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Bontrager's BackRack L Disc is made for disc-equipped mountain and hybrid bikes with frame sizes 18 inches and over, and road bike frames 54cm and over. This durable and light rack is perfect for turning your bike into a commuter and errand-runner. Tough and rustproof stainless-steel hardware is included and the single-bolt strut mounts allow for maximum adjustablility and ease of installation. Plus, the BackRack is compatible with standard trunk bags and panniers as well as Bontrager's Interchange models (sold separately). What's more, the BackRack includes a spacer to give you the necessary clearance for use with most disc brakes.
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The unit came with extra parts, which I should not complain about. But, whenever I have left-over parts I wonder "What did I forget?" :-/ Very sturdy and fits my Novara mtn bike with disc brakes perfectly. However, the simplistic installation instructions are not that great. OK fit for my existing panniers that I exchange with my road bike. Like that the adjustable attachment rods are designed to be shortened for a better fit. I would recommend this product, but just think about fit with your specific bike and intended uses to make sure it is a good solution for you.
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I had a very hard time finding a rear rack that would fit on my bike because of oddly shaped eyelets. I had the mechanic do it and it took him a lot longer than he thought it would, and he ended up having to use glue on the threads. However, this is the ONLY one that worked at all, so that's great.
The rack pictured won't work with disc brakes.
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The Rack looks very well made. It came with the proper amount of fasteners in the package. But!!! Not the screws for the bottom mounts for the disc brake spacers!! Until they include those, I can't recommend this to a friend
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Casino hypocrisy
It is amazing to me when hearing from the various faith-based groups that oppose the casino in Cascade Locks. You hear about the evils of gambling and the adverse effects it has on families and humanity in general, but you never hear them speak of "Church Bingo" in the same context. If gambling is such an epidemic then why aren't they trying to save themselves?
Jonathan Blake
White Salmon, Wash.
'Bogus' stuff
I was disturbed when I read about Mrs. Lila Draper's land issues (Jan. 14). Why does our government not just leave people the heck alone! When I am finally blessed to purchase land, you can bet that I will do whatever I want to with it. Property owners have to pay all kinds of fees, taxes, and pay for coding, etc. Why must they always be bothered with bogus stuff? I guess nobody really owns anything, do they?
Good luck and God bless, Mrs. Draper.
Kimberly Garner
The Dalles
Build awareness
I recently attended the memorial for Jennifer Smith, who lost her battle with breast cancer. Shortly after Jennifer was diagnosed with breast cancer I saw her at the softball field. I believe the first words out of her after I said hello were, "Have you had a mammogram?"
I was fortunate to have a positive response, because, had I said no, I believe she would have driven me down to get one then and there!
Jennifer had many passions but one that she was forced to have was cancer awareness and early detection. Mammography is the single most effective method of early detection. It can identify cancer several years before physical symptoms develop.
The American Cancer Society states, "A woman's best overall preventative health strategy is to reduce her known risk factors as much as possible by avoiding obesity and weight gain, increasing physical activity and minimizing alcohol intake."
Guidelines for early detection of breast cancer:
Age 40 and older
Annual mammogram
Annual clinical breast exam
Monthly breast self exam (optional)
Age 20 to 39
Clinical breast exam every three years
Monthly breast self exam (optional)
There is no guaranteed way to prevent breast cancer, which is why regular mammograms are critical.
This was Jennifer Smith's message to me. I am passing it on to all those who think, "It can't happen to me," or "I'll take care of it soon." Don't procrastinate; schedule your mammogram now and say a little thanks to a brave lady.
Pam Jacobson
Hood River
Teach health choices
I am writing in response to an article in your paper dated Jan. 7, titled, "A problem for all ages." If the goal is to "urge parental leadership to foster healthy lifestyles for youth," you have to expand your definition — not just focus solely on abstaining from drugs and alcohol.
I have several thoughts: These are just my thoughts, not at all expert advice.
1) Adults drinking in moderation and/or one parent may have a drink but the other does not, in order to role model the designated driver theory, would make much more of an impact than the total "abstain from" message which is not most people's reality.
2) Alcohol at First Friday. It is a "business and local artist" promotional event. Vineyards are an important part of our community and First Friday is an opportunity for these vital businesses, along with the downtown stores which supply the wine to promote their goods. It is the adults who are purchasing from these folks.
If people don't want their kids exposed, they can choose not to attend.
3) Most importantly. If you're going to claim "healthy lifestyles" you cannot exclude diet and exercise. (It is known that obesity in children is on the rise.) There would be more credibility in a message about "healthy lifestyles" if the message included not only language, but role modeling of an entire package around moderation in diet, exercise, alcohol (if they choose once of age) and drug-free choices.
Because when all is said and done, what it really boils down to is, we as parents (which I am) are accountable for teaching and role modeling to our children how to make responsible, healthy lifestyle choices. Parenting — it's an exciting journey!
Jacque Johnston
Hood River
Dealing fabrication
It appears that some in the pro casino circle in Cascade Locks are attempting (again) to insinuate that No Gorge Casino! is being funded by the Grande Ronde tribe. As co-chair of No Gorge Casino! I can say with absolute certainty that these rumors are complete fabrication.
The Coalition for Oregon's Future does own the domain name nogorge-casino.com, but they owned that domain long before the combining of Hood River No Casino and Cascade Locks No Casino and concerned Washington State citizens into one group, No Gorge Casino!
There will be two domain names for the new group, nogorgecasinos.com (notice the plural) and columbiagorgeno-casino.com. Both domains have been purchased by the group (without any assistance from, or ties to, the Grand Rhonde tribe) and we are currently reviewing hosting options, but both sites will be up and operational shortly.
To simply put it, No Gorge Casino! is not funded by the Coalition for Oregon's Future in any way, nor do we have any ties, financial or otherwise, with the Grand Ronde tribe. Instead of dealing in deception and innuendo, maybe casino supporters could try to talk about the actual issues surrounding the location of a 500,000 square foot casino in the heart of a National Scenic Area, and the negative effects it would have on Columbia Gorge communities.
John Randall
Cascade Locks
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5 Gorgeous Camera Straps for Shutterbugs
If you love snapping photos while you're out and about this summer, it's easiest to do so with your camera at hand and ready for action. We've looked into camera clips, but if you're not into the belt clip look, these gorgeous camera straps are hard to resist.
1. Roberu Border Stripe Canvas Camera Strap ($138): We can't decide if this camera strap makes us think of a safari trip or a weekend at the beach. Either way, we love the green and cream pattern with leather trimmings.
2. Personalized Leather Camera Strap ($58.90): Also a great gift idea, having a personalized camera strap would be pretty cool. It's hand-stitched and adjustable.
3. Red Shimmer Camera Strap (£24.00): Classic and simple, this red shimmer and black leather camera strap could work for both males and the ladies.
4. Sarah Frances Kuhn Camera Strap ($30): For photographers who want their cameras to look as dressed up as they are, these stylish straps by SFK make us think of pretty purse straps.
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Is your student debt preventing you from buying a house?
Sales to first-time home buyers remain depressed, a new Washington Post article notes, directing some blame at student loans. Many young people are graduating with higher debts than earlier generations while stricter lending standards have made it harder to get a mortgage.
Chief economist Lindsey Piegza of Sterne Agee has drawn a similar conclusion. About seven in 10 graduates leave school with debt and almost 40 million have sizable loans to pay off, she wrote in a recent report.
Total U.S. student-loan debt now sits at $1.1 trillion, making it the largest kind of consumer debt after mortgages, according to figures issued Tuesday by the New York Federal Reserve. Total student debt climbed $114 billion in 2013 and it has doubled in the past eight years.
What's more, The New York Fed found that 11.5% of student loans are 90 days past due or in default.
"A massive debt burden topping one trillion dollars possess crippling risks for the individual graduate but also, unaddressed, carries large consequences for the economy as well," Piegza said.
The consequences not only include weaker home sales, but less spending on all kinds of consumer goods and services. Slack demand, in turn, gives businesses less reason to hire and create more jobs. And if graduates are unable to find a well-paying job, the burden of paying back the debt grows even more onerous.
Unlike other forms of debt, student loans are almost impossible to reduce or eliminate through bankruptcy unless an individual can prove extreme hardship. Many people take years, sometimes even decades, to pay all the debt off. It can even hurt their ability to save for retirement.
Still, lenders are legally well protected and they have little reason to deny an applicant a loan. Nor do colleges face any pressure to make sure their graduates can find a good job after they leave.
Are you having a hard time paying back your student loans? Let us know in the comments.
— Jeffry Bartash
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Halle Berry gets a little dirty while taking a few home improvement items and a few personal items out of a storage area on Monday (May 24) in Burbank, Calif.
While moving, the 43-year-old actress leaned a beam of some sort up against the wall, which then slipped and hit her Lexus.
Last week, Halle declared herself to be a fierce lioness when it came to protecting her daughter, Nahla, from the paparazzi. Gabriel Aubry reportedly wants full custody of their daughter now that the couple has split.
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UAF Domain Decommissioning
OIT is finishing up with the decommissioning of the UAF domain. In April 2010 user accounts were moved from the UAF domain to the new UA domain. Following this long transition period OIT will be disabling the remaining UAF domain accounts on May 3, 2013. You will want to begin to routinely use your UA domain account before that date to avoid any loss of access to University computing resources (computers, network printers, and shared drives).
How do I know if I'm using the old UAF domain?
When you log into your workstation do you select UAF as your Domain? If so, you will be affected. In Windows XP, the domain selection pull down menu is located on the logon screen just under User name and Password fields. In Windows 7, you would see "UAF\" before your UA Username.
How will my login change?
The only difference in how you log into your computer will be in the 'Domain' that you select, which will now be 'UA.' Your username and password will remain the same and is your UA Username and password; the same login you use for Google Apps @ UA, ELMO, and BlackBoard.
What other UAF domain resources could be setup on my computer?
There could also be a connection to a network printer or shared storage that is using the old UAF domain.
How do I know if that is the case?
If you are logging into your computer with your UAF domain account, there is a good chance that you are using network computing resources (printers and shared drives) that were configured using your UAF domain account.
Why are we disabling user accounts in the UAF domain?
This is one of the last steps in a long process of migrating to a central domain. OIT moved user accounts from the UAF domain to the UA domain In April of 2010, but continued to sync the accounts while we migrated other UAF domain resources (shared drives, printers, etc.) to the UA domain.
What is the UA Domain
This is a UA System-wide shared domain between the Fairbanks, Anchorage, and Juneau campuses. The UA domain provides login access to resources such as computer, shared drives, and network printers. The UA domain allows anyone with an account to login and use resources at any campus in the university system.
Documentation for connecting to computing resources using the UA Domain.
Windows 7
Connect your Windows 7 system that is not on the UA domain to the UAF (FBK) Print Server
Connect your Windows 7 system to a Shared Drive
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So you want audio and video in your backyard?
Fair enough, although it's not as simple as hooking up a TV and some speakers. Maybe you'd also like to control that outdoor system from a handheld remote … and control the swimming pool system, and automate the sprinkler system, and trench wire out to the cabana for a home theater.
All of a sudden, this has turned into quite a project.
First order of business: Find waterproof and weatherproof electronics—there's a difference. Do this unless your electronics are going to be very well protected from the elements, such as located inside a roofed cabana or closed-in patio. Second order of business: Plan ahead. Know how your outdoor gear is going to be wired. You can always let your custom electronics (CE) pro handle it, or you can read these 29 tips and wield your own shovel and wire stripper.
1. Place your TV somewhere where it's protected from the weather, as well as from dirt, moisture and insets. This is especially important if your outside area is exposed to salty ocean breezes.
2. Use a TV meant for the outdoors. "Products from SunBriteTV, Seura and Pantel keep condensation (and insects) out of the TV and are very specialized to last," says Josh Christian of Southern California-based DSI Entertainment Systems. (More about what goes inside an outdoor TV)
3. Minimize glare by placing your display in a shaded area. Use an LCD TV instead of a plasma-based model, which is more susceptible to glare (all outdoor-rated TVs are LCD).
4. Even with a weatherproof TV, try to install it under an overhang, in custom cabinetry or behind a glass enclosure. A custom cabinetmaker can work with your CE pro to add watertight rubber seals around doors and pressure-treat the wood accordingly. (Check out this rooftop TV that rises automatically out of a custom cabinet.)
5. Want an outdoor projection setup? Motorized drop-down screens or inflatable ones can be used with a carefully housed or portable projector for after-dusk viewing. You may still want a bright LCD TV for daytime viewing, though.
6. Locate a projection screen where it can roll up and away when it's not being used, suggests Erich Allen of EAG Design in Kingsport, Tenn. Tucked into a soffit, for example, it will be protected from the elements and raise no visual distractions with the landscape. (Check out this backyard private theater with views from the swimming pool)
7. Consider installing a weather meter indicator, so if conditions get too breezy the screen will retract automatically into its housing, when tied into some sort of automation system.
8. For audio, think in terms of coverage, not loudness. What you want is even coverage throughout the outdoor area, without any hot spots or dead spots. "The best way [to accomplish this] is to use a lot of smaller speakers," explains Neal Edmiston, co-owner of Southern California-based Vision Systems Automation.
9. Position the speakers so that they're firing toward the house. You'll get better sound coverage, and you'll be a better neighbor. Plus, when the speakers are placed away from the house, they won't conflict visually with your home's design and architecture. Blend the speakers into the landscape by choosing models that resemble rocks, planters and other backyard objects from SteroStone, Rockustics, Niles, NuTone and other manufacturers.
10. Need more bass? Complement your outdoor speakers with in-ground subwoofers. "What's great about the in-ground sub is that only part of it sticks out. This allows us to put smaller, more inconspicuous, speakers in other spots," that a subwoofer might otherwise occupy, Edmiston says. Terra Speakers' AC Sub is a good choice for this. And know the difference between waterproof and weatherproof, especially when it comes to speakers. Waterproof speakers are design to stand up against a summer storm and poolside horseplay. Weatherproof products, on the other hand, will be able to withstand many other conditions, such as drastic changes in temperature. Keep in mind, not all weatherproof speakers are also waterproof.
11. Locating and wiring source components to an outdoor video display can be a major challenge. The first rule of thumb is to try to keep as much of the gear inside the house as possible, preferably in a central equipment rack.
12. Work with the home or landscape architect early on so conduit and electrical cabling can be trenched into the ground. Ask for multiple 2-inch conduits or larger.
13. Run all outdoor cabling through conduit. This will protect it from rodents and garden tools.
14. Even if you'll be using conduit, always use direct-burial cables.
15. It's always a good idea to separate power and A/V cables. Run two or three conduits to accommodate all types of cables and to future-proof your outdoor area.
16. The length of outdoor cabling can cause problems. "You really have to think about what the distance will do to the audio, video and control signals," says Curt Hayes of Audio Design in Deerfield Beach, Fla.
17. Wiring runs often can't be completed at rough-in, so look to "stub out" cable bundles to a weatherproof, surface-mounted box where connections can be made later.
18. Run 14/4 speaker cabling between the source components and an outdoor junction box with a cover plate. Use direct-burial cabling from the box to the speakers.
19. RG-6 and Category 5 Ethernet cabling are safe bets for all other outdoor equipment. Dedicate an individual Cat 5 for each audio, video and control path or two shielded Cat 6 for an HDMI extension.
20. Some CE pros add fiber-optic cabling for HDMI, especially when the run is over 100 feet. Hayes says it's less expensive and has become easier to terminate, but he warns not to run it in lieu of Cat 5 (just in addition to).
21. Rule number one: Don't bring the remote control near the pool. Rule number two: Always, always, obey rule number one. The exception is if you use a waterproof remote like the ones made by URC or Crestron. Since many people are now using their smartphones and tablets for the control interface, take special care that those don't get wet or lost.
22. If simple A/V controls are all you're looking for, a simple weather-resistant controller like the RTI U1 is inexpensive and easy to integrate with either local or distributed sources. Its simple design and rugged weatherproofing make it perfect for poolside A/V control.
23. If you're interested in controlling an entire home automation infrastructure from an outdoor environment, a step-up controller like RTI's weather-resistant U2 can facilitate.
24. An RF (radio frequency) remote is often preferred over IR (infrared) in an outdoor setting, both for greater coverage and to avoid IR interference from sunlight. But if you plan to use an infrared remote control outdoors, you'll need to install an infrared receiver somewhere to capture and relay the signal to the equipment inside. Carl Bevando of multiroom technology manufacturer Xantech suggests locating the receiver in a shady area for the best response. Smart phones and tablets will connect to the control
25. For good wireless roaming range, "we will put Crestron RF repeaters out in the yard and hide them in weatherproof boxes that are hidden throughout the landscaping," says Christian of DSI Entertainment Systems.
26. If you're using your smart phone or tablet as your control interface, make sure you have a strong Wi-Fi signal outside so your control device can connect to the network.
27. If you have a swimming pool … and a home control system, think about tying the two together. This way, the operation of the pool system can be synchronized with the settings of the outdoor lights, music and video. Jandy's Aqualink RS Series, for example, is a pool system designed to work in concert with home control systems.
28. When more elaborate pool system control is needed independent of an existing automation system, many pool installers turn to the Pentair IntelliTouch system, which offers valve control, chemical monitoring, security integration and other automation features.
29. Consider adding a pool alarm, especially if you have children. Mark Ontiveros of Tustin, Calif.-based Audio Images looks to SonarGuard products to provide peace of mind for clients with kids. Control touchpanels around the house can be triggered by SonarGuard annunciators alerting homeowners "very loudly that 'a child is in the pool.'"
30. Ask your CE pro to integrate your irrigation systems with your home control system. Right from a home control keypad or touchpanel, or remotely from a phone, you'll be able to view the status of the sprinkler system and adjust the settings if necessary.
Read more about planning an outdoor audio/video system here.


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Did you upgrade your laptop to Windows 8? Does it feel like it would be a whole lot easier to use if you could just reach out and touch (or possibly punch) the screen? You can stop cursing out your mouse thanks to Targus. The company found a solution – or at least a workaround – with its new Touch Pen that promises to give your Windows 8 laptop the power of touch. Honestly, it sounds like a product that should be pitched on a late night infomercial. Thankfully, it's not. It's available through Targus for one easy payment of $100.
Targus describes the pen as a way to bring new life to an older laptop that's been upgraded to Windows 8. The pen comes with a USB-powered magnetic receiver that attaches to the bezel of your laptop screen and gives the screen its "touch" ability. Unfortunately, your digit will not do; the pen has to be used in order to manipulate items on the screen. As long as you don't mind the pen, you can swipe through tiles, doodle in Paint, and and scroll through Web pages.
The pen requires a one-time calibration and setup, but after that, just clip the receiver onto the side of your screen, plug in its USB cord, and it's ready to go. It's as easy as plugging in an external mouse.
Sure, it sounds great; but does it actually work? According to the folks over at PC World, it does. They took the Touch Pen for a spin on an aging 17-inch laptop that was recently upgraded to Windows 8 and came away with a positive impression of it. Like most add-ons, it's likely not a cure for all of your Windows 8 gripes, but it's a relatively inexpensive step in the right direction.


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The big question now is, who will the Colorado Avalanche take first overall? Will it be former Denver native Seth Jones, or will the hiring of new head coach Patrick Roy sway the Avs to take Nathan McKinnon, a player Roy saw too many times when coaching in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
We now know where everyone will draft save for the 29th and 30th picks respectively, and that will be determined once the Cup Final is over as the Stanley Cup winner will pick last and the other Finalist will pick 29th.
David Burstyn, McKeen's Hockey Director of Scouting, has put together the first round of the Mock Draft.
McKeen's Hockey has put out their top 120 picks for the 2013 Draft. In addition, they also preview the 2014 and 2015 Drafts as well as the top four players eligible in 2016. Click here to enter their site, it's a great buy.
1. Colorado Avalanche Seth Jones (D)
The Avalanche have a plethora of young forwards including Gabriel Landeskog, Matt Duchene and Ryan O'Reilly so building from the back-end out is imperative. Jones gives the Avalanche a legitimate first pairing defenseman who brings a winning attitude and strong athletic abilities to the table. Coupled with a strong point shot Jones could become a PP option as early as his rookie season. The son of former NBA player Popeye Jones, had 14 goals and 56 points in 61 games with Portland of the WHL.
2. Florida Panthers Nathan MacKinnon (C)
MacKinnon finished off strong in the final two rounds of the QMJHL playoffs before shooting out the lights at the Memorial Cup. MacKinnon gives the Panthers star power and is a player who can easily jump into their line up next season as his speed and hand skills are NHL ready. He missed 14 games in the regular season with a knee injury and still had 32 goals and 75 points in 44 games for Halifax but really took his offensive game to a new level in the playoffs with 11 goals and 33 points in 17 games.
3. Tampa Bay Lightning Jonathan Drouin (RW)
A dynamic player who oozes offensive skills, Drouin can score just as easily as he can make a nice pass. He would be a perfect complement to Stamkos in the next few years with some of the Lightning players such as Vincent Lecavalier and Martin St. Louis getting long in the tooth. The MVP of the Quebec League, Drouin had 105 points including 41 goals in just 49 games, finishing second in scoring by five points despite missing 19 games, and then led the league in playoff scoring with 35 points.
4. Nashville Predators Aleksander Barkov (C)
Barkov has already performed exceptionally well in the SM-Liiga, the top Finnish Men's league. He gives the Predators a first line center option and one who can produce offensively, playing with heightened temperament and intensity away from the puck which helps round out his game. Barkov finished ninth in scoring with 21 goals and 48 points, the all-time best for a player in Finland during his draft year, surpassing Olli Jokinen who had 14 goals and 41 points during his draft year.
5. Carolina Hurricanes Nikita Zadorov (D)
The mammoth Russian defender has sky-high upside as his skating and physical play complement his six foot, five inch frame like no other prospect available in this draft. Zadorov had six goals and 25 points for the London Knights in 2012-13 and has the potential to become a great shut down blueliner with the capability of contributing offensively in the NHL.
6. Calgary Flames Elias Lindholm (C)
Lindholm had a great season in the top Swedish Men's league, competing against players 10 years his senior; not only did he produce offensively but he did not back down from physical confrontations. Lindholm saw time as a top-six forward and rewarded his coach's faith in him with 11 goals and 30 points in 48 games. He is NHL ready.
7. Edmonton Oilers Darnell Nurse (D)
There may be a temptation to draft Monahan, however Nurse gives their pick more value and upside as a staunch stay-at-home defender whose value in the playoffs would be considerably higher as he can match-up well against other team's best. Nurse had 12 goals and 41 points in 68 games at the Soo. He is the nephew of former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb.
8. Buffalo Sabres Sean Monahan (C)
The Mississauga, Ontario born Monahan travels 60 miles down the QEW to ply his trade for the Sabres as he gives the team more size up the middle and is backed by a strong competitive streak. He had 31 goals and 78 points on a weak Ottawa squad. Some teams may want to move up and grab Monahan as he could end up being the first line center every team (with the possible exception of the Pittsburgh Penguins) looks for in a draft.
9. New Jersey Devils Valeri Nichushkin (RW)
Pending KHL contract may come into play however Nichushkin is a complete package whose athletic ability, skating skill, size and hands can break open a game singlehandedly. Nichushkin impressed everyone at the NHL Combine a couple of weeks ago and could still move up this draft class. He had only six points in 18 games in the KHL this season but starred in February's U18 five nation tourney in Sweden where he had five goals and 11 points in four games.
10. Dallas Stars Max Domi (C)
Dynamic torpedo is tenacious and a threat to score each time he has the puck. Unlike his father Tie, Max uses his hands to score and could get an audition next year with several openings up front for the Stars. He had 39 goals and 87 points for the OHL champion London Knights and was second in playoff scoring with 32 points in 21 games including 11 goals.
11. Philadelphia Flyers Samuel Morin (D)
Morin improved as the season progressed culminating with a sensational World U18 performance that saw him capture a gold medal. He gives the Flyers size and toughness and is just starting to scratch the surface of his potential. At 6'6/205 he has NHL size already and only needs to work on his puck skills. He had four goals and 16 points in 48 games for Rimouski of the QMJHL in 2012-13.
12. Phoenix Coyotes Bo Horvat (C)
Mr. Clutch in the OHL playoffs, Horvat scored 3 GWG none bigger than a goal with a second left in Game 7 of the OHL Final to capture the league championship. Horvat can play on both special teams with success and thrived this season for Coach Hunter in a PK role as he won important draws and blocked shots. He had 33 goals and 61 points in the regular season but came into his own in the post-season with 16 goals to lead all OHL scorers.
13. Winnipeg Jets Curtis Lazar (C)
Lazar is a two-way forward who plays a hardnosed game and marries it with handsome offensive abilities. He competes away from the puck and will give the Jets a player who could potentially play on their top two lines but also do the dirty work to score his goals. Lazar started the season off slowly with only eight goals in his first 27 games but potted 30 in his final 45 to lead Edmonton of the WHL in goal scoring.
14. Columbus Blue Jackets Andre Burakowsky (LW)
Burakowsky struggled a little bit in league play but shined in International tournaments when pitted against his own peer age group. A blinding skater with great hands to match his speed, he scored 11 goals and 24 points for Malmo in the Swedish second division. His dad Robert played 23 NHL games for Ottawa in the 1993-94 season.
15. New York Islanders Alexander Wennberg (C )
The Islanders go for some skill with the addition of Wennberg; a player whose hockey sense and ability to play both ends of the ice makes him such a coveted prospect. He has great feet and is tenacious in pursuit. Wennberg won a silver with Sweden at the U20 World Championships, making the team as an 18-year-old. He had 14 goals and 32 points in 46 games for Djurgardens of the Swedish Allsvenskan league.
16. Buffalo Sabres (via Minnesota) Ryan Pulock (D)
Pulock has the best point shot in this year's draft and is a viable PP option for the Sabres. He added 20 pounds of muscle this season and can bench press over 400 pounds however agility issues have raised some concerns. Was captain of Brandon in the WHL this season and had 14 goals and 45 points in 61 games.
17. Ottawa Senators Mirco Mueller (D)
In an effort to continue to strengthen their back-end, the Senators will be happy to see Mueller still available at this spot. He is a player who logged ample minutes this year for Everett and was exceptional at the WJC for Team Switzerland. Mueller has some offensive punch as he finished second amongst WHL blueliners in scoring 31 points in 63 games.
18. Detroit Red Wings Josh Morrissey (D)
Morrissey was lights out at the World U18 Championships, helping Canada win gold and leading all defenseman in tournament scoring. Has great puck moving skills and plays a similar game to Brian Rafalski. Morrissey had 15 goals and 47 points in 70 games with Prince Albert in 2012-13, 12th best among WHL defensemen.
19. Columbus Blue Jackets (via New York Rangers) Robert Hagg (D)
Hagg has a booming slap shot and the rare ability to slow down the pace of the game however he suffers from bouts of inconsistency as he can lose focus and get caught standing still defensively. The MoDo defenseman had 11 goals and 24 points in 28 games for his junior team and actually played a game in the Swedish Elite League despite just turning 18.
20. San Jose Sharks Hunter Shinkaruk (LW)
Adding depth to their forward unit, Hunter Shinkaruk comes with a proven track record of being able to score as he has lit the lamp 86 times in the last two seasons. Small in stature, he needs to compete more away from the puck but his speed in transition creates ample scoring opportunities. He has 177 points in 130 WHL games over the last two seasons including 86 in 64 games in 2012-13.
21. Toronto Maple Leafs Kerby Rychel (LW)
Looking for goal scoring and a character player, Rychel becomes an immediate option as he is coming off back-to-back 40 goal campaigns and has one of the quickest releases in the draft. Can play with sandpaper when provoked, he has a sturdy frame to lay out hits. Rychel had 87 points for Windsor in 2012-13 including a huge February as he had nine goals and 25 points in just 12 games.
22. Calgary Flames (via St. Louis) Adam Erne (LW)
Erne plays a high energy game and excels down low and on the cycle. He plays along boards well as he is a strong powerful body who shields the puck. Erne needs to curb his temper as he was guilty of taking some unnecessary penalties this season nonetheless he gives the Flames what they need, a gritty forward who can produce offensively. Led his Quebec team with 72 points including 28 goals this past season.
23. Washington Capitals Rasmus Ristolainen (D)
A player who has been in the draft spotlight for years Ristolainen was the second youngest player to play in the SM-Liiga making his debut at the tender age of 16. He plays the game with brute force but needs to constantly be playing at a heightened tempo to get the most out of his skill set. Led Finland in scoring at the WJC; finishing third in tournament scoring amongst defensemen. Ristolainen had three goals and 15 points for TPS Turku of the SM-liiga.
24. Vancouver Canucks Frederik Gauthier (C)
A solid utility player with decent offensive upside, Gauthier still needs to fill out physically as he is six foot, four, weighing 215 pounds, but has a large frame and can keep other top forwards in check. Salvaged a poor second half with an outstanding performance at the World U18 Championships. Gauthier started the season off strongly for Rimouski with 10 goals and 20 points in his first 18 games but scored only 12 goals in his final 50 games including the playoffs after returning from a broken jaw suffered in November.
25. Montreal Canadiens Emile Poirier (LW)
Canadiens look to get more skilled while adding sandpaper as Poirier's game mirrors that of Brad Marchand while being a little less of a pest. The pugilistic forward worked his way up the depth chart of Gatineau and emerged as their offensive leader while also applying a ferocious back check and displaying strong determination away from the puck. Poirier had 32 goals and 70 points to go with 101 penalty minute s in 65 games.
26. Anaheim Ducks Chris Bigras (D)
A solid and dependable two-way threat, Bigras does everything well and has incredibly strong hockey sense in all three zones. Bigras was one of only a handful of players this season to win both a gold medal at both the Ivan Hlinka Memorial and the World U18 Championships. He broke out offensively with eight goals and 38 points in 68 games for Owen Sound of the OHL.
27. Columbus Blue Jackets (via Los Angeles) Valentin Zykov (LW)
Zykov scored 40 goals and helped Baie-Comeau reach the QMJHL finals. A beast down low with a laser beam of a shot however he can play with blinders on often overlooking a pass or getting hit as he doesn't see it coming, a cause for concern at the next level. Zykov led all QMJHL rookies with 75 points after playing for CSKA of the Russian MHL league in 2011-12.
28. Calgary Flames (via Pittsburgh) Anthony Mantha (RW)
The Flames need help scoring goals and Mantha was one of only three CHL players to score 50 goals. Gangly frame and somewhat uninvolved at times, Mantha's shot and scoring dimension cannot be over looked. He also chipped in with 39 assists for Val d'Or in 69 games.
29. Dallas Stars (via Boston) Jacob de la Rose (LW)
De la Rose helped Leksands earn a promotion to the SEL with his fine two way play. He excelled Internationally on the junior stage for Team Sweden as he used his sizeable frame to open up scoring lanes and eagerly drove to the net. He does a little bit of everything well and complements skilled players with his tireless work ethic. De la Rose had six goals and 12 points in 38 games this season.
30. Chicago Blackhawks Zach Fucale (G)
Despite the sensational play of Crawford, the Blackhawks need to add depth to their goaltending position and Fucale has the potential to be a starter in the NHL. Calm and poised he posted a 64-7 record with a 2.35 GAA and a .909 save percentage en route to a QMJHL Championship and a Memorial Cup. He should get a strong look to be the starter for Team Canada at next year's WJC.


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East Lyme - The 25th annual Light Parade marched through downtown Niantic Saturday evening with holiday music, bright floats and the cheers of parade-goers lining the streets.
Thousands gathered on Main Street and Pennsylvania Avenue on the chilly night to watch the event featuring an array of floats from firetrucks to pirate ships.
The evening began with seven white fireworks in a row that etched the clear night sky in honor of the fallen of Pearl Harbor. Saturday marked the 72nd anniversary of the bombing.
World War II veteran and Pearl Harbor survivor Floyd Welch, the parade's grand marshal and a town resident, waved at parade-goers, who cheered as his white van passed them. An ice-sculpture submarine also in honor of those in the armed forces followed.
The East Lyme High School Viking Marching Band twirled flags down the street and played instruments decked out with lights. Rudolph in a plane rose above the crowds in one float. Shrek and other characters wheeled around on tricycles, which represented just a few acts among many others during the festive event.
"I thought it was fantastic," said Niantic resident Mike Fenton, who has been attending the parade for 12 years. "Every year it keeps getting better."
This year's event, the 25th anniversary, was held on a Saturday to attract more people and allow them to stay out later to enjoy the floats on a weekend evening, organizers have said. WinterFest, a tradition that began in 2011, preceded the parade with events, including a chili and chowder cook-off.
The town also decided to allow the floats to stay on Main Street after the event so people could get close-up looks at them.
Sarah Bernardson, an educator at the Children's Museum of Southeastern Connecticut, said she kept hearing people talk about the parade, and she knew she had to see it for herself. So for the first time this year, she attended and brought her two sons, Josh, 2, and Nate, 5.
She said her sons loved the floats, especially all the Christmas lights and music.
"I think it's kind of a unique Christmas tradition," she said. "I've never heard of anything like it."
One float winding through the parade was a giant, lit-up Thomas the Tank Engine float.
The float has been in the parade before but did not participate last year. Pete Doherty, construction manager at Yankee Remodeler, the company that built the float, said the company participates not for the float competition but to see the lit-up faces of children as the float travels down Main Street.
Five people built the Thomas float years ago for the Niantic parade. His team decided on Monday to check on the float, which was in a New London storage area that was flooded during Superstorm Sandy last year. The float was not damaged, and the company decided to bring it back for another year.
Chad Buhler, whose relative is Paul Cushing, owner of Pro Tek Auto, helped build a 50-foot Peter Pan themed pirate ship float, built on top of a Ford van. The Pro Tek Auto float, whose features were synchronized to music, included telescoping masts and 1,000 lights.
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict is stepping down on Feb. 28, becoming the first pontiff in 600 years to resign.
The 85-year-old pope says he lacks the strength to fulfill his duties.
The surprise announcement came today during a meeting of Vatican cardinals. It sets the stage for a conclave in March to elect a new leader for world's 1 billion Catholics.
Benedict says that carrying out the duties of being pope requires "both strength of mind and body." And he says he has concluded that his strengths "are no longer suited" to doing the job adequately.
The Vatican says no specific medical condition prompted Benedict's decision. In recent years, the pope has slowed down significantly, cutting back his foreign travel and limiting his audiences. His 89-year-old brother says doctors had recently advised the pope not to take any more trans-Atlantic trips.
Benedict had made clear in the past he would step down if he became too old or infirm to do the job.
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The 38.8 megawatt project, located on the Mohawk River in Albany and Saratoga Counties in upstate New York, includes provisions for 11 megawatts of increased power generation, a fish passage and aesthetic flows to protect the scenic quality of Cohoes Falls. Consistent with the settlement, the new license also includes protection for fishery resources in addition to recreational and cultural resource measures.
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As mentioned, at the moments emotions are running high and with the extra workload it is creating I want to highlight this and encourage members who have forgotten or who are new to relect on this when posting. Before the flaming and aggressiveness starts to become the accepted style for communication, lets get back to the family friendly style.
I would like to address the 5% directly however can't pinpoint them. Some members join the 5% occasionally - a general message to all gives most people the message and the forum genuinely benefits from the vast majority here who help keeps standards up.
Emotions come and go, it's part of life, and it is not a big deal.
This should not be enough reason to start a thread like this, implying there is a serious issue..???
I don't agree with this tactic, now it comes across as you are giving the whole forum a warning for misbehaving
If you can't pinpoint those 5%, it tells me it is not an issue.
If it is an issue, you pinpoint those that are causing it.
If the amount that is misbehaving is not 5 but 50, i would say yeah, sure , start a thread, but 5 ???
5 is soo smal, if you want it smaller, mayby you should consider deleting the whole forum, then the people misbehaving wil be 0.
There wil always be people on this forum that misbehave, is also part of life.
I personally think the forum is running o.k., and I don't see the need for threads like this.


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This story appears in the March 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine.
In a remote forest sector of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, along the north bank of the Luo River, 50 miles by dirt trail from the nearest grass airstrip, lies the Wamba research camp, a place that's quietly renowned in the annals of primatology. Wamba was founded in 1974 by a Japanese primatologist named Takayoshi Kano for the study of the bonobo, Pan paniscus, a species of simian unlike any other.
The bonobo, in case you haven't heard, carries a reputation as the "make love, not war" member of the ape lineage, far lustier and less bellicose than its close cousin, the chimpanzee. Modern studies of zoo populations by the Dutch-American biologist Frans de Waal and others have documented its easy, pervasive sexuality and its propensity for amicable bonding (especially among females), in contrast with chimpanzee dominance battles (especially among males) and intergroup warfare. But the bonobo's behavior in the wild has been harder to know, and Takayoshi Kano, operating out of the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, was among the first scientists aspiring to study it there. Apart from several interruptions, including a hiatus during the Congo wars of 1996-2002, observations at Wamba have continued ever since.
Early one morning I followed a researcher named Tetsuya Sakamaki, also from Kyoto University, into the forest. Promptly I saw things that, according to the popular image of the species, I might not have expected. Bonobos quarreled. They hunted for meat. They went hours at a stretch without having sex. This was the animal so renowned for its lubricious, pacific social life?
As Sakamaki and I watched a party of bonobos feeding on the fruits of a boleka tree—small, grapelike morsels with papery husks—he identified the individuals by name. That female there, with the sexual swelling, we call her Nova, he said. She last gave birth in 2008; the gaudy inflation of her genital area, like a pink sofa cushion taped to her rump, advertised her readiness to breed again. This female is Nao, he said, very old, very senior. Nao has two daughters, of which the elder has so far remained in this group. And that female there, that's Kiku, also very senior, with three sons in the group. One of those sons is Nobita—easy to identify, Sakamaki explained, by his great size and the digits missing from his right hand and both feet and by the blackness of his testes. Missing digits suggest a mishap in a snare, not unusual for bonobos facing the hazards of human proximity. Nobita seems to be the alpha male, insofar as bonobo groups recognize alpha males.
By now we had followed the bonobos into a grove of musanga trees, and they were stuffing their mouths with fruit, pulpy and green. Suddenly a screechy altercation broke out between Nobita and another male, Jiro. Kiku, Nobita's elderly mother, charged over to support her son. Cowed by the two of them, Jiro retreated. He sulked in a nearby tree. It's interesting, Sakamaki noted, that Nobita is the largest male in this group, and yet his mother helps him in a fight. Even a high-ranking adult male such as Nobita seems to hold his status partly on the merits of his mama.
Forty minutes later, when the screeching began again, Sakamaki drew my attention to the focus of excitement: an anomalure (a gliding rodent, like a flying squirrel), scrambling for its life on a tree trunk while several bonobos converged around it. As the bonobos came closer, the anomalure launched itself into space and glided away. Then we noticed a second one, clinging secretively to the east side of another large bole while a bonobo named Jeudi sat clueless just 15 feet to the west. This anomalure, pink eared and pale eyed, held its place on the bark more patiently, frozen, not giving itself away. Within a moment, though, other bonobos spotted it, and the group closed in, shrieking with predatory menace. One bonobo climbed upward, struggling to find grips. The anomalure skittered 20 feet higher, ascending as easily as a gecko on a wall. When it was entirely surrounded with bloodthirsty apes, the little rodent launched itself and sailed away through the limbs and undergrowth to safety. We never even saw where it hit the ground; neither did the bonobos. Wow, I thought. Nicely done.
"Hunting behavior—it's very rare," said Sakamaki. "So you are very lucky."
Not yet noon on my first day at Wamba, and already my notion of bonobos had been confounded with realities, contrasts, and complications.
Bonobos have been confounding people ever since they first came to scientific attention. Back in 1927 a Belgian zoologist named Henri Schouteden examined the skull and skin of a peculiar animal, supposedly an adult female chimpanzee, from the Belgian Congo. The skull, he reported, was "curieusement petit pour une bête de semblables dimensions"—oddly small for an animal of such size. The following year a German zoologist, Ernst Schwarz, visited Schouteden's museum and measured that skull as well as two others, concluding that they must represent a distinct form of chimp, unique to the south side—the left bank—of the Congo River. Schwarz announced his discovery in a paper titled "Le Chimpanzé de la Rive Gauche du Congo." So from the beginning there was at least a subliminal association between the Left Bank culture at the center of the Francophone world—the bohemian artists and writers and philosophers of la rive gauche in Paris, south of the Seine—and this newly identified, unconventional Congolese ape. Soon after, the left-bank ape was recognized as a full species and took its modern name, Pan paniscus.
Another label that fell upon it was "pygmy chimpanzee," despite the fact that it's not much littler than the common chimpanzee, the one already widely known, Pan troglodytes. The bonobo's head is smaller in proportion to its body than a chimp's, its physique more slender, its legs longer. But in overall size, both male and female adult bonobos fall generally within the same weight range as female chimps. Scientists today tend to avoid the term pygmy chimpanzee; "bonobo" better suggests that this creature is not a miniaturized version of something else.
The major distinctions between bonobos and chimps are behavioral, and the most conspicuous do involve sex. Both in captivity and in the wild, bonobos practice a remarkable diversity of sexual interactions. According to de Waal: "Whereas the chimpanzee shows little variation in the sexual act, bonobos behave as if they have read the Kama Sutra, performing every position and variation one can imagine." For instance, they mate in the missionary position, something virtually unknown among chimpanzees. But their sexiness isn't just about mating. Most of those variations are sociosexual, meaning that they don't entail copulation between an adult male and an adult female during her fertile period. The range of partners includes adults of the same sex, an adult with a juvenile of either sex, and two juveniles together. The range of activities includes mouth-to-mouth kissing, oral sex, genital caressing by hand, penis-fencing by two males, male-on-male mounting, and genito-genital rubbing (G-G rubbing is the shorthand term) by two estrous females, who moosh their swollen vulvas back and forth against each other in a spate of feverish sisterly cordiality. Usually there's no orgasm culminating these activities. Their social purpose seems to be communication of various sorts: expression of goodwill, calming of excitement, greeting, tension relief, bonding, solicitation of food sharing, and reconciliation. To that list of benefits we might also add sheer pleasure and (for the juveniles) instructional play. Varied and frequent and often nonchalant, sex is a widely applied social lubricant that helps keep bonobo politics amiable. De Waal again: "The chimpanzee resolves sexual issues with power; the bonobo resolves power issues with sex."
Sexiness isn't the only big difference between bonobos and chimps, though it's probably linked to other differences, either as cause or as effect. Females, not males, hold the highest social rankings, which they seem to achieve by affable social networking (such as G-G rubbing) rather than by forming temporary alliances and fighting, as male chimpanzees do. Bonobo communities don't wage violent wars against other bonobo communities adjacent to their territory. They forage during daytime in more stable and often larger parties, with sometimes as many as 15 or 20 individuals moving together from one source of food to another, and they cluster their nests at night, presumably for mutual security. Their diet, which is similar to the usual chimpanzee diet in most respects—fruit, leaves, a bit of animal protein when they can get it—differs in one signal way: Bonobos eat a lot of the herby vegetation that is abundant in all seasons—big reedy stuff like cornstalks and starchy tubers like arrowroot—which offers nutritious shoots and young leaves and pith inside the stems, rich in protein and sugars. Bonobos, then, have an almost inexhaustible supply of reliable munchies. So they don't experience lean times, hunger, and competition for food as acutely as chimpanzees do. That fact may have had important evolutionary implications.
Bonobos do share one distinction with chimpanzees: Together they are the two closest living relatives of Homo sapiens. Back about seven million years ago, somewhere in the forests of equatorial Africa, lived a kind of proto-ape that was both their direct ancestor and ours. Then our lineage diverged from theirs, and by about 900,000 years ago, those two apes had diverged from each other. No one knows whether their last shared ancestor resembled a chimp, in anatomy and behavior, or a bonobo—but solving that uncertainty might say something about human origins too. Do we come from a long line of peace-loving, sex-happy, and female-dominant apes, or from a natural heritage of warfare, infanticide, and male dominance?
Also: What happened in evolutionary history to make Pan paniscus the unique creature it is?
Richard Wrangham has a hypothesis. Wrangham is a distinguished biological anthropologist and a professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard with more than four decades of experience studying primates in the wild. His work on chimpanzees dates back to his Ph.D. research at Tanzania's Gombe National Park in the early 1970s and continues at Kibale National Park in Uganda. He addressed the subject of bonobo origins in a 1993 journal paper and then in a popular 1996 book, Demonic Males, co-authored with Dale Peterson. The crucial point in his hypothesis is the absence of gorillas, over the past one or two million years, from the left bank of the Congo River.
The reasons for that absence are uncertain, but the evolutionary consequences seem rather clear. On the river's right bank, where chimps and gorillas shared the forest, the gorillas ate what gorillas still eat, mainly herby vegetation, and the chimps ate a chimp diet, mainly fruit, tree leaves, and occasionally meat. On the left bank dwelled that other chimpish animal, privileged by circumstance to be free of gorilla competition. "And that's the formula," Wrangham told me by phone from his office at Harvard, "that makes a bonobo." The left-bank creatures, bolstering themselves on a rich chimpanzee diet when it was available and sustained by those staple gorilla foods when it wasn't, lived a steadier life; they weren't forced to break into small and unstable foraging groups, diverging, rejoining, scrambling for precious but patchily available foods, as right-bank chimps often are. And that fateful difference in food-finding strategy carried consequences for social behavior, Wrangham explained. The relative stability of foraging groups within a larger bonobo community means that vulnerable individuals usually have allies present at any given moment. This tends to dampen dominance battles and fighting. "Specifically," he added, "females have other females as well as males available to protect them from those that might want to bully them."
Another result of the foraging-group stability, he noted, involves the sexual rhythms of bonobo females. Unlike chimp females, they aren't obliged by circumstance to present themselves always as extremely attractive, extremely ready for mating with all possible males during just short, periodic windows of time. "If you are a bonobo," Wrangham said, and you live in a larger and more stable foraging group, "then you can afford to have a long period of sexual swelling." A bonobo female doesn't need to attract gaggles of frantically horny males on a short-term basis. She's continually attractive, continually ready. "That greatly reduces the importance to the males of competing for dominance and bullying the females." So the famed amity and sexiness of bonobo social life has, by Wrangham's hypothesis, an unexpected source: the availability of gorilla foods uneaten by gorillas.
And why are gorillas absent on the left bank? Wrangham suggested a scenario, speculative, he said, but plausible. Sometime after about 2.5 million years ago, severe drying seems to have hit central Africa. In the equatorial lowlands on both sides of the Congo, herby vegetation—gorilla habitat—shriveled away. Chimps could survive by finding fruit in riverside forests, but the right-bank gorillas were forced into highland refuges, such as the Virunga volcanoes in the northeastern part of the drainage and the Crystal Mountains in the west. On the left bank, though, there were no such highland refuges. The land is flat. So if gorillas had ever lived on that side, the Pleistocene drought may have killed them off.
Bonobo behavior is exceptional among apes, and there are exceptions to the exceptions. You can't paint their portrait with a broad brush. No researchers have been more punctilious about this than Gottfried Hohmann and Barbara Fruth, a married couple based at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, Germany, who have studied bonobos in the wild for more than two decades. Their work began in 1990 at a site called Lomako, in northern Congo, and they enjoyed uninterrupted field seasons until war started in 1998 and stopped everything for four years. Hohmann and Fruth then established a new field camp farther south, at a place known as Lui Kotale, in an excellent piece of forest just outside Salonga National Park. They arranged a compact with the local community within whose traditional territory the forest lies: In exchange for a fee, the local people agreed not to hunt or cut trees at Lui Kotale.
To get there, you land at another grass airstrip, walk an hour into a village, pay your respects to the elders, and then keep walking for five more hours. You cross the Lokoro River in a dugout canoe, wade up a black-water stream, climb a bank, and find yourself in a neat, simple camp of thatched ramadas and tents, with two solar panels to power the computers.
Hohmann arrived back at this place, on a June day last year, like a man very glad to be in the forest again after too many months deskbound in Leipzig. He's a robust 60-year-old, blue-eyed and bony, long conditioned to the steeplechase rigors of field primatology, and if I hadn't been pushing to stay at his heels, the six-hour hike would have taken me seven.
One morning I rose with the early crew, two lean young volunteers named Tim Lewis-Bale and Sonja Trautmann. We reached the bonobo nests at 5:20 a.m., before the drowsy animals began to stir. Their first act of the morning: a good piss. Lewis-Bale and Trautmann each stood beneath a nest tree, catching urine in a leaf. They pipetted this harvest into small vials, recorded the identity of each pisser, and then we were off on our morning chase.
That afternoon Hohmann and I sat beneath one of the thatch roofs discussing bonobo behavior. Few other researchers have seen bonobos in the act of predation, and those few reports generally involve small prey such as anomalures (only at Wamba) or baby duikers. Animal protein, insofar as bonobos get any, had seemed to come mainly from insects and millipedes. But Fruth and Hohmann reported nine cases of hunting by bonobos at Lomako, seven of which involved sizable duikers, usually grabbed by one bonobo, ripped apart at the belly while still alive, with the entrails eaten first, and the meat shared. More recently, here at Lui Kotale, they have seen another 21 successful predations, among which eight of the victims were mature duikers, one was a bush baby, and three were monkeys. Bonobos preying on other primates: "This is a regular part of the bonobo diet," Hohmann said.
Sexiness, on the other hand, seemed to him less manifest than others, such as de Waal, had claimed. "I could show Frans some of the behaviors that he would not think are possible in bonobos," Hohmann said. Infrequent sex, for instance. Yes, there's a great diversity of sexual acts in the bonobo repertoire, but "a captive setting really amplifies all these behaviors. Bonobo behavior in the wild is different—must be different—because bonobos are very busy making their living, searching for food."
Hohmann mentioned other points of conventional wisdom against which he and Fruth dissent, including the notion that bonobo society is held together as a genial sisterhood by female bonding (they consider mother-son bonding at least as important) and the notion that bonobos aren't aggressive toward one another. Aggression may be rare and muted, he said, but that doesn't make it unimportant. Consider how subtle human aggression can be. Consider how a single violent act, or merely a mean one, can stick in a person's memory for years. "I think this is just what applies to bonobo behavior," he said. Life as a bonobo may be more stressful than it appears. Evidence of hidden anxieties has begun emerging from a hormone study by one of his postdocs, Martin Surbeck.
Analyzing fecal and urine samples, such as the ones gathered that morning by Lewis-Bale and Trautmann, Surbeck has found a surprising pattern: high levels of cortisol, a stress-related hormone, in some bonobo males. Cortisol levels have been especially elevated among high-ranking males in the presence of estrous females. What does it imply? That a high-ranking bonobo male, walking a fine line between not enough machismo (which could cost him his status among males) and too much machismo (which could cost him his mating opportunities with imperious females), feels stressed by his complex situation. Bonobos eschew crude aggression and violence, but they're not carefree; they use sociosexual behaviors, diverse and relatively frequent, as a means of conflict management. "This is what makes them different," Hohmann said, "not that everything is peaceful."
The bonobo is classified as endangered, and though protected by Congolese law, it continues to suffer from all-too-familiar problems, especially hunting for bush meat and habitat loss. Perhaps 15,000 to 20,000 bonobos remain in the wild, some of which are harbored within national parks and reserves, such as Salonga National Park and the Lomako-Yokokala Faunal Reserve. These "protected" areas may or may not provide effective security for bonobos and other wildlife, depending upon realities on the ground—for instance, whether or not guards have been hired and trained, paid their salaries, and supplied with adequate weapons to face poachers. Congo suffered severely from its seven decades of Belgian colonialism, followed by three decades of Mobutu's kleptocracy, followed by war; the context that frames all conservation efforts is institutional dysfunction. Among the hostages to this situation is the bonobo, a species native to no country in the world except Congo. If it doesn't survive in the wild there, it will survive in the wild nowhere.
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In Kinshasa I joined John and Terese, and we flew into Kindu, a provincial capital in eastern Congo (and a jumping-off point to TL2) on the west bank of the Lualaba River, which defines the eastern limit of bonobo distribution. In Kindu we finally got approval for a little five-day expedition through TL2. Around four p.m.—late for a departure, but we were concerned not to lose another day—we climbed into a large dugout canoe before the officials could change their minds. We were joined by two of the Harts' trusted Congolese colleagues, plus a visiting biologist, and a colonel and a soldier (both with Kalashnikovs) as our military escorts. There was also a man from the immigration directorate, assigned at the last minute to shadow us. The immigration man wore street shoes and carried his change of shirt in a briefcase. We'll be out about 30 days, and you'll need to help us kill crocodiles for food, John teased him, as the outboard pushed us weakly away from Kindu, and we set our course midstream down the Lualaba.
The river was brown, flat, and a thousand yards wide. The sun, sinking low behind the dry-season haze, looked like a great bloody yolk. I watched a pair of palm-nut vultures pass overhead and then, to the east, a flock of fruit bats circling their roost. Dusk faded quickly to dark, and the river glowed sepia with reflection from a waxing crescent moon. The air cooled; we pulled on jackets. Hours later we grounded at a village on the left bank that marked our trailhead for this hike into bonobo country. It had to be the left bank, I knew. There were no bonobos, anywhere, on the right.
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Same bridge. Suicide Bridge has no ghosts, there was one but the poor guy was lostColorado Bridge is over water....not a huge body, but it's the Arroyo Seco. There is no Business below. I am wondering if you might be thinking of another bridge.
Mykiedave and I live in Texas now, but we just recently moved here from California, about 15 minutes outside Pasadena.
"Suicide Bridge" is actually an absolutely gorgeous bridge....Lamposts run its length and it's especially beautiful at night.
While I wouldn't generalize and say "the folks in Pasadena commit suicide", it would seem that there is higher than normal number of suicides from that bridge. Many have attributed it to the amount of college students in the area who are having trouble dealing with the pressure of their studies.
It does have the reputation of being haunted. While I have driven over the bridge many times, I have never visited the area below( the bridge does not run over water..it's actually more of an exit ramp bridge. The bridge itself is over a huge parking area for the business below.)
For those of you who don't know us, Mykiedave is an empath and I am a visualist. Neither of us have picked anything up from the bridge itself. We have never felt that any imprints have been left behind, and I have never seen a spirit in the location.
I stand corrected, there are no ghosts on suicide bridge. And yes, Suicide bridge is on Colorado Boulevard west of Old Towne Pasadena
So, if you weren't thinking of the Suicide Bridge on Colorado, which bridge were you thinking of?
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So there's still hauntings there then?
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usually in ones home
So there's still hauntings there then?
Posted 27 November 2008 - 05:14 PM
I thought I should mykiedave has passed away since this thread was started and I haven't seen Holly on here for a long time maybe because it reminds her of Dave. Sorry to tell you!
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Concerning the Colorado Street bridge in Pasadena and the question on whether it is haunted or not? I will give you my experience. On Thursday, October 21, 2008 after taking my brother for a doctor's appointment, I was returning home from Glendale going east towards Pasadena. It was about 12:30 in the afternoon, and a warm day. I saw a man all dressed in black wearing an overcoat around 250 lbs. and I judged him to be about 65 due to his built. I thought he was overdressed for it was over 90 degrees outside. He had a bounce to his step as he was in a hurry. He skipped down the bridge stairs. All the while he was looking for something like change or perhaps a key. I saw his hands first as he manipulated the pile of stuff cupped in his left palm. He was searching with agility. I then happened to look up to see his face, there was none, no eyes, no nose, no mouth, just an ashen gray haze where the head and the features would have been. I thought he had a beard but then I can't be certain for that too was part of the haziness which extended down his chest. It all happened so quickly and I was wondering if I was suffering from some sort of vision problem. But how was it that I could see his hands so clearly and not his face? I wanted to turn back and look again for I couldn't believe my eyes, but once riding on the bridge it is a one way street and it is impossible to turn back. It has really bothered me and thought I would share the experience. I do believe this bridge is haunted, and would like to know if anyone else has seen this man all dressed in black?
Posted 26 September 2012 - 07:48 AM
Holly, If you guys can read/see/hear spirits then you plenty well know that the bridge is haunted by many spirits. I was just there last week and witnessed 4 jumping from the top of the bridge. If you have even seen the bridge you would know that it does infact have water running under it year round. My friend and I were standing on a bench looking down at the (now abandoned yet again) Army recruit depot below. The depot used to be the city asylum. Where my friend was standing he got the sudden urge to jump. I was standing three feet to his left. I didn't have the urge at all. That is until I stepped into the same spot he was and my head got really heavy and I got really depressed and had the urge to jump as well. We then went under the bridge to see what was going on under neath. We heard screams from the asylum and lights (the power was shut off after a recruit died in the building under very mysterious circumstances. They found him slumped over his desk with his skull apparently ''caved'' in but yet the skin wasn't bruised or broken) flickering on and off. The bridge has over 800 DOCUMENTED suicides. The bridge was built in 1913 and they started documenting in the mid 60's... No one knows how many took place since they started documenting them. The bridge is very well haunted. I am a medium as well and there were so many I couldn't pick just one person out. I live in Pasadena and frequent this bridge 3-4 times a week. There is also the story about the bright white horse drawn carriage that goes by you as you drive by and when you look in your mirrors its just a white fog. My sister and I were on the bridge one time taking pics with her new Sony DSLR camera and we heard footsteps. It was 3 am. There was no one else out there but the two of us. There are several hot and cold spots both under and on top of the bridge. They can't be natural because they go from ambient (80) to roughly 30 degrees then up to 100+ in some spots. My verdict is the bridge is definitely and very haunted.
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