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Task force defines Ozone objectives
Posted: Monday, May 14th, 2012
BY: Andrew Setterholm
SUBLETTE COUNTY – A little more than a week after the Environmental Protection Agency informed the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) that Sublette County is a "non-attainment" area for violating federal air quality standards, the DEQ's special task force on ozone convened for the third time to address the problem.
The DEQ's Upper Green River Basin (UGRB) Citizens Advisory Task Force (task force) met Wednesday for a workshop, hearing two presentations and breaking into work groups to focus in on the issues at hand. The meeting was facilitated by Steve Smutko and Elizabeth Spaulding of the University of Wyoming's Ruckelshaus Institute.
The task force, made up of 26 UGRB residents, air quality experts, environmentalists and oil and gas industry representatives, was assembled in February to address air quality issues in Sublette and parts of Lincoln and Sweetwater counties. Led by DEQ Director John Corra, the task force has so far labored over what its scope and authority will be.
Wednesday, Smutko and Spaulding directed their concentration toward identifying
objectives and interests.
Before breaking into work groups, the task force heard a presentation on its Joint Fact Finding (JFF) document, a requirement identified in its charter. The presentation was compiled by the technical subcommittee of Craig Brown, Carmel Kail, Tom Monahan, Rod Rozier and Hank Williams, with direction from scientific advisers.
The subcommittee reported that the JFF was just returned from an adviser and was not ready for the task force to adopt, but members did present some findings. According to its presentation, the oil and gas industry is responsible for 60 percent of NOx (nitrous oxides) and 94 percent of VOCs (volatile organic compounds), two precursors known to cause harmful ozone levels.
Corra added that there was debate on these figures at previous meetings. Task force members responded to the presentation with questions on the validity and accuracy of the emission inventory numbers in the presentation and JFF.
Dave Hohl, a Pinedale town councilman, was the first to voice a concern with the findings. After a lengthy debate on how the statistics were gathered, Encana representative Mike Shaffron asked that the task force be willing to accept the numbers as presented.
"I think we need to have some level of comfort that the emission inventory numbers that we're trying to base decisions on are reasonably representative – they don't have to be 100-percent accurate," Shaffron said.
Corra agreed, adding that task force members are welcome to join his staff to analyze the numbers on their own time.
Prior to the meeting, task force members completed worksheets identifying their personal or professional interests in the air quality discussion. During the meeting, the members split into four small groups to begin identifying the context of these interests and how they fit into the authority of agencies involved in air quality work. The groups considered the scope of the DEQ's authority and their own ability to make recommendations to oil and gas operators in generating their objectives.
Smutko identified the consistent points in the groups' discussions after they shared with the task force as a whole. Their objectives were, as Smutko said, to make sure to do what they could within the DEQ's authority while also exploring voluntary actions by operators to reduce emissions. Some groups focused on air quality as a whole, while others specified reducing precursors (NOx and VOCs) as their main objective.
Smutko led the groups into a second round of small-group work, this time aiming to generate practical options that will later become recommendations. The groups produced about 30 options that they presented to the task force as a whole. Again, different groups found different focuses – some zeroed in on heavy equipment and drilling practices to reduce precursors while others suggested centralized facilities and improved ozone detection.
"What can we really do to achieve those objectives?" asked Smutko after the options were shared. He recommended that task force members meet in like groups before their next workshop and start making concrete recommendations at that meeting, scheduled for May 30.
Several task force members expressed their concern that the group would not be ready to make recommendations by May 30, which will be their fourth meeting. Some said they needed more time to relate the task force's work to their home organizations or people they represent.
Corra responded that the fourth meeting would not be the task force's last as originally scheduled.
"It's clear that four meetings are not enough. … We can do another meeting. What we can't do is an infinite number of meetings every four to six weeks," he said.
Though specific goals are not yet identified for ozone emission reduction, the task force members agreed that the EPA's federal guidelines for air quality would serve as a base objective. Sublette was listed as a non-attainment area on April 30.
The task force will meet next on Wednesday, May 30, at 5 p.m. at Rendezvous Pointe. The session is open to public observation. Meeting information and the task force member list is available at http://deq.state.wy.
For the complete article see the 05-15-2012 issue.
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The former two-term governor of California told me over the summer that he still believes that most things get done through "action in the center" away from the extremes.
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Around this time of year many different media outlets, scouts, and bloggers offer up their mock drafts for how the NHL Entry Draft will likely go down. I'm not here to poo-poo their mock drafts because the purpose of them is not to predict exactly how it will go down, but to try to get inside a General Manager's head for a moment and figure out what they want and what they need. For the most part, these mock drafts do a good job of laying out picks, especially in the first round. However, once one team does something different it sends the whole order into chaos.
Last year's first round is a great example. Let's take a look at the top-5 reasons to leave your expectations at the door.
1. "The NHL Ready" Factor: Jeff Skinner - Now the NHL's 2010-11 Rookie of the Year after taking home the Calder Trophy, Skinner wasn't ranked so high last summer. Most rankings had Skinner as a late 1st round, early 2nd round pick. If the Hurricanes chose not to go with their gut by picking Skinner, there would be another lucky team with a Bieber-esque rookie star. Most scouts do a great job, but they miss every once in a while.
2. "The Hometown Pick" Factor: Beau Bennett - A native of Gardena, California, many thought one of the Golden State's teams might snatch the kid up. However, the great story of the hometown boy is more interesting to us as fans and writers than it is to the teams; Pittsburgh selected Bennett. Teams want the best player available, not the feel-good story. If it happens to work out that way, such as in the case of Emerson Etem getting picked by the Ducks, then great. Picking the hometown boy is pretty far down on a GM's list of draft strategies.
3. "The What the Hell?!" Factor: Dylan McIlrath - The Rangers took McIlrath really early. I understand they felt they had plenty of skilled defensemen and wanted a physical, gritty guy, but how they could pass up certain guys on the board is beyond me. Who knows, maybe McIlrath will be the next Pronger. Probably not.
4. "The Unexpected Drop" Factor: Cam Fowler - The kid was expected to go between 3rd overall and 5th overall. He dropped all the way down to 12th. It was so stunning that a video of Cam's reaction to the draft went viral. We all probably thought there was something on this kid that the GMs knew and we didn't, but Fowler immediately shoved it in some faces by putting up a solid rookie season. The youngster posted 40 points, 23 on the powerplay (granted, with a minus-25, yikes!). The +/- will likely get better with maturity, but I can't say the same for the sting felt by the teams that passed him up.
5. "The Russian Dissuasion" Factor: Any Russian Player - Leave it to the NHL to make it feel like we're back in the 60′s. Of course, this time we're not afraid of the Russians being spies or infecting our brains with communism. The fear is picking a player that will never come to the states to play. Teams really dig hard to find out if a Russian player, or any European player is serious about playing in North America. Alex Burmistrov proved he was ready and willing and made the Thrashers roster out of camp. Maxim Kitsyn, the Kings 158th overall pick last year, made his commitment to North American hockey by moving to Ontario to play with the St. Michael's Majors. There is a much greater burden put on these young players to prove they want to play here now. So, don't be surprised if a highly regarded European player gets passed down the line.
I would say, "Temper your expectations," but isn't that part of the fun? Enjoy the draft and enjoy being surprised.
About the Author
Written by Eric Cooney
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When it comes to her wardrobe, Michelle Obama isn't known for causing controversy. The fashionable First Lady glittered in a Naeem Khan design when she announced Argo had won the Academy Award for Best Picture during the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 24.
The surprise presenter appeared on the ABC broadcast via satellite, as Obama was co-hosting the Governors Ball in Washington, D.C. The telecast was seen by 40.3 million viewers, according to Deadline.
Although she is an American style icon, Iran's Fars News added sleeves to Obama's dress. The network also raised the dress' neckline in an effort to comply with its local broadcasting guidelines. "We've persistently seen Iranian news agencies, whether they're partially or fully state-run, use fabrication and use other means to distort images," deputy State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell tells ABC News.
Fars News also criticized Obama's involvement with the program, saying, "In a rare occasion in Oscar history, the First Lady announced the winner for Best Picture for the anti-Iran film, Argo, which is produced by the Zionist company Warner Bros." MSNBC's Donny Deutsch said Obama's presence was "intrusive and not additive" when he appeared on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight. "There was an elitist flavor to it."
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The late August sun is ablaze over the Farmer's Market at the corner of Third and Fairfax in Los Angeles, and Sanaa Lathan is running late for her one o'clock interview—but with good reason. Tomorrow night is the fourth season premiere of FX's monster-hit series "Nip/Tuck", on which she's now starring as an enterprising, couture-dipped mysterious young woman married to an aging businessman played by Larry Hagman (yes, it's J.R. from "Dallas"). Sanaa's consumed with pulling together her red-carpet look, which took longer than she expected. At half past noon, her publicist calls to request a 15-minute reprieve. Then at 1:17 p.m., a remorseful Lathan herself calls from her car phone. "I'm just crossing Melrose," she explains. "I'll be right there."
When she pulls up at a few minutes shy of 2:00 p.m., the only hint of makeup on her heat-flushed face is the crimson gloss on her lips. Dressed in an orange, yellow and green V-neck sundress and wearing sandals, Lathan, chewing a piece of gum, apologizes for her tardiness and leads the way to Ulysses Voyage, a quaint little Greek restaurant. As we get settled at a corner table on the patio, we realize that we're sitting along the path of a kid-friendly trolley, but fortunately, all the commotion seems to evaporate when our flaming cheese appetizer arrives. "This is like a grilled cheese sandwich—without the bread," Lathan says with a laugh as we both dig in, "but I have to stop!" After all, she's got to squeeze into a strapless fuchsia dress, courtesy of Escada, in just 24 hours.
It's not been quite a decade since the New York–born, bicoastally raised Yale School of Drama alum landed one of her early film roles as Wesley Snipes's mother in "Blade" back in 1998. Lathan, 35, has done her time in "the girlfriend" zone. She began warming us up to her cool-sister-next-door charm in 1999's "The Wood" opposite Omar Epps and "The Best Man" opposite Taye Diggs. Within a year, she was reading for meatier roles, like spirited hoop star Monica in "Love & Basketball"; aspiring singer–songwriter Zora in "Disappearing Acts"; and ambitious magazine editor Sidney in the hip-hop–inspired flick "Brown Sugar". In 2003 she steamed up the screen with Hollywood's finest, Denzel Washington, in the romantic thriller "Out of Time", and the next year she slew extraterrestrials in "Alien vs. Predator". "I created a rule for myself early in my career," she says. "I won't do something that I'm not passionate about. It's very hard for me to work just for money, which I've paid for in the past. The work is more important; the money will come."
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Cain had already left the organization by then, before his three-year term was up, as my colleagues reported last night.
That the settlement was signed by the restaurant association's counsel, Peter Kilgore, illustrates just how central he is in the allegations against Cain. As Vogel, Haberman and Burns reported last night, Kilgore was made aware by an association board member about the claim by a second woman that Cain made a sexual overture to her. Kilgore, according to sources, also looked into the charges of this woman. Citing a policy about not discussing personnel, Kilgore has remained mum since POLITICO broke the story Sunday night.
Bennett has requested that the association free his client, the first woman, from her nondisclosure agreement and let her speak. Bennett suggested that his client would not delve deeply into details, but would push back against the claims by Cain in recent days that her charges were "baseless." The attorney has requested an answer by this afternoon from the association about whether his client will be allowed to issue a statement.
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X Few people really appreciated him when he was healthy. Now that's he's been gone for nearly a month, those same folks can't wait until he returns.
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That's the case with Indians fans and embattled closer Joe Borowski - a guy who admittedly makes it tough to watch - but ultimately tends to get the job done in the ninth.
How he does it is a whole other matter, which is why the veteran tends to make cause a lot of uneasy stomachs as he tight-rope walks through each and every save situation.
Of course, it wasn't that difficult Wednesday for Borowski in his one-inning major league rehab appearance with the Aeros in their 4-1 victory over Altoona Wednesday at Canal Park.
The Aeros defense was on their toes with the veteran big leaguer on the mound in the eighth inning.
Shortstop Josh Rodriguez sprinted out to shallow center to catch Luis Cruz's pop up for the first out, then right fielder Stephen Head made a diving catch to rob former Indians minor leaguer Brian Finegan of a hit for the second.
Curve catcher Milver Reyes managed a little two-out flare into shallow right center field for a base hit before Borowski bounced back to get Pedro Powell looking to end the brief outing.
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Borowski led the American League in saves last year, converting 45 of 53 save opportunities (84.9%), finishing just one shy of tying Jose Mesa's club record of 46 set in 1995.
Wednesday, his short stint came on the heels of a strong seven-inning start by left-hander David Huff, who limited the Curve to a run on four hits.
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The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology, No. 2: David Miscavige
On August 5, we started a countdown that will give credit -- or blame -- to the people who have contributed most to the sad current state of Scientology. From its greatest expansion in the 1980s, the church is a shell of what it once was and is mired in countless controversies around the world. Some of that was self-inflicted, and some of it has come from outside. Join us now as we continue on our investigation of those people most responsible...
#2: David Miscavige
Over the years, I've poked fun at the relatively short stature of Scientology leader David Miscavige. The dude is not tall. Tom Cruise, his bosom buddy and not a man known for his own vertical displacement, has a good couple of inches over the diminutive church leader. But let's give credit where it is due. Next year, it will be 30 years since Miscavige began to consolidate his position as absolute dictator of Scientology, even before its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, went to his reward in 1986. Thirty years, and the guy is still only 51 years old! What Miscavige may lack in stature, he more than makes up for in longevity.
During that time, Miscavige managed to secure tax-exempt status for Scientology, ending a decades-long war with the IRS and settling for a relative pittance ($12.5 million). Without that exemption, Scientology might have already gone the way of other disappearing acts from the 80's, like the Sony Walkman and acid-washed jeans. As the only person who matters within Scientology's byzantine corporate pyramid, Miscavige sits alone on top of a multinational corporate-religious empire. And with that pile of money under him, who needs lifts?
However, as we've been pointing out in this countdown, these are not Scientology's best days. And according to nearly everyone who has recently fled his presence, Miscavige is responsible for every disaster that has befallen the church in the years since he took over control, grabbing the reins of Scientology as the Religious Technology Center's chairman of the board. (Hence, "COB," uttered by his sycophantic junior executives, who reportedly also must salute his beagles.)
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As long as we're talking about a space opera church, let us remind you what Princess Leia said to Grand Moff Tarkin, then-leader of the sinister empire in Star Wars: "The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." With each passing year, Miscavige continues to do exactly that. He's tightened his grip to the point that he has rid himself entirely of potential challengers. But that purging has also left him without competent executive help, judging by the hapless dolts he has in positions of some authority. Micromanaging an organization that can't help creating its own unceasing public relations disasters requires capable assistance, and the tyrannical Miscavige has made plugging holes in the sinking ship all the more difficult by driving away staff in droves.
Of course, Miscavige himself has been the direct cause of many of those public relations disasters, making an already difficult task all but impossible when his staff has to scramble to mock up fictions and fantasies that don't include the reality that Miscavige was the source (small "s" intended) of the disaster. Lucky for DM, church members are trained to be exceedingly credulous about any fiction that is fed to them by his PR flunkies.
One of Miscavige's more infamous Scientology-crippling blunders was his unwelcome intervention into the life of Lisa McPherson, which ultimately led to her death. As detailed in Janet Reitman's excellent book, Inside Scientology, corroborated accounts told of Miscavige arriving in Clearwater, Florida and voicing his frustration at the members moving "up the bridge" too slowly. He then took a personal interest in Lisa, supervising her auditing sessions and declaring her "Clear" despite the misgivings of, well, actual auditors. And Miscavige continued to be advised, from afar, of Lisa's supposed "care," all the way to her death. Although Miscavige's direct involvement would not fully emerge for years, his direct role in Scientology's single worst public relations disaster ranks high as a cause for Scientology's deterioration.
A few years later, in 1998, Miscavige again showed up in Clearwater, this time to conduct damage control for Lisa's death, as the state of Florida was contemplating criminal charges against Scientology. Miscavige granted a few interviews around this time, the last public interviews he would give. While it's difficult to link Scientology's downfall to the tiny handful of interviews Miscavige has granted (before this was a 1992 interview with ABC's Ted Koppel), his few public appearances provide more than a hint as to how and why Miscavige is harming his organization. As Tom Tobin wrote in 1998 after meeting Miscavige:
He will challenge with a blue-eyed stare or lean forward with a direct, no-nonsense question. His attention sticks to the discussion at hand, and his words shoot out machine gun-style, in the accent of the Philadelphia suburb where he grew up. He will pound a table for emphasis or snap his fingers so hard you imagine they sting.
The flip side to this charitable characterization is that the general public instead saw a smug, humorless church leader with the emotional maturity of a spoiled child.
Apparently, we didn't know the half of it. Only later did news begin to leak about what it was like to actually work for the high school dropout who went practically overnight from Hubbard lackey to all-powerful czar. Is it really any wonder that he turns out to be a monster to work for? Although the lid on Miscavige's penchant for brutality was really blown off in 2009 by Tobin and Childs in their epic series, "The Truth Rundown," his sadistic streak was already on the record. In a 1995 interview, former Sea Org member Stacy Brooks remarked that "[Miscavige's] viciousness and his cruelty to staff was unlike anything that I had ever experienced in my life ... He just loved to degrade the staff."
Perhaps the most vivid depiction of Miscavige cruelty was the infamous musical chairs episode described by Tobin and Childs, during which he kept more than 30 executive staff members cooped up in an L.A. office building at Int base, supposedly for the purpose of brainstorming new ideas for Scientology. After weeks of forcing them to sleep on the floor, allowing them to leave only to take a shower, and finally berating them all as disloyal enemies of the church, he announced a game of musical chairs, and whoever lost would be banished to Scientology outposts away from their families. To the tune of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," the executives fought like animals into the wee hours of the morning, only to have Miscavige change his mind about sending anyone anywhere.
When you take into consideration that Scientologists are indoctrinated, practically from the first day, to accept verbal abuse as a normal consequence of their spiritual enlightenment, you begin to understand just how intolerable Miscavige must be: he's chasing off people who had resigned themselves to being poorly fed, paid almost nothing, housed with no privacy, punished like prison inmates, and screamed at constantly over the lives of their billion-year contracts. When these people tell you their boss is an asshole, it really means something!
But let's set aside, for a moment, the media drumbeat in recent years that portrays David Miscavige as a tiny terror. There's another Miscavige that has always fascinated me: the church leader as master of ceremonies.
Our infrequent glimpses of this reclusive religious leader tend to be in the form of videotaped galas which have him standing on a massive stage, surrounded by set dressing that is baroque in the extreme, delivering scripted orations in a style that seems more game show host than ecclesiastical patriarch.
I've recently been watching a recording of Miscavige give such a speech at a gathering four years ago. It was in 2007 that Miscavige had to give one of his career's most crucial performances: he had dared to rework the sacrosanct writings of L. Ron Hubbard, and now he not only had to convince his flock that it wasn't sacrilege to rewrite Hubbard, but that it was worth paying for the privilege to replace every book in their personal libraries.
Working from a thick script, but never seeming to look at it, Miscavige wields his vocal delivery like a blunt instrument. With odd choices of grammar and diction, a tale begins to unfold about Hubbard relying on nameless "transcriptionists" in the late 1940s and early 1950s who had done their jobs poorly. (Somehow, Hubbard never bothered to check their work before allowing his early books to be published. An odd trait in an author as obsessive as L. Ron.)
With Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes cheering him in the front row of a large audience, Miscavige moved on to Hubbard's 1951 book, Science of Survival, and explained that this book's biggest problem was an overuse of semicolons, introduced not by Hubbard but by incompetent transcribers and editors.
Semicolons? You mean, this book's real problem isn't that Hubbard wants his readers to believe that human emotion can be measured on something he called a "tone scale," with "tone 40" representing the highest level on the scale ("serenity of being"), and 1.0 equalling "fear"? (Hubbard would go on to say that homosexuals are 1.1 on the tone scale, which equals "covert hostility.") If it's odd enough that Hubbard suggests that people below 2.0 on the scale have bad breath, smelly feet, and that their genitals reek, he really goes into creepy territory by suggesting that the "sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals" below 2.0 would make for a better (and apparently sweeter-smelling) world.
No, the suggestion of "quarantining" the world's smelly people is apparently not this book's problem. Instead, it's the punctuation, which required a years-long overhaul, new printing, and appealing new packaging.
With a grin, Miscavige now gets to his punchline:
Yes, this book too is now perfect. And the number of incorrect instances of punctuation that had to be corrected? Hang on to your seat. Three thousand, eight hundred and twenty five.
This thunderous announcement is met -- I kid you not -- with a standing ovation from Scientologists, who must be the only audience in history that would stand and cheer for the replacement of semicolons with periods and commas.
If Miscavige's performance garnered him loving praise from Cruise, Holmes, and the thousand other people that night, the tinkering he's done with Hubbard's sacred writings may actually turn out to be his biggest problem.
Longtime Scientologists, even in their abject credulity, at some point have to wonder if Miscavige's multiple reworkings of Hubbard's works isn't at some level a cynical cash-grab, requiring people accustomed to paying exorbitant prices for spiritual services and goods to pay all over again for books they've already purchased in the past, or to redo expensive levels of training now that they've been retooled. Jason Beghe, who had been at one time one of the most gung-ho of Scientologists, rocketing up "the Bridge" and providing an inspiring example to many in the church, began his disillusionment at such a moment, when he was suddenly told to pay tens of thousands of dollars to redo previous material because Miscavige's drones had found "errors" in Hubbard's work. For Beghe, it was a shock, and one he never really recovered from. Increasingly, we're seeing more evidence that legions of longtime Scientologists are having the same doubts.
As he faces a dwindling membership that shares such doubts, can the Miscavige act -- the stagecraft, the set dressings, the game show delivery -- really be enough to turn things around?
At this point, it appears the church leader is short on ideas, short on patience, and increasingly short on followers.
Given all those problems, can David Miscavige stand tall?
And how do I get that shirt?
[My deep thanks to Scott Pilutik for his expert help on this entry.]
The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology #1: L. Ron Hubbard #2: David Miscavige #3: Marty Rathbun #4: Tom Cruise #5: Joe Childs and Tom Tobin #6: Anonymous #7: Mark Bunker #8: Mike Rinder #9: Jason Beghe #10: Lisa McPherson #11: Nick Xenophon (and other public servants) #12: Tommy Davis (and other hapless church executives) #13: Janet Reitman (and other journalists) #14: Tory Christman (and other noisy ex-Scientologists) #15: Andreas Heldal-Lund (and other old time church critics) #16: Marc and Claire Headley, escapees of the church's HQ #17: Jefferson Hawkins, the man behind the TV volcano #18: Amy Scobee, former Sea Org executive #19: The Squirrel Busters (and the church's other thugs and goons) #20: Trey Parker and Matt Stone (and other media figures) #21: Kendrick Moxon, attorney for the church #22: Jamie DeWolf (and other L. Ron Hubbard family members) #23: Ken Dandar (and other attorneys who litigate against the church) #24: David Touretzky (and other academics) #25: Xenu, galactic overlord
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June 28, 2011, 09:31:54 AM »
Took my 10-year old daughter to WYE the other night because the one in Blue Springs is just too tough for her and we were hoping for an easier time on an easier course.
I've done this course before, once with my wife and once with my son, so I was familiar with it.
Imagine our surprise when many of the holes had moved with no real indication of where they were now. The pictures no longer matched and some had no picture at all, though one was replaced with a hand-drawn taco. From a few of the tees you can even see 3 baskets, so which one should we use?
In the end we would just pick a basket and use it, even though it may not have been the correct one. We made sure our fun overshadowed our frustration.
Is there any map anywhere that shows the correct current layout so as to prevent this frustration and confusion?
Also, what is the correct protocol for handling rule breakers like the 2 dorks we were following that were toting their 6-pack of buds?
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June 28, 2011, 09:38:38 AM »
As for the 6-pack, I would let them konw that this is an elementary school, and that alcohol is prohibitted, and that a quick call to the police is all it may take to remove the course. If they continue to follow with the 6-pack in tow, make the call. People should understand at an elementary school, its not proper to have alcohol. ONe would think that they have a brain....but......
SOrry that they map/layout is tough there. I know that from personal experience though you can still have a great time on a course creating your own 18 hole configuration. Based on the small footprint that Yates has it easy to see this as a problem, but as you stated you made it more fun than frustrating, which in all honesty is half the battle!
Since this is on school property, it tends to be thought of as the school's and doesn't have as much attention to it from our club as it may need.
THanks for pointing this out. I am hopeful that the people that made it less than desireable were also not put into a frustration point for you and the family to enjoy.
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June 28, 2011, 09:44:28 AM »
The course tees and baskets were moved in 2009 I believe just before worlds. The new pins are not far from their original locations as only 4 baskets were even moved. Some of the tee pads now have a "long tee" option, but the short pads are still present and playable. As far as signage is concerned, hopefully a few new signs can be made in the near future for the few holes that now have another pin location. Your best bet is to contact John Theiss, the course designer and coordinator. With the players drinking alcohol out there, it is a no tolerance policy and in the future don't be afraid to call the authorities on them. There has been talk about the course being pulled because of this stuff so we need to stop it when we can.
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June 28, 2011, 09:55:19 AM »
it used to be super easy to follow. however, some signs had to be pulled from vandalism. i got tired of them being destroyed or asking my dad to play bob villa and fix them. there is a course map on hole one.
i know there are some indep police officers that play out there. i just wish they were there when folks were breaking the law.
the baskets need nickels(number plates) but i believe the poles are labeled so u might have to walk up to the basket and take a look.
i will move the baskets back to the original pins today and they will match the signs. i have not moved them in forever. I will see if one of our tech folks in the club(dicky p) would like to add a new pin placement on the tee sign pics for four of the holes that have 2 pin placements.
There are posts and tee pads pointing to the hole to help you navigate. plus there are some paving stones under most of the baskets pointing to the next basket.
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June 28, 2011, 10:53:43 AM »
My frustration probably stemmed from my inexperience and the fact that everything was exactly as I expected it to be the last time I played but not so this time.
I'll go with the flow and expect some small bumps in the road and know that no matter what, we had a great time playing.
Now If I could just throw with more accuracy on my drives I'd be happier. :-)
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July 01, 2011, 01:06:21 PM »
Also, what about the donor plaque for hole #10? I know some dude who donated a Benjamin to adopt that hole, and there is still no plaque depicting his family's name on the tee sign. This dude's kids are almost done with elementary school and won't have much time left to brag to their buddies about having their names on the course. Just putting that out there...
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July 01, 2011, 01:15:17 PM »
Mike, i will ask eric if he can come up with something from his work. all the prices at that time were around $20 which is an injustice to a donation. It is also just as bad not to get the plaque up.
i moved all baskets back to original pin placements.
Mike, i will get something done this summer and totally dropped the ball. no excuses. i will get on this and get it going.
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i moved all baskets back to original pin placements.
excellent John. thanks. i'll bring the kids this weekend!
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John, and everyone else...
just to say I was glad to see only 1 beer can on the course last Friday...lots of QT cups though. Still, that's a huge improvement!
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"Easily the best new idea for a superhero team book, executed perfectly, and with style and mystery to spare," says Ed Brubaker, writer of CAPTAIN AMERICA and UNCANNY X-MEN.
DYNAMO 5 #1 will be available soon from Diamond Comic Distributers. Retailers may order these issues by contacting their Diamond Customer Service Representative by email at email@example.com. Image Comics advises that retailers check their orders for the rest of the series as it continues to garner new readers. DYNAMO 5 #2 (FEB071905) will be on stands APRIL 4th and is available for order increase.
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ATC (A TOUCH OF CLASS) is the fortuitous result of four great talents from different corners of the world - Australia, Italy, England, and New Zealand - that turned a friendship into a global smash sensation. Their irresistible breakout single, Around the World (la la la la la), has already ranked ATC as international chart toppers, award winners and multiple-award nominees. With ATC's Republic/Universal Records debut CD Planet Pop arriving in America on February 6, 2001, the dynamic, upbeat dance grooves, enticing ballads, and sexy pop songs of ATC will truly find a common ground with music fans around the world.
Based in Hamburg, Germany, ATC is compromised of early twenty-somethings Joe (New Zealand), Sarah (Australia), Tracey (England), and Livio (Northern Italy) who met as cast members in the German production of Cats. While proving their dance skills in Cats, it was the foursome's vocal crafts honed since childhood that propelled them into a best-selling pop act. As Joe recalls, "We really wanted to show the strenght of our voices and not just our dancing. We all had the same pop dreams. We're all just as stong as singers as we are dancers. In our live performances we have a massive dance show, but it's the songs that show all our talents."
Their premiere single "Around the World (la la la la la)" has been embraced with unprecedented airplay and soaring singles sales. This overseas summer smash stayed at number one on the German singles charts for 7 weeks, and reached platinum status. It was played over 1500 times in one week across Germany, becoming the most frequently played song ever on German radio, a distinction previously held by Madonna. ATC has since reached the number one sales position in France, and received gold record status in Austria, Switzerland, France, and Denmark, while selling over one million units throughout Europe. Early U.S. reaction includes heavy rotation at L.A.'s KIIS, Houston's KRBE, KHKS in Dallas, and Tampa's WFLZ.
Thomas M. Stein, CEO of the Bertelsmann Entertainment Group for Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Eastern Europe was eager to foster ATC's musical sawy and hit-making potential after hearing them perform their songs. He quickly put them in contact with top producer Alex Christensen (Rollergirl, U96, Marky Mark, Tom Jones), and the rest is history. The winning collaboration led to Around the World la la la la la which went on to garner nominations at home for the Comet 2000 award for "National Newcomer" the Eins Live award for "Best Single of the Year," and ultimately a win for the Goldene Europa in the "Summer Hit 2000" category.


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Starring Leah Ford, Debbie Rochon, Carmine Capobianco
"I can't find the fruity shit."
Bikini Bloodbath could, for all intents and purposes, call itself Slumber Party Massacre 4 and get away with it. It's got all the elements: a clutch of attractive high school girls (including one plucky self-starter and one weird-girl-who-nobody-likes), a fetish-y killer, a ridiculous red herring, and, most importantly, shower scenes and an all-girl party. This particular get-together is a bikini-only affair, mostly to justify the title. Also like the '82 film, Bloodbath is a slasher movie and a send-up of the genre at the same time. They're both low budget - although this one could be more accurately labeled 'no budget' - and feature a handful of first-time actors. The difference? Slumber Party Massacre had a little forethought. Bikini Bloodbath is a let's-get-drunk-and-make-a-movie sort of affair.
White Liger - a real band, sorta - blasts away on the soundtrack as our plucky young protagonist Jenny (Leah Ford, sporting an awesome Stephanie Fondue/Cherie Curie/Tegan & Sara-esque girl-mullet) wakes up, shows off her teacup titties, and starts her day. She heads to school where she meets up with her gang of hussies and mean girls. Lucky for us, we meet them all on gym day.
They play volleyball in tight shorts, while their self-hating lesbian gym teacher Miss Johnson (Debbie Rochon) occasionally molests them. They mostly seem to like it though, so no harm done.
After the game (they are all quite terrible at volleyball, by the way), they take a shower and discuss the big party at Jenny's house. All the girls are invited except, of course, for Suzi (the impressively curvy Sheri Bomb), the resident ick-girl. After they towel off, the girls run into the football team. They've heard about the girls' party, and they are unimpressed.
"We're throwing our own party," says one of the jocks. "Guys only. We're gonna have balloons."
By the way, just so you don't get confused, most of the characters in this film wear t-shirts that identify who they are. Rochon's reads "Gym Teacher". Everybody on the football team have "Football Player" shirts. Etc. It's actually very handy. Life would be simpler if we made this mandatory.
Oh yeah, we're supposed to get a bloodbath going, right? There's a mad chef on the loose - with his scraggly orange goatee, he actually looks more like the bass player in a stoner rock band, but whatever - who skulks around the neighborhood, occasionally slicing open a local with his pear-knife. The crazed psycho-chef slashes his way through a succession of victims, including one of the volleyball girls, a cheeseburger-obsessed bum, and then poor, horny Miss Johnson. This is generally accomplished via one of those dimestore retracting knives and what seriously looks like ketchup. Maybe it's funnier that way?
Cut to: Jenny and Sharon (Anna-Karin Eskilsson) buyin' stuff for the party. The girls run into Suzy while they're in the grocery store. She tries to invite herself to their party, but is soundly rebuffed. We so far have no reason why the girls detest her so much. She does have bigger tits than the rest of them. Maybe that's it?
While the girls are unpacking their groceries, they hear a strange noise outside. They go out to investigate, only to find a blood-splattered chef in their backyard. Luckily, it's not the killer, it's just their screwy next door neighbor, Mr. Robinson (Phil Hall). Seems he was making peanut butter and grape jam sandwiches, and things went awry. They shoo him away, but not before he suggests the girls take a shower together. That does sound like a good idea. And that's exactly what they do.
Later on, their friends show up and the girls have an awesome dance party. Aside from Pam's ( Dana Fay Ensalata) spastic moves, I could watch that all day.
The football team, on the other hand, sit around eating ice cream and S'mores and occasionally playing a bit of grab-ass, and Suzy - dressed casually, in skin-tight pink underwear, quietly assembles a jigsaw puzzle at home.
The boy's party quickly descends into what looks like the opening scene of a hardcore gay porn film. The boys' coach, by the way, is none other than the Galactic Gigolo himself, Carmine Capobianco!
Two of the fellas decide that the football party is getting too homoerotic for their tastes - and after reach-around Twister and talk of spin-the-bottle and "Frenching", I can see their point - so they decide to head out and see if they can wrangle some girls.
Meanwhile, after splashing bright pink slushy drinks on one another, the girls all change into bikinis. It's about fuckin' time, man. They slip into a hot tub and talk about blowjobs. Because that's what happens at these things.
Next door, Suzy hears something in the backyard and ends up stumbling into Mr. Robinson's house. She finds his headless torso at his computer desk. Panicking, she bolts out of there, but smacks into the office door and knocks herself out.
And then the dudes have a dance-off. The fat guy even does the Flashdance pull-the-chain ending.
Suzy wakes up in Mr. Robinson's house surrounded by body parts. She rushes over to the girls' house and barges in. Snotty Portia (busty Katie Gil) eyes her blood-soaked classmate and sneers.
"You look like a tampon."
"Can I have some water?" The out-of-breath Suzy asks.
"Yeah, sure. The toilet's in the bathroom."
They are very mean to Suzy.
The killer-chef finds his way into the house and starts picking them off one by one. Sharon grabs a knife and heads out to get help. She also promises to bring back tacos. A first, the remaining members of the party try to figure out a way to escape, but that proves to be too much trouble, so they down a bunch of daiquiris instead.
While all this mayhem is going on, we cut to Sharon, who is at Das Taco, quietly eating a 7-pound burrito in her blood-smeared bikini. The taco joint has a Hitler cut-out on the door, so I'm guessing it's a Nazi Taco place. Which you don't see very often.
So, you know, everybody eventually gets killed. Jenny - who we knew would be the Final Girl from the beginning, because she has the smallest boobs and shortest hair - is left to do battle with the chef in her garage. He's got a couple cleavers, she's got a rake.
"I'm gonna rake the shit outta you, Frenchy", she growls.
By the way, there's a lot of disturbing-looking stuff lying around in that garage. It was clearly not a dressed set, and was shot exactly as it usually looks, but there are literally hundreds of wire racks packed in with what looks like either a tanning bed or a casket. There's a stray wheelchair in there, too, and an old turntable with a warped record wobbling soundlessly away. Crazy.
Jenny rakes him and wanders off. The end. And then, as I fully expected, there's about ten minutes' worth of credits.
So, who was the chef? Dunno. But I bet he's into stoner rock.
It seems sorta senseless to offer criticism of a shot-on-video quickie called Bikini Bloodbath, especially since it did, pretty much, deliver on its promise. However, there is no other excuse for shoddy, Karo-syrup-splashing-on-the-wall special effects at this point except for sheer laziness. You can find budget Savini-esque solutions to your slasher movie problems within ten minutes of surfing You Tube, utilizing junk you've already got lying around the house. Clearly, realism was not Gorman and Seymour's goal, but a few reasonably effective splatter-gags would have gone a long way. The script, too, seemed to waver from witty, self-aware, pop-culture referencing black comedy to juvenile drivel, especially during the seemingly endless football party. Sure, we get the joke - flip the gender around, and you get a much different sort of movie - but that particular point is driven home in about 30 seconds. Taking half the film to prove that slasher movies look like gay porn if they star football players is a tad excessive. Also, Bikini Bloodbath does not star scream queen Debbie Rochon, despite her top-billing and prominent placement on the poster. Rochon's only in the film for 15 or so minutes, and even then, it was clearly a weird period for her. That double-chin was no special effect, man.
Ah, but these are minor quibbles in the big scheme of things, really. The fact is that there's half a dozen bouncy young girls in this movie, and they are either topless or barely clothed for most of it. When it's firing on all cylinders, it's also very funny ("I'll be out in a minute, I just gotta get rid of this boner"), and has the decency, in these busy days, to get in and out in an hour. Also, you can probably masturbate to the dance party scene. The girl's version, anyway.
Bikini Bloodbath proved enough of a success to warrant two sequels: 2008's Bikini Bloodbath Carwash, and 2009's Bikini Bloodbath Christmas. Most of the cast carry over into the other movies, despite being killed in the first one. I dunno about you, but I can't wait to see 'em.
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"Chinook salmon are iconic to Alaska and its people and have been one of our most valuable resources for thousands of years," said Cora Campbell, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in the introduction to Chinook News.
The department's newest publication, a 12-page edition in newspaper format, is designed to highlight the major issues surrounding Chinook salmon in Alaska while giving the reader an overview of what ADF&G is doing to understand and sustainably manage this important resource.
"Today, Alaska's Chinook salmon stocks are suffering from a prolonged period of poor productivity and research suggests the problem lies mostly in the marine environment," said Ed Jones, Chinook Salmon Research Initiative Coordinator. "This is not unprecedented, has happened historically, and it's not a matter of if the runs will rebound, but when."
Weak Chinook salmon runs have impacted subsistence harvests, sport fishing opportunities and commercial activity. The State of Alaska launched the Chinook Salmon Research Initiative in 2012 to determine the causes for the down turn in production and provide the information necessary to better predict Chinook salmon runs in the future and better manage fisheries to sustain harvests even during years of low runs. Over the next five years, the Initiative will study 12 river systems throughout Alaska through the support of Governor Parnell and the Alaska Legislature.
ADF&G is committed to keeping all Alaskans informed about this issue and has developed a special section of its website specifically for the Chinook Salmon Research Initiative: http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=chinookinitiative.main. Chinook News can be found at this website, as well as ADF&G offices around the state.


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Set II: Haze > Wicked Awesome, Puebla > Billy Goat > Tailspin > Brent Black
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Blizzard announces Diablo III expansion Reaper of Souls
Blizzard has officially announced the
Diablo III
expansion Reaper of Souls at Gamescom 2013.
Game director Josh Mosqueira introduced the new expansion during a Blizzard press conference at Gamescom 2013. Mosquiera said the game will feature a brand-new fifth act to pit players against new villain Malthael, a fallen angel. The expansion will take a darker tone than the original Diablo III campaign, Blizzard adds, and will be set in the gothic environment Westmarch.
Blizzard did not mention a release date for Reaper of Souls.
Reaper of Souls will introduce a new class, the Crusader, and increase the level cap to 70. All of the game's classes will get new skills, passive abilities, and runes. The Crusader class is a descendent of the Paladin order and includes a version of the Fist of the Heavens skill seen in Diablo II.
Mosqueira said Diablo III's end-game content would also be improved with a new feature, Loot Runs, and an upgrade to the Paragon system. Loot Runs will be entirely randomly generated dungeons designed to take between 15 and 20 minutes to complete, and the Paragon mechanic will now be account-wide, will have no cap, and will allow players to modify the base stats of their characters.
Blizzard says it wants to change the game's philosophy towards loot, with the expansion now dropping less but better loot. Using the example of a playthrough in Act III, the Reaper of Souls expansions dropped 73 white items as opposed to 256 in the original game. The Act III playthrough also dropped six legendary items, as opposed to one in a Diablo III run.
Legendary items in Reaper of Souls will also now tailor themselves around character builds, adds Blizzard, such as a wizard weapon that has a chance to summon a hydra when killing an enemy. The mystic artisan will also return, allowing players to transmogrify items and tailor the look of characters. The mystic will also be able to enchant items.
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Diablo III launched on PC and Mac in May 2012. Blizzard will be bringing Diablo III to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in September, and to the PlayStation 4 in 2013.
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Nominations can be made by completing the form, available on Hall's website (www.cmhf.ca), and submitting it prior to the February 28, 2015 deadline.
The inductees will be announced in the spring and welcomed into the Hall at the 21th Anniversary Induction Ceremonies in the fall.
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DENVER—The Denver Nuggets went into halftime knowing they had an opportunity to put the New Orleans Hornets away with a quick start to the third quarter.
A dominant effort did the trick.
Iguodala scored 23 points, Kenneth Faried had his eighth double-double of the season and the Denver Nuggets beat the struggling New Orleans Hornets 102-84 on Sunday night.
"That's a point we wanted to … make sure they didn't have a chance to make a late-game run," Denver guard Ty Lawson said of his team's third quarter strategy.
Denver made 11 of 18 shots and outscored New Orleans 32-20 in the third quarter—using a simple principle.
"Pay attention to detail," Lawson said. "We came in here at halftime and the coaches gave us adjustments we needed to make."
It was the second straight game the Nuggets used a third quarter surge. They had outscored Golden State 31-17 Friday to put away the Warriors.
During the first half Sunday, we were pretty good except for about a four-minute stretch where we had a nine-, 10-point lead and gave it right back," Denver coach George Karl said. "After that we built it back up (in the third quarter) where I felt the flow of the game was more like we like it and where we got a lot of guys involved."
Iguodala was coming off a 29-point effort against Golden State. Faried had 14 points and 12 rebounds for Denver, winners of four straight.
Lawson had 17 points and six assists for the Nuggets who are 4-1 at home.
Reserve Brian Roberts led New Orleans with 17 points. Ryan Anderson added 16, but was held scoreless in the second half.
The Hornets have lost seven straight.
"Not any good thing to take from a game like this," New Orleans coach Monty Williams said.
The Hornets avoided their most lopsided loss of the year. New Orleans had lost by 22 to the New York Knicks.
"We are having problems right now," Hornets point guard Greivis Vasquez said. "We are just embarrassed."
"We didn't play well in the third quarter," Vasquez said. "We had a lot of deflections and I turned the ball over and they turned them into dunks."
Lawson had 11 points in the quarter, and made three consecutive shots, the last a 19-footer off a pass from Kosta Koufos with 3:50 left to boost the Nuggets lead to 78-50.
Roberts scored six points in the last 3:47 to get the Hornets to 83-61 at the end of the quarter.
Denver turned the game over to its substitutes early in the fourth quarter. Only Koufos was on the floor at the finish.
New Orleans made the most of it. Roberts hit a wide open shot from the wing, closing the gap to 94-75 with 4:43 left. Corey Brewer and Evan Fournier hit jumpers to get the lead back to 98-76.
New Orleans' Jason Smith's basket tied the game at 26 early in the second quarter, the last time the Hornets trailed or led. It was a quarter of 10-0 runs. Andre Miller put the Nuggets up 38-28 with a pair of free throws, but Robin Lopez's dunk ended a ten-point rally to cut the deficit 40-38.
The Nuggets started to pulling away and held a 51-41 edge at the break. They continued to roll into the third quarter when Faried started the second half with a jam off a steal.
"The NBA is a cruel league," said Williams. "They try to embarrass you every night and that's what you saw tonight."
NOTES: Olympic swimmer Missy Franklin was awarded the game ball before the tip. .. There was no update on the progress of Hornets center/forward Anthony Davis (left ankle). … Colorado State alum Smith played after being poked in the eye in the team's loss to Phoenix. … Smith a Kersey, Colo., native was relieved to have only a dozen requests for tickets from the town of 2,229. "Much different from the first time through when the whole town seemed to be here." … Denver was without forward Wilson Chandler (left hip) for the sixth straight game. … Iguodala used both hands to drop a dunk a minute after clanging a one-handed slam.


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"The second member of the super-efficient 787 family rolled out of the Everett, Wash., factory today to the flight line, where teams are preparing it to fly later this summer," Boeing (NYSE:BA) said in a Saturday press release announcing that the aerospace company had completed building the first aircraft in the latest model of the Dreamliner, the 787-9. The plane will be delivered to Air New Zealand (ANZFF.PK), the 787-9's first customer, in the middle of 2014.
A second and third aircraft are in final assembly, and as the aircraft rolled off the assembly line, it capped a difficult few months for Boeing. Since January, the Dreamliner has been plagued with mechanical difficulties.
Two battery meltdowns forced regulators in the United States and Japan to ground the Dreamliner fleet for three-and-a-half months; a Honeywell-manufactured (NYSE:HON) emergency beacon of an Ethiopian Airlines-operated 787 started a blaze aboard a parked aircraft in July; and, nearly two weeks ago, wiring defects were found in the fire extinguishing units for the plane's two engines. Defects have also been found in fuel pump indicators, electric panels, and even a plane oven. Planes — like a United Continental (NYSE:UAL) jet — have been ground and investigations launched.


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The Washington Public Library is holding a book discussion tonight about the book The Hunger Games. Library Director Debbie Stanton says they have been holding discussions all month regarding this book.
She says this program is similar to the All Iowa Reads program for adults but is for those in grades six through twelve.
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