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1970 American Motors AMX - The '80s Street Scene
Jonn Rippman's AMX Is A Tribute to His Brother
We develop some of our most intense emotions and attachments during childhood, and those feelings affect the decisions we make for the rest of our lives. Jonn Rippman and his 1970 American Motors AMX is a good example. Jonn's taste in cars, in particular, and motorsports, in general, was heavily influenced by his older brother, Jim. Jonn says about his brother, "He built, modified, and raced just about everything," adding, "he could fix anything, usually without a manual or parts diagram." At nine years younger than Jim, Jonn idolized his brother, and he and his middle brother, Jeff, followed closely in Jim's footsteps. "Whatever [Jim] did, my brother, Jeff, and I were going to do it, too. All three of us raced everything under the sun, and it was always like a brotherly competition to see who could outdo whom."
Jim lost his life to cancer in 2005, and Jonn says the loss was devastating. This AMX was originally Jim's car, so Jonn took it upon himself to finish it the way his brother would have liked. Jim purchased this car in 1986 from its original owner. The asking price was $4,000, but Jim only wanted to pay $3,500, so the owner sent him packing. Jim later went back with the $4,000 and drove the car home. Overall, it was in decent shape, but there was some rust in the quarter panels, and the driver's door had 231 door dings in it. How does Jonn know? He helped fix them all. He and Jim got the bodywork and paint done with the help of their friend, Al Shelton. Jim also rebuilt the engine, slipping in a much bigger cam than stock, though he would never admit it to his brothers.
In 1995, Jim needed some money to put a down payment on a house and decided to sell the car. Not wanting to see it leave the family, Jonn bought it from him as a loan, saying Jim could buy it back from him anytime for the same amount of money he sold it for. "Unfortunately, he did not get the chance to buy the car back," Jonn says. "I've seen [Jim] walk away from accidents and motorcycle crashes practically unscathed. It's hard to believe he was brought down by cancer."
After his brother's death, Jonn continued restoring the AMX, keeping it the way his brother would have wanted it. He upgraded the entire drivetrain, refurbished the interior, and ended up with the current wheels and tires. He says, "The car has a stance from the 1980s, slightly up in the back. Some make fun of it. I don't care. This is the way Jim had it, so this is the way it will stay."
Who: Jonn Rippman
What: 1970 American Motors AMX
Where: Edmond, OK
Engine: When it was time for a rebuild, Boyd's Auto Parts and Machine in Norman, OK, rebuilt the car's original 390ci engine, modifying the oiling system with internal and external lines to improve flow to the main bearings. The stock crankshaft and connecting rods are forged, so there was no need to upgrade them. Jonn added a set of Keith Black pistons and installed a Crane hydraulic roller cam, which measures 224/232 degrees duration and offers 0.542/0.563-inch valve lift. The original cylinder heads were ported and rebuilt with Ferrea stainless steel valves and Crane valvesprings. The compression ratio is 10.25:1.
Induction: ProForm's race-series 750-cfm carburetor sits on an Edelbrock Performer RPM Air Gap intake manifold, and a Carter high-volume mechanical fuel pump keeps the float bowls full.
Exhaust: Hooker's Super Competition headers feed a custom-made 3-inch dual-exhaust system, which Jonn says was difficult to fit over the axletubes.
Transmission/Rearend: This was originally a four-speed car, and Jonn saw no reason to change that, so a close-ratio Borg-Warner T-10 transmission resides in the tunnel. The clutch is from Centerforce, and he's changing gears with a Hurst Competition shifter. Out back is an AMC Model 20 axle with Richmond 3.54:1 gears and 29-spline Moser axles, which eliminate the stock, two-piece axles.
Suspension: Mostly stock, and there's nothing wrong with that. Jonn boxed the front control arms and installed KYB Gas-A-Just shocks all around.
Brakes/Wheels/Tires: The front brakes are from a 1971 Javelin, and the rear drums are stock. The front wheels are also stock, but Jonn had Stockton Wheel Service build a custom set of 15x9-inch Road Wheels with 412 inches of backspacing to fill the rear wheelhouses with as much rubber as possible.
Interior: Jim Watts of South Bend, IN, reupholstered the car's bucket seats; Jonn rewired the car and installed new carpet.
Body/Paint: Family friend Al Shelton helped Jonn paint the car more than 20 years ago, and the finish still looks great today. They used DuPont Imron custom-mixed to slightly modify the car's Golden Lime Metallic finish. They also added the vinyl C-Stripe, which was optional for that year.
Performance: On the engine dyno, the 390 cranked out 486 hp and 497 lb-ft of torque. At the track, it runs 11.29 at 120 mph. It sounds good doing it, too.
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GDK Research publishes unknown photographic documents, administered by the Photo Study Collection of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI), about art during the Nazi era via a freely accessible image database. The database was made possible by means of advanced database technologies and a method especially developed for this project which allows for the connection of a digitalized photograph's details with data records of particular artworks (APS Visual Annotation).
In 2007 and 2008, a team working at the ZI prepared the contents of this project and developed a sophisticated data model based on MIDAS. In December 2008, the ZI team submitted its grant application with the working title GDK-ONLINE at the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – German Research Foundation) in the funding measure "academic research information system" ("Wissenschaftliche Literaturversorgungs- und Informationssysteme"). The Haus der Kunst Munich (Historisches Archiv (historical archive)) and the Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin (German Historical Museum Berlin) (Abteilung Kunst II (section art II)) are project partners of GDK Research.
The DFG approved the application on July 24, 2009, and gave it the file number INST 19415/4-1 for a term of two years. The project was realised between September 1, 2009 and August 30, 2011 (see more information on http://www.zikg.eu/main/projekte-en.htm#gdk).
Especially regarding the documentation of the Great German Art Exhibitions in 1937 and 1944, the project was extensively supported by the photograph collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library), represented by Dr. Reinhard Horn and Dipl. Bibl. (certified librarian) Angelika Betz and by the Stadtarchiv München (Munich City Archives), represented by Elisabeth Angermair M.A. as well as by the Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv (Bavarian State Archives), section V., represented by Dr. Sylvia Krauss.
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The new Juniper Networks liaison between the company's engineering team and its customers says it will take time, but Juniper's software defined security networking (SDSN) will eventually support third-party devices to help build security into the network fabric itself.
It's part of a shift from network security to a secure network that is flexible thanks to software defined networking, says Kevin Walker, Juniper's Security CTO.
The SDSN framework is designed to leverage the capabilities of the entire network to detect and assess threats, and enforce security policies across switches, routers and firewalls. Recently Juniper CEO Rami Rahim referred to this framework as "the rolling thunder of security enhancements."
Initially, customers will have to be Juniper shops in order to reap its benefits, Walker says. "Clearly out of the gate we're going to promote our own products," he says, but with APIs available for others to write to and active recruiting he expects third parties to become partners. "It's an open ecosystem."
He says the company is urging customers to buy into SDSN, with the most apparent immediate benefit being localizing the effects of malicious activity. "There's a lot more we want to do with SDSN," he says, that will involve intelligence gathering, analysis and enforcement.
+ ALSO: Bad actors race to exploit Juniper firewall vulnerability +
He says CISOs face budget pressures, hiring and nurturing security talent and coming to grips with the unique set of network assets each business has. "It's a very complex environment," he says, and the goal is to help reduce the complexity of security by embedding some of it in the network itself. "Customers are facing a huge problem with respect to complexity."
Walker has been security CTO for just a few months, having come from Walmart where he was CISO for the retailer's online presence. He says his experience is what he brings to the table, and that gives him an understanding of real-world problems. He plans to stay in touch with his Rollodex of colleagues as well as by attending forums for corporate security pros, he says.
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BERLIN – Worcester County this week filed suit in U.S. District Court against a bevy of Internet-based travel booking companies, seeking what could be millions of dollars in alleged unpaid hotel room taxes, joining a legion of other jurisdictions taking similar action in recent months.
Attorneys for the Worcester County Commissioners on Tuesday filed suit in U.S. District Court naming 14 individual plaintiffs, all Internet-based travel booking companies, under the umbrella of four major companies including Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity and Priceline. The complaint alleges the companies have not been paying the entire amount of hotel room taxes owed on rental transactions booked in the county, largely from Ocean City.
According to the complaint, the defendants purchase hotel rooms in the area at deeply discounted wholesale prices and pay the required room tax only on the discounted rate. The Internet companies then turn around and sell the hotel rooms to consumers at normal retail rates and collect the required room tax during the transaction, but do not remit the taxes collected to the county, instead keeping the money as part of their profit.
With the suit filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court, Worcester County joins a growing number of jurisdictions in Maryland and across the country taking similar action against the ubiquitous Internet travel booking companies. For example, Baltimore City filed a similar suit in December and Annapolis took its own action earlier this year. Nationally, several major cities including Miami, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago and even Las Vegas have already joined the fray.
With more and more travelers booking their vacations online through Internet companies, the potential room tax allegedly lost in the transactions could total millions of dollars. Although the difference in most cases is a couple of dollars per room, per night, the amount of room tax revenue lost in Worcester, should the county prevail in its suit, could be staggering when considering thousands of hotel rooms in the resort area and hundreds of nights. The suit filed on Tuesday does not specify an amount sought, stating only "the precise amount of all recoverable damages, penalties and/or interest will be determined at the time of trial."
It is uncertain just how many hotel and motel rooms are booked via the Internet through the defendants and their subsidiaries, but according to the suit filed this week, the number is substantial.
"As recently as 1997, the concept of an internet travel company, an entity organized to effectuate travel plans, reservations and purchases via the world-wide-web, was virtually unknown," the complaint reads. "In recent years, the Internet travel industry has seen explosive growth. By some estimates, more than half of all hotel bookings in the United States are made online, many through Internet travel companies owned by the defendants."
Typically, the transactions are handled in one of two ways, either the agency model or the merchant model, and the distinction is important. Under the merchant model, which has been the method of choice in recent years, the Internet travel companies purchase rooms from hotels at lower wholesale rates, and the hotels collect and remit the room taxes based on that lower rate. The companies then turn around and sell the rooms to consumers at higher retail rates. They collect the appropriate room taxes based on the higher rates, but do not remit any of collected taxes to the taxing authority, in this case Worcester County.
"Defendants charge consumers the full hotel rental tax based on the retail rate paid by the consumers, but remit none of that amount to Worcester County," the complaint reads. "In the course of the entire merchant model transaction, Worcester County is paid only that portion of the hotel room tax that the hotels collect and remit based on their sale of the rooms to the Internet travel companies at the lower wholesale rate."
For example, if a vacationer paid Expedia $100 for a hotel room in Ocean City, the company would calculate the room tax it owes to the county based on that amount. However, Expedia might have purchased the room at a bulk wholesale rate of $60, and would pay the county the room tax based on the $60 amount it paid for the room.
In the above example, with Worcester County's current room tax rate at 4.5 percent, the room tax owed on the $100 room rental would be $4.50. If Expedia, for example, paid the county the room tax it was owed for the $60 bulk purchase of the room, it would pay only $2.70 in room tax to Worcester, or 40 percent less than it should have, according to the civil suit filed this week. In essence, the online travel booking company would have pocketed the difference, or about $1.80 in the above example.
"As a result of their alleged conduct, the defendants have unjustly received and retained a benefit to the detriment of the plaintiff," the complaint reads. "Defendants do collect the hotel rental tax from customers, yet fail to remit it to the plaintiff. Instead, the defendants pocket those collected taxes and are, therefore, unjustly enriched. Defendants' retention of this tax violates fundamental principles of justice, equity and good conscience."


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2:33pm: Via Ben-Nicholson Smith, Dominican right-hander Rafael DePaula has finally landed a visa. The soon-to-be 21-year-old was having trouble getting to States because of a suspension stemming from age and identity fraud several years ago. The Yankees agreed to sign him for $500k back in November 2010, though the deal was contingent on him securing a visa. With that taken care of, now all he has to do is pass his physical. DePaula is a significant prospect, arguably top ten in the system, but he lost a big chunk of development time this last year or so. Here's some video.


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Spring has officially sprung in the Northern Hemisphere and NASA is celebrating with a dazzling new view of the Earth from space today (March 20).
The GOES-13 satellite operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) captured the sunning view of Earth from space as our planet reached its vernal equinox — the date that marks the shift from winter to spring in the Northern Hemisphere. In the south, summer changes to fall today.
"This full-disk image from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite was captured at 11:45 UTC (7:45 a.m. EDT) and shows the Americas on March 20, 2014," NASA officials said in an image description. "This date marks the start of astronomical spring in the northern hemisphere." [6 Signs that Spring Has Sprung]
The vernal equinox is a milestone in the Earth's year in which the sun appears to move from south of the celestial equator to the north. During that event, the days — which have been steadily growing longer since the winter solstice on Dec. 21 — are now equal in length to the nights. In fact, the word equinox is Latin for "equal nights."
From March 20 to June 21 (which will mark the summer solstice in the north), the days will grow longer as the sun moves higher into the sky, allowing more hours of daylight. That means that, for the Northern Hemisphere, warmer weather is coming after a particularly bitter winter.
"Today's vernal equinox marks the first day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere!" officials at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explained via Twitter today.
On Sept. 22, the seasons in the north will shift from summer to fall during the autumnal equinox, leading back to winter again.
Of course all of this is reversed for the Southern Hemisphere. Today, the seasons change from summer to fall, with the southern spring beginning on Sept. 22.
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An attention-whorse named Oreo went buckwild in Manhattan yesterday, tearing through traffic and injuring three people.
An attention-whorse named Oreo went buckwild in Manhattan yesterday, tearing through traffic and injuring three people.
The New York Times reports that Oreo was standing in a line-up with other horse-drawn carriages along Central Park South around 4:20 yesterday afternoon, when the 6-year-old gelding suddenly bolted free of the group and began galloping into traffic.
It's not known what caused Oreo to become so spooked, though the most likely answer is that he is a horse from old timey times who accidentally time traveled to 2012 Manhattan and was frightened by all the cars and dubstep.
Oreo's driver fell from his perch as soon as the carriage took off. Oreo's passengers, a man and woman in their thirties who will probably never try to do anything spontaneous and romantic ever again, managed to hold on until the horse collided with a silver BMW in Columbus Circle, ripping off part of the car's bumper.
The carriage's passenger compartment (covered, but open air) broke off and toppled over.
Oreo continued north.
Oreo then clipped a livery car, taking off part of its mirror, while also shedding the front half of his own carriage.
A witness told the Times that Oreo galloped a few more blocks then "slowed to a stop right behind the cars and waited for the light" between 58th and 57th streets.
While Oreo was busy trying to blend in (no horses here, just us cars obeying the rules of the road, neeeigh—I mean beep beep), a passerby and a policeman were able to grab hold of his harness and lead him to the sidewalk, where horses belong.
Oreo was tied to a pole and sedated with a tranquilizer dart, though he was still able to walk into the police truck that removed him from the scene just before 5 p.m. (He was arrested for unrelated drug charges.)
While his passengers and driver were all taken to the hospital to be treated for their various injuries, Oreo himself sustained only a minor scratch to his muzzle (and, of course, deep psychological wounds).
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Xilinx 2013.2 software on Ubuntu with Unity Menus install guide
Ubuntu Unity users wanting to keep a clean desktop and slick operation better modify what Xilinx offers. This guide can be used by everyone installing Xilinx Vivado Tools with Ubuntu Unity. Those who already installed a previous version of the Xilinx development tools on Ubuntu and already followed a previous guide on how to setup a Unity menus for the Xilinx tools probably want to only pick specific information from this text while first time installers/users best read all and follow each bullet.
With Xilinx Vivado 2013.2 tools, Xilinx also introduces desktop icons for their tools. The setup of the icons is done so that the icons can be used in most Linux distributions but with a preference for RedHat systems.
Existing or returning users of Xilinx, Ubuntu, Unity might consider to execute following steps in order to start with a clean slate.
- Uninstall the Xilinx tools (probably version Vivado 2013.1)
- Open a terminal window.
- cd /opt/<install folder path>/Vivado/<version>/.xinstall/bin/lin
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- Uninstall the previous version of the Xilinx Document Navigator.
- cd /opt/<install folder path>/DocNav/.xinstall/bin/lin
- sudo xsetup -uninstall
- Backup all existing Unity_Drawers_Xilinx menus.
- cd ~/.local/share/applications
- mkdir OldUnityDrawersXilinxMenus
- move all Xilinx icons to the "OldUnityDrawersXilinxMenus" folder.
- Above three steps can also be done from Nautilus.
- Start a Nautilus file browser and go to Home/.local/share/applications
- Right click and "Create New Folder"
- Name it "OldUnityDrawersXilinxMenus"
- Select the Xilinx tool icons (.desktop files) and drag them into the "OldUnityDrawersXilinxMenus" folder.
- Find here a description on how to install the Xilinx Vivado-SDK tools: - Download the tar file form the Xilinx web site. - Xilinx uses a Download Manager tool but I prefer not to. - On the Xilinx software download page a message as figure 2 is displayed - Click the AR<number> link, download and save the file (~6Gb) without Download manager.
Figure 2: Download message "without Download Manager". - Open a file browser and go to the folder used to save the Xilinx software file: "Xilinx_Vivado_SDK_2013.2_0616_1.tar". - Right click the file icon and select to open the file with "Archive Manager". - Exctract the file With the Archive Manager. - When done, close the Archive Manager. - Open a terminal window and change directory to the folder created after "Untarring" the software. Ex: cd /Dowloads/Xilinx/Xilinx_Vivado_SDK_2013.2_0616_1 - Type now: sudo ./xsetup - Provide you password and follow the instructions in the Xilinx graphical installation tool. By default the Xilinx tools are installed in the /opt directory.
After installation of the Xilinx tools there will be a set of icons capable of launching Xilinx tools on the desktop, figure 1. This is not exactly conducive for a clean desktop and does not reflect what Unity is promoting, simplicity, power and integration delivering attractive and clean user experience.
Figure 1: Default Desktop Icons.
- From here on it is assumed that the Xilinx Vivado tools are installed in the folder: /opt/Xilinx - Sub-directories in /opt/Xilinx are generated by the installation as showed in Figure 3.
- Figure 3: Xilinx Vivado Software installation. - The software also adds some folders to your local (home) directory setup. - A hidden folder .xilinx is added. - This folder contains tool preferences, licenses, and etecetera. - In the hidden .local/share folder, new folders are added and existing folders are modified.
- Figure 4: Extra folders is .local/share
- "desktop-directories": Created by Xilinx install and containing icon launcher descriptions. - "data": Created by Xilinx install and containing information for the DacNav tool - "applications": The Xilinx install tool added here icons and .desktop files that are displayed on the Ubuntu desktop, Figure 5.
- Figure 5: Icons dropped in .local/share/applications by teh Xilinx Install tool.
- Remark: All files added by the Xilinx installer tool have "root" user and group permissions. Possibly you can leave it like it is, but I've modified all file permissions to user permissions. - cd ~/.local/share/desktop-directories - sudo chgrp <your_username> *.directory - sudo chown <your_username> *.directory - cd ../applications - sudo chgrp <your_username> *.desktop - sudo chown <your_username> *.desktop When viewing the directory contents with Nautillus, the padlock emblem in the different Xilinx tool icons will be removed.
- If not already done, download and install a small but very usefull Untity tool called "drawers". - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ian-berke/ppa-drawers - sudo apt-get update - sudo apt-get install drawers Provide the developper of this tools credit via a small donation/contribution. Previous users might chack if they have the latest version of "Drawers" installed.
- Setting up and configuring the "Drawers" Unity utility doe snot need explication. - I'm providing here a possible setup of the Xilinx tools with the Unity Utility "Drawers" to get the slick,
powerfull and clean Unity feeling back.
- Make sure some Xilinx icons are available - Create a folder "icons" in Home/.local/share - Create in Home/.local/share/icons a folder called "Xilinx". - Copy into this folder some icons you are going to use for creating Xilinx menus. In previous version post I've supplied a zip file with icons. You can use that and even you might ave it already installed. - It is possible to use default installed Ubuntu icons that can be found in: /usr/share/icons or /usr/share/icons/Humanity/places Browse the sub-directories with icons avialble here.
- We are going to create six (6) drawers for the all of tghe Xilinx Vivado tools. - If you plan to also install the Xilinx ISE tools extra drawers might be needed.
- This is the setup of the drawer menu structure: - Xilinx Design Tools (icon: .local/share/icons/xilinx.svg) (Drawer name: Xilinx Design Tools) - Vivado (icon: /usr/share/icons/Humanity/places/32/folder.svg) (Drawer name: Vivado Menu) - Accessories (icon: idem as above) (Drawer name: Vivado Accessories Menu) - Vivado SDK (icon: idem as above) (Drawer name: Vivado SDK Menu) - System Generator (icon: idem as above) (Drawer name: Vivado SystemGen Menu) - Vivado HLS (icon: idem as above) (Drawer name: Vivado HLS Menu) - To create a drawer for each of the listed above. - Launch "Drawers" (Dash Home --> Type "drawers" in the search bar and click the "Drawers" icon when it appears). - The program starts as in figure 6. - Press "Create a New Drawer" and type the name of the new drawer to create. - Click the, top right, drawer icon and select a new one (see list above). - Hit close. - There will now be six .desktop files in the .local/share/applications folder. - The top level icon with the Xilinx 'X' icon - Five other with the regular 'Folder' icon. - Most likely the just created drawer will be available in the Unity Quick Launch Bar at the left side of the
screen. Right click each icon and select "Unlock From Launcher".
- Open a Nautillus file browser from the "Home/.local/share/applications" folder. - Drag the "Xilinx Design Tools" icon onto the Unity Quick Launcher Bar. - Click the "X" icon. - A small window will open as in figure 7. - Drag now the other icons onto it as in figure 8. - To put icons and drawers in the "Vivado Menu" icon, click on it. - an empty "Vivado menu" box will open where other Icons and drawers can be dropped. - View below figures for the whole build. - Customize the drawers as wanted for your system.
- Done, you have now a nice, clean and powerful Unity approach to the Xilinx tools.


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The world is now reacting to the very sad news of Steve Jobs' death. We are collecting the thoughts and condolences of people like Bill Gates, Larry Page, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and President Barack Obama himself.
But perhaps the most important reaction—apart from his family—is Steve Wozniak's. According to the LA Times, he was "overwhelmed and could not get in touch with his emotions". His only words: "People sometimes have goals in life. Steve Jobs exceeded every goal he ever set for himself."
Steve Jobs' Family
Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family.
In his public life, Steve was known as a visionary; in his private life, he cherished his family. We are thankful to the many people who have shared their wishes and prayers during the last year of Steve's illness; a website will be provided for those who wish to offer tributes and memories.
We are grateful for the support and kindness of those who share our feelings for Steve. We know many of you will mourn with us, and we ask that you respect our privacy during our time of grief.
Apple Employee #8 Chris Espinosa, Macintosh Team
Andy Hertzfeld, Macintosh Team
Steve Jobs was my friend and hero for over thirty years. The Apple II changed my life before I met him, and working closely with him to create the original Macintosh was the high point of my career, if not my entire life. Steve was more than the greatest business person of his generation, he was a passionate artist who poured his soul into his work. I will miss him terribly, even though he will live on in Apple products for many years to come.
Bruce Horn, Macintosh Team, creator of the Finder
I am extremely saddened learning of Steve's death. It was a tremendous experience and personal honor to have worked with Steve on the original Macintosh. His passion and commitment to make the world a better place through Apple technology had a great influence on my own life. Steve was a force of nature, and we will all miss him.
Larry Tesler, Manager, Lisa applications software, MacApp software framework
Working in the halo, no, giant aura, of Steve was unimaginably motivating. But Steve had a sizable streak of humility. Yes, he was the very definition of charisma. Yes, he exuded confidence. And yes, he built the world's leading animation studio and the world's greatest company. But he never denied the extent to which serendipity and other people's work played a part in his success. And he never let himself feel invulnerable. Silicon Valley owes its culture to many people, but Steve tops the list. I miss him.
Former Apple Evangelist Guy Kawasaki, Macintosh Team
May Steve rest in peace. My deepest sympathy to his loved ones. No CEO has done more for his customers, employees, and shareholders than Steve.
He changed the world—my world, your world, the entire world. His words to live by: "There must be a better way."
You changed our lives, Steve, and you showed us that there is a better way...we will miss you.
Ronald Wayne, co-founder Apple Computer Company
Steve was one of a kind, and will truly be missed.
Disney/Pixar Chief Creative Officer, John Lassetter & Pixar President Ed Camull
Steve Jobs was an extraordinary visionary, our very dear friend and the guiding light of the Pixar family. He saw the potential of what Pixar could be before the rest of us, and beyond what anyone ever imagined. Steve took a chance on us and believed in our crazy dream of making computer animated films; the one thing he always said was to simply 'make it great.' He is why Pixar turned out the way we did and his strength, integrity and love of life has made us all better people. He will forever be a part of Pixar's DNA. Our hearts go out to his wife Laurene and their children during this incredibly difficult time.
President Barack Obama
Michelle and I are saddened to learn of the passing of Steve Jobs. Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.
By building one of the planet's most successful companies from his garage, he exemplified the spirit of American ingenuity. By making computers personal and putting the internet in our pockets, he made the information revolution not only accessible, but intuitive and fun. And by turning his talents to storytelling, he has brought joy to millions of children and grownups alike. Steve was fond of saying that he lived every day like it was his last. Because he did, he transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: he changed the way each of us sees the world.
The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented. Michelle and I send our thoughts and prayers to Steve's wife Laurene, his family, and all those who loved him.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates
I'm truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs' death. Melinda and I extend our sincere condolences to his family and friends, and to everyone Steve has touched through his work.
Steve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and friends over the course of more than half our lives. The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come.
For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it's been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.
Apple CEO Tim Cook
I have some very sad news to share with all of you. Steve passed away earlier today.
Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.
We are planning a celebration of Steve's extraordinary life for Apple employees that will take place soon. If you would like to share your thoughts, memories and condolences in the interim, you can simply email firstname.lastname@example.com.
No words can adequately express our sadness at Steve's death or our gratitude for the opportunity to work with him. We will honor his memory by dedicating ourselves to continuing the work he loved so much.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
I want to express my deepest condolences at the passing of Steve Jobs, one of the founders of our industry and a true visionary. My heart goes out to his family, everyone at Apple and everyone who has been touched by his work.
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen
My condolences to Steve Jobs' family and friends. We've lost a unique tech pioneer and auteur who knew how to make amazingly great products. Steve fought a long battle against tough odds in a very brave way. He kept doing amazing things in the face of all that adversity. As someone who has had his own medical challenges, I couldn't help but be encouraged by how he persevered.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. I will miss you.
Google CEO Larry Page
I am very, very sad to hear the news about Steve. He was a great man with incredible achievements and amazing brilliance. He always seemed to be able to say in very few words what you actually should have been thinking before you thought it. His focus on the user experience above all else has always been an inspiration to me. He was very kind to reach out to me as I became CEO of Google and spend time offering his advice and knowledge even though he was not at all well. My thoughts and Google's are with his family and the whole Apple family.
Google Co-founder Sergey Brin
From the earliest days of Google, whenever Larry and I sought inspiration for vision and leadership, we needed to look no farther than Cupertino. Steve, your passion for excellence is felt by anyone who has ever touched an Apple product (including the macbook I am writing this on right now). And I have witnessed it in person the few times we have met. On behalf of all of us at Google and more broadly in technology, you will be missed very much. My condolences to family, friends, and colleagues at Apple.
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt
Today is very sad for all of us. Steve defined a generation of style and technology that's unlikely to be matched again. Steve was so charismatically brilliant that he inspired people to do the impossible, and he will be remembered as the greatest computer innovator in history.
Disney CEO Bob Iger
Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed and the culture he defined. Steve was such an 'original,' with a thoroughly creative, imaginative mind that defined an era. Despite all he accomplished, it feels like he was just getting started. With his passing the world has lost a rare original, Disney has lost a member of our family, and I have lost a great friend.
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch
Today, we lost one of the most influential thinkers, creators and entrepreneurs of all time. Steve Jobs was simply the greatest CEO of his generation. While I am deeply saddened by his passing, I'm reminded of the stunning impact he had in revolutionizing the way people consume media and entertainment. My heart goes out to his family and to everyone who had the opportunity to work beside him in bringing his many visions to life.
Dell CEO Michael Dell
Today the world lost a visionary leader, the technology industry lost an iconic legend and I lost a friend and fellow founder. The legacy of Steve Jobs will be remembered for generations to come."
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo
Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesnt just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev
People like Steve Jobs change our world. My sincere condolences to his loved ones and to everyone who admired his intellect and talent.
Stephen Fry
Woke to the news of Steve Jobs's death. He changed the world. I knew him a little and admired him entirely. Love to Apple and his family.
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DOYLE, PATRICK, ship's captain, businessman, justice of the peace, politician, and judge; b. 1777 in Newfoundland; m. Mary —; they had no children; d. 4 June 1857 in St John's.
During his lifetime Patrick Doyle pursued a number of careers, the first being that of ship's captain. From 1803 to 1809 he was captain of the snow Rover, sailing between Newfoundland and Bristol, England, and by 1818 he had become sufficiently wealthy to own a 46-ton sealing schooner, the Elizabeth, which he sold that year to finance his expanding commercial interests. By 1819 he had acquired considerable mercantile property along the St John's waterfront, and he was importing basic foodstuffs and fishery supplies as well as an assortment of luxury items. He was also the owner and operator of the Globe Tavern, with its public house, meeting hall, theatre, and tenement building.
Doyle's mercantile premises were destroyed in the city fire of 1819, but by 1828, the year in which he formed a partnership with Stephen Lawler, he was once more doing a thriving importing business. For unknown reasons the partnership was dissolved on 1 Oct. 1831 and Doyle again resumed sole ownership of the firm. Although he auctioned off the Globe Tavern shortly thereafter, he still retained his wharf and two large stores, the rent from which, combined with that of a number of tenement buildings, afforded him a comfortable living until his death. His estate, not including "lands, tenement houses and premises," was valued at £4,600.
In addition to his commercial interests Doyle was actively involved in the political life of Newfoundland. During the period of the colony's struggle for representative government, between 1820 and 1832, he was a member of the political committee of the reform movement led by Dr William Carson* and Patrick Morris*. As a member of this committee, Doyle was chiefly concerned with the administrative and organizational work of the movement, such as the planning of public meetings, the implementation of decisions reached at these meetings, and the preparation and forwarding of petitions to the British government. In November 1820 he was one of a committee of 13 which had been appointed at a public meeting to draw up a petition calling for the abolition of the surrogate court system and appealing the flogging sentences given to Philip Butler and James Lundrigan*, two Conception Bay fishermen who were found in contempt by local surrogate magistrates. During the mid and late 1830s he also protested the unconstitutional and politically biased activities of Chief Justice Henry John Boulton*.
In the 1836 election, which was subsequently invalidated, and again in 1837 Doyle was elected to the Newfoundland House of Assembly as a Liberal representative for the district of Placentia–St Mary's. Although not one of the political leaders of his day, he nevertheless played a very important role in the day to day affairs of the house: he was often called upon to chair the committee of the whole house, to sit on the various committees of inquiry, and to serve on the numerous assembly delegations which met with either the Council or the governor. Since many of these conferences were intended to settle major disputes between the branches of government, it is obvious that Doyle must have been an able negotiator, possessing tact and diplomacy as well as firmness and determination. In 1838 Governor Henry Prescott* considered appointing Doyle, Morris, and Robert Pack to the Council in the hope that enlarging it to include members or former members of the assembly would help reduce tension between the two bodies. This proposal was not adopted because the Colonial Office was reluctant to make any changes in Newfoundland's constitution.
Rather than seek re-election at the end of his legislative term in 1842, Doyle accepted the position of police magistrate for St John's. This was a natural choice since he had been a grand juror for a number of years, and had been made a justice of the peace in 1834. In 1845 Doyle was appointed stipendiary magistrate of the Court of Sessions, a position he retained until his death in 1857.
A Roman Catholic, Doyle was involved in the work of the Benevolent Irish Society, a local organization dedicated to the alleviation of poverty and the encouragement of education. As a member of this highly respected and influential society, he held a number of offices: first assistant 1818–22 and 1827; treasurer 1830–32; and vice-president 1835–40. His most important contribution was his piloting through the House of Assembly of two bills (1839 and 1841) aimed at incorporating the society. Although ultimately unsuccessful in his efforts – the British government disallowed both bills – Doyle nevertheless spent the greater part of his legislative career pursuing this goal, as well as promoting the interests of the poor and disadvantaged in general. He also helped supervise the construction of the Orphan Asylum Schools in 1827, and was one of the closest advisers of Bishop Michael Anthony Fleming* when the latter was trying to secure a building site for the new Roman Catholic cathedral. Doyle was also involved with the non-denominational Charity School Society, the Sons of Old Ireland Society, the Natives' Society, and the Agricultural Society.
Throughout his life Patrick Doyle contributed much of his time and energy toward the improvement of the lot of his fellow countrymen. As a merchant he generated wealth and prosperity and used that wealth to promote culture and refinement. As a political agitator and politician he helped bring democratic institutions to Newfoundland and then helped make those institutions more responsive to the popular will. And finally, as a member of various civic organizations he contributed much toward the relief of economic hardship, the promotion of education, and the fostering of religious expression. His passing was greatly mourned by all classes and sectors of society and by the highest officials of church and state.
PRO, CO 194; CO 195/17 (mfm. at PANL). Supreme Court of Nfld. (St John's), Registry, will of Patrick Doyle, probated 1 June 1857. Dr William Carson, the great Newfoundland reformer: his life, letters and speeches; raw material for a biography, comp. J. R. Smallwood (St John's, 1978). Nfld., House of Assembly, Journal, 1837–42. Newfoundlander, 1827–31, 1837–42. Newfoundland Mercantile Journal, 1819–22. Patriot (St John's), 1835, 1845, 1857. Public Ledger, 1827–28, 1831–32. Royal Gazette and Newfoundland Advertiser, 1815, 1818, 1820, 1828–31, 1834, 1842, 1845, 1847. The register of shipping (London), 1803–9. When was that? (Mosdell). Centenary volume, Benevolent Irish Society of St. John's, Newfoundland, 1806–1906 (Cork, [Republic of Ire., 1906?]). Devine, Ye olde St. John's. Gunn, Political hist. of Nfld. Howley, Ecclesiastical hist. of Nfld. O'Neill, Story of St. John's, vol.1. J. C. Pippy, "The Benevolent Irish Society," The book of Newfoundland, ed. J. R. Smallwood (6v., St John's, 1937–75), 2: 273–87. Prowse, Hist. of Nfld. (1895). F. W. Rowe, The development of education in Newfoundland (Toronto, 1964). J. M. Kent, "The Benevolent Irish Society," Newfoundland Quarterly (St John's), 1 (1901–2), no.4: 13–16.
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Carolyn Korsmeyer, currently Chair of the Department of Philosophy, is known for her study of "terrible food". Her book, Making Sense of Taste: Food and Philosophy (1999), delves into the philosophy of why we consider such pungent food as extremely hot peppers, soured milk, and game meat to be sophisticated to our palettes.
Since she received her Ph.D. from Brown University in 1972, Korsmeyer has primarily focused her study and research on aesthetics, perception, feminism, ethics, and emotion theory. Her recent publication, Gender and Aesthetics (2004), which is the first volume in the series Understanding Feminist Philosophy, explores many of these issues.
In addition to her academic work, Korsmeyer has received awards for her creative writing: In 2001 she surpassed more than 520 contestants to win the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library's Mark Twain Writing Competition with a chapter that concluded Twain's unpublished short story, A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage.
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We haven't been to Mexico for a few years, but the next time will definitely be to Cabo. All I hear are wonderful things about it.
A belated Happy Birthday to you!
Hi Jacqueline! Happy Birthday! You are lucky to have celebrated yoru birthday in Cabo..it really IS a frozen tundra here in Salt Lake! You are not going to like it! LOL!ReplyDelete
Happy B-Day Jacqueline! Looks like you celebrated in style-enjoy:@)ReplyDelete
Best Wishes for a fun and happy year!!!ReplyDelete
Happy belated birthday..Lovely views! I sometimes add fetti to cards also:)ReplyDelete
I was tickled pink the first time a few angels fell out of a card I received..
You are so nice to have made so many books..I use Shutterfly..but may give Costco a try also:)
Our daughter ,husband and 3 sons came to Florida in Nov..and I had a book made..They are such lovely keepsakes..
Feliz Cumpleanos Jacqueline! Muchas Bendiciones y mucha felicidad, salud y amor!!! Since you are were in Mexico I bet you heard this a lot!!!I'm so happy you had a blast! and many moooorrreee!ReplyDelete
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I see you are in Paradise with even some free time to indulge in your Tablescaping Pleasure.
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Happy Birthday! What a lovely celebration!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 9, 2013 at 10:29 AM
Happy Birthday!!! I was going to say how jealous I am...but instead I will say...you are very lucky indeed!!!!ReplyDelete
Feliz cumpleanos, mi amiga! How lucky you are to be able to celebrate in the warmth and glory of Cabo!!! Yes, it's a frozen tundra back here in the States for the most part, and we all envy you right now!!! :-) I didn't know about the Costco photo books. I was just there yesterday. I've never visited their photo department in all the years I've been a member. I'll have to check it out. A friend brought by a book yesterday that her daughter created on Snapfish. I'll compare pricing. I can think of a LOT of photo books I would love to put together for my family! The table for your birthday celebration was beautiful and HAD to make you feel extra special...even if you were suddenly 20 years older! :-)ReplyDelete
Happiest of birthdays, Jacqueline! Mexico sounds lovely for a winter baby to celebrate their bday. Your table is wonderful, too, love the coral as the centerpiece. Have a wonderful year ahead. xoReplyDelete
Happy Birthday Jacqueline, How wonderful to have such a fabulous birthday treat and to be able to enjoy it with your family.ReplyDelete
I have never visited Mexico, but judging by your photos it is a beautiful place. Have a lovely day, Best Wishes DAphne
Happy Birthday, Jacqueline! I couldn't think of a better way to celebrate :)ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday Jacqueline! What a beautiful place to celebrate you special day... EnjoyReplyDelete
Happy Birthday, dear friend. Glad you are at your beautiful home to celebrate in some warmer temps.ReplyDelete
Pretty scape! ~ Sarah
Happy Birthday, Jacqueline! How fun to spend your birthday in Cabo...such a beautiful place! Your table is gorgeous, as always!ReplyDelete
Happy birthday, Jacqueline! What a perfect way to celebrate your birthday. Your table is so pretty and the breathtaking view makes them look even better.....ChristineReplyDelete
How fun to celebrate your bday in Mexico! A pretty table for two (love those dishes) with a lovely view is a present in itself! Hope you had a great time!ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday to you! What a glorious spot to celebrate~ enjoy the beautiful blue sky & view!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous post Jacqueline. I love the book. Will be checking into this.ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday Jacqueline! What a gorgeous view. Just takes my breath away. So glad you had your family together in such a lovely place.ReplyDelete
Your table is great as always. Just beautiful and what a special dinner with your hubby. Funny story about the confetti cards from Joni.
I love your gift books to the kids and am glad to know the Costco site is easy. I've only done one book of a trip on Apple and I slaved away doing it manually. Next time I will let it autofill.
You are always inspiring.
Beautiful table.. gorgeous view.. Happy Birthday to you!!! I love the idea of a book to commemorate all the wonderful times you've had there. I am very much in love with the flatware! The dishes are gorgeous on the scarf, the confetti looks like part of a fabulous design.. Have a very blessed 2013.. xo marlisReplyDelete
Happy Belated birthday to you and Elvis! It has been cold here. While Kyle was here we had negative numbers every night, and now that he is gone it has started to warm up. Your table is lovely, and it is hard to imagine have roses to pick right outside the door. I bet the books were a hit for everyone. JoniReplyDelete
I always love your posts from Cabo as they are so full of color. I didn't know Costco provided a book service. Thanks for the tip. I like to try different sources to compare the flexibility. Hope you had a most wonderful birthday.ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday! I will celebrate my birthday this Saturday on the 12th. No plans to go to Cabo but I will celebrate at my nieces 15 year old party. I am excited because my family will all be there with me to celebrate.ReplyDelete
Hi Mrs. J...ReplyDelete
Belated happy Big Day! This table for 2 is one of the best I saw in your post. I am so romantic, I guess, this is the reason.
The shell formed dishes is to die for. WoW... Love and drool for it. Hope to find in ebay.
Hope you enjoyed to the max.
Once again, Happy Birthday. The older you get the prettier you become.
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Happy Birthday, Jacqueline! I am so happy that you are not in the midst of the WEATHER in Utah! My daughter has been keeping us posted on that snowy area. I am so glad you got to have the warm and sunny birthday you deserve!ReplyDelete
Birthday hugs and love!
AND love your dishes, they look fantastic in the setting! Those books are such fun! I need to make a few of those!ReplyDelete
Wishing you a belated happy birthday! I love those shell shaped plates and shell balls.ReplyDelete
Enjoy the time left down there, it is cold north of the border!
Dear Jacqueline,ReplyDelete
Your kind words left for my Angel relief have truly touched my heart.
Thank you so much.
Happy Birthday! So glad I popped by to see that beautiful holiday spot of yours!ReplyDelete
Your table looks awesome.
Belated happy birthday! What a gift to be in such a beautiful spot. The table is lovely. Sad we have so many months till summer!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for linking to Let's Dish!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I REALLY want to make one of those book!ReplyDelete
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Ray Bahr ought to be taking it easy. He's 75 and retired after a successful career as a cardiologist. Instead, the Canton resident finds himself prowling alleys in East Baltimore on the lookout for illegally dumped trash and goading city officials to clean up mini-landfills in back of abandoned houses.
Now, the physician — who once helped launch a national movement to treat chest pain before it can lead to fatal attacks — has another sick patient, another crusade. He wants to help heal the watery heart of Baltimore — its harbor — and in the process perhaps bring a fractured city a little closer together.
"You clean up the harbor by cleaning up the city, block by block," he says simply.
Bahr is part of a growing band of concerned citizens, environmental activists, outdoors enthusiasts and business people pressing to reclaim the centerpiece of the city.
It's a daunting task. The Northwest and Middle branches of the Patapsco River, which form Baltimore's harbor, are littered with trash, unfit to swim in and plagued by algae blooms and fish kills. In places, the water is dirty enough to make you ill if it gets into a cut or you touch it and then touch your nose or mouth. The bottom is a toxic wasteland that makes many fish caught in the harbor unsafe to eat.
And even though the harbor is not as polluted as it was in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when factories spewed untreated waste into the water, conditions are nothing to brag about. The Patapsco and Back rivers, which drain much of the metro area, received failing grades on last year's report card on the Chesapeake Bay's health. Baltimore's harbor is arguably the most polluted spot along the estuary — and, by some accounts, the most neglected.
Now, though, pressure is building to do something about it. Drawn by the real estate renaissance along the waterfront during the past 30 years, stretching from Canton and Fells Point around the Inner Harbor to Locust Point, a new generation of residents and workers is agitating to clean up the harbor.
Residents such as Bahr are organizing cleanup campaigns in neighborhoods where trash can be swept into the harbor. Activists have pushed state and federal governments to the verge of ordering the city to halt the torrent of trash that washes into the harbor — two to three tons in a single day after a heavy rain. They've documented how bad the water is — with "shockingly high" bacteria counts in places such as are more typically found in an unflushed toilet.
The Waterfront Partnership, a coalition of businesses, civic groups and city agencies, has called together scientists, government officials and community leaders across the metropolitan area to forge a plan for making the harbor swimmable and fishable by the end of the decade. The partnership is sponsoring a conference Saturday on the state of the harbor and what can be done to clean it up.
"We really believe … the time is now to do this," says Michael Hankin, the Waterfront Partnership's chairman and chief executive of Brown Advisory, a Baltimore investment group with offices in Fells Point.
Such a campaign might have seemed a pipe dream not long ago. And even supporters acknowledge that it may be unrealistic, given the challenges. But several forces — demographic, economic and legal — are converging to bring more attention to the harbor's ills than ever before.
'300 years of damage'
Like the rest of the Chesapeake, the harbor is choking on nutrients — nitrogen and phosphorus from sewage, lawn fertilizer and pet waste. That overdose of nutrients feeds algae blooms, triggering fish kills when oxygen levels in the water dip.
But the harbor's problems are deeper and broader than the bay's.
For centuries, Baltimore's harbor was a dumping ground for raw sewage from the city's residents as well as wastes from the factories, canneries and fishmongers that crowded the waterfront.
Today, industries that once lined the shore are mostly gone, replaced by offices, restaurants, shops and expensive waterfront homes whose owners include author Tom Clancy. The factories that remain are required to treat their discharge, and the city has upgraded its sewage treatment plants.
The city has a small flotilla of vessels that skim trash from the Inner Harbor. And under a federal consent decree, the city expects to spend $1 billion to fix aged, failing sewer lines that routinely overflow, dumping raw waste into streams that flow into the harbor.
"We're undoing 300 years of damage," says Kurt Kocher, a spokesman for the Department of Public Works. The city's efforts are changing the role of the harbor, he says, "from being a sewer, a dumping ground, an industrial pit, to being an asset for recreation and tourism and aesthetics."
Many, though, say the reality is far less.
Marc Daemen, a coach at the Baltimore Rowing Club, has rowed competitively around the world. Nowhere has he had to contend with as much floating trash, he says, as in the Patapsco.
"I've been in most countries in Europe, and it's dirty, but not with foam cups and debris," he says. "Across the U.S., I haven't seen anything like here. Maybe Philly is close. Everywhere in Virginia, Florida and Boston is cleaner than here."
The city's trash skimmers pick up one-third of a ton of floating debris on clear days and 2 to 31/2 tons on a rainy day, according to city officials.
Much of it washes into the harbor from the Jones Falls and the Gwynns Falls, rivers that begin as brooks beyond the Beltway in Baltimore County before wending their way through the city.
But the skimmers are not enough. In an eight-month stretch in 2008, more than 300,000 pounds of debris were collected by a solar-powered trash interceptor placed at the mouth of the Jones Falls where it empties into the Inner Harbor. Among the detritus: some 189,000 plastic bottles, 177,000 chip bags, 160,000 foam cups, 58,000 grocery bags and more than a million cigarette butts.
Petitioned by activists and citizens to do something about the debris, three years ago the state and federal governments declared Baltimore's harbor impaired by trash. The Maryland Department of the Environment is expected by next year to order the city and Baltimore County to come up with plans to eliminate floating litter.
What lies beneath
Unsightly trash is but the most visible of the harbor's water quality problems. In many places, it is not safe to swim because of what you cannot see.
Eliza Smith Steinmeier, the Baltimore Harbor Waterkeeper, part of a local water-quality watchdog group, spent most of 2009 helping the city's Department of Public Works collect water samples from about two dozen spots around the harbor, to have them tested for disease-causing bacteria, likely from human sewage. The lab looks for enterococci bacteria, an organism that indicates the presence of human or animal waste.
Parts of the harbor often were relatively clean — the Patapsco beyond Fort McHenry, and parts of the Middle Branch. Others, particularly the Inner Harbor and along Canton's waterfront, had bacteria counts hundreds or thousands of times the level deemed safe for even casual contact with the water, never mind swimming.
Accidental swallowing or splashing of the contaminated water into the mouth or nose could lead to diarrhea, nausea and stomachache. Those with compromised immune systems or open cuts risk more serious illness or infection.
Under state water-quality standards, a public bathing beach cannot have bacteria counts higher than 35 organisms per 100 milliliters — less than a teacup's worth — of water. For open water to be deemed safe for regular swimming, bacterial counts should not exceed 104, while any reading above 500 is considered to pose a risk of becoming ill just by jumping or falling in.
The highest bacteria counts in the harbor often occurred after storms, indicating that rain was washing sewage or animal waste into the water through storm drains. Tests within a day of heavy rains found bacteria levels of more than 1.6 million organisms per 100 milliliters near the Power Plant, 900,000 in Canton, 80,000 off Broadway Pier in Fells Point and 50,000 off the waterfront residences at Harborview. Some places had high bacteria counts all of the time.
Sally G. Hornor, a microbiologist at Anne Arundel Community College who has been monitoring water quality at beaches and marinas in the Severn River for more than a decade, calls the bacteria levels in Baltimore harbor "shockingly high."
"I'm really amazed that they're that high all the time," says Hornor, who reviewed harbor bacteria data sent to her by The Baltimore Sun. "I just think about all those little paddleboats people go out in in the summer, and you know they're being splashed."
Paddleboat and electric boat renters are not warned about bacteria in the water, says Christopher Rowsom, a manager with the Living Classrooms Foundation, which runs the Inner Harbor concession. He says he and other foundation staff members have worked on and around the boats for months at a time without becoming ill. But he acknowledged that contaminated water in the Inner Harbor could pose health risks for someone with a compromised immune system.
On its website the city Health Department carries a recommendation against swimming in the harbor and urges boaters to wash their hands before eating or after leaving a boat. But while the city has posted signs in streams feeding the harbor warning that the water could make people ill, no similar cautions are posted at the harbor's edge.
Those who frequent the water say they are generally aware of its health risks.
"You just make sure you don't paddle with your mouth open," says Kerri Bliss, a member of the Baltimore Dragon Boat Club, which practices on the harbor from spring through fall and hosts a race here. "If you have an open cut, you just don't go out on the water." Bliss says she also keeps hand sanitizer in the glove compartment of her vehicle to use once she gets off the water.
Many of the dirtiest spots in the harbor are near storm drain outfalls. Those drains, and the maze of pipes connecting them beneath the city streets, provide conduits for carrying away rainfall running down city streets. They often also carry sewage when nearby sewer pipes break or overflow.
In 2002, the Environmental Protection Agency ordered the city to make extensive repairs in an attempt to cut down on sewage overflows and leaks. The city has completed repairs or replacement of 39 main sewer lines that routinely overflowed in hard rains. The cost so far: $348 million.
City officials say the efforts have paid off in a major reduction in the amount of sewage leaking into storm drains, streams and the harbor. While the number of sewage overflows the city reports to the state has increased in the past five years, from 122 in 2005 to 181 last year, the volume of sewage the city says got into the water has declined by two-thirds, from nearly 4.8 million gallons five years ago to 1.6 million gallons last year.
Still, there's enough untreated waste leaking from other, smaller sewer lines to foul the streams feeding into the harbor. Sampling done by the city of its urban streams shows no real improvement in the high bacteria counts that render them unfit for water recreation, acknowledged Bill Stack, a watershed consultant who until last year oversaw water-quality efforts at the city's Department of Public Works.
The Maryland Department of the Environment has declared parts of the Inner Harbor and Middle Branch impaired by bacteria. State officials are weighing whether to require the city and Baltimore County to reduce sewage leaks still more and to prevent pet waste from getting into storm drains.
"Does this mean our streams are constantly in a state of impairment?" Kocher asks. "There's always going to be some of that to a small extent." But he said the city's waterways slowly are regaining vitality. "You're seeing some wildlife return, some fish return, some amphibians return."
Indeed, an underwater video shot last year by the National Aquarium revealed rockfish, white perch, spot, menhaden and a few small blue crabs lurking beneath a small floating wetland the aquarium had anchored off its pier. Tiny mussels coated its submerged bottom.
"There is actually plenty of life in the harbor," says David Nemerson, a conservation biologist with the aquarium.
Toxic hotspot
Some of the fish, however, are not safe to eat because of lingering toxic pollution.
The state warns anglers against eating bottom-feeding catfish or eels from the harbor. And because even low levels of toxic chemicals can harm children's development, the state advises women and children not to eat white perch and to limit their consumption of crabs. Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, once widely used as an insulator for electrical equipment, have shown up in tissue of fish caught in the harbor, as have traces of long-banned pesticides such as chlordane. PCBs have caused cancer in lab animals and are considered a probable human carcinogen.
State environmental officials also warn anyone eating crabs caught in the Patapsco or Back rivers against consuming the "mustard," the yellowish substance found beneath the shells of steamed crabs. It's where PCBs tend to concentrate.
Despite the potential contamination of fish and crabs from the harbor, there are no signs posted at popular fishing spots on the Middle Branch to alert the public to what they should avoid eating.
The problem with fish and crabs in the harbor stems largely from past pollution, officials say. Contaminants from long-closed factories remain buried in the sediments on the harbor bottom, where they get into the food chain via fish that feed on worms and little clams that live in the muck.
But industrial pollution is still entering the harbor, activists point out.
The Inner Harbor is bracketed by factories that continue to discharge wastes, such as the Severstal steel mill at Sparrows Point and the Grace Davison chemical plant in Curtis Bay. The Severstal mill reported releasing nearly 10,000 pounds of manganese, copper and chromium in 2009, the most recent year for which figures are available, while the Grace plant reported discharging nearly a half-million pounds of nitrates and ammonia. All those discharges are legal, permitted under state regulation.
Tackling the problem
Perhaps the harbor's biggest problem these days comes from the wastes and contaminants washing off city and suburban streets and parking lots into storm drains. And while the city dumped dirty snow from last year's blizzards into the harbor, the impact of that onetime move is inconsequential compared with what people leave in the streets and gutters on a daily basis.
"People are just washing dog poop down the storm drain," says Halle Van der Gaag, deputy director of Blue Water Baltimore, a new watershed group promoting efforts to restore the harbor and the streams that drain into it.
The city has taken steps to tackle the problem, spending $3.8 million a year on mechanical street sweeping, for instance. A handful of storm drains in the Franklin Square area of West Baltimore have been retrofitted to divert rain into small gardens, where oil and other contaminants can be trapped before they can reach streams that feed the Gwynns Falls.
But the city will soon face a new mandate, long delayed, to do much more to reduce pollution from its streets, alleys and parking lots. The state Department of the Environment has been drafting a new storm-water permit for Baltimore that is expected to require the city, among other things, to retrofit many of its storm drains and rip up acres of pavement so rain can soak into the ground again.
City officials have estimated that it could cost $20 million to $30 million a year to meet the new requirements. That's money the city doesn't have. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has endorsed the goal of making the harbor swimmable and fishable, and even joked with the Waterfront Partnership's Hankin about joining him in an inaugural triathlon, one leg of which would involve swimming across the harbor.
But last year, money that the city spends to clean trash from streets and storm drains was nearly cut from the budget. And the city, like most communities in Maryland, does not charge a fee for maintaining its storm drains and controlling runoff.
"Eventually, the city is going to have to invest more in our storm-water infrastructure over the long term," Ryan O'Doherty, the mayor's spokesman, said in an e-mail. Officials are studying how to pay for it, he said, but can't do much until the economy and the city's finances improve.
Maryland environmental officials say they're addressing the harbor's woes through state-funded upgrades of the city's Patapsco and Back River sewage plants, among other things, and with orders they're working on to reduce storm-water pollution and trash in the harbor. But such regulatory actions take years to unfold.
Federal officials say they're relying mainly on the state to see that the harbor gets the attention it needs. Last year, the EPA did fine the city $90,000 for a series of lapses in controlling polluted runoff from municipal facilities, more than a year after finding them in a spot inspection. The state also fined the city $60,750 for sewer overflows.
The Waterfront Partnership has gotten tired of waiting.
"A couple years ago, there was a big fish kill in the Inner Harbor," recalls Van Reiner, president of the Maryland Science Center and a leader of the partnership. "There was a terrible, terrible odor. People wouldn't come down there. We decided to do something. We just couldn't stand to have that happen again."
So it launched a "healthy harbor" campaign last year. The group has created floating wetlands and commissioned a report card on the health of the harbor from the University of Maryland. It has also hired consultants to draw up a comprehensive harbor restoration plan that could serve as a road map for cleanup efforts. The plan isn't due until May, but the partnership plans to present a preview at its conference Saturday.
"We've been waiting for these permits [requiring the city and county] to clean up the harbor for years, and they're just not that specific," says Stack, who's helping to write the harbor restoration plan. He spent three decades with the city trying to clean Baltimore's waters. Now, as deputy director of the Center for Watershed Protection, a nonprofit consulting firm in Ellicott City, he says he's more hopeful than ever that real improvements can be made.
Even so, he says, making the harbor swimmable by 2020 is "a little ambitious, given the reality of what it's going to take for people to gear up." Raising the money will be tough. To win over the public, he says, the fight to restore the harbor must take place where people can see the benefits — on land.
Grass-roots in Harris Creek
Ray Bahr has been working on that, at the grass-roots. For him, it's about reclaiming a community where he grew up. Bahr says he took up the cause of the harbor at the suggestion of his son, who works for the state Department of the Environment.
"When you retire, you don't lose energy," he says. "What I like to do is give back, bring back something that's correctible."
For more than a year, he's worked with city officials, groups such as the Parks & People Foundation and with neighborhood leaders drawing up a plan for "cleaning and greening" a 2-square-mile swath of the city that drains into the harbor at Canton through one of 26 storm drain outfalls around the edge. The solar-powered trash interceptor once anchored at the mouth of the Jones Falls has been moved there, where until recently it has been capturing up to five tons of debris before it could wash into the harbor.
The outfall was once the mouth of Harris Creek, a tidal inlet that stretched all the way to Patterson Park. Today, the creek is buried beneath the streets, as are most of the streams in the city. But its old bed has become the spine of a 53-mile network of storm sewer pipes connecting 17 neighborhoods that stretches inland to Clifton Park. With 70 percent of the land paved over, officials say cleaner water will only come by replacing some of that pavement with green spaces — and by changing people's behavior.
For many Baltimoreans who don't live near the water, though, the harbor is a tourist attraction, not something they relate to. In some of the neighborhoods that drain into the harbor in Canton, incomes average $12,000 a year. Planners say there are 5,000 vacant homes and roughly as many empty lots in the whole storm-drain watershed, which is home to 44,000 people.
"The average citizen in our city could care less about the Inner Harbor," says Russell E. Stewart, 81, who lives near the watershed's northern boundary. "The prices are so high we can't afford to go there." Stewart warned that "if you do not win the community over, you can forget it. You'll be wasting your time and money."
Bahr acknowledges that he and other activists ran into skeptics, even suspicion, when they first ventured into poor inland neighborhoods. However, the residents told them they want better neighborhoods, but said they were often ignored by the city when they called to report trash dumped illegally in their alleys and vacant lots.
Last summer, in a bid to overcome those gaps, Bahr helped organize a 10-week cleanup campaign in a 4,000-home area of the Harris Creek watershed. Bahr and other volunteers scouted streets and alleys for trash and reported it to the city, which sent out crews to clean it. They gave out 500 trash cans in neighborhoods where many residents persist in putting trash out in bags — which get torn apart by dogs, cats and rats.
In all, they cleaned up more than 100 sites littered with debris. The biggest hauls came from the backyards of vacant homes, Bahr says, which had become mini-landfills over time, and which the city had largely ignored because they were on private property.
Since then, Bahr says, the outpouring of trash washing out of the storm outfall in Canton appears to have fallen by as much as half. To build on that, Bahr says, he's trying to persuade the city to provide 5,000 more trash cans to give to residents. With that gesture, which Bahr estimates would cost the city $70,000, he says neighborhood leaders have pledged that they'll police their blocks and call out residents who persist in putting bags of trash out for pickup.
City officials say they've no money and besides, they've given away inexpensive trash cans before, only to see them disappear. But Bahr contends the effort is worth trying again, that the potential gain is worth the relatively small cost.
If neighborhoods as different as Canton and Patterson Park and Darley Park can work together to clean up trash, Bahr hopes that will lead to other improvements mapped out in the Harris Creek plan, such as creating more parks and community gardens on vacant lots. And maybe it can serve as a model for the rest of the city.
There are those who doubt that Baltimoreans can come together like that, he acknowledges. The city has a lot of other pressing problems pulling people in different directions. But he says he believes that cleaning up and greening neighborhoods not only will restore the harbor, it can help make the city safer and a better place to live and work.
"It's a challenge," he says. "But to me, it's what bringing Baltimore back is all about."
Baltimore Sun reporter Meredith Cohn contributed to this article.
Baltimore city sewage overflows
2005: 122 overflows, 4,754,828 gallons
2006: 75 overflows, 69,505,394 gallons
2007: 74 overflows, 549,564 gallons
2008: 133 overflows, 1,620,464 gallons
2009: 226 overflows, 2,167,752 gallons
2010: 181 overflows, 1,565,074 gallons
SOURCE: Maryland Department of the Environment
Ray Bahr ought to be taking it easy. He's 75 and retired after a successful career as a cardiologist. Instead, the Canton resident finds himself prowling alleys in East Baltimore on the lookout for illegally dumped trash and goading city officials to clean up mini-landfills in back of abandoned houses.