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Late last year, I spoke with Gregory Slomba of New Fairfield about his first novel, "The Deliverers: Sharky and the Jewel," which he published in 2011. I recently heard from him with an update on some upcoming events he'll be doing in the area, and his plans to release a sequel.
Slomba's book is geared towards 9- to 13-year-olds and, while it's got an out-of-this-world setting, he views it as pure adventure for his readers to enjoy. It has elements of fantasy, with a young hero who meets a talking owl and is transported to another land where he helps local residents defend their homes from pirates and makes some new friends in the process.
From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 18, Slomba will be selling autographed copies of "The Deliverers: Sharky and the Jewel" at New Fairfield High School, where the annual Run for the Turkeys road race begins and ends.
Then, on Sunday, Nov. 25, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., he will be selling copies at the Moms Club of Danbury/New Fairfield's Ladies Day Out event, which will be at the Police Activities League building, 35 Hayestown Road, Danbury.
It might make a great present for a young reader on your gift list. With "The Deliverers 2" due out next year, if your young reader loves the first book, there's more adventure to look forward to in the near future.
Slomba has a blog, http://thedelivererssharkeyandthejewel.blogspot.com/, where fans can also enjoy his "interviews" with Eric, Kate, Stig and Hallo, the four characters who share the adventures in Slomba's books. If you check it out, you can get a small inkling of what to expect in "The Deliverers 2: Order of the Crystal Lion," due out in late winter or early spring of 2013. There's also a preview of the audio book version of "The Deliverers: Sharky and the Jewel," which will be available in a few weeks.
There's a third book in the works, so now's a great time to get up to speed on what's turning into a fun adventure series for kids.
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(Reuters) - Canada's Shaw Communications Inc said on Wednesday that quarterly profit and revenue rose as higher cable and satellite rates offset a net loss of video cable and satellite television subscribers.
It also said it would boost its dividend by 5 percent.
Operating income before amortization jumped 9.2 percent in the media division in the fiscal first quarter that ended November 30 as advertising and subscriber revenue rose.
Shaw, the dominant cable provider in Western Canada, also boosted revenue and operating income before amortization in its bigger cable and satellite divisions.
From late March, the company will pay a monthly dividend equivalent to an annual C$1.02 ($1.03) per Class B share, up from 97 Canadian cents.
Video customers fell by 23,912, or 1.1 percent, during the quarter, following a similar drop in the same period last year. "Direct to home" satellite customers fell by 4,021, or 0.4 percent, following gains in the year-earlier quarter.
"Subscriber metrics were generally lighter than expected, partly explained by prior year restatements in the company's cable subscriber bases," National Bank Financial analyst Adam Shine wrote in a note to clients.
Nonetheless, Shine said the results were better than expected, due in part to higher cable margins and the media business. Shaw operates the Global network, a competitor to BCE Inc's CTV, as well as a portfolio of specialty channels.
A resurgent Telus Corp has been pushing an Internet-based television product to win over cable customers in Western Canada. Shaw first hit back with discounts, but has since eased back on promotions.
"We will remain focused on disciplined and sustainable pricing strategies, customer retention, and long-term growth," Chief Executive Brad Shaw said in a press release.
Shaw, which like Corus Entertainment Inc is controlled by the Shaw family, said first-quarter net income rose to C$235 million, or 49 Canadian cents a share, from C$202 million, or 43 Canadian cents, a year earlier.
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Revenue at the Calgary-based company rose 3.1 percent to C$1.32 billion, in line with the average estimate of C$1.31 billion.
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Yesterday, I laid out what I thought constituted victory for both sides. I believe Obama did what he had to last night, a convincing rout in North Carolina, for all intent and purposes a draw in Indiana. The gap is larger now, and last night represented the biggest delegate haul left. I thought David Gergen explained the process best, and why last night might mean the end of the campaign:
But the critical point is, four times now in this campaign, we have come up to the brink and each time she's been successful. Tonight, we came up to the brink, and she was not successful in the way she needed to be successful.
That explains why the race has continued on, because Clinton has won every time it was required. Last night was another one of those make or break scenarios, this time she fell short and as a result the sober truth is unavoidable.
I had the sense last night, that there we will now see increasing pressure for Clinton to accept the reality, people will argue it is time to close ranks around Obama. Last night will surely bring more superdelegates off the fence, leaving Clinton to play the role of spoiler. Fact is, Clinton will probably win next week's primary in West Virginia by a landslide, ditto for the following week's contest in Kentucky. However, those will be more moral victories than "game changers". It was last night that provided the last opportunity, and the results effectively sealed her fate.
I think the time has come for Clinton to suspend her campaign and support Obama as the nominee. I don't subsribe to the view that she has hurt the party by continuing, because in reality it was the voters that allowed it to occur. If Obama would have just won, then she would be gone, it's as simple as that. However, her central thesis is now gone, she didn't "win" last night, but any measure she "lost", which doesn't allow for anymore "tomorrow's". It is from this moment on, that the Clinton campaign is an objective negative for the Democrats, her continued presence hurts Obama's chances in the fall.
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Unfortunately, until projects are certified in a couple years, current regulations remain in place.
Anyone who knows anything at all about the decades-long struggle to secure flood protection for the Crookston community knows that once a flood control project is finished, there's still one major hurdle to clear: Getting the project certified.
Only when a project is certified can property owners who were once within the boundaries of the 100-year flood plain opt out of the national flood insurance program, which would permit them, if they wish, to invest significant amounts of money in improvements on their homes, rental properties or businesses. It takes a long time for a community's new flood plain map to be certified, so in the interim a "letter of map revision" (LOMR) authored by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) suffices as an official certification that an area once within the 100-year flood plain is now out of the flood plain.
The problem is, Community Development Director Mike MacDonald told the city Ways & Means Committee this week, it'll likely be up to two years before a LOMR officially removing Sampson's, Chase-Loring and Jerome's additions from the 100-year flood plain is complete.
While he knows that's frustrating for property owners who would not only like to stop paying flood insurance premiums but would also like to invest in their properties and see a rebirth of sorts in their neighborhoods, MacDonald said it shouldn't dampen anyone's enthusiasm over the fact that Crookston is tantalizingly close to being protected from 100-year flood events on the Red Lake River.
"We're golden," he said. "I'm happy to report, as I've said before, it's truly amazing where we're at, what we've accomplished, and the support we've gotten from the folks in the state houses and the governor."
Crookston's first project, completed in 2004, removed 379 homes and businesses in the Woods Addition, a portion of downtown and in the Thorndale Avenue area from the 100-year flood plain. It was a federal project undertaken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and cost around $13.2 million.
Around 2005, with three more neighborhoods in harm's way and the federal funding process agonizingly slow, Kent Lokkesmoe of the Minnesota DNR took a boat ride on the Red Lake River, got a look at 40-year old dikes that were supposed to be "emergency" and "temporary" when they were erected, and declared Crookston the most at-risk for flooding city in the entire state.
From that point, compared to the federal process, it's been practically a whirlwind of activity, with state bonding bills including healthy allocations to the DNR's Flood Hazard Mitigation Grant program, and the DNR, in turn, sending money Crookston's way for flood control projects that have been completed in relatively rapid fashion. All that remains today, as far as projects involving certified levees, is some cosmetic work in Jerome's Addition.
In addition to the very first project, 463 homes and businesses have been protected from high water, at a cost of around $33 million.
The state investment has made it possible for Crookston's special service district "flood fund," which was established after the epic flood fight of 1997, to accrue a healthy bottom line of around $2 million. By the time the fund sunsets in 2017, the city should be able to set up an endowment that will allow for continued investment in operations and maintenance of the city's levee system.
"I can't say enough about the leadership that Lokkesmoe provided on this, and the outstanding job he did of educating the legislature on the importance of reducing the damage and the costs from floods," MacDonald said, also mentioning Keith Langseth, the longtime state senator from Glyndon who recently retired.
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Recent wet weather means that seeding and sodding of the new levee in Jerome's Addition won't be finished until next spring, MacDonald said. Other than that, all that's left for the Jerome's project is for Reiner Contracting to remove some equipment, he said.
Plans are still in place to erect a levee along Ash Street from the Robert Street Bridge and along the street that won't be eligible to be a certified levee but will protect the area at the entrance to the Woods Addition from high river water. MacDonald said he hopes the work is finished by the end of the 2013 construction season.
The city has been acquiring properties in the area on an involuntary basis. Every property owner of the mostly-rental properties along the street has indicated a willingness to sell, but MacDonald said the hold-up is that when properties are acquired involuntarily affected tenants and residents are required to get assistance with relocation. There are three properties to close the deals on, MacDonald said, with an eye on demolishing them in the spring.
The story is similar and yet different in the Riverside area. The city is acquiring properties there, too, but that is on a "willing seller" basis, which means the city can't force anyone's hand. "We own a number of houses there," MacDonald said, adding that demolitions in that area are also a springtime goal. Once the homes are gone, the basements will be filled in and the area will be a green space, he explained, adding that there are several homes in the area that the city would like to buy and remove, but property owners have yet to pull the trigger on a transaction.
Much of the work now involves completing the city's operations and maintenance manuals for the recently completed projects, he said. The plan is to get the manuals submitted by January. Doing so is required as part of the process of getting the LOMR.
"I hope this all moves quicker than I think, but two years has been kind of the standard timeframe," MacDonald said, adding that he's fielded numerous calls from Crookston residents who wonder why they still need to buy flood insurance. "We've really come a long way; we're going to get there."


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Kanpur: Stung by a sting operation by a news channel which has implicated him in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, Uttar Pradesh cricketer Shalabh Srivastava has claimed innocence saying that laid low by injury, he was not capable of manipulating matches and was only paying the price of opening up to strangers.
The 30-year-old medium pacer has 130 wickets from 41 first-class matches and 20 scalps from 22 IPL games while turning up for Kings XI Punjab.
"I am innocent and I am being framed. I have not played for UP in both the 2011 and 2012 seasons due to a knee injury. I have not been playing IPL matches because of this, I am not even in the squad of 15. I am in Lucknow for the past one month, so how can I fix matches?," he questioned while talking to PTI.
"I am resting at home so how can I promise somebody to bowl no balls. All allegations against me are false and this is an attempt to destroy my career," he said.
Shalabh said his only fault was to consider strangers as friends and speak to them about cricket in general.
"I am not even playing, so how can I fix matches? I won`t get intimidated by all this and come out clean. I will present my case in front of BCCI officials, if I am asked to. I have already spoken to KXIP officials and they have promised to support me through this," he said.


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Our family, like many other families throughout the country, celebrated Easter with several traditions.
Growing up in the 1950's it was imperative that we each had new "Easter Outfits." These Church clothes were worn only on Sunday and only for Church through spring and into summer. When school started the dress would become a school dress for the start of the school year and we would get a new "Church only dress." That was the important tradition and it involved Church.
The second tradition was THE Easter egg hunt. The hunt was preceded by the Egg Coloring. The three children would color the eggs in the most bizarre color combinations we could imagine and each one of us had "our special egg."
Now I know every family had Easter Egg Hunts, but our family put a sadistic twist on it! After hunting the eggs our parents hid for us, we would hide eggs for them! The egg hunt for the three kids was so complicated that my father actually drew a map so he wouldn't forget where they were hidden! This after one of us found an egg during the summer in a planter, under the mulch!
We retaliated by planning their egg's hiding places for days before the event. Places we would hide the eggs? How about in the flour canister in the middle of the flour? or in the tennis shoe hanging on the clothes line? or in my mother's purse? The best one was the year we removed the the clock workings from the stove, stuffed the egg in and replaced the clock. We nixed the idea of hiding an egg in the cat's potty box ~ we felt that was crossing the line ~ like there was a line!
We grew, married, and had children of our own and continued the tradition of THE Egg hunt.
The year we rented a cabin in the San Bernardino Mountains with my brother's family is one memory that stands out in my mind. My sister in law and I had the task of hiding the eggs. We decided to hid one of the eggs in the toilet tank in the water. Never in our wildest dreams did it occur to us that the egg we hid in the toilet tank would end up in the bowl with the first flush! The child that flushed that toilet, and I can't remember which child it was, was thrilled to think the Easter Bunny had left an egg in the toilet for them!
Our children grew, married and children of their own. We continued the tradition of the egg coloring and egg hunt, but without the bizarre hiding places. We colored eggs with the grandchildren and hid their eggs in semi-obvious places.
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The Vegan Nom features an entirely vegan Tex-Mex menu that would make even the hardened Longhorn-eating Texan think twice.The beauty of today's vegan food is that it's not just for animal sympathizers, it's for anyone who really just loves food. Stripping dairy and meat from the menu means more creativity with the execution, which is exactly what you'll find at the taco truck The Vegan Nom. This royal-blue trailer nestled in a quaint corner of the growing North Loop district features an entirely vegan Tex-Mex menu that would make even the hardened Longhorn-eating Texan think twice. First of its kind in Austin, The Vegan Nom offers breakfast tacos and traditional tacos alike, with only the freshest, healthiest and (when available) most local ingredients around.
If Austin had an official city bird, flower and Poet Laureate, they would all be the breakfast taco. This fact is why The Vegan Nom gives you the most taco for your buck. B-fast favorites include the Vegan Chorizo and Refried Black Bean Taco and the Tempeh Bacon and Organic Tofu Scramble Taco, but customers are encouraged to get creative with their tiny bundles of happy. If you hit up the popular joint at lunchtime, must-checks are their Grilled Avocado Reale Taco with caramelized onions, refried black beans, and vegan pepper jack cheese, or if you like a little spicy something-something in your belly, try the Bean Diablo, refriend black beans, vegan chorizo, green roasted chiles, guac, and a drizzle of homemade "creamy" chipotle and verde salsa. Take one bite at The Vegan Nom and you'll be trying to convert the rest of Texas to vegan in no time.
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My son's preschool is celebrating Earth Day pretty enthusiastically this year. They've organized a week of events—little things each day, like a waste-free lunch day, where kids' lunches are to be packed solely in reusable packaging and guerilla gardening, where kids sow wildflower seeds in places in need of beauty. And somehow, rather accidentally, I've gotten caught up in this green fervor too.
Last week I stumbled upon Vegucated, a moving, award-winning documentary that follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers as they adopt a vegan diet for six weeks and learn about what most consumers of animal agriculture never see (hint: it's not good). This was right around the time I read two pieces in the New York Times, one about the horrible conditions in which industrially farmed eggs are produced ("Is an Egg for Breakfast Worth This?") and another about how unsustainable small-scale, organic raising of animals for consumption is ("The Myth of Sustainable Meat"). As someone who felt like I really paid attention to the kinds of food I buy for my family and where they come from, I've been thinking a lot about how much I really didn't know—and if I'm honest, in some ways, wish I still didn't.
Since before becoming a parent, I've made an effort to eat organic meat, dairy and produce. By no means does everything in our pantry come from stores like Whole Foods, but I try to read and understand ingredients, be mindful of hormones in animal products and pesticides in produce, and so on. That being said, fish and (organic) chicken are a regular part of my family's diet, with an occasional portion of red meat. Oh, and lots of eggs and loads of dairy products. Although I was a vegetarian for four years in high school and college, veganism (in addition to not eating meat, also avoiding any animal products like milk, eggs, etc.) never appealed to me. Until I watched Vegucated.
Plus: Watch Vegucated on Amazon Prime, iTunes and Elsewhere
I was so moved by the film that I wanted to check in with the filmmaker, Marisa Miller Wolfson (full disclosure: we attended the same college, although didn't know each other), who is a vegan (but grew up in Indiana, loving pork chops) and full-time food activist. She explained to me that the idea for the documentary was born after watching Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock's 2004 film about subsisting solely on McDonald's food for 30 days. Wolfson knew that after filming, Spurlock went on a vegan diet to restore his health and was curious about that part of his story and what Super Size Me might look like in reverse. Ultimately, she set out to capture that journey for three individuals: a veggie-hating college student who lives with her meat-loving family, a bacon-loving bartender, and a single working mom of two who loves kosher hot dogs.
Plus: Vegetarian Diets for Babies
While the film opened my eyes to some gruesome aspects of industrial animal production (I'll spare you the horrific details here) and its impact on the planet, as well as how little labels like organic and free-range or cage-free might mean, it also showed how the three film subjects' health improved (pounds lost, lower blood pressure and cholesterol) in just six weeks time and made me wonder whether it might be time to lessen the amount of animal products consumed in my home. While I expected my husband to be skeptical to my sudden interest in veganism, he has been surprisingly supportive and has already dramatically reduced the amount of meat he consumes. I don't intend to force my kids to go vegan (and I know I need to do some more research about what just a balanced vegetarian diet might be for kids), but I do think we can all do with fewer animal products in our diet.
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At Wolfson's suggestion, we're holding taste tests of foods like veggie burgers, so we can all find ones we like, and working on incorporating more fresh fruits and veggies into our days (for example, we've found my sons will eat more veggies if served to them before the rest of a meal instead of alongside it). And I'm learning a lot in the process, helped along by a daily email newsletter from Wolfson called Vegan at Heart (a more robust 30-day "Vegucated Challenge" is in the works, she says, helping folks to go vegan immediately or gradually during that month). While I don't know whether I'll end up as a vegetarian or vegan permanently, I do know that I feel much better about what I'm putting in my own body and those of the rest of my family (and that soy ice cream will likely never truly compare to what I'm used to--but it's much tastier than I had expected!).
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Unsupported post-partum?
Without getting into it, I can't really get along with 3 out of 4 parents. I don't have any sisters. All of my cousins are still children. I moved a year ago and haven't made new friends. I'm feeling very, very alone and judged by the families. Even if they were willing to help or I could trust them, they live in a different city and don't drive (so any help means they come and live with me and drive me insane). Plus, our parents are still young enough to be working, and don't have the flexibility to simply take a few days off without notice.
Anyone else facing a newborn period without help? I know that many of you already have >1 other child to care for in addition to the new baby. How will you or did you handle it? Last time we had each of our mothers come and live in for 2 days apiece, and it was a bloody disaster. I felt there was no consideration of what we needed and were going through following a preventable traumatic birth experience.
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I never had help after I had DS or DD. I did it all myself. With DS it was easier as he was the only one but I still lost even more weight and then had surgery when he was 4 weeks old. With DD, I only had DH home for a week then I had to get straight back into my routine. I expect things to be the same with this one except I am supposed to have surgery when Squishy is 7-8 weeks old on my kidney. While I would love to have help, I guess I don't really expect it because my family sucks and I am not real close to anyone, well ever. I am also extremely independent and do everything myself anyways.
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Feed your children human milk as long as possible, it might save their life. It did my son's.
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I was lucky enough to have a few days of help, but I have things that I did once my help left that might make it easier!
Make sure you have easy meals in your freezer and food stockpiled so you don't have to worry about where your next meal is coming from. Try to keep fresh fruits/veggies on hand if you like them. Worst come to worst, get takeout (and don't feel bad about it!)!
It looks like you might already have 1 LO? I made a box of activities for DD before DS was born and we're still cycling through it. New play dough, coloring books, stickers, foam letters, pipe cleaners, envelopes, colored paper, training scissors, new books, etc. I also stuck a few new toys in the box to pull out for those especially trying times when DD needed something to occupy her time (for us trains do the trick).
I also kept a rotation of DVD's from the library in the house. I could renew them online for 3 weeks, so a few of them came in handy. We actually watched a lot less TV than I thought we would, but it was nice to have that as a backup.
Keep yourself hydrated and nap when both LO's nap. I know, easier said than done. You just need to make it through the first week or two and it'll get easier. We started back in DD's classes (music, storytime) about 2 weeks PP b/c she was ready and DS was easy to take along. By then I felt like an old pro again. The baby skills came back quickly, thank goodness!
Good luck, mama! Enjoy that baby!
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Maybe a post-partum doula for a few days....or can DH stay home from work for a week. Often DH took a weeks vacation for when I had the baby. Only once have I had a "mom" come in. it was my MIL and simply did not work out for us.
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DD2 was in the NICU so I needed a lot of help initially just b/c I couldn't physically be in 2 places at once. DH went back to work by the end of the week when we knew she was stable and she was in the NICU for a total of 18 days. I had to rely on a lot of help that I might typically have preferred not to accept, but I had no choice. When she came home, I had relatively little help from family. MIL/FIL left for a 3 week vacation while DD2 was still in the hospital,and my mom watches my sister's kids. My sister works evenings and had a 2.5 yo and a 1 yo at the time so obviously there was only so much she could do. I was a little upset though when her first day off after DD2 was discharged she went on a bar crawl, and my mom watched her kids...but we won't go there. I'm fortunate to have a great extended family that did make us some meals and a couple of really amazing friends who didn't necessarily help me per se, but would do stuff with us and that kept DD1 occupied which was a HUGE help.
This time around I'm having a c/s so DH will be home for 2 weeks, and then I'll probably be on my own. I'll probably get a few meals again, and hope to able to hang out with my previously mentioned friends and their kiddos at their house or ours until i'm able to be out and about more. I'm a little concerned about how that will work especially in February, but we'll figure it out .
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We only have one grandparent willing to help us after a birth and sometimes she is more WORK then help! She also has a job so usually she will help for a half day or only one full day at a time. Here is how I survived after the birth of my twins with very little help.
- freezer meals stocked up that could be thrown into a crock pot or oven (I didn't do enough of this with the twins so this time I am going to do a month's worth)
- I had a nanny come and give me rest time. She would take the babies for me and let me sleep or shower then bring them when they needed to nurse. I did that about twice a week for a couple hours at a time.
- House cleaner. This time I am putting a house cleaner on our registry for the shower. I will have them come before the birth and after the birth.
I hope this helps! Best wishes mama
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Postpartum can be a difficult time of transition, I would definitely look into a postpartum doula if you don't have close friends or family you get along with nearby.
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I am super independent, and never wanted help even though it was offered. My kids' grandparents are all great, but I much prefer to handle everything on my own. DH does take time off from work to help for those first days, and by then we're in the swing of things. I do need help for when I'm in labor, as I need DH with me, so the kids go with grandparents. Do you get along well enough that the kids can at least stay WITH them for a day or two while you labor and immediately PP? That's the hardest stage, I think. After that, a positive outlook and a good DH will get you through the first week, and then its much easier. Freezer meals are an awesome idea, and hiring a PP doula/housekeeper might be helpful if you have the funds.
I understand how family issues can be horrible. My grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. have, for the most part, been absolutely terrible to my parents. I grew up with it, and it sucks. But, you will get through it. Concentrate on the joys of your little family, and everyone will be happier. My parents kept life wonderful for us, despite all the challenges with the extended family. As a result, I am still very close with my folks and love them like parents AND best friends now.
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With my other 2, my DH took a week off to stay home and help. This time? Well, I'm due right in the middle of tax season, and DH is a CPA, so he probably won't be able to take much if any time off. My immediate family is all in the area, but they all work and couldn't help for various reasons. I'm a little worried about the whole situation.
I'm planning on making a bunch of freezer meals and extra loaves of bread (we're gluten intolerant, so I make all my own), and doing any other prepping I can. My oldest is 4, and doesn't transition well, but I'm hoping that she'll be a big helper this time around.
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I am an only child and never wanted help other than DH, but now that this is my 4th and I home school the older 2 and the other is a toddler, I am sort of panicking. DH will only have 9-10 days off (he had an unexpected surgery this year that cut into his PTO) and my in-laws live out-of-state. The arrangement we have made is that he'll take off the first week, then go in half-days in the afternoon for 2 weeks because that's when I'll need more help (with school; and the toddler naps in the afternoon). My mom does live close and is supportive, so she has offered to come help one day a week too. Honestly people have all kinds of arrangements. I have one friend who just had her second daughter and Grandma came in to take the night shift for a few weeks. Wha? That sounded really cushy to me, but I guess it all depends on who you have around you and what they are willing to offer.
Could you ask for mother's helper hours as a baby gift? Or do you have a friend who is willing to sleep on your couch for a few days? I always refused this kind of help because I pictured an outside party being there as something that would interfere with bonding. Then I got the chance to do this for a friend and my perspective changed. Basically I did the meals, laundry, dishes,dog walking, etc., which freed her up for more bonding. I know it wasn't a positive experience when relatives stayed before, just wondering if a friend might be more respectful of your boundaries?
eta: I noticed several house cleaners on groupon for my area, so you may be able to get a deal on that service. Also I am stocking the freezer.
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Big Sky Farmers' Market
It's been a little while since I last told you people about the progress of the bakery here in Belgrade/Bozeman/Big Sky, MT. In fact, in my last blog entry I was writing about the soon-to-start Big Sky Farmers' Market.
Last night was market #7 up in Big Sky, and this past Saturday was the #9 Bozeman market at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds in downtown Bozeman.
Both of them have gone well, with the Saturday market being more of a breakfast focus and the Wednesday market primarily being dinner/appetizer based.
I've developed a very loyal customer base in both places, and I decided to ask a couple of the customers to come inside the trailer while I was busily working to take some photos for my bakery Facebook page and this TFL blog entry. Paul and Kim Cameron of Bugaboo Cafe in Big Sky graciously obliged, and snapped bunches of pictures, some of which are below:
There I am pulling some scorching hot baguettes off their pans for customers waiting by the windows. Last night I sold more baguettes than I had ever sold in one market, despite the rain and lightning that slowed the last half of the market.
When I got home and checked out the photos Paul had taken, I saw this one and thought 'Now that's a cool one!'
The market has just started and the baguettes are flying out the window!
You can see the customer standing on a platform I had built that raises them up to the same level that I am standing at.
Don't forget the pastries...
Proof that Sinclair's Bakery is at the end of the rainbow!
I've got some more photos on the bakery Facebook page over here...and just so you know that I'm also taking the time to enjoy the people and scenery of the area, I've included a couple of photos below.
I'm the one with the cowboy hat :) This past Saturday after a busy market and a quick nap, some of my homies and I performed a few songs on ukulele for a local show. It was a lot of fun! Here's an article the local paper did about the ukulele group about a month ago!
And...last but definitely not least, here I am doing some flying just outside of Bozeman on a training hill. I'm in the process of getting my paragliding certification, and my next flight will be a BIG one from one of the mountains just outside of town. :)


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Seton-La Salle boys soccer looking to maintain winning tradition
Even with a relatively inexperienced roster that, by its own admission, might not have the collection of pure elite-level talent other recent teams at the school have had, the Seton-La Salle boys soccer team doesn't get rattled.
Not when it had to replace so many starters.
Not when it gets down early in a game.
Not when a key player is out with injury.
These Rebels stay the course. It's a big reason why, despite returning only three starters from last season, Seton-La Salle remains in contention to win its third consecutive WPIAL Class A championship.
"Three times we've come back from being down a goal to start a game," coach Mike Thomas said. "It's hard to (even) get an experienced team to do that. But they don't hit the panic button. They play well together."
Seton-La Salle is 12-2 overall and 9-1 in Section 3-A play heading into the final week of the season. Its game against rival Bishop Canevin Thursday will decide the section title.
That might not seem significant for a team that has played in either the WPIAL or PIAA championship game (or both) at the end of each of the past six seasons — winning four WPIAL titles and two PIAA crowns.
But Thomas said this isn't the typical uber-talented Rebels team. Whereas in some years of the recent past, Seton-La Salle's lineup would feature several club soccer players and multiple Division I recruits, this season the Rebels have only one club-level player — defender Eric Albright.
"We're winning by playing together well, hard work and effort," Thomas said.
Albright is one of four senior captains setting that tone for Seton-La Salle. Striker Rocco Gagliardi leads the team in goals with 14, center midfielder Tony Pecone has a team-high 18 assists and goalkeeper Nick Parkes has been a central figure in many shutouts for Seton-La Salle this season.
"I think what it is, basically, is that we all just want to win games," Pecone said. "We all make sure we practice hard. A lot of teams take practice as a joke — but it's real serious here. We practice as a team because, simply, we all just want to win and that's the best way of making sure we do."
The Rebels survived a scare when Parkes was out of action for more than two weeks because of a shoulder injury. But Seton-La Salle went 5-1 without him, and he was cleared to play earlier this week.
"He's the heart and soul of our team," Pecone said.
Parkes is back just in time, too. The most recent game he played was a 2-1 victory at Bishop Canevin Sept. 22. That is the Crusaders' only defeat in section play heading into a game Tuesday. A victory against Eden on Tuesday sets up a winner-take-all section rematch with Seton-La Salle Thursday.
"It's going to be huge," Parkes said. "I'm really looking forward to that game. We've won the section title the past couple years, so we don't want to lose it. And if you have to lose, you don't want it to be to them."
Under a coaching staff that includes Rich Sunseri, Mark DelGreco, Bob DelGreco and Nick Balzer, Seton-La Salle has built up quite the tradition. It's one that the current team doesn't want to let down.
"For Seton, that tradition is something you play for," Gagliardi said. "You're playing not just for that night, it's for all the players who wore that jersey before you did, to make them proud."
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Unless you happen to be a Tony Stewart fan like me- I bet you didn't notice the AMAZING comeback that Tony Stewart had during the race at Texas. Seriously- I mean he IS a chase driver so I don't understand WHY they failed to mention the while he had a mostly mediocre run at Texas- staying between positions 18 and 23 for probably 90 percent of the race- only to end up finishing 5th. I am STILL not sure where he came from at the end of that race- but all of the sudden I noticed he was 10th (my Sprint Cup Mobile scanner for Tony's radio only worked for about the first half of the race) after a round of pit stops. I was previously distracted by the rivalry brewing between Brad Keselowski and Jimmie Johnson. And then he was 7th, then 6th, then whoo hoo the race is over and Tony is 5th!!! Now while I do realize that Jimmie and Brad are the main contenders for the cup right now and certainly they should garner most of the spotlight…I am pretty certain that Tony's finish deserved SOME sort of mention.
The G-W-C finish may have pushed the broadcast over it's allotted time slot a bit, but still I think it deserved SOME mention. We saw replays of the restarts, we saw and heard from Jimmie in Victory Lane, we heard from Brad about the last restart, how about "a let's hear from Tony Stewart about that comeback to finish 5th" and THEN go to SportsCenter. Because I watched the first couple minutes of Sports Center and then my attentions drifted elsewhere and they didn't mention it so I wandered away. That race seemed REALLY LONG to me. I think I probably would have dozed off during the first 150-200 laps IF I hadn't been listening to Tony's scanner (thank you for keeping me awake Spotter Bob!). To tell the truth? This time change absolutely kills me. With the chase races starting later than regular season races combined with the time change- I was TIRED and the race at the beginning wasn't THAT exciting until the end, so I got a little heavy lidded from time to time. Especially for Tony Stewart fans- who got to see their driver only on the scrolling banner on the top where the positions are and on a rare occasion during a pit stop to say well they are making adjustments.
Like I mentioned, I listened to Stewart's radio chatter as long as sprint cup mobile would let me- and they were throwing ALL kinds of adjustments at that car EVERY SINGLE pit stop that I heard. Including putting shims in because the splitter was hitting during one of the cautions. They were discussing taking the shim out of the left front if they got another caution when I seemed to lose all driver radios so I am not sure if they ever made that adjustment. I am not saying they should only focus on Tony- that would be boring and we would have missed the excitement of the racing between Keselowski and Johnson. But just a couple more mentions through out the broadcast and after the race would have been nice!
Race winner was Jimmie Johnson, who has 7 championship points over second place Brad Keselowski. Tony finished 5th, and moved up to 8th in the championship standings.
Notes About Texas:
- Something else you might have missed during the race- Carl Edwards hit his tire changer MikeLingerfeltduring a pit stop. Yikes!!
- This picture of Tony Stewart from practice at Texas Motor Speedway humors me:
- On Saturday at Texas Motor Speedway- several of the Coca-Cola Family drivers took part in a Google + Hangout chat with fans. If you are like me- you probably missed it, but fear not! They have the video up and I have embedded it for your pleasure (of course it doesn't hurt that Tony Stewart is in it- as is his 100 lb lapdog Hank…which reminds me of Misty's Gidget who who was such a sweetie- she was german shephard/chow mix and also thought she was a 100 lb lap dog).
Next Race: Phoenix- and YES Misty and I will be there!
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A dog shaved like a lion made for an eventful night for Norfolk, Va., dispatchers, when several people who saw the dog on Tuesday called 9-1-1 to report a lion on the loose, the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot reports.
The newspaper obtained 9-1-1 call audio, in which one woman says, "There was a lion that ran across the street – a baby lion. It was about the size of a Labrador retriever."
The dog's owner, Daniel Painter, told the Virginian-Pilot that he shaved his pet to look like the mascot for Old Dominion University.


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At PNM, reliability is more than a word. It's the foundation for everything we do.
Over half a million customers depend on us for electricity 24 hours a day, seven days week - whether the sky is blue or the rain clouds are overhead. We are committed to delivering it reliably and safely. In the coming years, you may see us at work expanding and upgrading our system as well as performing regular maintenance to ensure we can meet your needs today and tomorrow.
Delivering that level of reliability is not easy, but that is why our employees work day in and day out to ensure that you have the power you need to live, work and enjoy your life. PNM is consistently ranked in the top quartile of all utilities for our continuously reliable service.
But that reliability is something people may take for granted because whenever they flip a switch, the lights come on. So we thought we would share a little about how we upgrade and maintain our system for you.
Upgrading and Expanding our System
Did you know that if you set all of our transmission and distribution lines end to end, it would be the equivalent of 3.5 round trips to New York City?
Maintaining high levels of reliability is an ongoing process. We are constantly at work to ensure that those 14,338 miles of transmission and distribution lines and our 276 neighborhood substations are able to continue to provide the electricity you rely on.
Just like your car, we perform routine maintenance on our system to repair or replace the components that are at risk of failure, as well as to identify the parts that can be extended, to keep your power flowing safely and reliably.
We recently started using digital signs like the one to the right when we are working in a neighborhood to let residents know what we are doing. They won't be on every project, but when you see them, you will know that we are upgrading and enhancing the system in that area to ensure consistent reliability.
There are several key types of projects you may see our crews working on, including:
Cable Testing & Replacement
We have been regularly testing underground electric cable around the state. This work may involve us returning in the next six to 12 months to replace cable that tested poorly. In some cases, we may need to dig holes and use a directional bore to dig a horizontal hole for the new cables. This work is being done because as our system ages, the original cables installed begin to fail. By testing these cables we can identify the areas that need upgrading - hopefully before there are reliability problems.
Pole Replacement
We routinely inspect poles around our service territory and repair the ones that need fixing and replace the ones that do not meet our standards. This is part of our ongoing commitment to deliver service you can count on. Sometimes these projects are along a street or highway, and other times, they are in a customer's backyard. Regardless of location, our crews are committed to safety for the crew and any nearby people, property and animals.
Pole replacement in a customer's backyard
Transformer Replacement
You probably see transformers all the time without even realizing it. They are the green boxes that line streets and provide power to a group of homes or businesses. These transformers are also routinely inspected and replaced to ensure the equipment continues to perform reliably. This work requires a planned outage in order to ensure the safety of our crews.
Line Extension
As more homes and businesses are built, and as current customers use more electricity to power their lives, we are called upon to extend lines to provide uninterrupted service to a neighborhood. These are commonly necessary when several people on a block convert from evaporated air to refrigerated air as well as when new homes and businesses are built.


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Gimme Gimme…
I couldn't think of a better way to kick off the weekend than with the chance of getting something for FREE!
So when Chickdowntown.com contacted me with the opportunity of a give-away I jumped at the chance.
My only requirement for them was that I needed to be able to give away a pair of shoes. Ask and you shall receive. They said yes!
Of course before hitting the shoes section I made sure I checked out everything they offered. I fell in love with their floral options by Yumi Kim and oh-ed and ah-ed over all of their vintage finds. I even toyed with the idea of giving away a pair of Mystique shoes, but eventually I found the perfect thing for my readers.
Here is the profile shot:
What totally sold me on the shoes was the back shot:
You all know how I love a little touch of animal and these Sam Edelman flats fit the bill!
So here are the details!
First make sure you are either a follower or subscriber to this blog.
To enter once simply leave me a comment and tell me where you would take these bad boys out to if they went home to you!
To enter twice spread the world on your blog about this giveaway and come back and make an additional comment.
To enter three times make sure you spread the world on your blog, facebook and twitter!
Remember you don't need to have a blog in order to enter. Just make sure you leave your email address in your comment.
* Due to shipping restrictions this give-away is only open to US residents. Sorry about that!
If you want to be made aware of more giveaways from Chickdowntown then make sure you check out their facebook and twitter pages.
Wishing you all lots of luck! You have until Tuesday (8/4) at midnight (EST) to vote. I'll pick a winner Wednesday (8/5) morning!
Have a good weekend!
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A Big Game "First" For Fans of the Super Bowl
Just over one week ago, more people watched Super Bowl XLVI on television than any other time in history – 111.3 million people, a staggering number. In addition, more than 2.1 million unique visitors saw the game streamed live online, another first. The experience for fans at home is incredibly powerful with HD, live streaming, and fast access to the Internet.
However, while so many of us were tuned in at home, another first was taking place inside Lucas Oil Stadium – all fans, regardless of their service provider, were able to use their smartphones and devices to connect to a free Wi-Fi network. This provided them with a significantly faster option to surf the web, use apps and share photos and video "live" with friends and family versus doing so post-game.
Without Cisco's Connected Stadium Wi-Fi network from Verizon Wireless in place, this would not have been possible as more often than not fans in dense stadium environments have experienced spotty service, with no access to the Internet, and they are left frustrated in their inability to connect. Cellular networks were never designed to be reliable for calls, text and data when 70,000 people attempt to use their devices in the same spot for the same reasons.
A Tipping Point
The NFL is a leading indicator of change. It is at the forefront of delivering the best in entertainment experiences for fans, most specifically at the Super Bowl, one of the biggest sporting events in the world. With the NFL recognizing that its fans desired to have their smartphones work everywhere at Lucas Oil Stadium, they made a Cisco Connected Stadium Wi-Fi network from Verizon Wireless available to them. It made access fast, reliable and delivered fun ways to connect, engage and share.
Most importantly it shows that this is headed mainstream, and a tipping point has been reached. Just as people walk into an airport today and expect to be connected to a Wi-Fi network, so fans in stadiums around the world are beginning to look for and demand the same thing.
Fans in Kansas City have already been reaping the benefits of the powerful Cisco Connected Stadium Wi-Fi platform. At Livestrong Sporting Park this last season tens of thousands of fans checked in, played trivia, used apps and connected with their favorite team, Sporting KC, from their seats.
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The LPS HPI is a study of non-distressed home sales and discounts the influence of REO sales and short-sale transactions.
The average price for a home sold in the U.S. in November reached $207,000, dropping from a peak of $266,000 in June 2006, but up from $197,000 in November 2011.
The states that saw the greatest price appreciation in the report were Florida (prices up 1.5%); New York (prices up 1.1%); Washington D.C. (prices up 1.0%); and Georgia, Minnesota and Nevada (all up 0.9%).
Conversely, Rhode Island and Massachusetts both saw negative monthly movement, dipping 0.1% and 0.2%, respectively.
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A nice boil kills the bad guys. proceed.
If you don't boil, then I would be worried about a potential infection (lacto in particular). If you can at least get your wort up to pasteurization temps for long enough (I think 180F for 15 minutes, but don't quote me on this), then you should be OK.
145F for 30 minutes is also proper pasteurization temp/time - so after a 60 minute mash the wort should be pretty safe to store for the night.
If this were true then why does the grist from a mash tend to sour after a day or two? I think you'd be safer to bring the wort to a boil and then let it sti until the next day.
The other option would be to mash in overnight?
Quote from: hoser on March 19, 2013, 08:03:23 PMThe other option would be to mash in overnight?OK. I hadn't thought of that. I mash in a 10 gal igloo. If my start temp is 154* and I let it sit for 20-24 hours the temp will fall to an unknown. Probably room temp of 65*. What is that going to do for conversion? Kind of a reverse step mash? Does that work to go from high to low for converting?


text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - English Teacher Killed in Rio Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in English Teacher Killed in Rio Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Brazil View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message teaguetodJoined: 01 Jun 2007Posts: 3Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 5:16 am Post subject: English Teacher Killed in Rio My friend Ron, another American living here in Rio, called me last week. "Did you hear about the American English teacher who was shot and killed this weekend in Lapa?" No, I hadn't heard. But I'm also an English teacher from the U.S., and I also live in the neighborhood of Lapa, so that hits pretty close to home. I checked out the story. It just so happens that I knew the guy who was killed. I recognized him from his photo in the paper. We met once a few months ago during Carnival, when we were both hanging out in Lapa in the wee hours of the morning. His name was Joe, he was from Boston, had been living here for a long time, spoke decent Portuguese. We had chatted a bit and swapped some stories, and we even exchanged numbers but then never called each other. Like most news stories here, there are conflicting versions, and its almost impossible to get to the bottom of what really happened. And I dont know any of Joes friends, the people who were there that night, to check with them. The only facts that all the newspapers and TV reports agree on is that Joe was shot by a police officer following an argument or a fight, and now hes dead. The U.S. media reported the story as American Killed in Brazil Bar Fight, and left it at that. But I think they also mucked up the story, because they make it sound like Joe was somehow to blame. The Brazilian press went into more detail, of course. And the story is pretty sad. As reported in the Rio papers and on local television, Joe was in a bar in Lapa on Thursday night, May 24th, celebrating his 30th birthday. He stepped in to try to break up a fight, and ended up getting shot. Hows that for senseless tragedy? Even worse, Joe was apparently trying to defend a homeless kid who was being abused by a cop. It also seems that the cop who shot him was off-duty at the time, and did not identify himself as a cop before firing his weapon. (However, this is my speculation based on the fact that the officer was arrested for homicide and is in jail.) Joe was shot once in the leg and once in the stomach, the ambulance took 20 minutes to arrive, and he died at the hospital. This is not the first time Ive heard of someone getting killed by an off-duty cop carrying his gun. 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Tamil Nadu 226 (Karthik 75, Prasanna 58, Awana 4-53, Suyal 3-76) & 2 for 0 trail Delhi 555 for 4 dec by 327 runs
Tamil Nadu went into the final day of their Ranji Trophy match against Delhi in the worst possible situation: following on at the Feroz Shah Kotla, against a bowling attack that already has first-innings points in its pocket. Chasing Delhi's total of 555, Tamil Nadu were all out for 226, astonishingly losing their last six wickets for only 39 runs, all after tea. At stumps, Tamil Nadu went off at 2 for 0 in their second innings.
It was an excellent day for Delhi in the field, the bowlers making the most of conditions in the first session, producing a tight and disciplined performance in the second, and then cleaning up the Tamil Nadu's first innings shortly before stumps.
Along the way, they were helped by some erratic shot selection by the Tamil Nadu batsmen, with wickets falling off the first ball of the morning and the first ball after tea; first, the well-settled overnight batsman Baba Aparajith didn't want to waste time settling in again nor did R Prasanna, after he had seized the title of swashbuckler from his partner Dinesh Karthik. Both batsmen were caught in the slip cordon: Aparajith, trying to cut Pawan Suyal, by Shikhar Dhawan at second slip and Prasanna slashing at Rajat Bhatia, trying to break free after being choked for runs all through the second session. Prasanna and Dinesh Karthik had put up 108 runs for the fifth wicket off 214 balls, the best and perhaps only significant partnership in the Tamil Nadu innings.
After three wickets fell in the morning session, Tamil Nadu had needed mammoth stands to give themselves a chance of trying to go past Delhi's first-innings score. It had taken four centuries from the Delhi batsmen to get to their total of 555; when S Badrinath fell nicking the nagging Sumit Narwal to keeper Puneet Bisht, the demands on Karthik and Prasanna became enormous. They started the second session with 21 runs in the first two overs, but Delhi's bowlers then moved in; not with heavy leg-side fields but the tight lengths and unwavering lines around off-stump.
The second session ended up being far from entertaining, with only 77 runs coming in 26 overs. Under the growing listlessness, Delhi's bowlers' pushed to bottle up the runs. Bhatia, coming in to bowl his brand of seam-up, sent down maiden after maiden in an 11-over spell. He conceded nine in the six overs in which the batsmen were able to get the ball past the fielders in the ring.
Bhatia got Prasanna the first ball after tea and Karthik became Vikas Mishra's only wicket all day, a stumping that could be called, depending on which side you were on, unlucky or lucky. Kartik rushed out against Mishra, the bowler held the ball back and then fired it in, Bisht almost made a meal of the stumping but was fortunate to have the ball hit his body and go onto the stumps. Tamil Nadu's tail couldn't hang around; certainly not after Suyal and Parvinder Awana got a chance to bowl with the new ball. Between them they bowled just under nine overs with the new ball, conceding 17 runs and cleaning out the last four batsmen.
This had been Delhi's match from the first morning, right from the time they were given the surprising gift of being sent in to bat after Tamil Nadu won the toss. Their batsmen have racked up partnerships and runs, and their bowlers put in the most dramatic of efforts. Now they have an outright win dangling like a carrot in front of them, going into the final day's play.


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Kent Nagano's tenure at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra appears uncertain following reports that the American conductor will depart the orchestra when his current contract as music director expires in 2016. But the orchestra's management has vigorously denied the reports.
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A separate report in the Canadian publication Maclean's suggested that Nagano, onetime music director of Los Angeles Opera, may not be popular within the orchestra.
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Montauk Lake Trail is popular with hikers, bicyclists and even walkers with strollers for small children because of its level surface. This trail makes use of a road open only to authorized motor vehicles, making it a safe place to stroll. The walk begins with crossing the bridge over the spring branch, followed by the catch-and-release fly fishing area and the trout rearing pools. On the opposite bank from the wheelchair-accessible fishing access, the waters of Bluff Spring flow out from the base of the stone cliff. This spring supplies the water for the trout rearing pools, the hatchery and the wetland area. This unique wetland area is actually what remains of the old hatchery rearing pools that now serve as a man-made wetland. The trail goes by Montauk Lake, which is fed by what looks like boiling springs of sand. The trail loops by the headwaters of the Current River, around the wetland area and then back to the hatchery office. Montauk Lake Trail offers excellent opportunities to view wildlife including bald eagles, ducks, otters, deer, armadillo, bobcats, rabbits, belted kingfisher, great blue heron, beavers, muskrats, mink, and a host of other aquatic creatures.
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- Bridges and/or structural crossings
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|Estimated Hiking Time
|.80 Mile
|25 minutes
|Across the parking area from the hatchery office
Paved Bicycle Trail
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Length: .10 Mile View map
Trail Rating: Easy
This is a short level trail that is lighted and has a bench by the banks of the Current River for resting and enjoying the area. The trail runs from the bridge over the Current River near campground loop 1 to Montauk Lodge.
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Missouri State Parks Trail Rules and Etiquette
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|At Montauk Lodge
Pine Ridge Trail
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Trail Rating: Rugged
Pine Ridge Trail follows a "C" shape with trailheads on either end. The trail begins near the stone picnic shelter, which was built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The trail then crosses the stone and concrete footbridge before traveling uphill into the 25-acre Montauk Upland Forest Natural Area. This natural area represents a good example of a mature pine-oak-hickory woodland. At the top of the hill, the trail levels out, crosses Highway 119 and continues through mature stands of shortleaf pines, the only pine native to Missouri. The trail crosses the road again and gradually descends until you get to the bottom of a ravine. After crossing a footbridge, the trail goes up a steep grade to a summit with scenic views. It is a good place to take a break to enjoy the scenery. The trail begins to descend again and offers great views of the areas fed by Bluff Spring, Montauk Lake and the wetland area. Along the trail, a variety of flowering plants and fleeting glimpses of wildlife are common.
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|Estimated Hiking Time
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|1 hour, 30 minutes, one way
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