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iTunes 10 is here, we've been using it for a while, and now we've got a complete walkthrough for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users. If you're new to iTunes 10, especially if you're new to iOS devices, we'll help you get up and running quickly. If you're already an expert, well here's a guide you can send your new user friends and family. Let's get started, after the break.
If you haven't downloaded iTunes 10, you can do so from Apple.com. Once it's installed, plug in your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad to get started.
The Summary section is helpful for checking on updates for your iOS device and restoring it if you run into problems. You can also configure some preferences such as syncing automatically when you plug-in your device. If you use a service like Apple's MobileMe, you won't have to do much on the Info section, but if you don't sync over the air, you can choose/manage what to sync over here such as Contacts, Calendar and Bookmarks.
New Color Bars
When you plug in your iOS device you will notice a colored bar at the very bottom labeled "Capacity". This bar is not a new feature to iTunes 10, but it is a tweaked one. It is divided into colors showing you what you have stored on your device by Audio, Video, Photos, Apps, Books, Other and Free space. If you click in the colored space it will cycle you through few options. Click it once and it will list you how many items you have in each respective category. Next it will break down the data into volume such as days and hours. Last, the display will show you the storage taken up by each category. Depending where you begin clicking this sequence may be in a different order, but it is still quite useful.
Managing Apps
iTunes 10 brings a couple of welcome changes to how iOS devices manage apps- especially if you have an iPhone/iPod Touch and an iPad. On the Apps section of iTunes on your device you have a filter that is probably default sorted by Kind. This places the iPhone and iPod Touch apps at the top and iPad apps at the bottom. You have more filters such as Name and Category, but the really useful choice is "iPad Only". This selection only displays iPad apps for your iPad. Regretfully, iTunes does not save this filtered selection and the next time you plug in your iOS device, it gets reset to Kind.
You also have a check box at the bottom of the screen that allows you to automatically install new apps. This option works great for me, but not my wife. With this checkbox checked, she gets every app I have downloaded installed on her device. An easy way around this is to go to the preview screen to the right in iTunes and select the last screen. This is typically where new apps will go (unless you have a lot of gapping spaces on your home screen). You can delete the app by hovering over it and clicking the X in the top left corner of the app. You can also remove any other app while you are at it. Be careful though, most apps don't store their info in the cloud yet, so if you delete it, the data might go with it too.
If you have an .ipa file (Apple's app format) you can drag and drop those files to the Apps section in iTunes located in the upper left.
File Sharing
Do you have an app such as Apple iWork Pages that you would like to get some documents installed? Piece of cake. Scroll to the bottom of the Apps section in iTunes for your app device and you will see the Apps and Document area. Click on the app you want and you will see an available list of documents currently synced to that app. If you want to add more documents, click the Add... button, browse to the document(s) and click Choose. If you want to save a document from the selected application, select it and click Save to... to place it on a folder on your computer. Here is an easy tip; of you want to save multiple files from an app or all of them, click the first document then hold the Shift key and click the last document. This selects all of them. Now you can save all of the documents to your computer. You can also Ctrl (PC) and the Apple Key (Mac) to select just the apps you want when clicking on them.
Getting music on your iPhone/iPod Touch or iPad has never been easier. You can choose to sync your entire music library (it won't fit on my device... my library is too big). Or pick your favorite Artists, Genres, Playlists an Albums.
Do you have a lot of music videos? I do, but I don't want to sync all of my videos; that can take up precious space. To still get music videos on your iOS device but not all of them, create a playlist in iTunes and drag the music videos you want onto it. Make sure the Include Music Videos checkbox is checked and you are ready to Rock and Roll, so to speak.
Movies/TV Shows/Podcasts/iTunes U
These sections all work relatively the same way. Select played or unplayed content to sync or a playlist. You can even choose more robust choices like the most recent episode that has been downloaded but not played. Yikes, but it is useful so you don't get redundant content on your device.
This section stores all of your Audiobooks and iBooks as well as any added PDF files from your iOS device. You can't add the PDFs from the File Sharing section for iBooks, instead just drag the PDF to the Books section of iTunes in the upper left.
If you use iPhoto or Aperture you can sync those events and projects to your iOS device. On the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch with Retina Displays pictures looks very good. They are also fun to view on the iPad with its huge display. If you really like someone, you can even use the Faces feature and sync over just specific people; that is just too cool. If you own a PC you can sync directly from a folder.
Ah, the only really "new" feature in iTunes 10 for iOS devices (except for iPad running 3.2, gotta wait till 4.2 folks) is Ping, Apple's new social network for music. You can access Ping directly from iTunes via the Ping button from the desktop and iPhone/iPod Touch.
I really enjoy Ping. You can follow other artists, like and post songs and albums. Strangely you can only do this with music, not Audiobooks or Podcasts. I am betting in the future you will be able to.
iTunes 10 brings some great new features for iOS device users, but also adds to what many already consider a bloated application. The good news is you only have to use those features you want and can ignore the rest. iTunes 10 does a great job of managing your digital content on-the-go while adding a modest performance boost to the newest version. Hopefully we've helped get you started, but there are always more tips and tricks to be had so post'em in the comments if you've got'em!
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NORWALK -- This time it was a 118-year-old balky bridge that caused headaches for thousands of rail commuters.
A 562-foot swing bridge over the Norwalk River became stuck in the open position for five hours Thursday morning, interrupting Metro-North service on its busy New Haven Line, causing delays of an hour or more. Shuttle buses were used to ferry passengers between the South Norwalk and East Norwalk stations.
Amtrak trains were also halted for a time, stranding passengers on its Northeast Regional service between New York and Boston.
The bridge, which opens regularly for marine traffic, failed to pivot back into its closed position just after 4 a.m. during a test of the span to ensure it was operating correctly, according to Marjorie Anders, a spokeswoman for Metro-North Railroad. The tests are done monthly, she said.
Repairs were completed shortly before 9 a.m., but with backlogged trains waiting at stations along the line, normal service did not resume for several hours.
The breakdown is the latest in a string of outages arising from the state not funding projects to replace or overhaul the rail bridge over the Norwalk River, and three other bridges on the New Haven Line, in Greenwich, Westport, and Milford, all of which are now more than 110 years old. In recent years, the bridges have had difficulty in extremely hot or cold weather when the metal fittings expand and contract. But now the aging bridges have also become increasingly prone to problems when they have to be opened for boat traffic.
The five hours it took to fix the bridge is on the longer side for recent outages, including one that lasted about 90 minutes last June, disrupting a Friday afternoon rush hour.
"Sometimes these things take an hour and a half to fix, sometimes they take hours," Meredith Daniels, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which operates Metro-North Railroad.
The Coast Guard requires Metro-North to open rail bridges for marine traffic on demand, but the state obtained a partial exemption for the rule in the case of the Norwalk bridge, allowing it to stay closed during peak periods. Under the exemption granted by the Coast Guard in 2007, Metro-North can keep the bridge down from 7 a.m. to 8:45 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays. However, at most other times the railroad is required to "immediately" open the bridge for commercial vessels and to not exceed a delay of more than 20 minutes to do so for all other waterborne traffic.
"We would love to keep the bridges closed all the time," Connecticut Department of Transportation spokesman Judd Everhart said.
In 2010 Metro-North and the DOT pushed off the 2014 start date to replace the Norwalk and Saugatuck River movable bridges in favor of putting funding toward expediting the full replacement of the New Haven Line's overhead catenary power system by 2017 instead of 2021.
In April of this year, the state applied for a $349 million share of federal Hurricane Sandy resiliency funding to help replace the bridge, arguing it is vulnerable to damage in major storms. If successful, construction could begin in 2018.
The request was part of a $600 million grant request to improve the storm-resilience of Connecticut's aging rail infrastructure overall.
Everhart said that without the grant money the railroad doesn't have any other source of funding in place to start work on the Norwalk bridge, which is known as the "Walk" bridge in the Department of Transportation and Metro-North vernacular.
The newly designed bridge would be a single span bascule bridge that would have two movable two track structures that would allow one side of the bridge to operate if the other malfunctions, according to the Department of Transportation.
"We are waiting to hear on the Sandy application before we make a decision on some other alternative for replacing the Walk bridge," Everhart said.
Andrew Doba, a spokesman for Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, said in an email Thursday that the governor believes "federal investment along the entire Northeast rail corridor is long overdue."
For many frustrated commuters, the latest recurrence of the problem on Metro-North meant that their workday was ruined, and that it wouldn't be the last of them interrupted by the aging bridges.
Curtis Wills was headed to his job in New York City. "I commute almost daily and there always seems to be some problem. I won't get in until lunchtime. My whole day is shot," he said.
Neco Malillo, a Fairfield Prep student from Norwalk, was waiting for an eastbound train at 7:30. "I have a test in second period, about 10," he said. "I should make that."
One Greenwich commuter said, "The winter was awful. We just got the new schedule. Here we go again."
In East Norwalk, Robert Rowlan and Alex Calendar went into New York City on Wednesday for the Phil Lesh and Friends concert in Central Park. The two men live in Rhode Island and were trying to get home in the morning.
"We took the 2:40 a.m. Amtrak from the city, but when we got to South Norwalk the conductor said it was the last chance to get off, that they were going back (to New York)," Calendar said.
"We took a cab from there to here and we're planning to get onto Metro-North to New Haven."
Rowlan said they were hopeful of getting home for dinner. "We'll get back on Amtrak in New Haven and take it to Providence. That's the plan, anyway."
One Stamford woman who was supposed to catch the 7:25 a.m. train into Grand Central had to wait to step onto a train coming through the Stamford station at 7:44 a.m.
"This is bogus. There should be some contingency plan in place when you have this kind of thing happen instead of delaying thousands of commuters. Something is happening all the time it seems," the woman said before spotting an incoming train and running down the steps to the platform.
Reporters John Nickerson, Anne Semmes and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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According to a Morgan Stanley December 2002 survey of 225 CIOs, security spending tops their 10 highest priorities for 2003. This article details how to build a thorough, companywide security strategy.
Talk with any IT person these days and you'll hear that security concerns are on the top of their mind. Many of these folks were burned back in January by SQL Slammer, which affected 200,000 systems, did over $1 billion in damages, impacted major corporations such as Bank of America, Continental Airlines and Microsoft and ruined a lot of weekend plans. Severe problems like these lead to action. According to a Morgan Stanley survey of 225 CIOs conducted in December 2002, security spending tops their 10 highest priorities for 2003. In spite of the continued slow economy, security is one area where spending is real and sector growth is inevitable.
IT departments at enterprises and midmarket companies are spending money on traditional desktop, perimeter and network security infrastructures with the top five areas being anti-spam, antivirus, intrusion-detection systems (IDS) and firewalls. What about storage? Although storage security hasn't made Morgan Stanley's top 10 list yet, there's a cottage industry of vendors addressing this space. Companies such as Decru, NeoScale and Vormetric Inc. manufacture appliances that sit in the data path and encrypt and decrypt data as it flows to and from the storage tier. According to these security vendors, encrypting the data at rest provides companies with an extra layer of protection because data on storage devices will effectively be turned to gibberish, alleviating the threat of information espionage.
Should IT managers invest in this new breed of storage security devices? Perhaps, but throwing technology alone at storage security is a mistake because other security holes may expose corporate data to all kinds of deviants. For example, if a hacker can gain root access to a Unix server, storage security appliances will willingly decrypt and serve up its data gobbledygook as the security breach is out of its domain. To enhance security, storage managers must unite with their IT and business brethren to build a comprehensive, enterprisewide security strategy.
Five steps for building your company's security strategy
A strong security commitment should include the following:
1. Executive management leadership. In spite of all of the IT-related activity, security is a business, not a technology issue. The CEO and board of directors must recognize this fact and actively participate in setting policy, weighing and prioritizing risks and monitoring vulnerabilities and progress. Of course, chief executives can't be responsible for day-to-day security operations. CEOs in large companies should appoint chief security officers (CSOs) to manage both physical and information security. To maximize efficiency, CSOs should report directly to the CEO and have their own budgets and staffs. These newly appointed CSOs will work with the storage team as part of an overall information security effort.
2. Strong security policies. Part of a security undertaking is examining all business and technology processes for risk and vulnerabilities, then reacting to problems with the appropriate policies and procedures. The CSO's team should be responsible for setting policy and overseeing security management, but works in collaboration with the IT team on day-to-day operations. Security groups will work with the storage team to assess storage risks, implement policies and technologies and monitor results. In addition to technical concerns, the storage team should also prepare for more invasive security policies. Given that storage administrators work on technology that houses critical information assets, companies would be well advised to do background checks on all storage personnel and monitor them closely thereafter.
3. Employee training. Most companies focus their security efforts on the unknown threats beyond the firewall, yet 50% to 75% of security attacks--depending upon whose numbers you believe--are perpetrated by insiders. Some of this is malicious activity by highly skilled workers, but many of the problems stem from sloppy employee execution: an employee who uses their pet's name as their password; an overburdened system administrator that fails to delete user accounts; a software developer whose code is fraught with buffer overflows. To overcome these problems, all employees should be required to go through general and specific security training classes. The CSO's group--along with HR--should run general classes on global issues such as sound password management. Specific classes for IT personnel would center on job-related security issues. Storage administrator training would focus on storage networking security features, such as zoning and LUN masking, storage network administration, network-attached storage (NAS)-based access control lists (ACLs) and general best practices.
4. Physical security. A security services specialist I know recently related this story to me. He was doing a security audit for a large bank in New York City. In an introductory meeting, the CIO boldly proclaimed, "I don't really know why we are doing this security audit. I run a tight ship, and you won't find any holes in our network." The next day, the CIO was aghast to see that the consultant had a spreadsheet with all of the IT salary information. How did this happen? The network was in fact quite secure, so the service professional simply put on a WorldCom T-shirt, got past the reception area, walked into the data center and grabbed a DLT tape. The lesson for storage professionals is obvious: Physical access to IT resources and storage devices must be extremely tight, constantly policed and monitored for intrusions. Internal alarm bells should go off whenever a stranger is present, especially if they're touching equipment, regardless of what type of clothing or identification they're wearing.
5. Strong IT governance. Common wisdom says that information security attacks are the digital equivalent of massive terrorist attacks that lead to widespread damage. In fact, most security attacks are more like the "death by a thousand cuts" theory. An attacker cases your network looking for weaknesses and targets, then exploits them for various purposes. For example, I heard of an incident in which an IT administrator took advantage of a vulnerability with an Apache Web server running on Linux to store several hundred gigabytes of MP3 files on company equipment.
Given the complexity of IT infrastructure, it's easy to cut corners or get lost in details, but doing so can open security holes for would-be attackers. To overcome this, IT must structure day-to-day activities such as configuration management, change management and patch management. Storage administrators will need to adhere to enterprise IT processes here. The information technology infrastructure library (ITIL) and control objective for information and related technology (CobiT) are well-regarded models here. IT governance will require training and process changes for the storage team, but it will be worth the effort. Not only will security improve, but having standard processes will lower overall operating costs as well.
Once these five steps are accomplished, companies can move on to address industry and company-specific security concerns. For example, financial services firms need policies to deal with the Gramm-Leach-Bliley and USA Patriot acts, while health care companies must be concerned with HIPAA. With these policies in place, IT can finally expose security vulnerabilities and address them through the right security technologies.
Once again, before implementing storage-based security, storage professionals should coordinate with their peers in networking, application, database and systems groups to create a comprehensive security infrastructure that meets all the corporate objectives. As the protectors of the corporate data, storage professionals will be critical to achieving this goal.
Every IT professional should be concerned about security and storage is no exception. But acting on storage security alone is like putting a deadbolt on your front door while leaving all your windows open. Storage professionals should do all they can to secure their domain while working with business and IT peers to make security part of the IT and corporate culture. This will go a long way toward making storage and the corporation at large more secure.


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A Plea FOR a Connected Life
It seems a growing number of people - or at least a growing number of op-ed contributors - have latched onto the idea that technology is bad, scary, and limiting our lives to ones and zeros. "The Flight From Conversation" and "The 'Busy' Trap" being two notable examples. It's something that Nathan Jurgenson calls "The IRL Fetish" (thanks Brian Lam of The Wirecutter for the link).
Jurgenson breaks down the idea better than I can. What I want to do is present the other side. I want to voice my strong and eternal support for the wonder that is the modern connected life.
Because, dammit, it's awesome.
The fixation amongst these closeted technophobes is the fear an increasing "infiltration" of digital connectivity has replaced good old analog connectivity. That texting, Facebook, email et al somehow diminish or at least reduce the frequency of good old face-to-face conversations. These people have some sort of Thoreauvian desire to rid themselves - and by extension ourselves - of the modern world.
Well guess what? Not everybody can spend two years living like a hermit in our BFF's back yard. Most of us don't want to.
And weren't these same arguments posed by a previous generation? Don't you think a certain type of person lamented the arrival of the telephone for the same reasons?
I'm firmly in the camp of tech, I can't deny that. Maybe this entrenchment has led to my outlook. Technology is but a tool, a tool you can wield to enhance your life - or it can be an impediment to it. I choose the former, it seems that some now struggle with the latter.
Cutting out technology doesn't make you more aware of your world, as some have said, it makes you less aware. I'm not talking about email, that's merely a speedy update of the Pony Express. I'm talking data. Like the ability to send an image instantly around the world. My Mom can take a picture of something she finds funny or interesting with her phone, and email it to me. My Dad posts hilarious YouTube videos of the adventures he has with his adorable dog. I live on the other side of the country from my parents. . . how is this technology not a benefit? How does this not enhance my life?
I have a friend who lives on the other side of the world. I'm able to talk and text with her every day thanks to a free app for my "phone" called Viber. With Skype, we can talk as face to face as the thickness of the planet will allow. Last week I was flying on a plane, and instant messaging with her. Let me put this differently: I was communicating with her from the other side of the planet, in real time, while flying through the frickin air.
This isn't a good thing? I should avoid technology why?
Two of my closest friends wouldn't be married now if it weren't for email. How many couples do you know that would say the same? I got to see pictures of another friend's new baby moments after he was born. I can text friends a quick funny joke, or let someone who's down know I'm thinking about them. These quick interactions don't require the time or intrusion of a phone call, that can happen later.
So I'm sorry, how is all that bad?
I feel the Internet is the greatest invention in the last 100 years. You can feel free to argue its ranking, but not its importance. Just as the television, telegraph, newspapers and books all did before, the web opens a world of information to the fingertips of the masses.
"Turning off" or "tuning out" seems to me such a "first world problem," and I mean that as offensively as I can. Billions would love to have the problem of too much connectivity. Choosing to turn off your email, your phone, to disconnect, is making the choice to cast aside a freedom and opportunity countless others don't have. There are estimates there will be 4 billion smartphones in the world soon. Tell me how this isn't a good thing. Universal access to the Internet - and the near-infinite knowledge available there - could be one of the greatest advancements in human culture. . . ever. Think I'm being hyperbolic? When has increased mass access to knowledge been a bad thing? Has the Web not already made countless lives better?
To me this fear of a digital life is not a technology problem, it's a time management problem. Spend too much time on Facebook? Spend less time on Facebook. Want to talk to someone? Guess what! That email device you carry around works as a phone!!! I know, I was shocked too.
The key is balance. I love keeping connected with distant friends via Facebook. Know what I love even more? Spending time with them. As much as I hate to admit it, real life isn't like college. My friends and I all have jobs, we've moved away from each other, some of them have spawned. These factors make spending time together more difficult. Technology isn't to blame for that, life is to blame for that. So when we do get together, it's all the more sweet. Even better, we can skip right over the "what have you been up to" and move right on to the "pass the beer."
Because, you see, we've been apart only in the physical sense. Mentally, we've stayed connected to each other's lives through distance and time more than has been possible in the history of humankind.
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Global warming is likely to shrink the size of fish by as much as one-quarter in the coming decades, according to a groundbreaking study of the world's oceans.
The reduction in individual fish size will be matched by dwindling overall fish stocks, scientists warned, at a time when the growing human population is putting ever greater pressure on fisheries.
"We were surprised, as we did not think the effects would be so strong and so widespread," said William Cheung, from the University of British Columbia in Canada, who led the research.
His team examined the effect of rising ocean temperatures on the growth and distribution of more than 600 fish species around the world and found that they are likely to shrink in size by between 14 percent to 24 percent by 2050, most notably in tropical regions.
"It could be worse than that," said Callum Roberts, at the University of York in northern England, who said the research as the most comprehensive yet.
Roberts, who was not one of the study's authors, said additional impacts of climate change such as the acidification of the oceans and reduction of nutrients in surface waters could decrease fish stocks even further, as would continued overfishing.
"We will see dramatic changes in the oceans likely to reduce productivity," Roberts said. "One billion people rely on fish for primary animal protein and that is going to increase, especially in developing countries. We have to get to grips with our dependence on fossil fuels, otherwise we are stuffed."
The fish shrinkage predicted by the new research results from two effects: the difficulty of growing in warmer, oxygen-poor waters and migration.
"The metabolic rate of fish in the warm oceans increases and therefore they need more oxygen," said Cheung, whose work is published in Nature Climate Change.
However, warm water holds less oxygen and so their growth is limited.
In addition, there are more small-bodied fish in the tropics and these will migrate to temperate or polar regions as the ocean warms, reducing the average fish size. The two effects are similar in impact, said Cheung, who used computer models to project the effect of warming on fish physiology, distribution, migration and population.
"We are already seeing the effects," he added, pointing to a study last year that showed the reduction in the size of haddock in the North Sea correlated closely with increasing temperature.
Cheung's researchers projected temperature increases using data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, based on a high-emissions scenario that matches the trajectory of greenhouse gases.
Roberts said the research showed the impact of climate change on the oceans seemed likely to be greater than previously predicted.
The reduction in the size of fish owing to overfishing was well known, Roberts said, as for the last century fish had increasingly "lived fast and died young," preventing them from reaching full size. However, if overfishing continued, this effect would add to the shrinkage caused by warming, he said.
Furthermore, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to more of the gas dissolving in the ocean, increasing its acidity.
"That makes life much tougher for animals that make a chalky skeleton," Roberts said. "We need to worry about these tiny animals — such as coccoliths and foraminifera — which are an important part of primary production: the base of the food chain."


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2016 May 05, 14:00 CEST
A new and innovative design of seal can be more easily installed in wellheads, while S and FS Seals have been validated for harsh conditions, says Tim Rushton, oil and gas seal product manager for SKF in the US.
Gothenburg, Sweden, 5 May, 2016: The need to drill deeper for oil, with a corresponding increase in pressures and temperatures, makes working in an already harsh environment even more challenging. At the same time, the current spot-market price of oil is putting even greater emphasis on the need to control operating costs.
Meeting these seemingly opposing demands is never easy, but an innovative design of wellhead seal from SKF looks set to play an important role in helping oil companies drill deeper while keeping costs in check.
Called the Locking T-seal, the product is based on a proven design that has been developed from the fluid power sector, where it is used to prevent the piston seals in large bore cylinders becoming displaced or misaligned during installation.
SKF has now adapted and patented this design, using specially developed materials to meet the exact needs of the upstream oil sector.
The seal is especially useful in wellheads, where it is difficult to locate seals used with backup rings precisely during installation. Traditional S-seals and spring-backed seals are often hidden from view, making it impossible to determine if they have seated correctly and thus leading to subsequent damage and failure of the seal assembly. Additionally, the steel backup springs used in standard S and FS seals can break apart during installation; if this occurs it can be an expensive and potentially dangerous operation to remove the broken parts from the well-hole.
The Locking T-seals feature specially designed retention ridges that snap into place on installation, helping to prevent rotation or displacement and mechanically locking the anti-extrusion backup rings into the correct orientation. The locking action makes it quick and simple to install each seal, without the risk of damage to the seal or other system components, while providing a secure connection that minimises the risk of leakage and environmental impact.
The Locking T-seal can also be used in dynamic reciprocating motion, as well as high-pressure static connections.
Full seal range
A further development from SKF is a full range of industry approved S and FS wellhead seals.
These are designed to withstand ever-higher pressure and temperature, while meeting tougher regulatory requirements. The pressure between casing layers can be in excess of 10,000psi – meaning that the seals must be manufactured and tested to very high standards. Tubing and rough casing diameters can also vary widely, and wellhead seals must be able to compensate for these variations.
While S seals are used extensively in wellhead components, FS seals have a thicker cross section and are used for larger extrusion gaps and rougher casing and tubing surfaces. Both are capable of withstanding very high pressure.
SKF has tested its S and FS seals to API 6A-17D standards, which ensures they can handle the high pressure, temperature and chemical resistance needed for wellheads. It is the only seal company doing validation tests for wellhead conditions.
S and FS seals are an industry-standard design and are well established. A key factor in their performance is a set of new materials from SKF that can withstand the harsh conditions of the wellhead. High pressure gases can penetrate into seal materials and a combination of chemical attack and rapid gas decompression (RGD) can then cause severe damage.
The new material, called SKF Ecorubber-H85A-b-ED, is resistant to RGD and long-term ageing, and has been certified to demanding standards (NOR-SOK M710).
One potential problem with S and FS seals – which was mentioned earlier – is that they incorporate metal springs, which can separate from the elastomer at high pressures. SKF has overcome this by developing a manufacturing technology that ensures a very strong bond between the rubber and metal. The S and FS seals may look identical to any other – but SKF's underlying technology helps them to handle more extreme conditions.
SKF is best known as a bearings company, but its manufacturing expertise and deep knowledge of the oil and gas sector underpin a range of high quality seals that offer real benefit to wellhead applications.
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My company provides web-based software to allow users to interactively decorate a room online using a drag and drop interface. Logo needs to emphasize the fun, interactive, and web 2.0 based approach.
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My company, DoodleSystems, creates software for a novel, interactive e-commerce site which lets users decorate rooms from the available products via drag & drop. DoodleSystems has several sites, including DormDoodle and OfficeDoodle. As such, I would like the main logo to work for the sub websites as well with minimal change.
What is common to each site I will be creating is obviously the "Doodle" part of their names, so I think for a logo to work consistently throughout my brands, the main logo should include "Doodle" and a graphic that is generic or abstract enough that it is valid for the sub websites. The font and graphic should portray fun and interactivity. It can be abstract or represent a piece of decor.
I do not have a color scheme in mind yet, but bright, vibrant colors are preferred. 2-3 colors would be good.
So to sum up, I'm looking for a main logo for DoodleSystems that includes "Doodle" as a part of the logo representing a fun/interactive/web2.0 manner. As part of the bid, I would also like a font that will allow me to add the different sites in front of the "Doodle" part of the logo, such as OfficeDoodle & DormDoodle. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Why My Kids Do Not Participate in Summer Reading Programs
Treatise from a homeschooling mother on why her children DO NOT participate in summer reading programs at libraries.
Sara McGrath states, "My children have participated in various bookstore and library events, but I have never enrolled them in a summer reading program. For the same reasons that I don't endorse cash rewards for grades, I don't support incentive programs for reading."
Guess her kids aren't going to see some poor librarian dye her hair green or get buried in jello.
Green hair?
My kids get some nice bag full of prizes and coupons and such. They wouldn't read just to see hair turn colors, unless it's my hair.
not much of a treatise
It's pretty short on supporting evidence but it is certainly something to think about when talking with reluctant parents. I don't agree with her viewpoint but as it reads more like an opinion piece, it feels more like a difference of opinion.
Do her children float through the reading programs pillowed on a cushion of her own smug, self-satisfaction like their mother?
"MY children don't eat sugar. When they want a piece of chocolate they meditate about starving monks in Tibet."
Parents like this should be deaf mutes.
Love of reading
My children have a love for reading independent of the summer reading program. They like to participate in the summer reading program because then they get rewards for doing something they already like to do.
Homeschooling parents like to suck the fun out of life.
Not for long
Don't worry ... her kids will escape in a few years.
Why my kids don't go to the dentist: a treatise.
"The last time we went, he tried to give them a toy from this tiny 'pirate treasure chest.' A toy? That's a reward for getting their teeth checked. I won't have it. When we reward them for doing something they should do anyway, to have healthy teeth, it just makes having healthy teeth seem wrong."
Reading Suggestion
This woman needs to read 44 Scotland Street, by Alexander McCall Smith. The storyline involving Irene and Bertie should hit close to home.
The nerve of those little wretches... asking for a REWARD in life! HA! Personally, I work for free because I love my job SO MUCH. Who would EVER ask for a REWARD for doing something they SHOULD (like supporting themselves and others or being part of the greater community of man on the planet?). And making friends during Summer Reading? Who needs friends when we have a MOM like HER!?? We'll never go off to school because WHO NEEDS THE REWARD OF A HIGHER EDUCATION? Mommy can teach us everything we need to know in life, right?
Please. Overindulgent, smug, pathetic, over protective mothers make me ILL. Thank God I was thrown from the nest at 6 weeks and allowed to claw my way in the world. (.. well, not really but I was going for the visual.)
Sad for You, and Yours, in TX
on the other hand...
The other extreme is this homeschool family who would sign up at every branch of our country library district. They would check out BOXES of books, then we'd find them in the book return the next day, or at a different branch the next day. They were trying to win the Most Books Read prize and anything else they could get their hands on.
They are the reason we changed sign up to one branch only. The children's librarians wanted to change Most Books Read to something that rewarded children who actually READ the books, but the managers were too concerned with circulation numbers.
homeschooling mom on summer reading
I have heard this arguement before at college from my academic collegues. Why is it when we are talking about kids they should read because they love books and not get prizes. But when it is an adult for anything it is what is in in for me?
We are bribing kids to be quiet and behave, we are rewarding their efforts to read during vacation. They can read whatever they want, subjects they love, bugs, dogs, snakes and stories. The kids don't have to give a report, share a speach or make a poster after they are done. They actually get something fun like a free meal or the ability to go to a theme park, baseball game or win a chance at a shirt or other prize. This is their lottery but instead of taking chances with money they may never see again, they are keeping up their reading skills in a fun way.
I think it is great that we can get community support in a library program even if it is for an order of fries or a kid's meal. We are letting the kids know they have done something well. And if it creates a good habit out of kids more power to them. I have some kids that are reading this summer and aren't interested in the prizes and that's ok too.
I see some adults and parents come in with that certain look in their eye, of yesteryear or longing and ask the simple question with a smile - "Can I join in on your program and get a prize too?"
Sometimes even a sticker or a good job can be reward enough. But we all, if we admit it, enjoy getting prizes, gifts, incentives, call it what you will once in awhile. To say good job.
Positive Reinforcement
There certainly are a lot of people on this list who fight against positive reinforcement. Punishing bad behavior isn't as effective as rewarding good behavior, but it certainly it is more satisfying for those belt-wielding people applying negative reinforcement.
Ignore them when they do good. Punish them when they do bad. Guess what they will do to get attention in the future?
Are you reading the same set of comments I am?
'Cause I haven't seen anyone here agree that positive reinforcement is a bad thing, unless you count the two clear satires on the concept.
Unless you're counting the lack of positive reinforcement for this mom's dislike of positive reinforcement, that is: Yep, lots of people on this list are failing to positively reinforce her negativity.
Is fun dead?
I don't like schools giving out prizes for grades, because a good grade is the prize. Schools should focus on performance unless they want to recognize number of the books read or to reward other types of behavior. Stickers are cheap and easy.
If parents want to give kids money based on grades, or some other reward, then that's their option and it may lead to another type of lesson, such as saving or spending wisely. You never know.
If libraries give out prizes, I think that's OK - I'd prefer to see bigger prizes for bigger accomplishments (such as truly reading 50 books over the summer), but few librarians have time to quiz a kid for that knowledge. Little prizes can mean a lot to very young children.
Kudos to this mom if her kids read for pleasure or without inducement, but not everyone can say that, and reluctant readers may need a bribe here and there. And, dare I say it, summer reading is about celebration and fun?
I'm personally fascinated by both the central and marginal role that books have in our culture. Certain books are "dangerous" or "influence" a child in some way, and then we worry that kids are barely reading anymore.
Here's one for you: I took some books to a German Baptist Brethren family (similar to Amish, personal friends of mine). Their mom said, "Our kids read too much! We keep telling them to go outside and experience real life, but they just want to read all summer." I almost fell off my chair. After I passed them the Shel Silverstein.
ho hum
Join or not--who cares? As far as I'm concerned, the entire summer reading program is just a numbers game though we have great prizes and wonderful programs. I do it because it's expected though I no longer think it's relevant.
it's all relative
My children love to read. I understand the GBB mom. I have sent my children outside saying, "At least read in the tree house - the fresh air is healthier." We also do the summer reading program, but this year I noticed a change. Rather than reading for the pleasure of it, there was a sudden glut of "reading" where they sped through as many books as possible, hardly remembering what they were about, while near frantically scribbling titles on the lines. They were racing to "get the prize first." I'm not exaggerating - they did this on library days. We probably won't sign up next year.
That said, I do believe it is beneficial for children who don't read on thier own. My brother never wanted to read, but he did it for the prizes in the summer reading program. Now he buys the books he read for his own children, telling them how he read those books when he was young and they "were really good."
So I suppose it just depends on the child.
Dear Over-privileged Moron
Dear Over-privileged Moron with Time and Money on Her Hands,
Not everyone in the city or county has the luxury of time or being able to afford any sort of little awards for their children because of the cost of food and shelter, especially right now. Whatever we can do to bring reading to the reader we're going to do.
these kids can still do the program and decline the prize -- often the kids here at my library view the prize as just the cake icing and the pride and satisfaction they feel about completing their challenge come first. I don't do races or competitive type programs -- and I don't give out the prizes until after the six weeks is up -- we have a box of small prizes (which includes many new paperback books!).
I think her reaction is overkill -- and I ask this? Is it better to support
commerical establishments (book stores) or better to support the FREE public library, intellectual freedom and democracy?
I became a devoted reader after we had a special reading program in 2nd grade. I don't remember the prizes--with the exception of an end-of-year pizza party--but I was hooked on books after that, prizes or no prizes. To the extent that a friend of my mother's once accused her of thinking that "all kids who don't sit around reading more books than they have in the state of California need Ritalin!" and some of the local library assistants still recognize me from the time I spent in libraries as a child, even though I'm in my twenties.
I wonder if this mom would discourage her kids from doing things that require them to read as a working activity, like graduate school, for example? Certainly, I read some books for my MA in history which I wouldn't have read otherwise--Andre Gunder Franck's 500-page book on China and the world economy, "ReOrient"springs to mind---to save myself the embarassment of being the clueless one in a class full of smart grad students!


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Matheny talks leadership at U.S. Department of State
WASHINGTON -- Manager Mike Matheny accepted an invitation to speak to the Bureau of Consular Affairs at the U.S. Department of State on Friday as part of its speaker series to promote the development and practice of leadership.
Matheny spent about an hour at a lectern on stage in an auditorium holding approximately 200 people at the Department of State building. His lecture was simultaneously broadcast on the State Department's internal network so that employees at U.S. Embassies around the world could listen.
"It was a great honor and something I was happy to be able to do," Matheny said. "As I start breaking down what they list as the tenets and the foundation of what they need to do to help out the people who are entrusted to them, they're very, very similar to the ones I see in successful corporate America, and very, very similar to the ones I've seen happen inside a successful clubhouse.
"When it comes down to the application, it's how do you lead, challenge and encourage people. And that's something I feel very strongly is a large part of what I get to do."
Matheny has spoken on the topic of leadership with various corporations and civic groups in the past. In this session, he split his time speaking from prepared remarks and then taking questions from those in attendance.
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It was with a smile that I alighted in the tiny airport on one of the Greek islands where I've just spent a few days. Somehow the islands and indeed resorts all round the Mediterranean have this same beautiful smell that just says 'holiday' to me. Maybe it's the scent of hot pine and herbs that fill the air, or the hot earth itself.Either way – you can probably guess that food is why I'm there – or at least forms one of the cornerstones of any international break I make. The med is home to some absolutely fantastic nosh – simple and pure, unfussy and for the most part eaten al fresco – a Greek friend I was visiting told me they ate outdoors at least six months of the year.
I'd forgotten quite how exquisite it is to eat a piece of fish grilled over wood, a wedge of lemon on the side, aromatic and juicy; a basket of fresh bread and a salad of tomatoes that have seen sun every day of their lives and cucumbers that have texture and flavour, more robust than their English cousins. All this eaten a stone's throw from the turquoise Adriatic where after you've eaten your fill you can go and soak your toes. Eating doesn't get much better than that.
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Back to your regularly scheduled program, namely, my bicycle ride. I feel like it might as well be in reruns. There was plus change-ing and there was plus meme chose-ing. There were drivers of BMWs driving hilariously. There was me, biking, and wondering how little space I'd have to take up to convince people that it's not me that's the reason there's traffic. Spoiler alert: it is not possible. My favorite is when there's a driver looking to make a left turn in the left lane and there's me in the right lane and I perceive that it's somehow my fault that things have slowed down. Perhaps I'm being oversensitive.
This is new. Blocking the right turn lane on Mass where a right turn isn't even allowed at that time of day. I don't know if this is redundant or actually useful.
|Don't drive into that car.
Some day I'm just gonna take 23rd street out of Sheriden Circle and ride to Washington Circle and then ride back up New Hampshire to Dupont Circle and then ride down Mass to Thomas Circle and then take Vermont to Logan Circle and then ride straight out of town and never come back because I'd be so sick of bicycling through traffic circles.
Mr. Red Pants, are you out there? You rode past me when I stopped at a stop sign at Q. You said "on your left." I got that, but I wasn't expecting you to ride through a stop sign on my left, one that I stopped at (and by stopped, I mean slowed for) and then wend through some pedestrians at various crosswalks along the way while sort of waiting for red lights, but not really. And then for some reason, you decided to cross to the other side of the street and wait in front of the driver who was wearing a tuxedo (for real) rather than wait behind the woman in the dress that might have been a shirt and the leggings and the boots. I don't know where you went after that. The dress that might have been a shirt woman crossed 11th and probably proceeded down Q, but I didn't, so I don't really have much to add. Good amount of bike traffic on 11th, all heading the other way.
Through downtown was what it was (I've take my Nobel for literature please) and I spent much of it right off the bumper of the SUV in front of me. I crossed into the Pennsylvania Avenue cycletrack from the sidewalk, where I stopped to wait for the light to change, and I tried not to overdramatically sigh my way in front of the guy who blocked the crosswalk with his car. I might not have succeeded.
Fewer lightless cyclists out tonight, which is good. And a little ironic, since I rode home earlier tonight than yesterday, when it was much darker. It's really not difficult to have lights on your bike. I promise.
What's your favorite scold for someone jogging in the bike lane? I've never actually said this, but I think mine would be "Nice bike!" Of course, I don't say stuff like that because I've made it through life thus far without being punched in the face and I'd like to keep it that way. Helmet isn't going to help that.
I rode behind one lightless woman who bipped and bopped through the bike lane on East Capitol and when some driver eventually blocked her path, I had already moved over to take the lane and I said something like "you can come over" which she didn't, but didn't really acknowledge. Umbrage: activated.
And then the guy in the Arsenal shorts decided that he would ride in front of me as I waited at the red light at Lincoln Park. Why? Some day I'll muster the effrontery to ask. Why does everyone think that they're so freaking important? Oh, it's DC? Sorry. Forgot for a moment. Do the same people shove their way to the front of the Metro line? Funny thing about pet peeves: they're actually like pets. You get used to them after a while and no matter how annoying they are, you're attached and you just can't get rid of them. I don't get what's so hard about waiting behind someone, but I suppose I should just stop caring. It could be a long spring and summer.
I stuck behind Arsenal shorts along Kentucky until I got to the store and then I shopped and then I went home. Ellie the Poodle, the original pet peeve, was there:


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Maurice A. Roberts, former Chairman of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), died on November 2, 2001, at the age of 91. Mr. Roberts, well-known and loved in his field as the "dean of immigration law," was active as a lecturer at law schools and symposiums on immigration law and procedure.
Mr. Roberts was also the author of numerous law review articles and papers in the field. During his long public service career, both with the BIA and with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), Mr. Roberts participated in some of the most important immigration cases in U.S. history. Much of the public's understanding of immigration law has been the result Mr. Roberts' work. He spent much of his time freely sharing his unparalleled knowledge and helping counsel formulate winning strategies.
Mr. Roberts was born in 1910 in Newark, New Jersey. He received his law degree summa cum laude from the Rutgers University Law School in 1932. Admitted to the New Jersey bar that year, he practiced law in Newark, New Jersey until March 1941, when he entered the INS. In the INS from 1941-1955, he was successively a naturalization examiner, special inspector, and Chief, Adjudications Division, in the Philadelphia District Office. In the INS Central Office in Washington, D.C., he was Assistant Chief, Investigations, and Deputy General Counsel. In the Department of Justice's Criminal Division from 1955-1968, he was active in the Immigration Litigation Unit, which supervised the conduct of lower federal court litigation under the immigration and nationality laws, and was head of the Unit from 1965-1968. Among the many Supreme Court cases in which he participated in drafting the government's brief were Shaughnessy v. Mezei, 345 U.S. 206 (1953); Marcello v. Bonds, 349 U.S. 302 (1955); and Rosenberg v. Fleuti, 374 U.S. 449 (1963). Among the cases he argued for the government in the Supreme Court were Hintopoulos v. Shaughnessy, 353 U.S. 72 (1957) and Chaunt v. United States, 364 U.S. 350 (1960).
From 1968 to his retirement from government service in November 1974, Mr. Roberts was Chairman of the Board of Immigration Appeals, which acts for the Attorney General in hearing and determining appeals from various INS decisions, as well as orders of Immigration Judges in deportation and exclusion cases. On retirement from the Board in November 1974, Mr. Roberts assumed editorship of Interpreter Releases, a leading weekly periodical on immigration and nationality law now in its 78th year of publication. He first became Editor-in-Chief of that publication and was later named Editor Emeritus, a title he held until his death. He was also the former Executive Editor of the monthly Immigration Briefings. Both periodicals are now published by West Group. Mr. Roberts also co-authored Understanding the 1986 Immigration Law, which was published by Federal Publications Inc.
His career was dedicated to the principles of justice, fundamental fairness, and due process in U.S. immigration law and administration. For example, Mr. Roberts was one of the INS officials designated to conduct hearings after World War II in the cases of U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry who were interned by the U.S. government. Many renounced their U.S. citizenship while confined, and it was Mr. Roberts' job to determine which renunciants acted out of loyalty to Japan; these were to be deported to Japan. Mr. Roberts conducted hearings in 197 cases and recommended against deportation in 186 cases, finding on the evidence that those renunciations had not been made because of disloyalty to the U.S., but rather because of the internees' resentment at being unjustly confined on the basis of racial and national origin discrimination, which undermined the supposed voluntariness of the renunciations. Mr. Roberts also prosecuted deportation proceedings against high-ranking Communists in the U.S. during the Cold War, including Gerhard Eisler, the Communist International representative in the U.S.
Mr. Roberts was the recipient of many awards, honors, and tributes, such as the Attorney General's Medallion (1974); the Founder's Award of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) (1975); the AILA Edith Lowenstein Award (1986); and plaques from the Immigration Committees of the New Jersey State Bar Association (1983) and the Federal Bar Association (1988), the National Center for Immigrants' Rights, Inc. (1988), and the Washington, D.C. Chapter of AILA (1988), as well as a tribute by Carolyn Waller placed in the Congressional Record in 1990 by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. During his long career, Mr. Roberts was a member of the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, the American Immigration Law Foundation, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
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Hike Date: August 3-5, 2009
Distance: ~ 30 miles
Trail(s): Skyline to the Sea Trail
Where's it at? Santa Cruz Mountains starting at Castle Rock SP
Skyline to the Sea Trail was one of my first non-sierra backpacking trips. Wasn't sure how it would compare. While it may be true it's missing the rugged mountain panoramas, it makes up for it with beautiful plant life everywhere and a diversity of terrains.
This was so far my longest backpacking trip as well. You'd think my pack might be lighter in preparation for that, but alas, it was just as heavy as always.
Rich and I headed out for the journey early in the morning after staying at a local Santa Cruz buddy's house overnight. (Thanks Joe!) Getting an early start we parked at the lot up in Castle Rock State Park. I suppose one could argue that we didn't start at the proper trailhead for the full Skyline-to-the-Sea trail, but we took in 90% of the "proper" trail and in fact lengthened the journey with less 'right next to the road' action as the proper trail has. We also parked legally this way! 🙂
The trip we took required two cars, although supposedly there is a shuttle that will take you back up to at least Big Basin HQ if you only had one car and wanted to take in some of this awesome hike. Rich parked at the bottom in the Waddel Beach area the evening prior, hopped into my car, we went to Joe's and then parked my car up in Castle Rock for the 3 night/4 day trip.
The trail is clearly broken into 3 'legs' although you could do 2 or even all 3 legs if you're not carrying a pack and are feeling extremely psycho about hiking far. I think you'd be hiking from dawn to dusk that way though.
Interestingly each of the 3 legs of the journey take you through a slightly different terrain for the most part, and in fact an entirely separate state park.
Definitely make reservations and get your permits ahead of time. We did so by calling and I'd received the permits in the mail. I believe each parking lot required that you pay and leave a tag in the dashboard as well…sorry but I'm writing this over a year after we took the trip as I hadn't started the blog at the time.
Leg 1 – Castle Rock state park to Waterman Gap Campground
This was the leg that had the most scenery for sure, of the 3, in terms of any kind of panorama. Clearly because it was the highest altitude. I would also argue that it was the most hilly of the 3 legs though nothing too major. I really didn't get too tired on this leg, however if you go on a hot day, you'll be sweating. It's amazing how the tree canopy locks in the moisture. Not too many redwoods here on this leg.
Rich and I split up for a while on this trip…I tend to like to hike fast in spurts and he has more of a steady pace. When we'd finally reached Waterman Gap Campground most of the sites were already taken (including a fairly large and noisy boy scout group). When I arrived first I decided to head all the way to the furthest site which was fairly far out of view. I began to setup the tent and my hammock and just relaxed, enjoying not having my pack on as I waited for Rich. Seemed like he was taking a long time! I started wondering if separating was such a great idea…you never really feel like heading backwards looking for your friend who may be in trouble.
Eventually I needed to fill my water bottle so I head up to the spigot which was closer to where the trail leads into the campground and there I saw Rich in a separate site almost completely setup! He'd thought I got lost or passed the site up I guess… I was able to convince him that I'd found a more prime location to camp so we grabbed his gear and brought it over to the far back site.
Leg 2 – Waterman Gap to Jay Camp in the Big Basin HQ area
We did a fairly good job of getting up early the next day and had a quick breakfast before hitting the trail again. I think this leg was my favorite. Very beautiful creek along most of the trail, I really enjoyed all the bridges, big and small along the way. I think this was the longest of the legs and both Rich and I were pretty happy to get to the Big Basin area. He was so happy to get there, in fact, that after picking up a 12 pack of Ice cold Heinekens at the store there, he was ready to relax for a couple days. If I recall he was having some pretty nasty blister problems.
I have mixed feelings about a store halfway through the trip. It was fine and dandy for this journey and I can't say I didn't REALLY enjoy the beers, but there's something about having people all around you on these trips that is not so great. We had a good dinner and got a very good night's sleep here. We didn't get up until about 10 or 10:30 this time, when Rich immediately began preparation on the backpacking stove of a delicious 4 course breakfast. After finishing up and packing we were back on the trail again.
Leg 3 – Jay Camp to Rancho Del Oso trail camp
The Third leg was tiring for sure. It had probably the widest variety of flora as it also contained the greatest descent in elevation. (it's still really all pretty flat though). We were lucky to pass by a still-well-flowing waterfall and relaxed there for lunch along the way. That was Berry Creek Falls. The campground for night 3 seemed to take FOREVER to get to. We were both pretty beat after about 30 miles of hiking with a heavy backpack on 3 days in a row. Definitely didn't fall in love with the campsite or campground here but at least it had running water we could filter. We just pretty much setup camp, ate a quick dehydrated meal and went to bed. It was really wet at this one and beginning to drizzle and we were in a site that was sort of "on stage" to all the other sites that surrounded us.
The final morning we got up at a decent time and walked the rest of the way out, maybe another 3-4 miles. What a great feeling when we first glimpsed the sea after rounding a corner on the trail. Sitting down in the truck was a welcomed feeling made all the better by the fact that the truck started!
All in all this was a great trip and I hope to do it again someday.


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