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Athletic Pillar an outfield option in Toronto
Toronto Blue Jays outfield prospect Kevin Pillar is an exceptional athlete.
Growing up in California, the right-handed-hitting Pillar played the outfield in baseball, point guard in basketball and on both sides of the ball in football for Chaminade College Prep High School. And he was a success at each.
Toronto Blue Jays outfield prospect Kevin Pillar is an exceptional athlete.
Growing up in California, the right-handed-hitting Pillar played the outfield in baseball, point guard in basketball and on both sides of the ball in football for Chaminade College Prep High School. And he was a success at each.
Pillar hit .400 for his high school career, finishing his senior season with a .463 average. He followed his high school baseball coach to Division II Cal State University-Dominguez Hills in Carson, Calif., where he put together a 54-game hitting streak his junior year.
The Blue Jays chose Pillar with their 32nd-round selection in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft. He has progressed so well that he is now ranked No. 16 on the Blue Jays' Top 20 Prospects list.
Pillar hit .347 in his professional debut with Bluefield in the Appalachian League in 2011. Of his 82 hits, he had seven home runs, three triples and 17 doubles.
Pillar has shown so much that he has moved very quickly through the Blue Jays' system. In parts of only three seasons, he has a career Minor League batting average of .321.
In 2012, Pillar hit .323, playing 42 games and going to the plate 178 times for Class A Advanced Dunedin. Prior to arriving at Dunedin, he hit .322 playing for Class A Lansing in the Midwest League. Pillar's consistency was remarkable. Among his 161 hits were 28 doubles, six triples and six home runs. Pillar was named the 2012 Midwest League's Most Valuable Player.
My first look at Pillar came in the 2012 Arizona Fall League, where he played twice a week on the taxi squad for Salt River. He hit .371 in 67 plate appearances and had some very big games for the Rafters.
Pillar is a barrel-of-the-bat hitter. He likes to swing the bat, with patience at the plate not being among his assets. Pillar uses a compact, level swing and he likes to take the ball to left and center, as opposed to the opposite field.
At an even 6-foot, 200 pounds, and at age 24, Pillar has likely realized his maximum growth. Of course, he still may add strength to his frame.
Pillar has been able to make consistent contact throughout his three professional seasons. Among the most impressive aspect of his game has been his low strikeout total. To date, Pillar has struck out only 176 times in 1,354 plate appearances.
Hitting .299 in 218 plate appearances at Triple-A Buffalo this season earned Pillar a call to Toronto when rosters expanded in September. I recently saw him play when the Jays visited the D-backs.
In 23 games for the Blue Jays, Pillar is hitting .154 covering 72 plate appearances. He has adjustments to make while trying to hit better quality pitching in a speedier game. That's very natural.
Defensively, Pillar has enough speed and reads fly balls well enough to play any outfield position. I feel his average arm strength fits best in left field, but his speed plays well in center. Either way, Pillar should provide good offense, good defense and good speed.
If Pillar shows he can handle higher quality pitching during his Major League trial this September, he could win a starting outfield role. However, in the worst-case scenario, he is an ideal fourth outfielder with sufficient and deep enough tools to add value to the club.
Bernie Pleskoff has served as a professional scout for the Houston Astros and Seattle Mariners. Follow @BerniePleskoff on Twitter.

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Two weeks after the killing of the US ambassador in Benghazi, Tripoli finds itself with the unenviable task of trying to disarm Salafist militias. François Picard's panel looks at what to do to build a nation-state that, in point of fact, never existed under Gaddafi.
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"Mammoth could be reborn in four years"Julian Ryall reports for Britain's Telegraph (13 Jan 2011):
The woolly mammoth, extinct for thousands of years, could be brought back to life in as little as four years thanks to a breakthrough in cloning technology.What would it mean if humans recovered (not just discovered) a number of extinct species?
Previous efforts in the 1990s to recover nuclei in cells from the skin and muscle tissue from mammoths found in the Siberian permafrost failed because they had been too badly damaged by the extreme cold.
But a technique pioneered in 2008 by Dr. Teruhiko Wakayama, of the Riken Centre for Developmental Biology, was successful in cloning a mouse from the cells of another mouse that had been frozen for 16 years.
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"The success rate in the cloning of cattle was poor until recently but now stands at about 30 per cent," he said. "I think we have a reasonable chance of success and a healthy mammoth could be born in four or five years."
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This shows the percentage EPS upgrade of consensus broker forecasts for FY2 over the past three months.
FY2 means the next forecast year after this one. If we are in March, it would usually be the year ended the December after next December. It does however depends when the company's year-end is, i.e. they do not always end in December (this is not the case with a rolling ratio which is normalised for different year-ends).
Research has shown that analysts forecasts have a tendency to trend. Analysts often get 'anchored' to their previous forecasts and only ratchet forecasts up or down cautiously in reaction to new events.
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It is defined as Income available to Common Shareholders (excl Extraordinaries) divided by the Average Book Value over the period.
Widely used by investors, the ROE ratio shows the return being generated for every pound of equity on the balance sheet. It should be thought of as the 'internal return' that the company generates, and should not be mistaken with the market returns that shareholders may attain.
It varies by industry but ROEs of 15% or over are usually considered desirable. High ROE numbers sustained over the long term may indicate a company has a 'sustainable competitive advantage'. Such companies tend to sell at higher valuation multiples.
The impact of leverage is one of the disadvantages of focusing on ROEs as it can skew ROE upwards - an alternative is to look at Return on Capital Employed.
The Price to Earnings Ratio (also called the PE ratio) is the primary valuation ratio used by most equity investors. It is a measure of the price paid for a share relative to the annual net income or profit earned by the firm per share. A high P/E ratio means that investors are paying more for each unit of net income, so the stock is more expensive compared to one with a lower P/E ratio. The P/E ratio can be seen as being expressed in years, in the sense that it shows the number of years of earnings which would be required to pay back the purchase price, ignoring inflation.
This is a rolling ratio which means that it weights FY1 and FY2 forecasts depending on how far a company is through its reporting period. This makes apples and oranges more comparable - otherwise you might be comparing one company on a forecast P/E for a company reporting tomorrow with a company reporting in 11 months!
Investors have a tendency to overreact becoming enamoured with glamour stocks (pushing their PE too high) while becoming disenchanted with value stocks (pushing their PE too low). Research has shown that low P/E ratio stocks tend to outperform high PE stocks in the long run. On the other hand, there are many investors who believe that you should 'pay up for quality' in the same way people pay for jewellery - the best growth stocks therefore rarely trade for cheap PE multiples.
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The formula is : Total Debt / Book Value of Equity
It uses the book value of equity, not market value as it indicates what proportion of equity and debt the company has been using to finance its assets. It includes intangibles.
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NZ stars at Frankfurt Book Fair showcasing the best of our culture in a purpose-built pavilion.
New Zealand will be on display more than 18,000km away in Germany tomorrow when the doors open for the Frankfurt Book Fair - the biggest book trade fair in the world.
Up to 1700 invited guests will attend the opening, including 400 in the New Zealand delegation, and more than 300,000 international publishers, buyers and members of the public are expected to visit the fair during its five-day duration.
The opening begins with speeches by big-hitters in the German publishing and political scene, including the Mayor of Frankfurt and Germany's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.
New Zealand writers Bill Manhire and Joy Cowley will add a lighter touch, with New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Bill English bringing up the rear. And then the fun is allowed to begin.
Visitors entering the New Zealand Pavilion - a 2500sq m central space designed by architect Andrew Patterson - will be entertained by opera singers Sarah Castle and Aivale Cole, poets Ole Maiava and Courtney Meredith, the Tatau Dance Group and the kapa haka world champions, Te Matarae I Orehu.
The experience will be rounded off with Secrets, a 20-minute film and live performance produced by Auckland-based Inside Out Productions, with New Zealand food and wine created by executive chef Shannon Campbell.
The pavilion, which will host about 70 New Zealand writers, with 100 works translated into German editions, is described as "an island in twilight, floating in an ocean under a starry sky". Surrounded by a pool of shallow water, the "island" features couches wrapped in wool, watched over by projected images of moreporks in flight. The space will even "smell" like Aotearoa, awaft with the scents of natural oils.
The heart of the New Zealand Pavilion presentation centres on the concept of "manaakitanga" - hospitality - says New Zealand at Frankfurt Book Fair project director Tanea Heke.
"We're hoping our guests will experience all the richness New Zealand's hospitality has to offer during the opening and over the week of the fair."
The Guest of Honour status is the culmination of a year-long programme of New Zealand cultural events throughout Germany delivered on a budget of $5.5 million, with the Ministry of Heritage and Culture heading the project, and support from a raft of organisations such as the Ministry of Trade and Development, the Film Commission, Air New Zealand, Icebreaker, the Film Archive, the Music Commission, Beef and Lamb NZ, and the New Zealand-German Business Association.
With hundreds of well-attended New Zealand writer events in Germany and other parts of Europe right through the year, the budget has been value for money, yet Ministry of Heritage and Culture chief executive Lewis Holden is mystified by some of the negative coverage back home, including a claim that New Zealand only got the guest slot because Australia had turned it down.
"When we got into this there had been talk about New Zealand and Australia sharing the guest status in 2015 and a number of us felt that that misses the point for New Zealand. Our whole culture and society is quite distinctive," he says.
"When it got back to the Book Fair people that we didn't think that was going to work for us, they came back in January 2011 and said there is huge interest in New Zealand, its culture - particularly its Maori culture - and it's on many Germans' bucket list to visit, so what about if we bump you up the list and make you the guest country of honour in 2012.
"Countries tend to know about this four or five years in advance so they can plan accordingly, so the Germans said, 'we can help you with this.'
"It was always going to be a case of doing it in a very Kiwi way, utilising people we had on the ground there and basically working it from here. So the shorter time frame wasn't a disadvantage."
The benefits for New Zealand, he hopes, will be manifold.
"Germany is the fourth largest economy in the world so you are talking about one of the very big players. It's our main source of international students [3590 in 2011] who come to New Zealand. It's got strong commercial interests in New Zealand and vice versa. Then there is the tourism profile - Germans are our biggest spenders on a per-day basis.
New Zealand Publishers Association president Kevin Chapman says that although literature is at the core of the year-long programme, wrapped around that is the cultural programme which has included performances by sopranos Aivale Cole and Madeleine Pierard at the Leipzig Book Fair in March.
In August, the Museumsuferfest (Museum Shore Festival) in Frankfurt, Europe's largest cultural festival, featured a waka paddling up the river, a hangi, a kapa haka group, a festival of NZ short films, and music performances by Warren Maxwell, Flip Grater, Shapeshifter and Funkommunity.
In Frankfurt this week Live Live Cinema: Carnival of Souls, a live performance by New Zealand musicians and actors to a backdrop of the 1962 American horror movie, will be performed at English Theatre Frankfurt.
Weta Workshop founder Sir Richard Taylor is also in town this week to host a Hobbit-themed "cosplay" costume competition, as well as hosting a session talking about the special effects created for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit movies.
Writer Lloyd Jones, who has been travelling around Germany and Switzerland on a reading tour, says he will be doing a couple of readings and interviews with the German media each day of the fair.
"I've already done dozens of interviews with the German media over the course of the year," says Jones. "The interest has been extremely high and very flattering. The interviewers are invariably well-informed ... it's as though we have been beamed up lock stock and barrel into the German reading community."
Holden describes the New Zealand programme in Germany as "a big gig that is multi-dimensional".
"We do start with the literature and many of the benefits are going to accrue to the publishers and writers.
"The next wave out is showcasing the best and brightest in the cultural realm, and many groups have already been invited back.
"We think there are going to be tangible benefits to the tourism sector, our exporters, trade benefits, educational tourism. Each of our partner agencies have their own metrics that they are using to assess the returns on their investment."
Chapman says the third layer of the programme - the culinary events - is all about "the opportunity to promote as much of New Zealand as possible in Germany".
"The culinary programme is part of the business stream which is linked back into the books programme in that the chefs are all cook book writers. The books programme has helped fund the chefs to get there but the actual events are all being supported by Trade and Enterprise and NZ Winegrowers.
"To some degree this has been a lightning rod for some criticism but right from the start we always said that in order to make this promotion work it had to broaden out."
Highlights from the NZ Pavilion
With 43 events in the NZ Pavilion programme, titled While You Were Sleeping, highlights include:
* A Nest of Singing Birds: readings from the NZ School Journal by Joy Cowley, Dylan Horrocks, Jenny Bornholdt, Patricia Grace.
* Some Other Country: poetry readings by Bill Manhire, Tina Makeriti, Eleanor Catton.
* From the Edge of the Universe: discussion between Lloyd Jones and Emily Perkins.
* Iconic NZ Writers: Mansfield, Frame, Sargeson and others discussed by CK Stead, Emily Perkins, Kate De Goldi.
* Christchurch - Rebuilding a City: with Carl Nixon, Justin Paton, Anke Richter, Bronwyn Hayward.
* Margaret Mahy: A celebration with Joy Cowley (pictured), Kate De Goldi, David Elliott.
* Urban Sprawl: Gritty NZ fiction, with Alan Duff, Chad Taylor, Carl Nixon.
* Mixing It Up: Anthony McCarten, Greg McGee on writing across genres.
* Transit of Venus: Poets Glenn Colquhoun, Hinemoa Baker, Chris Price perform new works inspired by the June 6 Transit of Venus in Tolaga Bay.
Korero Paki/ Storytelling: with writers Paula Morris, Witi Ihimaera (pictured), poet Robert Sullivan, master carvers Karl Johnston, James Rickard.
Death of a Superhero: Anthony McCarten
Weta Workshop: Back to Screen and Beyond: Richard Taylor, Martin Baynton, Greg Broadmore.
Once Were Warriors: Alan Duff discusses his Books at Home scheme.
The NZ Comic Scene: 30 years of NZ comics with Dylan Horrocks, Roger Langridge, Colin Wilson, Greg Broadmore.
Grisly Lunch: Crime writers Paul Cleave, Greg McGee, Chad Taylor, Paddy Richardson. The programme winds up at 3.30pm on Sunday with a handover to the 2013 Guest of Honour, Brazil.


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Date Posted: December 3, 2018
Don't ignore your mortgage maturity date, it's best to work with your Mortgage Broker 6 months prior to the date to see the options available. All this and more on this week's edition of Open House: The Real Estate and Mortgage Show.
On the real estate side, listings levels are still on the lower end so those looking to purchase have fewer options. On the pricing side, prices are leveling off. Those neighbourhoods with higher demand are still seeing higher prices such as those close to transit and good schools. People are also more driven to ready to move in homes, as opposed to homes that need renovations and major updates. For those homebuyers who are looking at a home that will need renovations, the lenders do look at the MLS listing if there are "fixer-uppers, cosmetic updates needed, handy-man special" type comments. They may request additional documentation to verify the condition of the property.
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First time home buyers have been waiting longer to get into the market and more are using gift money from their parents to help with down payment. Qualifying for a mortgage as a single individual under the new stress test rules has decreased the purchasing power substantially. As the first time buyers take longer to get into the market, they are staying home for longer periods which, in turn, affect the ability of their parents to downsize.
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Frenchman Mountain Climber's Log
Bob Burd - Dec 14, 2009 11:23 pm Date Climbed: Nov 26, 2009Via the road
Delightful little night hike with cool temps, perfect for hiking. Nice views, too. Joined by Tom Becht and Bill Peters. Trip Report
bechtt - Nov 27, 2009 3:09 pm Date Climbed: Nov 26, 2009Thanksgiving night hike
Arrived in Vegas at 9PM after spending Thanksgiving with the family when Bob and Bill talked me into the night hike. Up on top by 11PM -- spectacular city views.
mojaverattler - Jul 18, 2009 9:51 pm Date Climbed: May 16, 2009geocaching
Climbed the mountain in search of several geocaches.
recast - Jun 29, 2009 8:54 pm Date Climbed: Jun 25, 2009Hot Evening Hike
I took my friend and his girlfriend up the mountain to watch the sunset over Vegas then the city lights turn on. The hike up is very ugly and tons of trash all over, but the views of Vegas at night were just spectacular. The first half of the hike was quite hot since it was around 104 out but the wind on the second half cooled things down nicely.
Dean - Apr 23, 2009 12:29 am Date Climbed: Apr 21, 2009Access road
Steep road but fantastic views on a clear LV day. Did both summits on top ridge, each with a tower set up but did stop short of trespassing inside the fence on the north one. At the fence on its highest spot, I was just a few feet shy of the true highpoint.
lasvegaswraith - Apr 6, 2009 12:22 am Date Climbed: Apr 5, 2009VIEW
Despite the lack of scenery on the way up and the repeater stations at the top, this may be the best view of Las Vegas, outside of a helicopter. Fantastic 360.
mzenblu - Mar 8, 2009 10:43 pm Date Climbed: Mar 7, 2009Access Road
Probably the least scenic hike I've done in the area - view at the top was great, but the broken bottles, trash pile, and access road left a lot to be desired.
ShinLV - Nov 10, 2008 1:28 am Date Climbed: Nov 8, 2008Evening Hike
Hiked Evening after Sunrise Mt. Hike to see the Nellis Air show.
Took 55 min up and 40 min down. Nice View from the peak.
redsplashman23 - May 24, 2008 12:44 pm Date Climbed: May 23, 2008From the Temple
Hiked the west face from the Mormon Temple. Stayed on the trail most of the way then scrambled some 3rd class en route to the summit. The rest of the valley was getting rain, snowing in the Spring Range.
jimegan - Feb 8, 2008 8:44 am Date Climbed: Jan 11, 2002FRENCHMAN MTN
LV Hiker - Sep 7, 2006 7:07 pm Date Climbed: May 23, 2005Via the Summit Access Road
I've climbed this mountain half a dozen times over the years. Most recently on October 11, 2004 & May 23, 2005.
The last time I went up via the access road with a group of people at night. The views of the Las Vegas lights at night are awesome from the top.
The access is road is extremly steep with lots of loose rocks. Watch you footing going up and down.
Tracy - Apr 21, 2006 5:34 am Date Climbed: Nov 27, 19829 times total - 3 hikes, 5 Jeep rides, & 1 mtn. bike ride/hike
I climbed this one on my first paid holiday with my then 13-year old sister, Laura. We made it to the top via the Mormon Trail on January 15, 1990, in about an hour - did it again via the west face on January 19, 2013 with Dick Wimmer and Howie Vander Meer. I had previously been to the top with a mountain bike on Nov. 27th, 1982 and I'll never do that again.
I have since been to the summit five more times in my Jeep. Most recently I was up there on October 13, 2007. That has given me the chance to take my 70-year old Dad who's health doesn't allow him to hike anymore. He's the one who whetted my appetite and got me interested in all this hiking stuff.
Matthew Holliman - Nov 28, 2005 9:00 pmRoute Climbed: Steep, loose road from Lake Mead Blvd Date Climbed: Nov 19, 2005
After seeing this peak dominating the skyline on a previous visit to Vegas, I decided to hike up here in the evening to see the city lights. Not sure that it would be worth the effort in daylight unless you'd run out of other peaks in the area, but it's a decent enough way to get a bit of exercise at night. That road is pretty damned steep, and the footing is quite unpleasant--loose crud on top of solid ground, tough going up, and not quite loose enough to just run down on the descent either. Used the headlamp in places, but for the most part the city lights were sufficient to hike along the road.
I hadn't realised just how big Las Vegas is until I got to the summit...
WalksWithBlackflies - Feb 23, 2005 8:18 pmRoute Climbed: Date Climbed: February 22, 2005
March 22, 2005 - I originally thought I had climbed via the Pack Trail, but re-reading the trail description, have decided that I took another route. This route is well marked, and ascends via the gully that parallels the Pack Trail. I'll try to post photos soon:
February 23, 2005 - Just visiting the area this week, and decided to climb Frenchman. Looked at aerial photos, this website, and scoped out the mountain. The next day, I climbed via the Pack Trail. No problem finding the trail from the 4x4 road. Green and white arrows point the way up the main gully all the way to the summit... would be hard to lose the trail. Class II+. I purposely went off-trail to climb some Class III pitches. From the summit, I continued south along the ridge all the way to the southern end of the mountain. Several knife edges with exposure made things interesting. I tore-up my hands on the sharp limestone rocks... bring gloves.
I don't understand why this mountain isn't overrun with hikers. I've climbed close to 100 mountains, and this may just be my favorite.
PTMcG - Jan 25, 2005 10:31 pmRoute Climbed: East Face Date Climbed: January 22, 2005
Today my brother Butch and I set out to do the first two legs of the East Face route. We blasted through the first leg, the washes, in about an hour-fifteen. The second leg, to the bottom of the east face slot was our ultimate destination. No summit planned. The dilemna is that by the time you get to the slot, you have so much effort invested that it's difficult to turn back.....and we didn't. We hauled out onto the face and 3 hours after starting we were on top. This was my second and my brothers first trek up this route. The "Mc Gibbon Step" 150 vertical feet below the summit gave us each pause and we carefully and deliberately scaled this exposed step. The fall off the step might not kill you but the 1200 foot tumble to the bottom most certainly would! A great day that reenforced the lesson... "that which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger." Frenchman's.......Viva la' Vegas!
Bill Jirousek - Sep 2, 2004 10:59 amRoute Climbed: Summit Access Road Date Climbed: April 20, 2002
I had my bachelor party in Vegas back in 2002. In between all the debauchery, a few friends and I took the time to rent a Jeep and go off-roading in the desert. There were some great Jeep trails out there, strewn with old refrigerators and TVs that the rednecks had shot full of holes. We found the access road to Frenchman Mountain by chance and started driving up it. Looking down into the gully next to the road, we noticed the carcasses of a few cars smashed to pieces hundreds of feet below us. At this point we decided it would be a better option to proceed on foot. Turning the Jeep around and getting it back down turned out to be a harrowing experience due to loose rocks and gravel. I made sure to "direct" the driver from a safe distance. (We filmed everything, just to make sure we caught anything cool on tape.) We hiked up to the top of a ridge and the view of the trail down a valley and up to the summit came into view. Very nice. Two of my friends were in sandals and decided they didn't want to do the rest of the climb, so my buddy Rob and I continued on. Up at the top, at the radio installation, there was a fantastic view of Vegas and a sheer drop on the other side. What a great day… I only expected to be partying all weekend and I happened to be able to bag a peak as well. We headed halfway back down to where our buddies were supposed to pick us up and we ended up being a couple of hours early. We took the time to heave an old washing machine off a cliff and caught the whole process on camera. Why a washing machine was up there… I have no clue. Must have been the 'necks again. We saw some fighter planes buzzing around the mountains – must have been from the nearby base. Eventually we were picked up in the Jeep and headed back to the city of sin.
cp0915 - Feb 18, 2004 10:09 amDate Climbed: Aug 2003
Miserably hot in the summer but the summit view was worth it.


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Driving distance/directions from downtown Highlands, NC: 5.6 miles. Follow the many twists, turns and hairpin switchbacks of Horse Cove Road down to T-intersection of Bull Pen and Whiteside Cove roads. Bear left on Whiteside 0.8 miles to old logging road, second on right.
Parking: Two spaces on the side of the road
Hiking distance: About 4 miles round trip
Description: Follow this "county line road" dividing Jackson and Macon counties to intersection with Chattooga River Trail. Bear left another 0.2 miles, approximately, to picnic spots along Chattooga River, at confluence with Norton Mill Creek. Look for iron bridge over creek, repaired by Forest Service after the 2004 hurricanes. The Chattooga at this location squeezes into a natural rock sluice, "The Narrows," before widening out.
Footnote: This is a favorite swimming hole in summer. Do not expect skinny-dipping solitude here.
Hike descriptions adapted from the Highland Hiker's Guide to Day Hikes.


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Anaconda Updates
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updates.img from here on out). The
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Updates types
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Updates from the Network
The easiest and most popular way to use an
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ip= option (along with others for gateway, nameserver, and so forth) can be used for static configuration. All anaconda config options are described elsewhere .
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images/ directory. It must have exactly the name
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Remember that Mother's Day is Sunday May 14th. Make sure you make her day extra special.
A mother holds a special place in the hearts and minds of her children. Mother's Day is May 14th and there is no better way to celebrate than with the whole family.
We're sure sleeping in on Mother's Day sounds nice and that having some alone time can make for an enjoyable day. But doesn't it sound like a better idea to make this holiday a family day? We encourage you to get outside and spend some quality time with your kids and loved ones.
May 10th We will have our Kindergarten Orientation With Peggy Rudd from the school district, at 6:00pm in room #1. Lot's of important information!
May 15th It is important for us that the children get familiar with their new schools. It is a big change for them! For that reason, we are having a field trip to the following Elementary schools: West Side Elementary, East Side Elementary And Central Elementary. Ask your teacher for the permission slips that parents need to sign.
May 19th Our End Of the Year celebration will be in the Harlem pavilion at 10:00am. Students will perform plays and we are going to have a ceremony for our students that are in transition to Kindergarten. Family and Friends are welcome to attend. Bring your cameras.
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Although Oxnard's plans for its Wagon Wheel project were effectively green-lighted by a state judge earlier this month, other projects in process when California changed its redevelopment law in 2011 still wait for state approval.
"All of the projects that were in the works are still in effect," said Curtis Cannon, Oxnard's community development director, on Jan. 22. "It's the timing — that's the big issue."
The city's funding for those projects must still be approved by the state Department of Finance, a process that could take as long as six months for each one, explained Cannon.
"It could be a couple of years to get through that," said Cannon.
But what Oxnard and other cities do to fund new affordable housing and other redevelopment projects remains an unanswered question for city planners, said Cannon, explaining that when California dissolved its redevelopment agencies, it failed to create a new funding mechanism to replace them.
"It basically has changed the nature of what we do," said Cannon. "So any other programs we had previously — affordable housing, infrastructure, improvement — unless we find another source of revenue for these programs, they go away."
For Oxnard, the loss of the City Council's redevelopment arm, the Community Development Commission, means that about $18 million to 20 million of funding per year is no longer available, said Cannon. For larger cities like Los Angeles or San Jose, it means billions of dollars, he added.
"Some of the bigger cities still have federal funds (for redevelopment)," said Cannon, "but as related to the others, everybody's scratching their heads."
The California state legislature — following the lead of Gov. Jerry Brown – eliminated redevelopment agencies as part of the 2011 Budget Act, freeing up property tax money that could be reallocated to school districts, community college districts and other agencies providing core public services.
"We've been doing this since the '50s and '60s to revitalize cities, building a system on what we thought was a guaranteed source," said Cannon. "You wish it were going to something worthwhile, but (the governor) has said the money that was going to schools, he's going to take out of their general fund," remarked Cannon, "so they're breaking even. They have no gain out of it."
In recent weeks the only bright spot in this otherwise gloomy situation has been Sacramento Superior Court Judge Timothy Frawley's Jan. 17 ruling in favor of Oxnard, developer Oakwood Development Inc. and residents of the Wagon Wheel Trailer Lodge, where more than 100 families have been waiting since 2004 to find out whether their mobile home park will be demolished to make room for the $42 million project.
A critical loan promised to developers in 2010 via redevelopment funds to help relocate park residents — they get at least $38,000 for each of their mobile homes and first dibs on the affordable housing units that will be included in the project — was blocked by the state Department of Finance in December.
Department of Finance officials said that reassigning various tasks to different developers than in the previously approved version of the plan — basically, not filing the proper paperwork — made the loan invalid.
Surprised by the move, Cannon and local attorney Barbara Macri-Ortiz, who represents the mobile home park residents, contended that since the project had been approved before the statewide dissolution of redevelopment agencies, the funds for the loan could not be claimed by the cash-strapped state.
Judge Frawley, who had earlier issued a temporary restraining order barring the state from taking the money, apparently agreed.
Combined with tax-exempt bonds and tax credits, developers will use the money for a roughly $42 million housing project called The Village that includes a five-building, 120-unit complex in place of the mobile home park. The project is, in turn, part of a larger upgrade of the area south of Highway 101 and west of Oxnard Boulevard.
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Wednesday, 10 January, 2001, 15:18 GMT
Porn ring 'was real child abuse'
It was an exclusive international club, men with a similar interest exchanging material via the internet.
The sordid entrance fee - 10,000 indecent pictures of children.
Police forces from 12 countries finally managed to break the so-called Wonderland Club, making 107 arrests and seizing 750,000 computer images of children.
In the UK, eight men were charged with conspiracy to distribute pornographic images.
The international operation to trace the internet paedophiles began in San Jose, California, in May 1996, when the police discovered that a child abuser had broadcast live images on the internet to a paedophile ring called the Orchid Club.
Among its subscribers was a man in his twenties who lived in East Sussex.
Investigating the leads, Sussex police found not only child pornography linked to the Orchid Club, but also a larger and more sinister paedophile network called Wonderland.
Wonderland originated in the United States but also operated in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and Britain.
Members joined, by invite only, on condition that they provided 10,000 images of children different from the hundreds of thousands of others already stored on the club's database.
One Italian member had 180,000 images.
The images uncovered by the raids in 1998 that finally broke the ring included photographs of naked boys and girls, aged from infancy to puberty.
One was a baby less than a year old.
'Skilled individuals'
"This was not a passive activity of collecting pornography," he said.
"The images are disgusting and the behaviour that has been carried out is absolutely appalling.
"These people were not the dirty mac brigade that you might think paedophiles may consist of.
"They are male, in their mid 30s or early 40s who happen to have good IT skills. They knew what they were doing."
One of the Wonderland conspirators, who pleaded guilty, does not believe he encouraged the exploitation of children by his behaviour.
However, detectives believe there were 1,200 young victims whose images were the hard currency of this paedophile ring.
John Carr, internet consultant for NCH Action for Children, said each one of the images represented a crime against an actual child.
"It is therefore very important that these guys are caught and that these images are found and confiscated," he said.
"Without these pictures we have no way of tracking down the children to give them the kind of help and support they almost certainly will need to recover from the trauma which these pictures represent."
"One is that the internet itself is very difficult to police, it is very difficult to find the bad guys who are doing these kind of things," he said.
"Equally it is about resources. If you haven't got the right number of policemen in the first place you have no hope of finding these guys who are doing the bad things on the internet."
Lost children
There are still no clues as to the identities of the children involved in Wonderland's trading ring despite secret pilot studies in Britain and other countries.
Some pictures suggested they had been shot in an Asian location.
In others, the scenery suggested that of a typical English village.
Rob Hutchinson, from the Association of Directors of Social Services, said it was almost impossible to continue with the investigation.
"It's like looking for a needle in a haystack," he said.
"We don't know how old the photos are, we don't know where the children come from, we don't even know what countries."
But Mr Hutchinson said all the information had been transferred to child protection units of police authorities around the UK who would match it with ongoing investigations.
The UK's National Crime Squad keeps a file of the victims, and police now hope to have the world's first victims' database which can be accessed by law enforcement agencies everywhere.
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Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a pan and add mustard seeds , when it splutters add curry leaves , chopped shallots , green chili , ginger and garlic and saute till the raw smell disappears. Add a pinch of turmeric the minced blossoms , salt to taste and saute for a minute.Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of water , keep everything to the center of the pan and cook covered for 3-5 minutes in a medium flame.
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What Does Candied Orange Peel Taste Like?
If you've never had a candied peel before, the whole concept of eating a peel may seem rebellious. But like those who love to suck the marrow out of beef bones will tell you, sometimes food parts that you think should be tossed should actually be tossed into your mouth! To make the candied citrus peel, you need to first blanche the peel four times (don't worry, I'll tell you how to do this below). It's somewhat time-consuming (I did mine while watching an episode of Glee so the time flew) but necessary because it removes a lot of the bitterness from the peels. They don't taste anything like they would if you just took a bite into them. Then, you essentially make caramel and let it stick to the peels. You end up with a chewy, crunchy citrus caramel candy that still has a slight bitterness to it to cut the sweet.
Candied Orange Peel (and Grapefruit Peel) Recipe
I got the original recipe for candied orange peels from VeganBaking.net. As I said above, I ended up messing up the recipe in a way that made me happy to have made the mistake. Instead of the traditional smooth candied peel that the VeganBaking recipe makes, I ended up making crusty caramel coated peels. Here's my adaptation of the recipe.
Candied Orange Peel – Pub Peels
- 5 navel oranges
- 1 grapefruit you could use all oranges or all grapefruit if you prefer. You could also try this with other citrus fruit like tangerines or pomelos.
- 6 C sugar
- Cut the fruit in half and juice it. (You won't need the juice so save it to drink!)
- Scrape out the pulp but leave the white pith. It should look like the fruit in the crazy photo of me, above.
- Cut the ends of the oranges off to remove the rough parts of the peel.
- Cut the peel into slices that look like French fries.
- Place the orange peel slices into a large sauce pan and fill it with water so the peels are covered.
- On high heat, bring the peels to a boil, then use a colander to drain the water off.
- Boil and drain three more times.
- Place the sugar, two cups of water, and the orange peels back into the sauce pan on medium heat.
- Bring the mixture up to 250 F, stirring occasionally (if you don't have a candy thermometer, just watch for the sugar to get thick and caramel-like) - about thirty minutes.
- Keep the peels on the stove until the only thing in the pot is thick caramel and peel - no liquidy syrup.
- Prepare a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a Silpat.
- Remove the peels from the heat using tongs and place them onto the prepared baking sheet or Silpat.
- Allow to cool and serve as a snack or cut the peels up to use in stollen (coming soon) or panettone.


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S.J.D. University of Wisconsin Law School, 1997
J.D., University of California - Hastings College of the Law, 1989
B.A., University of Natal, 1977 (Honours in Comparative African
Government and Administration, 1978)
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Heinz Klug is Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School and an Honorary Senior Research Associate in the School of Law at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Growing up in Durban, South Africa, he participated in the anti-apartheid struggle, spent 11 years in exile and returned to South Africa in 1990 as a member of the ANC Land Commission and researcher for Zola Skweyiya, chairperson of the ANC Constitutional Committee. He was also a team member on the World Bank mission to South Africa on Land Reform and Rural Restructuring. He has taught at Wisconsin since September 1996.
Professor Klug taught law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg from 1991-1996, offering courses on Public International Law, Human Rights Law, Property Law, Post-Apartheid Law and Introduction to South African Law, among others. He also worked as a legal advisor after 1994 with the South African Ministry of Water Affairs and Forestry as well as the Ministry of Land Affairs on water law and land tenure issues.
Professor Klug has presented lectures and papers on the South African constitution, land reform, and water law, among other topics, in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Ethiopia, Germany, South Africa, the Netherlands, and at several U.S. law schools. His research interests include: constitutional transitions, constitution-building, human rights, international legal regimes and natural resources. His current teaching areas include Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Property, and Natural Resources Law.
Professor Klug's book on South Africa's democratic transition, "Constituting Democracy" was published by Cambridge University Press in 2000.


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Journey to Johannesburg
The Path to Johannesburg
In the 1960s, many people around the world began to face critical environmental issues in their communities: forests were being destroyed by acid rain, rivers poisoned beyond use by industrial wastes, cities choked by pollution from automobiles and industry, rural farmers hit by famines, and once-rich resource reserves wearing thin.
A few scientists began to speak out about the global interconnectedness of these problems, and they warned that we humans were quickly becoming victims of our own success-that we now had the ability to entirely despoil the Earth that sustains us.
In 1972, at the U.N. Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, Sweden, delegates from around the world came together to address these warnings. While the conference produced a series of recommendations for government action, environmental turmoil continued.
Twenty years later, leading up to the U.N. Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, the Royal Society of London and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences-two of the world's most prominent scientific bodies-issued a joint declaration calling for action. "The future of our planet is in the balance. Sustainable development can be achieved, but only if irreversible degradation of the environment can be halted in time. The next 30 years may be crucial."
The scientific warnings have continued to grow in severity and urgency, but progress on making change since the Stockholm conference has remained painstakingly slow. And new international challenges-terrorist attacks, military responses, and mounting tensions around the world-have threatened to sidetrack the building momentum to address chronic environmental problems. At the forthcoming Johannesburg World Summit, environmentalists will aim to refocus the world on some of the most critical threats to global security. That will mean seriously responding to environmental tragedies and rapidly building on hard-won gains of the past four decades, which are summarized in the following chronology.
World leaders will meet August 26 for the World Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, to address once again, the multitude of environmental threats destabilizing the planet. The question at the top of the agenda: what progress have countries made in the past 30 years to halt environmental hemorrhaging, and where will we go from here?
1962 Marine biologist Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring, calling attention to the threat of toxic chemicals to people and the environment.
1967 The Torrey Canyon oil tanker hits ground and spills 117,000 tons of oil into the North Sea around Cornwall in the United Kingdom. The massive local pollution helps prompt legal changes to make ship owners liable for all spills.
1968 Paul Ehrlich publishes The Population Bomb, describing the ecological threats of a rapidly growing population.
1968 Experts from around the world meet for the first time at the U.N. Biosphere Conference to discuss global environmental problems, including pollution, resource loss, and wetlands destruction.
1970 The first Earth Day is held in the United States. Millions of people gather around the country to demonstrate against environmental abuses, sparking the creation of landmark environmental laws including the Endangered Species Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act.
1971 2,200 scientists, gathered for a conference in Menton, France, present a message to the U.N. stressing the need for environmental action: "Solutions to the actual problems of pollution, hunger, overpopulation, and war may be more simple to find than the formula for the common effort through which the search for the solutions must occur, but we must make a beginning."
1972 Economist Barbara Ward and microbiologist René Dubos publish Only One Earth for the Stockholm Conference. The book warns that human actions are undermining the Earth's ability to support us.
1972 Participants from 114 countries come to Stockholm, Sweden for the U.N. Conference on the Human Environment. Only one environment minister attends, as most countries do not yet have environmental agencies. The delegates adopt a set of 109 specific recommendations for government action and push for the creation of the U.N. Environment Programme.
1972 The Club of Rome, a group of economists, scientists, and business leaders from 25 countries, publishes The Limits to Growth, which predicts that the Earth's limits will be reached in 100 years at current rates of population growth, resource depletion, and pollution generation.
1972 Researchers report that three-quarters of the acid rain falling in Sweden is caused by pollution originating in other countries.
1973 Women living in Himalayan villages in Northern India begin the Chipko movement to protect trees from clearing by commercial logging, which has begun to cause severe deforestation, soil erosion, and flooding in the region.
1973 Arab country members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) reduce oil exports to Europe and initiate an oil embargo against the United States for its support of Israel in a war with Egypt and Syria. Ineffective policies to reduce oil dependence leave industrial countries vulnerable to Iran's 1979 revolution and subsequent reduction in oil production, sparking a second energy crisis.
1973 The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) restricts trade in roughly 5,000 animal species and 25,000 plant species that are near or threatened with extinction. While the treaty has a broad mandate, inadequate enforcement in the following years allows a billion dollar black market in wildlife trade to flourish.
1973 The Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL) restricts the release of pollutants from ocean-going vessels. It regulates dumping and accidental spills of oil, garbage, plastics, and sewage.
1974 Chemists Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina find that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) can destroy ozone molecules and may threaten to erode the Earth's protective ozone layer.
1976 The U.N. Conference on Human Settlements in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, drafts 65 recommendations for countries about how best to provide shelter. Conference participants agree that adequate shelter is a basic human right.
1977 Indigenous protestors in the Philippines force the World Bank to withdraw its financial backing for the construction of four large dams along the Chico River. The effort to block the projects energizes a global movement to protect rivers and resist new dam building.
1979 The reactor core at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania partially melts down and releases radiation into the surrounding communities.
1979 The Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution helps combat acid rain and regulate pollution traveling across national borders. A number of protocols have been added to this "framework" treaty, which regulate emissions of nitrogen oxides, sulfur, heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants, and several other pollutants.
1981 The AIDS virus is detected in clinical studies. Within the following two decades the virus has rapidly spread throughout the world and has killed millions of people and undermined development efforts in many countries.
1982 Mexico and other developing and Eastern bloc countries come close to defaulting on $250 billion in international loans, sparking a debt crisis. Lenders extend additional loans to these countries to prevent default, setting the stage for future debt disasters.
1982 The Law of the Sea provides a comprehensive framework for ocean use and contains provisions on ocean conservation, pollution prevention, and protecting and restoring species populations.
1982 The UN Environment Programme organizes a special Stockholm +10 conference in Nairobi. The attendees agree to a declaration expressing "serious concern about the present state of the environment," and establish an independent commission to craft a "global agenda for change," paving the way for the release of Our Common Future in 1987.
1983 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences publish reports finding that the build-up of carbon dioxide and other "greenhouse gases" in the Earth's atmosphere will lead to global warming.
1984 An estimated 10,000 people are killed and many more are injured when Union Carbide's pesticide plant in Bhopal, India leaks 40 tons of Methyl Isocyanate gas and sends a cloud of poison into the surrounding city of 1 million.
1985 Scientists discover a "hole" in the Earth's ozone layer, as data from a British Antarctic Survey show that January ozone levels dropped 10 percent below those of the previous year.
1986 One of the four reactors at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl nuclear power plant explodes after a botched "safety test" and completely melts down. The explosion sends radioactive particles as far away as Western Europe, exposing hundreds of thousands of people to high levels of radiation.
1987 The World Commission on Environment and Development publishes Our Common Future (The Brundtland Report), which concludes that preserving the environment, addressing global inequities, and fighting poverty could fuel, not hinder, economic growth by promoting sustainable development: "Attempts to maintain social and ecological stability through old approaches to development and environmental protection will increase instability."
1987 The Montreal Protocol, which has been strengthened since its inception, now requires industrial countries to phase out production of a number of ozone-depleting chemicals by 1996, and developing countries by 2010.
1987 The Basel Convention controls movement of hazardous wastes across borders and now outlaws exports of wastes from developed to developing countries for final disposal.
1988 Biologist E. O. Wilson publishes Biodiversity, a collection of reports from the National Forum on BioDiversity in the United States. The book details how humans are rapidly undermining the Earth's ability to support its diversity of species.
1988 Brazilian labor and environmental leader Chico Mendes is murdered by rural cattle ranchers. Representing 70,000 rubber tappers, Mendes had advocated using Brazil's forests sustainably as extractive reserves rather than clearing them for timber and grazing. The killing brings international attention to the widespread liquidation of tropical rainforests around the world.
1989 An inexperienced crewman runs the Exxon Valdez oil tanker onto a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound, dumping 76,000 tons of crude oil. The spill, the largest ever in the United States, covers more than 5,100 kilometers of pristine coastline with oil and kills more than 250,000 birds.
1991 The Iraqi army, retreating from its occupation of Kuwait, destroys tankers, oil terminals, and oil wells, setting many on fire. The fighting and sabotage leak approximately 1.25 million tons of oil, the worst oil spill in history.
1992 Bringing together 1,575 scientists from 69 countries, the Union of Concerned Scientists issues its World Scientists' Warning to Humanity, which states that "Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course."
1992 The Convention on Biological Diversity mandates that countries formulate strategies to protect biodiversity and that industrial countries help implement these strategies in developing countries.
1992 Most countries and 117 heads of state participate in the ground- breaking U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (The Earth Summit). Participants adopt Agenda 21, a voluminous blueprint for action that calls for improving the quality of life on Earth by using natural resources more efficiently, protecting global commons, better managing human settlements, and reducing pollutants and chemical waste.
1992 The Convention on Climate Change sets nonbinding CO2 reduction goals for industrial countries (to 1990 levels by 2000). The final treaty calls for avoiding human alteration of the climate, but falls far short of expectations, largely due to lack of support from the United States.
1994 The World Conservation Union (IUCN) publishes a revised Red List of endangered and threatened species, creating a world standard for gauging threats to biodiversity. Current versions list 11,000 threatened or extinct species out of about 1.75 million documented species. (The Red List estimates that the total number of species on Earth is about 13 to 14 million.)
1994 183 countries send delegates to the Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt, where they set up a decades-long plan to stabilize and reduce population growth-a plan that emphasizes the importance of women's education and access to reproductive health care.
1995 Writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa is hanged in Nigeria for leading the Ogoni people's protests against environmental destruction of their lands by Royal Dutch/Shell, Chevron, and other international oil companies.
1995 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a group of hundreds of prominent climate scientists assembled by the U.N. in 1988, releases a report concluding that "the balance of evidence suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate."
1995 Representatives from 180 countries meet at the Conference on Women in Beijing, China, to draft an agenda to improve the lives of women and girls. The resolution includes calls for taking action to reduce soil erosion, deforestation, and other forms of environmental degradation which often leave women and their families impoverished.
1996 Theo Colborn, John Myers, and Dianne Dumanoski publish Our Stolen Future, which warns of reproductive threats to animals-including humans-due to the release of billions of pounds of synthetic chemicals into the environment, many of which mimic and disrupt natural hormones.
1997 Forest fires around the world burn more than 5 million hectares of forests and other lands. More tropical forests are burned in 1997 than in any other year in recorded history.
1997 The Kyoto Protocol strengthens the 1992 Climate Change Convention by mandating reductions of 6 to 8 percent from 1990 emission levels by 2008 to 2012 for industrial countries. But the protocol's controversial emissions-trading scheme and debates over the role of developing countries cloud its future.
1998 The ozone hole over Antarctica grows to 25 million square kilometers (the previous record, set in 1993, was 3 million square kilometers).
1999 Massive protests in Seattle help shut down international trade negotiations and spotlight the environmental and social shortcomings of the World Trade Organization.
2000 The Biosafety Protocol implements a more precautionary approach to trading genetically altered crops and organisms, and requires exporters to receive prior consent from destination countries before shipping genetically altered crops.
2000 The Treaty on Persistent Organic Pollutants requires the complete phaseout of nine persistent, highly toxic pesticides and limits the use of several other chemicals, including dioxins, furans, and PCBs.
2001 U.S. President George W. Bush announces that the United States will not ratify the Kyoto Protocol, saying that the country cannot afford to reduce CO2 emissions.
2001 The $3 billion Human Genome Project reports that the human gene count is only about 30,000-about the same as that of a weed or a mouse-not 100,000 as expected. News of the finding adds to the concerns about the wisdom of current efforts at genetic manipulation, including inserting genes into food crops and re-engineering animals or humans. (See the upcoming July/August issue of World Watch, which will discuss the environmental ramifications of human genetic engineering.)
2001 The IPCC releases a new report citing "new and stronger evidence that most of the observed warming of the last 50 years is attributable to human activities." The new study projects that at current rates, temperatures will increase by 1.4 to 5.8 degrees C by 2100.


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Medieval bridge in Tordesillas (Valladolid)
Discover Tordesillas, where a crucial page of world history was written. This is where Portugal and Spain signed the famous Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing up the new lands being discovered in America and Africa. For many years, the streets of Tordesillas were frequented by royalty. Today, they retain something of their old medieval flavour. Why not pay us a visit? There is so much more to discover.
Tordesillas is in the central area of Spain, 20 minutes from Valladolid and less than two hours from Madrid. A city of great historical importance, there are many reasons why it is worth getting to know. It is set on the banks of the Duero River, in surroundings of outstanding natural beauty. Stately homes and palaces bear witness to the importance once held by the court in the life of the town. Tordesillas is a fascinating town whose place in history is secure for two reasons: firstly, because after a series of difficult negotiations, Spain and Portugal met here to sign the Treaty of Tordesillas. This agreement drew a line in the Atlantic Ocean dividing the new lands which were being discovered in Africa and America between the two powers. The second reason is rather more romantic: after the death of her husband, Queen Juana I, known as "Juana la Loca" (Mad Juana) because she was said to have been driven crazy by love, retired to Tordesillas in 1509. She remained there in a palace-fortress until her death in 1555. A visit to Tordesillas brings this fascinating period of Spanish history to life.
The Museo del Tratado (Treaty Museum) contains everything related to the historic agreement between Spain and Portugal. It is housed in the same 15th-century buildings where the treaty was actually signed. A step-by-step audiovisual display (translated into a variety of languages) takes you through the geographical, political and social background of the period. The objects on display include books, documents, navigation instruments and maps. The tourist office also organises unusual tours and visits in which actors bring to life some of the historic events which have taken place in the town.
But Tordesillas does not only take you back in time. There are also plenty of other, different activities available for you to enjoy in the town and the beautiful surrounding countryside: hiking, horse-riding and biking routes are just some of the possibilities. If you like adventure, how about a microlight flight giving you a bird's-eye view of the landscape? Or, if you prefer sports, there are golf courses and clay pigeon shooting ranges nearby. Come and discover this part of the province of Valladolid. Tordesillas, for many years a favourite of the nobility, now offers visitors a wide range of activities and is ready and waiting to be discovered.
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