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Disk II drive problems
I am trying to repair 2 x disk II drives where they pass the speed tests I run on them (hooked up as the second drive) but they don't seem to even register when I do an allignment test (or other drive tests I have disks for).
Before condemning the circuitry, and having spent quite some time studying the mechanics of the ones I am trying to fix, I note the two 'stainless' bars on which the stepper motor adjusts the position of the head have a little corrosion on them and the movement of the unit along them is not smooth and in some places faces resistance.
Is there merit in cleaning and lubing these bars (withsomething like deoxit)? On both units, with the case off, when I run the allignment software, the drive seems to try and get the head where it needs it, but never passes the test. I notice the bar retaining screws have green paint from the assembly plant, so I guess their position is critical.
This maybe something that you have already done but have not mentioned. Head cleaning. It does not take much to foul the heads drives. Just one dirty oxidizing disk can make them have problems in minutes.
Next is Zero track setting. Set with an .008 to .010 gage steel. They say .010, but I had better luck with .008 if I remember correctly it has been quite a few years.
As for the side rails I do not recall any settings with them. I think the paint is show no one has tampered with the drive. As they are round, no real way to move them. 400-600 paper a few swipes to remove any rust.
A bad ribbon cable, or maybe a bad rewrite chip. Socketted chips with black legs need to be cleaned before they fail.
Now if Zero track is set right and everything else is good, the stepper motor is slotted for movement. This adjustment is for stepping from track zero. You can mark it with a line on the the slotted brackets. This way you can return it to same or almost exact spot you moved it from.
Hope this helps.
Take Care
Hello Atomtan,
i agree that in fact there are several points to keep care of at the Disk-II-drives. And there had been a lot of postings in the last months related again and again with similar troubles and repairs.....
I have therefor decided to prepare several pages with pictures and explenations and instructions and basic informations how drives work, how they are aligned and how so do service at them.....
this will come out close to the pages i made about keyswitches and keyboards....
but of course this will take some 3 to 4 days due to the fact, that i do have some fixed appointments within the next days and the creation of such pages will request some time ( specially making detailed drawings ) too....
anyhow my goal will be, to make some kind of basic reference pages that will last for some years as reference to that topic and reduce repeating threads about that.....
so please be patient with me ... i will try to solve this task as soon as possible.... it should be finished at latest till to the end of the upcoming weekend....
i will post then the link to the created pages here in this thread......
P.S. : getting the Steelbars as mentioned clean and lubing them with machine-oil is one thing that will bring you ahead .... but it´s not the complete story....
correction - later edit:
the correct alignment is also dependent the so called "Track-Zero-Indicator" which is realized by a light-bar-system at the backside of that bars.... but attempting them is really tricky (!)....
added correction:
this is only valid to some of the shugart-drives distributed by Apple as DISK II drives...
the other work by calibration of the positioningdisk ( explained in the pages that will be created now ) and with a kind of "try and error" by software read accesses... ( this will be explained too... ) .... end of edit ----
so my best advice at the moment, is to wait with that task till the pages and explanations are completed....
Many thanks.
Hello Atomtan,
the first page is completed in raw format ( without proofreading ) but with text and pictures
just to get imagination how the stuff will be treated.... feedback welcome....
the other 3 pages will be completed each day one page till Sunday evening the final 4th page shall be finished.
The requested time is caused by the fact that i have to make additional pictures and drawings and of course write the taxt with the explenations....
the first page is located at:
after the forth page is completed, you should be able ta handle any kind of calibration or mantainance related to
the Disk II drives.
Nice work. Your years in Germany have given you connectallworditis, though. Feel free to use the space bar once in a while.
Nice work. Your years in Germany have given you connectallworditis, though. Feel free to use the space bar once in a while.
Dear David,
thank you very much for the feedback! Your completely correct with your complaint.. its result from the fact that i emigrated to Germany in 1975 and nearly didn´t speak english for more than 30 years.... ( i learned instead German language perfect, and Italian, French and Spanish languages rather well in the last 30 years ) so in fact my practice
was limited only to reading special-topic magazines about electronics and computer in english language.....
I am indeed completely out of exercise and practice and sometimes i feel like a pupil back in school with terrible
spelling.... but it starts getting better... thank God for the edit function here.... otherwise the stuff would be
non-readable.... but i enjoy to get familiar with english conversation again and with some small talk across the pond....
I´ll try to follow up to your advice as soon as possible and as much as possible to recover from the bad style....
again thanks a lot for the reminder.....
sincerely yours speedyG
next STRIKE !
the page about speedadjustment of the DISK II is completed.....
tommorow the basics about the adjustment of the track zero will be added...
Edited Update:
I guessed to be finished today - but i´ll need a day more due to the complexity of that topic....
enjoy the page .... feedback is welcome !
First and foremost HUGE thanks for your great effort, this is an awesome help for us that want to know more about our hardware. Is being a great learning tool.
I have a question: in the Apple IIc drives, where is the adjustment screw? I just found my external drive is slow, want to fix it. Thanks again!!
EDIT: I found it and fixed it, using the "Optimum (Recommended)" option. Now, if I use the "300 RPM (normal)" option it gives me lower speeds. Any comments?
Hello Javstar,
as i explained in the part related to the length of the sectors it´s a big hazard if the drive runs to fast ( due to the risk of overwriting the following sectors ) - so thats the reason that the optimum will always be slower than the exact 300 u/pm ..... then there is also a little margin set even to get a little aditional less speed because the motor and the electronic that drives the motorspeed drifts a little bit by getting warmer and then speeding up the motor ... so that kind of "offset" was also subtracted from the speedadjustment to be sure that even if the drive gets wery warm ( and thats a common problen to all computers of the apple series that the ventilation is very bad and the computer gets rather hot inside ) no overwriting will happen....
sincerely speedyG
Hello to all AF-members,
now the important parts of the referencepages related to DISK II Drives are completed....
track zero adjustment:
so at this point i´ll just take a small timeout to solve other tasks waiting to be solved....
in a several days i will also create the final page related to the topic of the read/write compensation
that will explain how to optimize the performance of the electronics of the read/writehead and
common repairs at the analogboard ( for example exchanging the damaged chips if the cable to the
controller was plugged wrong way in and some chips got fried... so some drives might become resurected ... )
the other advantage of optimizing the electronics is that the drive probably can use the tracks 36 to 40
with safe reading and writing... and besides that page will cover some common tricks of protectionshemes
used in the old days to protect gamedisks....
up till then enjoy the pages have fun ... hoping the pages are usefull to the community and reduce threads to the topic of drives ....
sincerely speedyG
Hello to all AF-members,
just a short remark:
the page 3 and the related PDF-File have been updated and some remarks and hints added and the part related
to adjustment with the scope has been added !


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In the high desert, summer can feel endless with her sizzling sun-drenched days. As much as we complain about summers scorching temperatures in the desert, she produces a dry inviting heat that attracts people from all over the world, to experience her blazing heat that comforts the reptile in us.
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For a great wilderness experience visit us at www.harmonymotel.com. The harmony is close to the landmark 49 palms oasis. One of the five Oasis of the Joshua Tree National Park, (great hiking trail that is 3 miles on a round trip). If you lucky, you will see the beautiful big horn sheep that hangout at the oasis, dont forget to take a picnic basket with you.
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The following writing is extracts taken from the above article, which has been published in the Sacramento Bee…great read on Joshua tree.
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Last Modified: Tuesday, Jun. 18, 2013 – 3:00 pm
JOSHUA TREE – Deep in the desert, searching for enlightenment at a spot called Samuelson's Rocks that is unmarked on any map, all I find are shaggy, gnarled trees that give this area its name, bulbous monzogranite rock formations and the triad of cholla, creosote and prickly pear that scar my legs and test my resolve.
Wait a moment. Did I just say all?
Have I, after a mere four days at Joshua Tree National Park, become so inured of these wondrous surroundings that I have ceased appreciating the geologic and floral delights to be experienced?
Perhaps. And that's a shame. Because, if a visit to Joshua Tree teaches you nothing else, it should foster an abiding affection for the hidden natural abundance in what the uninitiated may see as a vast and arid open space bereft of possibility.
This connection to the landscape is why the multitudes come to the high desert: to climb and to hike, to camp and worship at nature's altar, to seek spirituality and artistic inspiration, to trade the claustrophobic city for a bigger piece of sky. I am trying – really, I am – to become such a seeker.
I have trekked deep into the Wonderland of Rocks, where forests of Joshua trees exist peacefully amid mounds of monzonite quartz stacked so precisely, if precariously, that even the staunchest atheist might suspect it as the work of an unseen hand.
I have driven beyond the galleries to the fringes, where "outsider" artists have assembled found-material sculpture "environments" that incorporate the land itself as both canvas and object.
Yes, I have done all that. But here I am on my last morning, wandering in the desert, looking for a small cluster of rocks upon which a Swedish immigrant in the late 1920s named John Samuelson carved philosophic messages.
Somehow, the trip will seem incomplete without finding these stone tablets, even if (or maybe especially because) they were the work of a crank with ideas far outside the mainstream.
Joshua Tree, after all, is that kind of place. It brings out a guy's contemplative and quirky sides…
Rock legends all around
Don't even try in a week's stay to cover all 794,000 acres of Joshua Tree, 70 percent of it designated as wilderness. Instead, pick your spots based on your interest.
Many come to climb the big rocks. The most popular and challenging spots are at Hidden Valley, about 14 miles southeast of the visitors center, with climbs ranging from relatively easy to difficult.
"Hidden Valley is the climbers' place," said Gary Chandler, who through Joshua Tree Outfitters sells and rents climbing and camping equipment. "There are hundreds of climbs within walking distance of the campground. The farther you go, you get to what's known by climbers as the real Hidden Valley – the best climbs."
Climber Les Walker of Idyllwild had just rappelled down a rock face, preparing to take a group of novices for a session."Joshua Tree gets some of the world's best climbers," he said. "But there also are a lot of great rocks for people just getting into it. You don't want to have a novice try Intersection or Old Woman first time out."Hiking, however, is relatively easy for most, provided you bring ample water (yes, even in the early spring, when the temperature hovers just under 80). Trails range from as short at a half-mile to as long as the 37-mile Riding & Hiking Trail that extends from the Black Rock Canyon entrance to the Oasis Entrance.
Many of the trails are flat with soft, sandy surfaces, but some killer climbs await.
Perhaps the most popular route, the Boy Scout Trail, combines flat, sandy stretches and challenging but not lung-busting climbs with views of the Wonderland of Rocks. It's a 16-mile out-and-back, but many choose to camp along the way and make it an overnight excursion.Hiker Lynne Tremkilbach of Akron, Ohio, chose that option
"I've never backcountry-camped before, so of course, I chose to do it by myself in the desert," she said, laughing. "I camped out last night, and it was wonderful. It's just so beautiful out here. This is so not Ohio."
Art blooms in the desert
On a 7 1/2-acre parcel about 5 miles north of town, where the roads cease to be paved and handsome houses give way to shacks that give way to trailers, one of Southern California's famous "outsider" artists has created a world unlike Ohio or any other state.
It's called Noah Purifoy's Outdoor Desert Art Museum, and it's a trip. About 40 art pieces, some as small as a refrigerator, others as massive as a building, dot the landscape. From found metal, burned or decayed wood, old tires and pipes and discarded electronics, the late Purifoy built elaborate, often politically pointed, outdoor sculptures here from 1989 until his death in 2004.
His work has been exhibited at mainstream museums such as the Getty, Whitney, Oakland and California African American museums, but Purifoy had said the proper place for his sculptures is the desert, where the process of decay becomes part of the work.
Installations range from the silly to the sublime, often touching on social issues. One of his more famous works is "Kirby Express," in which old vacuum cleaners, baby carriages, smudge pots and swamp coolers are affixed to bicycle wheels and placed upon railroad tracks. It represents, according to the Noah Purifoy Foundation, "a symbol of hope and progress for the well-to-do, built by the poor (symbolizing) lost hope and dreams."
Purifoy's may be the most famous of the desert's art installations, but it is far from the only one. Among the pieces belonging under the umbrella organization called "High Desert Test Sites" is Sarah Vanderlip's piece that welded two aluminum discs together to shine like a crystal egg amid the boulders; Shari Elf's "Art Queen" gallery in town that features outdoor work, and the kitschy "World Famous Crochet Museum" inside an old Fotomat-type building.
Even some of the hotels are as much art projects as commercial dwellings. "Artists move here, well, maybe because it's not expensive," Elf said…..Sometimes, the art pops up at you unexpectedly.
While driving on a dirt road way northwest of Joshua Tree, near the settlement of Pipes Canyon, my eye caught a glint in the desert. I pulled over and followed the shiny light. It was a giant orange arrow, at least 30 feet in height, pointing down into the sand. Next to it was this message, nailed to the post: "You Are Here." No direction home But I am not there – meaning, I have not yet found Samuelson's Rocks. The morning has worn on, it's warming up, and my water bottle is running low.
I was warned it's not easy to find the rocks – it's not an official National Park site, so there are no directional signs and no trail – and 45 minutes into my search, I'm getting mighty frustrated.
I try to remember what Chandler, the Joshua Tree Outfitter owner, told me.
"The reason the park won't tell you is because it's a private in-holding, but there are a couple of pullouts on the road about two miles from Quail Springs (picnic area)," he said. "Head southwest and you'll see a dark mound a couple of miles across the desert. It rises about 200 feet. Walk toward that."
I have done as told, but I'm lost. Three separate rock clumps have proved absent of inscriptions. Somehow, I have gotten turned around. Amid my wanderings, I've scraped my knee on a yucca plant and rivulets of blood run down my leg.
I'm just about to admit defeat when I decide to walk another 100 feet and see another rise in the landscape. I squint and spot marks on a boulder. I run through rocks and prickly pear and find them.
There are seven stones with chiseled rants against God and man, Herbert Hoover and Henry Ford, as well as other deep thoughts. It's akin to 140-character Twitter messages, sans spell-check, from a previous generation.
One of Samuelson's all-caps ramblings strikes me as relevant, especially to a Joshua Tree visitor. I take out my smartphone and capture it for my screensaver:
The Hang Town Hikers.
I feel totally relaxed and comfortable on my favorite chair, as I view the amazing critter activity in my desert garden this gorgeous spring morning. The refreshing cool breeze and the warm sunlight strokes my skin gently, this magically rejuvenates and uplifts my spirits, whispering to me, the appearance of my most favorite season of the year, yes! Bright, beautiful and blossoming spring always awakens my soul to the wonders of Mother Nature.
In the desert spring is very flirtatious with her climate, some days she is light and breezy or she can be cheerfully sunny, sometimes she gets moody and places a damper on your day, (rudely interrupting your plans), by showing up overcast, rainy, damp, windy and cold.
Spring generally glitters and glow in colors that are bright greens, purples, warm pinks, oranges and yellow as she paints the desert landscape with sweet smelling wildflower blooms. She Rejuvenates the desert wilderness with blankets of green grass, fragrant smelling flowers, sweet sounds of chirping humming birds, merry quail families and over protective fussing doves that are nesting high up in the trees.
My desert garden is always a delightful picture of my favorite desert critters buzzing with joy and love, obviously happy to meet all their friends at their favorite play place, after a cold, dry and harsh winter. I hear chatting from the critters?
Mr. Tortoise whispers to Mr. Bunny "did you notice Ash is so happy, she did not even shoo Mrs. Red Racer away, when she found her in the garden this morning."
"Off course she is always full of joy and happiness in spring because her favorite guests will soon be arriving", replied Bunny.
"And who may I ask are they?" squeaked Lizzie,
"Or come on Lizzie don't you know them", replied Mrs. Red Racer in her husky voice.
"The famous " Hangtown Hikers" the biggest fans of the Harmony, they adore Ash, love the desert wilderness, and totally appreciate critter land. They have been coming to the Harmony for the last nine years; they are a merry crowd that is always full of laughter and always in the mood for their happy hour celebrations." Expressed bunny in a happy tone of voice.
"That's right," cried out Mr. Roadrunner," "I like them too, they love Joshua Tree Park, always going on their long hikes and they enjoy eating at their favorite restaurants in town. Every year they do my favorite trail, the boy Scott Trail." explained chirpy Mr. Roadrunner.
"I wonder why they call themselves the Hangtown Hikers." (Whispered Tortoise to himself), to which Bunny chuckled,
"I know, on the last trip I heard Bob the leader explain the history of their name to Ash."
"So it's time for a story Bunny," shouted Roadrunner delightfully.
Mr. Roadrunner than proceeded to instruct everyone to find a seat on the comfortable dirt. Bunny cleared his throat and began to narrate the historical story of the name of the town Placerville (as to why it once was notoriously called Hangtown).
Bunny loved the attention from his friends, he squealed with laughter, as he began narrating the story with excitement in his voice. "as history explains after the discovery of gold in nearby Coloma, California by James W. Marshall in 1848 sparked the California Gold Rush, the small town now known as Placerville than was called Dry Digging's (after the manner in which the miners moved cartloads of dry soil to running water to separate the gold from the soil).
Later in 1849, the town earned its most common historical notorious name, "Hangtown", because the miners quickly became short-tempered, and with the rising crime rate and the lack of readily-available law enforcement, they took the "law" (or lack thereof) into their own hands. Criminals were punished in short order, whether it be flogging or hanging, based on snap decisions made by impromptu courts with hastily-formed juries.
The first lynching in the camp, a triple hanging, came after a gang of five tried to rob a miner of his gold dust. However someone in in the crowd of 2,000 said he recognized three of the five (two Mexicans and one Yankee, that had been involved with a murder on the Stanislaus River).
The three suspects were hanged together from the huge oak tree in camp. The location of this well-used hang in' tree is marked by an effigy dangling by his neck from the second story of the Hangman's Tree Historic spot in downtown Placerville. The stump is said to be in the cellar. That is how the Town Placerville acquired its historical notorious name "Hangtown" as there were many such hangings during this period in the town."
Bunny continued, "So my dear critter land that is why our dear friends from Sacramento call themselves the "Hangtown Hikers"
"I get it they like the history of their towns name," whispered tortoise.
"Or maybe there name indicates that they will not tolerate bad behaviors from their hiking team, like the pioneers of their town" suggested Roadrunner.
"Gosh I rather be on my best behavior the next time they are here stuttered anxious Mrs. Roadrunner".
"Yes, listen to Ash, you need to hide yourself the when her guests are around because they are afraid of you," Lizze uttered naughtily.
The above information on the history of Placerville was taken from:
http://www.comspark.com/chronicles/hangtown.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placerville,_California


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Matthew Lickona 4 p.m., March 16
Sitting at his coffee table, poring over a stack of topographic maps, Jerry Schad looked as happy as a kid in a comic-book store. "I've been trying to figure out a place in Anza-Borrego where we can go for a few days," he said. "Hopefully, someplace I haven't been yet."
Trying to find someplace in San Diego County where Jerry Schad hasn't been is like trying to find a parking place downtown: if you like adventure and wildlife and don't mind walking for three days, you might find one sooner or later. Though Schad is about a hundred years too late to say he's been places where no one has ever been, I would venture to say he's been to more out-of-the-way places in San Diego County than anyone ever has; Schad is addicted to roaming remote places the way most people are addicted to comfort and TV. I don't know if there's a term to describe someone like Schad, but there should be. Something like "weekend transient" or "compulsive pedestrian."
"And what have you come up with?" I wondered, suspecting his answer was likely to cost me ten pounds, perhaps two nights' sleep, and some pain.
"Well," Schad said with innocent enthusiasm, "there's a canyon on the east side of the Santa Rosa Mountains I've been meaning to get to for some time."
"And what's it called?" I wondered.
"It has no name."
As wilderness enthusiasts know, the Santa Rosa Mountains, in the northeast corner of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, represent San Diego County's last truly great wilderness adventure. Remote, severe, and fairly difficult to negotiate, they have remained as wild and unspoiled as anything in the American Southwest. Besides being uncommonly beautiful in their own rugged way, they are also the home to as many as 500 bighorn sheep — which in itself testifies to their wildness. I listened to Schad's description of the journey he had in mind and was soon caught up in his enthusiasm. I left the planning to him, however.
Schad is the restless, 37-year-old author of Afoot and Afield in San Diego County, published by Wilderness Press in 1986. Besides being the most comprehensive guide to public lands available to hikers in the county, the book is a labor of love by a man practically obsessed with observing, thinking, and talking about phenomena of nature. By profession, Schad is an instructor of astronomy at Mesa College, and he was trained in physics and astronomy at UC Berkeley and at San Diego State. But by avocation, he's an intrepid desert rat, fond of heat and sweat, indifferent to thirst and dehydration, positively blissful in wind and cold.
Schad's intense curiosity about nature, and about man's limitations there, might well kill a man less physically adept. He once hiked the entire crest of the Santa Rosa Mountains — 40 miles from Highway 74, near Anza, to the Borrego Valley — in two days. Another time he ran from the north rim of the Grand Canyon to the south rim in less than four hours — a record at the time. Yet another time he rode a bicycle from Ocean Beach to Gila Bend, Arizona, in 20 ½ hours.
"Why Gila Bend?" I asked.
"Because it was 300 miles away," he replied, as though that were reason enough.
With his scientific background, Schad has a gift for observation and an eye for detail. For him, almost nothing in nature is too trivial to take notice of. He once found two rock cairns in Clark Valley northeast of Borrego Springs, which looked as though they might have been Indian summer-solstice markers; he returned there on June 21 to observe the solstice himself and found the markers were in fact two degrees off — far too inaccurate to have been left by Indians. He talks passionately of the time he was camped on Mile High Mountain, in the Santa Rosas, and awoke by chance in the middle of the night to see the zodiacal light (the Sun's light reflecting off dust particles or biting between the Sun and the Earth) from one horizon to the other. He notes that the honey ant makes its mound of gravel, while the harvester ant makes its mound of grass seeds. He notes that it is a west wind and not a Santa Ana that makes life in the desert uncomfortable, or that a hedgehog cactus needle makes a suitable probe for digging smaller cactus needles out of your skin.
Schad is also a habitual topophile. He maintains an immaculate collection of 7.5-minute topographic maps, covering every foot of the approximately 1500 square miles of public lands in the county, which he uses as the visual inspiration for fantasizing about foot journeys he plans to take. Schad retreats into his maps the way other people might relax with a good book at the end of the day. He compares the topographic maps to geological maps. Then he compares both of them to 19th-century maps, to see what landmarks the country's early settlers thought were important. And eventually, after he has visited the area, he draws his own maps — or, rather, adds to the original maps, drawing in water sources, desirable routes, difficult obstacles, old trails, and other curiosities. From a hiker's point of view, Schad probably has the most complete and detailed set of maps of the county.
Two weeks after Schad told me of the journey he had in mind, we were hiking up Rattlesnake Canyon, on the western slope of the Santa Rosas, in search of the unnamed canyon. Somewhere to the north, an arctic storm was on its way, promising snow — or even worse, wind and cold rain. But for the time being, the sky was a flawless winter blue.
We stopped along the way so Schad could make additions and corrections to his maps or point out oddities: a plant with red, orange, and yellow flowers all growing from the same stem; a pinyon pine being defoliated by a worm; an ancient roasting pit where Indians cooked the heart of the agave plant.
While I had known that Jerry was very ill, I did not know of his passing until I received this Reader story. Over many years of hiking and exploring the "back country" I have come to depend on Jerry's guidance through all the magnificent books and articles he wrote. I am saddened to know that he is no longer with us but glad that he showed us the paths to so many great adventures - paths that we can still follow thanks to the work he did. I offer my condolences to his family and many friends, know that Jerry is sorely missed.
Steve G.
It's extremely disappointing that it took the Reader this long to acknowledge the passing of one of their own. The first notice I saw was about 9am on the morning he died. You could have and should have done better. Shame on you Reader management.
several bloggers here wrote blogs about Jerry's passing within a day or two of it happening
Jerry was a class act in every sense of the word, and he's already sorely missed. At least he got to read the mountain of encouraging comments and "thank yous" posted on the Reader site after his farewell column was published. It's not often we get a chance to say "goodbye" to someone, and to tell them how much we admire both the person and his many wonderful works.
TomJohnston, the scheduling constraints of being a weekly paper made it impossible to get above story into print until six days after Jerry's untimely passing. However, the website blogs were posting about him the next day - I was particularly gratified by Nan's subsequent blog, which reposted a lengthy string of tributes and thank-yous to Jerry from earlier comments.
Most of us at the Reader are still reeling from the loss of Russ Lewis a few weeks ago, also to Cancer - so many fallen word warriors we've lost, from Judith Moore to Eleanor Widmer and too many others to mention here. Please don't mistake our shock and sadness for disregard -- the entire Reader family is deeply grieving.
absolutely correct JAS
and JAS..u r one class act urself!!!
"Name the Coast to Crest Trail to honor Jerry Schad By Robert Parkinson (Contact)
To be delivered to: San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy and San Dieguito River Park
The Coast to Crest Trail shall be titled The Jerry Schad Trail. I've had the pleasure of hiking many trails I never would known existed if not for his Afoot and Afield books and numerous Roam-A-Rama articles in the San Diego Reader. Who else has had more of an impact in guiding hikers to the magnificent trails this area has to offer, or the value of preserving our remaining undeveloped open space than Jerry Schad? The 55 mile Coast to Crest Trail will follow the entire length of San Dieguito River from Volcan Mt. to Del Mar upon it's completion and would be a fitting tribute to his contributions."
i did it and put it on Facebook 2...i hope everyone here at the READER does...
thx for the link laplayaheritage ;-D
beautiful writing on this story Steve
Thanks Reader for re-running this article from the 80's. If you find any more like this in your archives I would love to see them in print again. Jerry's books provided an introduction to the world of the back country of San Diego to me.
Living at the beach I never really knew there was much of anything "to do" past Alpine. Was I ever happy to learn about the hikes and remote areas that are so relatively close by. And to visit strange places like the Salton Sea, after first seeing it from the Laguna Mountains.
I hope the Reader can find someone to keep the outdoor spirit alive in its pages. You can never truly replace Jerry Schad.
Thank you for reposting this. A great read and insight into Jerry.
As I think I said once before, I met Jerry soon after his arrival in San Diego; liked him immediately. All the usual platitudes come to mind, but all ring hollow--none of them are up to the task. Well, except maybe the one about how we need more such people.
As Bill Shakespeare put it and Steve Jobs put in other terms, the option we all have is that universal statement, "To be or not to be, that is the question." Jerry chose to be. His own true self.
A little bitty tear let me down . . .


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Without a solid historical basis, determining the month's top-selling console might be difficult. So we'll give you a hint: It's been the top selling console for 11 of the past 12 months. That's right, it's the Xbox 360 which managed to move 270,000 units according to Microsoft, representing 39% year-over-year growth and marking the "seventeenth month of year-over-year hardware sales increases," according to a now routine email boast from Redmond.
Overall video game spending is down 13% year-over-year, dropping from $829.4m to $718.8m; while hardware is only down 5%, video game software was down a whopping 19% from May 2010 to 2011. Looking at the list of top sellers, you'll see a few notable facts: the poorly received Brink managed to arrive in second place; there are two Lego games from two separate publishers; and perhaps most notably, there isn't a single Nintendo-published title on the list. Find the full software rundown after the break.


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Besant was the head of the the Theosophical Society during
the early 1900s. She adopted Krishnamurti when he was 15 years
old, taking him to England to be educated and prepared for
his role as the new Messiah. In 1927 she joined Krishnamurti
in Ojai, staying in this very room. When she arrived, she
proclaimed Ojai to be the wellspring of a new race, and raised
the money to buy several properties in Ojai to serve as a
center for Krishnamurti's teaching. Although Krishnamurti
later rejected Theosophy and the role of "Messiah",
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- Former would-be nuclear dump site in Nevada looking for a new career
- Government Accountability Office lists 30 possible uses for the site
- Some would still deal with nuclear material, which led to controversy in the first place
- The GAO also lists the numerous "challenges" facing any potential user
How's this for a real estate buzz kill?
Available: Mountain property. Convenient to nowhere. Accessible via deteriorating roads. Features one mountain containing a 5-mile U-shaped tunnel, going nowhere. Use the railroad tracks in the tunnel at your own risk. On-site buildings do not meet OSHA standards. Must be willing to deal with three government landlords. Property encumbered by lawsuits galore.
That, in essence, is a description of Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
For 30 years, the mountain was the presumed site of the nation's nuclear waste repository. Billions were spent studying and preparing the mountain to receive used fuel from the nation's 103 commercial nuclear power plants.
But after the Obama administration killed plans for the nuclear dump, Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada, asked the Government Accountability Office to look for other uses for the 230-square-mile site a two-hour drive from Las Vegas.
On Monday, the GAO released a list of 30 alternative uses for Yucca Mountain.
Some of the proposals will hearten advocates of the old nuclear repository plan while infuriating its opponents. Fully 10 suggestions involve nuclear storage, research or generation. Suggestions include making Yucca an "interim" storage site for nuclear waste (as opposed to a permanent storage site), a nuclear waste reprocessing plant, a research reactor site, a nuclear power plant or an air-cooled underground nuclear reactor.
Other suggestions include making Yucca:
-- A commercial energy park for nuclear, solar and wind power generation.
-- A command center for unmanned aerial vehicles.
-- A training site for first responders.
-- A secure data storage site.
-- A strategic petroleum reserve for the western part of the country.
-- A facility for research on highly infectious diseases.
-- A university to teach mining techniques.
The GAO did not endorse the proposals or rank them. Nor was there broad consensus among the experts on how Yucca could best be used.
But the GAO did catalog the numerous "challenges" facing any potential user.
Chief among them, said report author Frank Rusco, is a lawsuit seeking to reverse the administration's decision to kill the nuclear repository project. Nothing is likely to happen until that lawsuit is resolved, said Rusco, who is with the GAO's natural resources and environment team.
In its investigation, the GAO also discovered another potential obstacle that apparently had escaped the attention of government regulators. After the Obama administration killed the waste dump plan, individuals or corporations filed 35 mining claims for the property, some of them directly over the Yucca Mountain tunnels.
The GAO brought those claims to the attention of the Bureau of Land Management, which has since voided them, Rusco said. But litigation is possible, he added.
Another impediment is that the land falls under the control of three federal agencies: the Bureau of Land Management, the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense. And potential users may be limited by national security activities on adjacent lands.
Rusco said that several experts consulted by the GAO noted there is land elsewhere that would also fulfill their needs, and that they would rather build a project "from scratch" than retrofit an existing tunnel.
Currently, the mountain contains the 5-mile tunnel, with two entrances on the east side of the mountain. A 2-mile tunnel branches off of the main tunnel.
Any agency with an interest in Yucca will find one other obstacle: getting into the facility. When the government shut down the site, it closed access and shut down utilities and a system used to ventilate radon gas. GAO investigators decided to forgo a visit to the mountain after learning that reopening the tunnel for a day would cost $20,000 to $50,000.


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It's Friday
Friday, January 04, 2013
Which is the weekend here, so YAY!
I've been very lazy today. Stayed up too late last night - but DID NOT EAT anything after dinner (salad). Slept in this morning - 8:00. Bliss!
Made it to the gym for BodyBalance. This is such a hard release. I'm happy there will be a new one next week. Of course, now that I've done this one 3 times, it doesn't seem quite so hard. Still, I managed to injure myself - trying to grab my foot, all sweaty, my hand slipped and I got myself with my own fingernails. They're not even that long! LOL
We were going to run today, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen, and that's okay. We WILL do it tomorrow, even if it means I go out by myself. Running with DH forces me to push myself more, but it's actually better for me to run by myself in some ways. I get so depressed that I can't keep up with him. Logically, I know that he was a pretty high-level track athlete in his youth, and those muscles have memory. Plus he's almost foot taller than me, so has a real stride advantage. My legs are quite long for my height, though, so that's not that big a deal. The truth is, I am a slow, slow runner. Even when I was in my best shape, running 2 miles in under 16 minutes was really, really hard for me. That's what I had to do to pass the PT test in the army. For a while, my friend and I were running 5 miles a day, 6 days a week. That was the only time the 2-mile run wasn't horribly difficult - it was just difficult. Then I got a bad plantar's wart and was out of commission for a couple of months, and that was all she wrote. I have never been back to that level of fitness since. Oddly, I've never been 19 years old since, either.
Food-wise, I'm doing great, but I'm HUNGRY. I've had 8 almonds, 3.5 walnut halves, and a protein-banana smoothie. Dinner will be chicken breast and green beans. I will probably have to go to bed early to keep from eating after that.
Tomorrow is a run for sure, and maybe BodyPump. I'm going to try to keep the eating light for another few days. I feel like if I can just see the scale move DOWN for a change, it will give me a psychological boost. Fingers crossed for tomorrow, actually.
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Good luck! I think it is hard to run with my husband as well. He is not really faster than me so much as he is surer of foot and likes to run in the woods. Because he is so much more confident running there he runs faster. I feel VERY old when we do that and I do hit roots and rocks and fall down! Sometimes we run together but sometimes it is just nice not to!
You seem to be doing really well with your eating. I am back to counting calories and it is making me grumpy! I hope the scale goes down for you!
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Yeah, not being 19 anymore does make things hard, doesn't it! My sister and her boyfriend run faster than me and I'm happy to let them. They motivate me to do it at all, and then I figure that as long as I stick with my planned route, I'll just trail behind. I hope that makes you feel less alone, somehow. Lol.
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Yay for Friday!!
It's hard when I run with my husband, too. He's got more than a foot on me and it does make a difference. Usually he doubles back for me, though.
Wow....I'd love to be able to do an 8 min mile.
Enjoy your run and BodyPump if you go.
Fingers crossed on the weigh in.
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It is Friday!!!! Yippy!!!! Have a great one! !!
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Many practitioners will say that natural items hold enery better than synthetic products such as plastic. Glass is a very good medium for holding energy, in my opinion.
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Throughout New York City, in the public parks as well as in the grittiest neighborhoods, where it is often the sole provider of natural shade in a landscape of asphalt and crumbling brick, the tree of heaven is dead or dying.
The State Department of Environmental Conservation is carrying out an emergency study to determine what is killing the tree of heaven, Ailanthus altissima, a tree once so hardy and opportunistic that many saw it as a scourge.
It sprouts happily in sidewalk cracks, can grow 20 feet in a few seasons and is the central symbol of big-city survival in the 1943 novel "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn."
"No matter where its seed fell," the novel's author, Betty Smith, wrote, "it made a tree which struggled to reach the sky. It grew in boarded-up lots and out of neglected rubbish heaps and it was the only tree that grew out of cement.
"It grew lushly, but only in the tenements districts."
In fact, the tree of heaven was never so choosy, and it established itself tenaciously throughout the city shortly after being introduced in Central Park by Frederick Law Olmsted in the late 1850's.Continue reading the main story
And now, throughout the city, it is in trouble.
No one knows exactly why. The deaths are not being blamed on last winter's heavy use of road salt, which is threatening many of the city's trees, since the problem emerged before that. [Page 23.] The state has identified three fungi that may be to blame. And the factors of compacted urban soil and drought are also being considered.
"Whole stands are dying," said Michael Birmingham, an entomologist with the conservation agency in Albany. "The tree is so abundant on vacant lots and disturbed sites. For some folks, it's the only shade. If it dies, they don't have a tree."
Similar single-species epidemics have affected flowering dogwood, butternut, shagbark hickory and hemlock trees across the nation in the last few years, but the ailanthus problem seems to be specific to New York City.
In normal conditions, the tree of heaven is so hardy that a few years ago, the City Department of Transportation started treating stumps in highway medians with herbicide; otherwise, the tree would regenerate quickly from its ropy yellow roots and its branches would obstruct drivers' lines of vision. It is not usually a problem in forested areas, where competition with other plants keeps it in check.
The ailanthus has been part of the northeastern landscape for two centuries. A native of China, it was exported to England from China in the 1750's, and introduced to the United States in 1784. Charmed by its tropical appearance, Olmsted used it in his design for Central Park. The tree proved amazingly vital, jumping the park's borders and spreading across the city.
Growing to 90 feet, the tree is a late bloomer in spring. Its smooth leaves reach three feet in length and contain as many as 41 leaflets. Yellowish green in spring, the leaves turn dark green by summer. Blossoms usually occur about now, but instead, the trees are dead or failing.
The tree's overall health has not been good for a decade. In recent springs, a wilt disease was blamed for withered shoots found on mature trees as well as saplings.
"The saplings start from roots of the mature trees," said Tony Emmerich, project manager for the urban forest and education program of the City Parks Foundation. "The bark starts peeling. Under the bark of dead trees, there's shoestring fungus, and invading insects tunnel there."
Like other tree experts, he said the toll would only increase. "Wait till this summer when more trees die," he said. "Then you'll really see people getting upset."
Even if the state can identify the killer, there seems to be no interest in protecting the ailanthus, which is regarded as a weed tree. Several hundred trees chosen from native species have already been planted to replace the dying trees. Imports like ailanthus often flourish at the expense of other plants.
"We're working in woodland situations where ailanthus dies out, and we take advantage of this to reforest with something preferred," said Mr. Emmerich, "I first heard about it in 1984, and I've been profiting from it since. I'm not concerned about the victim, unless it's planted along streets."
On Staten Island, the dead ailanthus is being replaced with several species of oak; on Hunter Island, in Pelham Bay Park, the replacement is white pine.
"Wherever I see stands of tree of heaven, I see mortality," Mr. Birmingham said. "It's very conspicuous. In most of a stand of large trees, the dead seems to radiate out from a center, with ones furthest from the center least affected."Continue reading the main story


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Augusta Prep head coach Rich Bland wanted his volleyball team to play some competitive teams early to help them get ready for area play.
He got that and more when his Lady Cavaliers got taken down 3-0 by Fox Creek Wednesday night.
"Fox Creek is a good team, very similar to South Aiken in that they have a quick offense and they're coached well," said Bland.
The Lady Cavaliers (3-2) were coming off two area wins, but started slow in games and couldn't contain the Lady Predators (3-0) in the end.
In game three, already down two games, it appeared the Lady Cavaliers would force further action as they led 23-20. Fox Creek reeled off the next five points, however, winning 25-23 and ending the match.
Lady Predators head coach Clay Bryant was happy his team prevailed in the final game when Augusta Prep played its best.
"I thought Prep played real good defense in that last game," said Bryant. "I was proud of our girls to win rallies when Prep played good defense."
Fox Creek beat the Lady Cavaliers by a 25-17 margin in the first two games.
The Lady Predators jumped out to quick leads in the first two games, forcing the Lady Cavaliers to fight from behind from the get-go.
"In practice it was a little flat yesterday, so that carried over, kind of a hangover from the three-day weekend," Bland said.
In game one, the Lady Cavaliers stayed in the game by winning eight points during Hannah Masiongale's serves, but were outdone as the Lady Predators won 11 points on serves by Morgan Williams.
The Lady Cavaliers trailed 18-17 before the Lady Predators reeled off seven consecutive points for the win.
The Lady Predators jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the second game and the Lady Cavaliers would never recover.
"We held our focus very well in the first two games," Bryant said.
With Fox Creek up 18-16 in game three, the two teams engaged in a long rally before the Lady Predators eventually won the point.
The Lady Cavaliers forged ahead 23-20 following kills by Brooke Stevens and Margaret Cavanaugh. After Williams recorded a kill to get the serve back, she served out the match with the last three points coming on a Kaley Turner kill, a service ace and a Stephanie Bloedel kill.
"The ending was good," said Bland. "We were up 23-20 and just couldn't close it out. The thing I was proud about was that they never gave up."


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The ever-expanding gap in wealth
A look at financial inequality in U.S. and why it matters
Published 2:40 pm, Monday, January 27, 2014
From the White House to the Vatican to the business elite in Davos, Switzerland, one issue keeps seizing the agenda: the growing gap between the very wealthy and everyone else.
It's "the defining challenge of our time," says President Barack Obama, who will spotlight the issue in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. A Gallup poll finds two-thirds of Americans are unhappy with the nation's distribution of wealth. Experts say it may be slowing the economy.
Why has the issue suddenly galvanized attention? Here are questions and answers about the wealth gap — what it is and why it matters.
Q: Hasn't there always been a wide gulf between the richest people and the poorest?
A: Yes. What's new is the widening gap between the wealthiest and everyone else. Three decades ago, Americans' income tended to grow at roughly similar rates, no matter how much you made. But since roughly 1980, income has grown most for the top earners. For the poorest 20 percent of families, it's dropped. Incomes for the highest-earning 1 percent of Americans soared 31 percent from 2009 through 2012, after adjusting for inflation, according to data compiled by Emmanuel Saez, an economist at University of California, Berkeley. For the rest of us, it inched up an average of 0.4 percent. In 17 of 22 developed countries, income disparity widened in the past two decades, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Q: How has the middle class fared?
A: Not well. Median household income peaked in 1999 at $56,080, adjusted for inflation. It fell to $51,017 by 2012. The percentage of American households with income within 50 percent of the median — one way of measuring the middle class — fell from 50 percent in 1970 to 42 percent in 2010.
Q: So why has income inequality worsened?
A: There's no simple answer. Globalization has created "superstars" and concentrated pay among corporate executives, Wall Street traders, popular entertainers and other financial elite. At the same time, factory workers now compete with 3 billion people in China, India, eastern Europe and elsewhere who weren't working for multinational corporations 20 years ago. Many now make products for Apple, Intel, General Motors and others at low wages. This has depressed middle-class pay. And pay has risen much faster for college graduates than for high-school graduates. These trends have contributed to a "hollowed out" labor market, with more jobs at the higher and lower ends of the pay scale and fewer in the middle.
Social factors contribute, too. Single-parent families are more likely to be poor than other families and less likely to ascend the income ladder. Finally, men and women with college degrees and high pay are more likely to marry each other and amplify income gaps.
Q: So what do experts say is the best way to shrink the wealth gap?
A: Most ideas break down along political lines. Liberal economists tend to support a higher minimum wage, greater access to pre-school and college education and more spending on roads, bridges and other infrastructure to help generate good-paying jobs. Most favor higher taxes on the wealthy to pay for such programs.
Conservatives tend to back tax cuts, government deregulation and other steps they say will accelerate hiring and growth and raise living standards for everyone. They tend to focus on the need to advance income mobility.


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Vol. 12 Issue 7 Parent and Family eNews - July 2013
General News and Important Dates
Information for Parents and Family Members of SOPHOMORES
Information for Parents and Family Members of JUNIORS
Information for Parents and Family Members of SENIORS
Extracurricular Activities
Fall 2013 Paying the Bill Checklist
View the Fall 2013 Paying the Bill Checklist for bill availability dates, deadlines, and payment plan information:
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Severe Weather Information
Summer is a common season for severe weather, including tornadoes, in the Lubbock area. Make sure your student is prepared for severe weather. Here are some tips provided by Texas Tech's Emergency Communications department: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/communications/emergency/tornadoes.php/.
Here is some information for students living in the residence halls from University Student Housing: http://housing.ttu.edu/reslife/weather.
Make sure your student has his or her contact information updated in the TechAlert! system. Students can update their information here: https://appserv.itts.ttu.edu/EmergencyAlert/.
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Remind your student to update emergency alert information
Texas Tech's Emergency Communications Center is intended to inform the Texas Tech University community about what to do in advance of, during and after an emergency.
If your student has not already done so, remind him or her to update cell phone, home phone or text message information at www.ttu.edu/emergencyalert. Up to four phone numbers can be entered, with TTY/TDD for hearing impaired and text messaging options. The system is used to alert the university community of emergency situations and class cancellations or delays.
Students will need their eRaider login to update their information at http://www.depts.ttu.edu/communications/emergency/.
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Thank you, Red Raider Orientation Volunteers!
Parent and Family Relations would like to thank our June Red Raider Orientation volunteers. A big Guns Up! to Susan Edwards, Chris Jinks, Bunny McDaniel, and Alice Petersen for helping us welcome new parents and family members to Texas Tech during our busy and exciting Red Raider Orientation sessions!
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Family Weekend football and event tickets are on sale now!
Family Weekend 2013 is September 20-21st when Texas Tech takes on Texas State. Family Weekend is a great time to reconnect with your student. We hope you will join us then!
Family Weekend 2013 football and event tickets are on sale now. Visit http://www.depts.ttu.edu/parentrelations/family.php for the schedule and ordering information.
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Design the official 2013 Family Weekend T-shirt
Do you or your student have a knack for graphic design? Try designing the official 2013 Family Weekend t-shirt that will be worn by thousands!
T-shirt Design Contest Guidelines:
1. Design the shirt. Front only, back only, or front/back. The words "Family
Good Luck!
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Get involved in a local chapter of the Texas Tech Parents Association
Tech Parents is proud to offer parent chapters that are located in various cities across Texas and Colorado to help parents and families connect. Tech Parents Chapters often partner with Undergraduate Recruitment and Admissions and the Texas Tech Alumni Association. Chapters are a great way to get involved and spread the good news about Texas Tech to others in your area. Chapters meet once or twice a month for game watching parties, social events, happy hours, and general meetings to keep you informed.
Reasons to get involved in a local chapter:
To learn more and get contact information about a chapter near you, visit http://www.texastechparents.org/?page=TTPAChapterOverview
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2013 Football Season Tickets on sale now
Want a great excuse to visit Lubbock to check on your daughter or son this fall? Texas Tech will be hosting six college football games this fall against SFA, TCU, Texas State, Iowa State, Oklahoma State and Kansas State. Season tickets start as low as $149/ticket and more information on season tickets can be found by clicking http://bit.ly/100ZzXo.
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2013 Football Season Tickets on sale now
Want a great excuse to visit Lubbock to check on your daughter or son this fall? Texas Tech will be hosting six college football games this fall against SFA, TCU, Texas State, Iowa State, Oklahoma State and Kansas State. Season tickets start as low as $149/ticket and more information on season tickets can be found by clicking http://bit.ly/100ZzXo.
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Red Raider Club offers West Virginia Fan Package
Want a fun fall getaway? The Red Raider Club is offering a West Virginia Fan Package for fans to attend the Texas Tech at West Virginia game October 17th - 19th. For more information, click HERE.
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SOAR Learning Center empowers students in pursuits of success
The SOAR Learning Center's mission is to empower students in their pursuit towards academic success while providing an encouraging and safe learning environment. The Learning Center works to enhance the academic endeavors of all currently enrolled Texas Tech students by offering a variety of free services such as Peer & online tutoring, Academic mentoring, and Supplemental Instruction. Tutoring and Academic Mentoring is available Monday thru Thursday from 8am-8pm and Friday 8am-5pm.
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For your complete Texas Tech news, visit Texas Tech Today
Keep up-to-date about everything Texas Tech by visiting Texas Tech Today, a complete news source for Texas Tech University.
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This month's academic and event calendar
July 1, Monday
July 2, Tuesday
July 3, Wednesday
July 4, Thursday
July 5 – 6, Friday – Saturday
July 7, Sunday
July 8, Monday
July 9, Tuesday
July 10, Wednesday
July 11, Thursday
July 12, Friday
July 15, Monday
July 25, Thursday
July 29, Monday
For the complete 2012-2013 Academic Calendar, please visit
For the Texas Tech event calendar, please visit http://events.ttu.edu/cal/main/showMain.rdo.
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Are you coming to Red Raider Orientation this summer?
Are you attending Red Raider Orientation this summer? Parent & Family Relations will be on hand to help you check in, provide you with a copy of the Parent & Family Guide, conduct parent and family orientation presentations, and show you how to get involved. We look forward to seeing you this summer!
Visit www.redraiderorientation.ttu.edu or call the Center for Campus Life at 806-742-5433 for information about Red Raider Orientation.
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Fall 2013 move-in information
For dates, a list of what to bring, what not to bring, room dimensions, and other information about Fall 2013 move-in, visit http://housing.ttu.edu/movein/.
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Raider Ready: Unmasking the possibilities of college life
IS 1100: RaiderReady is a one hour, freshman seminar course designed for students to successfully manage the transition from high school to Texas Tech by unmasking the possibilities of college life. For more information, visit http://www.depts.ttu.edu/provost/acadaffairs/raiderready/
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Testing...who needs it? Your student!
Academic Testing Services can help you meet your testing needs!
Prior to Red Raider Orientation, you will want to understand state testing requirements (TSI), placement exams and additional testing options that may impact your student.
Credit by Exam:
Credit by examination is an option for students to earn college credit for knowledge they've already acquired. If your student took AP or IB courses in high school, Texas Tech awards credit for many of these courses. If your student took other advanced studies or missed their AP or IB exams, CLEP testing may be an option for your student to prove their proficiency and earn college credit. CLEP exams are available in a variety of subjects. For a complete list, view the credit table at www.depts.ttu.edu/testing. Testing times are available during Red Raider Orientation and throughout the year in Academic Testing Services located in 214 West Hall. (Fees apply to CLEP)
Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation (GSP):
Students enrolling in the College of Media & Communication will need this exam in order to enroll in upper level classes. Testing times are available during Red Raider Orientation and throughout the year in Academic Testing Services located in 214 West Hall. (Fees apply)
TSI Compliance:
If your student has been notified by the Registrar that they are not TSI compliant, Texas Tech offers Accuplacer and Quick THEA exams to fulfill the TSI requirement. The Accuplacer exam is computer-based and available in Academic Testing Services located in 214 West Hall. (Fees apply)
Quick THEA exams are paper-based and administered by appointment. Contact Academic Testing Services at (806) 742-3671 or visit www.thea.nesinc.com for more information.
For a complete list of all of ATS services, visit our website at www.depts.ttu.edu/testing .
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Students planning to work on campus need original social security cards
Is your student planning to get a new job on campus? Students who work on campus must bring their original Social Security Cards for human resources processing due to federal I-9 requirements. Remind your student to keep his or her social security card in a safe place.
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Consider renters insurance for your student whether they are living on or off campus
Most landlords do not require the tenant to have renters insurance. All landlords deny liability for any damages to your personal property caused by water, smoke, or fire. Student Legal Services highly recommends any student, living off campus or on-campus, to obtain renters insurance. Renters insurance is a cost effective way to replace damaged property. Speak with your insurance representative to discuss your options.
If you or your student has any other questions about renters insurance please call 806-742-3289 or visit www.depts.ttu.edu/sls/.
College Renters Insurance offers coverage starting at $5,000 with a $100 deductible. Coverage for your personal property starts as low as $12 per month.
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Does your student need health insurance? Academic Health Plans are available for Texas Tech students
If your student needs his or her own health insurance policy, there are Academic Health Plans available. Visit https://www.academichealthplans.com/ttu/2012-2013/ for more information.
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Responsible off campus living
If your sophomore Red Raider lives off campus, make sure he or she is a good neighbor. Students choosing to live in single-family houses sometimes need reminders that they are not necessarily living among other students. Families with small children and working professionals may not appreciate loud noises during late hours.
For tips about responsible off-campus living, visit http://www.depts.ttu.edu/dos/responsible-living.aspx.
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Just for seniors...one-hour course in finanical planning
If your student is looking for an elective(s), The Department of Personal Financial Planning is now offering 1-hour classes in personal finance. Financial Senior Seminar is specifically designed for seniors covering topics that include financial issues that emerge when starting your career, compensation negotiations, cash flow management, employee benefits (including 401K), impact of taxation, and buying a home.
Studies in personal finance provide basic knowledge needed to manage personal financial activities in day-to-day life.
Course title and description:
PFP 4101- Financial Senior Seminar
Introduces financial planning issues that emerge the emerge when starting your career, compensation negotiations, cash flow management, employee benefits (including 401K), impact of taxation, and buying a home. Offered in Fall 2013 on campus as a face-to-face seminar and as an online class.
For further course information please visit our website at www.pfp.ttu.edu or contact Dawn Abbott at email@example.com.
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Student Union and Activities Calendar
Student Union and Activities always makes sure there is plenty for your Tech students to do! If your student complains that he or she can't find any fun activities or meet many people on campus, tell him or her about these exciting, FREE activities.
Click HERE for the complete Activities Calendar.
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Coping with a teen can make what was when a serene, joy-filled home seem like a fight zone. The inner struggle in between childhood and adulthood that is surging inside a teen s mind frequently leads to problems in between parents and kid. Disputes over things like clothes, hairstyles, tidiness, and family values can quickly end up being the primary kind of communication in a home. Exactly what begins as a small comment can quickly escalate into a full-fledged shouting match as the fight of wills continues. In order to restore peace to the house front, it is essential that dads and moms select their battles.
You may be believing that this is simpler stated than done. Even the very best of intentions to keep the peace and let things go can fall by the wayside in the heat of the moment as an apparently small remark spirals downward into a larger issue emblazoned in a myriad of disrespect and inappropriate behavior. Slammed doors and shouted words may never ever be avoided completely during the teen years. Staircases will sometimes be stomped upon. The battles can be lessened. Take some time to choose ahead of time on exactly what things are worth saying over and exactly what problems just aren t worth it.
Choose what things are the most vital to you as a family and where you are not prepared to flex. Anything prohibited or life-altering are things worth battling for and firmly insisting upon as a parent.
As they are finding out to understand abstract concepts and believe about things through other individuals s point of view, they are generally prepared to follow policies that make sense and appear fair. An open discussion with your teen about different problems can keep the battles to a minimum.
Try to let things go that put on t prevent individual development or really matter in the long run. Of course, when those things cross the line into safety or morality problems, it is time to step in.
It is a teen s task to establish into his or her own individual an independent, self-dependent, adult capable of making his own decisions. The older your child gets, the less she or he is viewed as a reflection of you and is seen more as a person. Grownups make their own choices and deal with the repercussions of those decisions themselves. It is essential to give teenagers practice doing this in a safe and encouraging environment.
Give teenagers more choices and freedoms as they reveal they have the ability to handle them. Compromise on problems where you are able and going to do so. Choosing your non-negotiables ahead of time will assist reduce the battles and keeping the peace in your house.
Living with a teen can make what was once a serene, joy-filled house seem like a fight zone. In order to return peace to the house front, it is crucial that parents pick their battles.
Take some time to decide ahead of time on what things are worth saying over and exactly what problems simply aren t worth it.
An open discussion with your teen about different issues can keep the battles to a minimum.
Choosing on your non-negotiables ahead of time will assist minimize the battles and keep the peace in your house.
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Note to editors: Kayla Lee is a graduate of Garden City High School and Nikki Marcotte is a graduate of Riley County High School.
Friday, Feb. 26, 2010
MANHATTAN -- Kansas State University's Mock Trial Team has qualified for its first-ever trip to the American Mock Trial Association's Championship Series.
The team earned its bid by placing fourth out of 23 teams at the association's regional tournament, Feb. 19-21, hosted by Washburn University.
Team members Kelsey Heft, senior in political science and pre-law, Greensburg, and Nikki Marcotte, senior in philosophy and pre-law, Manhattan, received All-Region Outstanding Witness awards. Marcotte also received an All-Region Outstanding Attorney Award and was one of only two students recognized for both attorney and witness roles.
"This is an impressive performance for such a new team," said LeAnn Brazeal, the team's faculty adviser and an associate professor of communication studies, theater and dance at K-State. "Our students have worked very hard to put K-State on the map, and this is a great step forward."
The Mock Trial Team is in just its second year of competition, and this was the team's first-ever appearance at a regional tournament. The team is open to students in any major. The team's attorney-coach is Ryan Rosauer of local law firm Weary Davis L.C., and Brazeal serves as its educator-coach.
K-State's opening round of the Championship Series will be March 12-14 in St. Louis, Mo.
Along with Heft and Marcotte, team members include:
Kayla Lee, junior in communication studies, Manhattan; Aaron Friess, junior in sociology, McPherson, team captain; David Starshak, senior in political science, Shawnee; and J. Colin Reynolds, freshman in communication studies, Topeka.
From out of state: Danielle Huskey, sophomore in apparel and textiles, Osage Beach, Mo.


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Based on the work by Stieg Larsson
Originally released as a motion picture in 2011
Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgard, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Yorick Van Wageningen, Joely Richardson, Geraldine James, Goran Visnjic
Hoping to distance himself from the fallout of a libel conviction, journalist Mikael Blomkvist retreats to a remote island in Sweden's far north where the unsolved murder of a young girl still haunts her industrialist uncle forty years later. Ensconced in a cottage on the island where the killer may still roam, Blomkvist's investigation draws him into the secrets and lies of the rich and powerful, and throws him together with one unlikely ally: tattooed, punk hacker, Lisbeth Salander
MPAA rating: R; for brutal violent content including rape and torture, strong sexuality, graphic nudity, and language -- CHV rating: 18A; for disturbing content and sexual violence -- OFRB rating: 18A; for sexual content and disturbing content
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Verizon Wireless says it will donate $5 to local domestic violence groups for each phone that Capital Region residents bring into its stores to recycle.
A new state law requires cell phone companies to accept cell phones for recycling starting Jan. 1. Verizon already was accepting phones and recycling them in a program called HopeLine that benefits domestic groups.
The $5 donation program will run through January. Each domestic violence shelter or advocacy group can receive a maximum of $25,000.
Verizon Wireless has 76 stores in upstate New York.


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