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Moms...Weekly Weight Update
What? Wasn't it last Sunday that we celebrated Mother's Day? Well of course it was but how was I supposed to share pictures from Mother's Day before celebrating Mother's Day? It was impossible that is why we get to chat about Mother's Day and mothers a week late, so settle down, Skippy.
I love moms! How could I not? If it wasn't for moms I wouldn't be here (neither would you) and I wouldn't be a dad. I'm lucky that I got to celebrate Mother's Day with the two greatest moms that have ever graced this planet, my mom Sue ("Mom") and my wife Alison ("Rizzo").
I wouldn't be anywhere in this world if it wasn't for the great lady I get to call Mom. She taught me the importance of putting family first. I remember her going off to work at JoAnn Fabrics in the evenings to help pay for my sister to go to college. Even with that she still made time to put a good meal on the table every night. She taught me a great sense of humor. Who else would walk around the house mockingly singing "I am smelling like a rose because I'm dead a bloated" to an angsty 15-year-old kid? She taught me my varied love of movies and musicals. I'm sure there aren't many 36-year-old guys (or girls for that matter) that own the Paint Your Wagon soundtrack but I do all because my Mom and I share the love of that movie (we also love Planet of the Apes, the good one with Charlton Heston not the bad one with Marky Mark). My mom did NOT teach me to curse but she tolerates it because (I suspect) she knows that my language is the result of a combination of Dad sharing George Carlin jokes with me and Pop (Mom's dad) always telling me dirty jokes in secret. My Mom has always been there for me and I couldn't ask for me. Thanks Mom.
I wouldn't get to be the goofball I am if it wasn't for the great lady I get to call Wife. Just kidding, it would be weird if I just started calling Rizzo "Wife" like that was some sort of endearing nickname like "Sweety" or "Dumpling" or "Sugar". It's decided. Sorry Rizzo, but your new endearing, cutesy, make-you-throw-up-a-little-in-your-mouth-when-I-say-it-because-it-is-so-cute, is Wife. Not wifey. Wife. I digress. Wife is an amazing mom for a million different reasons and I could never name them all for risk of missing something important and making her more mad at me (she is already mad after reading this and learning she will hereafter be referred to simply as Wife). She is an amazing smart woman. Smarter than I could ever hope to be. She has the patience of a monk. How else do you explain her going to work as a 6th grade special education teacher (6th grade representing the worst age of a child) and still coming home to be the best partner in life a guy could ask for? It was because of Wife that I started losing weight in the first place. She inspired me to get out and take a jog and the result is both of us looking and feeling great! Wife is an amazing mom that would do anything for her daughter (because Cece is her daughter when she is being good and my daughter when she is being bad. Other parents know how that goes.) Finally (not in general but just finally in regards to this run-on paragraph), Wife is an amazing mom and wife because she does things like pick a brewery as the spot to celebrate Mother's Day!
That is how we ended up celebrating Mother's Day at Caboose Brewing Company in Vienna, VA. The place is great and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a cool place to hang out and to take the kids. I'll have to go back in order to give a full "Beer Snob" worthy review but in short it was a blast. The food, which is served tapas style so be prepared to order everything on the menu, was outstanding and the beer was delicious. It is super family friendly. There were kids galore throughout the brewery and it didn't feel unwelcome at all. They even have a nice kids menu. And if you feel like taking a bike ride, Caboose Brewing is right on the W&OD trail so you can bike right up to the bar.
Regarding diet and exercise this week was pretty uneventful. I was able to stick to my meal plan pretty well with the exception of eating an entire bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips that was left over from the unused ingredients for Cece's birthday cake. Luckily that bag was spread out over the entire week so I don't think it affected me routine too greatly. Sometimes a guy just has to pour himself a handful of chocolate chips to throw down his gullet before heading off to work in the morning.
All the rain made it challenging to get in all the runs I wanted to but I was still able to work out regularly. Instead of running on Tuesday I rushed home to mow the grass because all the rain had prevented me from mowing in way to long and my yard looked like the beginning of an adventure movie where the guy with the machete is hacking away at plants to make a path.
Since I didn't get in a long run on Tuesday I made sure to get out for a longer Thursday run. I'm back to using a run training app on my fun two days a week moving towards running a 10K. The Thursday run was about 45 minutes which got me just a tad less than 4.5 miles. I worked up a heck of a sweat. Don't believe me? Well here is the unnecessary and completely gratuitous selfie to prove it.
Friday and Saturday consisted of lots of fun and working out. Friday night we made a trip up to downtown Herndon for Friday Night Live. If you aren't familiar, the Town hosts a free concert at Town Hall every Friday over the summer featuring a fun band (typically a cover band) with lots of food and beverages. It is the most kid friendly place I've ever been and it is tons of fun. There is nothing better than hanging out with Rizzo and Cece, drinking a nice beer, listening to music, and sitting outside.
Eating this week was consistent and working out was plentiful so I was hoping for a good week heading into Weight Watchers. I made sure to measure my optimism because my periodic weight checks at home didn't show me losing. On the bright side I wasn't gaining either so that is a good thing. The results were positive with another pound lost bringing the total weight loss down to 205.6 making the total lost 61.8lbs. I'm nearly back to my lowest weight and only .8 lbs away from grabbing another massage.
Once again #TeamClark prevails in the Bring It On! challenge. It was a close week with my 46.0 miles just barely taking down Rizzo's 45.3 miles. I tied my highest mileage week since we started this challenge and this week was Rizzo's second highest week. Halfway through this month's challenge and it isn't looking good for #TeamRizzo. #TeamClark is holding a 5.7 mile lead which means I'm going to be enjoying some Tough Guy Cinema and the Alamo Cinema and Drafthouse.
P.S. Up above I referred to women as girls. I actually debated using this word because it wasn't meant to have any negative connotation but the purpose was to inspire a question that I can't answer. Rizzo and I have discussed this before. Men can be casually referred to as guys and it doesn't indicate a boy (as in a little kid) but is just a more casual way of referring to men. What is the mirror word for women? "Girl" seems like it could be derogatory even if that isn't the intent. "Gal" seems weird too because, again, it can but doesn't always have a negative connotation. I'm seriously asking like this is an SAT question: Guys is to Men as _______ is to Women.
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I've written previously about spatial and temporal integration. Luhmann argued that in modern society temporal integration becomes more powerful than spatial integration. Here is an excerpt from The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Bergson. It illustrates the concept of quantitative multiplicity:
When we look at a flock of sheep, what we notice is that they all look alike. We sense no qualitative change as we move from one to another. We also notice that we can enumerate the sheep. We are able to enumerate them because each sheep is spatially separated from or juxtaposed to the others; in other words, each occupies a discernable spatial location. Therefore, quantitative multiplicities, as Bergson says, are homogeneous and spatial. Moreover, because a quantitative multiplicity is homogeneous, we can represent it with a symbol, for instance, a sum: '25'.
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FC Barcelona is still playing on the high level as they defeated Olympiacos 70:56. The game was very phisical and both teams didn't score many points in the 1st half of the game (33:27). In 2nd half Barcelona managed to make a run in the 4th quarter and push the lead to 16 points (65:49) after 2 consecutive three pointers from Brad Oleson. At that points, the game was pretty much over.
This was 10th consecutive win for Barcelona as they face Unicaja in Malaga next Friday, 21st at 20.45 CET.
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Ryne and Team Win the Veterinarian Care Award!/
In addition to the standard placings, additional awards are handed out at the end of races recognizing various accomplishments including The Red Lantern (last place), the Golden Rake (best handler), Rookie of the Year, Sportsmanship Award and the Vet Care Award.
At this year's Copper Basin, the winners of the awards are as follows-
Red Lantern- Jason Stewart
The Golden Rake- Kim Franklin's handler
Rookie of the Year- Dave Delcourt
Sportsmanship- Darrin Lee
Vet Care Awards- Ryne Olson and Torsten Kohnert
Yes! We were ecstatic to win the Vet Care Award along with Torsten Kohnert. Finishing well in a race is always a source of pride, but nothing is more rewarding than being recognized for the health and happiness of the dog team. A huge thank you to Fire, Cartel, Ham, Katy, Perm, Fez, Rucu, Jana, Supai, Kindi, Pirate, and Drummer for making Ryno Kennel look good!


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Walmart Media Group is in search of a Sr.QA Engineer who will define a process to test, verify, and validate advertising on Walmart properties and ensure that it aligns with anticipated expectations and behaviors - delivering the best user experience for partners, consumers, as well as clients.
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Preserving Girl Scout memories in unique ways helps ensure that precious badges and vests don't get lost as girls move and continue on the adventure of life. Girl Scouts want to show off the work they did in previous grade levels. We've collected 5 great ideas on ways to preserve Girl Scout memories – whether your Girl Scout is heading into college or into 2nd grade.
Bridging Vest to Tote – Save the vest from your Girl Scout's previous level by turning it into a book bag for her new Journey books. The second style shown below is geared more for adults and is a larger bag (it may be Boy Scouts, but we still love it). Here are a few tutorials we've found (Jean messenger bag, original Daisy Bag post – no pattern, collection of free messenger bag tutorials, This pattern is great for the adult version).
T-Shirt Quilt – Who doesn't LOVE a comfy quilt? These are especially great for active Girl Scouts with a LOT of activity and camp shirts. These would make awesome graduation gifts or help clean out the closet for your active Girl Scout! Check out these tutorials to get you started. Dimensions & Tutorial and Step-by-Step Tutorial
- GS Quick Tip: Front "pocket" designs don't have to be discarded! If you're making 12.5×12.5 squares for your normal shirt designs, cut each pocket design in a 6.5"x6.5" square, sew 4 together and you'll have a 12.5"x12.5" pocket square to mix in! (This tutorial uses 9 pocket designs and larger overall squares, so do whatever works best for your stock!)
Time Capsule – Blast from the past! Here's a unique way to help your Girl Scout save keepsakes now and relive memories later! Create a time capsule from a metal or other sturdy material container. Fill it with a few small items (letters, patches, photos, etc) from her Girl Scout years and bury it some place special. Be sure to write the date to open it and in 5, 10, 20 years, she can visit the spot, open the time capsule and remember Girl Scouts! Check out these great tips for how to make one.
Keepsake Pillow – Nothing is better than coming home and snuggling up with memories. Turn your Girl Scout's vest into a keepsake pillow! Not only will this keep her Girl Scout accomplishments in sight, it's great to ease homesickness for girls leaving home for the first time. Use this tutorial to help guide you, only instead of normal fabric, you'll need to sew together pieces of the vests to make a piece large enough to cut into a square!
Shadow Box – Pretty as a picture! Help keep your Girl Scout's vest and badges safe and on display by putting them in a shadow box. It's an easy way to make a beautiful piece of art that your Girl Scout can use for years to come.
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The history of Firehouse Subs, Northern Crossing, Glendale, Arizona
Time-travel with me to a time when Firehouse Subs at Northern Crossing, 59th Avenue and Northern in Glendale, was new. That is, yesterday.
Yes, I'm trying to be funny here (hopefully) but I also want to share with you what I see everywhere I go, both in real life and in cyberspace. I see history. And I don't draw an imaginary line in time, to me time flows like a river, which has always been and always will be.
Yesterday, while I was enjoying a delicious sub sandwich, I spoke to the young woman who is the owner of the franchise. As always in situations like this, the conversation started with just talking about the food, and since I'm interested in the history I asked how long the business had been there. I've lived in Glendale for over twenty years, and I had never seen it, or even the building. The building had been built last October. It was all of three months old. Pretty recent history!
If you're a Glendale history fan, you know that area as just across from where Minn's farm was. It's also just west of the Manistee Ranch (the main house is at 51st Avenue and Northern). If your interest in history only goes back to 1965, it's a few blocks east of Parson's Restaurant (originally Big Sam's). It's about two miles south of the Sahuaro Ranch. I could go on and on about my perspective, and I probably will, but that's what I see.
I like to time-travel in my imagination and picture myself talking to the owners of Big Sam's, or the Manistee Ranch. Of course, I was born too late to do that, but there are things that I can do. I can talk to the owner of the franchise of the Firehouse Subs at Northern Crossing. And I just love these stories. They're always stories of what I call "unrealistic optimism", the kind of stories that have been building Phoenix since 1870, and will continue to do so.
I suggest that when you go to the Firehouse Subs at Northern Crossing, you take the time to say hello to the owner, who often works there behind the counter. Like people have always done, she's invested in her business, and has confidence about the future. And when you go there, also say hello to her son, who will taking over the business at one point, and will remember the "good old days" the way that every generation does. The good old days will be before everything changed, when life was more simple, when people were more friendly. So if you've ever had any doubt about when the good old days were, they're whenever you make them. I choose now, and for as long as I can.
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Former Epic Games Poland is officially an independent studio again.
Posted By Ravi Sinha | On 24th, Jun. 2015 Under News
Remember People Can Fly? The developer that created Bulletstorm and Gears of War: Judgment before becoming Epic Games Poland and working on other titles? It's gone independent once again though it's still working with Epic Games on Fortnite and other Unreal Engine-powered projects.
Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney stated that, "We've been honored to work with this brilliant group of programmers, artists and designers throughout their history: first as a partner using the Unreal Engine, then as a studio within Epic, and now once again as an independent company."
Studio director Sebastian Wojciechowski also added that, "We, as a People Can Fly team, are extremely excited about new possibilities ahead of us. We're going to work on a new game, while continuing to partner with Epic and use UE4. We're grateful to Tim and the whole Epic team for our long and successful collaboration."
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Djinni of Increaseing Complexity - Print
Djinni of Increaseing Complexity - Print
In mythology there are djinnis for almost everything - for music, beauty, food, and also things that aren't very nice. This Djinni is for increasing complexity, for adding a dimension of chaos to normal linear flow, for adding filigree fractal edges to boring smooth surfaces, for creating more detail in places where there was none before!
She's a being of fire, but she gets her real powers from the thrill of standing next to a waterfall - so dangerous as it could easily put out her life-giving flames, but she stands there confidently, working her magic.
This is a digital piece, done using digital painting and photomontage with original photography.
People claim that they can look for hours at my work and still discover new things. I grew up visiting the Museum of Natural History in New York, gazing at the elaborate dioramas with my grandmother, always trying to find a new creature neither of us had spotted yet. And so my art is an extension of this idea - that the world is always full of new things to discover, and even the dullest patches of earth are full of microscopic creatures that look alien to us, tiny crystals and bacteria with whirling, tricky gears of life inside.
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Factors to Consider While Taking Care of a Bottlebrush Buckeye
There are varied types of bottle brush buckeye plant. Read ahead to know more on how to care for it well.
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It blooms in both, the summer and the fall. In the summer, the bottlebrush buckeye shrub blooms into white cone-shaped flowers with several panicles and red anthers, whereas in the fall, yellow-colored flowers take over.
The lowest branches of the tree usually grow horizontal to the ground and are a sharp contrast to the ascending branches. In the sections that follow, we will look into the details of how to care for this tree and let it thrive in your gardens.
An addition of manure should be done to the site in which these shrubs will be grown so that there is enough fertilization taking place. Add about 4 inches of this manure. The buckeye is planted in beds that are dug to about 20 inches deep and have a width of 3 times the ball of the root. Make sure to keep adding manure so that the plants are well-nourished.
If it is planted in an area that is full of sunlight, then there are chances that the plant will suffer a burn or the roots and leaves will shrivel. Therefore, planting it under a tree allows for it enough root space and gives it room to spread as well.
In the first year, make sure that you're watering the plant once in a week and taking the water level to an inch every time. Continue with this schedule for 2 years but do not over water or it can cause the roots to rot.
Allow the soil some drying time in between watering. Make sure that you provide for deep watering rather than shallow watering because the water needs to go right in.
Along with all these steps, it is necessary that the bottle brush buckeye is pruned after it blooms. This allows for the dead leaves and other decaying parts to be cleared and thus allows the plant to get more space and quality to grow better and blossom better as well.


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Lets be honest I don't remember the last time I blogged and did anything in all honestly. I want to start this again and do it right. A lot has happened over the last few months. Life has been a bit hectic recently, things have got in the way and I just haven't been myself. I woke up today feeling different. i realised that things have got to change and I've got to be happy again and just be me.
This is me starting again. I meet so many amazing people on here when I was really into blogging when i first started and i want to get back to that place. You may see some posts go missing or reposted – these will be updated and brought back to life.
I'm also hoping that I can start interacting with you will more as well.
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There was and ad-hoc make up play session on 16 February 2014, at our usual league ground.
A total of 5 players managed to turn up and covered quite a few games.
Here are the scores for the day (highlighted)…
and with those scores, the table reads…
As you can see, although only a few games were played, it did have some significant effect on the table.
This is how close this year's competition is can be…
The next make up session is scheduled to happen on 23 Feb 2014.
So do drop by Aranda Lounge at Orchid Country Club for yet another day of exciting Table Football action!
Till then… Cheers!!


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SQL Server Analysis Services To Power BI
Why is the BI Semantic Data Model Important ?
Having a Bi Semantic layer sets the stage for the collaborative composition that is modern BI. Successful organizations unify the hearts and minds of the team, they simplify the mantra they live by and this is exactly what the Semantic Model does for your Analytics - it unifies your organization-wide and cross platform data and simplifies the data-driven culture that your team lives by.
What tools do I need to build a SSAS based Semantic Data Model with Power BI?
Microsoft Visual Studio
A Power BI Pro license (for sharing the Dashboard with your organization)(optional)
Microsoft SQL Server with SQL Server Analysis Services
Below are a few key considerations that I believe place importance on a SSAS based BI Semantic Data Model.
Unified Data Location
Geo-Location and the disparate nature of cross-platform data is still one of the biggest Analytics challenges faced by organizations wanting to build a data-driven culture. An ETL process precedes the BI Semantic Data Model and these then culminate in centralized data containing the business logic that matches your organizational culture.
One Version of the Truth
It's easier than you think, to measure something as simple as productivity, incorrectly - some revenue types may need to be excluded for example. In such cases, without one version of the truth, each person on the team could be measuring and acting on a different version of productivity measurement.
Federated User Authentication
SQL Server Analysis Services respects your Active Directory (which synchronizes with Azure Active Directory if required) and AD in turn can drive user's access to datasets and to data as granular as individual records, using SSAS Row Level Security.
Distributed Processing
Whether it is Power BI or any other data visualization service that you use atop of SSAS, the BI Semantic Data Model removes the data processing burden by shifting the processing to SSAS.
Self-Governing Data Model
Governance is the comprehensive and understandable description of your Analytics. Disparate data needs separate documentation to bring it all together. Having your data and business logic in one place allows you to describe your data and the business logic inside your BI Semantic Model.
Visualization Agnosis
Centralizing your organizational data allows your choice of Visualization Service (like power BI) to be almost 100% agnostic and to a lesser extent this agnostic benefit applies to your BI Semantic Data Model too.
Consolidated Solution Maintenance
One BI Semantic Model means less moving parts, which means less maintenance is required and when troubleshooting is required, it is easier to troubleshoot in one environment.
Data Model Reduction
SQL Server Analysis Services in 2016 has a very cool feature that allows a SSAS Model to consume another SSAS model. So.....hierarchies of data models are now possible. This reduction of data models opens up a list of benefits not the least of which is simplified data models.
What Steps are Required to deploy SSAS with Power BI?
It's real easy to build a basic SSAS to Power BI Solution. In the video and the steps below we've sequenced the the approach you could take to build your own BI Semantic Data Model using SSAS and Power BI.
These are the salient steps in your quest:
Ensure you have the required software listed above
Choose your data model type and connect to your database
Model your data to match the business logic that your organization is accustomed to
Point Power BI to your data model in SSAS and design your dashboard
Step-by-Step Guide
What is the Value Proposition of implementing a SSAS based BI Semantic Model for my Business?
In addition to the business value derived from the features of using SSAS as the platform for your BI Semantic Model listed at the start of this post, there are 3 value propositions that I think are important to consider.....
TIME: When comparing the time to deploy and manage multiple data sources and multiple repositories of your business logic, the time saving of centralizing these activities is significant. Hardware and consequently time saved through improved performance can save significant time in getting processed data delivered to your team.
COST: In addition to the costs associated with the time savings above, significant costs are saved through timely data delivery and the ability to focus platform investments, data model enhancements and maintenance in one centralized location.
ANALYTICS AVAILABLE: A SSAS based BI Semantic Model is capable of delivering the best analytics available to organizations through almost unlimited data connectivity, in-memory processing and advanced data modelling.
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Just kidding. If you've been watching the World Cup this year, you'll know that the South African special noisemaker is quickly uniting the world with migraines. So there's only one vuvuzela video today, I promise. And now, here's what mattered to me most this week in internet culture. With TSR Buzz, you'll find links to articles, videos and other random things that will help you waste your time just a little bit more.
- If Clint Eastwood's Invictus had even better sound design:
- Walking vuvuzela Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino from MTV's "Jersey Shore" tries his hand at poetry with this song that is bound to make people evacuate the dance floor. Which is a good thing, because this insignificant three minute flash in the pan sounds does resemble a fire drill.
- As I am doing with many summer movies, I am abstaining from any trailers for the movie Inception. But for those willing to have even the slightest bit of Christopher Nolan's new movie ruined for them, take a look at this trailer mash-up with Toy Story 3, which is probably a funny mixing.
- A very clever parody of the opening sequence of Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, and a damn good impersonation of Christoph Waltz.
- My third and final attempt at promoting OK Go's latest batch of music videos. Here, they take the dedication that stop-motion requires to a new height. Can anyone tell me of another video that shows the band members participating (including sleeping) in some form for probably 24 straight hours? Also, I can not think of a stop-motion video that has utilized such a high number of extras.
Oops, I lied from earlier. But for any future Vuvu-rollers (instead of Rick Rollers), use this starting address, and then add your own after the coding. http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/ Prepare to be despised more than Koman Coulibaly.


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Johannesburg - He had hoped to make some quick money to send back to his family in Zimbabwe, but now 17-year-old Themba Mlambo realises that illegal mining is too dangerous a game for him.The Zimbabwean teenager was one of a few illegal miners to survive the accident at an unused mineshaft near Grootvlei mine near Springs last Monday, The Star reported on Tuesday.The tunnel to the mine will be sealed off and the bodies of at least 20 people will be left underground because rescuers decided that it was too dangerous to attempt retrieving the bodies. It is uncertain, though, how many went down the mine.Earlier this year, Mlambo had left his carpentry job for Shaft 13 because he had heard that he would make some quick cash."I would always see other guys boasting about the money they made there. They would say they made between R5 000 and R7 000 in two days," he said as he lay on his hospital bed.'Rocks are falling!'On his first day in the mine last month, Mlambo made R600.The shaft they entered had been sealed shut, but he said "grenades" were used to blast it open.When Mlambo went underground last Monday with a group of about 30 people, they were equipped with food, tools and batteries for torches. Some of the group were as young as 14, he told The Star.They had been underground for just a few hours when someone screamed down the dark shaft: "Rocks are falling, rocks are falling!"Then rocks began to tumble around Mlambo. "The top of the mine was vibrating. Suddenly everyone started to run, screaming and being hit by rocks."I was running when I tripped and fell. Then a rock hit me on my back, it was so big that I could not stand up, I was trapped under it."Around him lay dead miners.SyndicatesTwo fellow illegal miners, also rushing to escape the rockfall, came across Mlambo and pulled him from under the rock and carried him to safety outside.Normally, when the miners returned to the surface, people would be waiting at the entrance to buy the gold.Frans Baleni, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, told The Star illegal mining was fuelled by big syndicates who were in cahoots with some mine managers. He said the syndicates would bribe mine managers to provide information about where gold could be found in abandoned shafts.The shafts would initially have been shut down after management had decided that they would be too costly to mine.
Gold is a shiny rock? It may be malleable and considered valuable, but the only real world use it has lies in jewelry and certain technologies.
We truly are a primitive species. It baffles me to think that our economy is so dependent on it.
...gold is more than just a shiny rock. What these fellows do is dangerous, I would not do it even if it was an official working mine!
"gold is more than just a shiny rock."
Let's imagine you live in a world of a species more intelligent than humans. Imagine you hold, in your possession, all of the gold in the world.
What use is gold to you? Build a rust-proof gold house? Will you eat it when you are starving? Will anyone trade you your gold, for goods even if they can't do anything with it besides make jewelry?
Gold only has purpose in technology with its conductivity and corrosive resistant properties.
Ofcourse I am talking about a near-perfect world where humans aren't stupid.
It's also the reserve currency of the world.
Currency is backed by it.
Yes, it is well known that currency backs the world economy, but why?
It's because our ancestors valued it greatly mostly because it was hard to come by and lasted a very long time.
Tell me again why it is so valued?
Meant to say "gold backs the economy" not currency.
Carol - Err... no... no currency in the world is backed by it. Where have you been for the last 40 years. only the swiss franc carries a 40% backing in gold.
lucky escape young man - hope you realise that there is no such thing as a quick buck
@Jerolan.. don't think people realize that underground the "gold" is just a dark pebblerish stone reef which has to be chisseld or blasted out. The reef is most times only a few inches thick. To advance one has to blast at least 1 meter of rock of which about 80% is just waste rock. After that there is a complicated chemical process to extract the real gold. My point is that these Zama Zamas only take out the ore and rock and sell that. My point is that it is highly unlikely to make R5000 per day, actually impossible. As for the R600 made in the first day is BS. Any miner would know that. I happen to have programmed reclemation of
Madala sides (Old Areas) for Anglo for several years. Good reporting - but bad source
Who's fault is it, the people waiting in front to buy the gold? The mine managers? The syndicates? The rescuers? The other guys? NO, it is you're own fault. There is no reason for killing, stealing, raping - it's in you or not, there is no reason in the will to make you do illegal things just YOU.
You, sir, are completely wrong. Everything decision you make in life is based on your experiences, and your own enterpretation of what it means to be alive.
Do you live in a society where you have fight for survival? Where you are taught that acquisition of material objects, beyond basic needs, is proof of your worth? Where you can look down at a suffering person and simply shrug it off because it would be a financial inconvenience to help?
This person, as young as he may be, comes from a hard background. He, too, dreams of a life without worries. He doesn't want to starve to death before he makes a living, and he doesn't want to be in exactly the same position when he is in his 70's.
Take it easy Tony.
All hard working Zimbo's. Tragic, R.I.P.
I was supporting the guys. They are merely victims of a greedy society and were simply 'born' into their desperate situation.
They knew the risks were real.
The way we value gold isn't due to instincts or genes. It is the environment and society we grow up in.
Just as a business man, who generates massive profits, while employing underpaid workers in a third world country, is praised as a respected success story.
Just as a corrupt government official who gets away with stealing millions is admired and dismissed.
We have shaped our world, we have shaped our Demise.
costly lesson unfortunately<<
SA - the land of quick cash! Catchy that, maybe they can offer he, and his family, positions in Tourism who took a while, and no doubt a pile of cash, before coming up with our current slogan, which I forget.
Must admit that the idea of grenades spooked me but probably better that they're throwing them around in disused mine shafts than at ATM's.....
Well good for you, hope you realised now that illegal mining makes you a criminal.
Obviously I was wrong when I understood that security were looking after the abandoned mine. I can understand miners sneaking past security into the mine but how is it possible that the buyers stand out in the open like that?
My bother is a mine captain and he says that there are thousands
Of the illegal miners in South Africa. Reguk
Lar miners that can smuggle food an
D cigarettes down get thousands of Rands for the goods No wonder they do not show the authorities where they are. They stay there for months! What a life!
perhaps he must go HOME and think about this....
home is worse than what he experienced Stan!
Well now that this youngster has decided that what he did was not only illegal but very dangerous as well....has he considered going back to where he came from...then he can go carry out his illegal activities back home
I know of a youngster (21 years) who left his full time employment to do illegal mining at this shaft in Springs.
He was caught last year and spent 6 months in jail.
I heard he was back at the same shaft this year doing what seemed to be easy money.
I wonder if he is not amongst the dead at this shaft......
His friends told me that these youngsters go down and spend weeks at a time digging for gold before surfacing again. Sad......
When something is too good to be true it usally is. He is no hero but a thief.
When you have to carry a work mate out of a mining area and the guy is nothing more than tenderised steak then you start thinking about your own future. And on arriving at surface you remind yourself that tomorrow is another day and the children have to go to school. You go underground again. You cannot eat gold but it sure helps to buy food with and pay the car at the end of the month.
All that glitters is not gold. Thank God you can't mine air, otherwise we'd be really screwed.
the thing that concerned me the most about this story was the fact that they managed to gain access to grenades!


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text: August 11, 2018 Hastings, Milo Tagged: Author (1884-1957) US nutritionist, editor – for many years involved in magazine projects with Bernarr Macfadden – and author, sometimes on agricultural subjects; The Dollar Hen (1909) is a nonfiction text about hens. With striking accuracy, his Future War sf stories centre on conflict between either Japan or Germany and the rest of the world. The first of them, "In the Clutch of the War-God: The Tale of the Orient's Invasion of the Occident, as Chronicled in the Humaniculture Society's 'History of the Twentieth Century.'" (July-September 1911 Physical Culture), though technically a Yellow Peril tale, effectively espouses the cause of eugenical Japan against a bigoted USA, which in 1950 loses a war but becomes healthy.Beginning in 2041, the far more impressive City of Endless Night (June-November 1919 True Story as "Children of 'Kultur'"; rev 1920) describes a Germany partly defeated after centuries of warfare, but remaining impregnable Underground within a great extended dome (see Cities) which shelters the three hundred million residents of Berlin. Here an anti-Semitic proto-Nazi Dystopia has taken shape, with under-races genetically distinguished from one another (and from the sybaritic ruling class) by a ruthless breeding programme (see Eugenics); thought-control is universal. The imagery of this striking novel links it with to various dystopian fictions of the period, from Yevgeny Zamiatin's We (written 1920; published 1924) to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932). Perhaps even more interesting is Hastings's clear ambivalence about the modernizing radicalism of twentieth-century transformations of urban life, clearly satirized in his novel.Earlier, however, he had been an enthusiastic supporter of the concept of "Roadtown" – a miles-long house-wide autonomous railroad-cum-horizontal-skyscraper for living – promulgated by its creator, Edgar Chambless, in Roadtown (1910), a Utopia which attracted the support of Thomas A Edison and others (see Transportation). Roadtown was, of course, never constructed – the nearest though boneless equivalent may be the American strip mall – but Hastings's grotesque Berlin shares its haunting, transformative, modernizing impulse. The suggestion that City of Endless Night was an influence on the German Expressionist cinema, especially upon Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1926), gains credibility when both the novel and the film are seen as half in love with the deathliness they depict. [JC]see also: History of SF; Politics.Milo Milton Hastingsborn Farmington, Kansas: 28 June 1884died Tarrytown, New York: 25 February 1957works City of Endless Night (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1920) [early version appeared June-November 1919 True Story as "Children of 'Kultur'": hb/nonpictorial]links Internet Speculative Fiction Database Previous versions of this entry 20/12/2005 21/12/2011 21/08/2012 10/08/2013 05/07/2014 22/10/2014 09/04/2015 25/06/2015 25/08/2015 12/10/2015 30/10/2015 19/01/2017 04/04/2017 11/01/2018 07/04/2018


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My friend Patrick, aka Pootee the Explorer is making 1 short film per month of Remote Year. (You may recall I was an actor in his Bolivia: Salt Flat People film) As an experiment in Prague, he opened the plot to anyone who wanted to pitch a story. I wrote 3 ideas and he chose 1 to make into a short film.
I wrote a short and simple concept, and then Patrick took the ball and ran with it.
He side stepped out of the backfield, bowled over some defensive lineman, juked a couple linebackers out of their jockstraps, stiff armed a corner, did a 360 spin around the free safety and high stepped into the end zone for a touchdown! He even did a Beyonce style touchdown celebration dance.
I am so happy with the way this turned out and I think it was a great collaboration. Patrick and I have a similar sense of humor and our goals with Princess seemed to line up perfectly. And it was a fun production to be a part of from location scouting, to casting, to production, etc.
The plot centers on a ridiculously naive American girl who comes to Prague to find her prince. It's a musical of sorts, with some classic Disney elements. Laura Pounds was the perfect Princess!!!
Prague is a gorgeous city to film in and our actors are just as gorgeous!
Jonathan Black and Anhton Tran were phenomenal backup singers and dancers and brought incredible energy to the movie! And the amazingly talented Natalie Underwood provided the perfect voice-over to set the tone for the film.
We had an absolute blast filming. Everything fell into place in a two day shoot. Like, when we ran into these white birds on the Charles Bridge. Disney Princesses are always very animal friendly.
SPOILER ALERT : The rest of this post will contain imagery and info that you should not see before watching the film. So, without further adieu, here is Princess:
SPOILER ALERT : Film reveal info is just below these next few lines!!! Stop now and watch the film! Don't scroll down until you watch!
Ok, now that you've watched the film, you probably know why I did not want you to see the rest of these behind the scenes pics.
Can't reveal the Prince before you watch the film!
Richard Hessler was the perfect Prince. He played it so well, and I think he even looks like a classic Disney Prince, don't you?
One of the challenges of making this movie was finding a Prince t-shirt. We tried a few different stores in Prague, but to no avail. I was forced to make a t-shirt. I think it turned out well.
After painting the shirt, I had to dirty it up and make it look "homeless" chic. I was rubbing this white t-shirt all over the ground. People thought I was weird.
But, the shirt wasn't getting dirty enough on the dry groundSo, I rubbed it in a dirty puddle. And then, i was worried that it was TOO dirty. It was really nasty and dark and almost obscured the word PRINCE. But, when it dried, I think it looked appropriately worn and disheveled.
The other big prop we needed was the Frog from Prague. Luckily, some typical Prague souvenirs are puppets. We were able to find this ratty little puppet that i think was perfect.
One of the funnier moments of filming came at the dinner scene. Richard was playing a homeless man, and surely was to be hungry. When she goes to toast with him, he chugged the glass of wine, picked up the bottle of wine, and chugged a quarter of it and then started WOLFING down the food. This was one take and we all could barely keep from laughing!
Well played, Richard. He nailed it.
Hope you liked Princess as much as we liked making it! The reviews have been funny so far. People seemed to love the build up but were a little shell shocked by the ending. People asked me afterward if I needed a hug.
Naw, I'm good! I'm a hopeless romantic. But, hey --- happy endings are for Hollywood.


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The National Trust couldn't care less about the elderly. The trust has told an octogenarian tenant in his late 80s that his rent payments are set to rise from £148 to an astronomical £15,000 per annum, reported The Times recently.
It's not just this helpless old man, there are several other hundreds of tenants who have been faithful tenants for long who face the prospect of rent increases that are unrealistically high. With over 5,000 homes owned by this charitable trust, there are over 10,000 tenants who don't know where to go with their belongings.
There are some other problems as well. Most of these tenants are paying monthly rent payments, though in between several leases changed hands and were sold as long leaseholds. The lease agreements were drawn long back with 49-year terms, and the rents fixed were obviously based on the cost of living index prevailing then.
With most of the leases periods nearing maturity, the tenants are forced to apply for extensions. That's when the National Trust puts its foot down saying the lease agreements cannot be extended on the same terms. The tenants have two options: either pay increased rental charges, or pay huge deposits in order to "buy up" or make up for the low ground rent they are paying.
The quandary the old man is finding himself in is that he has to cough up close to £80,000, along with some 300 others who find themselves in the same fix. What with the Government ministers pledging to ban what they refer to as "feudal" leases, and replace such rents with hefty ground rents, for which they are able to find gullible buyers through building companies.
The National Trust is not altogether merciless and is trying to reduce the "ground rents" by at least 50% for certain genuine cases, though even after such a huge discount, the amount payable is far beyond the means of the hapless tenants. While some at the National Trust feel that the leaseholders may have been misled by unscrupulous agents, they are willing to consider letting such tenants off the hook by waiving off the "ground rent" deposit demand altogether. If that should come to pass by some act of providence, the tenants who are already in a sad plight might get some succour after all. One can only wait and watch the future course of events.


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If you are looking for a fun day out on the waters of Puerto Vallarta, Captain César Marcelino Pérez Castellón of Pesca en Vallarta is at your disposal.
Spend your day fishing in the bay or check the bite in La Corbeteña. Head a bit further out to El Banco or enjoy the thrill of catching the fish that lives in and around Sand Banks.
You will be provided with a top-notch gear and tackle by Penn International and Shimano (16s, 30s, 50s, 60s, and 80s), a fluorocarbon leader, Penn kites, licenses, and live bait to make an outstanding catch possible. You will only need to bring your own food and soft drinks with you.
Whatever your angling ambitions might be, the captain will help you find your match. He will take you trolling, spinning, jigging, or kite fishing for anything from Tuna and Marlin to Mahi Mahi, Amberjack, and Roosterfish to name a few.
Your boat for the day, a 28' Bertram, is restored at least every other year. It comes powered by two 185 HP Yanmar engines and has enough room for up to 6 guests or 4 anglers.
The boat is rigged with electronics, tuna tubes, outriggers, and downriggers. The first mate will also be aboard to help you land a big one.
Don't waste any more minute – hop onboard and let the adventure begin!
Fishing License
Live Bait
You Keep Catch
Catch cleaning & filleting
Child Friendly
Snorkeling Equipment
Ice Box
Rods, reels & tackle
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Bertram (Offshore sport fishing) originally built in 1980, and restored in 2018. Powered by 2 185HP Yanmar engines, with a maximum cruising speed of 25 knots.


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Nourish your mind with this guided breathing and meditation practice. You'll begin with a calming breath and progress slowly to nadi shodhana (alternate nostril breathing). The practice concludes with a meditation to cultivate energy and attention.
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This piece was inspired by the colors in sea glass- sea foam greens, aqua blues and teals with a hint of jade green to give contrast. I love the subtlety of each of these translucent tones coming out of the bright white as the colors twist and turn, resembling an eddy with swirling water.
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SERCAL 2017 Technical Session, Davis
Chair: Gerrit Platenkamp, ESA
Lead presenters in alpha order
Designing High Tide Refuge Islands for the California Ridgway's Rail
Gavin Archbald*1, Max Busnardo1, and Marilyn Latta2
1H. T. Harvey & Associates, 983 University Avenue Building D, Los Gatos 95032, email@example.com; 2California State Coastal Conservancy, 1330 Broadway 13th Floor, Oakland 94612
Recovery of the endangered California Ridgway's rail (Rallus obsoletus obsoletus) is threatened by a lack of high tide refuge habitat in San Francisco Estuary marshes. To decrease predation on Ridgway's rail, the California Coastal Conservancy constructed 63 earthen, high tide refuge islands during winters from 2013-2016, strategically located in 13 tidal marshes lacking refuge habitat. We designed the islands to mimic natural gumplant (Grindelia sticta) dominated slough channel berms, then annually monitored the islands for four years to iteratively modify the design and to evaluate habitat establishment. Our key findings are: (1) gumplant canopy established most rapidly when islands were built near the upper end of gumplant's elevational range, and (2) island soil derived from marsh sediments remained horticulturally suitable, however, gumplant canopy was enhanced by use of terrestrial soil around plantings to reduce transplant shock. Moreover, in 2016, islands built to elevations of 1.0 foot (ft) and 1.3 ft above MHHW (Year 1 and 2 islands) were providing on average about 1 vertical ft of gumplant canopy above the highest predicted tides, the minimal cover needed to hide rails from predation during most extreme high tides. By contrast, islands built to 1.7 ft above MHHW (Year 3 and 4 islands) had gumplant canopy on average 3 ft above the highest predicted tides and provided high-quality refuge habitat. Gumplant survival averaged 73% across islands. The project demonstrates a feasible and cost-effective method to rapidly provide high tide refuge habitat in tidal marshes.
Measuring Fish Response as a Primary Performance Metric for Tidal Marsh Restoration Implementation
Christopher Fitzer, Garrett Leidy, and Paul Bergman*
Environmental Science Associates, 2600 Capitol Avenue, Suite 200, Sacramento 95816, email@example.com
Substantial investments are being made in large-scale restoration of tidal wetland habitats in the Bay-Delta to restore ecological processes and aid in the recovery of native fish. Understanding species response to restoration is critical in determining whether or not goals and objectives are being met and also to provide lessons to inform the design of future projects. The Hamilton Wetland Restoration Project, located in Marin County, California, restores a former Army airfield (648 acres) to a mix of tidal and seasonal wetland, transitional ecotone and upland habitats. The project is being implemented by the USACE, in partnership with the Coastal Conservancy. The site was constructed and opened to tidal inundation in the spring of 2014. Fish species assemblages were surveyed in the springs of 2015, 2016, and 2017 utilizing a combination of techniques at multiple sample sites to assess the distribution and relative abundance of juvenile and adult fish species in the restored marshes, mudflats, and associated shallow water areas. The encouraging results document initial fish response to the very young restoration site and they show that properly designed restoration projects can achieve immediate results. Using these monitoring results along with results from other sites as case studies, we hypothesize whether all sites can be measured equally in terms of performance. Specifically, we evaluate and consider how fish response expectations (and performance criteria) should be developed and applied to new sites based on their location in the Bay-Delta ecosystem and the associated fish community inhabiting surrounding waterways.
40+ Years of Wetland Restoration in San Francisco Bay: Lessons learned and emerging trends
Michelle Orr, PE1, Stephen Crook, PhD2, Mark Lindley, PE1, and Ann Borgonovo*1
1Environmental Science Associates, 550 Kearny Street, Suite 800, San Francisco 94108, 415.262.2310, email@example.com; Sylvestrum Climate Associates
In San Francisco Bay, more than 90% of historic tidal wetlands have been lost or disturbed by human intervention. Public concern for the Bay's health began to grow in the 1950s, and reached a tipping point in 1965, when a successful citizen movement resulted in passage of the McAteer-Petris Act—the first wetlands protection in the United States— preventing further filling of wetlands in San Francisco Bay and promoting restoration. Initial attempts at restoration in the Bay were primarily driven by compensatory mitigation requirements. The general approach involved setting the right elevations, planting native vegetation and then breaching levees to flood the restored area. These restorations were successful in creating a vegetated tidal marsh, however, they typically lacked physical and biological complexity. In the 1990s, projects began to incorporate design approaches that rely on the power of natural processes acting over time to create desired wetland features. As restoration practice has evolved, approaches have expanded. Current Bay restoration issues, as documented in the Goals Project Science Update 2015, include accelerated sea-level rise, a shortage of estuarine sediments, more extreme weather events, and invasive species. Projects now cover a broader range of tidal and associated habitats, ranging from oyster and eelgrass areas to upland ecotone slopes that add ecological diversity and climate resiliency. This talk will discuss lessons learned from 40+ years of project implementation and explore emerging trends that look towards restoration's future.
Restoration of Historical Tidal Wetlands for Compensatory Mitigation: Quantifying ecological lift
Kim Fettke
Wildlands, 3855 Atherton Rd, Rocklin 95765, 916.435.3555, firstname.lastname@example.com
Wildlands has been working to restore the 59-acre proposed Newark Slough Wetland Mitigation and Species Conservation Bank (Bank) site as compensatory mitigation for impacts to aquatic resources, saltmarsh harvest mouse, and Ridgeway's rail. Historically, the Bank site was tidal marsh, but it was isolated from tidal flows and used for salt production in the 1950s. Most of it now consists of salt flats that often pond rainwater during the winter. This degraded but jurisdictional habitat would be restored to tidal marsh habitat of higher value. Many in the regulatory community would like to quantify and regulate aquatic resources based on their functions and services, rather than just area, in hopes of more successfully reversing dramatic losses of these aquatic resources. A quantitative functional analysis has not been developed or adopted in California for this regulatory purpose. However, the California Rapid Assessment Method (CRAM), a measure of wetland condition, is becoming more widely used, and some hope to adapt this method for regulatory purposes. In order to determine the value of the ecological lift generated by the restoration of this jurisdictional habitat, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers San Francisco District requested that Wildlands propose a CRAM-based quantitative crediting approach. The proposed crediting approach quantifies the anticipated ecological lift using an assessment of ecological condition, and it could be adapted for universal regulatory use.
Tidal Restoration in the Suisun Marsh, Amidst Conflicting Regulatory Requirements and Permits
Robert Capriola1 and Priya Finnemore*2
1Westervelt Ecological Services, 916.646.3644, email@example.com; 2Environmental Science Associates (ESA), 415.896.5900, email@example.com
A large number of regulatory agency approvals are needed for tidal restoration projects in the Suisun Marsh, and each agency has legal and policy requirements that often put those requirements in conflict with other agencies. Resolving these often unanticipated conflicts adds time to project approval and takes careful negotiation. Resulting long timelines for permit approval of tidal restoration projects increases cost and uncertainty when initiating projects for development. The Tule Red Tidal Restoration Project began planning and design in 2012, and involved a suite of resource agencies. Careful study of existing permits and approvals for other relevant projects provided a baseline of potential permit conditions, relevant interdependencies of other approvals, and approximate approval timelines. However, once environmental documents and permit applications were submitted in the spring of 2015, several conflicting agency requirements became apparent, making the process challenging, uncertain, time consuming, and ultimately costly. Based on our team's experiences through the negotiation of final permits and project groundbreaking in the fall of 2016, we conclude that — within the Suisun Marsh, elsewhere in the Delta, and beyond — tidal restoration projects would benefit from programmatic solutions to policy and resource conflicts like the ones experienced in development of the Tule Red project.
The Balancing Act: Tidal restoration benefiting landowners and fish
Doreen Hansen
Humboldt County Resource Conservation District, 5630 South Broadway, Eureka 95503, 707.498.1072, firstname.lastname@example.com
One of the West Coast's largest coastal stream and estuary restoration projects is currently being implemented in northern California. The Salt River Ecosystem Restoration Project is a private-public effort that consists of "reclaiming" 330 acres of tidal estuary from a former organic dairy ranch, and excavating and restoring 7 miles of river channel in the Eel River Delta. This project combines flood alleviation on agricultural lands with fish and wildlife benefits across much of the Delta. This presentation will provide a description of the overall project and progress made to date, but will focus on the tidal estuary restoration implemented in 2013. Learn about the tidal restoration construction elements that return hydrologic function and biological habitat fundamentals back to the system. Find out how the restoration is performing after three years through the successful, and not so successful, geomorphic, vegetative, and aquatic biological response thus far.
Laying Down a Framework for Standardized Monitoring — and Starting to Fill it In!
Rosemary Hartman*, Stacy Sherman, and Dave Contreras
Fish Restoration Monitoring Program, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, 2109 Arch Airport Road, Suite 100, Stockton 95206, email@example.com
The Interagency Ecological Program's Tidal Wetland Monitoring Project Work Team has developed the "Tidal Wetland Monitoring Framework for the Upper San Francisco Estuary." The Framework is a tool and resource to guide the development of hypothesis-based monitoring plans of the effectiveness of tidal wetland restoration for the benefit of listed fish species. The goal is to encourage scientifically sound monitoring that will result in data that are comparable across multiple restoration projects, while leaving room for learning and adaptation. Use of the Framework by multiple monitoring groups should facilitate a clearer understanding of landscape-level effects of tidal wetland restoration. Version 1.0 of the Framework will be posted online, and we welcome suggestions and feedback from users for future improvements to the document. We have been rigorously evaluating the methods we recommend to others, while at the same time collecting pre-project baseline data around restoration sites. We found broad differences in diversity of fish food resources across habitat types and across regions in the Delta. These results provide support for the hypotheses outlined in the Framework, but these are the first drops in the bucket of data necessary to show the benefit of wetland restoration for native fishes.
Design and Implementation of Tule Red Tidal Restoration Project in Suisun Marsh
Brian Wardman, PE1 and Chris Holland*2
1Northwest Hydraulics Consultants, 2600 Capital Avenue, Suite 140, Sacramento 95816, 916.371.7400, email@example.com; 2Chris Holland*, Restoration Designer, Westervelt Ecological Services, 600 North Market Blvd., Suite 3, Sacramento 95834, 916.646.3644, email@example.com
Tidal exchange is the driving process that creates and sustains tidal wetlands. The tidal exchange process delivers sediment, maintains channels, imports and exports nutrients, and promotes the growth of marsh vegetation allowing food web and natural ecological processes to occur. Tidal restoration designs should be processed-based designs focused on reestablishing these key processes. Design elements will vary based on site-specific conditions such as existing elevations, sediment size and availability, proximity of neighboring infrastructure, as well as regulatory and constructability constraints. These constraints must be understood within the framework of the processed-based design and addressed during the plan development. Functional design components required to satisfy species-specific project objectives or regulatory requirements can then be incorporated around the process-based design components. This presentation provides a case study discussing the design and implementation process of the Tule Red Tidal Restoration Site in Grizzly Bay. The approximate 400-acre managed-marsh is composed of recently deposited sediments covered with dense stands of low marsh vegetation. The project includes a breach of the existing marsh ridge and the excavation of over 7.5 miles of new marsh channels reconnecting the marsh to Grizzly Bay and enhancing marsh connectivity and geomorphic progression. Functional design concepts address objectives in the Suisun Marsh Plan, provide transitional upland habitat to accommodate projected sea level rise, and increase residence time within the site to enhance zooplankton growth.
Bringing a Community Together While Restoring Habitats
Michelle Peruzzi*1 and Matt Yurko2
18 Conch Reef, Aliso Viejo 92656, email@example.com; 2California Coastal Commission's Community-Based Restoration and Education Program, Back Bay Science Center, 600C Shellmaker Rd., Newport Beach 92660, email@example.com
The Community-Based Restoration and Education Program, located at the Upper Newport Bay in Newport Beach, has brought the local community together to turn a very disturbed area into a wonderful native habitat for the endangered Polioptila californica and other native species. The volunteers helping to restore this area include environmentally conscious student interns, who, as project leaders, are passionate about helping revive the habitat to its most natural state. Through on-site training in ecological restoration and environmental education, the students also learn the importance of restoring the environment and sharing these lessons with other volunteers. Volunteers have removed much of the invasive habitat that was previously growing there and replaced it with many native plants, which are now flourishing. This leader training program has been very successful with spreading the word about the importance of a healthy habitat. In this presentation, we will share the experiences of a student leader as well as the lessons learned in working with students as leaders to help restore their local environment.
Conservation, Restoration and 'Reconciliation': Site selection principles that don't let the perfect get in the way of the good
Gregory Sutter
Westervelt Ecological Services, 600 North Market Blvd., Suite 3, Sacramento 95834, 916.646.3644, email@example.com
Site selection for the purpose of conservation has traditionally focused on identifying and setting aside pristine pieces of land for the purpose of maintaining landscape-scale biodiversity. Site selection for the purpose of restoration emphases the same conservation principles, but concentrates more on returning historically perfect sites, that have been impacted by humans, to their historically natural state for the same purpose. Some ecologists argue that there isn't enough ideal or historically perfect land available to maintain biodiversity. They are encouraging restoration 'reconciliation'. This approach focuses on 'good' restoration sites, that historically may fall short of being 'perfect', but due to the conservation landscape should get a second glance. This presentation focuses on the multi-disciplinary approach to site selection for the purpose of tidal marsh habitat restoration in the Delta. This process utilizes many different types of tools, but the principles of site selection are the same — focus on a landscape scale and watershed conservation approach, consult the experts and do your research. The presentation looks at four Delta projects; Tule Red Tidal Restoration Project, Potrero, Grizzly King, and Cosumnes Floodplain Mitigation Bank. Each was selected using the same site selection principles, but offer a look at conservation, restoration and reconciliation.


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