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you can find a nvidia package in tpowa repo
now it is possible to add /update remove nvidia drivers with pacman
at the moment it works with kernel 2.6.5
not with the scsi kernel
i'll try to fix that
please test it and give feedback
removed kernel dependency
it works only if you have the kernel-sources installed
or you use the stock kernel >=2.6.5
but that's now mentioned in the install message
Oh that's pretty that is, just testing it now... will tell how it goes.
A while back there actually was an nvidia driver in the repositories, it was removed for some reason, don't quite remember. But I don't think it used the installer, so this might be a bit better then.
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Personally, I would've thought it a better idea to simply build modules for stock kernels, and not use the installer, but install nvidia-installer to make it easy to update if you compile your own, but I haven't got the time to reboot in runlevel 3 to try this out yet, so it may work better than my idea yet.
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just monitoring thread nothing to see here
Off to using Peanut and Slackware, no hard feelings but I need my CD to burn, PDA and scanner to connect and arch won't do it.
tried with
kernel26 2.6.5-3
and its a no go.
/lib/modules/.....//nvidia.ko not found
Off to using Peanut and Slackware, no hard feelings but I need my CD to burn, PDA and scanner to connect and arch won't do it.
I gave it a try but it does not work
Its looking for gcc 3.3 ?
& then you get error .ko ?
O & I ran it from console
I guess others will have the same problem
Maybe I will have to recompile kernel
Mr Green
Mr Green
i'll test it again on friday afternoon
perhaps problems with gcc 3.4 etc.
i have not upgraded yet
i have read a bug on bugs.archlinux.org
that the nvidia module have to be rebuilt if you change the compiler of the kernel you used
kernel 2.6.5-3 + gcc 3.4 should work
tomorrow i'll try
I haven't tried the latest updated gcc3.4 (I'm a bit scared to at the moment.) The test version of gcc3.4.0 did break the nvidia driver installation.
The nvidia.ko module seemed to compile OK using 3.4.0, but it fails to start when you try to load it.
Switching back to the older gcc version and then reinstalling the nvidia drivers got me working again.
i upgraded today
i'm now running 2.6.5-3 package and gcc 3.4
it runs fine (for the driver, the rest i'll see :-) )
all you have to do after an upgrade is
pacman -S nvidia
to rebuild the module
that's all
So can I now use pacman to update kernel & then install Nvidia drivers or do I compile via ABS then install drivers
Mr Green :?
Mr Green
hm if you update your kernel to 2.6.5-3
you have to update to gcc 3.4 too
the nvidia drivers have to be built with the same compiler that was used for the kernel
2.6.5-3 was built with gcc 3.4
--> nvidia driver has to be built with gcc 3.4
upgrade both packages and do
reboot for the new kernel and then X will not start due of failing nvidia module, login as root and run:
pacman -S nvidia
now you can start X and it should work :-)
so it worked for me
i moved the package to the staging repo
i think it's stable enough


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Watch how to make this recipe.
For the pork and peach bbq sauce: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Combine the peaches, brown sugar, ketchup, vinegar, soy sauce, garlic and ginger in a food processor or blender.
Pat the pork dry with paper towels and sprinkle liberally with salt and pepper. Reserve half (about 2 cups) of the peach BBQ sauce and set aside. Transfer the pork, fat-side up, to a rack over a heavy-bottomed roasting pan and brush the rest of the sauce all over the pork. Add the stock to the bottom of the roasting pan.
Roast the pork until a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part reads 140 degrees F, about 1 hour. Transfer the pork to a baking sheet to rest for 10 minutes. Reserve 1 1/4 pounds for the stir fry, and reserve the rest for leftovers or another recipe.
Remove the rack from the roasting pan and place on the stove over medium-high heat. Whisk in the reserved BBQ sauce and scrape the bottom of the pan to incorporate the browned sauce. Cook until slightly reduced and thickened, about 10 minutes.
For the stir fry: Cook the rice according to the package directions.
Add 2 tablespoons of the sesame oil to a small saute pan and heat over medium heat until it begins to shimmer; turn off the heat, add the five-spice powder and cool to room temperature.
Meanwhile, whisk together the soy sauce, vinegar, orange juice, sugar and cornstarch in a small bowl.
Slice the pork into 1/4-inch rounds, then slice again to make 1/2-inch-wide strips. Place the pork in a medium bowl and season with the sesame oil and five-spice mixture.
Heat the remaining 1 tablespoon oil over high heat until very hot in a large skillet or wok. Add the peas, onions and bell peppers and stir-fry until the vegetables begin to soften, about 1 minute. Add the ginger and garlic and continue to stir-fry for an additional minute. Finally, add the sliced pork, the soy-vinegar mixture and scallions and continue to cook until the pork has warmed through, 1 to 2 minutes.
Cook until the sauce thickens, 1 to 2 minutes. Turn off the heat and give it a few more stirs. Serve over the rice and garnish with roasted peanuts and mandarin oranges, if desired.


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Braided Galactic Jet
This is a ten thousand light-year long jet of plasma observed by the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera, aboard NASA'S Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The image, which is much sharper than previous pictures taken with ground based telescopes. reveals unprecedented detail in the jet. The most remarkable feature is a distinctive twisted ladder structure produced by two spiral filaments of plasma. The pair of strands are separated by about 500 light-years. Other details reveal unusual knots and kinks in the outflowing material. The jet is produced by energetic activity at the core of the galaxy perhaps due to gravitational accretion of material onto a super massive black hole.
In this ultraviolet light picture the image of the host galaxy, 3C 668, has been subtracted to allow details in the jet to be traced all the way in to the galaxy's nucleus (center). Image reconstruction techniques have been applied to minimize the effects of spherical aberration produced by the HST's 2.4 meter primary mirror.


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The Department of History offers a comprehensive program in United States, Public, Modern European, Transnational Urban, and Medieval and Renaissance histories. As one of the first departments in the nation to offer doctorate and master's degrees in Public History, we strive to meet the needs of today's students. Graduates are prepared for careers in teaching and Public History, but they also have transferable skills that make them excellent candidates for careers in business, government, and cultural institutions.
We offer a major MA and PhD program in 19th- and 20th-Century American History and concentrations in Social, Cultural and Transnational Urban History. The concentration builds on the specializations of one of the largest concentrations of urbanists in a single history department in the country. Faculty strengths in this area include urban history, the built environment, labor, the history of sexuality, the history of women and gender, the history of political economy, and the history of popular culture and entertainment.
We offer Master's and Doctorate degrees in Public History. The department's Public History program is a nationally recognized program and one of the few that fully integrates Public History into the doctoral program. Located in one of the leading cultural, corporate, and governmental administrative centers in the country, Loyola offers its students access to a wide variety of internship and practicum opportunities.
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GE Remote Control system consists of modular components, which the user configures to his application's needs. The basic low-voltage wiring allows flexible switching of any lighting loads, grouping of lighting circuits for common control, providing a strong foundation for automation. Simple 'Softwiring' in the panel can create lighting groups. To add the automation, users can use a timeclock to turn ON or OFF a group of lights, which have been Softwired together. Individuals wishing to stay late would simply turn their individual areas back on.
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Auto-enrolment may expand to 18-year-olds
The starting age for automatic enrolment into workplace pensions will be lowered from 22 to 18, under new government plans.
Auto-enrolment was introduced in 2012 and has seen participation in workplace pensions rise from 55% to 78% of all eligible employees in 2016 - an increase of around 6 million people.
Extending the scheme to include younger people will add an estimated 900,000 workers saving into workplace pensions, adding £770 million to annual savings.
As a result of auto-enrolment, the Department for Work and Pensions expects an additional £19.7 billion to be contributed to pensions annually by 2019/20.
David Gauke, secretary of state for work and pensions, said:
"For an entire generation of people, workplace pension saving is the new normal, and my mission now is to make sure the next generation of younger workers have the same opportunities.
"We are committed to enabling more people to save while they are working, so they can enjoy greater financial security when they retire.
"We know the world of work is changing, so it is only right that pension saving does too."
However, former pensions minister Steve Webb, director of policy at pensions firm Royal London, was not impressed by the "shockingly lethargic" pace of the reforms.
Webb added:
"Talking about having reforms in place by the mid-2020s risks leaving a whole generation of workers behind.
"Those who never got to join a final salary pension and who have only recently come into pensions through automatic enrolment need urgent action to help them build up a decent pension pot."
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b. 1953, Corrientes, Argentina – lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Born in Corrientes, Argentina, Catalina Chervin graduated from the National School of Fine Arts Ernesto de la Cárcova. Based in Buenos Aires, she has also worked with various print workshops in New York City.
A master draftswoman, Chervin's unique practice is characterized by precise mark-making that the artist works and reworks for what often stretches into multiple years. Over time, these carefully rendered graphic traces build into dense layers that seem to hover on the edge of entropy, yet remain balanced by Chervin's controlled restraint. Drawing viewers into their psychologically-fraught atmospheres, the resulting artworks create a sensation of deep perspectival space that at times conjure forth landscapes, emotional states, or haunting presences.
Chervin has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship (2004 and 2015) and the Fondo Nacional de las Artes Fellowship in Buenos Aires (2001). Artworks by Chervin are in prestigious public and private collections internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; the New York Public Library; the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.; the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California; the Blanton Museum of Art, the University of Texas, Austin; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; and the Albertina Museum, Vienna, among others.
We are pleased to announce Catalina Chervin's new exhibitions:
Atmospheres and Entropy: Works on paper at Art Museum of the Americas, The OAS F Gallery, Washington, D.C. from September 7 to October 30, 2016.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 7 at 6pm
Catalina Chervin's It and Canto at the Herman Maril Teaching and Research Gallery in the University of Maryland Art Gallery from September 9 to October 30, 2016.
We are pleased to announce Catalina Chervin's new exhibition:
Colección de Catalina Chervin, El Museo Judío de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Exhibition dates: April 5th through May 15th, 2016
Opening reception: April 5th, 7pm
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We are pleased to announce Catalina Chervin's artist talk:
Catalina Chervin, Drawings and Prints, Einstein Auditoruim in Barney
Wednesday, December 9th, 2015 at 6:30pm
34 Stuyvesant Street, New York
We are pleased to announce Catalina Chervin's group exhibition:
Streams of Being: Selections from the Art Museum of the Americas, The Art Gallery
University of Maryland, March 25 through April 25, 2015
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Guzmán / Chervin / Guzmán, Galeria Palatina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
On view November 12 - December 1, 2014
Opening reception on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014, 7pm
For more information about this exhibition, please click here.
We are pleased to announce Catalina Chervin's upcoming exhibition:
The Intuitionists, The Drawing Center, New York, July 11- August 24, 2014
Opening Reception: July 10, 6-8 PM
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Diesel Mechanics - Diesel Technicians
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- Jul 12, 2018
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- Jul 16, 2018
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- Career Level
- Experienced (Non-Manager)
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- Full Time
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Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 reinvigorates the series with the most advanced set of improved gameplay additions, control options and to catch up with the evolution of the real-life soccer. Central to its total freedom of play, the game introduces a power bar for each player that allows the user to determine the exact strength and placement of every pass and shot. Balls can now be spread absolutely anywhere with surgical precision, with long balls into space, short passes to feet, and intricate one-twos allowing the player to dictate play and control the tempo of a match.
This freedom of play is also extended via AI routines designed to place every move and decision into the player's hands. No longer will assisted AI intervene during matches; users will now need to sense and react to threats intuitively as opposed to chasing the ball; and passes will not automatically reach the nearest player. Instead, routines facilitate complete control both of the player and their chosen actions in every respect to give the player sublime control over every movement.
Electronic Arts yesterday revealed FIFA 11 will give players authentic personalities. Today, Konami announced its rival footy franchise, Pro Evolution Soccer, is getting a few upgrades of its own for 2011. Read More »
Also known as: PES 2011, PES 2011: Pro Evolution Soccer, Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2011, World Soccer Winning Eleven 2011
Release Region: United Kingdom
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Publisher: Konami
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Release Date: October 7, 2010
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Release Region: Japan
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Publisher: Konami
Also available on: PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Wii, Xbox 360, Nintendo 3DS, iPhone, Windows Phone
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Pacific mountain system, series of mountain ranges that stretches along the Pacific Ocean coast of North America from northern British Columbia (Canada) to northwestern Mexico. They run for some 4,500 miles (7,250 km) in the United States and extend northward into Canada for another 1,000 miles (1,600 km). The ranges may be divided into eight sections. Roughly from north to south they are the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, the mountains of Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands, the Cascade Range (itself divided into North, Middle, and South ranges), the Olympic Mountains, the Coast Ranges of Washington and Oregon, the Klamath Mountains, the Coast Ranges of California, and the Transverse Ranges. In addition, the Sierra Nevada range, in eastern California, is often considered to be part of this system.
Physical features
In general, the movement of tectonic plates has been responsible for the development of the Pacific mountain system. The coastal mountains from the Queen Charlotte Islands southward to southern California have been folded, faulted, and intruded with molten rock as a result of this movement. The most significant activity has been the lateral, northerly movement of the Pacific Plate (west) relative to the North American Plate (east) along transform faults. To the north, in British Columbia, this movement has been along the offshore Queen Charlotte Fault, while in California it has been along the San Andreas Fault. Subduction (crustal sinking) is not currently occurring in these two areas. Seismic activity, particularly in California, is considerable along the transform faults. After Alaska, California is the most earthquake-prone area in North America.
To the west of the coasts of Oregon and Washington, the Pacific Plate is spreading along the Gorda and Juan de Fuca oceanic ridges. The Juan de Fuca Plate, east of this spreading centre, is subducting under the North American Plate. The molten mantle rock produced by this subduction is responsible for the major volcanoes in the Cascade Range. All the Cascade composite cones are of the explosive type, their molten rock being high in silica. Until the eruption of Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington (1980), Lassen Peak in northern California had been the most recently active volcano (1914–17) in the 48 conterminous U.S. states. The Mount St. Helens eruption, which blew off the top of its cone, was of greater magnitude than any other eruption in the region since the eruption and collapse of Mount Mazama 6,600 years ago, which formed the caldera now occupied by Crater Lake.
Because the subduction process is not continuous—it is impeded as huge quantities of materials accumulate on plate boundaries—enormous stresses develop. The release of these stresses can create shock waves of a larger magnitude than any other known earthquakes. It is thought that for the past 4,000 years such subduction-related earthquakes have occurred at intervals of 300 to 1,000 years.
The arrangement of the ranges in the system can be visualized as being in the shape of an extremely elongated H with a closed base. From north to south the west side of the H is made up of the ranges of the Queen Charlotte Islands and Vancouver Island, the Olympic Mountains, and the Washington, Oregon, and California Coast Ranges. From north to south the east side of the H consists of the Canadian Coast Mountains, the Cascade Range, and the Sierra Nevada. The Klamath Mountains of southern Oregon and northern California make up the east-west cross in the centre of the H, while the Transverse Ranges bend eastward from the California Coast Ranges to form the closed base of the H. Inside the H north of the Klamath Mountains are the drowned inside passage of British Columbia, the Puget Sound Lowland of Washington, and the Willamette River valley of Oregon. Inside the H south of the Klamath Mountains is the Central Valley of California.
Coastal plains are either narrow or nonexistent along the entire north-south extent of the coastal ranges. Offshore a narrow continental shelf drops abruptly into ocean depths. In places, waves have cut notches and terraces as the land has risen episodically. More-resistant igneous rocks stand as sea cliffs with undercut notches. Softer sedimentary rocks have been eroded to form embayments. There is evidence for the periodic rise and fall of the coast as a result of tectonic activity.
The ranges of Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands have been heavily glaciated. Stream valleys have been deepened by glaciers to produce a fjordlike coast, with relatively short streams draining the interior. Southward, across the Juan de Fuca Strait, the Olympic Mountains rise to almost 8,000 feet (2,440 metres). The highest and most spectacular of the Coast Ranges, they consist of folded sedimentary and metamorphic rock and also have been heavily glaciated. Drainage is radial from the highest peaks; among the major streams are the Hoh, Quinault, and Elwha.
The Canadian Coast Mountains and North Cascades differ structurally from the Middle and South Cascades. These northern ranges consist of a dissected upland of late Paleozoic rock (i.e., about 300 million years old) that has been folded, metamorphosed, and intruded by granites. Ridges in the North Cascades rise to elevations between 6,000 and 8,000 feet (1,830 to 2,440 metres); above these ridges stand the composite volcanic cones of Glacier Peak and Mount Baker. The Coast Mountains of British Columbia are considerably lower, with the highest elevations reaching 3,000 to 4,000 feet (910 to 1,220 metres) in the south. The higher peaks, however, often are glacier-covered. All the ranges have been heavily dissected by running water both before and after the Pleistocene Epoch (about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago). During the Pleistocene they were covered by a cordilleran ice sheet, the glaciers of which occupied and deepened many existing stream valleys. On the east side of the North Cascades, Lake Chelan is in a glacially formed valley, and its deepest points are more than 1,500 feet (460 metres) below the surface. In the Coast Mountains glacial action has produced a spectacular fjorded coast. Farther south in southern British Columbia and Washington are deep glacial valleys opening out onto the Fraser River delta and the Puget Sound Lowland.
The Middle Cascades, which extend southward from west-central Washington into Oregon, are an uplifted and faulted region consisting of volcanics from the Cenozoic Era (i.e., the past 65 million years). These volcanics consist of successive layers of tuffs, breccias, and mudflows, covered by basaltic flows. The range can be divided into eastern and western sections, the western being the oldest. Capping the higher, eastern part of the range is a more recent layer of Cenozoic andesites and basalts. Elevations reach 4,000 to 6,000 feet (1,220 to 1,830 metres), with a number of volcanic peaks—such as Mounts Rainier and Hood—standing high above the general surface relief. Rainier, at 14,410 feet (4,392 metres), is the highest peak in the Pacific mountain system, unless the Sierra Nevada is included in it, which makes its Mount Whitney (14,494 feet [4,418 metres]) the system's tallest mountain.
The Columbia River cuts through the Middle Cascades in a magnificent gorge. On the southern (Oregon) side are numerous hanging valleys with streams that plunge in spectacular waterfalls into the gorge. The 620-foot (190-metre) single drop at Multnomah Falls is second in height in the United States only to Yosemite Falls in California. About 12,000 to 10,000 years ago, a large lake (Lake Missoula) was impounded by an ice dam in western Montana. On several occasions the dam gave way and released enormous quantities of water, which then rapidly drained to the sea. Those floods deepened and widened the existing Columbia River valley and were largely responsible for the present profile of the gorge.
The South Cascades, extending from southern Oregon into northern California, differ from the Middle Cascades in that they were not uplifted. Even so, two of the major volcanoes in the western United States, Lassen Peak and Mount Shasta, surmount the range. The Pit River provides a low-elevation passage across these mountains.
The Klamath Mountains are the oldest of the Pacific coastal mountains, dating to the early Paleozoic Era (i.e., about 500 million years ago). They are extremely complex, probably resulting from the collision of tectonic plates in the early Triassic Period (about 250 million to 245 million years ago). Later they were intruded by granite batholiths. The Klamath Mountains have been glaciated in their higher elevations and have been heavily dissected by streams; the major watercourse crossing them is the Rogue River.
Both the Coast and the Transverse ranges were formed by plate collisions. The Washington and Oregon Coast Ranges consist of folded gray mudstones and siltstones oriented in a north-south direction. The major streams are antecedent to the uplift and have been drowned in their lower courses, producing estuaries. In addition to the Columbia, these include the Umpqua and Siuslaw rivers. The California Coast Ranges also are made up of folded and faulted sedimentary rocks. The major faults trend northwest-southeast, however, and the rivers tend to follow these lines of weakness. The San Andreas Fault, passing through the southern California ranges, more or less bisects them before heading offshore near San Francisco. North of San Francisco Bay are the Napa, Russian, Eel, and Klamath rivers, while the Salinas River is the major coastal stream south of the bay. The eastern section of the Transverse Ranges consists of granites and metamorphic rocks, while the western portion resembles the sedimentary structure of the Coast Ranges; streams draining them include the Santa Clara and Santa Ana rivers.
In the Pacific mountain system are found 10 of the 12 orders of soils, of which 4 are most abundant. Inceptisols dominate in the coastal ranges from the Queen Charlotte Islands south to San Francisco Bay and in the Cascade Range. They have weakly differentiated horizons (layers), are little altered from their parent material, and occur where summers are cool. The California Coast Ranges south of San Francisco and the Transverse Ranges have dark-coloured mollisols rich in organic material. Much of the Klamath Mountains area is characterized by ultisols, leached reddish soils that develop where winters are mild and moist and summers are warm and dry. Spodosols form under coniferous forests at higher, cooler elevations.
The orientation of the Pacific mountains has a profound effect on the climate of the western United States and Canada. Regionally, they act as an orographic barrier to storms from the Pacific Ocean, which especially in winter bring large quantities of precipitation to the western slopes of the ranges. For example, the highest annual precipitation levels in the 48 conterminous states (more than 150 inches [3,800 mm]) occur on the southwestern slope of the Olympic Mountains, while the greatest annual precipitation total in Canada (more than 200 inches [5,000 mm]) occurs along the British Columbia coast north of Vancouver Island. Inland precipitation decreases on the eastern (rain shadow) side of the coastal ranges and increases again on the higher, western slopes of the Cascades, in some places exceeding 100 inches (2,500 mm); much of this is in the form of snow. Immediately east of the Cascades the annual precipitation decreases drastically to less than 8 inches (200 mm) at Yakima, Washington. In California more than 50 inches (1,250 mm) fall on the windward side of the Coast Ranges, decreasing to 30 inches (760 mm) in the Transverse Ranges to the east. In sum, precipitation in these ranges increases with elevation and reaches higher annual levels on the western (windward) sides.
Plant life
Climate is the major influence on vegetation type. Conifers predominate and can grow to enormous size, especially on the moister, western slopes. Sitka spruces are dominant along the coast from southern British Columbia to northern California. The largest standing midlatitude rainforest in the United States is on the west side of the Olympic Mountains. Inland and up into the Cascades, Douglas firs and western hemlocks dominate. They give way at high elevations to trees such as Pacific silver firs and mountain hemlocks. On the eastern slopes of the Cascades, ponderosa pines are the major trees, because they are capable of thriving on the drier slopes where fire is not uncommon.
Along the coast from southern Oregon to the Monterey Peninsula of California, redwoods are dominant, occurring with Sitka spruces, Douglas firs, and hardwoods such as alders. Farther from the coast, the Coast Ranges are characterized by mixed forests of bigleaf maples, madrones, various oaks, and pines and other conifers. On the eastern slopes is an oak-grassland association. In the drier Transverse Ranges, bigcone Douglas firs, as well as pines and oaks, are found.
Animal life
The anadromous (river-spawning) salmon are the most distinctive creatures of the coastal ranges. Five species—pink, chum, coho, sockeye, and chinook—are found in the streams draining the mountains, each with its own distinctive range and environmental conditions. The pink and chum spawn in coastal streams near the ocean, while the sockeye usually spawns in upstream lakes. The chinook (or king) favours large rivers such as the Columbia and Sacramento and travels hundreds of miles inland. The coho also favours the larger rivers. Another anadromous fish, the American shad, originally native to the Atlantic coast, was introduced in the late 19th century and has adapted to streams of the Pacific coast. Also inhabiting coastal waters are harbour seals, northern fur seals, northern elephant seals, sea otters, and northern and California sea lions. The pelts of sea otters were the first furs traded in the Pacific coastal region, obtained from the Indians of British Columbia and sold in China.
The larger land mammals include Roosevelt elk in the coastal ranges from British Columbia to northern California and black bears in the coastal ranges and Cascades. Three species of deer are found: mule deer on the eastern slopes of the Cascades, black-tailed deer in the coastal and Cascade ranges, and, locally in the Coast Ranges of Oregon, white-tailed deer. Three members of the cat family—lynx, bobcat, and puma (mountain lion)—are found throughout the Pacific mountain system. The beaver, a mainstay of the 18th- and 19th-century fur trade, is found as far south as northern California. Brought to the brink of extinction in the 19th century, beavers are now protected in most areas.
The Pacific mountain region had a large American Indian population before the arrival of white explorers and settlers. Hunting, the gathering of berries, roots, and nuts, and fishing were the major economic activities. Trade and barter were common among tribes, especially in the north, where peoples from the interior traded hides, meat, and roots for salmon caught by the coastal peoples.
The Spanish were the first Europeans in the region. They moved northward, establishing missions throughout California to just north of San Francisco Bay. The first whites in the northern areas were fur trappers and traders. These early contacts had profound effects on the lives of the native peoples. Many of the California Indians were put on missions, where they became farmers and pastoralists. The fur trade introduced a number of useful manufactured goods, notably firearms and blankets. Contact with whites, however, introduced such European diseases as smallpox, scarlet fever, and measles, for which the Indians had little immunity: much of the Indian population was wiped out in a short period of time.
From the 1830s an increasing flood of whites poured into the region, many of them farmers who settled in the Fraser River valley, Puget Sound Lowland, and Willamette River valley. By the end of the 19th century, the region's modern settlement pattern had been established, with most of the Indians on reservations and the economy dominated by the logging and lumber industry.
Resource exploitation
The abundant precipitation and deep, weathered soils of the coastal ranges from the Queen Charlotte Islands through the Klamath Mountains and into northern California produce the largest softwood lumber trees in the world. The completion of railroads into the region in the 1880s, giving it access to other parts of the country, made possible the large-scale commercial exploitation of these forests. The opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 stimulated the movement of lumber by ship. Wholesale cutting of these lands ensued. The coastal ranges, most of which were privately owned, were virtually cleared of their old-growth (virgin) forests. The Canadian Coast Mountains and the Cascade Range were the last areas to be logged, because their greater inaccessibility made it more difficult to cut and transport the timber.
Mining and the extraction of oil and natural gas are of some economic importance. Historically, the Canadian Coast Mountains, North Cascades, and Klamath Mountains were important sources for gold, while the first oil well in California was drilled in 1865 on the state's northern coast. Sand and gravel are now the major nonfuel minerals mined.
Although the Columbia River basin is the main focus of hydroelectric development in the region, the abundant precipitation, large drop in elevation, and deep, wide glacial valleys for water storage also have made possible hydroelectric development in the Canadian Coast Mountains and North Cascades. Two notable schemes are the harnessing of the Skagit River northeast of Seattle, Washington, and the generating station at Kemano, on the coast of British Columbia, that supplies power for an aluminum smelter at nearby Kitimat.
Agriculture and fishing
Agriculture is important in some of the valleys within the ranges. From southern British Columbia to northern California, dairying and egg production are leading activities. Some of California's most important vineyards are in the Coast Ranges near San Francisco, notably the Napa and Sonoma valleys to the north. The Salinas Valley south of San Francisco and the Central Valley to the east are two of the leading vegetable-producing areas in the United States.
Fishing once was a major activity along the entire Pacific coast. Salmon fishing was dominant from British Columbia to northern California, while tuna and sardines were important in southern California. Overfishing, pollution, and (for the anadromous salmon) destruction of the natural spawning habitat have seriously depleted fish stocks and reduced the importance of commercial fishing. Salmon farming has become significant, however, especially in British Columbia.
The Pacific mountain system is one of North America's great playgrounds. Large numbers of tourists and outdoors enthusiasts are attracted to the region's magnificent scenery and its varied, year-round recreational opportunities. More than a dozen national parks, monuments, and recreation areas are scattered throughout the ranges, as well as dozens of provincial, state, and county parks. Vast national forest lands in the United States also provide campsites and recreation areas. Some of North America's best Nordic and Alpine skiing facilities are found in the region, often in close proximity to large urban areas.
Environmental concerns
The almost rainless summers in all but the most northerly part of the region make fire a constant threat. Although some fires are started by natural causes (mainly lightning), many are caused by human carelessness, as, for example, the great Tillamook Burn in Oregon in 1933.
The logging practice of clear-cutting left millions of acres of denuded mountainsides. Exposed hillsides were subject to heavy erosion, and one result was the deposition of sediment on the gravel spawning beds used by salmon. The removal of forest cover also eliminated habitat for many species, although as ground cover was reestablished it provided grazing for such large mammals as deer and elk. Reforestation often was successful on more accessible, privately owned lands in the coastal ranges, but such efforts frequently met with difficulty in areas (often public lands) with poorer soils and steeper, more rugged terrain.
Beginning in the late 19th century, concerns about timber depletion led to the creation of government-protected lands. These formed the core of the present-day system of crown lands in Canada and national forests in the United States and the government supervision of logging. A growing environmental movement was instrumental in the enactment of increasingly stringent logging regulations; those that restricted habitat destruction, such as the old-growth forests inhabited by the northern spotted owl, sparked a bitter dispute between environmentalists and logging interests.
Study and exploration
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, a Portuguese explorer in the service of Spain, probably was the first European to explore the coast of California. He is thought to have sailed north in 1542, and his pilot, Bartolomé Ferrelo, may have reached as far as the present southern border of Oregon. Sir Francis Drake sailed the coast in 1579 and may have landed in Oregon. Juan Pérez landed on the west coast of Vancouver Island in 1774, and the following year Bruno Hezeta reached the Washington coast and claimed the area for Spain. Captain James Cook charted the coast from Oregon to the Arctic in 1778.
The first overland explorer was Alexander Mackenzie, who in 1793 traveled westward until he reached the British Columbia coast. In 1805 the Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the Pacific Ocean after following the Columbia River. The last of the great overland treks was by the Canadian explorer Simon Fraser, who followed the river later named for him and reached its mouth (near present-day Vancouver, British Columbia) in 1808.
The first geologic studies of the ranges were carried out in the late 19th century. The great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 precipitated a thorough investigation of the California Coast Ranges. Present-day scientific research focuses on restoring wild stocks of salmon, finding evidence of the periodicity and magnitude of subduction-caused earthquakes, and improving methods of forest management.James G. Ashbaugh
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Mojito Cocktail
The Mojito seems to be "the" drink these days, but this drink dates from before the 1930's, where it was a popular drink in cuba to refresh and relax with. In the late 1940's the drink burst onto the international scene when it was "discovered" by Enest Hemmingway at "La Bodeguita del Medio". Properly made, a mojito should always be made with fresh mint and fresh lime juice, but due to its ubiquitous popularity, you will often find bars using various unfortunate shortcuts to make them quicker, but sacrifice the quality in doing so.
10-12 leaves mint
2 tsp granulated sugar
splash soda water
11/2 oz white rum
3/4 oz fresh lime juice
Muddle mint, sugar and soda.
Add rum and lime juice.
Fill half way with ice and stir.
Top with ice and soda water.
Garnish with lime wedge.
Kevin Verspoor 5 Sep 2007
8:12 am
I know there are many ways to make mojitos, however my Cuban - American cowerkers ( one of who's uncle owns a bar in Havana) told me that the Mojito is made as a short drink in an old fashoned glass with unbleached sugar and half a lime cut up and about 6 mint leaves this is muddled to express the lime and mint oils then 2 oz of gold rum is added it is stirred then ice is added and strired again then a small splash of club soda is added on top then an extra mint sprig. I work with four Cuban - Americans and they say that all of thier families make Mojitos this way.
Robert Hess 5 Sep 2007
8:38 am
Kevin, not terribly different from how I made it here… except I used a larger glass, refined sugar, didn't muddle the lime, and used white rum… hmmm… ok, maybe it is somewhat different :->
At the core of understanding the differences and simularities between variations of a cocktail, is to understand what aspects are at the "soul" of the drink, which aspects simply "enhance" the drink, and which "degrade" it. I'd view all of the differences you listed as ways to enhance the drink with a little extra character.
The core of the Mojito is "soda, rum, lime, sugar, mint, served on ice". To a certain extent you could simply list the recipe like that, and leave it up to a knowledgeable bartender to figure it out. As long as the end result was a pleasing balance of those flavors, I'd argue that it would technically be a Mojito. Using raw sugar, muddling the lime to get some of the oils from the skin, using a gold rum to add a little more flavor… would all be little enhancements that could be used to add a little extra character to this drink. Perhaps using strongly flavored dark rum instead of white or gold might be going a little too far, and turning this into something that would no longer be recognizeable as a Mojito.
Kevin Verspoor 5 Sep 2007
9:07 am
Hey Robert,
I totaly agree about the basic backbones about the drink.
It is funny though how my Cuban - American friends refuse to accept the tall Mojito as the "real deal" We have had some fun and heated discussions about it ( - :
Like any great drink it brings about many conversations about how it is done.
Walt 6 Sep 2007
9:48 am
The Mojito is a good drink. Audrey Saunders' Old Cuban is even better, in my humble opinion. And whether a Mojito, a Sazerac, or an Old Fashioned, any muddled drink is time consuming to make and make well and not too welcome by bartenders on a real busy night.
Matt 9 Sep 2007
11:23 am
Another great video…how about an episode on the Mint Julep/juleps?
Owen 11 Sep 2007
7:36 pm
I was intrigued by the mojito about 5 years ago (this was before it had it's recent resurgence) and decided I would learn how to make it (I'm not a bartender).
My recipe has evolved over the years, and now its to the point where my friends will demand I bring my "mojito kit" and make them at parties ( I made 40 the other night, and boy did my arm hurt :) it's worth it to see the expression of enjoyment on people's faces ).
I'm always refining, but currently I do a few things differently than you and was wondering what your thoughts were.
I grow my own spearamint (not peppermint which is commonly found in the store and I believe was what you were using) because I find the flavor more pleasing.
I actually use a splenda simple syrup (trying to cut out a few calories and I feel like it makes the drink even more refreshing and "lighter").
I imagine I overmuddle (I will try muddling less vigorously next time), which is why, I suspect, I have started straining it recently.
I use a 2:2:1:1 ratio, Rum, Seltzer, Simple Syrup, Lime (although I don't normally measure, just use the juice of half a lime-which can lead to variability (I know I should measure)). Although the seltzer isn't added until the end since my order is very simliar to yours.
People seem to prefer mine over any bar-made one's they have had-of course, they might not be going to the right bars.
Also, where do you get your bar tools? That muddler and that jigger are both really slick.
Al Nelson 26 Nov 2007
11:38 pm
The comment on ordering one of these when the bar is slammed has elevated you a few rungs up my ladder…(If only all my customers watched this webcast). Like your passion for the Old Fashioned…I have similairly tweaked my Mojito recipe numerous times over the years. I look forward to trying yours tomorrow. Keep em coming Mr. Hess.
blair frodelius 6 Apr 2008
11:22 am
I've always used spearmint leaves, but a previous post got me to thinking about experimenting with other herbs. I think I'll try lemonbalm next.
Callum 25 Apr 2008
10:25 pm
Disagree with your comments to customers - the Mojito is my favourite cocktail, and I'm always happy to take the time to make a good Mojito, regardless of how busy the bar is.
Personally, I'd use lime wedges instead of juice and muddle them with the mint and sugar and garnish with a sprig of mint - if you slap the mint between your hands and place next to the straws then the customer will get a wonderful whiff of mint everytime they sip their drink.
I can't imagine some of the horrendous shortcuts that might be used - I always use fresh ingredients.
Chris Chitty 18 Sep 2008
4:21 am
I have looked everywhere for a citrus press like the one you use here, would you mind telling us what kind it is/where to find one?
Much Appreciated,
Robert Hess 18 Sep 2008
5:09 am
That is an antique "Ebaloy" juicer that I am using here. They are no longer being made, and so you have to keep a lookout at antique shops, garage sales, and eBay for it.
Ruxton 18 Jan 2009
12:32 pm
What sort of folding knife is that?
Robert Hess 18 Jan 2009
1:41 pm
Don't you just love that folding knife I'm using? It's a folding Chef's knife, which works really well as part of my traveling bar kit since it is nice big blade that is plenty large enough to cut through even a grapefruit, and by folding like it does, it keeps the blade safely tucked away when not in use.
It's made by A. G. Russell, and is called a "Folding Hocho", you can get it here:
spoon_creature 23 Jul 2009
11:02 pm
Howdy Robert,
Thanks for the great show, it's fascinating and inspiring.
A mojito always brings to mind muddling, which is my preferred way to make it.
Sometimes though, I do get an order for 4 at once amongst 10 other drinks.
Would it be too far-gone a blasphemy to prepare a mint (and possibly a few lime peels)-infused simple syrup, then add the rum, lime juice, and soda? There would definitely still be a mint garnish, just so that it makes a visible appearance.
If so, how much of such a syrup would match the sugar/water/mint muddle of your recipe? Thanks and keep up the good work!
Robert Hess 24 Jul 2009
3:54 am
Spoon, it might seem that trying to make up a flavored syrup to ease the construction of a Mojito when things get busy would be useful, but the flavor of the mint doesn't hold up. The end result is a Mojito that can't stand up to one that is freshly made. I am very much of the mindset that if any 'shortcuts' you might employ would lessen the quality of the drink, then they should not be used.
Matt Joy 2 Mar 2010
6:44 pm
Mr. Hess, I just recently found a person selling an Ebaloy juicer, but he has two models. Both have a removable crush plate, but one is dome shaped with a slight indent at the top and another has the typical star pattern usually seen on manual juicers where you twist the fruit back and forth over the top of it. I was wondering which of the two your model has and if you think either would be particularly better than the other seeing as this is a press and no twisting is involved? I only have 2 days to decide, if you see this in time and are able to reply quickly I would be most appreciative and grateful. Thanks!
Peter_Timms 15 Jul 2012
6:37 am
So good. Thanks for the recipe.


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(HOUSTON)– The Texas A&M Health Science Center (TAMHSC) Institute of Biosciences and Technology is part of the "Moon Shots Program" recently unveiled by The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center – an ambitious, comprehensive action plan designed to make a giant leap for patients by dramatically accelerating the pace of converting scientific discoveries into clinical advances that reduce cancer deaths.
Fen Wang, Ph.D., professor and director of the Center for Cancer and Stem Cell Biology (CCSCB) in the TAMHSC-Institute of Biosciences and Technology, and Wallace McKeehan, Ph.D., J.S. Dunn Foundation Endowed Regents and Distinguished Professor and CCSCB member, are part of the prostate cancer team.
Prostate was one of five cancers out of eight identified by a panel of worldwide experts to receive an intense focused team-approach equivalent to that used to put a man on the moon. Goals include identifying those at risk of a particular cancer, increasing survival rates, improving quality of life, implementing new methods of diagnosis and treatment, and more.
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Drs. McKeehan and Wang have been a part of the prostate program for some time as active collaborators in funded National Institutes of Health Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) and Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) grants. Prostate cancer research has been a major focus of the CCSCB since its inception in 1993.
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Project priorities are currently being developed, and not all will be completed at once. Some may begin early next year or even sooner, funded by a combination of traditional research grants, philanthropy and commercialization.
"Prostate cancer is most lethal when it is resistant to therapies that target the male hormone testosterone," Dr. McKeehan said. "The main goals of the prostate Moon Shot Program will be to determine which men can be spared costly, painful and unnecessary intervention and which need aggressive treatment, as well as how to extend therapeutic benefits to patients who have the most life-threatening forms."
In his 40-year career, Dr. McKeehan has made significant contributions in the areas of cell culture media development, mechanisms of growth factor action and cancer biology. Among his findings in prostate cancer is the basic failure of cells in the microenvironment to communicate properly, thereby revealing multiple steps in tumor progression that may be potentially reversed by treatment.
"Our past research efforts have suggested using cell and animal models as specific targets for therapy of the most resistant forms of prostate cancer, especially those that metastasize to bone," Dr. McKeehan said. "The M.D. Anderson Moon Shot team is applying specific drugs based on these findings in the clinical setting with significant promise."
Dr. Wang studies how activated signaling mechanisms transmit signals to downstream targets and regulate the proliferation, differentiation, homeostasis and function of cells that include prostate and cardiovascular system development. His lab also examines how certain aberrant signals promote tumor initiation, progression and metastasis, along with the contribution of environmental factors.
"The prostate research team in the IBT has extensive experience in characterizing how aberrant cell signaling contributes to prostate cancer progression and metastasis," Dr. Wang said. "The IBT team members will participate in work groups in identifying oncogenic pathways as well as in establishing new shoot-for-the-moon strategies based on genetically engineered mouse models for identifying novel new drug targets for prostate cancer therapy."
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Here are five ways to boost virtual conferences and trainings.
It's nearing the end of conference season, and it's been a little bit slower than previous years. At the federal level, IRS and General Services Administration conference scandals have led to a culture of fear around attending in-person conferences. State and local governments are also limiting conference travel and classroom-based training.
While some of this is an overreaction, it's a great time to look into virtual conferences and trainings. For many who may have explored these technologies in the last five years or so, a lot has evolved. (No, it's not all Second Life avatars.) The technology is better, the user is more experienced (how many of us have taken an online course in the last year?), and the skills of virtual event planners have matured.
GovLoop has held several virtual events, including a career fair, a hybrid mentoring program, a virtual technology conference and a six-week social learning course. Like anything, we've learned that there's a big difference between just doing something and doing it well.
Based on these experiences, here are my tips for hosting great virtual events:
1. Content Wins: It's not a huge shocker, but great content wins in every medium. Just as at in-person conferences, if there is a dull speaker, the attendees get bored. In virtual events, it's just as important to be energetic, passionate and provide great content and conversations.
Virtual technology conference attendees benefit more if there are great speakers on topics that are relevant to their job.
2. Different Medium = Different Skills: While some skills overlap between in-person conferences and trainings, the best virtual trainers know it's a different medium and adjust accordingly. For example, in a recent social learning course, the trainer launched with a great virtual icebreaker that involved standing up and clapping to get attention. At an in-person career fair, the required skill is being a good one-on-one conversationalist with attendees. In contrast, during a virtual career fair the key is being a fast typist, as you have to quickly answer multiple questions in a group chat.
3. Reserve and Remind: It's easy for people to get distracted during virtual events or forget about them entirely, so it's important to reserve their time. Outlook reminders are an effective way of blocking time on participants' schedules for virtual learning courses, webinars and discussions. And simply sending a 15-minute reminder before an event begins can increase participation rates at virtual career fairs and conferences.
4. Transition the Traditional to Virtual: It's easy to start playing with virtual training and events as a side project or for a course that isn't really popular. I encourage taking an in-person program, such as supervisory training or employee orientation, and converting it for virtual delivery. Take something that's proven and demanded (or is required) for employees and inject it with a new approach. For example, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration transitioned its annual Every Day Counts Summits, where it connects with state government leaders, into a virtual conference in 2013, which cut costs by 90 percent and doubled the number of attendees.
5. Mix Your Format: People often dump virtual learning in one bucket, but there are different formats within it. Our virtual conference, for example, had one-hour webinars that featured PowerPoint presentations from speakers, 30-minute live chat sessions where attendees talked with resume experts, as well as immersive learning experiences where individuals could download brochures. Also, in our social learning course, we combined webinars, live chat discussions with recorded video scenarios, required blog reading and peer-to-peer interaction.
Now is the time to look into virtual training and events. The technology has significantly improved, and the audience members are used to virtual learning based on their own experiences. Plus, with budget cuts and travel restrictions, it is both cost-effective and environmentally smart.


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California officials face mounting criticism from union leaders over plans to let retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. enroll shoppers in President Obama's healthcare expansion.
The state wants employees at Wal-Mart and other retailers to help consumers learn about their options and assist them in buying federally subsidized private insurance. These plans are part of state efforts to implement the federal healthcare law and reach out to 5 million Californians eligible for new coverage starting in January.
Labor unions as well as some consumer advocates protest the idea of government officials partnering with Wal-Mart and paying for its help. They contend that the nation's largest retailer has no place advising others on health coverage when so many of its workers don't qualify for company benefits and end up in taxpayer-funded programs such as Medi-Cal.
"We are appalled and offended that the exchange would contemplate partnering with Wal-Mart and other retailers notorious for failing to provide health benefits to many of their workers and providing substandard benefits to the workers who do qualify," said James Araby, executive director of the United Food & Commercial Workers Union's Western States Council. "That is highly contradictory to the mission of the program."
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Wal-Mart defended its employee benefits and said they exceed what the retail industry generally offers. A spokesman for Wal-Mart said it supports the state's efforts, but it would be premature to discuss any partnerships.
Even some of Wal-Mart's critics say these complaints are misguided because the opportunity to reach huge numbers of the uninsured while they're shopping is too good to pass up. California is ahead of other states in implementing the Affordable Care Act, and this fight over retailers' role could portend future battles across the country.
"Wal-Mart isn't a white knight," said Nelson Lichtenstein, a professor of history at UC Santa Barbara and a frequent critic of Wal-Mart. "But I am in favor of anything that gets people enrolled. Put a table in Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Costco and CVS pharmacies. I'm for it all."
On Wednesday, labor leaders discussed their concerns with officials at Covered California, the state's new health insurance exchange, in hopes of crafting requirements for participating retailers to ensure they are providing comprehensive health benefits. Union officials vow to seek legislation in Sacramento if a compromise can't be reached.
Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, said the state wants to work with a variety of retailers and other organizations to maximize enrollment in a state as vast and diverse as California. He said the federal healthcare law imposes new requirements on employer-based coverage, and he's not interested in adding more restrictions on retailers.
"There have been strong concerns raised by some unions and others that some employers have insurance practices that are at odds with our mission," Lee said. "We are not changing our overall retail strategy, and it would be a distraction to have legislation about setting different standards for who the exchange can work with."
Exchange officials are expected to finalize the details on these retail partnerships soon.
Labor unions and other policy experts have long criticized Wal-Mart for failing to provide better health benefits to its hourly workers and their families. By doing so, they say, Wal-Mart shifts some of those employee healthcare costs onto public programs such as Medicaid.
In this debate, California labor groups cite a 2004 UC Berkeley report that found Wal-Mart workers' dependence on public programs in California, such as Medi-Cal and food stamps, cost taxpayers about $86 million annually. Nationwide, it estimated the cost of public assistance to Wal-Mart workers could be as much as $2 billion annually.
Labor leaders have fought unsuccessfully for years to unionize Wal-Mart workers. The retailer has 250 stores in California, including Sam's Club outlets. Grocery chains in California, such as Safeway and Kroger, tend to be more unionized and offer richer benefits to store employees.
"Wal-Mart is one of the problems health reform is trying to fix," said Sara Flocks, public policy coordinator at the California Labor Federation. "Wal-Mart is the driving force behind taking insurance away from Californians."
The Bentonville, Ark., company said more than half of its 1.4 million U.S. workers are covered by company health insurance and it provides an employee-only plan starting at less than $38 a month with a $2,750 annual deductible. Wal-Mart said it pays about 60% of overall medical costs for eligible workers.
"We want to ensure healthcare is affordable to our associates and we care about it being affordable to our customers too," said Wal-Mart spokesman Randy Hargrove.
Araby, the labor leader, said he has suggested that Covered California require its retail partners to offer insurance coverage that pays at least 80% of workers' medical costs and for those employers to cover at least 50% of employee premiums.
Nationally, 40% of retail workers had employer health benefits last year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, compared with 62% of employees at all firms offering benefits.
Overall, retailers say they're eager to do their part to educate consumers and that other issues shouldn't distract from the job at hand. "Do you want a successful implementation or do you want to play politics?" said Bill Dombrowski, chief executive of the California Retailers Assn.
The state is looking to train more than 21,000 "assisters" statewide to explain the new coverage options to residents and to help them enroll starting in October. Coverage would take effect in January, when most Americans will be required to have health insurance or pay a penalty.
Those assisters in California can earn $58 for every successful application. The state is considering training employees of Wal-Mart and other retailers to be in-store enrollers and to work at Covered California kiosks, similar to how mobile phone companies sell their products inside big-box retailers.
Under that scenario, the state could pay Wal-Mart for its help with marketing and enrollment. There is also discussion of permitting stores to "co-brand" with Covered California through a retailer's website and TV and radio ads.
Last year, Wal-Mart raised the number of hours its newly hired part-time employees must work to qualify for health benefits to 30 hours a week, up from 24 hours previously. The company said it made the change to conform with rules under the federal healthcare law that define full-time work as being more than 30 hours a week.
"The Affordable Care Act has a number of rules that will put penalties on large employers that don't provide adequate coverage," Lee said. "It is not the job of Covered California to be the enforcement mechanism for that."


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My brand new Thinkpad X120e is working well with Ubuntu Natty. Now I want to get the tp_smapi module to work so I can control battery charge behavior. Unfortunately I get "no Thinkpad embedded controller" (below).
The thinkwiki tp_smapi page says in this case "you should upgrade your BIOS. Some early BIOS (like 1.x on the X31) don't handle the embedded controller". But in my case, dmidecode suggests I'm already using the almost-newest BIOS from IBM.
# apt-get install tp-smapi-dkms
# modprobe -v tp_smapi
WARNING: Error inserting thinkpad_ec (/lib/modules/2.6.38-7-generic/updates/dkms/thinkpad_ec.ko): No such device
FATAL: Error inserting tp_smapi (/lib/modules/2.6.38-7-generic/updates/dkms/tp_smapi.ko): No such device
# tail -1 /var/log/syslog
Apr 19 23:45:05 xilotl kernel: [ 5552.149408] thinkpad_ec: no ThinkPad embedded controller!
# dmidecode -s bios-version
Any other idea how to make this work?
UPDATE: Here are other relevant portions of
dmidecode (that is,
dmidecode -t0 -t1 -t11):
Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
Vendor: LENOVO
Version: 8FET26WW (1.10 )
Release Date: 03/09/2011
Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 0596CTO
Version: ThinkPad X120e
Handle 0x0027, DMI type 11, 5 bytes
OEM Strings
String 1: OEM default string


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Edwin Rolfe: Biography
Rolfe was born Solomon Fishman; his parents Nathan and Bertha emmigrated from Jewish communities in Russia early in the century and met in Philadelphia, where they lived for the first few years of Rolfe's life before moving to New York. Rolfe began using pen names in high school, used the name "Edwin Rolfe" on some publications in the late 1920s, and by the early 1930s had effectively become Edwin Rolfe. Changing his name was a gesture that signalled at once his chosen identity as a writer and his conscious decision to commit himself to political activism.
His father was a socialist, later a member of the Lovestonite faction of the Communist Pary, and an official of a union local in New York. His mother was active in the birth control movement, pitched in during the famous 1913 silk workers strike in Paterson, New Jersey, and later joined the Communist Party. At the flat on Coney Island in New York where they lived for much of Rolfe's childhood, they let rooms to other people to help cover the rent; one such tenant was a red-headed Wobbly from the Westa member of our most irreverent, disruptive, and populist union, the Industrial Workers of the Worldwho used to give Rolfe and his younger brother Bern rides on his motorcycle and tell them stories of I. W. W. organizing. Rolfe himself joined the Party (and was assigned to the Young Communist League) in 1925, when he was fifteen. When he published his first poem in The Daily Worker in 1927, "The Ballad of the Subway Digger," it was a newspaper he already knew well at home.
After working intermittently in the already selectively depressed New York economy of the late 1920s, Rolfe wanted relief from the city and a chance to read and write in a less interrupted way. He was also ready to break with the Communist Party, some of whose functionaries neither then nor later did he find sympathetic figures. Left politics, moreover, had been frequently disputatious during the 1920s; indeed, in one such dispute his parents had aligned themselves with different groups, and thus the political conflicts of the period also played themselves out in Rolfe's family. In the fall of 1929 he quit the Party and left New York to enroll in the Experimental College at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. As his advisors noted, he retained strong loyalties to the working classes, but for most of the next year he avoided politics and instead read widely and wrote relatively nonpolitical poems, including three written in 1929 or 1930 and published in Pagany in 1932. As the Depression deepened, however, he was drawn to politics again and left Wisconsin in the middle of his second year there.
Rolfe rejoined the Party in New York and, after a variety of temporary jobs, began working full time at The Daily Worker. This was the period when the Party was beginning to move toward becoming part of a mass movement. In the midst of massive unemployment, vast dislocation and widespread hungerand little faith that capitalism would recovermany here and in Europe were radicalized. For a time revolutionary social and political change seemed possible. Dozens of radical journals sprung up, not only in large cities but also in small towns and rural communities across the country. Radical theater drew audiences from all classes. Political art appeared in public places. Despite considerable suffering, the mid-1930s were thus a heady time on the Left. Much of the poetry of the period combines sharp social critique with a sense of revolutionary expectation. More than simply reflecting the times, however, the "proletarian" poetry of revolution sought to define a new politics, to suggest subject positions within it, and to help bring about the changes it evoked. Far from a solitary romantic vocation, moreover, 1930s political poetry is a form of collaborative rhetorical action, as poets respond to one another by ringing changes on similar revolutionary themes and metaphors.
Rolfe published his first book of poems, To My Contemporaries, in 1936, the same year he married Mary Wolfe. A few months later the Spanish Civil War began, and soon Rolfe's thoughts turned to Spain. No cause in the 1930s had quite the power of the international effort to come to the defense of the Spanish Republic. From the outset, when a group of right-wing army officers revolted against the elected popular front coalition government in July of 1936, it was clear that Spain was to be at once the real and symbolic site of the growing struggle between democracy and fascism. The Comintern (Communist International) decided to organize groups of international volunteers to help defend the Spanish Republic. Rolfe joined these International Brigades in the spring of 1937. Once in Spain he was assigned to edit Volunteer for Liberty, the English language magazine of the volunteers, in Madrid. That he did until joining the troops in the field in the spring of 1938. When the Americans were brought out of battle that fall, Rolfe's wife Mary joined him in Barcelona.
When the Rolfes returned from Spain in January of 1939 the Spanish cause was already under attack. Martin Dies had begun congressional hearings on Communist activity, and people who had worked on Spain's behalf were under suspicion. Rolfe's brother Bern, a Federal employee who had raised funds for Loyalist Spain and was secretly a Communist Party member, was among those who came under scrutiny, though he would keep his government job for now. In any case, it was clear that the Left was in for some difficulty, though it seemed then that the Left would be strong enough to defend itself successfully. Still, it was deeply disturbing to watch heroes of the war like Lincoln Battalion commander Milt Wolff harassed in front of the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. For much of the next two years, then, Spain remained at the center of Rolfe's life. He signed a contract to write a history of the Lincolns, and late in 1939 Random House brought it out under the title The Lincoln Battalion.
Thereafter Rolfe worked for TASS, the Soviet news agency, for several years. He was drafted in 1943, at which point Mary accepted a job in Los Angeles. Rolfe joined her there, published a mystery novel (The Glass Room), and found occasional work on the fringes of the film industry. His Hollywood work came to an end in 1947 when HUAC arrived in Los Angeles and Rolfe was blacklisted. For the rest of his life both he and Mary were taken up in the struggle against McCarthyism. Rolfe himself would write the strongest body of anti-McCarthy poems of any American poet. He died of a heart attack in 1954.
By Cary Nelson. Copyright © 1999 Cary Nelson.
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John Donkersloot and Sally VanderPloeg of HopeCollege are among six West Michigan advanced piano students participating in a master class with internationally acclaimed Russian pianist Yuri Rozum on Tuesday, May 5.
The event will run from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, located at 508 Franklin in Grand Haven.
The public is invited to observe. Admission is free.
The master class is part of the "Russian Festival and Gala" organized by the West Shore Symphony Orchestra and featuring events from Wednesday, April 29, through Saturday, May 9. The class will feature the music of Russian composers.
Donkersloot is a junior from Zeeland and is a 2007 graduate of ZeelandEastHigh School, and will perform Rachmaninoff's "Prelude in B Flat Major, Op. 32, No. 2." VanderPloeg is a senior from Holland and is a 2006 graduate of HollandChristianHigh School, and will perform Rachmaninoff's "Etude-Tableau in E Flat minor, Op. 39, No. 5." Both Donkersloot and VanderPloeg are students of Dr. Andrew Le, assistant professor of music.
More information about the West Shore Symphony Orchestra and the "Russian Festival and Gala" may be obtained online at www.wsso.org.


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Hope College will honor the memory of former chaplain William C. Hillegonds with a tree planting on Saturday, Oct. 10.
The event will take place during a ceremony in the college's Pine Grove in the central campus at 9 a.m. It has been scheduled in conjunction with Homecoming Weekend at Hope.
Participants in the ceremony will include Hope College President Dr. James Bultman; Eric Foster, a 1995 Hope graduate and member of the staff who as a student held the William Hillegonds Scholarship established at the college in the 1980s; the Rev. Peter Semeyn, a 1973 Hope graduate and friend and colleague of Hillegonds; and members of the Hillegonds family, who will unveil a plaque that will accompany the white pine being planted.
Hillegonds was chaplain at Hope from 1965 to 1978 and was a 1949 Hope graduate. He died on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2007, at age 85.
He was born in Chicago, Ill., on Feb. 11, 1922, the son of William J. and Anna Hillegonds. He served in the European Theatre of Operations during World War II, earning five battle stars and the Bronze Star.
He majored in history at Hope, from which he graduated magna cum laude. While a student he was sophomore class president, received Faculty Honors, was a member of the Blue Key Honor Fraternity and the Fraternal Society, earned three letters for varsity baseball, and had participated in the Pull tug-of-war.
He graduated from Western Theological Seminary in 1951, and received the S.T.M. summa cum laude from the University of Dubuque in 1972.
While at Western Theological Seminary he was minister at the Hudsonville Congregational Church. Following seminary he was pastor of First Reformed Church of Chatham, N.Y., from 1951 to 1955, of Brighton Reformed Church of Rochester, N.Y., from 1955 to 1960 and of Hope Church of Holland from 1960 to 1965. After leaving the college chaplaincy he served Second Reformed Church in Pella, Iowa, and First Presbyterian Church in Ann Arbor, Mich. In retirement he was parish associate at the Brighton Presbyterian Church in Michigan and later held two interim appointments in Terre Haute, Ind., and Alma, Mich.
Hillegonds stayed involved with Hope after his service as chaplain ended. He delivered the college's Commencement Address in 1979, the Baccalaureate Sermon in 1983 and the Opening Convocation address in 1991. He also served for a time as the 1949 Alumni Class Representative.
The William Hillegonds '49 Endowed Scholarship Fund was established in his honor to provide a scholarship for a worthy student demonstrating financial need. In 1983, the college presented him with an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) degree.