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Washington : Government Printing Office
|Chap. 809
|Washoe reclamation project, Nev: Calif.
|Sec. 2
|43 U. S. C. 371 note.
|Sec. 2
|Sec. 2
|43 U. S. C. 485h.
|Sec. 2
|Supplemental water supply.
|Sec. 2
|43 U. S. C. 423e.
|Sec. 2
|Net revenues.
|Sec. 2
|Sec. 2
|43 U. S. C. 485a.
|Sec. 2
|Alpine County, Calif.
|Sec. 2
|Little Truckee River.
|Sec. 3
|Facilities for access, public health, etc.
|Sec. 3
|Report to Congressional committees.
|Sec. 4
|777 Fish and wildlife resources.
|Sec. 4
|Sec. 4
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the purposes of furnishing water for the irrigation of approximately fifty thousand acres of land in the Carson and Truckee River Basins, Nevada and California, providing drainage service to approximately thirty-one thousand acres of land therein, firming the existing water supplies of lands under the Truckee River storage project and the Newlands project, controlling floods, providing hydroelectric power, development of fish and wildlife resources, and for other beneficial purposes, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the Washoe reclamation project consisting of two principal reservoirs at the Stampede and Watasheamu sites, together with other necessary works for the impounding, diversion, and the delivery of water, the generation and transmission of hydroelectric power, and the drainage of lands. The dam at the Stampede site shall be so constructed as to permit its ultimate enlargement to a height at which the reservoir will have a capacity of approximately one hundred and seventy-five thousand acre-feet.
(a) In constructing, operating, and maintaining the works authorized in section 1 of this Act, the Secretary shall be governed by the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 389, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) except as is otherwise provided in this Act.
(b) Any contract entered into under section 9, subsection (d) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187, 1193; 43 U. S. C., 1952 edition, sec. 458h) for payment of those portions of the costs of constructing, operating, and maintaining the Washoe reclamation project which are properly allocable to irrigation and drainage and which are assigned to be paid by the contracting organization may provide for the repayment of the portion of the construction cost of the project assigned to any project contract unit or, if the contract unit be divided into two or more irrigation or drainage blocks, to any such block over a period of not more than fifty years, exclusive of any permissible development period, or as near thereto as is consistent with the adoption and operation of a variable payment formula which, being based on full repayment within the period stated under normal conditions, permits variance in the required annual payments in the light of economic factors pertinent to the ability of the organization to
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pay: Provided, That any contract for a supplemental water supply for irrigation under this Act may omit provisions complying with the third sentence of paragraph (a) of section 46 of the Act of May 25, 1926 (44 Stat. 649) if such contract, in lieu of such provisions, provides that the pro rata share of the irrigation allocation which is attributable to furnishing irrigation benefits, in each particular year, to land held in private ownership by any one owner in excess of one hundred and sixty irrigated acres, shall be returned with interest determined in accordance with subparagraph (c) of this section, except that such payment for the excess lands shall not exceed an amount equal to the increased payment capacity of the excess lands, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, resulting from the supplemental water supply.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, all net revenues derived from the sale of commercial power from the Washoe reclamation project shall be applied, first, to the amortization of that portion of the cost of constructing the project which is allocated to commercial power with interest on the unamortized balance thereof at the average rate (which rate shall be certified by the Secretary of the Treasury) paid by the United States on its marketable long-term securities outstanding on the date of this Act, and thereafter to the amortization of that portion of the cost of constructing the project which is allocated to irrigation but which is beyond the ability of the contracting irrigation organizations to repay as provided above, including interest that would have been paid by the irrigators on that portion of the irrigation allocation attributable to furnishing irrigation benefits to excess lands which is not repaid under section 2 (b) above: Provided, That the Secretary, prior to the delivery of project water supplies, shall have entered into a contract or contracts with an organization or organizations as defined in paragraph 2 (g) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat. 1187) which have the capacity to levy assessments upon all taxable real property located within their boundaries to assist in making repayments.
(d) Water users in Alpine County, California, shall have the opportunity to contract for project water made available by the Watasheamu Reservoir before such project water is offered for the development of any new land in Nevada. Should any such project water be contracted for by Alpine County water users, then in that event such users shall be permitted to exchange such water for existing rights to natural flow or stored water of the West Carson River.
(e) The use of waters of the Little Truckee River solely for the generation of electric power by the Washoe project shall not impair or preclude the appropriation of such waters in the future for beneficial consumptive use within the Little Truckee River watershed in California to the same extent as such waters may be presently available for such appropriation in the State of California: Provided, That if and when an interstate compact covering the distribution and use of the waters of the Truckee and Carson Rivers is approved by the Legislatures of the States of California and Nevada and is consented to by Congress, the operation of the Washoe reclamation project shall be in conformance with such compact, and the foregoing restriction shall not apply.
The Secretary is authorized to investigate, plan, construct, operate, and maintain minimum basic facilities for access to, and for the maintenance of public health and safety and the protection of public property on, lands withdrawn or acquired for the development of the Washoe project, to conserve the scenery and natural, historic, and archeologic objects, and to provide for public use and enjoyment of the same and of the water areas created by this project by such means as are consistent with its primary purposes. The Secretary is authorized to withdraw from entry or other disposition under the
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public land laws such public lands as are necessary for the construction, operation, and maintenance of said minimum basic facilities and for the other purposes specified in this section and to dispose of such lands to Federal, State, and local governmental agencies by lease, transfer, exchange, or conveyance upon such terms and conditions as will best promote their development and operation in the public interest. The Secretary is further authorized to investigate the need for acquiring other lands for said purposes and to report thereon to the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives, but no lands shall be acquired solely for any of these purposes other than access to project lands and the maintenance of public health and safety and the protection of public property thereon without further authorization by the Congress. All costs incurred pursuant to this section shall be nonreimbursable and nonreturnable.
Facilities shall be provided for the development of the fish and wildlife resources of the project area including facilities to permit increased minimum water releases from Lake Tahoe and restoration of the Pyramid Lake fishery. The cost of such facilities, including operation and maintenance, shall be nonreimbursable. The cost to the Federal Government of constructing these facilities shall not exceed $2,000,000. This amount shall not include the cost of measures undertaken, pursuant to section 2 of the Act of August 14, 1946 (60 Stat. 1080, 16 U. S. C. 661a), to mitigate damages to fish and wildlife resources occasioned by the Washoe project as authorized by section 1 of this Act.
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for construction of the Washoe reclamation project the sum of $43,700,000 plus such amounts, if any, as may be required by reason of changes in construction costs as indicated by engineering cost indices applicable to the types of construction involved therein and, in addition thereto, such sums as may be required to operate and maintain the project: Provided, That the appropriation of funds for the construction, operation, or maintenance of facilities authorized by section 4 of this Act shall not be from the reclamation fund.
Approved, August 1, 1956.


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Back to the safeties real quick...here is Greg Cosell's article breakdown on the safeties (not video).
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-sh...3Rpb25z;_ylv=3Although Walsh's system of offense can compensate for lack of talent; however, defense is a different story. According to Walsh, talent on defense was essential and could not be compensated for. What did Walsh do in 1981? He acquired physical and talented players on defense.
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Besides foot speed, explosiveness is now the heaviest weighed factor that I use on evaluating WRs.
My excel sheet is at home, but IIRC, the most explosive WR at the Combine was Markus Wheaton.
Huge bench for his weight and build, and excellent BJ and VJ for his height.
I do see Allen eating up ground very quickly with the ball in his hands. As much as Patterson minus the ridiculous evasiveness that he has."The Ravens are not taking Jimmy Smith at 26!" -- Me, the day before the 2011 Draft
"On their way to the podium, the Ravens FO is going to collectively step over my dead body and select...Breshad Perriman." -- Me, the day before the 2015 Draft
BP '17 (post Maclin rev): 65 of 115 for 1050 and 8
Re: All Things Draft:"The Ravens are not taking Jimmy Smith at 26!" -- Me, the day before the 2011 Draft
"On their way to the podium, the Ravens FO is going to collectively step over my dead body and select...Breshad Perriman." -- Me, the day before the 2015 Draft
BP '17 (post Maclin rev): 65 of 115 for 1050 and 8
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Is Elam going to be overmatched at times going against 6'5 TEs, considering his 5'9 3/4 frame? Sure he is. But there really aren't a lot of players who can compete for jump balls with the Rob Gronkowskis and Jimmy Grahams of the world... Elam is going to have to compensate by playing the ball and causing it to separate with hard hits. I think he can do that although penalties will be a factor.
I do think Cyprien has a very high ceiling, probably higher than anybody in the class except possibly Vaccaro. Like I said in an earlier post, I think Elam is more mentally advanced and ready to play right now, and I usually defer to the more proven player in my evaluation, which is why I personally give the edge to Elam. I do think you could reasonably say they're 1A and 1B definitely at worst.
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When I think explosive I think Dez Bryant, Julio Jones and Demaryius Thomas (Calvin Johnson is a pure freak that gets his own category).
Torrey has some pretty good measurables. And he has the deep speed. But I still don't know if I would classify him as "explosive" with respect to the way I view explosiveness. He seems more like Mike Wallace to me. They seem more fast than anything else. I don't really want to use the one-trick pony classification, but maybe that is most fitting.
Guys like Dez, Julio, Thomas have size, speed, and strength (e.g. to break tackles), etc.
The only top rated guys I think that have the potential to fit that mold are Patterson, Hunter (a little too skinny) and Rogers, and coincidentally they are all Tenn guys. They all have that particular combination of speed, vertical leap and size with some on-field play to back up their measurables.
I'd say Hunter physically looks more like an AJ Green and Larry Fitzgerald type, whereas Hunter and Rogers are closer to Dez and Julio.
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Still think Hopkins will be our pick if we sit at 32
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I'm gonna try and study Kenan Allen more, problem is there offense is so dreadful to watch the games i've seen so far. I'm not sure he ran a route in the Ohio St. game lol. Could fall to 32 because of that 40but is he still banged up or is he just slower then expected.
Cosell says he thinks teams will think Elam's overall game will override his size disadvantage versus TE's in man coverage, that's all i need to know :-)
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Sio Moore was on WNST this afternoon. I had seen tape of him and was impressed but really impressed listening to the kid. Smart with head on right. Had some interesting and good thinks to say about Randy Edsall also. First football hero....Peter Boulware.
Not sure if its been mentioned but one reason to potentially trade out of #32 or not trade out of #32 depending on your viewpoint is the new CBA. First round picks are 4 yrs all other rounds are 3 till RFA as I understand it. If you see a guy you really like it might be beneficial to get that extra year. On the flip side I would imagine it would increase the value of #32 in terms of a trade. Especially if your targeting a QB. Might increase the fetching price for that pickA linebacker's job is to knock out running backs, to knock out receivers, to chase the football,
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Restricted free agency is essentially over for all players drafted in 2011 and beyond. Only UDFAs will be hitting the market with less than 4 years of service, so RFAs will be a thing of the past from now on.

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Let's say you're a business manager working on a tech project that has a budget of thousands of dollars. Let's also say IT is supposed to be involved from the beginning to keep an eye on the tech details as the project progresses.
Now, let's say you never communicate with IT about the project, it goes south, and you call IT in to clean up the mess. Then don't be surprised if the IT manager is upset, as in this story of a manager we'll call "Jack" and a data analyst we'll call "Jill."
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A little background info: The company in this tale had a toxic environment. Business managers were encouraged to compete with each other to get the desired results for as little money as possible. Those who did so were rewarded; those who did not had to try harder. Managers would get so focused on the final goal that they didn't think about how best to achieve those results, didn't communicate with key departments, and overlooked important details. As you would guess, many projects ended badly.
On the tech side, most of the database applications at this company were custom built by outside vendors, as we worked in a segment that couldn't use off-the-shelf software. IT would do basic development in-house but didn't have the staff to undertake any full-scale projects; we worked with outside vendors if a lot of coding was required.
In one of our departments was a new hire for a data analyst position. A recent graduate, Jill didn't have much experience. But she was smart and ambitious, and she impressed her manager, Jack.
Jill had been there about a year when Jack put her in charge of a complex project: She was to create a custom database with a Web interface that customers could access anywhere. Jill had no expertise in this area and was in over her head, but Jack did not notice. He gave her free reign over the project.
She found a vendor who could code the Web interface part, but after several months, the database was full of problems that the vendor wasn't doing anything to fix. Jack wasn't happy and called the IT manager (me) to straighten out the project.
Now I was the one who wasn't happy. "Why were we not notified of this project?" No good answer.
I asked more questions, but Jack sent me to Jill for the details. I tracked her down and asked her to walk me through the project from start to finish, beginning with what the project was about and who was working on it. I was shocked at her half-baked responses to these basic inquiries.


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At Center Stage in Midterms: Abortion
(NEWSER) – With the midterm elections ahead, both parties are looking to use abortion rights as a rallying issue. Republicans are hoping related state ballot initiatives will bring voters to the polls. Meanwhile, they're looking to avoid another Todd Akin "legitimate rape" embarrassment, instead emphasizing a fiscally conservative take on abortion. In Oregon, for instance, "we don't make this a pro-life thing," says Jeff Jimerson, who is behind a petition seeking a ballot measure that would ban state funds going to abortion. "This is a pro-taxpayer thing." Similarly, in the House, Republicans are set to focus this year on the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act," the New York Timesreports.


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AN ELECTRICAL fault on over head power lines in Chorley has left 950 homes without electricity.
Homes have been in darkness since the fault was first reported to Electricity North West at 3.55 this afternoon.
The power cut is thought to be mostly affecting homes around Whalley Road and Preston New Road as well as Botany Bay.
A spokeswoman from Electricity North West said: "Our engineers are on site and are hoping to repair the fault and restore power as soon as possible."


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Death Of A Disco Dancer: The Nick Rozsa Pro Spotlight
Nick Rozsa's second act
Washed up. Wasted talent. Forgotten.
One short year ago, at the ripe age of 23, Nick Rozsa was all of the above.
A dead set f—king loser.
Just over a decade after the day he first stepped on a surfboard in Ventura under the watchful eye of the Curran and Malloy brothers, his surf career came to a screeching halt with one phone call and four simple words: You're off the team.
And really, everyone saw it coming. Everyone except Nick.
Nick thought he was invincible. He had no idea he could lose his job.
And so it goes.
O'Neill sponsored Rozsa at 15 after he came out of relative obscurity to beat Dane Reynolds and win two divisions at the WSA Western championships. NSSA regional wins and national finals followed, as did travel and magazine opportunities. At 19, after placing fourth at the US Open of Surfing Jr. Pro in Huntington, Reef took notice and signed him to a generous contract. Nothing crazy—but for Nick, it was huge. Shortly afterward, he went on a Reef trip to Mexico and in the process landed himself the front page of TransWorld SURF; with the cover blurb reading: "The Good Life." And for Nick, indeed it was.
He was single and had money. But he didn't know what he was doing.
New money. That's what his friends nicknamed him. His first decent contract and cover incentive money was, self-admittedly, spent on questionable purchases: A brand new Audi, 15K in audio equipment (Nick makes his own music), and big nights out. Big nights out at home turned into all nighters in Australia, and eventually, those all nighters in Oz turned into three-month Bali benders
In Bali, he surfed three times in three months and woke up in a hospital. He hit rock bottom. And yet, it still wasn't the wake-up call he needed to change his life trajectory.
Not then, but the wake-up call would eventually come, in the form of two phone calls. The first from Reef Team Manager Heath Walker cutting him from the program, and the second, two weeks later, from his girlfriend with the news that she was pregnant. And like that, his life was turned upside down. Late nights partying turned into early mornings working. He was going to be a dad.
And according to Nick, "That was the best thing that has ever happened to me. I was forced to grow up quick."
And by all appearances, grow up he did. And in the process, he's been given a second chance at a professional surf career after being recently reunited with old sponsor Reef. Only time will tell if this turns into the feel good, comeback story Nick hopes it will be; but after being called the "best unsponsored surfer in the world" by 11-time world champ Kelly Slater, he's getting a chance to prove he's the real deal.
I sat down with Nick in the apartment he shares with his girlfriend, Darlene, and four-and-a-half-month-old son Roenn in Vista, California, to get the inside scoop on a tumultuous 12 months.—Zander Morton
You were successful as an amateur and junior pro, started getting paid from sponsors as a teenager, and landed a TransWorld SURF cover at 20 years old. Did life feel easy?
Nick Rozsa: It was crazy, growing up my main deal was competing, competing, competing. When I signed with Reef I was 19 and that was what they signed me for. I was entering a lot of contests, but my focus wasn't there. I was getting burnt out and I was watching everyone else ripping and I felt like I needed to catch up. I was doing five weak turns to the beach—I needed to change my game.
Right when I slowed down [entering contests] I got that TransWorld cover, and for me that was the coolest thing. I freaked out. I was about to turn 21 and I just went off the deep end. I celebrated and partied for a week straight with my friends.
Was that the beginning of a downward spiral of partying too much?
At that age, everyone is partying, ya know? The thing is I might have taken it too far; I went to Bali for three months, and I might have surfed three times. I went from a 19-year-old kid that had never done drugs and hardly drank, to all of a sudden going hard on the bandwagon. I was introduced to some people that had a big influence on me and I felt like I always had to impress and keep up with them. I was a straightedge kid that never partied, and when I was thrown in to the industry it swallowed me.
I'm not putting the blame on anyone else. I made my own decisions, and don't get me wrong, I had fun. But the lifestyle was an addicting high. It was like, "I met five chicks last night so I want to hang with them again tomorrow night." I was single, had money, was in different countries, and 90 percent of the people I hung with did the same thing. Thing is, I was more open about it; I just didn't really give a f—k about what people thought. I was definitely too open about the lifestyle I was living. And word spreads fast, so after everyone heard I was in Bali partying and not surfing, they started wondering, "What's this kid doing?"
So your transition from a straightedge teen to an early twenties party boy was a quick one.
Exactly, three years disappeared fast.
Care to elaborate on the specifics of your biggest vices?
I was just doing drugs. Party drugs. Cocaine, ecstasy, whatever I could get my hands on. But I didn't go super deep. I did the stuff everyone was doing. It was going around, that's the reality of it. A lot of people want to pretend it doesn't exist but you'd be so mind f—ed if you would've gone out with me and done some of the things I've done with certain people in the industry. These guys would be balls deep in snow mountain and I'd be like, "Everyone is doing it, why not?"
Some people can handle it and be successful. But I have a very addictive personality and when I get hooked on something I go all out. So when I started partying life became about girls, sex, drugs, and money. I was living the dream and felt like everything was going perfectly—I could do whatever I wanted. But it's an endless road; I was chasing something I could never find. Chasing a high that wears off, being selfish, feeling like shit, forgetting weeks and months at a time—all the while forgetting about the thing that gave me my lifestyle in the first place: surfing.


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Sierra ride report
Wednesday night after work, "R" (Flat black F3), "G" (Red 5th gen VFR), "E" (Street Triple), & I (Flat black 6th gen VFR) all met at my house for some Costco pizza and then headed South for the Motel 6 in Paso Robles. The trip did not start out well - 20 miles in, RC comes up beside me pointing down. I look down and see the shift lever on his bike dangling! We take the next exit and luckily discover the bolt is still in the lever.. and I had the right size hex key in my VFR's tool kit. We were back on the road within 10 minutes. We gassed up in King City where the temps were in the mid 50s and continued on to the Motel 6. Checked in at 9:20 and we were asleep shortly thereafter.
Thursday morning we checked out, filled up at Shell, and had breakfast at Denny's. Turns out that "building your own" Grand Slam allows you to "make" most menu items for several dollars cheaper. Good to know!
We rode through Paso Robles to Highway 229. What a frickin rollercoaster that road is! One lane but great new pavement (some gravel here and there) and no traffic. 229 took us down to 58 which we took East. 58 had some high speed sweepers, nothing I'd call fun. It's more of a transit road for sporty bikes. We turned south on Soda Lake Rd which is approx 15 miles of pavement, 15 miles of dirt, and 15 miles of pavement. As Tim/Pashnit described, the dirt stretch was about as good as you could hope for - I was able to sustain 60mph on the dirt!
E in foreground, G in background.
Ready for dirt?
I am!
E and I took our "Adventure bikes" up a hill while waiting for G & R to catch up.
From the end of Soda Lake, we turned left on 166 to gas up in Maricopa. Better safe than sorry. We then backtracked west on 166 and took Hwy 33 south. Didn't snap any pictures, but Hwy 33 to Ojai was absolutely incredible! New pavement, very clean, very technical. While zipping up my Aerostich pants, the zipper failed! One of the two zippers popped off and some plastic teeth fell right off. Well, that zipper has lasted about 8 or 9 years... I unzipped the pants out of the jacket (for the second time in those 8 years, should'a got a 1 piece to begin with) and continued to Ojai. I asked a drycleaner that had an "alterations/repairs" sign in their window if they happened to have a replacement zipper. They pointed me to a guy named "Dr. Shoe" in town. He didn't have one, but suggested Joe @ Ventura Leather Shop in Ventura. E had a previous engagement in Ventura and could only come on this part of the ride with us anyway - so we all rode the ~15 miles to downtown Ventura. The temperature dropped from 93 degrees to 77 degrees... so once we got there, we decided to stay there!
The original plan was to ride Little Tujunga Cyn, stay the night in La Crescenta, then ride Angeles Crest Hwy on Friday morning. With the closure of Angeles Crest, staying the night in Ventura only removed one road from our "awesome road list".... and Ventura is a great town.
I stopped in and saw Joe - what are the chances he'd have a 26" zipper in stock? He had two! Two hours later I had a new zipper in my suit - better and stronger than new. I highly recommend Ventura Leather @ 353 E Main St for your suit repair needs!
We stayed at the La Quinta that night and awoke early Friday morning and had our continental breakfast.
We then slabbed it down 126 & I-5 across the grapevine to Wheeler Ridge Rd then to 223 East. This took us to Bena Rd and then to the beginning of the famous Caliente-Bodfish Rd. Definitely one of my new favorites! One lane most of the way.. Over a range into a large valley and then back up over another range into Bodfish/Lake Isabella. We gassed up and ate at Burger King... enjoying the air conditioning as it was in the upper 80s already.
We took 155 to Sierra Way (in Kernville) and headed north along the Kern River. I've driven this before - we rented a cabin in Alta Sierra last Thanksgiving. Just north of Sherman Pass Rd I pulled onto this "foot bridge" and snapped some pictures. There were stairs leading down to the river where we saw some people swimming.
I'm semi-obsessed with taking pictures of my bike on any bridge that has obstructions that prevents cars from pulling onto them :).
R pondering something
Women in bikinis swimming in the river :). They looked cuter before I zoomed in...
One of these things is not like the other...
At the top of Sierra Way, we took a left on Mountain Road 50... As you turn the corner you enter Sequoia National Forest. It cools down, you start riding through the shade... you smell the trees... this is my happy place!
Of course, I had to take a left on 23S02 and then 23S16! We didn't continue all the way to the top (gas/time limited) but went about 10 miles... the road was dirty but the views were out-frickin-standing.
I'll definitely have to return and explore further. We continued to Hwy 190, which had the first real traffic we've seen on the whole trip. We descended into the valley (with the temp rising to about 100) and stayed at the Super 8 in Lindsay.
The woman at the front desk told us that we could store our bikes in the pool area overnight for safety. It gets locked up at night. Luckily we got the bikes out without dropping them in the water, I wonder how that conversation with the insurance adjuster would go...
On Saturday morning we continued up Hwy 65 to Road 196 to Milwood Rd to Hwy 245. This was quite the surprise - I didn't expect a road this good! Good pavement, clean, the morning sunshine, temps in the mid 60s... a great ride!
We took a left on Dunlap Rd which descended us from about 3700' to a few hundred feet, where it met Hwy 180. I took a right on Silver Ln, which looked to be a shortcut to Elwood Rd, only to discover it was half dirt, half crappy potholed pavement. Oh well, it's only a mile long. After turning right on Elwood we were once again rewarded with new clean pavement on a great twisty road. Came around a corner to discover a cow square in my lane. It stood there for about 30 seconds... and didn't move until I went to pull out my camera. d'oh.
Elwood took us to N Piedra to Trimmer Springs Rd.
From the bridge overlooking the Kings River
We took a right on Trimmer Springs Rd which follows the Pine Flat Reservoir. I have run out of adjectives to describe good roads! This one lets you see through corners enough to get some serious lean angle.
From there we took a left on Maxon, right on Watts Valley (which turns into Burrough Valley) to Tollhouse Rd to Lodge to SJ&E to Powerhouse/Auberry Rd. Whew! Lots of very technical roads. By the time we arrived in North Fork for gas & lunch, we had ridden only ~100 miles but it was a very intense 100 miles! R & I ordered a wet chicken burrito with cheese at the La Cabaña restaurant - delicious and cheap!
From North Fork, there's only one direction to go - north on Mammoth Pool/Minarets, one of Pashnit's top 5 roads in the state. I absolutely see why. This road is beyond belief! Almost 50 miles of non-stop top-o-2nd-gear-leaned-way-over twisties. I've never put a knee down but if I had leathers, I definitely could have - I had to be careful not to touch down my Aerostich (I enjoy leaning off).
Top of Minarets
Headed down, I took it easy and practiced some while-riding photography:
A little off-road excursion - a small trail off the road that had rocks to keep cars from going down there :)
We took a right on NF-6S01 as labeled on the Garmin GPS, but it was not paved.. so we continued down Mammoth Pool a few miles and took a right on NF-6S71, which is paved, and becomes into 6S01 after a few miles. This forest road has tons of large bumps running across the road - makes it easy to catch air! I came around a corner and noticed G wasn't behind me. I turned around and found him with a flat tire. Bummer!
I pulled out my Leatherman and yanked what can only be described as a huge chunk of wood out of his nearly bald tire. I got out my Stop-N-Go tire plug kit (with CO2 cartridges), but the hole was just about too big for the mushroom plugs. It was leaking air but was full enough that G could ride to the Jones Store (near the corner of 6S01 & Beasore Rd) and use an air compressor to fill to a decent pressure.
Me doing the patching
After airing up at the Jones Store, we successfully made it to Oakhurst only to find Oakhurst "Tire & Cycle" had closed at Noon on Saturday. We stopped by Kragen and picked up a bottle of Slime - with the plug in there, the Slime should sufficiently stop the leak.
We checked into our hotel at the Oakhurst Lodge and G and I rode across the street to Chevron in our shorts & flip-flops to put the Slime in the tire and air it up. While there, a CHP officer pulled in and came up to us - "riding in sandals?" We assured him we were ATGATT (or would that be ATG99.9%OTT?) and just rode from across the street.
Since G's tire had no life left in it and no tire shop open on Sunday, he decided to slab it home while R and I continued my planned route. "and then there were two..."
We continued up Hwy 49 to the Little Dragon!
Somehow I thought that I had at least driven this stretch before.. but once we headed down, it was obvious I hadn't - there's no way I would have forgotten this road! Epic.
From Coulterville we turned right on Main St/Greeley Hill Rd. Greeley Hill was a great cool-down from Hwy 49 - also a great road. In Greeley Hill, we topped up the gas tanks at the Shell station since I knew it'd be awhile before we saw more gas.
I took a left on Buck Meadows Rd, which on the map looks like it's an easy way to get to 120. Of course, after a mile of pavement, it turned to dirt! Oh well, only 5 miles long. No problems.
R doing a .. dirt burnout?
We took a right on 120 and then left on Cherry Lake Rd. This is similar to Elwood - Great new pavement, 1 1/2 lane wide... this one is faster, though, and takes you through forest, meadows, my kind of road. It then dumps you down a descent to the Tuolumne River.
Of course, what goes down must go back up.. we climbed back up the other side of the canyon (from ~2200' up to over 5000') and 24 miles from 120, you reach Cherry Lake. There were less than half a dozen people there, so quiet and serene.
From Cherry Lake, the road turns into Cottonwood, another one of Tim/Pashnit's Top 5 (and once again, I definitely see why)! The road was definitely best closest to the top - the pavement seemed to degrade slightly as we descended.
From Cottonwood, we made our way down to Wards Ferry Rd. Holy crap! This road reminds me a lot of Salmon River Rd off of Hwy 96 way up in Northern California - I think the aisles at my local Safeway are wider than this road... and guardrail? psh... there isn't even a shoulder! Make a mistake and you will plummet hundreds of feet into the river below.
After only a mile or two but an eternity at 5mph, you once again cross the Toulumne River on the "graffiti bridge."
We continued to 120 and then slabbed it home after gas & lunch in Oakdale. ~1200 miles, a moving average of 48.3mph according to my Zumo (at the speed limit the entire time, officer!), a top speed of...xxx on Thursday on a straight stretch of Hwy 58 on Thurs... the best ride of the year so far by a long shot!
Great writeup - thanks! I miss California - and apparently missed many of the roads you guys were riding. Sensational!
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It is natural progression. I mean most companies stop making phone models after there normal shelf life. We are going on 3 generations after the 3GS..it is time. Why would anyone want old tech? I guess im always wanting new tech so i just don't get it other than the $$. Oh well to each his/her own..happy shopping.
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Jay Cutler already picked off. He's just a different player on Monday nights...Primetime Cutler
Oh Chicken Culter, don't be so cocky with the ball today. You're not playing the Cowboys.
Cutler already throws an pick. Geezee
it's weird isn't it. the freaking jags pick him off in the first 5 minutes but we can't do anything. 2 picks, both by Lee this year.
Broncos vs Pats for me, today.
Who ya got?
That is what happens when you put pressure on the QB. We don't put pressure on opposing teams QB's.
Only one pick.
NE vs DEN
Thank god, its the only good game today
Wheels Peyton...
Thomas got Roy E. Williams'd on that play...
Um no. Did you just wake up because that isn't the only good game today.
Last part of Colts / Packers game via DirecTV Red Zone. They got the win for Pagano.
Cam newton is in a big time sophomore slump.
Patriots running that hurry-up offense got themselves a TD, but the Broncos coming back....
Good win for the Colts! GB kicker shanked the snot out of that game winning attempt...
The jags are a much better team than we are. Sad.
Yet he will likely throw for 350 against us. No one makes bad QB's look good like our D.
Old Man Manning ties it up.
Cutler is awful. Damn you Rob Ryan.
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Marion Barry Writes That Cocaine Went Straight to His Penis
Former Washington D.C. mayor Marion Barry will release a memoir called "Mayor for Life: The Incredible Story of Marion Barry Jr." on Tuesday.
Barry, who is currently serving on the D.C. Council, wrote the book with Omar Tyree. The Washington Post shared some excerpts. This one caught our attention. It is the story of the first time Barry used cocaine. He was with a woman who was apparently coming onto him:
"I was curious. If cocaine made this woman feel this hot, I wondered how it would make me feel...[It] felt like I had ejaculated. The cocaine was a powerful stimulant that went straight to my penis. I could see what this young woman was talking about. What happened next? I had sex with her."
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Treatment - endovascular embolism; Coil embolization; Cerebral aneurysm - endovascular; Coiling - endovascular; Saccular aneurysm - endovascular; Berry aneurysm - endovascular repair; Fusiform aneurysm repair - endovascular; Aneurysm repair - endovascular
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Journalist Elizabeth Royte drinks tap water, but she spends a lot of time thinking about the bottled kind. In her new book, Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It, Royte investigates the causes and consequences of the bottled-water business' astounding growth. With her refillable water bottle in hand, Royte travels to Fryeburg, Maine, where a water-pumping operation for Nestle's Poland Spring label divides the town.
In the course of her research, she also tastes fancy bottled waters with a water connoisseur, monitors her 8-year-old daughter's water intake and conducts an informal poll of friends and acquaintances, asking whether they know where their tap water comes from. "Most people, even those who knew exactly how many miles the arugula on their plate had traveled, had no idea," she writes.
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SFR: Twenty years ago, you write, bottled water was a niche market in the US. Today, it's a more than $10 billion business. What the heck happened? Why did Americans start drinking so much bottled water?
ER: The simplest reason is marketing. Hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on advertising that either told us explicitly or implied that bottled water was better. [Bottled-water companies] used words like pure and natural, and used images of athletes and models and celebrities—the advertisements were aspirational, they told us we'd be more like these people if we drank this product.
While this marketing juggernaut was going on, there was also, until quite recently, a total absence of criticism. There was no competition from tap water, because utilities don't have their own marketing budgets or ad budgets to tell us, 'Tap water is great! Drink more tap water, and you'll be thin, and look more beautiful, and do better yoga poses.' So on the one hand you had this tremendous force trying to persuade us that bottled water was better, and on the other there was no criticism of that message.
Some of the ads criticized the quality of tap water.
Yes, they'd let us know that this was the same water used to flush toilets. But I have to say that there are places where bottled water makes sense to many people. It doesn't help that there are hundreds of thousands of [municipal] water-main breaks a year [in the United States], and whenever a water main breaks you get a boil water alert. In today's day and age, 'boil water' means 'buy water.'
Do we really need as much water as the ads claim—should we conscientiously be drinking eight 8-ounce glasses every day?
That was another part of the marketing. It was very clever of advertisers to tell us to drink more water—Pepsi actually spent $20 million on an award-winning campaign for Aquafina that just said, 'Drink more water.' No one has found the definitive source [for the eight-glasses advice]. Some people point to a report from the National Research Council in the 1940s that said that the average adult needs to drink what works out to 64 ounces of water a day—but in the next sentence, it said that most of that water can come through the foods that we eat.
Fruits and vegetables contain a lot of water, and I was told recently by [nutritionist] Marion Nestle that meat contains 40 percent water. Pasta and rice are two-thirds or more water by weight. But the bottled-water campaigns just told us to drink more water, and that's why portability became so important. If you're going to drink all that water, having it in a nice neat plastic bottle is crucial.
So is there a consensus among nutritionists about how much water you actually need to drink?
Nutritionists that I've talked to say that if you're physically active, yes, you do have to hydrate, you do have to drink more—they're hesitant to tell you to drink less.
And the elderly have to be reminded to drink more, because when you're old the sense of thirst is one of first senses to go. But there's no sound medical basis that we have to drink that much water—doctors basically say to drink when you're thirsty.


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Celebrate National Potato and Sweet Potato Month!
Parents and caregivers learn about the latest studies on
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Feature the black bear and its adaptations for survival in the
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Exhibit includes numerous artifacts, photographs and other
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- Chamomilla: Chamomilla serves as the best remedial homeopathic medicine for easing heat sensitivity that is likely to worsen the existing toothache. Drinks and food, either hot or cold, can then be consumed easily because of the numbing effect of this medicine.


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Meet The Speakers Behind The Anti-Equality Supreme Court Rally
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) has organized an anti-equality rally outside the Supreme Court this week as the Court mulls over the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 and the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Media outlets should be aware and report the extreme anti-LGBT animus that motivates many of the prominent speakers NOM has invited.
Anti-Gay Spokespersons
Brian Brown
Brown Is President Of The National Organization For Marriage, Where He's Made A Career Out Of Peddling Misinformation About Marriage Equality. [GLAAD, accessed 3/26/13 [1]]
- Parents Of Gay Kids Should Attend "Ex-Gay" Conferences To Prevent Their Children From "Embracing This Destructive Way Of Life." [Good As You, 2/16/12 [2]]
- People Should "Feel Good" About Study Allegedly Showing That People Can Change Their Sexual Orientation Through "Ex-Gay" Therapy. [NOM Blog, 9/29/11 [3]]
- Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage Will Pave The Way To "Normalize Pedophilia." [NOM Blog, 8/18/11 [4]]
- Gays Are Engaged In "Jihad"To Achieve Marriage Equality, Want To "Take Away Your Rights." [NOM Newsletter, 8/25/11 [5]]
- Promoted A Blog Post Claiming Gay Parents Are More Likely To Molest Their Children Than Heterosexual Parents. [Equality Matters, 12/8/11 [6]]
Jennifer Morse
Morse Is A NOM Spokesperson And President Of NOM's Ruth Institute, Where She's Developed A Track Record For Anti-LGBT Commentary. [GLAAD, accessed 3/26/13 [7]]
- The Push For LGBT Equality "Parallels" What Happened In Nazi Germany. [Right Wing Watch, 9/2/11 [8]]
- Gay Sex Is A "Completely Shameless Activity." [Good As You, 12/28/11 [9]]
- "There Really Isn't Any Future In Sodomy." [Equality Matters, 11/8/12 [10]]
- Gay Men Want To "Feel Better" About Their "Deeply Wrong" Homosexuality. [Equality Matters, 2/26/13 [11]]
- Gay People Can Be "Release[d]" From The "Compulsive Aspects Of Their Behavior" Through "Ex-Gay" Therapy. [Equality Matters, 10/3/12 [12]]
- President Obama Is "More Gay Than He Is Black." [Equality Matters, 10/6/11 [13]]
Tami Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald Is The Executive Director Of The North Carolina Values Coalition And Led The Effort To Pass NC's Amendment Banning Same-Sex Marriage. [GLAAD, accessed 3/26/13 [14]]
- Sexual Orientation Includes "28 Other 'Sexual Orientations' Ranging From Pedophilia To Bestiality." [Christian Action League, 6/5/09 [15]]
- "Deconstructing" Traditional Marriage Is A Plot To "'Mainstream' Homosexual Lifestyles." [Christian Action League, 12/19/09 [16]]
- Homosexuality Is An "Abomination," "Not TheGreatest And Highest Good" For Gay People. [Reconciling Raleigh, 1/8/09 [17]]
Gary Bauer
Bauer, President Of American Values, Has A Long History Of Promoting Damaging Smears About LGBT People. [GLAAD, accessed 3/26/13 [18]]
- "Ex-Gay" Ministries Offers "Hope And Healing" To Gay People. [American Values, 10/14/98 [19]]
- Marriage Equality Will Have "Devastating Impacts On Our Society." [Right Wing Watch, 5/21/12 [20]]
Serial Race Baiters
Harry Jackson
PFAW: Jackson Is A "Point Man For The Wedge Strategy." In a 2009 report, People for the American Way (PFAW) documented Jackson's history of acting as a spokesperson for the Religious Right's efforts to drive a wedge between LGBT people and African-Americans. [PFAW, 2009 [21]]
- "The Black Community Is In An Adulterous Relationship With President Obama." [Christian Post, 5/17/12 [22]]
- Obama May Have Been "Paid" To SupportMarriage Equality. [Daily Caller, 5/25/12 [23]]
- "There Is A Measure Of Racism In The Gay Movement." [Larry King Live, 11/19/08 [24]]
- The LGBT Equality Movement Is Comparable To "The Times Of Hitler."[AFA Radio, 5/16/12 [25]]
- Gay People Are Trying To "Recruit Your Kids." [Right Wing Watch, 8/2/12 [26]]
- Marriage Equality Is "A Satanic Plot To Destroy Our Seed." [Right Wing Watch, 4/18/11 [27]]
Bill Owens
Owens Heads A NOM "Astroturf" Group Geared Towards Pitting African-Americans Against Gay People. According to The Washington Post's Lisa Miller:
Owens isn't a story. He's a figurehead in what political operatives call an "Astroturf" campaign. It looks like a grass-roots movement, but it's really a political stunt.
Owens has been, for years, a religious liaison for the National Organization for Marriage, a conservative lobbying group whose aim is to block or roll back same-sex marriage legislation wherever it occurs. Though he told me in a phone call that he receives no compensation from NOM, his new campaign called Mandate for Marriage, aimed at urging African Americans to withdraw their support for the president, is made possible in part by individuals affiliated with NOM. "We have asked a few people for contributions - some of them from the National Organization for Marriage," he told me.
To drive home the point: The day after Owens's press conference, NOM's president, Brian Brown, went on Fox and said that "key Democratic constituencies do not support same-sex marriage." NOM created a truth and then went out and proclaimed it. [The Washington Post, 8/2/12 [28], emphasis added]
Owens: Don't Let Gay People "Steal" The Civil Rights Movement. In a sermon captured for a NOM-produced video in 2011, Owens urged his congregants not to let gay people "make a mockery" of the civil rights movement:
OWENS: It is our job as black people ... let's don't let them take that from us and make it a sham and make a mockery of it.
OWENS: Don't let them steal it. And they will steal it if we do nothing. They will steal it if we do nothing. [NOM, 6/14/11 [29]]
Owens: Homosexuality Is Akin To Bestiality And Is Caused By Molestation In Early Childhood. During a press conference in July of 2012, Owen stated:
OWENS: A few months ago, the Commercial Appeal carried an article with a young man's picture in it. He was charged with having sex with a dog. Now I wonder was that his civil right? Will we go down that road where whatever we choose to do, we'll call it our civil rights? Well if it's a civil right for a man to marry man, and a woman to marry woman, what's the difference of a man deciding he wants to have sex with a dog?
When people that you don't know they're homosexuals, and they get caught into something, they will tell you it was early childhood that they were molested. Sometimes by a family member, sometimes by their father, or sometimes by a friend. It starts in early childhood. [Right Wing Watch, 7/13/12 [30]]
Gays Against Equality
Doug Mainwaring
Mainwaring, Co-Founder Of The National Capital Tea Party Patriots, Identifies As Gay But Chose To Marry A Woman And Have Children. He Is A Vocal Opponent Of Marriage Equality. [Public Discourse, 3/8/13 [31]]
- Marriage Equality Reduces Children To "Chattel - Like Sources Of Fulfillment." [American Thinker, 12/27/12 [32]]
- Same-Sex Marriages Are "A Joke," "An Absurd Frolic," "An Act Of Contempt Toward Marriage." [The Washington Times, 7/11/12 [33]]
- Gay Men "Often Lead Diminished, And In Some Cases Nearly Bankrupt, Lives." [Public Discourse, 3/8/13 [31]]
Robert Oscar Lopez
Lopez, Who Was Raised By Same-Sex Parents And Identifies As Bisexual, Has A History of Arguing Against LGBT Equality And Demonizing LGBT People. [Good As You, 8/9/12 [34]; Public Discourse, 8/6/12 [35]]
- Gay Men Have "Chosen To Go Into A Dating Scene That's Small,Often Incestuous, Vulnerable To Disease." [American Thinker, 12/24/12 [36]]
- Men Who Engage In Homosexuality "Live Like Rutting, Uncontrolled Animals." [American Thinker, 12/24/12 [36]]
- Men Get Involved With Gay Sex Because Of Drugs, Problems With Women. [American Thinker, 12/24/12 [36]]
- Same-Sex Parenting Has Created A "Human-Rights Crisis" That Merits International Intervention. [English Manif, 1/20/13 [37]]
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