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Notch Mountain & UN 13,248 Climber's Log
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Date Climbed: Oct 11, 2015
|We climbed pt 13,248 on the tour de abyss. We were at the notch shelter but didn't climb notch itself yet
|Posted Oct 12, 2015 11:11 am
|Peak 13,248/Notch Mountain
Date Climbed: Sep 13, 2014
|Posted Sep 18, 2014 5:31 pm
|Peak 13,248/Notch Mountain
Date Climbed: Sep 13, 2014
|Posted Sep 18, 2014 5:30 pm
|Peak 13,248/Notch Mountain
Date Climbed: Sep 13, 2014
|Kessler, Shaylee, and I set off to climb Peak 13,248 and Notch Mountain. We awoke to 26F/-4C, but it was a beautifully clear day. We hiked up the trail before turning up Notch Mountain and I was surprised how well graded and pleasant the trail was all the way to the shelter.
Once at the shelter we had some snacks and headed for Peak 13,248. Once on top we were still feeling good and since we had a lot of time still available, we contemplated doing the Halo Ridge. Since we hadn't planned to do that ahead of time, we didn't think we had enough water since we only had two combined liters left. We decided to head over to Notch Mountain instead.
We scrambled up Notch Mountain and then enjoyed the views before heading back down along the ridge.
It was a pleasant and good climb. It was a bit breezy at times, but the weather was really good.
|Posted Sep 18, 2014 5:27 pm
|Foxy Long Bottoms
Date Climbed: Jun 29, 2014
|Slept through the alarm for the Cross Couloir and ended up on the N. Ridge of Holy Cross by mistake (missed the turnoff at the creek AHHHHGAIN). Didn't feel like going up Holy Cross via walkup so we turned around and went up Notch instead. Cool peak.
|Posted Jun 30, 2014 11:54 am
|Halo Ridge
Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2014
|Final 13er after ascent of Holy Cross and descent of Halo, with Jamie.
|Posted Jun 23, 2014 6:41 pm
|third's the way down!
Date Climbed: Jun 21, 2014
|third thirteener of the day, right before we started to descend from halo ridge. an easy, fairly non-descript peak with glorious views of the cross. too bad the ice was blocking us from opening the door to the notch mountain shelter!
|Posted Jun 23, 2014 1:51 pm
|Halfmoon Pass - Halo Ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2013
|Climbed over Notch Mtn from Halfmoon Pass en route to Holy Cross. Great views and lots of fun ridge hiking!
|Posted Nov 16, 2013 12:09 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2013
|Hiked from Half Moon Pass up the north ridge route. Perfect time to hike the mountain since all of the couloirs were full of snow. It started raining and hailing just before getting back to the trailhead.
|Posted Jul 28, 2013 10:42 pm
|Climbed in COBS
Date Climbed: Jul 7, 1977
|Climbed the peak and slept in the shelter during a 30 day Colorado Outward Bound School course. We did some cleanup work in the shelter, and climbed Mt. Holy Cross the next day.
|Posted Oct 31, 2012 7:10 pm
|notched another
Date Climbed: Jun 20, 1999
|Hiked this Edie Hudson...
|Posted Oct 19, 2012 10:06 pm
|Beat the weather
Date Climbed: Sep 3, 2012
|Made it to the shrine just as it began to sleet.
|Posted Sep 3, 2012 7:55 pm
|For the View
Date Climbed: Jul 25, 1999
|Climbed for the view of Holy Cross while visiting friend Kathy in Vail.
|Posted Mar 12, 2012 11:37 pm
|Half Moon Trailhead
Date Climbed: Sep 13, 1973
|Carried a 400mm telephoto lens to photograph Mount of the Holy Cross...imagine how unnecessary that was!
|Posted Jun 25, 2011 8:03 pm
|Matt Lemke
|Halfmoon TH
Date Climbed: Aug 29, 2010
|Climbed from the TH and took the side trail up Notch at night. Watched the sunrise on Holy Cross from the summit. Traversed the Notch. Walked half the Halo ridge, wanted to complete the loop over Holy Cross but my my friends alt. sickness turned us around. We descended the switchback trail and took the Tuhare Lakes trail back to Halfmoon TH instead of completing the loop
|Posted Dec 20, 2010 3:03 am
|turned away on halo ridge
Date Climbed: Aug 31, 2010
|Hike to Notch was great. Good views of the Gores. Loved the shelter. Got turned back on Halo Ridge due to high winds and approaching storms. Can't wait to go back in winter.
|Posted Dec 18, 2010 8:41 pm
|Alex Wood
|Long Day
Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2010
|We ended up here after doing Halo Ridge from Holy Cross. We didn't make it to the northern summit, but made the southern one. Guess thats why the call it notch mountain. Cool views of Cross Couloir
|Posted Jun 24, 2010 12:58 am
|Via Halfmoon Pass
Date Climbed: Nov 15, 2009
|A cold, windy and blustery afternoon. Wasn't as quick of a day as we planned on but the views of Holy Cross were delicious!
Scrambled with Stephanie Lynn.
|Posted Nov 29, 2009 8:25 am
|early peak
|One of the earliest peaks I climbed in my mountaineering career.
|Posted Nov 6, 2009 11:19 pm
|North Ridge
Date Climbed: Oct 3, 2009
|Climbed North Ridge from HM Pass. It was actually pretty nice, and a little snow made things a bit more interesting. From Notch, continued over to Halo Ridge by way of direct class 5 assault on the notch.
|Posted Oct 4, 2009 12:41 am


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Discussion in 'Shiny Things' started by nwgs, May 20, 2009.
yep, this. you can jumper it with a patch cable.
Appreciate the answers, does anyone know if there is a clever way to reach this circuit or sail switch without pulling the furnace from the motor home? Thanks again!
LC, those things are a pain and the best (only) way to really service them is to remove them. But, before you get that far here are a few things you can try:
1. Really make sure that you're getting at least 12VDC to the furnace. Sounds obvious - it isn't. Often, the voltage loss from the battery to the furnace is measurable. Even if you're getting 12v, try plugging the RV in to 120VAC or starting the engine. Get as much power to the furnace as you can. I've repeatedly seen issues where a furnace would work fine on the bench but fail to light when installed. Make sure your ground is good. Really.
Edit: The blower motor will probably run down to about 5VDC but the ignition circuit won't fire. That's why I suggest checking voltage.
2. Since the rig is new to you I'll ask a few of the more obvious questions:
2.a Do you actually have propane?
2.b Is the propane getting to the furnace?
2.c Is the propane cut off valve at the furnace actually turned on?
2.d Is the ignitor trying to fire? Do you hear clicking or see sparking from the ignitor? (assuming you have an electronic ignition furnace not a pilot light unit)
3. If you're getting ignition (spark or clicking noise) then troubleshooting takes a different route. If not then try blowing out the furnace vents. Often wasps make happy little homes in the furnace vents and intake/exhaust systems. Take a shop vac or vacuum cleaner (high volume, low pressure), connect the hose so it 'blows' air and force air through each of the furnace vents on the outside of the rig. Do one at a time. Hopefully you'll get tons of crap blowing out and then you can move on to the next issue or maybe it will even just start.
Try that stuff and let us know how it goes. Of course the most expensive risk you run is that your control board is fried. But none of the steps above will cause or prevent that. It's funny that these furnaces need some sort or regular care but no one does that. Then we're all surprised when they don't work.
Joz, good stuff! Thanks to you and the others for chiming in, this is just the kind of help I was hoping for.
1. Checking voltage, this unit is in storage, will go down this weekend and check the voltage. I see one connector going into the furnace, can I just separate the connector and check the voltage at that point?
2a thru 2d. We have propane, I ran the stove top to verify. I have manipulated the valve at the furnace from an inward position to an outward position (rotated counterclockwise) and am ASS-uming there is propane present. there is no evidence (sight or sound) of the igniter trying to light.
3. Will be taking a shop vac down this weekend and cleaning out all hoses and orifices.
Will do the due dilligence but believe the furace will be coming out, at this point if furnace is removed, I'll just plan on installing a new sail switch and limit switch, no point going that far and then scrimping on a couple of key and relatively inexpensive parts.
Is there a good source (online) to buy the switches?
Thanks again to all of you who weighed in on this, I will update with results as this progresses.
Thanks John.
Yes I've been watching Ebay auctions and noticing the difference in prices for decent small Class B's and how the smaller Class C's built on the same van chassis are a lot cheaper. Guess the easier parking of Class b's is the reason...or could be the reliability and stoutness of steel construction versus the cheap wall construction of the cheaper Class C's.. The Class C's offer more space and a cheaper price point however they make using it around town and storage a bit of a nightmare.
A shame Texas is that far away or we could definitely work something out. If anyone knows of anything within a days drive of LA keep me in mind. John thank you for the generous offer wish you were a little closer.
One of my concerns in reading this thread is that the motorhomes need to be kept running and not stored to maintain reliability. I only need it for four months per year using it about 4 days per week, then it will sit while I'm overseas which makes me nervous. One of things I don't want to do is spend weeks sorting it out once I land back in the states before heading off in it. Maybe it simpler to insulate and panel an extended van and use a propane cooking stove and heater and call it good.
Do many people use stand alone generators with RV's? Then aren't you driving around with gas cans for the generator in the RV all the time? Then the hassle of constantly topping up the fuel jug. Curious on this option pros and cons. How do people set it up comfortably for a few days usage.
I'm wondering in this situation if a simple cooler with ice blocks, propane stove and heater, and deep cycle battery for lights and computers would keep you going for a 3-4 days?
My situation is dirtbikng in the desert for two days at a time then ski bumming four days at a resort in the parking lot. Soooo not hooking into 110v anywhere, in the desert shower with water and a towel and defecate in the bushes. Ski resort I need warmth and enough electricity to run my computer and lights for four days. I have ways to grab a shower and just make sure I take my shits during the day and pee in a bottle at night. What am I missing?
There are places that will store and maintain your RV. I know of a guy in Germany that fly's in to Albuquerque & picks up his rig for Jeep Safari every year. They'll have it prepped and ready and even pick him up at the airport. I'm guessing it's not real cheap but if you can afford it, that would be the way to go.
If it wouldn't cost me another $2k to fly out and drive it home, I'd own this now
I am confused.
Can you light the stove manually? If that 's the gas then the igniter isn't working.
Not sure there is gas at the stove because it won't light? There is probably a gas detector and a 12 volt valve on the tank. Make sure the detector is on. Cycle it off and on. Most of my problems have been that gas detector and the circuit to the shutoff valve.
Good luck!
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Not sure what to tell you and I can't see where you are at. In my Wanderlodge it took a 12.5 kilowatt generator to run 3 a/c units and a microwave. And that was in Florida. In the oil patch of Texas during the summer one a/c unit won't keep you cool unless you sit right in front of it.
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I looked at that but my thinking was:
* It's got 170+K on the drive train with no rebuilds on file. Getting about that time I would guess.
* Its only got one Deep cycle battery and no generator
*no installed propane stove top, he's using a camper stove which is fine, but nothing special.
*Pop top sleeping won't be usable at the ski resorts.
* No heating furnace
*not an extended length model
In essence it offers very little to me in terms of advantages. Other than a couch that converts to a bed and some storage space, counter top and fridge.
A used class B (or C) with 120K miles or less for $2000 more gives me the above plus: a shower, toilet, generator, proper stove, sink and if I get a raised roof more standing room. At least that was what went through my noggin. If I'm waay off base please educate me as thats what I'm on this thread for. Seems you are paying a premium for the Sportsmobile name on that purchase. If all I was doing was dirt biking it would be a better option........however the mileage is just a bit high for me to be comfortable spending $6k.
This looks a better package I think: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1996...1155097461?pt=RVs_Campers&hash=item3cce0e8b75
The simple home rolled redneck RV wouldn't be a bad choice. It's one of the things I considered when buying my Sprinter, but that's another story.
My little Honda will run overnight easily on a tank of fuel. Many people carry them and their fuel on a hitch hauler box. Or in the trailer with the bikes. It's very little hassle really.
In my little camper, the stove and fridge both run on propane. Other setups will be different. I understand composting toilets do a great job with solids. A Mr Heater works very well in small quarters as long as you're smart about it and don't asphyxiate yourself.
Lots of ways to skin a cat. That Roadtrek is not a bad solution either.
I don't have a lot of RV'ing experience, just one cross country trip in an old Class C, to be exact. So, I may be way off base too. I think what you're paying for in that case is not specifically the Sportsmobile name, but the fact that it's one of just a few pop-top camper vans on the market. I am interested in something like that because I want something small, light and simple. I'd rather use the facilities at campgrounds and truck stops than deal with the crappy bathrooms that Class B and low-end Class C RVs have. A furnace and a generator would be nice, but I could live without them. I had a pickup with the same drivetrain in that van, and while it's not stellar in terms of performance or reliability, there's a bazillion Dodge trucks and vans with that motor and transmission, so rebuilding or replacing won't be too bad when the time comes. That is a lot of miles for any domestic vehicle, and is another reason why I'm not buying a plane ticket to go get it. If it was local and I could inspect it, I wouldn't be concerned.
Anyway, that's my $0.02. Good luck with your search, I'm envious of your position!
That would be a nice option, unfortunately its well above my pay grade.
Q's above in yellow.
I can see two possible issues with carrying the gen/fuel on the front bumper. (1) You may end up blocking some of the air flow to your engine. (2) Do you really want to carry a gas can on your front bumper that will be the first thing crushed in an accident?
depends what your needs are but the styling of the bathroom is the last thing on my mind at 4 am when it's freezing out if you know what i mean. Ditto the furnace.
That sportsmobile may almost be at major repair time so a way lower mile generic rv for slightly more seems like a no brainer
I'm in Sarasota Florida, and have been perfectly comfortable Summer camping. That said, I don't use AC much during the day, just need it for sleeping.
I've carried the generator inside the van. It doesn't smell or leak at all. I wouldn't want to carry a gas can inside though. Honestly, I'd rather get a cheap little utility trailer to put that and my bike on though. One of the only things I worry about with the generator is it "walking away" while I'm having a meal somewhere. Sure you could carry it on the front.
Don't know much about those little 110V fridges but I'm pretty sure they don't care how level they are.


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Swing factors make more teams contenders
Change in behavior, spending puts nearly everyone in the game this season
By Matthew Leach / MLB.com
As Opening Day approaches, predictions are flying. And while all of the prognosticators might well turn out to be wrong, it stands out that the number of realistic playoff contenders seems unusually high -- especially in some divisions that historically have been dominated by one or two clubs.
The American League East could be won by any of its five teams. The National League East features the long-time bully Phillies widely picked to finish third. The Tigers appear to have more challengers to their throne than they've seen in the past two years. There are some teams looking to the future, to be sure, but baseball's talent distribution appears to be less top-heavy than it's been in a while.
That results in part from a strange winter. The rich, for the most part, did not get richer. Baseball's biggest spenders from the past few years mostly stayed quiet over the offseason, and some of the top talents headed to unusual destinations.
Sure, the Southern California powers both spent big, with the Angels adding Josh Hamilton and the Dodgers adding just about every unsigned pitcher this side of Pedro Astacio. But the overall movement of big-time talent this year tended to be toward clubs other than the ones that dominated the first decade of the 21st century.
The Yankees have an eye on trimming payroll for 2014, leading to a fairly uneventful winter. The Phillies are a team in transition, and though they spent big to keep Cole Hamels last summer, they made few major additions during the Hot Stove season. The Red Sox made a flurry of moves, but only after clearing a massive amount of payroll room during the 2012 season.
Meanwhile, the Blue Jays were the winter's most aggressive team by far, recalling their glory days from the early 1990s. The Royals and Indians asserted themselves, adding pieces in hopes of challenging the Tigers' reign. The Braves remade their outfield with a pair of huge additions, breaking from some frugal habits in recent years. Even teams that we've gotten used to seeing push hard in the winter, like Detroit and Washington, haven't always been thought of as power teams.
"Everybody's in the game as far as free agency," said Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez.
There seem to be a couple of things going on. One, quite simply, is there's more money in the game. Local and national television contracts have boomed recently, allowing many more teams to spend aggressively than in past years. That's part of what spurred the Rangers' and Angels' emergence as big spenders in recent years.
Certainly some teams still have more money than others, but the middle class is doing well these days. Teams like Atlanta, Cincinnati and Toronto will never be confused for their New York, Boston, or Los Angeles counterparts, but they're spending.
It's not just on the free-agent market, either. Another recent trend is that fewer and fewer young stars are reaching free agency. Their teams have the money to lock them up, and so they're doing just that. As a result, it's harder for the big boys to cherry-pick the best talent as those players reach their prime.
"I see clubs doing a better job of, when they get a talent, keeping the talent," Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo said. "I think that's a big part of it."
This may not be a short-term trend, either. In the slightly longer view, regular-season results seem to bear out the same pattern. Things appear to be evening out. From 2006-2012, a span of seven seasons, a total of three teams won 100 or more games -- and none won more than 103. In the nine seasons before that, there were 14 100-win teams, with four of them winning at least 105. That stretch included the 1998 Yankees and 2001 Mariners, both of which roared past 110 wins.
Some of that may be an ongoing adjustment by teams to the modern playoff format. With four and now five teams making the postseason in each league, the incentive has been reduced to build a super-team. A more reasonable goal is to aim for somewhere in the low 90s, make it into October and take your chances. If that is in fact a part of what's going on, don't expect it to change.
And that's not necessarily a bad thing at all. We enter what looks very much like a wide-open, unpredictable season, and it ought to be a lot of fun.
Matthew Leach is a writer for MLB.com. Read his blog, Obviously, You're Not a Golfer and follow him on Twitter at @MatthewHLeach. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Go From This, To This In Two Days!
Bright, vivid candy colors used to be for those who had deep pockets and didn't mind reaching into them when it came time to paint their custom truck. Those days are forever gone thanks to FLXPaint. That's right, this good-looking '08 Tahoe is covered in the latest vinyl coating technology. Vinyl has come a long way since the silly graphics of the Fast and Furious days and thanks to incorporating real paint into the vinyl, you now have a viable alternative to expensive paint and bodywork. FLXPaint is offering a patented three-layer cross-sectioned vinyl wrap that uses a base film layer, middle layer with OE-quality automotive paint, and a top layer of OE-quality clearcoat. The 2mm-thick vinyl is so nice, it will trick you into thinking the truck you're looking at just got out of the paint booth. In fact, according to this Tahoe owner, "People don't believe me when I tell them it's not paint." Most two-tone paintjobs cost between $4,000 and $10,000 depending on paint quality, spraying the jambs, and how crazy you want the dividing graphic to be. Imagine rolling into an authorized dealer with $2,400 and a stock paint scheme and leaving with a high quality two-tone that will last for years. After any time period, whether you're selling it, doing more mods, or just want a change, you can simply pull the vinyl off and the protected paint will not be damaged.
To see if this new process was really everything their website made it out to be, we made a FLXPaint two-tone appointment with JP Johnson, of Auto Distinctions, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He and his team had our project '08 Tahoe out the door in just under two days and the results, well, take a look at the buildup photos and make up your own mind.
• Looks like paint, people can't tell it's not
• Easy to install and remove
• Good product quality
• Low cost
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• Easy to install and remove
• Good product quality
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This is very enterprisey...
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This is one hell of a story - bursting full of WTF!
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I worked for a very very similar project. It was not so fundementally twisted and evil - we had multiple tables, all named like t1004, t12 etc. It was a smaller version of this monster. But the database had metadata and data, generic string fields, and so on. Speedy Gonzales performance, with queries not fitting in the join limit of the database engine.
And here too the original creators had managed to retain the rights to sell the "product" (haha) to other companies.
The trio who was behind all this evil are still in the industry after being sacked after 2 years of "development". Watch out.
Its memories are still haunting me, as it was my first real job in the industry.
Oh My God.
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Paula, meet Randy...
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You always find such people in every company.
The successful companies are those that manage to ignore the what-did-the-devil-say sound bites from such folks. Sometimes you cant throw them out, so just pretend to nod in agreement and carry on with your work. No point slogging off for such folks.
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Absolutely amazing. This covers almost every WTF ever mentioned on this website. Misuse of databases, consultants giving bad advice (Randy, that is), management not monitoring the situation, not heeding the warnings... All he needed to do was write it in VB and this would be the panultimate WTF.
A common axiom in engineering is that only 1 in 10 designs ever make it to market. I used to wonder why, but now I think I understand. It's not that people lose focus, they were just blind from the beginning.
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Fantabulous article.
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Wow. Truly classic over-engineering. A healthy dash of
Second System Syndrome, too, though I figure the "first system" (there
may have been many, in fact) was something made before Randy joined
Some other factors that inevitably lead to a WTF:
refusal to admit to a mistake; believing one knows more than
anyone else in the world and is qualified to reinvent the wheel.
I wonder if I'll ever have the guts to write RUN LIKE HELL on a whiteboard.
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Data-driven design really seem like a good idea to some people, and certain designs make it possible. Nowadays it's XML and XSLT, but any heigharchial heterogenous data in general works as well. The stuff that has to be crowbarred into relational mappings and nets few or no optimizations from it anyway.
When writing entire software in a database, though, they forgot that you're just porting a functional application into a less-functional application with extremely arcane new syntax.
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Entertaining to the max.... I am extremely impressed how well the author tells this horror story. You don't find many techies with this kind of command.
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I especially love the irony of the system being based on the idea that programming languages are hard and making changes to code is a time-consuming and difficult task.


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Members of the Sarasota County Planning Commission signed off Thursday on three of five comprehensive plan amendments proposed by Lakewood Ranch developer Schroeder-Manatee Ranch for a 5,500-acre property south of the Lakewood Ranch Corporate Park.
SMR officials have said all proposed changes are critical for moving forward with the project, called the Villages of Lakewood Ranch South project. It would bring more than 5,000 homes to the area.
"It's a very delicate balance to make everything work," said Todd Pokrywa, SMR's vice president of planning. "That's why we've identified from the very beginning these issues in the comprehensive plan to make this (project) viable for us. The site's very constrained because of its geographic configuration. Without the approval of these five development requests, the obstacles would give us substantial physical development problems.
Planning commissioners granted requests to widen Lakewood Ranch Boulevard from two to four lanes from University Parkway to Fruitville Road, remove a 126-acre greenway from the Gum Slough area and remove a greenbelt from the north end of the property along University Parkway.
They denied requests for a change in width of buffers and a change along the southern greenway, arguing that the changes may go against the intent of Sarasota's 2050 plan, which details how development should occur in various sections of the county.
The planning commission's recommendation is expected to go before Sarasota County commissioners June 9.
"We're very hopeful the board will consider and transmit all five," Pokrywa said. "The board has been more involved than the planning commission in these issues. We're very optimistic that they'll look very favorably at it."
Assuming Sarasota County commissioners approve all five changes in June, the proposed changes would then head to the Department of Community Affairs for review and approval.
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UNIVERSITY OP WASHINGTON SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1968 No. 42 Improvements To Pavilion Cost $500,000 Goldwater Speech Here May Be Opened to Public By SIE i.OCKi:rT .\s.sistant I'^itor Kx^novalion of Edmund.son i-'avilion was carritni one step iirther in a recent decision by the Iio<i:-d ai Regents to autiior- i7je John Morse and Associates irchitifiun* firm to prepare Aorkint; drawings for $.56.3.500 .11 imp) oMMnents Gower Quits BOC By BRUCE EDMONSON Gary Ciower last night .said le would resign from his Boa"d if Control seat before today's meeting. <iowor, mens' dunn represen- lative, told a npecial me<^tinK of r|Mj Residence Halls (k>ii cil ki^t he \v«>u1d stetp df>\vn, after he oouiH-il chullen|;e4l hu* right i'« the M^at. Ray Hallinan, RHC secretary nd Daily columnist was elect- •d interim repre.sentative for AVO weeks. IlaJlinan Ls a junior in Com- nunicatioTis and a resident of vicMahon Hall. The dLspute arose over Cow- r's moving out of Haggett Hall his quarter and living off-cam- Grower, a junior in Business (Continued on Page 13) The profjraiii includes a n«'\\ sound system and oth«'r iicous- ticiii hupr(»v<'inent.s, upholstered sj'atiiifj for 2,16*i balcony seats, new portahl«» hieachers seating S.-SGO persons, a portable stage and shell, new restroom fax-il- iti«>s, light control equipment and interior painting. Hopefully these improve¬ ments, which represent the sec¬ ond phase of the Favs renova¬ tion, will bo completed by next fall, said H. S. Thomson, di¬ rector of facilities planning and construction. The fii-st phase was the installation of n syn¬ thetic flooring this fall. No work has tx^en authorized yet on phase three, a major mechanical and electrical over¬ haul estimated to cost about .$1 million. It is very complex and detailed and only the prelimin- ai'y studies have been made- it i.< a long way off, said Thomson. University officials have lK)inted out that the imp:ove- ments will serve not only phys- i<ai education and athletics, Imt many of the cultural, education¬ al and recreational program nt I'ds of the student Ixxly. There is fear among student leaders however, that the im- p ovements are a move to re¬ place an auditoriimi on cam¬ pu.s. "This could he interpr#»te;| as a rcl; it ively cheap way t«) allev¬ iate some of the ininuHli.ite n 'c<ls of tiie campus," said ASUVV Pr«!«ident Rich Kirkpat- rii'k, "but it would »eoni wiser (Continued on Page 13) The sciiei'.ulcd Jan. 2.") speech by l)a*iy Gi>ldwater in Hec Edmundson F.u ilion may b«* open to fhe general public after .ill, it wa.s revealed yesterday. Though the I'niver-ity iulniin- istratio-i dc:ii«'d the I'olitical I'nion th«' prerogative of open¬ ing the eveiit to the pubMc, the Political Srienee I>ci>artnient has dc4'ide<l to co-s|M)nsor the event. The co-sponsorship may miike tbe difference. In a statement Lssued just befon' finals, V^ice President for lTnivei"sity Relations Robert Waldo said that student o, ;;an- izations "are not in a position to make the professional judg¬ ments which underlie the Uni¬ versity's programs of continu¬ ing education." The co-sponsor¬ ship, however, woidd transfer the burden of that "professional judgment" to the Political Sci¬ ence Do{>artment. Dr. Hugh Bono, chairman of the Political Science Depart¬ ment, noted yesterday: "It is our undei-standing that the speech could he ojx'n to the public." He added that it would Perils and Punishments Outlined in Drug Policy In its first policy statement conceming hallucinogenic and other drugs, the Unive-sity wamed students yesterday that "they will be subject to disci¬ plinary action, up to and includ¬ ing dismissal from tho Univers¬ ity, fo" the use, possession or distribution of dangerous drugs." Th^ statetnent, drawn up hy the I'niversity C'onuni!t'.»e on llallucinogenit" juul Other Drugs and released yesterday hy I'ni¬ versity Vice President for Stu¬ dent Affairs DoniiUI K. Ander¬ son, added: "Tlie Tniversity, with the conciuraiK-c ol' the Ad Hoc t'oiiimJttee, does express dtM'p concern over the harmful results th It may accrue to any students who may l)c i ) ol--^d in h»'se fdrug using] activities." The committee hibele.I wiuit it considered the four main con¬ cerns resulting from use of drugs by the University stu¬ dents: 1) the "serious possibility" of djimage to the mental or phys¬ ical health of u.sers; 2) the legal consequences of involvement in the i)ossession, use or traffic in drugs; 3) the likely effect of d ug use on the academ'c vell- txMng of students (considered t)y the committee to lie "of special concern to the University"); 4) tbe likelihood that drug users will encourage others in tho campus community to become involved. The report noted that it is diftieult to assess reports of increasing drug use in and around tbe University commun¬ ity, tuit issuance of the report (Continued on Page 13) depend a great deal on whethei the Political Union ciccepts his department's proposal to co- sponsor the event. Bone said he had not yet heard from Eric Johnson, presi¬ dent of the Political Union. But John.son told the Daily yesterday that he was "really pleaseKl" at the prospect of co- sponsoring the sp»:*ch with the Poli Sci Department and of opening the speech to the pub¬ lic. "My interpretation of the ad¬ ministration's denial was that it feared allowing student or¬ ganizations to make de<'.isions concerning the ITniversity's edu- cjitional role," Johnson said. "Now the Political Science De¬ partment is providing the good judgment needed, and we are able to bring the kinds of per¬ sons we consider significant." When asked about possible regidations which could pre¬ clude even the Political Science Department of sponsoring an open event, Dr. Bone said there were none that he knew of. "We have reported the de¬ partment's decision to the ad¬ ministration," he said, "and we are awaiting woi-d from the Administration Building." The Political Science Depart¬ ment prerogative to open the speech under its own sponsor¬ ship was confirmed last night by Dr. Waldo. Dr. Bone Siud such sponsor¬ ship would not be an unprec¬ edented event. The department, he said, has sponsored many many sjM'akers over the years. (Continued on Page 13) New, Expanded Student Legislature Envisioned by Some ECC Members Hy BKITCE EDMONSON John Mosier and several other liOC members oi)ent\l the new /car with a resolution to wo'l: toward <,'reati(xn of a new stu- lont legiislature, tentatively tubbed "A<;ademic Senate." Im a rvfxjrt released yeste-- lajr, Mosier spoke ft):- tiimself md seven other Boiirxl of Cxm- ^jToi i-epresentatives in asking for oomntents on the proposed lOO-nuHuber assembly. As outliued by Mosier Inst vituk iji au iiit:;rvlew with the iUAJM.r, tf*e sen it ^ would d<vil 3K«l«iively \vit!i the academic of student life. "l think the main concern at students here is academic .if- Tairs." Mosier said, adding that tlie BOC has placinl "way loo much emphasis" on social o-vents." The idi'a behind Academic Senate sprung from several meetings last (lUarter between Mosier, lioard Membe s Mike Mandeville, Barb Du"kin, Lynn Hogan, Bruce Matlock, Joan Duffy. Gai"y Gower. CTathy Bay¬ lon and Tom Malone, I'rog.am Panel chainnan. As this group |iro|Mmed it, the Senate would not In% equal Im power to the Board ol Con¬ trol, whicii would retain all hud- gel;iry autliority. Mosie' called Academic Sen¬ ate "basically a commit'.''e tyne of arrangement, like in Con¬ gress.' Under the leader-;h'p oi a stee-ing co rmittee. commit¬ tees vvould investigate pirtici- la ^ problems, make repo Is back to th<^ r.enate as a wh->^'> v, hidi could then adopt resolutions concerning {X)mm t*ee f-- M n's. Committees could tackle su'h areas ;is the grade po vt --".s- tem, contempo;ai"y-ro'rse of- fe ings, coip'se criti.y.ir . h lems common to all students within a particular fo'!^ .. ¦ and s "iences, for e.'ia" Delegates to th" would be selected ;»' he'd "depa tmental oix?n sessions which dents in a parfcu coi'ld attend for th- voting. Mosi^'r s lid an ' tile proposed le-'is? "get more p«^ople ¦ ASUW. Academie answer, said Mosi • who thick ASUW for HUB jm-ks." Ultimately, bowi> CO nee ned with lb which the .Senate "Academics." "The big thing is t yin-^ to get so.me kind of f"e^ <"!owing disriission lx>tween faculty and sttHlerit." he said. .'-"¦••nate action will, Iv hopes, lend "some meaning to Mie ma- •o" -«. student selects" by en- cov aging student-faeulty dia- IO'-V\ Tho big thing this no nth v ill be r-tti?»g the Hoard «»f Control *t* bJV the pl.nn. M.»sif r ou'-'l ''!: • to see the propo-. ' which n <(,!•¦ rtiH a eonstitutlo d >• >ond- •-'.;'?, on the spring ! ''-it. '> BOC must \ • out the I) ' go;'s over to )• approval. •ddton, M> nl goal: get t 'l" p oposji' is the dat" ¦eeting for 'cted last •e after -;. Bruce I Hi Ba b n ths m ;ai'.! he 'lill to tl' (.1 ^ he adm ir'v ' t nued < hill be- Mt a ; to st 1 vl 1 ; ) , ut ^ j^ ; ¦¦^MmH:}-: if you were one g-ades y sterday of the feeling v \ iously awaiic {>avcd out in th< • c ?iot requ > Huildin —photo by ranciy greenfield nv students picking up your l\ biliroom, then you're aware 'irough these students us they !! moment. 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2. The injury will be irrelevant. You and I both know he's going to bust his ass to make sure he comes back in elite form. Plus, he has more motivation with Sherman chirping.
3. Irrelevant, see 1. Plenty of teams will be willing to pony up the cash. How many HOF players get moved in their prime?


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Victory beat Heart 2-1 in derby
Melbourne Victory used Melbourne Heart as a stepladder to climb a little closer to the A-League peak, with a pulsating 2-1 derby win at Etihad Stadium on Saturday night.
A delightfully worked first half goal to Archie Thompson and Mark Milligan's second half penalty capped second-placed Victory's win as they closed within three points of league leaders Central Coast Mariners.
Victory goalkeeper Nathan Coe was perhaps his side's most important player - three huge first half saves denying the Heart as a frenetic opening 45 minutes swung in the balance.
With the Heart menacing early, Coe was called into action inside six minutes to deny fullback Jeremy Walker.
He produced a gem of a reflex stop from Eli Babalj on 13 minutes, then for the pick of the trio, a diving save high to his left to stop a goalbound Golgol Mebrahtu free-kick just before halftime.
His magnificence between the sticks allowed those outfield to work the necessary magic - midfielder Marcos Flores' superb turn and chip freeing Thompson on 29 minutes to score and put the Victory ahead.
Both sides had excellent patches of play in the first half, before Victory were handed clear advantage early in the second when Heart midfielder Jonathan Germano manhandled Flores in the box off the ball and was caught out by referee Strebre Delovski.
Milligan hammered home the penalty to the delight of the majority of the 41,203 crowd.
But with the Victory seemingly in control, a neat individual goal from Heart winger David Williams in which he beat two defenders meant a nervous last 17 minutes for the home side.
Heart's best chance of an equaliser was again created by the lively Williams, whose excellent cross on 76 minutes was headed just wide by Mebrahtu.
Heart goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne also produced two fine saves late in the match to stop the Victory going further ahead.
Victory's win was soured by injury concerns to star attacker Marco Rojas and defender Nick Ansell.
While coach Ange Postecoglou was not overly worried by Rojas's late substitution - believing it was just muscle tightness - Ansell broke down in the first half with a groin injury.
The talented central defender had only just returned from injury, and Postecoglou believes he will at least miss next weekend's top of the table away clash with Adelaide United with his new problem.
But Postecoglou was again happy with his team's performance - their past 15 matches yielding just two defeats.
"It was a cracking night of football, great atmosphere ... they put us under pressure at times and we always looked threatening going forward," he said.
Heart coach John Aloisi believed his side played and competed well.
But striker Josip Tadic's substitution after just 33 minutes with a suspected broken toe will again stretch the club's depth - with the retirement of Vinnie Grella and sale of Socceroo fullback Aziz Behich to Turkey in the past week.
"Our back five probably have 20 A-League games between them," Aloisi said.
"Considering the players we've lost, considering what happened this week, I couldn't be more proud of the boys.
"They played well, unlucky to lose the game I think. I thought we created enough chances to score goals."
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text: The conventional wisdom seems to be that Mes/Hanigan will be the catchers in 2012. Grandal may get dealt this offseason. If not and Mes plays well then Grandal likely gets dealt before 2013. He is one of our biggest trading chips. I have been thinking. The trade scenario I have seen floated about most often is Alonso/Grandal for Shields. This makes sense for both teams. However, I presume Mes has a higher trade value than Grandal. He is rated higher as a prospect & is one level more developed. What if the team brought back Ramon on the cheap for one year, traded Mes, and planned for Grandal/Hanigan in 2013? Could we snare a strong starter for Mes and change rather than have to give up two of our top three prospects to grab that pitcher?


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CSCU Conference: Chip Cards Remain Expensive Choice
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — While the long-term payments future remains optimistic for credit unions, the 2013 annual conference of Card Services for Credit Unions revealed the immediate payment path continues murky and expensive as ever.
The organization held its conference from April 24-28 at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort.
"We are definitely at the beginning of a technology shift in payments," Patricia Hewitt, director of debit services for the Mercator Advisory Services told a conference meeting specifically set aside for credit union CEOs. But the market has not picked a winner among the new technologies, and until it does, it will be hard for financial institutions to know how to move forward, she said. It will also be difficult to tell which nonfinancial institution innovators will succeed and which will fail, she added.
Hewitt's message seemed to sum up much of the conference, at least when it came to discussion of the future.
When it comes to traditional payment products, for example, the usually reliable credit cards and debit cards face a shift to new smart card technology and the market changes mandated by changing regulations that still leave many unanswered questions.
A panel of executives and experts from different parts of the card industry told the conference that cards outfitted with EMV smart chips were not likely to make any of their institutions any money and should be treated as something of a necessary evil, like insurance.
EMV stands for Eurocard, MasterCard and Visa and is the recognized international standard for smart chips included on payment cards.
Bastian Knoppers, senior vice president for card personalization at FIS, advised the executives that they soon will need to present their boards of directors with proposals for switching debit and credit card portfolios over from having cards with magnetic stripes to cards having EMV chips. Such a presentation is going to have to address questions about why, what, how, when and who, he told the group, and the challenge is that there is not a strong case for why.
"There is not a good looking business case [for EMV], I can guarantee you that," Knoppers told the group.
The problem is that absent a mandate from a government or from the major card brands, there is no strong case for paying the additional costs for EMV cards, at least not for an entire card portfolio. The cards will significantly cut the cost of one type of fraud–counterfeit card fraud–but not necessarily others.
Cards enabled with EMV chips can cost between two and four dollars more per card than cards with magnetic stripes.
Institutions will face liability for card fraud after October 2015, and that has provided both card issuers and merchants a strong incentive to adapt to the new technology. After October 2015, it will be the party on either side of a transaction which is not yet enabled EMV technology, whether merchant or retailer, that will bear the responsibility for card losses that would have otherwise been prevented had the new technology been in place.
CSCU Robert Hackney noted the changes looming and urged the credit union card executives attending conference to pick up the pace on educating their members and themselves about the changes coming.
Speaking about the EMV shift, Hackney said that CUs have 30 months to get their EMV decisions made and cards issued before the coming liability shift urged them to appoint someone to take on the task of monitoring and organizing the shift in their institutions.
This may not be quite as big as a core processor conversion, Hackney told the meeting, but it is an extremely large and complex change and it needs to have someone in the organization own it.
He also urged credit union to stay up to date on payments changes because many decisions, particularly in EMV equipped debit card and in mobile payments, have yet to be made. There are still too many different players that have staked out positions with significantly different technologies that still need to shake out, Hackney explained, pointing out the history of great battles such as between eight track tape and cassette tape and video tape and DVDs Until that shakeout takes place credit unions need to keep informed about the topic, Hackney added.
Yet even among the challenges, CSCU still offered some of the same motivational speeches and examples of card success that usually characterize its annual conferences.
Meeting attendees heard from Ken Schmidt, communication strategist for Harley Davidson, as he outlined the way, he suggested, credit unions need to change their communication with members to motivate them into loving their credit unions.
"People almost never make decisions based on logic and facts. That's not the way the world works," Schmidt said. "People make decisions based on emotions. I like you or I don't like you. I want that or I don't want that. I trust you or I don't trust you."
Credit unions instead need to focus on humanizing their interactions with the public, not treating them as customers or even member, but treating them first as human beings, and that means noticing them and listening to them.
Another panel of three executives from credit unions that had strong credit card success in 2012 agreed that getting senior credit union management involved with and committed to the card program early was key.
Joe Mayhew, consumer loan manager at the 59,000-member $700,000 million CoastHills Federal Credit Union in Lompoc, Calif.; David Throne, vice president of internal operations at the 69,000-member $934 million Fox Communities Credit Union in Appleton, Wis.
in Appleton, Wis.; and Julie Brock, marketing publication specialist at the 15,000-member $94 million GEMC Federal Credit Union in Tucker, Ga., described how each of their credit unions all used slightly different strategies to see strong card performance in 2012, but all agreed that getting senior management committed to the goal early had played a key role.
Having senior management on board helped the credit unions motivate their frontline staff to back the card and enthusiastically offer it members, the executives said, while senior management commitment had played an important role in making sure the different departments of the two larger credit unions cooperated on the shared goal.
"We were really pleased to see how the different department's worked together," said Throne. "Frontline staff was able to engage members about the cards in part because of the materials that marketing had developed for them to use."


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Lately I am messing up with bootdisks and I'd like coding a small command line application that takes as parameter
a folder,
a .bin file as boot sector,
a size type (1.44MB or 2.88MB essentialy),
and output a .IMA files keeping all files of the folder with the .bin file as boot sector.
That program would be analogous to MS cdimage.exe that outputs a .ISO file.
So, my problem is, does exist a info page about .ima files? Or how can I know where to puts the file's contents for making a valid ima file?
Actually, this question may be extended about every format.
How do you know how to save corretly a known file format? Like a .jpg, or a .mp3 file?


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THE FORCE® Helps Raise almost $4000 For Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.) at the 2009 International Association of Chiefs of Police
Nashville, TN – For visitors to THE FORCE® booth, the IACP conference was not only an educational experience but a philanthropic one as well. The Force held a special fundraiser called the Big Game Challenge in their booth that ultimately raised almost $4000 for Concerns of Police Survivors. For a donation of $5 or more to C.O.P.S., Chiefs from around the world got a chance to play Cabela's Dangerous Hunts 2009, a hunting game where your shooting skills are put to the test. The participant with the highest score received a $2500 Travel Gift Certificate.
The challenge went to a final round between Chief Kathy Zoner of the Cornell University Police Department and Supervisory Agent Marc Brito of the U.S. Border Patrol. Both went into the final round with a high score of 700. In the end, Supervisory Special Agent Brito won but soon after showed how humble law enforcement really can be by offering to split the travel gift certificate with Chief Zoner.
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Discussion in 'Star Trek: Enterprise' started by cooleddie74, Feb 2, 2013.
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Discussion in 'Science and Technology' started by RAMA, Apr 7, 2012.
I'm curious as to what the BBS thinks. I'll post mine tomorrow so as to not influence too much.
I dunno. Let me hop in my time machine and check.
Augmented reality devices that are discreet and easily portable.
Biologically powered devices.
Organic computers that can be tattooed onto or implanted into the skin or clothing.
Always-on social networking with shared vision and sound feeds.
Programmable smart dust.
Portable communications devices. Like the telephones in your house but without wires.
Books on a flat computer screen of some kind. Something that could hold five or six books' worth of text without taking up the space of five books.
Computers that help with navigation when you're out driving rather than having to unfold a big map to find out where you're going.
Something that lets you change the channel on your television without leaving your chair.
Warp propulsion.
1. Intelligent street cameras that can recognize people and track everyone in real time, creating a map of the whereabouts of everyone.
2. High-range RFID chips with unblockable signal that can be utilized in identity cards, allowing you to ensure that, for example, there are no child predators around you.
3. Huge SSD drives capable of storing years worth of voice or even video data, enabling your phone to constantly record everything so you can easily upload it to your social network account along with your GPS tracks and everything, along with an AI that categorizes, indexes and subtitles everything for you.
4. AI-powered cameras integrated in light bulbs that are capable of turning on the lights and alerting the police automatically when you're being attacked in your own home.
5. Algorithms that can predict criminal behaviour based on any readily available data with as few false positives as possible.
Honourable mention: Hand-held fusion bombs.
1. Practical humanoid robots
2. Naval railguns
3. Commercially-operated spacecraft/space stations
4. Self-driving cars
5. An off switch for children
1. communication nano machines from MGS
2. The hover board from back to the future
3. Transporters
4. The DBZ scouter
5. Sonic screwdriver
When I think top five I think best five, not scariest five. All this always-on people tracking and social networking stuff is terrifying.
- Automated Cars.
- Hydrogen as a viable power source for said cars. (In tandem with electric engines)
- Several breakthroughs in understanding and manipulating DNA.
- "UltraCapacitors" replacing batteries.
- Augmented reality.
That's it, everything else is cancelled (or more likely vapourised).
I expect much more for the next 30-35 years, but the next 15 should make some rapid tech developments too...
1. Biotech...a combination of readily available advancements in biotech both for the bright motivated amateur and professionals will make for huge progress in the understanding of the human body and how to modify/change/treat it. This will make humanity able to grow along with it's tech.
2. AI...on the way to equivalent human intelligence, strong AI will finally reach its true potential. The physical form of AI, androids/robots also seem to be well on the way. See the recent DARPA announcement thread. This is the "brain" of the future.
3. Clean power technologies combined with possibly power cells and a potential development of type IV nuclear fission reactors. Solar power alone has more than enough potential to supply the world with all it's energy needs. Beaming it to Earth via laser may happen towards the latter part of the 15 year period. You can't have tech without power!
4. Portable and integrated computer technology/gadgets everywhere, including clothes, and even potentially more integrated with human bodies. Google has a pair of goggles (google goggles, ouch) which will augment reality, and may be as fashionable as ipods are today. 12 years ago the idea of people commonly wearing computers was scoffed at.
5. Nanotechnology..already a $2 billion a year growing industry, this tech will finally lead to nearly completely reliable machines, a medical revolution, and eventually foglets and smart matter. The implications for almost every field of human endeavor will make this transformative.
Some others of note...cultured meat replacing real animals. Vertical farming replacing conventional farming. Cell phones...yes cell phones. Smart phones will continue to create a "dematerialization" effect. http://phe.rockefeller.edu/dematerialization/
Whatever some random company makes and convinces people to buy at a healthy mark-up.
A couple of petabyte disk drives would come in handy.
If human beings can upgrade themselves before the singularity...the point at which machines become more intelligent than all of humanity, then we could in fact supplant "Skynet". That's the exciting bit about it.
Perhaps only a fraction of humanity would upgrade. It might be they who are the instigators of the purge of the remainder.
Always possible of course, although I'd like to think of such advanced human derived AI would be beyond such pettiness...
How do you know the motivation would be pettiness? As they say, we can't even comprehend things beyond the singularity.
Only Earth-centred technologies then, and with absolutely nothing revolutionary?
Sadly that seems to be the direction humanity is heading. Nobody cares about space, or expanding our horizons anymore. Society is turning inward, and all most people care about is more cable channels, and shinier,faster handheld gadgets and tech toys.
True, it's only one possible option. I was being facetious about the Skynet thing. There might be many different conflicting factions among uplifted humans. Vernor Vinge also postulated that the Singularity might be unrealisable in practice.
I tend to agree. the "singularity" in my opinion is happening all the time. For people from the 1700's it happened almost a hundred years ago.
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PRRC Director Emeritus Joseph Taber Receives Theodore Award
by George Zamora
SOCORRO, N.M, Feb. 14, 2007 – Joseph J. Taber, director emeritus of New Mexico Tech's Petroleum Recovery Research Center (PRRC), recently was honored by being named the recipient of the REP America New Mexico Chapter's "Theodore Award."
REP America is the national grassroots organization of the Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP) political group. Taber was officially presented with the Theodore Award at REP America's annual meeting, which was held last month in Albuquerque.
The award, named after Theodore Roosevelt, was given to Taber in recognition "for his contribution to conservation in New Mexico," the citation stated.
"Basically, I believe the Theodore Award was awarded to me primarily for a patented method I developed to convert brackish water to fresh water, which is something that fits right into REP America's goals," said Taber.
In 2005, Taber was granted a U.S. patent for a novel method he developed of converting oilfield "feed water" into fresh water.
The patented method, which utilizes existing reverse osmosis technology, has the capacity to economically convert water considered too salty for consumption into fresh water by using existing oilfield water pressures and high-flow rates typically found in oilfield operations, such as using injection of water for enhanced oil recovery.


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House: GRYFFINDOR
Title: Petrified
Word count: 203
Warnings: None
Is there anything you would like to tell me? Professor Dumbledore asked.
Just tell him.
If I tell him, hell tell Percy, and Ron, and the twins and Harry! Then theyll all hate me!
Harry is an honourable boy and the others are family. They wont hate you.
Yes, they will. I did it. I set the monster free. I killed the roosters and Petrified Colin. It was me. ME!
No, it wasnt. It was Riddle. And you threw his diary away, so now he wont be able to make you do it any more.
But Harry has it! I saw him! What if Riddle tells Harry that I sent him the Valentine? What if Riddle tells Harry that I did it all?
So, tell Dumbledore what happened and get the diary back. Its really quite simple.
No, I cant tell him. Hell expel me. Hell tell everyone it was me and hell expel me. You know what Riddle said no one would believe me if I told them what really happened. All they will see is little Ginny Weasley, talentless and weak, and theyll lock me up for this, I know they will. Riddle was right. I cant tell anyone.
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Git repositories
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system, and our preferred method of sharing source code. LUG@UCLA hosts members' Git repositories at //linux.ucla.edu/git/. This page provides an overview of the steps necessary to get your project hosted by LUG@UCLA.
Repository setup
If you don't already have an SSH key pair, you can follow these steps to generate one.
Give your public SSH key to a LUG admin so they can add your key to the system (Gitolite). Also, provide the LUG admin with three bits of information:
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- a short description of the repository (no more than ~7 words)
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First, verify your repository has been created by accessing //linux.ucla.edu/git/. If your repository name is "my-project", then your push/pull address will be:
email@example.com:my-project.git . Your repository will also have a public pull-only address at //linux.ucla.edu/git/my-project.git.
Start working with your repository by cloning it, committing some changes, then pushing those changes:
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Monument girls in a basketball rebuilding mode
GREAT BARRINGTON -- The upper half of the walls in the Monument Mountain High School gymnasium are covered with maroon and white banners, symbolizing various championships.
Some of the banners honor the 11 Western Massachusetts Division II championships won by the girls basketball team. Seeing those banners every day is something that is not lost on the current group of Monument players.
"I definitely think it's something we aspire toward," said junior Hunter Cormier.
The Spartans, who once spent years as the dominant force in Division II basketball -- a late 1990s run of five consecutive titles as evidence of that -- are trying to restore their team to those lofty heights.
"I would definitely use them as inspiring," junior Haley Korte said before a recent practice. "It's cool to look up and see all the banners for basketball."
Monument won a Western Mass. Division II title in 2009 and last made a final in 2010. But after finishing 13-8 in 2011, the Spartans fell to 4-16 last year and didn't make the tournament.
While none of the current crop of Spartans played on that 2010 team, senior Hannah Rolf would have been a freshman that year.
"After last season, we all wanted different results," she said. "We were determined as a group to get better over the summer and work really hard to improve our game and come into the season with high energy."
Going into Wednesday's game with Greylock, the Spartans have already equaled last year's win total, as they are 6-7. Monument has had one three-game winning streak and a two-game win streak.
"Last year was not an easy year," said Monument's second-year head coach Chris Unsworth.
This year is still part of his rebuilding the program. Three Spartans -- Kayla Aberdale, Heather Hassett and Ashley Harrington -- are basically newcomers because of past knee injuries.
Last year was Unsworth's first as a head coach so it was a learning experience for him and for his players. With that first year under everyone's belt, now it is time to move on.
"This year, we just had to take it on an individual basis and set our own individual goals," he said. "We wanted the message to be that we feel we can compete with anybody on any given night and get [the players] to believe that. I think they have."
For this group, it all started in the summer. The girls played together as a team and had more success than during the 2011-12 high school season.
The lack of success last season didn't make it really easy stepping into the new season. Unsworth said that the message is that every practice this year is important and every game is important. He wants his team to understand that they have to earn everything they get.
The game that got everyone's attention in Berkshire County was when Monument beat Pittsfield 39-29 on Jan. 17. The Spartans outscored Pittsfield 15-3 in the fourth quarter to pull out the victory.
It might have been a game nine days earlier that told the Monument players that they could be successful.
"I think the turning point was the game against Lee," said Korte, referring to a 42-32 defeat that saw the Spartans in it for 32 minutes. "We felt we could beat them and we were close to beating them [that night]. Beating Pittsfield was definitely a big part of our season."
"We always had the confidence in ourselves," Rolf said. "When we beat Pittsfield, it told us that we can play with any team. I think everything clicked. We had confidence in ourselves."
The road to a possible Western Mass. Tournament berth will not be an easy one. Monument will be spending much of February on the road after having a lot of January home games. Unsworth said that will be a challenge for his team.
"It's not perfect," said Cormier. "We're still working on things. We're getting better every day.
"Our goal is the tournament, and I think we can make that because of the way we are working hard every day."
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I thought Minny wanted Kanter since they can't grab Irving and would have no playing time for Williams, it just makes no sense... UNLESS they're trying to draft *gasp* another PG.
I thought Minny wanted Kanter since they can't grab Irving and would have no playing time for Williams, it just makes no sense... UNLESS they're trying to draft *gasp* another PG.
I would be happy with Knight or Kanter... If both of them are gone I would take Valanciunas.
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Before the lottery I remember reading a T-Wolves blogger who claimed that a source within the front office told him that the team was very high on Biyomba. 2 would certainly be too high to take him...5 could be a stretch as well...but 8 sounds good, right?
If this trade goes through they would truly be the wildcard of the draft with the amount of strange options that would be available between 4 and 8.
I would bet they add two of the following: Biyomba, Valanciunas, Leonard, and Burks.
It would also not surprise me if this trade could better set up a move between the Raptors and Minnesota. We all know about the rumors that they could be interested in Calderon, and there have been those who suggested that we could use him to move up to the #2. But that was a huge stretch...but could Calderon be used to add the 8?
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Q: Despite the strongest possible assurances from Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley that Rudy Gay is staying put, are we in for a summer of media speculation about possible trades? Just the other day we were reading one out of Toronto that proclaimed "Gay has suddenly become redundant, an asset the Grizzlies must use to make themselves more championship-worthy."
A: Zach Randolph is the most productive Grizzly ever. Rudy Gay is the most gifted and won't be traded. Any conversation about trading Gay without a bonafide star coming to Memphis is absurd, misinformed and ignorant. Take a step back and understand that Gay is better than Tony Allen and Sam Young -- combined -- and they started for the Griz at the end. Not only is Heisley believable when he says he isn't trading Gay, but the coaches are already salivating over the return of a 20-point scorer, much-improved defender and play-maker.
Detroit adds a position of need with a player who has much upside and 2 years in the league (Flynn).
Minnesota adds Biyombo with the 8th pick and gets Calderon.
Cleveland gets Irving and Williams.
Toronto loses Calderon's salary, gets Kanter/Walker at #4/5, and rents Webster for a year while Kleiza recuperates.
LOL - actually, I don't think this is realistic: essentially Calderon nets Walker and Webster. Nevermind. The reason I go with Walker at 4 is because I don't think he'll get past Sacramento at 7.
As for the deal, Cleveland must really be enamored with Williams as a player to take on Rip. Rip has steadfastly refused to take a buyout in the past and I would bet that is still the case. In other words, the Cavs are taking on over $21million over the next 2 years (less money if lockout happens) in order to grab Williams. But I guess they do have Joey Graham currently manning the SF so that would add incentive. But if Williams can't keep up with SF and has to move to PF, does that mean they move JJ Hickson?
So, where do the Raps fit in this thread??? Who cares about those teams? I wanna know what's good with the Raps. No offense.
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Not sure about Minnesota's take on this deal. They said they were open to moving the 2nd pick to get someone who can help them win now. So, then they turn around and trade down, in a weak draft? Doesn't seem to make sense.
If I'm BC, I'm knocking on Minny's door to see if Calderon and the 5th or Bargnani and the 5th are enough to get the 2nd out of Minny.
If the deal does go through, things change for Toronto. I feel Knight will be going to Utah. Then comes Minny. Strange as it might be, I wouldn't be surprised to see them try to team up Kanter with Love. Meaning at 5, we'd probably take Kemba Walker.
that answer seems entirely opinion based, his own opinion based.
guy has nothing more than opinion.
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Didn't Heisley swear he was keeping the Grizz in Vancouver? I'm pretty sure he went as far as to sing the national anthem. Didn't he previously trade Pau for nothing more than a cash dump? (and please do not mention Mark - no one had any idea he would become what he did at that time).
The only team I see getting screwed a little in this is IND.
MEM dumps salary, adds more scoring while retaining defensive wings, is able to resign Battier for 2-3 years in addition to Gasol, and have Paul George grow in to a star (just turned 21) just as Battier rides off in to the sunset.
HoopsWorld/Joel Brigham offering rumours the DET/MIN/CLE trade is dying. I don't fully agree with his logic about the new CBA. Yes an amnesty clause might allow them to cut Hamilton however they would be on the hook for his full contract ($25M). The previous amnesty provisions in the last CBA did not have a player losing a cent.Beyond that, uncertainty surrounding the new CBA makes it hard for Detroit to pull off so rash a move when there could potentially be an amnesty clause in the new deal that allows the Pistons an easier (and less costly) road to offloading Hamilton. If that ends up being the case, and they realize there was a way they could've let Rip go cheaply and kept their lottery pick, then this is a deal that could look silly in retrospect.
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For DET the trade comes down to this: the 8th pick to save $25M.
Personally, I think something along these lines gets done before or at the draft - I can think of 25 million reasons why.
this is a great trade. With the fifth pick we draft Walker and our line up would look like:
Veteran C/Alabi
Thats a playoff team right there.
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id draft knight if he was there first, we also might have to include our 5th pick
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Although surgery is the only treatment that will cure a cataract, there are some measures that may help control some symptoms of cataracts. Some of these measures may also help slow cataracts from developing.
- Wear glasses
- Limit driving
- Wear a hat
- Avoid fluorescent light
- Consider nutritional supplements
Wear the glasses or contact lenses you have been prescribed. Or, you can try reading with a magnifying glass. Also, wearing ultraviolet (UV)A- and UVB-blocking sunglasses can help reduce glare and bright sunlight that affects people with cataracts.
Limit your driving at night, when it may be more difficult to see.
Wearing a hat can also protect your eyes from sunlight, glare, and fluorescent light.
Avoiding fluorescent light can help reduce glare that causes vision difficulty for some people with cataracts. Improve the lighting in your home and reduce glare by using brighter bulbs and special lamps.
Some nutritional supplements, such as antioxidant multivitamins, might help slow the progression of cataracts. A daily multivitamin is good for your general health as well. Talk to you doctor about which nutritional supplements are appropriate for you.
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Information, products and ideas for parents and teachers. Includes "Teacher QuickSource" and "Early Childhood News" section with classroom ideas for seasonal, age-appropriate activities.
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Provides information on the care of young children through various initiatives including: The Foundations to the Indiana Academic Standards, the Indiana Birth to Age 5 Literacy Framework and the ISTAR-KR Assessment. See also: Indiana Academic Standards for Early Learning & Literacy Foundations.
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Just as the summer heats up, federal park officials will close down access to a popular Marin beach.
In mid to late June the Muir Beach parking lot and pedestrian access will be closed through November so the area can be realigned to help restore natural tidal flow for the benefit of threatened and endangered species.
During the closure businesses in the area will remain open, but the beach will be closed to all but people hiking through from areas like Tennessee Valley along the Coastal Trail.
With the Muir Beach parking lot closed and all services and restrooms removed from the area, the National Park Service is recommending people do not stop at the beach for any extended period.
"People can hike in, but it will be pretty much impossible to park and walk in," said Howard Levitt, spokesman for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. "People should generally avoid the beach."
The project is being done in the summer with the goal of finishing it before the rainy season to make the work easier and to avoid disturbing wildlife, including threatened steelhead trout and endangered coho salmon.
The parking lot work is part a larger $13 million project to restore the Big Lagoon and surrounding flood plain, once an integral part of the ecosystem at Muir Beach. Fed by waters of Redwood Creek, it allowed spawning fish a place to stop, rest and get fat before making their trip out to open sea.
But in the 1950s, the 12-acre
freshwater lagoon – which had another 13 acres of surrounding wetlands – started to disappear, choked by fill and levees put in by ranchers so the area could be used for cattle grazing. The current lot, built in the 1980s to access Muir Beach, caused more damage.
"The parking lot essentially acts as a dam," said Carolyn Shoulders, project manager for the National Park Service. "To pull that parking lot out of the flood plain will go along way toward restoring the natural function."
The 500 foot-long lot – built on a pad three to four feet higher than the floodplain – leaves only about 50 feet of width for the creek to flow. Winter rains from a 9-square mile watershed from the top of Mount Tamalpais get funneled through the narrow passage to reach the natural end point at the ocean. Water backs up and scours out sediment as it hits the raised lot.
The lot change will also serve to reduce some of the flooding the community of Muir Beach sees during moderate rains, Shoulders said.
When the area reopens in late fall, visitors will see a new parking lot, new toilets, a new picnic area and an extension of the current pedestrian bridge. While the size of the lot will be reduced, the number of spaces – 175 – will stay the same.
The parking lot and adjoining picnic area see about 260,000 visitors per year.
The re-done lot is the last piece of work funded for the restoration of the area. Other parts of the area have been restored in recent years. Part of the money for the lot, about $2 million, comes from a settlement from the Cosco Busan oil spill. A new Pacific Way Bridge and road in the area is part of the project, but funding has not been located.
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This isn't fixed in MySQL 5. I've just been fighting the same problems.
The solution, it seems, is to put the database into strict mode [mysql.com]. The description includes this:
Make MySQL behave like a "traditional" SQL database system. A simple description of this mode is "give an error instead of a warning" when inserting an incorrect value into a column.
But I can't understand why anyone would possibly want a database to not behave in the traditional manner.
Which, of course, wouldn't have been a problem if they'd done it properly in the first place.