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by Gustave Axelson
Timber company owner Jack Rajala is doing things differently on his 35,000 acres of commercial forest land in Itasca County. On his paper birch stands, he's thinning out birches and managing for new canopy trees—oaks and white pines.
Shifting market conditions have nothing to do with Rajala's change in strategy. Rather, he's responding to the dim outlook for boreal trees in northern Minnesota. Climate change projections show that birches, firs, and spruces will suffer massive diebacks in the next century.
But that isn't an excuse for hand-wringing and despair, says Rajala.
"I've heard the gloom and doom, but let's move on with the business of managing forests," he says.
Likewise, ecologists in Minnesota are re-evaluating how they might foster future forests in a warmer north woods. Some think a new type of forest will be necessary. Others say we can hold on to our boreal forest. The discussions and debates about courses of action are just beginning. But ecologists generally agree that some kind of action will be necessary to keep northern Minnesota a fully forested region, as climate change impacts will be so forceful and pervasive that "letting nature take its course" won't be an option.
"People will choose the look and composition of tomorrow's north woods," says Lee Frelich, University of Minnesota forest ecologist.
On his 35,000 acres of forest land in Itasca County, timber company owner Jack Rajala says, "We're putting white pines on the ground. And we're discriminating against birches that don't have strong crowns.
"And we're favoring oaks," says Rajala. "We're thinning out our forests to give the stronger trees room to grow." Pines and oaks are good for his business, which focuses on saw timber for millwork and cabinetry. Rajala feels confident in his own ability to adapt to climate change. And unlike many ecologists, Rajala sees a future for birch too.
"We think we can facilitate birch. It may be an understory tree, not a canopy tree, but we can keep it in the woods," Rajala says. "Birch is too important to our business, for cabinetry and millwork and flooring, for us to give up on it."
The north woods is one of Minnesota's iconic landscapes. Ecologists call it the Laurentian mixed forest province, a 23-million-acre region dominated by conifer forests across northeastern Minnesota. The north woods support about 1,000 forestry and logging jobs, paying $50 million in wages. Another 18,000 tourism jobs, paying $240 million in wages, rely largely on the aesthetic pleasure of a trip "up north." The north woods is critical habitat for megafauna such as moose and lynx. And it is the only place in Minnesota suitable for 47 wildlife species at risk of losing habitat, including boreal owls, spruce grouse, and Canada warblers.
Minnesota's north woods sits in a precarious place. Here, in the middle of the continent, the southernmost extent of the mostly Canadian boreal forest meets the prairie from the west and the deciduous forest from the southeast. Since the last glacier retreated 12,000 years ago, these three biomes have been advancing and retreating across the state every few thousand years.
But never before have the biomes tried to move across a Minnesota landscape increasingly carved up by development. And never before have forests had to change so fast: Climate change projections show that the suitable climatic range for black spruce could shift 300 miles northward, out of Minnesota and into upper Manitoba, in the next 100 years. That's what was previously 2,000 years of forest change in a single rapid-fire century.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projects that temperatures in central North America could rise 4 to 11 degrees F by the late 21st century. Less certain are precipitation forecasts; the regional climate could be wetter or drier. The result is a range of drastically different possibilities for landscape changes, from moderate shifts in biomes to natural disasters.
The future of the north woods will depend on how much and how fast the region's climate changes. Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will lessen the impact and provide more time for northern forest ecosystems to adapt.
Over the past 30 years, northern Minnesota's average annual temperature has been 2 F higher than annual averages before 1980, according to the State Climatology Office of the Department of Natural Resources. That's enough warming to cause changes in Minnesota's northern forests in the here and now, say some ecologists. They point to the recent expansion in the boreal Boundary Waters of red maple, a temperate species that grows as far south as Louisiana. Red maples are sprouting and establishing themselves in the Sea Gull Lake area, where Frelich documented one red maple that grew four feet in one year (definitely peculiar for a boreal forest region, he says).
Along Minnesota's beloved North Shore, miles and miles of dead birch tree trunks stick out of green, brushy understory at odd angles like a jumble of white poles. There are multiple causes of death, including a string of droughts stretching back to the 1980s and an earthworm invasion. Frelich adds higher soil temperatures to that list and says these dead birches are among the first climate change casualties in northern Minnesota, though other ecologists aren't willing to make that connection yet. Regardless of the cause, the birch dieback offers a vision of what might happen in a warmer climate—a dead forest degrading into brushland.
DNR Forestry ecologist John Almendinger points to the recent increase in forest pest infestations as a clear barometer of climate change. Milder winters over the past decade have allowed greater winter survival for eastern larch beetles. These native bugs burrow into tamaracks and lay eggs, which hatch into larvae that feed on the inner bark and cut off the tree's circulation. More larch beetles surviving into spring means higher-than-normal summer populations and increased infestations, which have killed about 65,000 acres of tamarack trees since the late 1990s. Sidebar North Shore Dieback?
Birches along the North Shore sprouted in the wake of fires in the early 1900s. Now those birches are dying. Under natural forest succession, the birch forest would have succeeded into white pines, but deer have eaten the pine saplings. Now the understory is crowded with bluejoint grass and alder and hazel brush that stifle new tree growth. Whether or not this birch dieback is caused by climate change, it may offer a preview of what climate change might do to the northern forest—dead forest that degrades into brushland.
Last year Frelich and fellow University of Minnesota forest ecologist Peter Reich published a paper in Natural Areas Journal that lists tree species likely to disappear as major components of Minnesota's northern forests with a warmer climate. It's a list of the classic trees that put the "north" in north woods: balsam fir, black spruce, white spruce, jack pine, and red pine.
Climate-change secondary effects would impact even more tree species. Paper birch and aspen would die off from increased drought. White cedar and white pine regeneration would be extinguished by hungry deer herds that expand thanks to milder winters. The line-up of tree killers, including more violent windstorms and the arrival of new forest pests such as mountain pine beetles, would impact almost every tree species found in the north woods today.
And Frelich and Reich don't expect a smooth transition from one healthy forest type to another. The rate of warming air and soil temperatures will outpace the intergenerational movement of tree species (i.e., how far a tree's seed can travel via birds or wind and grow into a new tree). Over the next 100 years, Minnesota's portion of the boreal forest will dwindle. Hardwoods won't be able to move en masse from the south fast enough to fill in all the places where boreal species decline. Meanwhile dead forests could degrade into brushlands, where the predominant trees would be the species that specialize in moving fast and filling a void—possibly invasive species such as nonnative buckthorn.
Last year in the scientific journal Biological Conservation, University of Minnesota ecologist Susan Galatowitsch identified three adaptation strategies—resistance, resilience, and facilitation—that could maintain biological diversity in Minnesota. The strategies aim to lessen unavoidable impacts of climate change, such as changes in forest habitats caused by warming that's already underway.
See the research
Read a paper, recently published in the journal Biological Conservation, examining adaptation strategies for biodiversity conservation.
Resistance means holding on to the current boreal tree species in northern Minnesota. But it doesn't mean doing nothing. In fact, it could require intensive forest management actions. For example, foresters could conduct prescribed burns that mimic historic fire patterns. Such burns would increase numbers of fire-dependent species—such as paper birch, black spruce, and jack pine—and allow them to spread over more areas with a wider variety of growing conditions. In the process, these species would become more diverse genetically, thus possibly improving their prospects for persisting in a changed climate.
"Fires deal our forests a new hand of cards, and the trees play all their aces," Frelich says.
Other resistance actions include planting seeds instead of saplings for silviculture, because field-grown seedlings undergo natural selection earlier than nursery-grown seedlings, and hence may be better able to survive environmental stresses. Reducing the northern deer population through intensive hunting zones would aid regeneration of trees. Likewise, an all-out effort to remove invasive plant species just as they sprout would help maintain the existing forest.
In her paper, Galatowitsch quotes another ecologist who said "resisting climate change is akin to paddling upstream." But she notes that resistance forest management might at least preserve native trees for a few decades, perhaps buying foresters some time to develop and implement other adaptation strategies.
The DNR's Almendinger thinks resistance forest management will do more than just buy time for boreal trees. He says there's proof that a boreal forest can survive in a warmer climate. Almendinger studied pollen records dating back 4,000 to 8,000 years, during the mid-Holocene when average temperatures were higher than they are today. He found evidence of boreal trees such as balsam firs and black spruce in Minnesota's Arrowhead region. "The temperature was 2 to 5 degrees hotter, with maybe three-quarters of current precipitation, but we know from the pollen records that there were still boreal trees in [present-day] Lake and Cook counties," says Almendinger. "Our gene pools have lots of plants that may be naturally resistant."
Among the corn and soybean fields of Kandiyohi County, there inconceivably grows several hundred acres of old-growth forest. Bill and Ute Reid own much of it and have counted 105 bird species here. Three species of elms (American, red, and rock) and basswoods with leaves as large as teacup saucers create a shaded understory crowded with hip-high forest-floor plants. On peninsulas that jut out into Little Kandiyohi and Swan lakes, grassy savanna grows punctuated with bur oaks.
University of Minnesota forest ecologist Lee Frelich says this is the lone remnant of the forest that dominated Minnesota at the middle of the current Holocene epoch. That was the last time Earth's climate was as warm as it is predicted to be by the middle of the 21st century. Frelich says this forest will likely escape every tree-killing malady that could come with a warmer, more volatile climate. And he suggests that ecologists start studying this remnant forest today. "It should be used as a reference, an ecological blueprint, and possibly as a seed source for future forests farther north," he says.
A resilience strategy seeks to boost a forest's immune system through diversity—mixed tree and plant species, and mixed stands of young, mature, and old trees. Resilience silvicultural practices include planting various native tree species and partial timber harvesting that leaves behind patches of older trees. In the north woods, resilience would foster a gradual change to more hardwoods but keep the forest healthy in the face of volatile weather and invasive species, two threats likely to increase with climate change.
The Nature Conservancy, a private nonprofit conservation group, is forecasting what resilient forests of the future might look like. TNC Minnesota forest ecologist Mark White built computer models to show how forest management could alter outcomes for northern forests in a warmer climate. Under a resilience strategy, White's models showed maples, white pines, and oaks might increase, while jack pines and spruces could be retained. Without resilience actions, northern forests might be reduced to maples and aspens with lots of areas of grass and brush that no longer support forest.
Meredith Cornett, TNC director of conservation science in Minnesota, says TNC is using resilience management on its three preserves in northeastern Minnesota: "We're expecting fir, spruce, and birch may be gone in the next 100 years. We'll see fading northern forest components and increased hardwoods. But we want that hardwood forest to be the best hardwood forest it can be.
"I've been inspired to see [TNC] turn away from doom-and-gloom predictions toward what we can do to help the natural areas we've protected adapt to climate change. We must ensure the gains we have made will persist in an uncertain future."
On the Manitou Forest Collaborative project, TNC is working with the U.S. Forest Service and the DNR to create greater diversity in forest structure and species, with emphasis on trees such as maples and yellow birch. TNC is also working with both agencies on tree harvesting and planting techniques that promote white pines.
At the bottom of a densely wooded, 100-foot-deep ravine, alongside a trickling springfed stream, there's a perimeter of 10-foot-high wire fence that looks like a prisoner-of-war camp. Inside the deer exclosure grows a small grove of trees with dark, furrowed bark and short, flat needles that are glossy and papery. These are eastern hemlocks; the tallest are about 80 feet and 140 years old.
This stand of 14 hemlocks grows in the Hemlock Ravine Scientific and Natural Area, one of the few regenerating hemlock populations left in the state.
"[Hemlocks] were never abundant, but there were several stands that could have spread by now if they had not been removed," University of Minnesota forest ecologist Lee Frelich says. "I think we should consider restoring hemlock and moving it into areas that will have a suitable climate in the future."
Facilitation means moving tree species to entirely new ranges where they don't grow today. It's based on the notion that rapid climate change will make it impossible for natural tree migratory processes, such as seed dispersal, to occur. The idea has caused controversy.
In North Carolina, a group of scientists planted Torreya taxifolia, a federally endangered yew, in private forest reserves. Wild Torreya currently only grows in a single dwindling population near the Georgia-Florida border. The group argued Torreya grew in the southern Appalachian Mountains during the Pleistocene and could grow there again. Critics called the planting "very dangerous tinkering."
In Minnesota Frelich says forest managers should consider assisted migration of eastern hemlock trees from an isolated remnant stand near Duluth to areas along the North Shore. He says hemlocks could replace boreal conifers lost in a warmer climate.
Frelich also proposes other interventions such as a restoration strategy of planting white pines inside the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. White pines are present in the wilderness, but they have suffered a 40 percent decline in the region. They would do well in the BWCAW where deer density is low, and they could thrive in a warmer climate. But the U.S. Forest Service currently doesn't allow interventions such as planting pines inside the wilderness.
Reich, Frelich's fellow University of Minnesota forest ecologist, is uneasy about facilitation, but he says some traditional rules for wildland management might need to evolve. "It takes a lot of hubris to think we can manipulate nature. We've done it before . . . and we've failed," he says. "But we've changed the landscape, we've changed the fire [frequency], and now we're changing the climate.
"If you're looking at emerald ash borer wiping out an ash forest, and you've got no other trees to fill in that space, well, in Ohio and Michigan, buckthorn has moved in to fill that void. I'm 100 percent in favor of planting new species, picked carefully, in that case."
Almendinger remains steadfastly opposed. "Facilitation is my nightmare, that we'll think we're smart enough to figure out how to move things," he says. Instead, Almendinger says tree species could still move naturally along traditional forest migration routes. Again consulting the paleoecological records, he says that forests historically advanced and retreated along the Itasca and St. Croix moraines, elevated ridges that run from northeastern Minnesota west to the prairie and southeast to Wisconsin's hardwood forests. Those moraines still have lots of continuous forest, he says, citing public lands such as the Chippewa National Forest, Foothills State Forest, and Itasca State Park.
"It's not just continuous forest that is needed for species migration, it's also the continuity and variety of microclimates that allow trees to move," he says. "And that's what these moraines provide with their elevation."
A new DNR program managed as a public-private partnership will broker conservation easements that prevent development on more than 330,000 acres of forest statewide by 2010. Since each acre of Minnesota forest holds an average of 99 metric tons of carbon, protecting forests from development keeps stored carbon from being released into the atmosphere.
Several research projects to monitor climate change impacts to forests are currently underway at the University of Minnesota. University forest ecologist Peter Reich and his cohorts are running a unique open-air monitoring experiment on forest plots near Cloquet and Winton called B4Warmed. There they are watching how 10 species of tree saplings respond to ambient warming from infrared lights and soil warming from underground cables. In the first year of the experiment, boreal species didn't fare too well, while oak saplings weathered heat and drought the best.
Ecologists are still at the dawn of thinking about how to manage forests in the face of climate change. Resistance, resilience, and facilitation are strategies under construction, and ecologists are experimenting with all three.
On its northern Minnesota preserves, TNC is augmenting resilience forest management with resistance actions such as seeding spruce, and in the future TNC may consider facilitating red oaks and basswoods. Frelich says other forest managers should be open to such an "all of the above" strategy. "Our forests will need as many different avenues of adaptation as possible," he says.
The DNR is beginning to formulate strategies for forests stressed by climate change. In its Strategic Conservation Agenda, the agency states a commitment to "enhancing ecosystem resilience to climate change" and to "create wildlife corridors, improve habitat connectivity, and expand habitat buffers to facilitate plant and animal migration as climate changes."
DNR Forestry is already adopting resilience silvicultural changes, such as partial harvesting timber sales that retain significant and biologically diverse components of canopy trees and forest floor vegetation.
"Forest management, by its nature, is a long-term endeavor. And climate change adaptation is one of the forest manager's most important issues," says Dave Epperly, DNR Forestry director. "We must prepare for an unpredictable future by applying greater diversity of silvicultural approaches to keep our forests healthy and to enhance their capacity to adapt."
Any adaptation strategy will rely on intensive on-the-ground monitoring of changes in ecosystems. The DNR's network of 148 scientific and natural areas, 40,000 acres of protected old-growth forest sites, and remote portions of 66 state parks provide opportunities to monitor climate change impacts on natural lands minus human impacts. The Minnesota County Biological Survey is a DNR inventory of animals and native plant communities statewide. Program supervisor Carmen Converse says MCBS could include monitoring and assessment of the influence of climate change on Minnesota's native landscapes and species.
The challenge for the DNR, and all Minnesotans, is preservation of the north woods as a special place, a reservoir of biological diversity, the wildest forest east of the Mississippi.
"It is widely recognized that people have become a geological force in changing whole ecosystems," says Keith Wendt, a DNR manager in the policy, research, and planning section that coordinates the agency's climate change planning. "We must take responsibility for that and realize that our choices in the next decade will determine the forest of the future."
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Bacula Backup Solution Reaches 1 Million Downloads
The open source backup software Bacula has surpassed the 1 million mark in Sourceforge's download statistics.
The download figures make Bacula the most popular tool for enterprise deployment, says Bacula Systems. The Swiss company provides professional support and an Enterprise Edition, with computer centers, financial institutions, telecom providers and agencies among its customers.
The company attributes its download success to its entrepreneurial nature and its strategic alliances with, among others, Red Hat, Sun, Ingres and MySQL. Add to that the fact that Bacula can be loaded on a USB stick and made into a bootable system to restore data in case of a hard disk error. The USB stick is part of Bacula's support offering and not independently available, according to the company.
Issue 166/2014
Tag Cloud
Heartbleed Bleeds On
According to a report, many potential victims of the Heartbleed attack have patched their systems, but few have cleaned up the crime scene to protect themselves from the effects of a previous intrusion.
Drone Brain Goes Open Source
DARPA and NICTA release the code for the ultra-secure microkernel system used in aerial drones.
Password Management Services Vulnerable to Attack
Should you trust an online service to store your online passwords?
New Raspberry Pi Adds Two USB Ports
New B+ board lets you build cool things without the complication of a powered USB hub.
Microsoft Grabs No-IP.com Domains
Redmond rushes in to root out alleged malware haven.
Firefox Steps into 3D
New initiative will bring futuristic virtual reality effects to the web surfing experience.
New Trojan Targets Online Banking
Dyreza malware launches a man-in-the-middle attack that compromises SSL.
HP Rolls Out Massive Cloud Network
New cloud combines worldwide access with local attention to data security.
New Attack Targets Wireless Logins
A first cousin of the recent Heartbleed attack affects EAP-based wireless and peer-to-peer authentication.
Geeks Petition for Free Lenovo BIOS
FOSS community acts to protect freedom of choice for laptop devices.

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TRAVERSE CITY — Officials from the city of Frankfort said the municipality is close to settling an employment dispute with a police officer that has cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars.
Officer Tim Cavric was laid off in 2003 after residents complained he was too aggressive.
The city was later forced to rehire Cavric after he and a police union filed a grievance. The fight over what the city owes Cavric in back pay and benefits, however, continues, and records reviewed by the Record-Eagle show the city has spent more than $82,000 on the fight with Cavric since August 2006.
Frankfort Mayor Bob Johnson said some Frankfort citizens have criticized the city for rehiring Cavric.
"Of course the judge has ruled we have to take him back and we have to make him whole again, so that's what we are doing," Johnson said.
Cavric did not respond to a request for an interview.
City officials and Cavric's attorney said this month the employment conflict is near a conclusion — the two parties are discussing a settlement agreement that will address how much back pay, including benefits and pension payments, the city will shell out. Neither party would discuss specifics on how much back pay Cavric is likely to receive, but Cavric's attorney estimated the total will likely be in the "low six figure," range.
"I don't know that I'm comfortable giving a number," said Martha Champine, assistant general counsel for the Police Officers Association of Michigan union. "There's a lot that goes into this."
Cavric filed a grievance in June 2006 after the city hired a part-time officer without offering him the position. An arbitrator ordered Cavric's reinstatement with back pay, but the city filed a lawsuit to have the ruling tossed out.
The lawsuit eventually reached the Michigan Court of Appeals, which also ordered Cavric's reinstatement. The city appealed the reinstatement order, but the state Supreme Court chose not to review the appellate court's ruling.


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Congressman Paul Broun (R-Ga.) said last week that evolution and the big bang theory are "lies straight from the pit of Hell."
"God's word is true. I've come to understand that. All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the big bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell," said Broun, who is an MD. "It's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior."
He continued:
"You see, there are a lot of scientific data that I've found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth. I don't believe that the earth's but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That's what the Bible says."
According to NBC News, Broun's comments were part of a larger speech given at the 2012 Sportsman's Banquet at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell, Georgia on September 27th. A clip of the video was distributed by the The Bridge Project, a liberal watchdog group.
Broun is a high-ranking member of the House Science Committee, of which Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.) is also a member.
Akin made headlines last month for suggesting that women don't get pregnant from "legitimate rape" because their bodies have "ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
As Gawker points out, Broun made headlines in 2009 for trying to make 2010 "the year of the Bible."
Broun is running for reelection unopposed, the AP reports.
Watch a clip of his remarks above. The full video is available here.
Also on HuffPost:
'2nd Amendment Remedies'
During Nevada's 2010 Senate election, an audio clip surfaced of Sharron Angle raising "Second Amendment remedies" as a viable solution to take when "government becomes out of control." The Tea Party-backed hopeful ultimately proved unsuccessful in her campaign to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
'I Do Not Wear High Heels'
Ken Buck, a Tea Party-backed contender who ultimately fell short in his bid to unseat Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet in Colorado, made headlines in 2010 when he quipped that people should vote for him "because I do not wear high heels."
'I Am Not A Witch'
Christine O'Donnell captured headlines in 2010 with a now-infamous campaign ad in which she tells voters, "I'm not a witch." She says, "I'm nothing you've heard. I'm you." O'Donnell was defeated in her campaign for Senate in Delaware by Democratic Sen. Chris Coons.
Scientists For Creationism?
Rep. Michele Bachmann said in October of 2006, "There are hundreds and hundreds of scientists, many of them holding Nobel Prizes, who believe in intelligent design."
Democrats = Communists?
HuffPost's Jen Bendery reported in April of this year:
As many as 80 House Democrats are communists, according to Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.). West warned constituents at a Tuesday town hall event that he's "heard" that dozens of his Democratic colleagues in the House are members of the Communist Party, the Palm Beach Post reported. There are currently 190 House Democrats. West spokeswoman Angela Melvin later defended West's comments -- and clarified to whom West was referring. "The Congressman was referring to the 76 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. The Communist Party has publicly referred to the Progressive Caucus as its allies. The Progressive Caucus speaks for itself. These individuals certainly aren't proponents of free markets or individual economic freedom," Melvin said in a statement to The Huffington Post.
Welfare Prison Dorms?
The AP reported in August of 2010 on then-New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino:
Throughout his campaign, Paladino has criticized New York's rich menu of social service benefits, which he says encourages [undocumented] immigrants and needy people to live in the state. He has promised a 20 percent reduction in the state budget and a 10 percent income tax cut if elected. Asked at the meeting how he would achieve those savings, Paladino laid out several plans that included converting underused state prisons into centers that would house welfare recipients. There, they would do work for the state - "military service, in some cases park service, in other cases public works service," he said - while prison guards would be retrained to work as counselors. "Instead of handing out the welfare checks, we'll teach people how to earn their check. We'll teach them personal hygiene ... the personal things they don't get when they come from dysfunctional homes," Paladino said. ... Paladino told The Associated Press the dormitory living would be voluntary, not mandatory, and would give welfare recipients an opportunity to take public, state-sponsored jobs far from home. "These are beautiful properties with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities," Paladino he said. He also defended his hygiene remarks, saying he had trained inner-city troops in the Army and knows their needs. "You have to teach them basic things - taking care of themselves, physical fitness. In their dysfunctional environment, they never learned these things," he said.


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Student/staff member Rachel Julis uncovers a gold cache at the Poggio Colla site.
Since 1995, the Poggio Colla Field School has hosted graduate and undergraduate students from around the world. Only 16 participants per year are admitted to the field school to receive training in Etruscan archaeology and the theoretical and practical aspects of fieldwork from a professional staff that includes archaeologists, an architect, an illustrator, a surveyor and a conservator.
Field school participants enroll for six credit hours from Southern Methodist University and are expected to complete a research project on their return to the United States. Many students keep online diaries of their field experiences, including photos from the dig. For more information, contact SMU's Office of News and Communications at 214-768-7650.


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The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing on the county's role in Phase 2 of the Dulles Metrorail project at 5 p.m. Tuesday during their regularly scheduled meeting.
Fairfax County transportation officials to inform residents how the $2.7 billion project was being financed and to gather ideas for station names.
According to officials, Fairfax County will contribute anywhere from $900 million to $965 million for both phases of the construction.
On Tuesday, the board will cover the financing of the project, but station names, a popular topic in the Silver Line discussion, will not be part of the hearing. As of last week, 13,000 responses had been submitted to a survey seeking input on station names.
Also on the agenda, the board is expected to approve a resolution authorizing the sale of Fairfax County Economic Development authority bonds in an effort to replace the existing Woodburn Mental Health Center in Annandale and the construction of the Providence Community Center.
The board is expected to authorize the Fairfax County Redevelopment and Housing Authority to loan nearly $3 million to Pathway Homes, a charitable organization that provides housing to adults with serious mental illnesses.


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Recent editorials from Alabama newspapers:
June 24
The Decatur (Alabama) Daily on tax code:
Two advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against the Alabama Department of Corrections alleging unconstitutional conditions for inmates, including denying medical treatment. Regardless of the lawsuit's merits, Alabama's prison system is on course for federal intervention — again.
Alabama's prison system again is in the national spotlight, and it's not a heartening illumination.
The Southern Poverty Law Center and Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Center have filed suit in federal court seeking to change how inmates are treated, particularly for medical conditions the groups contend largely go untreated.
The latest accusations of unconstitutional prison conditions and inhumane treatment have their roots in the state's deeply flawed tax system. The state doesn't have enough money to adequately fund all its services — and given what is now well-documented research on the tax system, the lack of funding can only be viewed as by design.
It's not yet clear where the Legislature will find additional money to solve the problems, but the first place to look is in the tax code itself. Alabama taxes the working poor and middle class at much higher rates than most states, while the wealthy can take advantage of tax breaks not available to others.
Alabama relies too heavily on sales taxes, while property taxes are the lowest in the nation, which is a decided advantage for the wealthy. In 2006, the Legislature changed the income tax threshold from $4,600 to $12,600, which was welcome relief, but the income tax rate was not changed. Alabama has a relatively flat income-tax rate that is more onerous on the working poor and middle class than on large income earners.
The money to turn around the miserable state prison system, and to properly fund schools and other services, is available if only someone in Montgomery will muster the political courage to rewrite the tax code and establish a progressive system that fairly and equitably taxes its people based on their wealth.
June 23
The Gadsden (Alabama) Times on Riverfront park:
Here's a new chapter for the perpetual work-in-progress, "The Perils of Dealing with Government Bureaucracy."
The city of Gadsden last year announced plans for the Coosa Riverfront Park that we praised at the time as a worthwhile addition to the local landscape.
The park will start at the existing Coosa Landing marina and run back along the riverfront toward Interstate 759, both on land that was purchased by the city and wetlands property that is being leased from Alabama Power Co. for $1. It will have trails, boardwalks (lighting is planned for the ones on city property), pavilions, observation decks, floating docks for boats and possibly picnic tables. A pedestrian bridge will link the park to Coosa Landing.
We have zero doubt it will be put to good use if it gets built. The problem is, that's going to take more than land, money and will.
The city must satisfy four federal agencies — the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (because the area is in Alabama Power's flood elevation), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (because it's a potential habitat for the Indiana bat), the Army Corps of Engineers (because it actually will affect the river) and the Coast Guard (because the pedestrian bridge will cross navigable water) — before proceeding with the project. The Alabama Historical Commission already has signed off on it.
City officials, who had hoped work could begin on the park this year, say the process has been "frustrating." They've had to make revisions in the project to try to alleviate the ecological concerns and get the federal permits. It's nearly doubled the development costs and likely will increase the construction costs. Those are to be covered by funds the city received from a bond refinancing in 2012, that were tagged for riverfront development.
We're not going to call this bureaucracy run amok, because we're sure there are good reasons these regulatory hoops were put in place. The whole point of this project is to spotlight and take advantage of Gadsden and Etowah County's most dominant natural resource, not injure it. Doing this right is more important than doing it quickly.
While they're frustrated by the slowdown, city officials also are optimistic that once the first permit is approved, the others will follow quickly and work on the park can begin.
We welcome that kind of patience and diligence. This might not be the massive economic development on the Coosa that people have sought for decades, but it's a good thing for Gadsden. It might even be the start of something more.
June 23
Anniston (Alabama) Star on clean air:
The Environmental Protection Agency is spinning a recent Supreme Court decision allowing the regulation of greenhouse gases as a win in the battle against global warming.
By a 7-2 vote, the court declared, as Justice Antonin Scalia so succinctly put it, that the "EPA is getting almost everything it wanted in this case." In a statement released following Monday's announcement, the EPA noted, "The Supreme Court's decision is a win for our efforts to reduce carbon pollution because it allows EPA, states and other permitting authorities to continue to require carbon pollution limits in permits for the largest pollution sources."
So, that's all good, given the settled science.
Human activity is causing a spike in greenhouse gases. The planet is heating up. Dire consequences are already at hand.
Yet, amid all this positive news in the battle against man-made global warming is a head-shaking reality. The fault goes back to a do-nothing Congress.
Here's the issue: The tonnage triggers for regulation of pollutants in the Clear Air Act are far too low for greenhouse gases. More conventional pollutants are measured in the hundreds of tons while the danger from greenhouse gases is better regulated in the thousands of tons.
Part of what landed the EPA in federal court was an adjustment in the pollution thresholds, one that attacked the worst offenders and didn't burden lesser sources. Another section of the court's ruling criticized that adjustment, as a 5-4 majority said that was an overstep of the EPA's authority. (The court cited a different section of the law to allow the agency to regulate only large sources of greenhouse gases.)
Reading between the lines, we see a need for some tweaks in a law first passed more than 50 years ago.
Forget fixes. We fret there's a tea party-flavored faction in Congress that would just as soon kill the entire Clean Air Act, legislation that has been consistently approved by past Republican presidents.
The point is that Congress is earning its do-nothing reputation. A big nation with big problems needs an action-oriented legislative body looking forward to a more prosperous future. Well, we can dream, can't we?


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When it comes to building bridges, it might appear that good old concrete isn't good enough for Raleigh anymore. But appearances are misleading.
Relax, taxpayer. That really isn't sandstone masonry supporting the nearly finished Glenwood Avenue bridge over Wade Avenue -- and the Reedy Creek Greenway bridge being built over the Interstate 440 Beltline.
It is concrete, formed and colored to resemble stone masonry. Even at eye level with Wade Avenue commuters who hurry beneath the Glenwood bridge every day, this fake stone looks like the real thing.
When they designed a $3 million replacement for the obsolescent Glenwood bridge, state Department of Transportation engineers wanted to build something that wouldn't look out of place in the old Raleigh neighborhood.
Instead of slapping a standard New Jersey barrier rail along the length of the bridge, they mimicked the rail of the original 1954 structure, with openings that look like church windows.
"I heard somebody refer to it as a Texas church rail," says Mitch D. Conner, a DOT engineer overseeing the Glenwood bridge work. "It helps to maintain the character of the old bridge."
The bridge should be finished in the next couple of weeks.
Two engineering changes should ease the way Glenwood and Wade traffic streams merge with each other.
A long acceleration lane beneath the bridge replaces an abrupt stop for Glenwood drivers as they enter eastbound Wade. And cars on northbound Glenwood no longer yield for drivers entering from westbound Wade. Instead, a new traffic signal there is designed to keep Glenwood moving without causing a backup on Wade.
But the most obvious change is the faux sandstone wall beneath Glenwood. It echoes the stonework featured on the Masonic Temple of Raleigh on Caswell Street, visible from the bridge. A neoprene rubber mold was placed inside the concrete forms to make the stony texture, and then the gray surface was tinted in warm shades of brown.
"I've had a lot of people ask me how we got 'that nice stonework' laid so quickly," Conner says.
DOT recently used the stonemasonry look for a few bridges and retaining walls in the mountains of Western North Carolina. The designers of a new bicycle-pedestrian bridge across the Beltline liked it, too.
The Beltline bridge near Wade Avenue is part of the Reedy Creek Greenway project to be finished by November. It is a 2.3-mile paved trail that will run from the Meredith College campus, under Wade, then over the Beltline and up through woods and meadows to the N.C. Museum of Art on Blue Ridge Road.
The project cost of $3.8 million is divided mostly between the $1.2 million paved trail and $2.5 million for two bridges: the 660-foot-long steel structure across the Beltline and a 70-foot timber bridge across House Creek just west of the Beltline.
Some motorists have expressed concern about the greenway project, wondering whether it is taking money from highway needs.
"It looks fancy to them, and they're thinking that North Carolina is still in tight budget times," says Tom Norman, who heads DOT's bicycle and pedestrian division.
But 80 percent of the tab comes from federal transportation funds available only for nonhighway uses. The city of Raleigh shared most of the rest of the cost with the state. Norman adds that the project would have been unaffordable without the right-of-way donated by the the college and the museum.
Adding the pretty, fake stone work increased the cost of concrete bridge supports by about 5 percent, he says.
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BURLINGTON, Wis. (AP) — Chemical fumes at a Burlington elementary school have sent a dozen people to the hospital.
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Doncha just hate it when you get used to a product and the store - or the manufacturer - decides you don't need it anymore? I thought I lived in America. What's happened to our country?
Within the past three weeks, two of my very favorite products have mysteriously left the store shelves for some unknown reason.
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...now it's not there. In fact, most of the VO5 products are gone. Why? I used that putty! There are just certain things that work for me and that was one of them. It didn't stink and it didn't make my hair look like I glued it together. I cannot stand hairspray. Other hair goop brands just don't cut it...not even Vitalis which is made for guys. They're either too goopy, stinky or runny. The VO5 product suited me best. I checked the Alberto-Culver (who makes VO5 products) website and they're still selling it everywhere but my Walmart! From the looks of things, I suppose I will have to order it on line and get it through the mail.
And what about the Chocolate Chip
brand Muffin Tops?? My wife and I were very happy to occasionally pop these in the toaster for a quick snack or treat. Then, about three weeks ago, Walmart stopped selling them! Correct that...they stopped selling the
Chocolate Chip
version of the Muffin Tops. If you go to Walmart right now, you'll see only the
flavored Muffin Tops. Again...why is this?? From the looks of things, the Blueberry version is usually stocked full while the Chocolate Chip version was moving product pretty well. The last three weeks we've gone from (what we refer to as) the "old" Walmart on Campbell Lane and the "new" one on Morgantown Road in search of the Chocolate Chip Eggo brand Muffin Tops. They're gone! Yet, the freezers are full of the Blueberry kind.
I checked the Eggo website and found a store locator for their brands. It says for the Bowling Green area, only
is selling the Chocolate Chip variety of Muffin Tops. Immediately I ask...why would Walmart stop selling them and Kroger decide to carry them? Being a curious guy, I ask these questions a lot and it drives people around me crazy. But it just doesn't make sense. I hate it when some nameless person in another place thinks they know what I like or don't like, then make the decision to pull a product I've been faithful to. It's un-American!
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get to the bottom of this! (Some poor stock clerk is shaking in their shoes right now...NOT!)
Look, this is not against Walmart...I love them and will continue to be a dedicated customer. I joke every time I'm in there that without me, this store would close! But you know, if you really think about it, what I'm saying is true. Without us buying the products, where would stores like Walmart be? Shelia and I are in there at least two or three times a week for something. We make it a habit to start our Saturday morning's early with a bite of breakfast at
Cracker Barrel
then off to "WallyWorld" to beat the crowds. It's America at its best. However, I do wish Walmart would make it easier to sound off about such things as product availability. When I went to their website, I got as far as Customer Care but found a lot of gibberish about this and that and sustainability. I could care less about "greening" up my life or that of my nearest Walmart store. (I'll save that for another blog - and by "saving" comments here, I've decreased my carbon footprint...
? Whatever.) They really need a place for customers like me to simply say "what happened to__________?"
Well, tomorrow is Saturday and we'll be there like faithful shoppers...pushing our cart down the Health & Beauty aisle looking for my VO5 Extreme hair putty and seeing an empty shelf. Shelia will be turning the corner down the frozen food section hoping that maybe...
just maybe
...her Eggo Chocolate Chip Muffin Tops will somehow reappear. If not, we'll make do. We always do. We're Americans.
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A few years ago a Rabbi told a parable during High Holy days. It went like this:
A man stood in a field and asked; "God, give me a sign that shows you exist" and a rainbow appeared...but the man didn't see it.
He then repeated what he'd said, and a butterfly landed on his wrist, but the man didn't feel it.
Again the man asked God for a sign showing he exists...and a baby cried, but the man didn't hear it.
The moral is to not pass up a blessing because it's not packaged the way one expects.
To me that parable meant we should be grateful for every breath we take and take joy in our existence. Furthermore, we should concentrate on doing good and positive things; even if it's just as simple as smiling at someone.
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1par·al·leladjective \ˈper-ə-ˌlel, ˈpa-rə-, -ləl\
: very similar and often happening at the same time
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- akin, analogous, cognate, comparable, connate, correspondent, corresponding, ditto, like, matching, alike, resemblant, resembling, similar, such, suchlike
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- different, dissimilar, diverse, unakin, unlike
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: a way in which things are similar : a shared quality or characteristic
: something that is equal or similar
: any one of the imaginary circles on the surface of the Earth that are parallel to the equator and that are shown as lines on maps
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: to be similar or equal to (something)
: to happen at the same time as (something) and in a way that is related or connected
: to be parallel to (something) : to go or extend in the same direction as (something)
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- The highway parallels the river.
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Everyone has to deal with stuff in our own way. I've been off-and-on sick for a while now and the sick got pretty bad.
I decided to get over being sick once and for all, so I went to the doc and got examined and got the right advice and the right stuff to put the "bug" away.
Getting off my work-a-world routine and getting a lot of rest was top on the doc's list. So, I packed it in. For me, when I'm sick, I turn on the TV, make sure I have plenty of extra blankets to stay warm, juices in the fridge and I sleep in two- or three-hour spurts and watch whatever is on the TV between the sleep spurts. In the end, this all worked, I am very glad to say.
This time around, I stumbled into a couple of pieces of video in and out of the sleep that I definitely wanted to revisit when I wasn't so totally focused on the one thing, like on "getting well."
I stumbled onto one of those video pieces the other night and it just really grabbed me. It was a documentary about the early career of the Rolling Stones. It's titled, "Crossfire Hurricane."
While I've always liked the Stones, and I know the words to lots of their songs, if just by 50 years of exposure, I am definitely no super fan. I don't follow all the details and in and outs of what they are doing right and what they are doing wrong.
This movie gave me a much greater depth of knowledge of what the Rolling Stones are all about. And in the end, when the titles nearly finished rolling, the individual members of the Rolling Stones were listed as the executive producers of the film. I had to smile at that. It was a good movie.
But there was one part of this retrospective that was very uncomfortable for me. It was the segment about The Stones' free concert at Altamont in 1969.
In the mid 1960s, Jack Kerouc, Alan Ginsberg and a handful of others were the prominent and influential personalities of the beat generation on the West Coast. These guys were in their mid 40s and 50s and I wasn't even 20 years old at the time. I never met any of them on a "one-to-one" basis, but I was an avid follower of their antics here, in our special neighborhood of Northern California in the '60s.
At some point in time, it became common knowledge that the beats were involving the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club in their going-ons. The Hells Angels were becoming a hip thing.
During this time, I was living with about a half dozen young hip couples in an old hunting lodge that had been converted into small, informal apartments. The lodge was located in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the obscure and dusky neighborhood called Zayante. Zayante was located on a sand mountain fairly evenly distant from Ben Lomond, Scotts Valley and Felton. It's out-of-the-way location offered me the opportunity to leave my car at the lodge and hitch-hike down to the more mundane communities where my friends lived: Santa Cruz, Soquel and Aptos, along the beaches. I liked to hitch-hike because it forced me to overcome my extreme bashfulness and chat with strangers.
On one such excursion, I was thumbing a ride out of Aptos to get back to the lodge and it was near dusk. I was anxious to get some sort of ride as walking up Zayante Road in the dark, with no moon, was no easy matter. Parts of the walk were as black as pitch. You would simply be walking on faith and any distant speck of light you might find. This time at Aptos, my thumb was out and my pea coat was buttoned up tight on the on-ramp to the freeway. The evening fog was being pushed on shore and it wouldn't be long before my prospects would get very dim.
I was on the beach side of Highway 1 and before it really got dark, from across the freeway over on the Aptos town side, I heard a familiar and distinctive sound, the deep-throated lugging of several Harley Davidson motors. I heard them get stuck at a stop light and idle, then throttle up and come over the overpass, their bright headlights nearly blinding me as they approached the on-ramp where I was standing.
As I shielded my eyes against their bright headlights, I heard the motors rev down and come to idle. They pulled up next to me, the sounds of strong motors and wet gravel getting squished by heavy tires filled my ears. The thick smell of oil rolled over to me. "Where you headed?" they asked me.
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You're an outsider heading to the Westside of Los Angeles -- not the beach cities, but Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Westwood and the nearby well-heeled neighborhoods south of the Santa Monica Mountains. This means you'll be well-fed, well-rested and perhaps more closely watched by the issuers of your credit cards. Only the sultan of Brunei, it seems, can afford to splurge in these precincts without looking at price tags. But you need not spend liberally to learn a little about wealth, fame, geography and Persian desserts.
For instance, you'll realize that Beverly Hills, like the "Mona Lisa" and certain leading men, is smaller than you might expect (5.7 square miles). You'll recognize Culver City's connections to Oz and the old Soviet space program. You'll be reminded that there's a big Santa Monica Boulevard and a little one (a.k.a. South Santa Monica Boulevard), which perplex the uninitiated by running parallel for more than a mile. In Westwood, you'll see how death has united Marilyn Monroe and Rodney Dangerfield, among others. The details await in these 12 Westside stories.
1. Big screen, small
Sony Studios (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
If Alex Trebek makes you swoon, you'll want to check out Sony Studios (10000 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City; www.sonypicturesstudiostours.com) in Culver City. Its two-hour guided weekday walking tour costs $33 (no children younger than 12) and can include stops at soundstages where "The Wizard of Oz" was filmed in 1938 and where "Jeopardy!" has been shot since 1984. If neither Alex nor Judy Garland makes your world go 'round, think twice about this tour. For a more engrossing (and affordable) experience in the same neighborhood, get thee to the Museum of Jurassic Technology (9341 Venice Blvd., Culver City; www.mjt.org). This odd little spot, open 2-8 p.m. Thursdays and noon-6 p.m. Friday-Sunday, is all about the joy of weird stuff, presented with great museological pomp. Shuffle through the tiny dark rooms, your jaw slackening at the sight of the trailer-park dioramas, Soviet space-dog oil portraits, a tiny sculpted pope in a needle's eye and two dead mice on toast (the consumption of which is described as an old bed-wetting cure). Don't miss the tearoom upstairs. Next door stands the Center for Land Use Interpretation (9331 Venice Blvd., Culver City; www.clui.org), whose exhibits and publications have probed the underwater towns of America, the helipads of downtown L.A. and other notable human interactions with the landscape. It's open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in the afternoons. Then, to dramatize your evening, head to the Kirk Douglas Theatre (9820 Washington Blvd., Culver City; www.centertheatregroup.org), a satellite operation of downtown's Center Theatre Group that's been putting on shows in this 317-seat venue since 2004.
2. Beloved burgers and newfangled photos
Annenberg Space for Photography (Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
Since 1947, the Apple Pan (10801 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles) has been offering Angelenos burgers and desserts. No reservations, no alcohol, no air conditioning. Order the Hickory burger (about $7) and maybe a big slice of apple pie for dessert. Then head two miles northeast to Century City, where you'll park beneath the soaring cold metal and glass of the Creative Artists Agency building. You have not scored a meeting with CAA's deal makers, but they will let you in next door at the Annenberg Space for Photography (2000 Avenue of the Stars, No. 10), a nonprofit exhibition space with a video-friendly layout and sophisticated digital technology. It's free and open Wednesdays-Sundays. (Be sure to get your parking validated, or it will cost a fortune.)
3. Shopping on Rodeo
Rodeo Drive (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
The Rodeo Drive shopping experience (www.rodeodrive-bh.com) boils down to about three blocks. Start at South Santa Monica Boulevard and make your way southeast, past Brighton and Dayton ways, to Wilshire Boulevard. See the impeccable salesman wiping fingerprints off the Cartier shop window? The strange staircase that architect Rem Koolhaas placed at the front of the Prada shop? The beckoning faux-European side street of the Two Rodeo shops? At the far end of your stroll, you'll find the Beverly Wilshire (9500 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills; www.fourseasons.com/beverlywilshire). This hotel, run by Four Seasons, is where Warren Beatty once lived, where Esther Williams taught 14-year-old Elizabeth Taylor how to swim and where Richard Gere brought Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman." It's not perfect; an ungraceful '70s addition lurks behind the original 1928 building. But it has location, a Wolfgang Puck steakhouse called Cut and Four Seasons service. Rooms for two usually start north of $500.
Now take a breath. If you're a true retail warrior, you're not done shopping yet. Clustered nearby along Wilshire from 9560 to 9700, you'll find Barneys New York (9570 Wilshire Blvd.; www.barneys.com), Neiman Marcus (9700 Wilshire Blvd.; www.neimanmarcus.com), Niketown (9560 Wilshire Blvd.; www.nike.com) and Saks Fifth Avenue (9600 Wilshire Blvd.; www.saksfifthavenue.com).
4. Cuisine on Canon
Bouchon Bistro (Alex Gallardo / Los Angeles Times)
You can try La Cienega Boulevard, the official Restaurant Row of Beverly Hills, some other night. For now, scope out the high style and smaller scale of the eateries on Canon Drive between Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards. At 225 N. Canon, glass windows reveal the steamy kitchen of Scarpetta, one of the region's most highly rated Italian restaurants. There's Wolfgang Puck's flagship, Spago Beverly Hills, at 176 N. Canon Drive; and Mastro's Steakhouse at 246 N. Canon Drive, with its 48-ounce double-cut porterhouse steaks. But tonight you're trying Thomas Keller's Bouchon Bistro (235 N. Canon Drive, Beverly Hills; www.bouchonbistro.com) and choosing between the fancier upstairs dining room of the little Bar Bouchon downstairs and its steak salad for around $21. Later on, there may be dessert or a nightcap at Nic's (453 N. Canon Drive, Beverly Hills; www.nicsbeverlyhills.com), with its lively bar and walk-in, drink-in vodka freezer (the Vodbox). And after that? If you've recently won a lottery or sold a screenplay, take a few steps across Beverly Canon Gardens (241 N. Canon Drive; www.beverlyhills.org/services/rec/parks/beverly_canon_gardens.asp) to the Montage Beverly Hills Hotel (225 N. Canon Drive, Beverly Hills; www.montagebeverlyhills.com) and see whether there's a vacancy. Montage, opened in late 2008, sports a Spanish Colonial-Revival look, with dashes of Morocco and Italy, and plenty of space in its 201 luxury-laden rooms. Rates usually start at around $595 a night.
5. A stroll in the park and a cubicle seat
Beverly Hills sign (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
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Newcastle will welcome back midfielder Cheick Tiote for Sunday's trip to Saints after missing out on last night's Europa League tie through suspension.
It is a rare piece of positive team news for ex-Southampton manager Alan Pardew ahead of his first return to St Mary's since being sacked in August 2010.
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OSPREYSAINT wrote:Well said, OSPREYSAINT. I Echo your opinion!
Didn't this use to be a Saints site? 3 threads on Pardew and one on Newcastle players? Not exactly backing the home club is it?
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