text: IntroI had always wanted to hike the John Muir Trail but due to the time required, never had enough free time available to squeeze it in. Having done portions of the trail over the past several years, I felt I was ready to try the whole trip in one shot. Gordon, a good friend and regular hiking partner, signed on as well and we were all set to plan for our adventure. My goals for the trip included completing the trail, climbing a number of peaks along the way, and getting in shape for the 2007 Sierra Challenge. I successfully achieved these goals but not exactly in the way I had planned (see the end for a synopsis of our plans). With a vehicle prepositioned at the Whitney Portal (we were hiking north to south) and our packs dropped at Tuolumne Meadows, we were ready to start. The night before the trip, Gordon and I were ensconced in a tent cabin in Yosemite Valley with my wife Caren, who I had beguiled into driving us to the starting line.Day 1: The Day Hike (~25.4 miles, 7300' el gain, 2700' el loss). Day 1 should have been easy and relatively speaking, it was. Armed with only day packs, we quickly set off at the start surrounded by swarms of tourists headed for Half Dome. With the exception of an unexpected detour of a couple of minutes up the Glacier Point trail by accident (disappearance of tourists clued us in), we reached the junction of the JMT with the Half Dome trail in about two hours where we briefly mused whether to climb Half Dome. Good sense prevailed and we continued our trip up through Yosemite's high country, finally reaching the backpackers campsite in Tuolumne meadows just before 4PM. It was here that I discovered that I had left our JMT permit in the car and thus had to hike an additional 1.5 miles round trip to get another copy. A dry chicken sandwich and a beer served as our last touch with civilization for a while (or so we thought). Day 1 Pictures The approach to Cathedral Pass with Cathedral Peak in the backgroundDay 2: Backpacks are heavier than day packs (~23.0 miles, 4500' el gain, 5500' el loss). Lyell Canyon is probably the easiest and prettiest place to start a backpacking trip as you can find in the Sierra. We encountered several hikers about five miles in when a man joined us from our route ahead. Seems that a bear had destroyed his bear container and taken all of his food so he was hiking out to resupply. Now we carried the same conditionally approved light weight Ursack container (Spectra with liner) instead of my much heavier Garcia container. Having suffered bear losses in the past, I wasn't excited to hear this news but we shrugged our shoulders and continued hiking. At slightly over 10,000' Gordon's commitment to climb every peak with me evaporated and I hiked up alone to conquer Mt Lyell (13,114') and Mt Maclure (12,880'). I aimed for the notch but liking the glacier, headed straight up to what appeared to be the last snow bridge over the bergschrund below the peak. Good thing too as I saw a father and son team struggle with the 4th class section required if climbing Lyell from the notch. The team and I hit Lyell's ridge about the same time and we hiked to the top together where we had a pleasant chat at the summit. Leaving them after 10 minutes, I headed towards the notch (back over the snow bridge) and climbed Maclure's very enjoyable 3rd class knife edge ridge. I quickly returned to the notch, ran into the father and son team on the glacier (they thanked me for showing them the snow bridge), and pushed hard to get back knowing that Gordon would be hiking up looking for me (I had exceeded my time limit). Finding Gordon, I learned firsthand of the pleasure of putting a backpack back on after a hard climb. We climbed over Donahue Pass (11,040') and made our way down to a campsite at Rush Creek where mosquitoes tormented us for the rest of the night. Day 2 Pictures Mt Lyell & Mt Maclure from Donohue PassDay 3: Lesson not learned (~18.5 miles, 6500' el gain, 7100' el loss).Leaving camp about 7:30AM, we pushed over Island Pass (10,170') and were rewarded with views of Banner Peak over 1000 Island Lake. We reached the Ediza Lake junction about 1130 and decide to camp there instead of pushing on to the planned campsite after today's excursion. At noon, Gordon and I (yes, I talked him into it) head up the Ediza Lake trail to summit Mt Ritter (13,157') and Banner Peak (12,945'). We did well, reaching the Ritter-Banner saddle (12,000') after a lunch break of hummus and crackers and a very steep snow couloir climb. This very couloir climb was the only reason that we had decided to drag our ice axes and crampons with us for the entire trip. After a short break, we headed up the talus slog to summit Banner Peak. Back at the pass, Gordon begged off on Ritter which I chose to ascend via Clyde's Route. We expressed concern for each other's safety as I looked down at the icy couloir he would have to down climb face in and he looked up at the vertical chute (in reality a nice 3rd class route) I would have to ascend. I reached Ritter's summit just about the time he reached the base of the couloir, success for both. Except, I now had to descend the nasty SE route off Ritter, not a fun experience. Rejoining Gordon above Lake Ediza, we trudged into camp about 9PM with just the memory of dusk to guide our footsteps. Day 3 Pictures Banner Peak from Island PassDay 4: Another big day (~24.5 miles, 4700' el gain, 3500' el loss). We had a couple of miles to make up today so we pushed out hard and fast. Several ups and downs finally led to a steady downhill ride into the Devil's Postpile. We reached the Reds Meadows resort just before lunch where we ordered greasy food, bought needed supplies (I bought a foam sleeping pad as my Thermarest valve failed the second night), and I lost my wallet. After lunch, we marched up through the burned-out hill side and ran into a solo female teacher doing the JMT as well (I include this only because my wife thinks we were traveling in desolation). A pleasant chat and we pushed on for another 11 miles before collapsing along the banks of Duck Creek. Day 4 Pictures Fire swept forest above Reds MeadowDay 5: Slowing Down (~20.8 miles, 3300' el gain, 5600' el loss).Today we left early as we wanted to finish earlier than we had been. We were also looking forward to reaching our first cache of food located just below Quail Meadows. We reached Silver Pass (10,920') by noon and made our way down to JMT junction with the Lake Thomas Edison trail. Emptying our packs, we headed towards the lake and found our cache inside two bear cans, kindly supplied by the generous folks at the Vermillion Valley Resort. Gordon filled his pack with the resupply of food while I put the now empty bear cans in my pack. I headed down to the lake while Gordon headed back to camp. After dropping the cans by the ferry station run by the resort, I returned to camp to feast on our rewards from the cache. We slept well that night. Day 5 Pictures Lake VirginiaDay 6: Gordon goes afterburner (~21.8 miles, 4200' el gain, 4300' el loss). We each were allotted a pound of gnocchi the previous night and I could only eat half so Gordon finished up my dinner. Anyways, that's my explanation for Gordon's stamina on this day because he took off like a bat out of hell doing 3+ miles an hour up Bear Ridge (and carrying all of the food). I struggled to keep him in sight but he easily outpaced me. I finally caught up with him on Selden Pass (10,880') at 1PM and we started the long drop into the valley below. We pushed past our intended camp site and finally settled just above the Muir Trail Ranch along the Upper San Joaquin River at just after 5PM. By now, Gordon was running on fumes and after eating and cleaning up, we collapsed into the tent. Day 6 Pictures Marie Lake from Selden PassDay 7: Entry into Evolution (~15.2 miles, 3500' el gain, 500' el loss). Not a long day for us but definitely one worth remembering. Hiking up the valley, we entered the Evolution Valley and saw striking beauty surrounding us. Certainly, the Hermit standing over McClure Meadows was one of postcard picture views for the trip. Reaching the end of the valley, we struggled up the bench to the Evolution Basin. Along the way, I picked some wild green onions to go along with the dinner and we settled into a gorgeous campsite next to Evolution Lake. With daylight remaining, I hiked a short ways up the trail and onto a ridge to figure out the routes we would use to climb Mt Darwin and Mt Mendel the next day. These two peaks dominate the basin and are popular destinations for mountaineers. However, most people climb them from the other side so my home work was cut out for me. Day 7 Pictures The Hermit (right) looming over Evolution ValleyDay 8: Secor (~8.7 miles, 5400' el gain, 4800' el loss).I guess I can add to my single worded title but for those who have struggled to follow RJ Secor's route descriptions, I think you know which words I've left off. I talked Gordon into joining me today, expecting him to climb only Darwin (13,831'). We head up the correct chute on Darwin's West Slope as described by Secor and even took the correct branch when the chute split. Near the top (or so we thought), the chute split again – something not mentioned in Secor's description. The right branch looked good so I talked Gordon into following me. Bad mistake, Gordon. We hit a wall that required some intense 4th class work and a 5th class move, something we hadn't bargained for on our purported 3rd class route. Somehow we climbed onto the ridge that was the culmination of the approach to Darwin's giant plateau. We shuffled to the top of the plateau where we gazed across to the summit block on a detached pinnacle, a view worth making the climb itself. Having come this far, I dropped down the notch and looked at the pinnacle. I had contradictory information on how to climb the pinnacle so I chose what I thought was the easiest approach. To my astonishment, I was standing on top in less than 10 minutes. Gordon snapped a picture of me and we headed back down (the correct way – left at second branch). I traversed over to what I thought was the correct chute for Mendel (13,710') based on Secor's description. Heading into 4th class territory again, I was somewhat ticked when I reached the top of a notch and not the crest as promised by Secor. Evidently I wasn't the first to be fooled as a giant cairn marked the location of the notch (helpful on the return), left by some other duped climber. I dropped into this new chute which did lead to the crest and a very interesting ridge climb to the summit. I returned the same way choosing not to test Secor's description and follow the new chute to the bottom (I thought I had seen cliffs from below). Sadly, this common sense approach was not repeated several days later on another mountain. Returning tired, we moved camp several miles up to Wanda Lake where we would homestead for a couple of days while I explored the Ionian Basin. Day 8 Pictures Mt Darwin's plateau -- detached summit pinnacle in the backgroundDay 9: Ionian Basin (~12.0 miles, 5700' el gain, 5700' el loss). This was purely an exploration day of an area that gets few visitors due to its distance from civilization. I left camp at about 6:30AM, reaching the base of Mt Goddard's (13,568') NE ridge by 7:40AM, and the summit by 9:20AM. While Darwin and Mendel dominate the Evolution Basin, Mt Goddard (13,568') stands out by itself and has fantastic views in all directions. I descended Goddard's SW slope into the roller coaster terrain of the Ionian Basin. Filled with lakes, rock fields, and meadows, I don't think I saw one tree in the whole area. Reaching a lake that I needed to circumnavigate, I found myself stopped by a cliff. Instead of climbing over, I chose to take my boots off and walk past the cliff in apparently shallow waters. Within 5 minutes, the sharp flat shale that makes the Basin a pleasure to walk on (in boots) sliced a nice, deep cut into my foot. I staunched the bleeding and bandaged it as best as possible and then continued towards my next goal, Scylla (12,956'). Scylla is one of the two peaks that "guard" the entrance to the Enchanted Gorge (per Secor, the only thing enchanting about the Gorge is its name). The view from Scylla was awe inspiring -- looking down at her companions, the Three Sirens and across the great abyss to her consort guard, Charybdis. I quickly descended planning to return to camp via Wanda Pass (12,440'). Noticing that Mt Solomons (13,043') is only 600 feet higher than Wanda and drops you at Muir Pass on the JMT, I switched plans at the last minute and ascended Solomon's' south ridge. I literally missed the boat (and the pass), descending via a steep unpleasant scree face on the north slope and finally making it back to camp by 5:30PM. Gordon had been suffering under the relentless sun (no trees at Wanda Lake) and I made the decision to cut the layover schedule by one day, sacrificing my plans to climb Warlow, Fiske, and Huxley. But I had one more visit planned to the Ionian Basin. Day 9 Pictures Ionian Basin from the summit of Mt GoddardDay 10: Triumph and despair (~16.8 miles, 3800' el gain, 6500' el loss). Gordon and I shouldered our packs at a decent hour and made our way up to Muir Pass (11,960') where we ran into an older gentleman from NY that we had met at the beginning of the trip. Just below Muir Pass, I handed Gordon my pack (most of my stuff was in his already) which he would take several miles down trail to camp while I continued my explorations. His job was to also retrieve cache #2, which we had vacuum sealed and partially sank in a lake near the JMT. I hiked over Black Giant Pass (12,200') and down into the east end of the Ionian Basin. After some route finding challenges, I summited Charybdis (13,096') at 1130AM taking a series of reverse angle pictures from the day before. I made my way back to the pass and was on top of Black Giant Peak (13,330') by 2PM under gray, overcast skies. To date, we had perfect clear weather and today it was drizzling on and off. I vainly hoped it was temporary. I descended Black Giant traversing across its face (thinking it would save time and it never does) reaching camp by 4:30PM, looking forward to an easy evening and a resupply of good food. Gordon met me with disappointed eyes and informed me that animals had gotten into our cache and left nothing but a handful of vitamin C tablets. Our vacuum packed food packs had too much air to completely sink so we had piled rocks on top to submerge the packs. Unfortunately, we hadn't considered the curiosity of smaller animals (chipmunks?) getting through our (undisturbed) rock barrier and destroying five days of food. After spending an hour picking up trash, he had returned to camp to await my return. We decided to pack up and head down to LeConte Ranger hut and see if the ranger could do anything for us. "On extended patrol" said the ranger's note and we went to sleep in despair and under rain trying to figure out how two days of food could last us the remaining 90+ miles we had to go. Day 10 Pictures Charydbis guarding the entrance to the Enchanted GorgeDay 11: Change in plans (~12.6 miles, 3600' el gain, 2400' el loss). We were determined to finish and knew we had to resupply. Just several feet from our tent was the terminus of the Bishop Pass / Dusy Basin trail. While neither of us relished the idea of hiking an extra 12,000' pass (twice!), we knew we had no choice. Leaving the tent and sleeping stuff, we headed up and out with dirty clothes, a big bag of trash (the remains of cache #2), and vague ideas on how we would get to town. We quickly covered the ~12+ extra miles and 3600' of extra gain, exiting at South Lake at 1230PM. A kindly fishing family gave us the 30 minute ride into Bishop where the 95 degree heat hit us like a ton of bricks. Resuppling at the local sporting good store, market, and tasty Mexican restaurant, we settled into a rough night at the local Ramada Inn. It felt strange to be back in civilization after 10 days but fresh laundry and catch-up phone calls were great morale boosters. Day 11 Pictures Looking up LeConte Canyon from the Bishop Pass trailDay 12. Back to the JMT (~23.4 miles, 5300' el gain, 4300' el loss). We had big plans for today and we paid a gal to pick us up at 7:30AM and haul us back up to the trailhead. By lunch, we were back at our tent and quickly packed up for the second part of the trip. We did notice that the area had received a lot of rain overnight – things to come? Our plan was to do 11 more miles that day (after the 12+ miles to get back in). After a slight descent and then the arduous climb up to the Palisade Lakes, we reached our campsite at 6PM just in time for a nice swim in the cold lake (something I tried to do every night). Rejuvenated and spirits rekindled, we looked forward to a rewarding remainder of the trip. Day 12 Pictures Clouds swirl around Norman Clyde and Middle Palisade peaksDay 13. Norman Clyde day (~16.8 miles, 6200' el gain, 5500' el loss).I awoke at 4:30AM to climb Norman Clyde Peak (13,920') towering over our camp. NCP is part of the serrated Palisades region of the Sierra and I've wanted to climb it since I viewed it from its higher cousin, Middle Palisades Peak, last year. Once again, I was armed with Secor's brief description on the climb. The approach was spot on and so was the chute location. I found the notch he mentions and dropped into the wide chute that takes me to the top. Except it didn't. I hit some stimulating rock made even more exciting by the recent rain. I pulled myself up finally to the lower of NCP's summits, confused by where I was. Had I climbed the 4th class variation? I followed the knife edge ridge to the true summit deciding then and there to reverse Secor's directions to get back. Terrible mistake. I dropped into his supposed wide chute and followed it downwards looking for the notch. With cliffs suddenly appearing below me, I gingerly moved west into the next chute (and not over an easy notch) planning to follow it all of the way down per his description. Dead end with more cliffs below me. Forced to reclimb 200' of 3rd and 4th class, I find a challenging route over the arête next to me into the next chute over. This one finally looks familiar and I find the notch. I get back to Gordon at 11AM, 2 hours late, and utter just one word, "Secor". How could he have forgotten to mention two key chutes? I struggle on the backpack knowing we have a ways to go and half of the day gone. The plan is to climb Mather Pass (12,073'), drop into South Fork of the King's River (10,039'), and then climb Pinchot Pass before finding a campsite. Rain and fatigue at 4:30PM stops us just shy of Pinchot Pass in what is an extremely tiring day for me. Day 13 Pictures Sunset reflection just north of Pinchot PassDay 14. Hell day (~24.0 miles, 5200' el gain, 6400' el loss). Not really but it was very long and we had some miles to make up. Cache #3 was located at Upper Vidette Meadows in a bear box but we had a sinking feeling that it wouldn't be there. Evidently, there's a rule that you can't cache food in backcountry bear boxes for more than 24 hours, something that wasn't marked on the box and that we were unaware of until I received the permit (in retrospect as I write this, I should have contacted the USFS while we were in Bishop). We hiked over Pinchot Pass (12,138'), dropped into Woods Creek crossing (8492'), and made our way up the beautiful Rae Lakes Basin over Glen Pass (11,942'). By now, we were zombies headed for our reward at Upper Vidette. We got there shortly after 6PM only to find the box empty with a note from the ranger. If we came up to his place 3 miles back and 1000' up, we could have our food. No thanks. We did light a huge fire that night and rearranged our plans for the last time. I cut 6 more peaks out of my plans and planned for an early exit. Day 14 Pictures Vidette Meadows with Junction Peak and Forester Pass in the distanceDay 15. Near the end (~20.8 miles, 7300' el gain, 6900' el loss). Once again, I awoke early and climbed East Vidette Peak (12,350') near camp. Nothing much to say except it was a fun way to wake and prepare for the highest pass on the JMT. Back at camp shortly after 9AM, we packed and hit the road for Forester Pass. At 13,057', this pass was taller than five of the peaks I had climbed to date. Arriving under darkening skies at 1PM, I told Gordon to go on to camp while I climbed Junction Peak (13,888') from the pass. Returning just after 3PM, I felt the first drops and hurried after Gordon. Rain started coming down hard at the bottom of the pass and I hustled onwards to find Gordon about a mile from camp, worried about my safety on the peak in rain. We got to camp and I suggest to him that we push on thinking that the next stop was lower in elevation (it was but first we had to climb 500' to a saddle). We finally stopped at 6PM at Wallace Creek where mosquitoes immediately ambushed us, but we no longer cared. Day 15 Pictures Sunset from Mt WhitneyDay 16. The end of the line (~12.5 miles, 5500' el gain, 1400' el loss).We awoke at a leisurely time and left camp at 9:30AM. We ran into Erika, a roving ranger, and explained our cache #3 problem. She radioed in and made arrangements for me to pick it up 12 days later during the Sierra Challenge. We continued on and got just above Guitar Lake when it began raining on us. Not wanting to hike Mt Whitney (14,494') in a storm, we rigged a temporary shelter from the rain fly and waited 3 hours for the rain, then hail to stop. At 4:30 PM, we continued our ascent towards Whitney. At one point, there had been some plans to climb Mt Muir and Keeler Needle along the way but the goal of reaching the top was too strong. At just before 7PM, we reached the end of the JMT on Mt Whitney and celebrated with dinner and hot lemonade. After watching a glorious sunset, we settled in the summit shelter and went to sleep. Day 16 Pictures A fitting way to end the tripDay 17. Postscript (~5.2 miles, 200' el gain, 6300' el loss). At 1:30AM, the door of the shelter opened and closed rather quickly. Groggy, we weren't sure of what happened until 3:30AM when a guy came in and asked to join us saying it was too cold outside. We made room for him and he lay down and went to sleep. We learned later that morning that he came up to watch the sunrise but left his camp 4 hours away at 10PM. Go figure. Up at 5AM, we saw a line of headlamps coming up the trail – fellow hikers eager to see the sunrise on the tallest mountain in the continental U.S. We packed, ate breakfast, and were treated to the spectacular sunrise we hoped for. Immediately after that, Gordon and I headed down the Mountaineers Route to avoid the crowds on the main Whitney trail and possibly shorten the trip. The upper couloir was wet and slick while the large lower couloir was filled with rocks and wet sand. After that, the North Fork use trail beat up our bodies until we picked up the regular trail a mile from the end. After washing up, we treated ourselves to the Whitney Portal Store's famous 10" pancakes (they actually measure more like 18" and are an inch thick). An outstanding culmination to a great adventure. Day 17 Pictures Preparations: While things didn't work out as expected, we actually did put a lot of thought into the trip. The first step is to have a great partner that you're compatible with. Gordon filled all of the criteria for such a partner and then some. I also knew that the days of 50 pound packs were over so I did everything to lighten the load. Minus food and water, my packed weighed in at about 21 pounds including some extraneous gear that I (or my wife) thought necessary including ice ax, crampons, short rope, ATC & biner, sling and 10' of webbing, solar charger (mostly for Gordon's IPOD), and satellite phone (that had issues finding satellites). Gordon's was slightly heavier as he wanted some more creature comforts. We had one set of Harrison paper maps but I loaded every map, plan, elevation plot, trip report, and route guide on my camera memory card for easy access and made a duplicate for Gordon (we both use Panasonic DMC cameras). This allowed me to access a hundred pages of catalogued information instantly. For food, we made our own dinners using freezer bags and quick prepare meals available at the grocery store. This kept the volume, weight, and price down for the trip. To keep weight down, we tried to cache our food in no more than 5 days worth at a time. I've already discussed the results. Cache #2 would have worked if we could have sank it as planned. This would have been accomplished if we had properly prepared the food for vacuum storage. Too much trapped air led to too much buoyancy. Cache #3 would have worked if we had either hid the cache in bear cans (which we could have carried out or retrieved later) or contacted the ranger earlier. Finally, the car shuttle plan worked by convincing my wife to drive me up after we dropped my truck off at the Portal. In return, I took her to visit a friend and Napa Valley as part of the trip. Images[ View Gallery - 10 More Images ]


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NC Crime Lab takes steps to ease caseloads but funding woes remain
Posted January 9, 2015
Raleigh, N.C. — The former director of the North Carolina State Crime Laboratory says the agency has instituted various changes to help clear a backlog of evidence awaiting testing but that its biggest problem persists – having enough funding to retain analysts who are taking higher-paying jobs.
Delayed Justice: Underfunded State Crime Lab could mean crisis for NC court system
Since 2010, the lab has lost more than 70 scientists, including two who recently left to fill openings at a locally run, publicly funded laboratory.
"Both of those positions have been filled, and they've been filled by employees of the State Crime Laboratory who got a nice $20,000-a-year raise to go," former Judge Joe John said this week. "You can't blame them."
Along with an ever-growing caseload, non-competitive pay and attrition are two main factors that prevent expedient testing of evidence, according to those in the justice system. As a result, some criminal defendants have had their cases dismissed because of delays in evidence analysis.
John said persuading state lawmakers to fund pay raises is important in the upcoming legislative session.
"Things are going to get better, but they're never going to be really, really good until we can maintain a stable workforce," John said. "The only way to do that is to pay our folks."
State budget appropriations over the past few years have resulted in funding for a new crime lab in the western part of the state, 11 new DNA analysts and 19 new toxicology scientists. But, John said, employees keep leaving for better pay.
In one case, he added, the state spent $114,000 training a scientist who left before ever working on an actual case.
Better training and new protocols, however, have improved the workload.
One of the biggest impacts in the lab, John said, is bringing corporate workflow ideas into the science of fighting crime and streamlining how analysts work.
"From something just as simple as having a pen at your desk rather than having to go to the next desk, get up, go get and come back. And you repeat that action 10 times a day by the number of employees you have and you come up with a striking amount of time for something very, very simple."
Lab directors used that same philosophy when meeting with Superior Court judges to get analysts on the witness stand quickly when they have to testify in trials so that they don't spend unnecessary time waiting in courtrooms.
While examining every aspect of how the lab worked, leaders also found several examples where scientists spent time testing evidence in criminal cases that had already been resolved. In many of those cases, the prosecutor never let the crime lab know.
The lab installed new software that better compares pending evidence with court records. If that software flags a case that is closed, the lab contacts the prosecutor to confirm before removing the evidence from its list of pending cases.
"It is well worth the truly minimal time that we spend in that process, as opposed to all of our scientists – of whom there are a limited number – working cases unnecessarily," John said.
The lab also added new robotic testing capabilities in areas of toxicology and DNA analysis that is more sensitive and faster.
For example, a blood test for marijuana used to take an analyst 45 minutes to test. The machine can do it in seven minutes.
"We are still working our folks to the max," he said. "We're getting the most out that we can out of the resources we have."


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Progress Energy to freeze rates through 2012
In an agreement between Progress Energy, Public Counsel JR Kelly and Attorney General Bill McCollum, the utility company that serves much of Tampa Bay has agreed to freeze its base rates for the next three years.
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Although Serbian high jumper Dragutin Topic had won gold at the 1990 IAAF World Junior Championships in Plovdiv with what is still today the World Junior record at 2.37, he was competing with a Yugoslavian vest.
As such the name of Ivana Spanovic, who won tonight's long jump final with 6.61, will go in the history books as the first Serbian ever to win a gold medal at this competition.
"Yes I know I am the first. For me it was an extra motivation to try and become the first. It was inspirational," said Spanovic who previously this year had set a national junior record 6.65.
"It feels great to be the winner. I wanted this first place and now I have it."
Sporting family
Born in Zrenianin, the third largest city in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, Spanovic first got acquainted with athletics at the age of 7 inspired and supported by her mother Vesna, who was herself a 6.14 long jumper.
"I train very hard and for me it is not a surprise to get this title. I had jumped 6.65 before so I knew I was capable of jumping this far again."
An excellent sprinter, she set a 100m national youth record 12.02 in 2006, Spanovic seems to have always been immersed in a sporting environment. Her father is a former club level basket ball and football player while her 21-year-old brother Namania is a promising football player.
"He's very good!" she says of him proudly.
Part of Serbia's biggest ever team of 26 athletes, Spanovic said her experience helped her keep her cool when her lead was overtaken in round three.
"This is not my first World Championships, so I know how to handle the pressure," she explained. "I was never really worried."
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And if you take a look at her resume it is quite impressive for an 18-year-old! Spanovic was seventh at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz, before taking part in the European senior Indoor Championships in Birmingham, the World Youth Championships in Ostrava and the European Junior Championships in Hengelo last year.
She did not advance past the qualification rounds in either Birmingham or Hengelo but claimed silver in Ostrava. She had also competed in the 100m at the World Youth Championships in Marrakech aged 15!
And now her season is far from over as she heads back home on Monday for a three-week preparation to return to Beijing and take part in her first Olympic Games.
"I have the B Standard so yes I will be in Beijing. I am now going home to prepare for the Games. I don't know what to expect there. I hope to achieve a similar result as today and if it's good enough for the final then great. If it isn't then it's good anyway!"
Spanovic who trains seven days a week says she has no time at all for hobbies. "The rare time off that I have I spend it with my family and my friends!"
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Spring weather can be unpredictable. One minute, you're sporting a stunning sundress and sandals and the next, you're layering up for stormy weather. With the Ray currently residing in London, and the Ro living in LA, it seems that despite our far-away homes, we continue to share the same weather. London is known for its gloomy days, and for some strange reason, LA is getting much of the wetness on this side of the Atlantic.
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listen to this young lady's story:
Just take today's incident in LA. Some jihadist goes on a random shooting spree through the center of Hollywood. No one could do anything about it. Eventually an armed citizen, actually an off duty LEO, put him down. Point is the black and whites were to late to intervene.
When seconds count...the police are minutes away...
My daughter is in the Marine Corps reserve and attending college - - - She has a lifetime CCW permit - - - the schools do not allow her to carry but we will cross that bridge when and if needed as I would rather fight to keep her out of jail than go the the morgue to claim her!
When walking to and from her car at night she leaves her hand in her purse and it is on a S&W airweight 38 ( hammerless so she can fire several rounds still in her purse)
She was also the top person in MCMAP ( Marine Corp Marshall Arts Program ) in boot camp.
JonM, you forgot to mention Chicago, IL
I personally carry what ever I can when ever I can, I knew a lot of guys when I was in school that carried a knife hell I was one of them. Ya they had there uses for practical things but I'd rather have a knife on me when SHTF happened then be completely unarmed, the only places I don't carry at least a knife are the places that have medal detectors.
Now you are going to know how old I am.
While in high school several of us loved to go hunting together after school so we would put our shot guns behind the bus drivers seat till we got to school and then they stayed behind the home room teachers desk till time to go home. We also wore hunting vests and carried skinning knives.
I can't remember a fight in all 4 years.
Now they have banned all weapons and we keep getting students shot or stabed. I guess the liberals will protect us till we are all dead!
Every year, like clockwork, our Superintendent let us out of school on the first day of dove, quail, and deer (rifle) seasons.....
I also carried a 5" Spyderco knife in my pants (My Ag Ed teacher/FFA Advisir made custom Spyderco knives and still does).
Myself and my buddies also had rifle racks in the back windows of our trucks with loaded rifles and shotguns.
Nobody ever said anything. Around there, it would've been ABNORMAL not to have them!
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The league continues to be hammered in various media -- those that still care enough to turn its attention to a game that can't help but repeat its own labor follies -- while the question of how much damage has been done to the once-thriving game looms large with the season hanging in the balance.
It is imperative that the league and its players come to some sort of resolution to see hockey return this season.
Lose another whole season with legal battles looming and who knows what kind of lunar landscape awaits, which is why many believe the two sides will find a resolution in the final frame of this sordid drama.
But while we wait for that elusive moment, the weight continues to build on the back of a league and a game whose shame apparently knows no bounds.
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All modern software has bugslots of them. That goes for Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and any other operating system or application you can think of. Part of the problem is that regardless of how many developers are working on a software tool, and no matter how clever they are, they can't possibly anticipate each and every way someone could attack it.
"Just as you can't stop all bank robberies, you can't stop all software attacks," says Gary McGraw, coauthor of Building Secure Software and chief technology officer at Cigital, a firm that helps improve software security at several Fortune 500 companies. "In any field," he adds, "security is about risk management."
In the software business, however, there are two additional problems: First, modern software is often so complex that developers have trouble understanding exactly how it works, much less how someone could attack it. "Software is the most complicated artifact that we build as a species," posits McGraw. "Something like Window XP includes 40 million lines of code. How many people do you need in the room before they understand all that?"
Second, today's code is built atop yesterday's code, because everybody wants compatibility with old apps and old OSs. When those old apps were written, before the rise of the Internet, when viruses spread like molasses, on floppy disks handed from person to person, the average PC wasn't exposed to outside threats. It didn't have the same need for secure software.
Clearly, Microsoft has a difficult task on its hands. But so do its competitors, and their software isn't attacked nearly as often. Does this mean that Windows is somehow less secure? Maybe, maybe not.
If you ask Bill Gates, he'll tell you that Windows actually contains fewer security flaws than competing OSs. "Our technology, at this point, is way better in terms of how few defects we have," Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect told PC Magazine last November. "Compare, say, with Linuxhow many defects we have, how quickly we fix those defects, how our system is for getting the updates out for those defects. Take those objective criteria and we are better." Gates claims Windows is attacked more often simply because it's running on more machines. According to research firm IDC, Windows runs on 95 percent of the world's PCs. Virus writers target it, Gates says, not only because their malware needs a large audience to survive but also because they resent Microsoft's popularity.
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Naturally, if you talk to Linux and Macintosh users, they'll tell you Windows has far more security flaws. You'll hear the same from Counterpane's Schneier: "Microsoft makes dumb security decisions again and again and again," he says, "and Linux and Mac developers tend not to make those decisions." Linux users are particularly adamant, insisting that their OS is less vulnerable because "more eyes" review the code. Since Linux is an open-source project, they say, more developers are looking for security holes, which means a greater likelihood of someone finding them before they're exploited.
According to McGraw, the open-source argument doesn't hold up. "Linux is a collection of 5,000 independent things, and no one is ever quite sure who wrote them or what they do," he says. He insists that Linux and Mac OS are no more secure than anything else on the market, including Windows.
Who's right? Proponents of the different operating systems will probably never agree, but a recent Forrester Research study seems to support Gates's claims. Between June 1, 2002, and May 31, 2003, the study says, security experts found more flaws in each of the four major Linux offerings than in Windows. In that time, for example, 286 flaws were found in Debian Linux, and only 128 were found in Windows. Forrester didn't track flaws in Mac OS or other operating systems, but at least when compared with Linux, Windows seems to be more secure.
The fact remains, however, that Windows is attackedsuccessfullymore often than other OSs. "In terms of security vulnerabilities, there's not much difference between Windows and other OSs," says Vincent Weafer, senior director of security response at Symantec, a leading security software vendor. "But because Windows is attacked more often by automated tools such as worms, it's penetrated more often."
Regardless of how many security holes show up in other systems, Windows is less secure than it needs to be. Tens of millions of Windows machines are compromised each year. Microsoft must work harder. Cutting down on the number of holes in Windows is only the beginning. After it ships an OS, the company has to do a better job of plugging any holes it has missedand offer better self-defense tools than the weak firewall that ships with Windows XP.
Forrester's report also indicates that Microsoft is getting better and better at responding to vulnerabilities, quickly building patches and posting them to the Web.
But these patches don't always make it onto users' systems. Like the Zboans, many users are unaware that such patches exist. And many other users fail to download new patches. Some don't realize that Windows can install new patches automatically. "It's too much work," says David Singer, whose home computer in Albany was hit by both Blaster and Sasser. "I basically wait until a virus hits, and then I download a patch."
Others assume new patches cause problems. "I looked at the patches," says Benjamin Burge, a Blaster victim from Fairfax, Virginia. "But one of the things I kept hearing in the press is that people would download the patches and there would be new instabilities on their machine."
Still others refuse to download patches because they're running dial-up connections, saying it would take too long. Addressing the dial-up difficulty, Microsoft will provide, on request, a free CD with all patches up to when the CD was created, so only the most recent patches will need to be downloaded. (You can request the CD at www.microsoft.com/security/protect/cd/order.asp.) And we haven't seen much of the infamous Windows patch instabilities in the past few years.
Of course, in the case of worms like Blaster and Sasser, many users would have been protected if they'd simply turned on a firewall or kept their antivirus software up to date. But again, like the Zboans, many users don't know to do so. Windows XP has a built-in firewall, but it's turned off by default. Nearly all new PCs ship with third-party antivirus software, but not all users realize that they're required to sign up forand pay forregular signature updates.


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Game 10: Colts at Patriots
FOXBOROUGH — It may feel familiar, but it's not.
The Patriots host the Indianapolis Colts Sunday, marking the 15th time the two teams have played since 2001 when Tom Brady took over as quarterback.
The two teams have played in the playoffs three times during that span, all of which were epic battles against a Peyton Manning-led team. However, quarterback Tom Brady and the Patriots have the edge in those games, 2-1, and Brady is 9-4 all-time against the Colts.
But these Colts are under different leadership. After finishing 2-14 last year, the Colts drafted No. 1 overall pick Andrew Luck (2,631 yards, 10 touchdowns, 9 interceptions, 79.1 QB rating) and have ridden the rookie quarterback to a 6-3 record. Of the old guard still remaining, Reggie Wayne, Dwight Freeney, and Robert Mathis register on the name recognition chart, while most of the roster has seen a significant measure of turnover. Former Patriots Darius Butler and Sergio Brown are now with the Colts, along with clutch kicker Adam Vinatieri.
And as the Patriots face the Colts in Week 11, the team is going through its own set of changes. The Patriots activated new cornerback Aqib Talib, whom the team traded a fourth round draft pick for a little less than two weeks ago. It remains to be seen if Talib will have an immediate impact and whether or not he'll be inserted into the starting lineup.
The team also waived veteran wide receiver Deion Branch, who was on his third tenure with the Patriots. In doing so, the team activated practice squad receiver Greg Salas, who spent time with offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels in St. Louis last season. The second-year pro had 27 receptions for 264 yards in his rookie year.
The Patriots are on a three-game winning streak following a 37-31 squeaker against the Buffalo Bills. The Colts are coming off a 27-10 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars and are on a four-game win streak.
Here are the details for today's game:
Kickoff: 4:25 p.m.
Records: Patriots 6-3; Colts 6-3.
TV/Radio info: CBS (Jim Nantz, Phil Simms); 98.5-FM The Sports Hub (Gil Santos, Scott Zolak).
Projected starting lineups:
Based on information distributed to the media, practice observations, and injuries for each team.
Patriots offense: WR Wes Welker, LT Nate Solder, LG Donald Thomas, C Ryan Wendell, RG Nick McDonald, RT Sebastian Vollmer, TE Rob Gronkowski, WR Brandon Lloyd, QB Tom Brady, RB Stevan Ridley, TE Visanthe Shiancoe.
Patriots defense: NT Vince Wilfork DT Kyle Love, RDE Chandler Jones, DE Rob Ninkovich, LB Dont'a Hightower, LB Jerod Mayo, LB Brandon Spikes, CB Devin McCourty, CB Kyle Arrington, S Patrick Chung, S Steve Gregory.
Colts offense: WR Reggie Wayne, LT Anthony Castonzo, LG Joe Reitz, C Samson Satele, RG Mike McGlynn, RT Winston Justice, TE Coby Fleener, WR Donnie Avery, QB Andrew Luck, F Dwayne Allen, RB Donald Brown.
Colts defense: DE Cory Redding, NT Antonio Johnson, DT Fili Moala, SLB Robert Mathis, MLB Kavell Conner, WLB Jerrell Freeman, RUSH Dwight Freeney, LCB Cassius Vaughn, SS Tom Zbikowski, FS Antoine Bethea, RCB Darius Butler.
(more to come)
Patriots: TBA
Colts: Vontae Davis (knee), Coby Fleener (shoulder).


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Dec 27, 2011 at 9:46 am
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (KNSI) – St. Cloud Public Works has set aside two dates next month for Christmas tree pick-up and recycling.
Designated days in which City Works will pick up old Christmas trees and send them for recycling will be Monday, January 9 and Monday, January 23.
In order to have your tree picked up, you must follow the city-mandated guidelines:
Attach a clear city yard waste bag (green bag is also acceptable) to the tree (bag can be tied around a branch or the lower trunk) and make it visible to collection crews.
Remove all decorations or other attachments. Trees containing metal of cement stands will not be picked up.
Place the tree in the normal refuse collection area by 6 a.m. the day of pick-up.
Wreaths are not accepted for recycling, as they contain wire.
Should you have any questions, please contact the Public Works Department at 320-650-2900.
Temp: 56°F (13°C)
Dewpoint: 54
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William Harold Albright, Sr., 87 years joined his beloved wife, Rita in heaven on Nov. 4, 2012 at Cox Medical Center South, Springfield, Mo. Bill was born Feb. 5, 1925 in Niles, Mich., to Harold Frank and Hazel Marie (Pfiel) ...Read More »
Thunder In the Valley!
Civil War Reenactment Tells the Story of the Battle of Clark's Mill History tells us that on Nov. 7, 1862, between 1,200 and 1,500 well-armed Confederate combat soldiers moved into our part of south central Missouri. They carried four cannons ...Read More »
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Bouncy castles, raffle and welly throwing were all part of the fun at Glenleigh Park Primary Academy's summer fair.
Sunny weather was enjoyed by the crowds who turned out to the event on Friday (July 4) which was organised by the Parents Teachers Association (PTA).
The afternoon, which also included an exhibition by the school's cheerleading group and plenty of refreshments to tuck into, was to help raise funds for outdoor playground equipment.
The fair raised a total of £803, which is the highest amount raised by the PTA since the school became an academy.


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New airport terminal project hits some turbulence
Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:24:30 GMT —
There's not just a hole in the airport's land, there's a hole in their bidding process.
The Aviation Committee met Monday and discussed the new terminal for the Southwest Georgia Regional Airport.
The airport says they learned the steal company involved in the bid they are currently looking at was not Disadvantaged Business Enterprise â" or DBE -- certified. Airport officials say DBE is a federal program that aims to utilize companies that are at least 51 percent owned by a minority.
"What that means is that they did not hand in their yearly paperwork like they should have to G-DOT, and because of that they became decertified, and what that means is basically they are not counted toward our DBE on our projects," says Airport Director Yvette Aehle.
Aehle says the airport and Federal Aviation Committee DBE goal for this project is 14.7 percent. Airport officials say the steel company's decertification drops the bid's DBE goal from their promised 17.83 percent to five percent. The airport will return to the bidder to find out if they can raise their DBE goal to the minimum 14.7 percent necessary.
Aehle says the bid was supposed to made official this month, but now it will have to wait until May.
If this falls through, the airport will turn to the next bidder in line, which is the highest bidder. Airport officials say the highest bid will cost $2 million more than the current bid they are working on.


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Christmas is coming to Dallas! You'll want to head down to downtown Dallas tomorrow night for CityLights!
It all kicks off at 5PM Saturday night! There will be music performances by the Invincible Czars at Belo Gardens at 6PM and 7:30PM. Santa is sure to make a spectacular entrance before greeting the kids and posing for photo ops. The Christmas lights and decorations all over downtown Dallas will glow bright with seasonal cheer along Main Street at 7PM.
CityLights is a FREE event! You don't want to miss this! Go to holidaycitylights.com for more information.


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While most of us were attending barbeques or heading to Fourth of July picnics Wednesday, outgoing Barclays CEO Bob Diamond was getting grilled in a parliamentary hearing over his bank's role in an interest rate manipulation scandal that is set to expand to other institutions. Amid questions about the bank's actions, the now former CEO also mentioned Barclays' "no jerks rule," which makes it a practice to drop employees who might be productive but whose behavior is unethical, not collegial, or particularly boorish.
It wasn't the first time Diamond talked about the policy. Press reports in 2011 said some 30 people had lost their jobs as a result of the rule at Barclays; Diamond has said it came about while he ran the firm's investment banking division. And he's hardly alone in its practice. While it's difficult to know how many organizations started up a "no-jerks policy" following the publishing of Stanford University business professor Robert Sutton's bestseller, The No A—hole Rule , the idea has taken off. Sutton is careful to say he didn't invent the concept, but his wildly successful book struck a nerve with people fed up with their workplaces' arrogant bullies. The book has been translated into languages ranging from Croatian to Polish to Japanese.
But one problem with popular management or leadership ideas is that too many places institute them thinking they'll be a cure-all, rather than key tools for cultural change. Sutton himself is careful in his book, for example, to say that leaders who try to make a rule which weeds out bad apples can't be all talk. "If you can't enforce the rule," he writes, "it is better to say nothing. Otherwise, your organization risks being seen as both nasty and hypocritical."
He also reminds readers that "the rule lives—and dies—in the little moments." In other words, "having all the right business philosophies and management practices to support the no a—hole rule is useless unless you treat the person right in front of you, right now, in the right way." It's also not just leadership's job: "The no a—hole rule works best when everyone in the organization steps in to enforce it when necessary," he writes. It must become part of the culture and everyday behavior, not just a snappy little rule discussed by the organization's top leadership and H.R. department.
Who knows how seriously Diamond's "no jerks" policy was taken at Barclays. Diamond may have known that cultural change has to be "embedded in an organization," and the traders who wrote flippantly about rigging interest rates ("Dude. I owe you big time! Come over one day after work and I'm opening a bottle of Bollinger") may have been an aberration rather than the rule. But it's a reminder that just because a leader decides to adopt a certain management concept doesn't mean it will root out all the people who are a problem.
I like the idea of a "no jerks" rule. It puts into simple terms how it's too easy to overlook demeaning and toxic behavior when people turn out impressive performance. But, as I'd guess Sutton would agree, it can't stand alone. Incentives have to change. Hiring practices have to be rethought. Pay structures have to be altered (Diamond's £17 million payday last year probably didn't do much to promote humility, for instance). And everyone has to embrace the idea through watching the behavior of the people around them.
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Storing fruits and veggies
This is something I really struggle with in my kitchen. I need an attractive way to store fruit and veggies that do not go in the fridge. But I also need them to be very visually available to the kids. Right now they are just on the counter, and sometimes the kids will ask me if we are out of apples, just because the citrus is in front, for instance.
I hate clutter on kitchen counters. If I could figure out how, I would have absolutely nothing on the counters. As it is, I have my appliances I use every day out, and store the rest, and it's still too cluttered for my taste. We eat a lot of fresh fruits and veggies, and the food clutter is about to make me crack. But I also want to keep them where the kids will be able to help themselves. How do you store your non-fridge fruits and veggies?
I have a walk-in pantry and another pantry on the other side of the fridge that is not walk-in. It would have doors but we haven't put them on after they were painted when we were moving in, so it's just shelves that you can walk right up to. One one or two of those shelves I often have a box of clementines and maybe a bag of apples, and a couple of other fruit that won't spoil outside of the fridge. On part of the counter I put melons.
My in-laws do something like this:
only they put whole fresh fruit on theirs like bananas and apples, and they have a banana hanger on the counter too.
I've also seen vegetables in baskets on the back of the counter.
My mother-in-law said the trays on her counter where she puts bananas etc. are called a tiered serving tray. This looks like it; sorry, the link is long because I got it off Google Images:
I don't want to put them in the pantry, because the pantry items are off limits for the kids. Most things that you put in a pantry are junk items, or stuff that I use in meals, like dried beans, rice, dried peppers, etc that the kids don't snack on anyway. It's just easier to make a blanket no pantry rule.
I have a large family, and we have an orchard, and a huge garden, and we get deliveries from the CSA every week. We have a lot more produce than can fit in a 3 dish tray. I have all my various tomatoes, citrus, root veggies, peppers and herbs I'm drying, bananas, apples, pears, and on and on. The vast majority of our diet is fresh fruits and veggies, so it's a lot of clutter on the counters.
I was thinking maybe something on the walls. Like flat baskets hanging on the walls? I have also seen this fruit shelving system, it looks kind of like gutters hung on your wall, but my husband does wood working and makes most of our furniture, so I could have him make something more attractive. Anyone have anything like that? I want something attractive, at kid eye level so they can wander by and grab the snack they want without rooting through dozens of oranges and lemons for the grapefruit.
Living in a warm humid climate, the most I leave out is apples, pears and mandarins, everything else goes in the fridge. I just keep them in bowls near the edge of the kitchen bench, so people can easily grab them. I hate kitchen clutter too, although I am not good at managing it, but I figure at least fruit is good clutter! Better to be out and used than to rot in the fridge.
Onions go in a special Jamie Oliver brand tin with holes in it made especially for onions, and brushed potatoes go in a special drawstring bag that keeps the light out.
Don't keep your tomatoes in the fridge! They get mealy tasting.
I think I just need overall food storage help, lol. My new grain order came, and I'm trying out some new stuff, so I have gamma buckets of hard white, hard red, durum, buckwheat, kamut, spelt, soft white, and popcorn cluttering up the eat in area of my kitchen. I have no idea what to do with those, it's like we're living in a warehouse. I can keep the dried beans, dried peppers (once they're dried), dried herbs, various types of rice, potatoes and so on in the pantry. But it's pretty full. It's tomato season, so I have my various heirlooms, tomatillos, and cherries all out. My son eats them like candy. The lemons and limes are producing like crazy, and my kumquats and sour orange crop (for marmalade) look like it's going to be insane. I'll be standing on a street corner with a sign "Free kumquats to good home" lol. Our apples trees are only doing so-so this year, though. I think its been too dry.
Fridge fruits and veggies are easy. I just hide them in the big silver box and no on sees them. But the counter fruits are tough. Some days I feel like I don't have any counter space left at all, and I've got a really big kitchen. If I am airing out coffee that I roasted, and just harvested peppers and tomatoes, it's pretty bad. I need to roast coffee today, so it's on my mind right now. I guess I'll make a bunch of lemon and limeade to free up coffee space, so I will still have room to make bread today.
I'm leaning towards the wall storage idea. I'll have to see how my husband feels about making some little fruit shelves for the walls. Then I can get the clutter off the counters, and the fruit will still be easy to grab. I will still probably need to keep the melons on the counter, but we don't grow a lot of those.
Pretty much everything we have goes in the fridge. My kids have no problem finding stuff in there. I usually only keep tomatoes and bananas out. There may be more, though.
Do you have some where else to store you gama buckets and just refill another container for use in the kitchen?
There is a blog http://www.blissfulanddomestic.com/p...our-of-my.html I think she does a really good job with storage for her really small kitchen.
I keep our fruit and veggies in a really pretty bowl that is gigantic. But because we have fructose malaborbtion disorder in our house we do not eat many fresh fruits and veggies. If I was in your situation I would probably go with large baskets on the counter to contain the clutter. I like the idea of the fruit gutter but do you have wall space for it?
I have room for the gutter system, our kitchen is really big and I have wall space I haven't been using.
We grow a lot of our food. We have a large garden and an orchard, so during harvest times, we have fresh produce, sometimes quite a bit. And to fill in the gaps of things we don't grow, we get produce delivered by a local CSA. Like, I don't grow collards or strawberries, so the CSA supplies those. Of course, those go in the fridge. The vast majority of our diet is fresh produce. We're a large family, so it is a lot of produce. No one else has this problem?
Do you have a place to hang those tiered collapsing wire baskets on chains that might be within reach? Then you can put them away when you aren't using them.
We have a small family, so I just use a platter on the counter myself.
The first instinct is to put fruits and vegetables in the refrigerator to preserve freshness, but not all produce is best kept at cold temperatures. So what I did, I buy a big fruit bowl and place it on the dining table where it is visible to the children. I just don't allow them to go to pantry. :)
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