 416508
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DHAKA, Bangladesh, May 30 (UPI) -- Bangladesh received it first decommissioned Hamilton class cutter from the U.S. Coast Guard at a ceremony on Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif.
The Coast Guard transferred the 3,300-ton cutter, formerly the USCGC Jarvis, to a 20-member team from the Bangladeshi navy.
The Jarvis -- decommissioned in October and renamed BNS Somudro Joy -- was sold to Bangladesh as an excess defense article through a foreign military sales program, the Bangladeshi news website bdnews24.com reported.
At the ceremony were U.S. Coast Guard Vice Adm. Paul F. Zukunft, Cmdr. Coast Guard Pacific Area and Chief of Naval Staff for the Bangladeshi navy Vice Adm. Muhammad Farid Habib, a report by the Bangladesh military website bdmilitary.com said.
The ship's commanding officer Capt. Mohammad Nazmul Karim arrived in Alameda in March to begin preparations to accept the Jarvis. Another 70 crew members arrived this month.
Around 26 former Jarvis crew members will advise the Bangladeshi crew until Somudro Joy sails for Bangladesh this year.
The 378-foot Somudro Joy, which has a helicopter landing deck and hangar, is powered by two Pratt and Whitney gas turbines and two Fairbanks-Morse diesel engines.
The Bangladeshi navy said the guided missile frigate, now the largest vessel in the fleet, will receive a further refit and upgrades after arriving in Bangladesh, bdmilitary.com reported.
Planned upgrades include boosting the vessel's combat capability with more AShM and SAM launchers.
The Jarvis was built by Avondale Shipyards and commissioned in 1972 and will be replaced by Legend class National Security Cutters for the U.S. Coast Guard.
The Somudro Joy joins the BNS Bangabandhu guided missile frigate built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering in the South Korea and commissioned in 2001.
In January, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina commissioned the BNS Padma, the first Bangladeshi-built warship, at the Titumir Naval Base, near Khunla, around 90 miles south of Dhaka.
The 160-foot frigate cost around $7.4 million and has four 37mm and two 20mm cannons, the Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha news agency reported.
At the commissioning, Hasina said the navies of China, India and Myanmar are becoming more active in the Bay of Bengal and Bangladesh needs the Padma to protect its coastal waters.
Hasina also said the country is on target to purchase two submarines but didn't say where the vessels would come from.
Activities are going on to purchase two submarines from a friendly country," she told Parliament while replying to a written question on her government's efforts to modernize the navy, army and air force.


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OnAir Solution GT USB HDTV Receiver/Recorder Review
I was excited when I received the OnAir Solution GT because there have been times I wish I could have recorded a TV show digitally and watched it on my laptop while traveling for business. Sure, there are so many TIVOs out there and your cable company has DVRs, so you may be thinking why would you need this, right? Can you transfer those recording to your PC and is it in Hi-Def? That is the biggest gripe I have with DVRs, that you cannot watch your recordings on the PC or portable devices right after you record it.
Enter the OnAir Solution GT USB HDTV Receiver and Recorder. Wow, what a mouthful for such a compact device. So what is the OnAir Solution GT, you ask? It is a small box that connects to either an antenna source or a coaxial connection to bring TV to your computer. With the OnAir GT you can not only watch TV on your PC, but you can record it, and all in High Definition.
Closer Look:
The OnAir Solution GT HDTV Receiver comes packaged nicely in the box. The front of the box shows the receiver with a person watching TV on their computer. Also on the front are some of the specs of the OnAir GT. Looking over at the back shows some of the features, a quick setup guide and information about the bundled software included with the GT.
Flip open the front of the box and it reveals what you really want. Included with the OnAir GT are the manuals, software CD, carrying case for the GT, antenna, remote control and batteries, USB 2.0 cable, and S-video/component cable.


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December 6, 2018
Thursday, 9 am-noon
Audience: Groups, Adults, High School Students, Middle School Students, Families, Seniors, Educators, Volunteers, Elementary School Students
Location: China Beach, Baker Beach, Presidio of San Francisco, Crissy Field
Event Type: Volunteer
Help with vegetation management and site improvements throughout the San Francisco shoreline of the Golden Gate National Parks. Projects include litter removal, weeding plants, vegetation pruning, painting, and historic site improvements. Help keep these popular public destinations well maintained for both local and worldwide visitors to use and enjoy.
Volunteer programs take place on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 9am - noon.
Individuals and Families
Registration required for participation, but individuals are welcome to register up to the day before the event
Check the Golden Gate Maintenance volunteer homepage for program updates and cancellations.
Groups of five or more may require special arrangements and must be confirmed in advance. Fill out the Group Project Request Form or visit our Groups volunteer page to learn more.
Age, Skills, What to Bring:
- Volunteers ages 10 and up are welcome. Read our Youth Policy Guidelines (PDF) for youth under the age of 15.
- Bring your completed Volunteer Agreement Form (PDF). Volunteers under the age of 18 must have the parent/guardian approval section signed.
- We'll be working rain or shine. Wear clothes that can get dirty. Long pants and closed-toe shoes are required. Bring layers for changing weather and rain gear if necessary.
- Bring a personal water bottle and sunscreen.
- No experience necessary. Training and tools will be provided. Fulfills community service requirements.
Meeting Location
Meeting location varies. View the GOGA Maintenance workday schedule (PDF) for details
Contact Information
For general questions regarding volunteer programs, contact us at (415) 561-3044 or email@example.com.
You can also view the Volunteer FAQ page for more information.
The Golden Gate National Parks Volunteer Program is a cooperative parkwide effort of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, the National Park Service, and the Presidio Trust.