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RUBA Community Status Report
Community Name: Atka
Community: |
Atka | RUBA: |
Yes |
Staff: |
Robin Eleazer | Agreement: |
No |
DCA Region: |
Anchorage | Agreement Date: |
Region: |
Aleutians | Exp Date: |
Govt Type(s): |
2nd Class City | ||
Borough: |
Unorganized | Assessment Date: |
3/27/2012 |
Population: |
61 | ||
Active Community: |
Yes | Date Updated: |
9/27/2013 |
Community Sanitation Overview: |
The community water/wastewater system was constructed in went online in August 2012. Water is supplied by a stream and wooden reservoir dam northwest of the city. It is stored in a new 140,000 gallon water tank before distribution. All 50 homes are connected to the piped water and wastewater system. Wastewater is piped to a central wastewater system. Wastewater flows untreated through outfall lines into Nazan Bay. Garbage is collected twice a week. The City of Atka assumed operation of the electric utility in 2007. Work began on extension and repavement of the Atka airstrip in summer of 2008; completed in 2009. Atka Pride Seafoods processing plant will be expanded to allow for processing of multi-species. A crab allocation was purchased by Atka Pride Seafoods and APICDA from Westward Seafoods. The crab will be processed in the local plant. |
RUBA Status |
On September 27, Anchorage RUBA staff sent IRS Authorization to Request Federal Tax Information form be signed for the community's RUBA Assessment. RUBA staff also requested the last three monthly financial reports for the water utility that have been approved by the council, and any workers compensation information. |
Capacity Indicator: Finances | |||
Essential Indicators: | |||
Yes | All revenues and expenses for the utility are listed in the utility budget. |
Yes | The utility has adopted a balanced realistic budget. |
Yes | Monthly financial reports are prepared and submitted to the policy making board. |
Yes | The utility is current in paying all water/wastewater electric bills. |
Yes | The utility has on hand a year's adequate fuel supply or it has a financial plan to purchase an adequate supply. |
Yes | The utility is receiving revenues (user fees or other sources) sufficient to cover operating expenses. |
Sustainable Indicators: | |||
Yes | The utility is receiving revenues (user fees or other sources sufficient to cover operating expenses and Repair & Replacement (R) costs. |
Yes | YTD revenues are at a level equal to or above those budgeted. |
Yes | YTD expenditures are at a level equal to or below those budgeted. |
Yes | A monthly manager's report is prepared. |
Yes | Budget amendments are completed and adopted as necessary. |
Comment: |
The city adopted its FY14 budget on June 18, 2013, which includes the water and sanitation enterprise, with Ordinance 13-191. There is a transfer from the Aleutian Pribilof Island Community Development Association, community dividend to cover the operating expenses for the water utility. The budget does have a Retirement and Replacement line item. The city administrator provides monthly financial reports in the form of budget versus actual to the council. The city owns the electric utility and uses QuickBooks to track interoffice transactions for electricity. An email from the city states that the city has enough fuel until a fuel barge is anticipated to make a delivery. Budget amendments are done as needed. |
Capacity Indicator: Accounting Systems | |||
Essential Indicators: | |||
Yes | The utility has adopted a collection policy and actively follows it. |
Yes | The utility bills customers on a regular basis. |
Yes | An accounts receivable system is in place which tracks customers and reports past due accounts and amounts. |
Yes | An accounts payable system is in place. |
Yes | The payroll system correctly calculates payroll and keeps records. |
Yes | A cash receipt system is in place that records incoming money and how it was spent. |
Yes | The utility has a cash disbursement system that records how money was spent. |
Sustainable Indicators: | |||
Yes | A chart of accounts is used that identifies categories in a reasonable, usable manner. |
Yes | Monthly bank reconciliations have been completed for all utility accounts. |
Yes | The utility has a purchasing system that requires approval prior to purchase, and the approval process compares proposed purchases to budgeted amounts. |
Comment: |
In the Atka Code of Ordinances is Title 9, Chapter 1, Section 14: Administration and Enforcement that addresses the collection policies for the water utility. The AMPY meter is programmed to process the water and sanitation charges on the customers prepaid utility card. No utility bills are generated through the AMPY prepay system, so there are no accounts receivable for the utility as bills are not sent out to residential customers. QuickBooks Online is used to track the accounts receivable for the commercial class customers. QuickBooks Online is also used to track accounts payable and has no major payments due to vendors. The city uses QuickBooks Online to process payroll. Customers are given a receipt generated from a sales book and a receipt from QuickBooks Online when paying for water and sanitation utilities. QuickBooks Online is used to record cash disbursements. The Chart of Accounts has all bank accounts, accounts receivable, assets, accounts payable, credit cards, liabilities equities, income and expense accounts. QuickBooks Online is used for bank reconciliations. Title 3, Chapter 4, Section 1: Purchasing Agent; states the mayor is the purchasing agent, or the mayor may designate the city administrator as the purchasing agent for the city. |
Capacity Indicator: Tax Problems | |||
Essential Indicators: | |||
Yes | The utility has a system to accurately calculate, track, and report payroll tax liabilities. |
No | The utility is current on filing tax reports. |
No | The utility is current on making tax deposits. |
N/A | If there are any past due tax liabilities or recorded tax liens, a lien release has been issued or a repayment agreement has been signed and repayments are current. |
Comment: |
The city uses QuickBooks Online to calculate, track and report payroll liabilities. The community has been faxed the request for Federal Tax information, however as of September 30, 2013 no response has been received. The Department of Labor report is pending. |
Capacity Indicator: Personnel System | |||
Essential Indicators: | |||
Yes | The utility has a posted workers compensation insurance policy in effect. |
Sustainable Indicators: | |||
Yes | The utility has adopted and uses a Personnel Policy, which has been reviewed by an attorney, AML or Commerce for topics and language. |
Yes | The utility has adequate written job descriptions for all positions. |
Yes | The utility has adopted and follows a written personnel evaluation process that ties the job description to the evaluation. |
Yes | The utility has an adequate written hiring process. |
Yes | The utility has personnel folders on every employee that contain at least: I-9, Job Application and Letter of Acceptance. |
Yes | The utility has a probationary period for new hires that includes orientation, job training/oversight, and evaluations. |
Yes | The utility provides training opportunities to staff as needed and available. |
Comment: |
The city is insured for workers compensation under their Alaska Municipal League Joint Insurance Association (AMLJIA) policy that is current until July 1, 2014. The personnel policies are in Title 6 of the Atka Code of Ordinances and address classification and compensation, recruitment and hiring of personnel and also evaluations. Personnel files are kept in a locked file cabinet and include the I-9, job application, letter of acceptance, evaluations, and tax information. The current probationary period is three months for new employees. The city provides training opportunities for employees when necessary and with budgetary limitations being considered. |
Capacity Indicator: Organizational Management | |||
Essential Indicators: | |||
Yes | The entity that owns the utility is known; the entity that will operate the utility is set. |
Yes | The policy making body is active in policy making of the utility. |
Yes | The policy making body enforces utility policy. |
Yes | The utility has an adequately trained manager. |
Yes | The utility has an adequately trained bookkeeper. |
Yes | The utility has an adequately trained operator or operators. |
Yes | The utility has adopted the necessary ordinances (or rules and regulations) necessary to give it the authority to operate. |
Sustainable Indicators: | |||
Yes | The utility has adopted an organizational chart that reflects the current structure. |
Yes | The policy making body meets as required. |
Yes | The utility complies with the open meeting act for all meetings. |
Comment: |
In the Atka Code of Ordinances is Title 9: Utilities, Chapter 1: Water, Sewer, and Refuse Utility that addresses the water and wastewater utility. The policy making body is active and informed in making and enforcing utility policies. The mayor is the utility manager and has a Water Treatment Provisional and Water Distribution Provisional certifications due to expire December 31, 2013. The city administrator is the bookkeeper for the utility. The city has an organizational chart that shows the lines of authority for the water utility. The city meets as required by ordinance and follows the Open Meetings Act by posting meeting notices in three public places 24 hours prior to a meeting. |
Capacity Indicator: Operation of Utility | |||
Essential Indicators: | |||
Yes | The utility operator(s) are actively working towards necessary certification. |
Yes | The utility has a preventative maintenance plan developed for the existing sanitation facilities. |
Sustainable Indicators: | |||
Yes | The manager receives a monthly O&M report from the utility operator and routinely "spot checks" the facilities to see that the maintenance items are being completed. |
No | The utility has a safety manual and holds safety meetings. |
Yes | Utility facilities have not suffered any major problems/outages due to management issues that are unresolved. |
Yes | The utility is operating at the level of service that was proposed. |
Yes | The operator provides status reports to the manager on a routine basis. |
No | The utility has completed and distributed its "Consumer Confidence Report". |
No | The utility is not on the "Significant Non-Complier" (SNC) list. |
No | The utility maintains an inventory control list. |
No | The utility maintains a critical spare parts list. |
Comment: |
The primary operator is certified in Water Treatment and Water Distribution Provisional that expires on December 31, 2013. There are two alternates that have the Small Water System Treated certificates that expire on December 31, 2013. The current water utility has a wall mounted chart that serves as the preventative maintenance plan. Safety meetings include an overview of the daily operations and possible hazards between operators, but are not recorded. There have been no major problems or outages due to unresolved management issues. The operator provides updates to the council with verbal reports. The CCR was generated and distributed to water utility customers and posted in three public places. The water utility is not listed on the current April 2013 SNC List. |
RUBA Activities for the Coming Quarter: |
RUBA staff assigned to community has accepted a position outside of the RUBA Program, another Anchorage RUBA staff will cover community until the community is permanently assigned to another RUBA staff. |


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At the beginning I was not so sure what I should think about blocks. Is it good or bad? Now, I can't live without it anymore and I want to use it in more and more cases everyday. But also everyday I realize that the Apple SDK is missing a lot of Blocks enabled API. Apple already started to add alternative methods e.g. when animating views. But it's not nearly enough.
I quickly want to highlight a case where Blocks would really come in handy but there is no such API yet. I am talking about
- (void)performSelector:(SEL)aSelector
I don't know about you, but I really need this sometimes. The bummer with it is, that you always have to create a new selector which clutters the code.
- (void) delayedSelector:(id)object {
- (void) mainMethod {
[self performSelector:@selector(delayedSelector:)
Looks familiar? But now that we have Blocks, I really want to write:
[self performBlock:^(void) {
} afterDelay:0.5];
Much more easy, less to write and elegant to read. Note also that there is no need for an additional object parameter since you can use all local variables in your block method.
Unfortunately this method is not available in the SDKs yet. But luckily for us using timers in Grand Central Dispatch, we can actually implement it ourselves.
For that purpose I started an NSObject category that implements three methods to this point:
@interface NSObject (Blocks)
- (NSString*) performBlock:(void (^)(void))block
- (void) cancelPerformBlockWithIdentifier:(NSString*)identifier;
- (void) cancelPerformBlocks;
The current method only uses the main thread to perform the block, but feel free to also add threaded variants that perform in the background. You can download it and collaborate on GitHub.
UPDATE: Apparently I am not the only one, who thought about that. There is a BlocksKit on GitHub. Thanks @steipete for pointing this out.
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Black lion chest price rise
Posted 12 November 2012 - 07:36 PM
Can't help but notice black lion chests have doubled in price. Should people be buying now to make a decent profit?
What's causing this rise?
Posted 12 November 2012 - 07:38 PM
Edited by Toryne, 12 November 2012 - 07:38 PM.
Posted 12 November 2012 - 07:42 PM
Posted 12 November 2012 - 07:50 PM
dawdler, on 12 November 2012 - 07:42 PM, said:
Black Lion chests rise and fall with speculation. The expensive part of the item is the keys used to unlock them.
Their value comes from people speculating on their value. You can make a lot of money by stocking up and then creating a bubble, effectively farming other people on the trading post. Last Halloween they bubbled from 2 copper a piece to 60 copper a piece briefly before settling down to 5 copper after the event.
Posted 12 November 2012 - 11:18 PM
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Posted 13 November 2012 - 01:40 AM
I'm sure am gonna stuck up like crazy once it goes down again if it does.
False info is still the reason the price has gone up.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 01:44 AM
Di-Dorval, on 13 November 2012 - 01:40 AM, said:
I'm sure am gonna stuck up like crazy once it goes down again if it does.
False info is still the reason the price has gone up.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 01:52 AM
Di-Dorval, on 13 November 2012 - 01:49 AM, said:
Since nowhere does Arenanet ever confirm that the new weapon skins released with the update will be available through the Black Lion Chests as they were the Halloween update.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 02:53 AM
Lasareth, on 13 November 2012 - 02:36 AM, said:
Per https://www.guildwar.../november-2012/
"The Gem Store will be well stocked in November! Unique minis and brand-new weapon skins made just for the Lost Shores weekend event are just some of what the Black Lion Trading Company has in store."
While it doesn't say that the skins will be available exclusively through the black lion chests, it wouldn't be unreasonable for people to speculate based on the fact that they were available through BL chests last event. Speculation is speculation, regardless of whether the info means what people think it means.
"The Black Lion Chest is getting a spooky upgrade for Halloween. Between October 23 and November 5 each Black Lion Chest you open has a chance to give you one of six exclusive Halloween-themed weapon skins!"
"All kinds of tricks and treats are coming to the Gem Store this Halloween. Costumes that grant spooky skills, tonics that transform you into ghouls and ghosts, creepy crawly minis to follow you around. And don't forget to pick up your free devil horns before they disappear!"
That to me is rather similar to the wording they've used on The Lost Shores update page, and if I'm correct, all of those items listed were indeed available as a simple "pay and receive" purchase option, no random generated numbers, no Black Lion Chests, etc.
I don't think - and surely hope - that they're trying to beat around the bush here and use deceptive wording. I think the move that they made towards the end of the Halloween event, allowing players a "second chance" in essence, shows that they took complaints into consideration and tried to consolidate the problem. Meaning they were receptive to players' emotions. I think - and again, hope - they've learned from that mistake and will take a more straight forward approach.
You could be right, I could be entirely wrong. We may all be *ed. I don't know and neither do you. But, instead of complaining and hunkering down for impending doom, I'm going to compare their direct quotes from each update and give them the benefit of the doubt on this one.
Edited by Al Shamari, 13 November 2012 - 02:53 AM.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 02:55 AM
Posted 13 November 2012 - 03:01 AM
Lasareth, on 13 November 2012 - 02:55 AM, said:
For example, they were rather blatant last time about the fact that the Halloween skins would be a "random generated numbers" drop from The Black Lion Chests. Where as this time, there is absolutely no mention of it.
I would hate if they were being sneaking and beating around the bush by not bringing it up in the wording, and that would rather disappoint me. But, since they didn't, I think it's only fair to give them the benefit of the doubt for the reasons I brought up above, ya'know?
And yes, it's pretty much "for sure" that the prices have spiked simply due to speculation, or due to misguided buyers and sellers who were relying on word of mouth information such as "Areanet released that the new skins would be released using Black Lion Chests." since the market runs more so on lightning fast reactions than anything else. People probably spiked the market well before they actually gathered any information themselves.
Posted 13 November 2012 - 08:41 AM
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Posted 13 November 2012 - 07:30 PM
Price on chests will rise until they say one way or the other that you will/will not be able to get weapon skins from them.
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Detoxing in Facebook
January 3, 2008 in detox, facebook, friends of harry, harry tuttle, relationships, scoble, social media snowflake, widgets | 6 comments
After all that winterval indulgement it's time to strip everything back and detox. So today I slipped into Facebook for a while and removed myself from the more trivial or no-longer relevant groups and removed a large number of applications.
I no longer have a fun or super wall – so don't try to send anything there. I'm missing out on gifts, pimps, zombies etc. I couldn't say goodbye to my pets quite so callously or LOLCats and of course, real stuff associated with real people like Hugh's widget and Luke's Blog Friends have to stay. I'm going to try really really hard to resist the lure of useless crap but I'm human and a sucker for shiny things so be gentle with me.
I'm not joining in with this FB backlash, they're not worth it – I really can't get my knickers in a twist about whether Scoble's there (I was still in his friend queue anyway…) or whether Che Guevara is an appropriate icon to use – I think Robert was being more Tuttle than Trotsky in all of this. As for their draconian TOS, if they don't change, they'll become irrelevant and they'll be left with a whole load of my shit that's even less valuable to them than the few pence it's worth now. Just like friendster, ryze, ecademy, myspce etc before them. At least it seems easier to get your account deleted with FB, you just write a script that pings your page more often than a hooman might and Bob's in your extended family.
Social Media Starfish => Social Media Snowflake
November 14, 2007 in marketing, rolling snowballs, scoble, social media snowflake, starfish | 2 comments
A couple of weeks ago, Robert Scoble blogged and made a couple of videos talking about the combined use of a whole bunch of social media tools and wrapped them up by saying they were a starfish. His point by the way was not only to explain how these tools all help with marketing and sales conversion but also to talk about how Open Social is changing the landscape.
When I came to present this to a client in the context of a social media strategy however, I was about to use Darren Barefoot's excellent graphic version (with added logos!) when it suddenly occurred to me that actually it would be better to talk about it as a snowflake because we're in the business of making snowballs to roll downhill.
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In an MSNBC report in Cosmic Logic, Gov. Rick Perry says he is a "firm believer in intelligent design as a matter of faith and intellect, and I believe it should be presented in schools alongside the theories of evolution." Intelligent design is the view that the complexity seen in nature is best explained as resulting from the efforts of an intelligent designer - for example, God, or an alien civilization. But in Perry's case, certainly God.
Romney said during his presidential campaign that he believes "God designed the universe" and that he believes God "used the process of evolution to create the human body." As Massachusetts governor, he opposed the teaching of intelligent design in public-school science classes. "The science class is where to teach evolution, or if there are any other scientific thoughts that need to be discussed," he told The New York Times. "If we're going to talk about more philosophical matters, like why it was created, and was there an intelligent designer behind it, that's for the religion class or philosophy class or social studies class."
Bachmann says "evolution has never been proven" and believes that intelligent design should be taught alongside the evolutionary view of biological change. "What I support is putting all science on the table and then letting students decide," Bachmann told reporters at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans in June.
It is a sure bet that shortly, Gov. Rick Perry will be questioned about being a sympathizer of ID. Stay tuned...
In "Dangerous Influences: The New Yorker, Michele Bachmann, and Me" (Human Events, August 12, 2011), philosopher Nancy Pearcey muses on how Michele Bachmann (that ID-friendly US Prez hopeful) came to be associated with a "political movement" Bachmann had probably never heard of.
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- Developer: Io Interactive
- Publisher: Eidos Interactive
- Genre: Action Adventure Modern
- Release Date: Sep 30, 2002
- ESRB: Mature
Getting the M4 (M16)
On the motorcade level, you need to clear the town quickly and grab the supplied rifle. Shoot your target. This will cause the UN guards to stop and run on foot to your position. Wait until they get through the gates, then dodge their shots and put them in the cross fire from the remaining troops outside. Since you cannot hurt them, do not shoot. They will soon shoot their own men. Then, just run up and grab an M4. This may not be easy, but it does work.
To get the M4 easier, just use the fiber wire on the UN guards.
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
From Snow to Dreams
Just outside Londonderry, signs of life. Or at least humps.
Arrived near the Causeway. The view from the room.
A short drive before dinner.
Tomorrow, climb some cliffs and explore some castles, for now, some relaxation.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
More From Donegal
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Another Day of Adventure
Lunch was from a grocers, bread, cheese, olives and a cold beer. When I checked out the girl asked for my shopper card. I said "I'm from the US" and she said "well you sure don't look it" and I realize that I look VERY much like everyone walking around me, hair, skin, clothing. I passed more than one woman that could be my sister. When the Catholic Children's Home Society folks name you Mary-Brigid it stands to reason you're at least part Irish. :-)
I slept like I haven't in years. Then off for another day of adventure. I'm getting used to the driving and the traffic. I did go for a walk that included a trek across this incredibly busy intersection that had about 12 lanes and tiny little islands for the pedestrians to cross the whole thing. You'd get a light and scoot across one or two lanes to the next island, which had fence rails around it as the cars were whizzing by just feet away, then on to the next. Remember the game FROGGER? That was me.
A lovely pub dinner and then to sleep for an early departure.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
I've arrived.
The cell does not work at all, and my computer access will be limited as I didn't bring a laptop. (Work has no way to contact me, what a concept :-)
I got a few hours sleep in Dublin by the airport then it's time to head out in a rental car. Ive got it for at least 10 days so a lot of ground can be covered, or not, the joy of no itinerary.
I'd forgotten how mystically beautiful this country is, and how incredibly nice the people are.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Look, you can start your day with a tasty bowl of gruel.
Or how about some -
Croissants Pain au Chocolat . In plain English that's a croissant loaded with dark chocolate pieces.
I'll be frank, this is NOT an easy recipe to make. The professional pastry chef who wrote the cookbook labels it "difficult". Sort of like cleaning your Ruger Mark III is "difficult", unless you're an engineer and/or work on a Starship. But it's worth it if you have a kitchen to yourself and a few hours some evening.
You can make them all the way through, or freeze before the final rising. Then you can raise them overnight, to have them in the morning for breakfast.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
All I can say on the matter. . .
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Well it FEELS like a Monday.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Firearms and Finis
And there it is in the case at the store, an old Belgium Browning 20 gauge. Your first own deer gun of your very own. You've had your "youth" guns, that the parents provided for training and beginning hunts, but now you are more grown up, ready for something with more weight, with more depth, something that is yours. It was older than you were, perhaps older than your parents, lovingly cared for and then up for sale, sitting forlorn in a locked case. Why? A death in the family, a household strapped and the only source of food the giving up of things carefully tended? The gun had a long history of care, you could see it in the fine veneered finish the carefully tended and lubricated workings. Somebody deeply cared for this piece for more than one generation. But the gun could not answer from its prison of glass, the ghost of its soul simply asking "why".
When I got to that point in my life, the first thing I thought of when I saw it was that a gun like this needs to be cared for, not propped up in a closet, gathering dust, seldom used. It was more than I really could afford at that age, but I bought it anyway. I'll buy used books for next semester, I really like peanut butter. I wanted it. I couldn't wait to bring home my first Whitetail with it. Big, small, I wanted to take a deer with it, do my part to provide food for a family that worked harder than most folks I knew.
Some dollars, some paperwork, and a few days later, it was mine.
The next day that dawned clear, I rose before anyone in the house, eager to let that gun taste its new found freedom, making sure it was clean and oiled, ammo in my pockets, hands scrubbed and ready. In the mirror, a reflection looked back. Was that me? The chubbiness of childhood was gone from my face, somewhere in the last months, I'd changed, grown. The visage looking back was not a delicate little thing of toys and tea parties but a young woman of the outdoors, a face composed and yet with a hint of wildness, not a face of someone helpless before some natural inclemency like cold or blood. The face of the wilderness, armed and ready.
That first morning I could not wait to shoot that old Browning, but there were chores to do, heaven always waiting for our servitude here on earth. Animals to be tended, horses whinnying and stomping over white washed doorways, cows waiting at an empty trough. Animals who have had the wild bred out of them, and not for our care, would likely starve. Long muzzles, eager shadows waiting for their breakfast. On my fingers I could smell gun oil, and it mixed with the smell of the paddock, rich warm, ammoniac and clean. I tended to the animals, with short meaningless prattle, "hey Rosy" or "that's a good girl", but my mind was already in the woods.. Those woods were quiet, the fall air crisp with promise, grass rimmed with frost and the roof of the barn looking like silver as the sun slowly peeked out from under the cover of the land. My cousins were hunting as well, noting which stand I was using and what time I would return, safety not forgotten in the rush to taste the wild. Then, let loose, like the horses from their stalls, I was off to the trees, heading towards a clump of dark timber, moving quickly, straight in a surveyors line to the woods. Even with the weight of the Browning, I covered the ground fast, soft rush of feet in the pine needles, leaning forward like a tableau of flight, bolting towards the denseness of the trees.
I moved with the intent purposeless of a child, but the focus of an adult, snatching my feet from the clutch of the earth before putting full weight down, random acts of purposeful intent. I stopped, listening into the silence, only to hear the faint scrabbling through the leaves, the dying whisper of tiny feet moving away. Sounds of mice and men, the large and the small, both eventually just falling to silence. Wait, did I hear something else? I slowed, trying not to breathe, sensing that I was not alone, but I soon would be. I felt him move, there in the silence
There, at the entrance to the land not tended or fenced, his soft warning grunt, that of a large buck right behind the house. A sound mimicked in my deep grunting breath in the cold. He was watching me enter his world. He would watch me leave. I'd passed by his scrapes deep in the woods before. He was a monster, and not likely to be outwitted by a redhead with her first very own hunting gun. But he too, would have cousins, and they would not be so cautious, overcome by rut lust and hunger for things they dream of but can not articulate.
He didn't get his size and scars by setting up camp right behind the house waiting for me to introduce him to myself and Mr. Browning. No. He was a seasoned military officer, sizing up the enemy's camp, moving away in stealth and silence when he had evaluated our positions. I felt him move away, without a sound, as if the covert decampment of his post blew gentle and cold upon me there in the darkness, true loves breath against my damp skin. Without sight or sound, I sensed in my heart he was gone, and we would never meet, at least until I was older, and ready.
But there would be others, younger, emboldened, risking all before they knew fully what they were losing.
The gun was heavier than I had thought and when I got to my blind I was ready to sit. There it was, my tree stand, on the crest of a ridge, opposite a gap in the trees through which the deep rich pie segment of grain field could be viewed. Deer are drawn to lines, tree lines, ditch lines, and I could see where one might pass through that triangle of opportunity at first light, or last.
Climbing up the blind with the weight of the gun was not an easy task. Some suggested attaching a rope to it and pulling it up, unloaded, behind me, but I didn't want to risk hitting it against the unforgiving metal of the steps, damaging its finish. So I held with one hand, and climbed with the other, pulling my body as close to the steps as I could, keeping my center of gravity into the safety of the tree.
If was just after dawns first light that I saw him. Even with gloves, I could feel the coldness of the barrel against my hands. Trying to remain still, flexing my feet in their boots for warmth, my breath huffs in and out as if attempting to resuscitate a dead cigarette. I was cold enough I considered shooting the first thing I saw, deer, squirrel, woodchuck, so as to get back to the warmth of the fire. But patience was rewarded in the small form of a small buck. A tender "button buck", probably his first hunting season, instincts of the woods not have fully formed. We were both virgins, I to man, he to death. Still, he was food for the table and I pulled the Browning from its resting place.
He moved slowly, without the inborn caution yet tested by a fading gout of black powder smoke. I watched the Browning elongate, rising to become a round spot against the light brown spot of a hearts location, a period on a page soon to be red.
As my finger bent towards firing, he looked up for just a moment. It was a moment that passed with the semblance of a sparrow and a hawk in divine immobility in mid air, an apparition of death's hesitation. It is a moment between heartbeats. Hesitation can not live there, nor fear or any other question of the spirit. It's a time for sure and certain knowing, somewhere deep within you, outside of rational thought, that by your hand, the deer will drop to a forested plain, the bird will fall from the sky. My finger stopped. Then he was gone, like a small lightning bolt on earth muddled hoof, striking through the underbrush with a crash.
He was just a yearling, and though for that moment I was tempted to fire, he had not lived long enough to fight, and I was not ready to take him. For another time, there would be that road. In the years since this hunt I have learned that there is an unspoken conversation with death between the hunter and their prey. Mors ultima linea rerum est, death is every thing's final limit. Just as it is with the wolf and the rabbit, the outcome of my hunt is settled there, in that first moment of eye contact between two adversaries. In that micro spasm of moment, there is a exchange of information regarding the propriety of the chase, of the worthiness of the kill. A conversation of mortality.
Could the deer see me here? Up in my blind, in camouflage clothing, from a distance appearing to wear the garments of the forest, crouching shapeless, not much larger than a child. Or could they smell my scent, washed clean with soaps that had no odor, careful not to use any cosmetic that would waft a banner of warning through the air. Perhaps they were just lying low this day, except for that one youngster who knew no better. But does now.
The day soon gave way to afternoon, the sun bright against high, chill cold. In the vast encroaching late afternoon, the woods and the field lay silent. Clutching my weapon, I shivered slowly, and steadily as darkness approached. It was time to leave the woods. Today there would be no food for the freezer, I had my one chance and chose to let it go.
In those moments between the aim and firing, there is a ritual and a choice. The animal will die, but in doing so, after a full life, it will bring sustenance to our family. Adequate food for the table, nourishment in the dark winter of the plains. There is a nobility in such a death. Just as the wolf stays robust consuming the flesh of an animal that knows hows to breathe strong and fight with its whole heart, we grow strong on the nourishment of land and stock we keep strong, carefully tended, selectively culled.
That day, I returned to the house, my new gun unfired. Yet it was tested, just the same. As was I.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Home on the Deathstar Malted Milk Ball Cookies
You start with a bag of Mountain Man Fruit and Nut Company Malted Milk Balls, not only are they delicious, like all of their products, they are twice the size of most. The chocolate coating is real chocolate (and you can get them in dark chocolate as well) and it's THICK, so it gets all nice and melty as it cooks.
Throw in the chopped up malted milk balls.
It's a soft, tender cookie, slightly crispy around the edges from the butter. The malted milk balls? Well the center takes on a almost honeycomb like texture and the chocolate melts really well and stays soft after cooling. Yum.
The Storm Troopers won't leave a crumb.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Truth in Advertising
In the same fashion, one day a gun store employee tried tried to sell me something like this as the right self defense gun for a female.
THIS is my idea of breakfast (yes, that's a fried chicken breast , bacon, gravy, egg, cheese AND biscuits.)
And THIS is my idea of a personal self defense carry piece. Some choices are shadowed with false advertising. Some choices are black and white. They most definitely are not pink.
The life I defend is big, so is my weapon. For I won't get a second chance to make the right choice.


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Out of Focus
Bokeh, from the Japanese word boke-aji:
the aesthetic quality of blur;
polygonal spheres of out-of-focus points of light.
I was smiling on the I-80 westbound
scenic overlook outside Allamuchy, NJ
as the golden almost orange purple sun-mixed starlight
had me looking more beautiful
than I was.
Selective focus: distance from the subject,
aperture manipulation—
and then I am clearer than sunshimmer
through blackberry bushes.
My body, vibrant, rained on by soft geometric bulbs—
head tilted back slightly, jawbone jutted forward.
Spectacular reflections.
Your camera lens had me looking
freer than I was.
The interstate: dark blue,
dotted lined
red to redder gradients of light.
But there was a certain slowness in the air between the taillights
and headlights and the break to blacktop from highway everyone
mistakes for exit 19 and veers back into
upon realization.
In a flash, I become a thumbnail on a screen,
the snow had it looking colder than it was—
or maybe it was the holes in my sweater that let through
fiery threads, my left arm arched over,
hand balled in a fist, and a sunshined-chalk outline around
my still-living body.
My grandmother announced she hated winter
as Stephanie, from The Weather Channel,
waved in bright blue splotches on the radar
and advised morning commuters
to break out the ice scrapers.
"Your grandfather was overnight snow flurry.
Unnoticed, he accumulated into
sight. Silently, he thawed into ground."
If so, she was an explosion.
She was streaks of blue and red.
Her spine: curved, bent into a bowling ball on a bumpered lane
into sky.
She burned, ceaselessly in a beam of light
screaming and sparkling,
spilling ash and torch on anyone behind.
"I am dying, and they are eating,
potato salad and coleslaw."
What could she do
but be bright and make noise?
Nobody ever called her eyes stars; they are
manmade. Her black satin slippers, her cigarettes and the accompanied
cough, her change-purse and checks, the daydreams of cruise ships
are all manmade.
She is an explosion, transient, a second in vision,
a shatter in eardrums,
an afterglow in blinking eyes.
Fast, bright, bang, and nothing.
And when she discovered fire at her fingertips
she must have used it to cauterize
cartilage, joints, arteries, synapses,
memories, longing,
her larynx.
She looked out the window and said, "Snow
sometimes looks like
I could blame it on the butterflies—
the flightiness of things with wings.
(The fluttering
heart can only beat so fast; irregular
for so long before becoming a health hazard).
So they took off, one by one,
until none were left.
My stomach—hollow and empty;
I hope you cannot hear the echo
as you kiss my bellybutton.
I wouldn't mention the mothballs
I swallowed to muffle my voice.
Perhaps I'm filled, actually,
with skeletons and broken wings.
Make dark marks.
Erase completely to change.
You ask me questions
you already know the answers to
(or think you do).
I fill in diamond designs—
crisscrossing patterns
up and down the Scantron.
I don't think you notice.
I wonder when you became my professor,
marking red X's on my answers.
I never wear mascara.
I braid intricate designs
pinned with flower buds
across the top of my head—
because it's the only part of me you see.
You must hate the stars,
for having to look up at them.
You understand multiple choices or
definitive answers.
You'd have me write C programming
over poetry:
simple input/output.
I don't know how you fit me into {braces}.
I'd write you essays instead,
but you'd need more than a magnifying glass
to read them from the height you're at.
Already Broken
You locked away your heart
after it was already broken.
You keep pieces in a box,
like stowing confettied cash
or snippets of bills
in a bank.
You asked why
I'm not afraid of hurting.
I've been sliced to ribbons
and tied bows
with my remains.
I've frozen over
and built sculptures
out of my frost and ice.
I've shattered
and made suncatchers
from my shards.
Visible Spectrum
He told me to flip my lenses
on my heart
until everything was 20/20
so he could read every letter,
secret, flaw, complexity
to see if I was pleasing enough
to his eye.
But I am not clear.
I have fractures in my glass.
You can't see through cracks
or erase the vision loss they create.
I have stained color between my breaks—
I have made myself
amongst my wreckage.
He'd rub Windex on my skin
until I was translucent—
I am not simple,
or easily opened and examined
and seen.
I am bright white stars in darkness;
the longer looked at, the more adjusted,
the more seen—
but I am an expanding universe
filled with outer space,
dark matter, energy
that I won't light up
because it is mine.
Seeing is believing—
but you're missing me
only believing what you can see:
I am so far out of your visible spectrum.
I wake,
sit up
and feel the dust fall.
I check the mirror
six times an hour
forgetting what I look like.
No one has ever tried to sculpt me
into something far less beautiful
without my silence.
I am always the effect,
never the cause.
I let myself believe
I was a victim to circumstance
without realizing
I create my own context.
We think who we wake as
is who we are
but consciousness is not meant
for stillness.
I have hours of mobility
to move myself.
I will be an alchemist;
I can change my skin to gold.
I am oxygen, carbon, hydrogen,
nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus,
tin, titanium, nickel,
arsenic, lithium, radium.
I am sequin-palmed;
freckled like sparkles on pearled powdered skin,
shimmer haired,
and glints,
catching sunlight—
I am starlight.
I am no Ghandi
I will fight
my causeless passivity.
I will kick and punch at wishes
made on my fall.
I will not be the reflection I see.
I will paint my own portrait.
All the feelings I had inside
raised to the surface of my skin as purple bruises
and when they faded completely—so did you.
That's a lie—
I touched burst capillaries for hours
circling fingertips around smaller circumferences
each day.
I knew the blue and black wasn't healing:
yellow, brown—
but rotting on my skin
slowly sucking back in decay.
I took a hit to the teeth
you knocked out my voice
and it lies where my knees lied.
I liked that voice.
It had never been to the seashore
but sounded like shells jangling in a Mason Glass.
I'd press my lips to your ear—
you'd swear you heard the ocean.
I didn't hear you cry,
I searched the floor to pick them up
(as I imagined I'd do at the beach
one day with you).
Tides had already taken some
and pushed in new ones.
I left the shells
and I left you calling my name
and I left "sorry, sorry, sorry"
and I left my white sweatshirt.
I liked that sweatshirt.
A Certain Kind of Emptiness
Your lies were hellos
(cellophane and see-through wrapped
around last night's Hunan Wok takeout)
and I'd match your greeting
(something fantastical
just to clutter your head).
I never understood
why we pretended to believe.
Then again,
It takes a certain kind of emptiness
to steal a sleepless sleeper's phone
and search messages in the bathroom.
It takes a certain kind of emptiness
to watch a thief go freely
and kiss him when he comes back.
Then again,
I was pretty eyed when I'd cry—
soft in all the right places;
I'd hold you up to what you thought
was my heart.
You were mystery, nose-ringed and tattooed—
dizzying, dark, and a kiss on my ear;
you'd hold me up to what I thought
was your heart.
But in all this silence
we heard no beating—
(didn't remember a sound
was supposed to come from
the chests we rested on).
We won't see sour nothings
spoken from lovely lips.
We won't look past the skin
across the ribcage—
the ugliness behind the eyelashes;
if one falls out
we'll blow a wish.
Eyes Too Big
Allie Caufield wrote poetry on his glove
in green ink,
and I think I, too, stand outside the diamond
(caught in too many ideas of beautiful
to catch the moon if it fell into left field).
I used to hang my feet over the dock
and wait with line and lure,
but the euphoria of the catch
flurried out when I'd see hook through mouth
and I'd set it free without thinking what freedom meant
with two holes letting water fill the thoracic cavity.
I run ahead of the ball, body turned slightly,
eyes squinted, arms toward then sun
everyone thinking I've got it—
then I shut my eyes and let it fall.
(Something about the eyes being bigger than the stomach—
but mine are bigger than my heart).


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Edward Rosbaugh and Alexander Wise, both of Johnstown, were named to the 2013 All-Pennsylvania Academic Team on April 8.
To be named to the academic team, students must maintain a 3.5 grade-point average, achieve in the classroom and volunteer in the community.
While at Pennsylvania Highlands Community College, Rosbaugh and Wise were recognized for their leadership, service and commitment.
With an associate degree in applied science in human services, Rosbaugh plans to attend Indiana University of Pennsylvania and pursue a master's degree in psychology.
With an associate degree in applied science in business management, Wise plans to attend Clarion University and pursue a master's degree.
The All-Pennsylvania Academic Team recognizes community college students who have achieved academic excellence and demonstrated a commitment to their colleges and communities.


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A few days later, when we were in the same area, the teen approached us again. Yup, I thought, he knows an easy mark. But instead of asking for more money, he thanked my friend for what she'd already given him and told her how he'd managed to get some food and was now feeling much more positive about life. Then he walked on. I thought my friend was far too gullible, but some would say I was too skeptical. Nobody wants to be a sucker, but is that reason enough to be a hard-boiled cynic? "We think of people who are very trusting as being naive," says Nancy Carter, PhD, a director at the Nova Scotia Health Re-search Foundation. "But that's not always the case—being more trusting may make us better at knowing when we're being played." Carter points to a study she did at the University of Toronto in which participants were asked to pick which job applicants had been dishonest after watching videos of interviews in which half the candidates told three lies. It turned out that the people who ranked as "high trusters" were more likely to detect the frauds, in part by picking up on subtle cues (some studies have shown that liars tend to fidget more and speak in higher-pitched voices). When I heard about Carter's study, I actually felt a twinge of envy. These high trusters could rely on their instincts to accurately size someone up, while my reflex was to be wary of just about everyone. Recently, after I'd left my car at the auto shop for repairs, I spent hours fretting that the mechanic was going to do a lousy job. Finally, my exasperated husband said, "What if he's actually good? Why can't you look at it that way?" He was right—too often my default mode was to assume that people were out to rip me off, do me wrong, and generally act selfishly. By constantly fearing that I was going to be taken, I was piling needless anxiety on myself and driving my family crazy. Could making the effort to see the best in others—even for just one weekend—help me rein in my cynicism enough to stop mistrusting the world? I began my experiment when I ran into a neighbor at a cocktail party. In the past, I'd avoided her because she seemed judgmental; this time I struck up a conversation. After learning that our children were entering high school together, I decided to trust her with a private fear and shared my anxieties over how my son was adapting to the new environment. To my surprise, she was worrying about the same thing with her own child. Far from trampling on my emotions in a vulnerable moment, she was actually sympathizing with me. As I left the party, I told her I'd love to stay in touch. We weren't new best friends, of course, but I couldn't help wondering how many other relationships I had shortchanged by being so quick to write people off. After all, it's rare that I find myself in a position to realize when I've misread people—and even rarer to have the opportunity to give them a second chance. Next: How seeing the good in others can help you feel better about yourself From the December 2012 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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BenArazi4 wrote: Eh.. wont believe it till I see it.
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No (more) conference expansion!
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Official Title: | Assessment of Cobalamin Status and Responses to Supplementation in Patients With Parkinson's Disease : a Pilot Study |
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Mac: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/CS6ServiceManager/extensions/
Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\CS6ServiceManager\extensions
You can create the Folder object to "Configurator-Panel.assets" in this way:
var assetFolder = new Folder(Folder.commonFiles.fsName + "/Adobe/CS6ServiceManager/extensions/" + [Your extension ID] + "/content/Configurator-Panel.assets/" );
where [Your extension ID] is the value you set in the attribute labeled with "Extension ID:" in right attribute panel.
In your script, I think it should be:
var strEdgeFXFolder = Folder(Folder.commonFiles.fsName + "/Adobe/CS6ServiceManager/extensions/" + [Your extension ID] + "/content/Configurator-Panel.assets/Edges%20Collections/");
If you installed the extension with Extension Manager CS6, Folder(Folder.commonFiles.fsName + "/Adobe/CS6ServiceManager/extensions/" + [Your extension ID] + "/content/Configurator-Panel.assets/Edges%20Collections/") is the only place for your extention. It's same for both Photoshop CS6 (x86) and Photoshop CS6 (x64). I suggest you to use var assetsFolder = new Folder(assetsPath); to access your assets folder. If you want to find a way to access the common files foder for X64, I don't have a solution now. I'm afraid you need to find other resources for help.
Thank you for the quick reply.
Indeed so, I know the place is the same but unfortunately when I run PS(64 Bit) it give me an invalid image data error.
I did some tests:
If I target r(Folder.commonFiles.fsName + "/Adobe/" ) all is ok,
if I target (Folder.commonFiles.fsName + "/Adobe/CS6ServiceManager" ) it fails
The only folder that is not recognize is "CS6ServiceManager" all others are ok
what can be the problem? Is it just my problem as I m trying on a win system that run under a virtual machine( WMware Fusion)?
I could of course write the entire path that works well:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\CS6ServiceManager\extensions
but it would be better to have just one path for both Win and Mac
I think Folder.commonFiles.fsName points to the common files folder for X64 (such as C:\Program Files\Common Files), but your assets folder is only under common files folder for x86(such as C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files).
I strongly suggest you to use the global varailbe assetsPath. In any situation, running PS or PS (64bit), installing exported zxp package with Extension Manager CS6 or just placing exported folder under Plug-ins\Panels, new Folder(assetsPath) will point to the assets folder of your extension.


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