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Lowriders and car enthusiasts take inspiration from many things and for Aaron Pinal, that inspiration came from the car show scene. For as long as he can remember, pilgrimages to these exhibitions served as his introduction to the car-obsessed world he lives in now. "I knew that one day I would own one of those custom cars that I used to see in magazines and car shows," he explains. The vehicle that he had his eye on was an Escalade; a luxury SUV that he purchased in 2007 when he was only seventeen years old! He credits this achievement to the fact that he had been working in his family's restaurant from a very young age. "I began working on it immediately," says Aaron. He wasted no time in adding 26-inch wheels and a sound system with big bass to match. The black truck was later airbrushed with a purple mural, which served to guide the way it looks now. After Aaron joined the Escondido chapter of Nokturnal car club, he gained a greater insight as to what it takes to build a show car and he decided to redo the truck. "I really liked the way the purple stood out from the black, so I wanted to keep it purple," he explains. After talking to Mexico Collision Center and kicking around some ideas, the transformation started. "My truck has gone through a lot of transformations and I am really happy with how it is now," says a proud Aaron, though he insists that he is in no way, shape, or form done with customizing the Caddy.
Aaron would like to thank his Nokturnal car club for the motivation in building his truck, and all the shops that helped put it together, including Mexico's Collision Center, Audio Factory, SIK Fabrications, California Upholstery, JC Auto Style, and Robert Garcia.
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"La Barbie"
Owner: Aaron Pinal
Vehicle: 2007 Cadillac Escalade
City/State: Valley Center
Club: Nokturnal
Engine: 6.2 Vortech, K&N intake
Body/Paint: Mexico Collision Center handled the paintwork with a House of Kolor Purple Pearl that was followed by violet, pink and blue patterns. Robert Garcia of Altered Image in Hesperia, CA., added the murals found through out the SUV.
Interior: Joe Camacho of California Upholstery in Bell Gardens, CA., combined purple elephant with black ostrich and alligator for the interior.
Sound System: Audio Factory in La Puente, CA., installed the Sony head unit, Kicker mids and subwoofers, and multiple TV's including a 50-inch plasma.
Setup: Kevin of SIK Fabrications in Corona, CA., installed the airbag setup
Tires: Kumho 305/30R26.
Wheels: 26-inch Lexani LX6.


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Expense Account, C. H. Branscomb to N. E. Emigrant Aid Co.
Author: Branscomb, Charles H.
Date: January 1, 1855 - May 1, 1856
A typical expense report submitted by Charles H. Branscomb, general agent for the New England Emigrant Aid Company in Kansas Territory, detailing his expenditures for 1855 and part of 1856. Among the expenses Branscomb listed were travel, postage, paper, and telegraph costs.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: New England Emigrant Aid Company Collection, #624, Box 13, Folder 2
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Is not knowing when someone is dumping ads, instead of your images, into your site. I realize now that my ongoing (and it is still ongoing) battle to trim out the links to xs.to was only exacerbated by the fact that I have been relying primarily on a text-only browser for months now. The image link tags that elinks displayed were the same, regardless of what the image was. So I suppose, in that extrapolated sense, there is a (rather weak) downside to using a console-only system — someone could be polluting your blog with ads, and you wouldn't be able to tell. 🙄
I have learned my lesson though. I used that service for a couple of years, and while it wasn't uncommon for a picture to expire over time, I realize that there are quite a few still-useful posts on here that are besotted with advertisements for someone else's site, hovering in my archives. Posts that linked to imageshack.us or to a few other sites seem to have held their thumbnails at least, which is preferable to getting a giant ad, smack gob in the center of the page.
But I am willing to take the responsibility for this. There are lots of options available to me, and WordPress.com's native image hosting is probably my best bet. I resent the lightbox effect-riddled, Flash-driven image uploader (and the standard file uploader isn't much better), but it's probably the most reliable option. And there's gobs of space available nowadays, so that is not an issue either.
Regardless, I continue to carve away at posts from years back, a little each day. If you find one I missed, or find a post of particular value that is missing its screenshots, please let me know. If there are too many missing, as was the case with the X-based software and GTK1.2-based software pages, I just have to move on, and hope what I wrote is enough. On the other hand, howtos, like the one on vectorizing images in Inkscape, still get around 50 visitors a day, and I would be disappointed if someone turned away from the page because it was splattered with ads. 😐


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With the entire area set ablaze from the attack on Obito, Sasuke and Naruto watch, wondering if their attack was successful. Meanwhile, Tobirama teleports to Minato's side, noting that they had landed their attack before Obito could shield himself with the mysterious orbs. However, Obito emerges from the flames, unscathed as the orbs erase the black flames. As the two Hokage analyse the situation, Tobirama notes that Minato's arm should have regenerated by now, and comes to the conclusion that whatever Obito was doing involved the use of Yin–Yang rendering the regenerative abilities of the technique useless. As Naruto calls out to Sasuke noting they would have to lead the assault and attempts to go into Tailed Beast Mode. As a result, the mantle disappears altogether leading Tobirama to chide Naruto and Minato for not thinking. As Minato sheepishly apologises to the Second, they are all shocked when Gamakichi attacks Obito with the Starch Syrup Gun technique noting that the Summoning Technique was soon going to run out and he wanted to try something before he disappeared. As Obito deflects the attack under the shinobi's watchful eyes, Minato questions of his intentions lead Obito to decry the position of Hokage, leading Minato to blame the chain of events during the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox's Attack on his inability to recognise his own student. Naruto, however, tells the jinchūriki not to look down on the position because he was unable to acquire it, and — picking up on what was happening as Naruto formed a Rasengan — Tobirama teleports Naruto above Obito where he sends his attack crashing into Obito's back. Though Sasuke and Minato are shocked, Tobirama explains that it appeared that senjutsu was effective against Obito's form. As Minato notes that his son had become a sage like his own sensei, the silhouetted Yin half of Kurama notes that Naruto had grown up to be someone who loved his parents and had even persuaded his Yang-half to cooperate with him.


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Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) game wardens responded to a report of a dead adult female grizzly on Sunday, Nov. 3, and an initial investigation that evening found the bear had died of a gunshot wound.
The bear had three cubs of the year, and FWP was able to trap two of the cubs. The cubs will be placed in the Bronx Zoo. Multiple attempts to capture the third cub were unsuccessful.
FWP bear management specialist, Jamie Jonkel, notes that there is a chance that the lone cub could survive the winter on its own, and FWP may make additional attempts to locate the bear if it receives reports of sightings.
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SAN ANTONIO — Officials brought an additional felony charge against Jackie Len Neal, the San Antonio police officer accused of sexually assaulting a woman while on duty last week.
Neal, 40, was arrested Wednesday night on a civil rights violation charge of improper sexual activity with a person in custody. Bail was set at $10,000. He was released after posting bond early Thursday.
He had been free on bond since his arrest Saturday, when he was charged with felony sexual assault in the same case. Through his attorney, Neal had denied the assault charges.
Last Friday, a 19-year-old woman told police that Neal groped and raped her earlier that day during a traffic stop on the South Side.
The woman said she was headed to a friend's house near Zarzamora Street and Hutchins Place at about 2 a.m. when she noticed Neal's marked SUV tailing her. A mile later, she pulled over on Betty Street, she said.
Neal told the woman her car had been reported stolen; so she showed him a sales slip to prove she had recently bought it, an arrest warrant affidavit states.
Neal asked her to get out of the car so he could search her, the report says. The woman said she felt uncomfortable and asked for a female officer, but the report states Neal ignored her and groped her while he was patting her down.
He took the woman to the back of his patrol vehicle, where he handcuffed her and raped her, the report states.
Before Neal left, he instructed the woman not to tell anyone, according to the affidavit.
Police said Neal was arrested after he showed up at the woman's home, about 20 hours later.
Police Chief William McManus said last weekend that he was outraged by Neal's conduct and added there is no such thing as consensual sex on duty.
Neal, who has served on the police force for 11 years, was placed on paid administrative leave after his initial arrest.
McManus said a similar complaint was made against Neal before but was not prosecuted because the complaining witness at the time decided to not cooperate with the investigation.
Neal was also briefly suspended in September for dating an 18-year-old member of the Police Explorers program.
The program encourages young people to join law enforcement.
Staff Writers Jeremy T. Gerlach and Michelle Mondo contributed to this report.
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1. Behavior Tech Computer Corporation Sound Card 1859
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I got the soundblaster part running fine under dos and windows, using generic ESS drivers - but I can't get the synth to play... port 330 seems to be looking for an external synth trough the midi port, and the internal ES696F synth is quiet... anybody manage to get one of these playing synth midi music in dos?
2. Gullemot Maxi Sound 64 ( SC8600 V2.0 )
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This guy won't even play SB sound in dos. The on-board ram and any ram I put in the 72 pin socket get pretty warm. The card is detected and configured correctly under both dos and windows, but there's no sound whatsoever. Again, I used generic ESS drivers for the SB compatible part. I didn't even try to get the Dream synth working. Since the ram gets pretty warm, the card may be dead - but maybe I'm doing something wrong?
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African cultivars, or Tagetes erecta varieties, and triploid hybrids are started indoors or under cover in early spring, 6 weeks before last frost, bottom heat helpful; a soil temperature of 75-80F/24-27C is ideal. Transplant after frost is past. Some African cultivars, i.e. double dwarfs, should be started 10 or more weeks before last frost
French and signata marigolds, or Tagetes patula and Tagetes signata, respectively, may also be started this way, or are sown directly after last frost. Good sun and sandy, well-draining, otherwise average soil ideal. Water sparingly, except in hot weather, when regular, thorough waterings should be provided. Also tolerates quite alkaline soils. Annuals
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- Elevation: 985 m (3,232 ft)
- Prominence: 717 m
- Ribu category: Spesial
- Province: Jawa Barat (West Java)
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- Other names: Bangkok (mistake on some maps)
Bagging It!
The steep and impressive Gunung Bongkok (sometimes mis-spelt 'Bangkok') lies just to the south of the equally imposing Gunung Parang. They are both of great interest to rock climbers as there are various vertical rock faces on their slopes. Despite being just a couple of hours from Jakarta, they are not often visited except by local villagers and occasional student hikers. Both peaks are stunning and it must surely only be a matter of time before these mountains become much more well-known.
Both peaks lie to the east of the large Jatiluhur reservoir near Purwakarta. The starting point for Gunung Bongkok is Cisarua, which is best accessed via Plered because the small farm roads from Purwakarta are incredibly bumpy and rocky and it would take at least 20 minutes just to get from Pasangrahan (starting point for Parang) to Cisarua. If in doubt, as for the school (sekolah) in Cisarua. It is best to allow 2 hours for the journey from Purakarta to Cisarua.
In Cisarua, there is a small warung where a couple of vehicles can be left. The local people are very friendly and would be more than willing to guide you to the top for a very modest fee. Cisarua is at an elevation of approximately 452m so it's just 520 metres of ascent to reach the top, which can easily be done in 2 hours by most fit people. Building work is currently going on and there is a new track leading up from Cisarua towards the mountain itself. From here, in good weather you will be able to spot the huge gilstening andesite boulders which crown the peak of Bongkok.
Soon you will reach the end of where building work is underway and this is where a guide becomes essential. The farm trail leads up the hillside and follows a pleasant grassy strip for some distance. It's a beautiful area – mango trees, cattle roaming freely and great views back down towards the huge reservoir.
After about 30 minutes of fairly standard upland farm hiking, you will reach the crest of the hill (684m) and this is where you must turn left onto the shoulder of the mountain. The area is full of bamboo trees and occasional large boulders. The trail soon gets much steeper and there are several rather tricky places where you will need to use both hands to ascend/descend large rocks (764m) and steep muddy areas. There is not much of a view here because of the trees, but think of this as a blessing because it would be oppressively hot outside the shade.
Soon you will reach the true summit ridge, where you turn left, pass an ancient grave and then finally spot the summit boulders of this superb mountain. Because of the size of the boulders, the highest of which is called Batu Tumpuk, no trees can grow at the top of the mountain and so the views are absolutely stunning – the vastness of the Jatiluhur reservoir below, the phenomenal shape of neighbouring Gunung Parang, the vertical drops back down to the villages and the holy mountain of Gunung Sanggabuana on the other side of the reservoir. It is truly breathtaking.
The boulders are easily climbed so – unlike the densely vegetated Gn Parang – Bongkok can be bagged very easily. Do take great care however because a fall here would mean falling several hundred metres down the cliff face of the mountain. There is much animal life here – swallows love to swoop round the peak and in sunny conditions you will probably be able to see a few eagles soaring below you. There are also a number of flying ants so make sure to check for them every few minutes.
After enjoying an hour or two in the shade of the huge boulders, simply follow the trail back down to Cisarua. Because of a few steep, difficult sections of the trail it takes a little longer to descend that to climb. Allow 2 hours.
Bagging information by Daniel Quinn (June 2011).
Trail Map
For a high quality PDF version of this and other trail maps, please download from our Trail Maps page.
Local Accommodation
- Getting there: From Jakarta, take the toll road from Jakarta to Bandung and exit at Jatiluhur or Purwakarta. The are frequent buses to Purwakarta from Jakarta's Kampung Rambutan bus terminal. If using public transport, either find a willing ojek driver in Purwakarta or take an angkot to Plered and an ojek from Plered to the foot of the mountain. If driving, it is less than 20km from Purwakarta to the mountain – head to Sukatani then turn right near the sign for the quarry and follow the road over the railway line and through Sukamaju, Tajursindang and Sindanglaya, after which you need to turn left (small wooden signpost for Gn Parang and Gn Bongkok) then right to Pasangrahan and Cisarua.
- Guides and GPS Tracks: Want a PDF version for your phone? Looking for a guide? Need GPS tracks and waypoints? Gunung Bongkok information pack can be downloaded here.
- Permits: Not required but take a photocopy of your passport photo page just incase.
- Water sources: None on the mountain. There are small warungs in Cisarua and nearby village below the peak but take sufficient supplies with you.
- Travel insurance: We recommend World Nomads insurance, which is designed for adventurous travellers with cover for overseas medical, evacuation, baggage and a range of adventure sports and activities including mountain hiking.
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Origins and Meaning
Hunchback Mountain. Bongkok means "hunched" and is used here describing the shape/appearance of the mountain. (George Quinn, 2011)


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Greetings folks. Here's one of those questions that seems to have been asked a million different times in a million different ways by a million different people, but none of those answers seems to be relevant to me.
Ok, so I am just starting out with Java, using the Oracle Java tutorials. I used Netbeans IDE to create the simple HelloWorldApp program, compiled it to a .class file, and then it works fine in Netbeans using the Run command there, but I wanted to see if it would work from the command line (because not everyone's going to have Netbeans but they still might want to run my program). Surprise surprise, it didn't work.
So now I will provide all the pertinent data. First, the program code:
/* * To change this template, choose Tools | Templates * and open the template in the editor. */ package helloworldapp; /** * * @author //my name deleted */ public class HelloWorldApp { /** * @param args the command line arguments */ public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World!"); } }
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Woke up by 0600. I ate 3 eggs with spinach, finished it with a nice up of coffee. I started trail by 0945. The route from the trail head to lake airey was good. Got to lake airey and had a 30 minute lunch. Got back on trail by 1200. The first few miles towards POW lake were flat and easy at about the 11.5 miles it will get dense but nothing hard. The trail will go from 4 feet wide to about a foot wide. After the 12 mile marker, just know you will need to hike about .7 miles untill POW.. It was a great trail and worth every step
This is a very easy trail but a good scenic trail. Get to look at a lot of different types of nature, ponds, lakes, and a POW camp. Flat trail that makes the higher mileage easier for newer hikers.
This is a great trail for beginners. It is well marked and fairly flat. If you park a car at Airey Lake and ride in a second car to the Highway 49 trailhead, the roughly 6 mile walk is fairly nice. I have hiked it one way (6.2 miles) or roundtrip from Airey Lake to Highway 49 and back (12.4 miles) or the long hike from Highway 49 to Airey Lake to the POW Camp. Sometimes the long route is not well marked, so you have to figure out which way to go, but as hikes go, it's nice, but long. As someone else said, you need to bring plenty of water for these hikes, as there is not a supply except a couple of spots. Also, South Mississippi can get incredibly hot midday till late afternoon. I recommend starting very early in the morning. Parts of the trail have no canopy, so you are in full sunlight.
This is a pine forest trail. It is well marked and clean. We at lunch by a stream. It has a few hills and some roots, but it is really a well maintained trail.
I traveled I-10 W-exit 46 D'Iberville-hwy 67. When 67 junctions with 49-the trail head is just north on the east side.
The trail was very well marked with white blazes-though they were only needed for confirmation as the trail is very obvious the entire way. Mostly flat, wide enough for 2 to walk abreast most of the way, very well maintained trail. A large part of the trail is grassy and had been recently mowed-I actually encountered a mower while hiking-kudos to them as I can't imagine how tall the grass might be w/o them.
There were mile markers every mile and I felt they were probably appropriate distance as my time hitting them was very consistent.
Great easy hike to Lake Airey and back. Distance to Lake Airey from 49 definitely around the 5. 5 to 5.6 range.
Hike: 25 May 2008, Review: 29 May 2008
First and formost, if you plan to start this hike and plan on going all the way to POW lake, make sure you have the time and resources for the hike. It will take you a day to do this. I started my hike with my friend and my dog, all three of us young and full of energy with both of us being in the military. The hike started at 7:30am, and we did not return until 8:40 pm.
At the trail head on 49, the first 5 miles are easy going, good for a stroll in the woods if thats what you were looking for. Lots of little streams here and there with plenty of shade for the most part. Pretty flat too, with just the occational hill here and there. The trail is marked pretty well with white diamonds, so if you do happen to wonder off the trail, you could spot those easyily and make your way back. Each mile is marked with the mile markers, little posts in the ground, although im not too sure how accurate the distances are, but its a good mental tool in either case. once you emerge from the woods and come into Airey lake camp ground, the first thing you come to is the only bathroom you will have the chance to use the entire trip (you may want to bring your own TP for two reasons, one the bathrooms TP is like tissue paper, and two you may need it while your out in the woods). After the restroom, you can go fill all your water at one of the two water stations on the camp ground. I might also add that these are the only ones on the trail that I know of. This is a great place to stop eat and rest/relax before the next leg... IF your going on to POW lake.
When your ready to hit the trail for the next 7 miles, you continue on around to the left of the lake and follow the path. The first mile is pretty much all down hill (keep this in mind when your on your return trip, because your going to be hating this mile on the way back). The next 2 or 3 miles is pretty flat, but curvy grass land under a light cover of trees, little shade throught here, so make sure to have lots of water. Once you hit the 10 mile marker, its gets ruff. For two miles its twist and turn up and down... it really gives you a work out, and with the 11 mile marker missing, it plays a mind trick on you, makes it feel like your hiking for ever. But once you get out of it all, you come to POW lake and its a wonderfull site. Beware of the gators, so dont get to close to the shore. Once you have had a breather, time to go back.
Things you will need for your hike on this trail. Water... Lots of it. Food that does not need to be kept cool, you could bring a cooler but there is no way it is going to stay cold the entire time. TP, you never know when you will need it. Extra socks, you will be sweating heavily depending what time of year you go out. Did i mention water yet? yeah, thats the most important part, bring water and have fun.
My friend and I have recently found and started to hike the Tuxachanie trail. We started at the trail head on 49 and went to Airey lake, had a hot lunch and hiked back, which was 10 miles round trip. It was easy going with lots to look at, something great for the family and dog. Now going from Airey Lake to POW lake and back is 14 miles round trip and conciderably more difficult than that of the first leg. But all in all just bring lots of water and you'll be just fine.
Hike: 25 March 2008 Posted: 28 March 2008
Here are several GPS waypoints obtained during my 25 March 2008 hike on the western section of the Tuxachanie Trail from the Hwy 49 trailhead to Airey Camp (aka Airey Lake Campground). I had not learned of the RTC GPS Mapping Initiative until after the hike so the following GPS info is not in accordance with the RTC format and does not "trace" the trail. My intention is to return to the trail and collect a more thorough set of waypoints to submit to RTC.
One waypoint is for a geocache shown to me by an elderly gent, Ralph, who walks the trail with his dog, Sam, several times a week. He showed me the geocache and I took the GPS waypoint (I took nothing, left nothing, did not sign the log - so I gotta go back!). Rather than include the specific coords here (mine are slightly different anyway), I ask that folks go to the website geocaching.com to look up this particular geocache listing ("Tucachanie Coconut" (yeah, it's misspelled), thanks APLZ), search for additional Tuxachanie Trail geocaches (at various mile markers, thanks ZingerMTB), and to learn about geocaching in general...just like I did. Looks like an addicting activity and should add to the fun of walking and biking RTC trails.
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Tux Trail - Hwy 49 Trailhead N30 39.996 W89 08.013
Tux Trail - Waypoint 1 N30 39.853 W89 07.668
Tux Trail - Waypoint 2 N30 40.392 W89 06.081
Tux Trail - Waypoint 3 N30 40.491 W89 04.982
Tux Trail - City Bridge Road Trailhead N30 41.319 W89 03.722
(across the road from Airey Camp)
Airey Camp Parking Lot N30 41.347 W89 03.688
The "Tucachanie Coconut" geocache is located at one of the waypoints above....but I'm not tellin'! Go to the geocaching.com homepage, find "View a Cache Listing" near the upper right of the page, enter the waypoint name "GC13146", do the search, and read about the geocache. The "treasure" is on the edge of the trail but naturally camouflaged so look hard.
I returned to Tux Trail on 25 March 2008 and hiked the western section from Hwy 49 to Airey Lake Campground, then back again.
The trailhead and parking lot at Hwy 49 is very clean and well maintained. The trail is completely clear the entire way. A significant length of the trail is through what was described to me by a local person on the trail as a controlled burn. He believed it was a recent burn, since the beginning of the year, which seemed reasonable since there was still an occasional whiff of the burn and very little if any green growth. All streams and low spots have wood or steel bridges, or wood planks, or in one area, decorative garden blocks. There are plenty of water sources, either fast or slow moving streams or nearby ponds. Filtering or treating the water would be prudent. A 1983 USFS map of the original trail (purchased from a gas station on Hwy 26 in Wiggins, MS, west of Hwy 49) indicates the length of this section of the trail was 4.7 miles. A conversation with an another local person on the trail revealed that over time this section of the trail has been rerouted twice, adding about 0.9 miles to the length, making the new length about 5.6 miles. This section of the trail intersects several times with well packed dirt and gravel backroads so hiking the trail in sections is possible. The trail is well marked with white diamond blazes. The trail is well worn so it's hard to accidentally lose the trail but the blazes are well placed for the most part. Near Hwy 49 there are a few tricky sections without trees that have colored plastic tape across the wrong path to keep you on the trail. There are numerous signs along the trail indicating bicycles are prohibited. That's too bad since it would be a great location for a "bike hike".
The eastern end of this section of the Tux Trail is across City Road from Airey Camp (as taken from the USFS sign in front) and then continues through the campground and into the eastern part of the trail that loops around to the east and south for nearly 20 miles. The southern most part of the trail is accessible at Bethel Road and allows a short hike to an old POW camp. Airey Camp is a well maintained, limited camping USFS site in De Soto National Forest. There is a single room bathroom with running water for the toilet and sink. There is a single community water faucet near the parking lot. The parking lot is ringed by a wooden post barrier to prevent vehicles being driven onto the grass and to the camp sites. Airey Lake (really more of a big pond) used to be a good fishing spot but it looked to me like it could be "dead" now. Lots of lily pads and surface scum along the shore with dark brown water with no surface activity. There were no bugs out so perhaps the fish were all still relatively deep. The informative signs about the types of fish in the pond and fishing rules are no longer posted so perhaps that's an indication it's no longer a fishing spot. Too bad. I've submitted several photos of the trail. I took some GPS waypoints and will provide the info in a future post here.
Overall, a very nice hiking trial. Suitable for hikers (or slow walkers) of all ages. it would even be a fun trail for the trailrunners out there.
"Trail visit as of 23 October 2005. Review as of 18 November 2005
A disappointing first visit to the MS 49 trailhead in that numerous trees were down around the entire area as well as a couple in the parking lot. USFS signs warned the area was off limits for public use. No evidence of any effort to clear the parking lot or trailhead.
I then headed to the trailhead at Airey Lake Campground. The campground was closed due to numerous trees and debris with more USFS signs warning it was off limits. I headed westward on the Tuxachanie Trail for only about a mile until the way was blocked by a fallen tree and the overgrowth on either side was too dense to safely work my way around (especially with a 45 lb backpack - I was planning to overnight near the trail). I had to navigate on the trail over, around, and once even under falled trees on the trail. Again, no evidence of any effort to clear the trail.
I then ""snuck"" in through the campground to the main part of the trail and attempted to head east. [Again, no evidence of any clearing debris in the campground.] Just past Airey Lake the trail was blocked by a fallen tree and passage around it would have been difficult. I probably could have bushwhacked around the area or even driven to another trailhead on Bethel Road but by this point I had pretty much accepted that the trail would be unpassable again eventually. I just dropped my pack, broke out my stove, had a hot lunch, and just relaxed for a while.
I imagine that the clearing of Tuxachanie Trail has a low priority on just about all organization's lists so I expect it could be months or more before any trail improvement can be expected. If anyone is aware of any pending effort to clear Tux Trail needing volunteers, I'd like to hear about it.
Comments or trail updates are welcome.
Weston Anderson
U.S. Navy, Retired
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The PBS spacetime is a textbook example of a pop-science channel that collects and sells the most widespread laymen's and journalists' misconceptions about science as if they were real science. Sometimes the videos summarize the insights or views of the somewhat informed laymen, too, but more often, they don't. I have criticized their takes on the foundations of quantum mechanics and other things.
Just to be sure, there are also some episodes on elementary enough things that are basically OK and maybe even helpful to educate the public.
In this 6-days-old episode, the main host Matt invited Neil deGrasse Tyson, probably to attract some truly superficial viewers who consider this obnoxious moron to be a symbol of science. Relatively to Tyson, Matt talks like a genius. Tyson is reduced to offensively idiotic comments about an extraterrestrial or futuristic teenager in their parents' garage. This kind of a talk is probably expected to make the whole picture "hip" and that's enough for it to be widely accepted among the degenerated youth that pretends to be "into science" but they are really "into pseudoscientific stupidities".
I was capable of watching the full episode – it was sped up by a factor of 1.5. But the concentration of idiocy was immense. Maybe I made this quantity worse by a factor of 1.5 because I sped it up, as I mentioned. ;-)
Any single mistake from the following list would be enough to render these "arguments" hopelessly wrong but these people suffer from all these fallacies simultaneously. It is just terrible:
They assume that we're typical among all packages of information in the whole spacetime that look like our perceptions.
But that's just plain nonsense. There cannot be any "intertemporal equilibrium". They are assuming that different "lives or events in the spacetime" that obey some conditions are equally likely. But there doesn't exist any known – and there doesn't exist any mathematically possible – justification of this "intertemporal equilibrium" or "intertemporal democracy of the observers", if you wish.
In statistical physics, because of symmetries or the ergodic theorem, different states or points on the phase space may be equally likely. But they're always "states that may exist at the same moment". There's no way how "objects at different moments" could thermalize – become equally likely as others in the intertemporal ensemble. (By the word "intertemporal", I mean any set that includes elements that exist at different moments of time.)
It's impossible for such probabilistic distributions to exist because the whole ensemble is extensive in the spacetime, is potentially infinite, and therefore cannot be normalized to unity. Even if the life expectancy of the spacetime were finite and it could be normalized, the normalization cannot be known now because the evolution isn't decided yet.
They call this impossible intertemporal democracy "the Copernican principle" but Copernicus is undoubtedly turning in his grave in Frombork, Poland. Copernicus wasn't an idiot who would say that "one is equally likely to be two completely different things at different moments". No intertemporal democracy rule has ever been successful in science, no intertemporal democracy rule has ever been formulated by a credible scientist in a credible paper, and no intertemporal democracy rule is mathematically possible.
The impossibility of the "equal probability of different times" or "intertemporal equilibrium" is closely logically related to the question of "intertemporal democracy". Ten years ago, I discussed James Hansen's upside down interpretations of Thomas Jefferson. Hansen claimed that Jefferson said that the Earth or the U.S. belonged to the people of all generations, including the future generations that environmentalist loons like Hansen often love to quote as allies and arguments. But Jefferson's point was exactly the opposite. Jefferson wrote that "the earth belongs in usufruct [in its entirety] to the living". What Jefferson meant was exactly that only the people who live now – and not those who are already dead or not yet born – may control what's happening with the Earth.
It seems like a matter of common sense that dead and non-existent people can't do too many things now but indeed, environmentalist whackos as well as the defenders of the simulation šit are incapable of understanding this simple point. In particular, the simulation nuts say that the people who may be born in the future – and computers in their futuristic garages – are capable of persuading you now when it comes to the question about your own origin. Well, it's simply not possible. They don't exist now so right now, they just can't change the opinions – probabilities assigned to a belief – held by the rational people who live now. Rational people may only be affected by things that exist.
These guys say that in the near future, "simulations will be indistinguishable from reality".
Well, when you say "indistinguishable", you should say "indistinguishable by whom" or "by what methods and tools". A computer game may be indistinguishable from reality by the laymen or stupid fake scientists or TV monkeys such as Neil deGrasse Tyson but they are perfectly distinguishable by those who have some intelligence, knowledge, talent, and skills. Take someone whose knowledge and IQ vastly exceeds that of a Tyson. I can run the tests whether we're a simulation or not, I have made these tests many times, and the result of my evaluation of the data from these tests is that the probability that we're in a simulation is equal to a tiny number which is zero for all practical and most of the impractical purposes.
These guys absolutely ignore quantum mechanics.
They're counting how many molecules may be simulated by a computer. But it is very clear in all these descriptions of the would-be calculation that they're assuming that the molecules are obeying the laws of classical mechanics. There's no reason to rationally expect that in a foreseeable future, we will be able to run quantum computer simulations of systems with Hilbert spaces of dimensions \(\exp(10^{26})\) which would be needed to describe a human being. Even a 10-qubit quantum computer seems too hard right now.
Again, the likes of Tyson can't even distinguish classical physics from quantum mechanics. But that doesn't mean that the difference doesn't exist. It only means that these Tysons are total morons. Competent physicists may distinguish them very easily and even at 3 a.m. when you wake them up. The simulations that they verbally described are clearly classical in character so they absolutely contradict almost every observation that is relevant in modern physics.
The very argument that "because something will be widespread in the future, we can say something about our origin" is guaranteed to be logically flawed for causal reasons.
The reason is simple: the future is disjoint with the past – so the events in the future are different than those in the past, and the statements about the events in the future are inequivalent to statements about the events in the past.
Moreover, we don't really know what the future of computer simulations will be.
These Bostrums and Scrotums realize the previous paragraph: so Bostrum says that the probability that we're in a simulation is below 50% because it's also possible that the simulations won't evolve in the way he needs to "flood the Universe" with simulated humans.
But even if he could know what will happen with the computer simulation industry in the future, it is totally obvious that it just couldn't settle any questions about our origin – about the past. The reason why no such reasoning is possible is, as I have already mentioned, that one of these propositions talks about events in the future (teenagers in futuristic garages with very powerful computers) while the other talks about the events in the past (what was needed for you or your father, grandfather, or a more distant ancestor to emerge).
Just like your grandfather is a different object than your grandson, the questions about our origin and the origin of some objects (simulated or biological beings) in the future are obviously different questions. Whoever is confusing these two or saying that they are equivalent is a complete imbecile, one that isn't capable of distinguishing an iPhone from an ancient germ, distinguishing his grandfather from his granddaughter, a senile or childish piece of brain-dead šit. It's just utterly insulting when someone sells such pieces of brain-dead šit as if they were researchers doing cutting-edge research in physics.
To rationally address the question whether you're a simulation, you have to reconstruct events in your past, not your future. Assumptions about the past are examples of hypotheses in Bayesian reasoning – just like different candidate laws of Nature are hypotheses in Bayesian reasoning. You have to formulate these hypotheses, derive some of their consequences for the observations, and figure out which of them is most compatible and ideally nontrivially compatible (boasting some predictive power) with the data. When the empirical data from experiments and astronomical-like observations are taken into account, this example of Bayesian reasoning is known as the scientific method.
These Tyson idiots promoting the simulation šit aren't doing science at all.
When you do science, you will find out that regardless of the precision of the simulations, there will be unavoidable glitches showing that the exact laws of the Standard Model or string theory etc. don't really precisely work if the underlying explanation is a simulation. In sufficiently comprehensive tests such as the LHC, some deviation from the Standard Model – which would manifest itself as a miracle – is predicted with the probability approaching 100%. (Examples of types of these glitches are deja vu cats, rounding errors, Scott Adams' history-on-demand, and many many other general types of glitches that may be used to discriminate between simulations and the reality.) No such miracle has taken place so the simulation hypothesis is ruled out.
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All four of the Vols' runs came in the top of the fourth, which Stewart got rolling by stroking a leadoff double to right-center. A catcher's interference call with Senzel at the plate, a sac bunt by Jackson and a walk to Smart promptly loaded the bases before Maggio chopped a single to right to bring in the game's first two runs.
After a pitching change, MSU reliever Jacob Lindgren would uncork three wild pitches over the next three batters to allow Smart and Maggio to make their way around the basepaths to cross the plate as well and give the Volunteers a strong 4-0 advantage.
The Bulldogs got one run back in the bottom of the sixth when Seth Heck came through with an RBI base knock. MSU had a chance to cut into its deficit even more with two on and just one out but UT catcher Tyler Schultz gunned down a runner at third and Martin ended the inning with his fifth punchout of the game to shut down the threat.
State would cut into UT's lead once more the following frame when C.T. Bradford blooped a two-out, 2-2 pitch to center to bring in a run to make it a 4-2 ball game. On in relief of Martin, Andy Cox would get a groundball to short to leave two Bulldog baserunners stranded and set up the dramatic final two innings.
Tennessee will send senior right-hander Nick Williams (5-4, 3.73) to the mound on Saturday as it looks to win its second SEC series in a row. Mississippi State will counter with junior southpaw Ross Mitchell (7-4, 2.12) with the game's first pitch set for 7 p.m. ET. Richard Cross and Joe Beckwith will have the call as the game will be televised on CSS.


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(I was asked a few questions on my involvement with the Student Voice movement and my opinions on edreform for a documentary. Here's what I said)
I think education is extremely important, but that the definition of what education entails, is changing as we speak. To me, getting an education is still the means of acquiring the knowledge to succeed and survive once you leave school and enter the "real world" with all the "big kids." education, in countries less fortunate than the U.S, is a ticket up and out if you take advantage of it. Education can, and should continue to, be revolutionary.
Initially, I simply focused on using technology to maximize our learning potential. This interest on maximizing learning in school evolved into thinking about an ideal school containing a mix of elements picked up from my past school experiences thus far. My ideal school would break out of the egg shell culture where teachers stand and lecture to a passive audience. It would feature problems and situations where subjects such as math and science are used in real life. In an ideal school, the growth mindset could act as a mission statement, and the school would not put such a large focus on grades and studying for the test. Simply by working towards this ideal school, I soon got interested in ed reform without realizing it.
There are lots of schools doing well but since I was given opportunity to be a part of one of these "good" schools, I wanted to spread these positive qualities to to all schools. In schools that aren't doing that well in that their focus is on test scores and they don't value the individual needs of various students , I believe that making a more based in reality curriculum and shifting less focus on grades with more on comprehension would help. Personally I think that it's mainly a huge mindset shift that's needed. Out with the focus on 100 and in with a focus on "I understand" (Understanding such that one could explain the concept like a week later without any help etc).
In US, I believe standardized testing has affected the teaching of a lot of school, sadly. This pressure to have a high scoring class has led to cheating (like in my city's public school system), and a mindset of teaching to the test. I believe that it can definitely be fixed, if we put less emphasis and weight on these tests that truly do nothing. We set the standards and manipulate it so kids meet them. Is that actually Iearning? How does that show that kids are learning? It doesn't, so why do we still rely on these tests as indications of learning success? I realize that downright abolishing standardized tests will be practically impossible, but it's always worth a try!
I think that in general, private schools are doing pretty well especially in relation to other schools, though I know they're not perfect. I want to help everyone have the kinds of opportunities I've had and help everyone have a good education (one where they learn what they want and the "important" things). I dont like all the pressure on the wrong things- learning for the tests as an example. I wish learning could be mainly for our improvement instead. It's a lofty goal- one that I haven't reached yet. In this culture it's easy to slip back into the realm of tests as the pinnacle, I know.
I took up blogging as a means to use my love of writing to get my thoughts out there. Initially, my blog itsallaboutthejourney97.com, attracted my family and the teachers who inspired me. Eventually, other people found me through twitter and I also learned of other blogging opportunities thanks to my new connections. Once I knew some people who were writing for the Huffington post and I realized the attainability of such an opportunity, I thought I'd give it a try. And suddenly I'm in the middle of this education movement and recording the first pieces of what I hope will be outstanding change.
As a student, I've always been a big supporter of students being heard and putting the students back into the school picture. After all, the core idea of school is geared towards the students it's educating. I wanted to start or be a part of a unique blog designed to channel this student energy that would be by students about students. I eventually connected with Zak, who had the twitter chat with Allison, then Stephanie contacted us and we were on our way! Stuvoice.org was born and is now gaining steam.
In my opinion, the current education reform movement is a sea of educators, students, admin and patents (every and any body who wants a fair say) who want to bring our Education System into the 21 Century and all that entails. In my opinion in the 21 Century, our schools ought to have Technology, Social Media, Standards Based Grading, and leveled practical assessments instead of cut and dried tests, among other things.
If I was a teacher, ideally, I would like a classroom with no (or less) focus on the tests, and a standards based grading system. I think that curriculum wise, we as a whole are moving already in a great direction with more practical real life problems and less simply ideological teaching. I would try to stay away from what I relate to as the Umbridge philosophy, (inspired by J.K Rowling's government official turned teacher) that it's enough to simply know the principles and practicing the concepts is unnecessary.
If I were Arne Duncan, the first thing I'd attempt to change is the mindset that grades are the end all be all. I would try to encourage people to try and not worry about if they fail, that it's ok to mess up.
I know I'm not an expert on Education, Reform, or any permutation of the two, by any stretch of imagination. I believe in making a better school available to all but my opinion on Ed Reform is not necessarily the same thing everyone else is saying. I hope my viewpoint can provide another piece to the puzzle and bring us one step closer to putting it all together.


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In a key pretrial order, a panel of federal judges in Washington found that the state of Texas used an inappropriate standard to determine if districts would be able to elect minority candidates and said that the state's lawyers had confused and misapplied Supreme Court precedent and the Voting Rights Act in a bid to make their case.
The judges' 44 page opinion, issued late Thursday night, expounds upon the court's previously brief finding that the state had used an improper standard to determine if minority voters would be disenfranchised by the Legislature's plans and could complicate Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's efforts to get the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn court-drawn interim redistricting maps.
The preclearance trial is scheduled to begin Jan. 17.
The three judges — two appointed by Republican President George W. Bush and one appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama — wrote that the state confused two key Voting Rights Act legal standards in arguing that the court should grant preclearance.
"Texas perceives "ability" and "opportunity" as interchangeable, but they represent different concepts that serve different purposes," the judges wrote in their order.
They also found that standard used by the state to determine if a district could elect a minority candidate was overly simplistic.
"… Historical discrimination against Hispanics in Texas has, in some areas of the State [sic], continued to depress their educational and economic conditions such that the mere attainment of citizen voting-age status might have no real effect on their ability to elect representatives of choice," the judges wrote, citing a legal brief filed by Latino Redistricting Task Force, which is represented by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
They continued: " Such a background requires a more complicated retrogression analysis than Texas wants this Court to approve, but it is part and parcel of discerning whether minority voters will be effective in their exercise of the electoral franchise."
The D.C. Court said that the state should have used a more "comprehensive" standard to evaluate if a district would be able to elect minority candidates. That standard, they wrote, should include consideration of population shifts and voter turnout.
Furthermore, the court wrote that coalition districts, where minority and white voters elect the same candidates (like Austin's 25th Congressional district, which is currently represented by Lloyd Doggett), are protected from being dismantled by the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act.
Abbott argued in court filings with the Supreme Court that the court-drawn interim redistricting maps — created by a panel of federal judges in Texas that overheard a series of separate but related redistricting lawsuits — didn't show enough deference to the state's Republican dominated redistricting maps.
He argued that the Texas court should have used the Legislature's maps as the basis for the interim-redistricting maps unless the state's maps were denied preclearance or it was likely the state's maps would be denied preclearance.
Rick Hasen, an election law professor at the University of California Irvine, wrote on his blog very late last night (pacific time) that the D.C. Court's rebuke of Texas in its pretrial order could heavily influence the Supreme Court :
… [T]hat fact could be relevant to the Supreme Court's forthcoming hearing and decision on the interim plan. If the opinion convinces Justice Kennedy (and the Court liberals) that Texas's proposed plans likely should not be precleared, then that is good reason these plans should not be deferred to by the courts in crafting an interim plan. Texas in its brief filed yesterday conceded there should not be deference to a proposed (but unprecleared) plan when it is likely to believe the plan should not be precleared. The opinion today will be thrown back in Texas's face in the second round of briefing before the Supreme Court.
Oral arguments at the Supreme Court over the interim-redistricting maps are scheduled for Jan. 9
Read the court's pretrial opinion below:


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The Ministry of Health and Social Services in support by the World Health Organization hosted a team of external evaluators to determine Namibia's readiness to prevent, detect, respond and manage major disease outbreaks.
Eleven (11) external evaluators from multiple disciplines formed part of the team. They are from the Academia; US Center for Diseases Control, United National Food and Agricultural Organization representing Finland, United States of America, Kenya, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Monrovia, South Africa, Italy, Peru, and Ethiopia.
Namibia has initiated the platform because she is committed to comply with the International Health Regulations (IHR) requirements, by ensuring that appropriate capacities are in place to prevent, detect and adequately respond to any emergencies of public health concern.
Evaluation Area 1:
There is technical commitment with participation of some senior level personnel such as the deputy permanent secretary MoHSS, the former permanent secretary BUT this is mainly from the MOHSS and not the other sectors such as Agriculture, Environment, Wild life, port authorities and security agencies.
Legislation, policies and financing-several laws and policies exist to support the implementation of IHR (2005)
The IHR NFPs, OIE delegates have been identified and health emergency management committees have been established national, regional and districts level although there remain issues of OH coordination.
There is a robust laboratory system and network in both human and animal health, with Web-based laboratory result sharing at the Regional, the district hospitals and some HCs through Namibia Institute of Pathology-NIP.
Evaluation Area 2:
There is a real time surveillance system with indicator based and syndromic surveillance and some event based surveillance but there is limited data analysis and feedback
The ongoing investment in the education of health professionals is impressive. Namibia is investing in the future and that is really important. It will be key to offer those who graduate a clear career path in their own country.
There are MOUs with foreign academic institutions for Namibia HR capacity development in areas where the country lacks the capacity and the FETP programme is established.
Evaluation Area 3:
On zoonosis and One Health, Namibia has well organised veterinary services and zoonotic surveillance system with qualified staff at all three levels and in-country training for veterinary professionals and para-professionals.
There is a complimentary well established human health sector utilising the IDSR for reporting diseases, including zoonoses.
Rabies eradication program has been initiated as a pilot in one of the district and there is planned for expansion to the whole country
Risk communication utilizes a great variety of messaging channels and engages the community at all levels
Through the WHO Governing Bodies, Consequent to the Assessment, the Government will develop an action plan to address the major challenges and gaps with the aim of strengthening its capacity to prevent and manage disease outbreaks.


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September 15, 1997
Pacific Ocean sea-surface height measurements and atmospheric water vapor information taken from two independent Earth-orbiting satellites are providing more convincing evidence that the weather-disrupting phenomenon known as El Niño is back.
"The new data collected since April 1997 confirm what we had earlier speculated upon and what the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted - a full-blown El Niño condition is established in the Pacific," said Dr. Lee-Lueng Fu, project scientist for the U.S./French TOPEX/Poseidon satellite at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
The five years of global ocean topography observations made by TOPEX/Poseidon have been a boon for El Niño researchers, who have been able to track three El Niño events since the satellite's launch in August 1992.
"The recent data are showing us that a large warm water mass with high sea-surface elevations, about 15 centimeters (six inches) above normal, is occupying the entire tropical Pacific Ocean east of the international date line. In fact, the surface area covered by the warm water mass is about one and a half times the size of the continental United States," Fu said. "We watched this warm water mass travel eastward from the western Pacific along the equator earlier this spring. Right now, sea-surface height off of the South American coast is 25 centimeters (10 inches) higher than normal, which is comparable with the conditions during the so-called 'El Niño of the century' in 1982-83."
In addition, recent atmospheric water vapor data collected from NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) show tell-tale signs of an El Niño condition in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
"The Microwave Limb Sounder experiment on UARS is detecting an unusually large build-up of water vapor in the atmosphere at heights of approximately 12 kilometers (eight miles) over the central-eastern tropical Pacific. Not since the last strong El Niño in the winter of 1991-92 have we seen such a large build-up of water vapor in this part of the atmosphere," said JPL's Dr. William Read. "Increased water vapor at these heights can be associated with more intense winter-time storm activity from the pineapple express,' a pattern of atmospheric motions that brings tropical moisture from Hawaii to the southwestern United States. This phenomena is an example of how the ocean and atmosphere work together to dictate the severity of El Niño events."
An El Niño is thought to be triggered when steady westward blowing trade winds weaken and even reverse direction. This change in the winds allows the large mass of warm water that is normally located near Australia to move eastward along the equator until it reaches the coast of South America. This displaced pool of unusually warm water affects evaporation, where rain clouds form and, consequently, alters the typical atmospheric jet stream patterns around the world. The change in the wind strength and direction also impacts global weather patterns.
In May, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued an advisory regarding the presence of the early indications of El Niño conditions. Subsequent El Niño forecast activities supported by NOAA indicate the likelihood of a moderate or strong El Niño in late 1997. The forecast model operated at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Prediction used data collected by the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite.
"The added amount of oceanic warm water near the Americas, with a temperature between 21-30 degrees Celsius (70-85 degrees Fahrenheit), is about 30 times the volume of water in all the U.S. Great Lakes combined," said Dr. Victor Zlotnicki, a TOPEX/Poseidon investigator at JPL. "The difference between the current, abnormally high amount of heat in the near-surface waters and the usual amount of heat in the same area is about 93 times the total energy from fossil fuels consumed by the United States in 1995."
Ongoing NOAA advisories on El Niño conditions are available on the Internet at the following URL: http://nic.fb4.noaa.gov:80/products/analysis_monitoring/ensostuff/
The climatic event has been given the name El Niño, a Spanish term for a "boy child," because the warm current first appeared off the coast of South America around Christmas. Past El Niño events have often caused unusually heavy rain and flooding in California, unseasonably mild winters in the Eastern United States and severe droughts in Australia, Africa and Indonesia. Better predictions of extreme climate episodes like floods and droughts could save the United States billions of dollars in damage costs. El Niño episodes usually occur approximately every two to seven years.
Developed by NASA and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite uses an altimeter to bounce radar signals off the ocean's surface to get precise measurements of the distance between the satellite and the sea surface. These data are combined with measurements from other instruments that pinpoint the satellite's exact location in space. Every 10 days, scientists produce a complete map of global ocean topography, the barely perceptible hills and valleys found on the sea surface. With detailed knowledge of ocean topography, scientist can then calculate the speed and direction of worldwide ocean currents.
The MLS instrument was originally designed to study atmospheric ozone depletion, but scientists have devised new ways of using the data to study atmospheric water vapor. The UARS satellite is completing its sixth year of operation after being designed for only a two-year mission, and is conducting an extended mission of longer-term global monitoring.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, manages the TOPEX/Poseidon mission and the MLS instrument for NASA's Mission to Planet Earth enterprise, Washington, DC. The UARS satellite is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.
NASA's Mission to Planet Earth is a long-term science research program designed to study the Earth's land, oceans, air, ice and life as a total system.
For more information, please visit the TOPEX/Poseidon project web page at http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Satellites confirm that El Niño is back and strong