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Funding opportunities
Isolation of coronary progenitor cells from hESC
Funding Type:
SEED Grant
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Funds requested:
$759 000
Funding Recommendations:
Not recommended
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Public Abstract:
Coronary artery disease is a leading cause of mortality in the USA, and cannot be cured. Although Stem Cell therapy has been initiated in several cases of cardiovascular dysfunction, all current efforts (including a major clinical trial) are aimed at repairing the myocardial component of the heart. To date, little attention has been dedicated at the potential repair of the damaged coronary vasculature. The goal of this proposal is to lay groundwork for coronary vascular therapy based on embryonic stem cell technology. We hypothesize that human embryonic stem cells have the potential to generate coronary progenitor cells that can be clonally expanded. We also hypothesize that this clonally expanded population will retain the potential to differentiate into the diverse components of the coronary vasculature.
Statement of Benefit to California:
This proposal investigates new avenues for the cure of coronary artery disease, which is an increasing cause of mortality in the population of California.
Review Summary:
SYNOPSIS: The goal of this project is to generate epicardial progenitor cells (EPCs) from hES-derived EBs, and subsequently coax them to differentiate in vitro into vascular structures. The idea is to translate what is known about EPCs in the mouse to the human system and ultimately to provide a means to regenerate coronary artery tissue. Aim 1 is to isolate lines of EPC. The idea is to use the chicken Gata5 promoter to drive expression of GFP and Puro, in order to select for EPC lineage. The Gata5 promoter has been useful in mice for targeting expression of Cre to the epicardium. A battery of EPC lineage regulatory factors will be used in culture with the hope that these will direct expression of the promoter effectively: FGF, RA, Wnt3a, BMPs, PDGFBB, HGF, etc. A battery of markers will also be evaluated to confirm if lines are EPC-like. If the approach fails, the PI proposes to embark on a high-throughput screen to define the factors, in collaboration with Dr. Mercola. The subsequent Aims determine the potential of EPCs to undergo epithelial-to-mesenchymal transformation (EMT) and to assess the ability of EMT-transformed epicardial cells to form vascular structures - to undergo vasculogenesis and angiogenesis, both in vitro and in vivo. Based on the success of this work, the PI will use hESC-derived epicardial cells in animal models to lay the groundwork for cellular therapy of coronary disease. SIGNIFICANCE AND INNOVATION: The significance for developing a method of isolating and expanding EPCs is very high and could impact a variety of major coronary and heart diseases. The innovation is to translate the known pathways in mouse to the human ES system. This proposal focuses on the utility of hESCs as a tool for the generation of coronary artery precursors. Clearly, cardiovascular disease is the #1 cause of death and disability in our society, and therefore represents an obvious target for new therapeutics. The significance of the proposal, however, is limited by the investigator's understanding of cardiovascular disease. The PI does not make clear distinctions between coronary artery disease and congestive heart failure, which are two different clinical processes. More importantly, the PI does not adequately address how coronary arterial precursors will help in the setting of an occluded coronary vessel. The PI states in the abstract that "all current efforts. . . are aimed at repairing the myocardial component of the heart", a statement that is simply not true (see the work of Doris Taylor, among others). The PI fails to distinguish how the proposed approach would be different or better than other ongoing approaches. This is a major limitation of the proposal. STRENGTHS: The PI has experience studying the development of the epicardium in mouse. The investigative team is skilled, the environment excellent. The in vivo data are compelling in that the PI can mark the proepicardium and its derivatives. Assuming the team is able to capture precursors appropriately, the plans for differentiation and in vitro functional assays are straightforward WEAKNESSES: It is not at all clear that the EB system can recapitulate normal epicardial development. Even in the mouse system, the Gata5 promoter is not fully restricted to EPCs. A major potential issue is whether the "selected" cells, once so induced, will maintain any progenitor cell state rather than going on to differentiate. The protocols to generate the EPCs do not differ significantly from those used for subsequent differentiation, so why should they remain stem-like? The combinations of factors proposed for analysis reads very much like a "laundry list" but one that can grow indefinitely, considering different concentrations and timing of addition. When is the selection drug added? What are the benchmarks and quantifiable assays that will determine success or failure? Consideration of experiments in the 2nd and 3rd Aims is difficult pending demonstrated feasibility for Aim1. It seems likely that this project could be more productive at this time in the mouse ES system. There is no evidence that coronary precursors can be derived from ES cells of any species. If aim 1 is unsuccessful, the rest of the aims cannot be implemented. There is no evidence that pure populations of precursors would be captured; the marker also tags derivatives as well as hepatic cells. A clear pathway to identifying the precursors is neither considered nor explained. DISCUSSION: There was no discussion following the reviewers' comments.


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The wonderful displays in downtown Goshen were bound to meet their end. That end arrived sooner than many observers would have liked, though, and the undoing was undeserved.
The annual Fire and Ice Festival took place this past weekend. The "Fire" — in part a chili cook-off — provided lucky diners a tasty treat, but the "Ice" offered the visual spectacle. Sculptors with the Michiana Ice Carvers Association crafted stunning, albeit temporary, works of art in the Maple City.
Visitors thronged the downtown during the monthly First Fridays event to watch the ice sculptures take form. Those sculptures would have been around at least a little while before time and temperature took their toll. It would have been nice to look at them a bit longer.
That didn't happen.
Someone, or perhaps a group of like-minded individuals, decided the best thing to do with the ice sculptures was to destroy them. Goshen News photographer Sam Householder recorded part of the damage, and a picture appeared on Page 1 of Wednesday's newspaper. We much prefer Sam's shots of the sculptures being created. Perhaps we're biased.
First Fridays organizers are offering a $500 reward for information about the vandalism. Considering sponsors put up $2,600 for ice sculptures, it's a price worth paying.
There are worse crimes being committed in the Goshen area than the vandalism spree last weekend. A brief review of the police and court news in these pages bears this out. Still, the damage has had an impact, perhaps long-term.
Sponsors can be forgiven for thinking twice about paying for a sculpture next time around. It's a lot of money for something that has a short shelf (sidewalk?) life due to vandalism.
There's also an emotional effect. The vandalism spree just plain saddened and angered the downtown community. Something positive — a First Fridays event that livened up a winter weekend and made people happy — was turned into a negative.
We know the sculpture destruction doesn't represent what Goshen is about, by and large. Still, it's indicative of what a few people are capable of and what can happen in this community. And that's too bad.

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Aqua Oasis III in Key Largo
- bedrooms 3
- baths 3
- sleeps 8
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets allowed no
- type Townhome
- community Kawama Yacht Club
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Key Largo Townhome deals
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deal expires in: 2 days
Last Chance Labor Day Holiday Weekend SPECIAL ~~~~~:)
Just to clarify, this special is 3 night Fri 8/29 check out Mon morning 9/1 Cleaning fee of $125 still applies. If these days dont work for you , write us with your dates....We will work it out!!!
- $1,700 $700/week ($1,000 off)
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Welcome to the diving capital of the world. Kawama Yacht Club is the Hawaiian flavored resort that borders Molasses Reef and John Pennekamp State Park.The community is gated and secure. The resort sits on 30 unspoiled acres. People come here to dive the reef, paddle the flats, fish and generally relax. This resort features the a large beache, and a saltwater lagoon with swimming platforms and a beach. This unit is 3 floors of townhouse that have just been remodeled and repainted. The furniture is all new and the mattresses are upgraded and brand new. The master bedroom has a king size Tempur Foam mattress. This is a non smoking unit! We have now added a home theatre room with leather power reclining furniture and 55" TV. This place is better than home. Wirless internet is in the unit. All linens, dishes, appliences, are here.Full size washer and dryer are also here....Please bring beach towels, and sun screen!!!!!!
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- Marina with boat ramp
- Fenced play area for young children
- Tennis Courts
- 2 Pools
- Large oceanfront beach
- gated secure community
- Wirless internet / DVD library
- Propane BARBQ grill on 1 of the 4 decks
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The last Tisco sleeve and piston kit i recieved had a change to the way the sleeves were made. there was very little taper at the bottom of the sleeve, so little in fact that the sleeve would not start into the o ring.
i thought about grinding a taper on each sleeve but discarded that idea as crude, time consuming and could potentially damage the o rings.
i thought about returning the product but that does not get the project completed.
so what i hit upon was to cut off the taper from one of the old sleeves, clean it up, and use it as a lead in guide to expand the o rings. with a little vasoline it worked perfectly.
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The long-awaited start of the IZOD IndyCar Series season kicks off this weekend on the street course at St. Petersburg with 25 cars entered for the event.
Last year Helio Castroneves opened the season with a win in Florida, but the real question going into the season is can Will Power secure that first IndyCar title?
Power, a teammate of Castroneves and Ryan Briscoe on Team Penske, has been the runner-up for the championship the past three years. What has always been the Achilles heel for Power is the oval tracks the series runs on.
Last year he started from the pole at St. Petersburg so it will be crucial for him to start the season strong on the street course.
Ryan Hunter-Reay, driving for Andretti Autosport, is the defending series champion — having beat Power by three points in 2012.
There are many questions entering the season. Will JR Hildebrand, James Hinchcliffe, Simon Pagenaud, Charlie Kimball or Simona de Silverstro record that breakthrough win?
de Silvestro, after enduring a terrible 2012 season in a Lotus-powered car, has landed a ride with KV Racing Technology. It will be interesting to see if she can become more competitive now that she has landed a ride with a top team.
Can the American drivers — Graham Rahal, Kimball, Marco Andretti, Ed Carpenter and Josef Newgarden — bring renewed interest in the open-wheel series after climbing up through the ranks of open-wheel racing in this country?
Nothing would be more welcome by series officials than for another American to emerge as a contender in 2013, joining Hunter-Reay.
Rahal is driving for his father, Bobby, as part of the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing lineup with James Jakes as a teammate.
Target Chip Ganassi Racing driver Scott Dixon will be looking for a third championship. He won the title in 2003 and 2008 so that five-year cycle is this year. His teammate, Dario Franchitti, the defending Indianapolis 500 winner, will be looking for a fifth championship.
IndyCar has provided some of the best racing in the country over the past few years, and it should continue in 2013. My only wish is that it would open the season on a true road course instead of a temporary street circuit.
St. Petersburg does provide good racing on the 1.8-mile course but, as with all street circuits, passing proves to be difficult.
The NBC Sports Network will show the race Sunday at noon, with the Firestone Indy Lights race preceding it at 11 a.m.
In other racing news
The end of May may seem like a long way off, but entries for the annual Pay Less Little 500 sprint car classic at Anderson Speedway are starting to be received.
Already entered are Tony Elliott, Shane Hollingsworth, Tony Hunt, Jerry Coons Jr. and Ryan Litt. Dave Darland, a four-time USAC champion, is entered to make his second Little 500 start and first since 1998.
Many of these same drivers are expected to compete in the Glen Nielbel Classic on April 14, a 100-lap event sanctioned by the United States Speed Association.


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Does your family enjoy a holiday turkey each Christmas? Or does a ham grace the dining room table every year?
While its hard to give up family holiday traditions, this could be the year to try a new main course!
Stephen Boyer, from The Country Butcher in Tolland, offers some delicious dinner options in the video above.
Click on the photo gallery to see close-ups of the dishes!


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Researchers May Have Found PEDV Source
Veterinary scientists at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech believe they have traced the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus outbreak to China. The PEDV virus that's been spreading in U.S. hog farms since May has been through three strains - all related to Chinese strains of PEDV. China experienced a PEDV outbreak nearly three-years ago.
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VERO BEACH, Fla. — Angus E. "Scotty" McPhail, died June 5, at Palm Gardens Rehab Hospital, in Vero Beach, Fla.
Scotty, the oldest of five children, was born Nov. 19, 1915, in Harrison's Corners, Ontario, Canada.
His family emigrated to the United States when he was a boy and settled in Saranac 0Lake, N.Y. It was in Saranac Lake that he met and married Joan Hathaway, his wife of 53 years.
Joan predeceased him in 1993.
Joan and Scotty made their home in Elizabethtown, N.Y., where they raised their three children.
He is survived by his sister, Margaret DeLeon of Winter Park, Fla.; son Bruce McPhail (Regina) of Lewis, N.Y.; daughter Kathy Lindstadt (Lou) of Vero Beach, Fla., and son Scott McPhail of Vero Beach, Fla. Scotty is also survived by nine grandchildren; 19 great grandchildren; and his loyal and faithful little poodle companion Nikki, who never left his side.
Scotty served his country during WWII. After enlisting and basic training he was assigned to Coastal Gunnery and sent to Fort Stewart, Ga. He was reclassified to Armor sometime later. His combat time was spent with Patton's 3rd Army as part of a Tank Destroyer Unit. He took part in Patton's "March to the Rhine" and was part of the relief of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.
After the war, he owned and operated a service station for many years. He served his community with many years of loyal service on the Elizabethtown-Lewis Central School Board. He was also a board member for the Elizabethtown Social Center, a facility that serves all ages in learning functions, recreation and sporting activities.
Scotty was a lifetime member of The American Legion and The Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was a Kiwanian and a member of the United Church of Christ in Elizabethtown.


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Another Maniacal Announcement from The Profane Exhibit
If you've been following along, you've gotten every bit of information we can squeeze out of the creators of The Profane Exhibit anthology film. We've given you some directors, stars and stills. Here's some more for you ... chew on this announcement of yet another director joining the project.


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All good things come to an end, as cofounder and CEO, David Lieb, of the popular iPhone and Android sharing app Bump, and Flock announced yesterday on their blog. The sharing apps will be discontinued as of January 31st, 2014.
According to their announcement:
We are now deeply focused on our new projects within Google, and we've decided to discontinue Bump and Flock. On January 31, 2014, Bump and Flock will be removed from the App Store and Google Play. After this date, neither app will work, and all user data will be deleted.
You can export any data you have by opening either app in the next 31 days and just follow the instructions to export your data. You'll then receive an email with a link containing all of your data (photos, videos, contacts, etc) from Bump or Flock.
Google acquire the popular sharing app back in September, with reports that Bump and the popular photo sharing app will continue to operate "for now".


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Alphabet Flashcards: H
Topics : Kindergarten, Fine Motor Skills, The Alphabet, Letter H
House begins with the letter H! Color in the flashcards featuring the letter H and the flashcard with the picture of a house and the word written on it. Then cut them out and use them to practice the alphabet by playing memory and spelling games.
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The pending return of NCAA investigators to Chapel Hill might not feel like good news for the University of North Carolina and its supporters. But the probe promises welcome resolution, a chance to dispel the scent of suspicion that clings like a skunks spray to a school once considered a national leader in balancing the demands of athletics and academics. The return also has the potential to cast the NCAA in a bit of positive light just when the organization needs it most.
Whether a fresh examination by the NCAA uncovers systemic misconduct behind the academic irregularities cited by UNC athletic director Bubba Cunningham in announcing the return visit is almost beside the point. North Carolina needs an independent outside entity to pronounce judgment before the school, its loyalists and its critics can move on.
Evidence well-documented by News & Observer reporters Dan Kane and Andrew Carter certainly hints at conscious, long-standing practices by UNC staff to pad academic performance to maintain players eligibility. Much of that information came to light following an earlier NCAA investigation of Butch Davis football program that resulted in probation and lost scholarships.
UNC leaders have tried most recently by hiring Kenneth Wainstein, a respected ex-federal prosecutor to seek answers. Wainsteins is the third internal investigation in three years. He might even get to the truth, or some version of it, regarding questions and allegations about steering athletes to Potemkin village-type courses in the African and Afro-American Studies department. (The AFAM departments name has since changed to African, African American, and Diaspora Studies.)
Efforts by Wainstein, Orange County district attorney Jim Woodall and others apparently have borne fruit already. In announcing a return to campus, an NCAA statement concluded that additional people with information and others who were previously uncooperative might be willing to speak with the enforcement staff.
Wainstein told the UNC Board of Governors he hoped to wrap up his work this fall, a timetable that could change with the NCAA back in the picture. A delay in reaching a resolution on dubious AFAM classwork is unfortunate but might be necessary. The school has been linked to scandal for so long now an entire class of undergraduates has come and gone under a cloud its credibility requires major, deliberate repair.
Turmoil has come to seem chronic at Chapel Hill. The director of athletics and football coach were forced out in 2011. A year later chancellor Holden Thorp, a proud graduate and strong believer in the schools traditions, felt compelled to resign. The football program was punished, in part for athletes accepting benefits from agents that violate NCAA rules on amateurism. Last fall several players were suspended from the mens basketball program for accepting unauthorized benefits from third parties. That cost P.J. Hairston, an eventual NBA first-rounder, the remainder of his collegiate eligibility. Court cases have been initiated, allegations of complicity in shaving academic standards leveled on national TV by former UNC athletes.
Specter of discontent
Meanwhile, by taking the most cautious approach to public disclosure of relevant information, UNC officials fostered understandable skepticism. Confidence in an intentionally opaque institution is difficult in a society that offers too many examples of seemingly trustworthy sources caught in cover-ups and lies General Motors and former Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon being only the latest examples.
Statements by disaffected athletes like Rashad McCants, no matter how suspect nine years after leaving school, do raise the specter of a disconnect between the promise and the reality of gaining a UNC scholarship. This strikes at the heart of the universitys integrity and the NCAAs amateurism argument, which posits that a student-athlete receives a quality education in fair trade for services rendered. Undermine that education, and the bargain is corrupted, as detractors of big-dollar college sports have argued for decades.
Thats why it serves the NCAAs best interests to revisit possible academic improprieties at UNC. The failure to act suggests NCAA favoritism toward a high-profile athletic program, putting the bottom line before the organizations supposed core values. Nor can the NCAA appear to be indifferent given the pending OBannon lawsuit challenging the basic student-athlete model, a case now in the hands of U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in California.
The value of an NCAA investigation is a matter of debate. As a voluntary organization that does, however, control big bucks and intercollegiate championship competitions its investigators lack subpoena power or the authority to compel testimony. Theres a lot of stuff you cant get to, but you can get to a lot of it, said Tom Yeager, the Colonial Athletic Association commissioner who has served on the unpaid NCAA Committee on Infractions.
Fresh look
Reformers argue the NCAA needs to change its enforcement model, perhaps by employing outside firms better-versed in investigation. Woodall, the Orange County DA, is among those who marvel at the conflicts of interest inherent in the NCAA system.You have this organization they establish the rules, they enforce the rules, and then they run championships, he said. Theres a financial interest in keeping the best athletes available . To me its just crazy to think the NCAA should do this when they have this clear conflict.
Regardless of the shortcomings of the process, a fresh look by the NCAA could provide a much-needed sense of finality at UNC. One party apt to benefit is coach Roy Williams, whom McCants recently accused of complicity in academic fraud.
I never want to do anything to hurt this program, Williams said last February, choking up at the thought. The former Dean Smith assistant recoiled at the notion athletes were brought to UNC to be used rather than educated. Its hurt more than anything because our players come here for the right reasons. Our players want to get their degree. Our players do try. The whole thing, the whole stigma for the university includes everybody. It includes the student whos not a basketball player, whos not a football player, whos not any one. Its harmed the reputation of the university.
And that was before McCants directed accusations specifically toward Williams.
Again, Im old-fashioned, Im old school, but its hurt more than at a lot of other places, Williams said months ago of ongoing doubts assailing his alma mater. He and other Carolina adherents might not like what the NCAA eventually finds or does, but the results are bound to be better than the current state of limbo the university cant seem to escape.


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The Gibson Hall of Music was dedicated in 1954 in memory of Harvey Dow Gibson, class of 1902, music lover and Commissioner of the Red Cross in Europe during both world wars. Gibson Hall offers classrooms, rehearsal and practice rooms, the music library, a classroom/recital hall, and a more intimate seminar room.
Gibson Hall has the classiest student lounge on campus! Carved oak paneling from the 18th century, once in a music salon in the Hôtel de Sens in Paris, a marble fireplace mantel, and a display of Renaissance instruments adorn Gibson Salon.
From Interstate 295, take Exit 28 (Brunswick) to U.S. Route 1 North; when Route 1 turns sharply to the left, keep going straight on Pleasant Street; at the end of Pleasant Street, turn right onto Maine Street; pass First Parish Church (on your left); just beyond the statue of Joshua Chamberlain, turn left onto Park Row. Gibson Hall is the fourth building on the left.
Free public parking is available on Park Row. Guests may park in on-campus parking lots on weekends and after 5:00 PM on weekdays. For weekdays, parking permits are available from the Security Office in Rhodes Hall on Bath Road.


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I'm creating a VB.Net routine which will run the REVCLOUD command. In my application I prompt the user to select a single polyline using:
EntRslt = acDoc.Editor.GetEntity(EntOpts)
Then later I run the REVCLOUD command using:
acDoc.SendStringToExecute("_revcloud Object Poly No ", False, False, True)
Where Poly is the polyline I selected earlier. Of course, the line above doesn't work since "Poly" is interpreted as a string. But I would like to figure out how to pass my VB.Net selected Polyline into the REVCLOUD command.
Anyone have any advice on how I might do this? The REVCLOUD command will not accept the "Previous" selection set so setting the Implied Selectoin does not work. If my Polyline was the Last object in the database I could use the "Last" option, but it isn't.
Thanks in advance.
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You better use acedCmd P/Invoke function
Give this a try:
<DllImport("acad.exe", BestFitMapping:=True, CallingConvention:=CallingConvention.Cdecl, CharSet:=CharSet.Auto)> _ Private Shared Function acedCmd(ByVal vlist_in As System.IntPtr) As Integer End Function <CommandMethod("Cloud")> _ Public Shared Sub TestCloud() Dim db As Database = HostApplicationServices.WorkingDatabase Dim doc As Document = acApp.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument Dim ed As Editor = doc.Editor Dim tr As Transaction = db.TransactionManager.StartTransaction() Using tr Try ' Prompt for the polyline to revcloud Dim peo As New PromptEntityOptions(vbLf & "Select first polyline:") peo.SetRejectMessage(vbLf & "Select polyline only") peo.AddAllowedClass(GetType(Polyline), True) Dim per As PromptEntityResult = ed.GetEntity(peo) If per.Status <> PromptStatus.OK Then Return End If Dim fid As ObjectId = per.ObjectId Dim obj1 As DBObject = tr.GetObject(fid, OpenMode.ForWrite) acApp.SetSystemVariable("CMDECHO", 0) Dim buf As New ResultBuffer() buf.Add(New TypedValue(5005, "_REVCLOUD")) buf.Add(New TypedValue(5005, "_O")) buf.Add(New TypedValue(5006, fid)) buf.Add(New TypedValue(5005, "_N")) acedCmd(buf.UnmanagedObject) buf.Dispose() acApp.SetSystemVariable("CMDECHO", 1) tr.Commit() Catch ex As Autodesk.AutoCAD.Runtime.Exception ed.WriteMessage(ex.Message + vbLf + ex.StackTrace) End Try End Using End Sub
I discovered one more method you may want to use,
check this as well, just change the arc sizes in the command string:
<CommandMethod("Revc", CommandFlags.Modal Or CommandFlags.Session)> _ Public Shared Sub RevCloudTest() Dim doc As Document = acApp.DocumentManager.MdiActiveDocument Dim ed As Editor = doc.Editor acApp.SetSystemVariable("osmode", 512) Dim pt As Point3d = ed.GetPoint(vbLf + "Pick a point on polyline: ").Value doc.SendStringToExecute("_REVCLOUD _A 0.1 0.3 _O " + pt.X.ToString + "," + pt.Y.ToString + ",0 _N ", True, False, False) End Sub
Thank you very much for your reply. I was able to get your first suggection to line:
I assume it has something to do with the TypedValue TypeCode 5006. I assume 5005 is a string and 5006 is an ObjectID? What would the code be for a double? Is there a list of these codes somewhere? I have looked and I've not found anythng useful.
buf.Add(New TypedValue(5005, "_OFFSET")) buf.Add(New TypedValue(5006, OffsetLength)) buf.Add(New TypedValue(5006, Pline.ObjectId))
Thanks again.
Ok, the offset length is easy, I just use the ToString option.
But of course, in the Offset command I will need to specify a point as well. 5006 does not work; I'm not sure which integer value to use here.
Here is some constants for ResultBuffer values:
' Type of resbuf element ' credit to Alexander Rivilis Const RTNONE As Short = 5000 ' No result Const RTREAL As Short = 5001 ' Real number Const RTPOshort As Short = 5002 ' 2D poshort X and Y only Const RTSHORT As Short = 5003 ' Short integer Const RTANG As Short = 5004 ' Angle Const RTSTR As Short = 5005 ' String Const RTENAME As Short = 5006 ' Entity name Const RTPICKS As Short = 5007 ' Pick set Const RTORshort As Short = 5008 ' Orientation Const RT3DPOshort As Short = 5009 ' 3D poshort - X, Y, and Z Const RTLONG As Short = 5010 ' Long integer Const RTVOID As Short = 5014 ' Blank symbol Const RTLB As Short = 5016 ' list begin Const RTLE As Short = 5017 ' list end Const RTDOTE As Short = 5018 ' dotted pair Const RTNIL As Short = 5019 ' nil Const RTDXF0 As Short = 5020 ' DXF code 0 for ads_buildlist only Const RTT As Short = 5021 ' T atom Const RTRESBUF As Short = 5023 ' resbuf Const RTMODELESS As Short = 5027 ' interrupted by modeless dialog ' ' Error return code Const RTNORM As Short = 5100 ' Request succeeded Const RTERROR As Short = -5001 ' Some other error Const RTCAN As Short = -5002 ' User cancelled request -- Ctl-C Const RTREJ As Short = -5003 ' AutoCAD rejected request -- invalid Const RTFAIL As Short = -5004 ' Link failure -- Lisp probably died Const RTKWORD As Short = -5005 ' Keyword returned from getxxx() routine Const RTINPUTTRUNCATED As Short = -5008
Thank you very much HALLEX, I was able to use your code to fix mine. It all seems to work now.
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CB Dominique Daniels (Nicholls State)
S Gabe Derricks (San Diego)
LS Justin Drescher (Colorado)
WR Brandyn Harvey (Villanova)
LB Weston Johnson (Wyoming)
K Garrett Lindholm (Tarleton State)
RB Dimitri Nance (Arizona State)
TE Michael Palmer (Clemson)
TE Colin Peek (Alabama)
WR Emmanuel Stephens (Mississippi)
DE Ryan Wolfe (UNLV)
LB Bear Woods (Troy)
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The Buna Cougars aren't known for their "air raids" but they sure got it done against the Bridge City Cardinals in the District 21-3A opener for both teams Friday night at Larry Ward Stadium.
Buna quarterback Joseph Clark completed just 4-of-8 passes but they went for 128 yards and two touchdowns as the Cougars went on to defeat the injury-riddled Cardinals 36-7.
Buna (4-1, 1-0) finished with 326 yards while limiting the Cardinals (1-3, 0-1) to just 141.
The Cardinals also shot themselves in the foot with four turnovers.
Tailback Matthew Biddle had 76 yards on 11 carries and hauled in a 56-yard TD pass from Clark.
Cardinal quarterback Chase Shugart gave it a shot despite nursing an injured shoulder. He completed 7-of-20 passes for 56 yards and had two interceptions.
Jhett Simmons and Jonah Lemoine led the Cardinal ground game with 29 yards a piece.
Shugart played despite the shoulder injury. Hunter Uzzle, a key component on offense and defense was out with a concussion and starting receiver and playmaker Malcolm Busby was also out. And of course, 1,000-yard rusher of a year ago Ashton Hunter is out for the season.
"It's tough when three of your best players are standing on the sidelines," said Cardinal coach Cris Stump. "But we can't use that as an excuse. Buna got after it tonight and beat us up physically up front. Give them credit, they're a big, strong football team and they got after us."
The Cougars definitely had the momentum going in the first half with 28 unanswered points, using a surprising passing game.
Buna outgained the Cardinals 235-44 in the first 24 minutes.
Clark was 4-for-7 for 128 yards and two touchdown passes. The Cougar defense was stiff, limiting BC to just two first turnovers and a pair of turnovers.
After pinning the Cardinals deep on BC's first series of the game, the Cougars navigated 46 yards in eight plays to hit paydirt.
The key play came on fourth-and-6 from the 25 when Clark connected with McCrea Lopez with a 15-yard pass to keep the chains moving. Two plays later Mason Lopez took it into the end zone, going five yards off left tackle. The point-after kick failed as the Cougars led 6-0 with 6:26 left in the first quarter.
The Cardinals moved from their own 29 all the way to the Buna 33 but on fourth-and-9, Shugart lost the ball to Cougar lineman Aaron Hardy at the Buna 39.
The Cougars responded by going on a six-play, 61-yard scoring march.
Tailback Matthew Biddle keyed in with a 37-yard run to the Cardinal 24 and five plays later fullback Justin Kennedy bolted into the end zone from two yards to make it 12-0 with 1:08 in the first. The two-point conversion run failed.
The Cougars upped their advantage to 20-0 with 10:10 left in the half when Clark hit Biddle with a nice pass over the middle and Biddle did the rest to complete a 56-yard touchdown pass. Mason Lopez added the two-point conversion run.
"Buna made some tremendous plays in the passing game and usually don't think about them doing that," said Stump. "Give their quarterback and receivers credit, those passes were accurate, the receivers made good plays on the ball because we were right there on each one of them."
Buna finished the half with a five-play, 58-yard scoring drive and capped it when Clark hit McCrea Lopez in stride down the right sideline for a 38-yard touchdown dart. Biddle ran in the two-pointer to make it 28-0 with 0:36 in the half.
The Cougars made it 36-0 on their first series of the second half. Perry Smith finished off a nine-play, 47-yard drive with a four-yard blast up the middle then he converted the two-point conversion with 7:14 left in the third.
The Cardinals got on the board with 4:04 remaining in the game when quarterback Byron Trahan found receiver Cade Mosely in the right corner of the end zone for a 18-yard touchdown pass. The four-play, 49-yard drive was set up nicely by a 22-yard run by back Jhett Simmons.
Bridge City got inside the Buna 30 on two occasions in the third quarter but Shugart had two passes picked off.
"Offensively, it was a struggle all night," said Stump. "We've got to come out here Monday and bounce back with a good practice. We've got Jasper next and five more of these district games to try to make some improvements."
The Cardinals return to non-district action next week when they play host to the Jasper Bulldogs.
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Battlin' Bears hit the ground running
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Mustangs will go to work without Sterling-Cole after transfer
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PAM's Chatman commits to Lamar hoops
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LC-M grad Reed 'rolling' for the Tide
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Caught in a conspiracy. Three TSA screeners at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport were arrested and charged with conspiring to smuggle more than $500,000 worth of heroin and methamphetamine from Mexico City, reports CBS News. They were caught after their text messages looking for the missing bag was intercepted by federal agents.
I've got a loaded bear in my hand and I'm NOT afraid to use it! A father expressed surprise when TSA screeners at Rhode Island's T. F. Green International Airport discovered gun parts hidden in three of his 4-year-old son's stuffed animals, reports CNN. Screeners found the mainframe of a .40-caliber firearm, a magazine with two .40-caliber rounds, a firing pin and a slide, CNN added. The weapons were confiscated and the pair was allowed to travel.
She wasn't so pumped…A 16-year-old teenager is accusing the TSA of breaking her $10,000 insulin after she says she was coerced into using a body scanner at Denver International Airport, reports ABC7 News. The pump manufacturer said that the device's software was damaged by the x-rays emitted by the body scanner.
I wonder if the ark of the covenant is also in that storage room? TSA found itself under assault by House Republicans after congressional investigators discovered $184 million worth of unused screening equipment gathering dust in a Dallas warehouse, reports Politico. The warehouse currently holds nearly 6,000 pieces of equipment, with 85 percent of it sitting for at least six months.
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A team of Penn researchers helped to cure a form of blindness four years ago and they're at it again! The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that this time, the researchers are taking on retinitis pigmentosa, which is a more common type of blindness thought to affect thousands of people.
Along with University of Florida scientists, the Penn researchers have been using gene therapy in dogs to deliver healthy genes to the retina. Using lasers, lights, rods and cones
and bones, the scientists were able to measure a difference in the thickness of the retina. So far, the results have been successful and in some cases, the experiment has even reversed earlier damage.
The scientists are hoping the positive results will translate to human progress. As the article astutely states, "animals cannot answer questions," so while we like to think the dogs are enjoying their enhanced vision, it's purely conjecture.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Giants GM Jerry Reese spoke Saturday, presumably as a gesture to the assembled media in town, but offered little of substance on the state of the team.
Reese deflected questions about the contract status of WR Victor Cruz, the team's recent salary-cap-related cuts, whether they might use the franchise tag and the 2013 draft class as a whole.
But his most interesting comments came on DE Justin Tuck, who is coming off a disappointing season. Tuck had 11.5 sacks and six forced fumbles in 2010, and he slipped to five sacks and one forced fumble (in 12 games) in 2011. But Tuck's performance — especially down the stretch — took an even further dive in 2012, with four sacks and no forced fumbles in 15 games.
"Obviously, Justin hasn't played as well as we think he could play in the past, and he knows that," Reese said. "We recently had a really long conversation, and we talked about those things. He wants to get back to the old Justin Tuck and the player we know him to be."
Tuck has suffered a number of injuries the past two seasons, including a shoulder that hindered him in December, which Reese said contributed to his downtick in production.
"Hopefully, he can get healthy and get back to his old form," Reese said.
The Giants always seek DE help in the draft, and the position could see a bit of a makeover in the offseason. But asked if Osi Umenyiora's career with the team was over, Reese certainly didn't close the door.
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Through seven innings of his perfect game bid, Felix Hernandez has managed to do just what he needed to do: Throw as few pitches as possible and keep every ball in play for the Seattle Mariners against the Tampa Bay Rays. After relying on seven strikeouts to carry him through the first six innings (including striking out the side in the sixth), Hernandez induced three ground outs to get to the eighth inning unscathed. Hernandez now has seven ground outs to go with his seven strikeouts, along with five fly outs and two line outs.
After the Mariners got a walk in the seventh but failed to advance him, it was back to work for Hernandez, and he advanced to the ninth inning in style by striking out the side. Hernandez went back to the strike out through the middle of the Rays order. He struck out Evan Longoria with a nasty curveball. He then took out Ben Zobrist with a filthy change-up, then sent Carlos Pena back to the dugout with another filthy curveball.
Hernandez is now up to ten strikeouts on the game and 98 pitches on the game. More importantly, he's three outs away from perfection.
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And now, Deep Conservative Thoughts with Rush Limbaugh: "You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun." #uspoli—
Peter Anthony (@peterisfunny) January 18, 2013
Whatever would we do without lefty "feminists" like Amanda Marcotte to take on the evil, oppressive conservative patriarchy? This morning, she took Rush Limbaugh to task over a comment he made earlier in the week:
bit.ly/SefTkA Rush Limbaugh incites violence against women seeking abortion.—
Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) January 18, 2013
Here's the remark that has Marcotte seeing red:
You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun.
Misogyny! Misogyny!
It's hard not to picture what "abortion by gun" would look like: A sort of rape by gun followed by the violent murder of the woman. It's taking the subtext of gun nuttery—and how nuts feel that guns give them symbolic phallic power—and making it straight up text. That's not subtly giving permission, but practically an invitation.
As a side note, it's interesting to me how many wingnuts turn to abortion the second guns are mentioned. Couldn't make it more clear that gun nuttery is part of a larger constellation of a psycho-sexual obsession with masculine dominance. Must have MORE GUNS while making sure that women are firmly relegated to a second class citizen status, unable to exert basic control over their bodies. Ugh.
Ugh indeed, Amanda. Anyone familiar with Limbaugh is well aware of his hyperbolic style and understands that his point wasn't that abortions should be performed with guns; he was saying that the Left would actually care about the lives snuffed out by abortions if guns were involved.
The truth is of little importance to the perpetually outraged feminist Left, however, and Stop Rush types unleashed their ire:
F Rush Limbaugh "@AmandaMarcotte: bit.ly/SefTkA Rush Limbaugh incites violence against women seeking abortion."—
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#prolife y'all! MT @AmandaMarcotte bit.ly/SefTkA Rush Limbaugh incites violence against women seeking abortion. #prochoice—
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The "pro- lifers." Always looking for someone to kill. | The Raw Story rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/18/…—
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.@clarkhoward Limbaugh says abortion should be performed by gun. Y do u support this garbage. Move ur ads to non Rush grid #StopRush—
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Rush #Limbaugh condoning violence against #women yet again you say? Anyone surprised? Anyone? …Beuller?—
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"You know how to stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun." – Same guy who thought up "feminazi." bit.ly/SefTkA—
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Limbaugh: "You know how 2 stop abortion? Require that each one occur with a gun. It's OK 2 kill women? Boycott #EVERY advertiser of his show—
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Rush Limbaugh Incites Violence zite.to/UBgBah via @zite Perform abortions w a gun. What a dangerous freak.—
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If Rush is a "dangerous freak" for using liberal logic to take on abortion, then what does that make Amanda Marcotte, who thinks a "ritual nick" is an acceptable alternative to female genital mutilation? She certainly doesn't seem like a worthy advocate for women, does she? Then again, that probably doesn't matter much; for the Left, intellectual consistency isn't a priority.


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THE SCREENING ROOM: Preview of Cheyenne Jackson's "Don't Wanna Know," Featuring Nick Adams, Matt Cavenaugh
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Stage and screen actor Cheyenne Jackson, recently seen on Broadway in the short-lived comedy The Performers, will release the third single from his upcoming 2013 album Dec. 18.
Directed by Nick Everhart and choreographed by Joey Pizzi, the music video for "Don't Wanna Know" was filmed on location in New York City and Connecticut and draws inspiration from Bjork's "Oh So Quiet" and Janet Jackson's "Alright."
In addition to Jackson, the video also features Matt Cavenaugh, Nick Adams, Joshua Buscher, Peter Chursin, Adam Fleming, Lindsay Janisse, Nina Lafarga, Robb Sherman, Brooke Wendle and Samantha Zak.
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The first single from the CD, entitled "Drive," can be purchased at iTunes. The second single, entitled "Before You," is also available.
Collaborators for the album include Sia Furler, Stevie Aiello and producer Thomas "Tawgs" Salter.
Jackson, who has been seen on television in the Emmy-winning "30 Rock" and the Fox musical comedy "Glee," has appeared on Broadway in Finian's Rainbow, Xanadu and All Shook Up, among others. He has appeared Off-Broadway in Altar Boyz and The Agony and The Agony, and at City Center in Finian's Rainbow and Damn Yankees.
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CATEGORIES MoviesRemember that five minutes last fall when it seemed like Eddie Murphy was going to have his long-awaited comeback? The Rolling Stone cover story, the Oscar-hosting gig, the big-budget movie with box-office king Ben Stiller? It was all coming together, so much so that Paramount moved the release of the Murphy comedy "A Thousand Words" to March 23 -- the idea being that the release would take advantage of Murphy's post-Oscars victory lap.
What's that thing about the best laid schemes of mice and men? Yeah, that: Murphy didn't host the Oscars, "Tower Heist" surprisingly underwhelmed at the box office (despite being really kinda good), and "A Thousand Words" had its release moved to Friday, where it will hit theaters with nary a whimper. Fitting, since the film is about a sleazy shark (Murphy) who -- in a "Liar Liar"-like twist -- winds up with one-thousand words remaining before he dies.
"Words" will hit a modest 1,500 screens this weekend -- by comparison, "John Carter" is out on 3,500, while even "Silent House" screens on over 2,000 -- and box-office prognosticators predict that it will gross less than $10 million. That would be a poor figure, but still better than Murphy's last two family films, "Imagine That" and "Meet Dave," both of which opened with similarly bottomed-out $5 million.
(In fact, Paramount initially pushed "A Thousand Words" to March 23, 2012 because of those films. "Words" was made in 2008 and has been moved around the calendar since then.)
Regardless of what happens with the financial returns for the film, however, Murphy is hopeful that audiences just have fun.
"Ultimately, just that they have a pleasant evening of laughter," Murphy said during a junket interview recently, "and then afterwards, on the way out, they say, 'You know that is true, you should watch what you say.' That's as deep as we want to go. Just have a good time."
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Ishigaki Beach, Okinawa, Japan
Ishigaki (石垣島 -jimaYaeyama and Okinawan: Ishigachi) is an island west of Okinawa Hontō and the second-largest island of the Yaeyama Island group. It is within the City of Ishigaki in Okinawa Prefecture. The city functions as the business and transport center of the archipelago. Ishigaki Airport is the largest airport in the Yaeyamas and Japan's largest third-class airport.
Ishigaki Island, like the rest of Okinawa, takes cultural influences from both Japan and China due to its location between China and mainland Japan.
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Asia is the biggest continent on Earth, a darling little gem floating around in space.
Hm, what is Asia? Who's in on it?
China and India are safe bets for Asian nations. Korea, Japan, Thailand, you're fine.
Europe? No. Europe would sort of be on the "Asian continent" if not for those pesky Ural mountains dividing things up in the middle, and then also the whole lineage of kings and wealth and nations and the EU and all that "give me my respect" stuff.
Russia would probably be happiest as its own continent, so for now we'll leave it in "Eurasia" and just hope the natural gas supplies keep flowing.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are dang close to Asia, but politically they show up in "Middle East" news stories an awful lot. Verdict: Eurasia.
I guess we'll actually have to consider everything from Turkey on eastward to be "Eurasian", although the moniker seems overlappitory of the territory.
The Asian economy is now officially raging like a wild furnace of lava that consumes everything in its path. Japan has had the largest individual economy in Asia for decades, but it is forecast that both India and China will outstrip Japan within twenty years.
China is the largest holder of United States debt and is positioned to become the world's next superpower, provided that Godzilla doesn't return and decide to stomp everybody back into the Shang Dynasty.
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Teen arrested in stolen car at San Ramon Valley High
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on Dec 20, 2012 at 7:39 am
Let's see, three juveniles from Hayward in a stolen car. No description given and they don't know where they are from or what they were doing in Danville. I think we can rule out sightseeing. Did the police ask them where they are from? Talk about a sketchy article and information from our PD.
on Dec 20, 2012 at 9:52 am
"Police are unsure why the juveniles were in Danville or where they are from."
Juveniles were released and one was booked but POLICE don't know where they are FROM?
Is this really the information provided by the Danville police?
on Dec 21, 2012 at 8:10 am
Joan and William, Are you serious ? What do you want Danville PD to provide ? Color of vehcile, year make and model and if it has leather vs. cloth interior ? You two have WAAAAAY too much time on your hands !!


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Backpacker Magazine – September 2008
The most remote spot in the Lower 48 is inside Yellowstone National Park. It's also the goal of our correspondent. What he encounters–and what it says about the solitude backpackers treasure–will surprise you. PLUS: See more of his photos and read a Q&A.
Postholing through three-foot-deep snowdrifts across Deer Creek Pass, Gaillard and I pass from the Washakie Wilderness into the Teton Wilderness, both designated as part of the national wilderness system by the Wyoming Wilderness Act of 1984. Our National Wilderness Preservation System, established in 1964, was the most progressive and prescient recognition of the value of biodiversity in history. As we walk, I ruminate on the act, which gave legal form to the thinking of my literary mentors.
"To assure that an increasing population, accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization, does not occupy and modify all areas within the United States and its possessions, leaving no lands designated for preservation and protection in their natural condition, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Congress to secure for the American people of present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness."
The Wilderness Act also poetically limned both the value and the definition of wild country: "A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain."
In short, the Wilderness Act was explicitly created to preserve remoteness and all that comes with it: silence, solitude, a functioning ecosystem. It was decidedly not created to preserve remoteness or wildness as a state of mind or national myth, but explicitly to draw lines on a map, to create and enforce physical boundaries, and thereby protect what little land was still semi-unsullied by human impact. Which is not to say that key terms in the statute haven't been continually debated. The current philosophical furor rages over what constitutes a "natural condition" or a community of life "untrammeled by man," phrases that have been parsed in different ways by dozens of scholars.
An argument I find highly compelling was published in a seminal 1992 essay titled "The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492." In it, anthropologist William Denevan convincingly argues that the Western Hemisphere was not an empty, unmodified Eden when Columbus "discovered" the New World. Instead, the "natural condition" of the Americas included humans. By synthesizing the works of archaeologists, anthropologists, geographers, and geneticists, Denevan concluded that there were probably 60 million people living in the Western Hemisphere before European contact–more than in Europe. Furthermore, in terms of agriculture and animal husbandry, these people were at least as sophisticated as their discoverers.
Native Americans frequently used fire to alter the landscape; they also used irrigation and forestry, and they grew a cornucopia of domesticated crops, from chilies to potatoes. Denevan asserts that at least part of the Great Plains may have been created by Native Americans, through regular forest burning designed to expand buffalo habitat.
Up to 90 percent of these populations vanished in the following two centuries from diseases such as smallpox, typhus, diphtheria, measles, and influenza. With this unimaginably massive loss of life, the march of the white man across America from the 1700s through the 1800s mistakenly appeared to be a journey through a gigantic wilderness. Which means that my heroes–Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Roosevelt–misunderstood what they were actually observing and experiencing. Ecologically speaking, the America they encountered was not, as they had so eloquently described, a geography untouched by human hand. It was a deeply loved landscape sorrowfully emptied.
When Denevan first presented his hypothesis, more than a few scientists scoffed. Today, his conclusions have helped create a new understanding of pre-Columbus America. Charles Mann summarized the current geographical thinking on wilderness in his most recent book, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, writing: "Far from destroying pristine wilderness ... Europeans bloodily created it." And this blood-soaked sanctuary, oddly enough, is exactly what the Wilderness Act codified into law.
Some scholars have used the fact that Native Americans modified their environments to dismiss the thesis that a landscape "untrammeled by man" ever existed, but their logic is dubious. Denevan believes that North America–the approximately 7.5 million square miles north of the Rio Grande–contained 4 million human inhabitants before 1492. This would create a density of one person for every two square miles, enough to influence but only in special circumstances remake the landscape. In the big picture, accepting that humans were a part of the "natural" ecosystem is useful in recognizing that "wilderness" is not a static term, but a word that embodies a spectrum of varying wildness.
Wyoming's Teton Wilderness, with its heavy horse-packing use, may not be as "wild" and untrammeled as the Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness in Alaska; on the other hand, it is vastly wilder than Pennsylvania's 8,663-acre Hickory Creek Wilderness. In all cases, the goal of the Wilderness Act is to minimize human disturbance and restore as much of the native flora and fauna as possible.
"People tend to be parochial and shortsighted about the definition of wilderness," says Ted Kerasote, editor of Return of the Wild and author, most recently, of Merle's Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog. "Yes, the Thorofare is much closer to all things we consider civilized than the largely unmanaged wild places in northern Canada, but wilderness is a matter of degrees, not absolutes."
Kerasote, a hunter, hiker, and resident of Kelly, Wyoming, is a leading thinker about the connection between man and nature, the subject of his 1997 book, Bloodties.
"In the Lower 48, we wisely set aside these tiny tracts of land–museum pieces really–as repositories for species diversity and examples of what this country looked and felt like not that long ago," he told me by phone.
"My great hope is that as we go forward into the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd centuries, the human population will become more educated, family sizes will decrease, and the earth will retreat to a human population of one to two billion. At that point, places where we've kept active gene pools alive, like the greater Yellowstone region, can be used to repopulate and rewild large portions of North America."
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I've hiked areas of Kanab Creek Wilderness Area in Arizona that felt like the most remote spot to me. There are also areas north of Lake Meade in Nevada that can feel pretty remote until you get to the top of a peak and see Las Vegas in the distance.
I have hiked spots in colorado closer to cities, but where I have only encountered other hikers once in a half dozen hikes.
One should never use the word "Most ..." in the title without stating the parameters used! Otherwise it's hyperbole.
I've always felt The Maze was the most remote spot, as defined by how much time it would take to get to a city or hospital.
Why all the hoopala about south central yellowstone being the most remote place in the lower 48? If it isnt, its close enough to it. The idea is that there are still these great places where one can escape this mad every day world with its car horns blowing,undisciplined kids screaming,dogs barking, and rushing around like fools to get no where fast. Ect, you get the point, Thank You.
Why do a few of you assume that the meat was left to rot? No guide I know of would allow that to happen. Besides being an unfathomable waste, judges are notoriously harsh when it comes to wildlife violations. As for the most remote place in the lower 48, it's my parking spot at Disneyland.
How did he choose the"most remote" spot. Whilre hiking it, he sees a horse train of people. I've spent days while backpacking on Isle Royale NP in Michigan without ever seeing a soul.
(and everyone has new clothes/gear sometime-would we mock someone for breaking in a new pair of hiking boots?)
This is a good article, but it is dangerous to stereotype hunters based on a few guided hunts. I have met hundreds of hunter and none leave the meat. Hunters love wild game. In my home state of Michigan, hunters pay the most for conservation of all public lands that are enjoyed by hikers, bikers, and others. For example, nearly a million michigan hunters go deer hunting at $15 a license which is $15 million in revenue for the state. By comparison, how much do you think Michigan people donate to the sierra club, as the author suggests? You literally cannot write an article like this without first and foremast thanking hunters for their conservation efforts.
The Thorofare region of Yellowstone NP and the Bridger-Teton National Forest has long been advertised as the most remote spot in the lower 48. It may or may not be true. I guess it really doesn't matter. The main fact is that its remoteness does not equate to solitude. Hunting is not the only big draw to the Thorofare. The early season fishing, when the Cutthroat trout migrate up the Yellowstone River to spawn, also brings in the 'crowds' of outfitter traffic. This may even cause more trail damage since the trails are often wet from snow melt at that time of year. So if its solitude you want stay away from there in June as well as October.
If you still want to access the Thorofare, do it from Yellowstone Park. You will have a much different experience on the trip in. Horse traffic is still the primary mode of travel however it is more regulated. During a week spent traveling up the Yellowstone from Yellowstone Lake my wife and I saw only two mounted parties, one was an outfitter and the other was a park ranger. We saw no hikers. The Park Service designates camp sites as hiker camp sites or horse camp sites and we found the hiker sites to be almost unused. One day the only other tracks on the trail were fresh griz tracks. If you choose to go east from the Yellowstone valley up some of the side trails into the Absaroka Mtns there is even less use. You won't find the overuse until you leave the park at the southern extent of the Yellowstone River. The only drawback to this approach is the long, kind of boring, 20 mile approach along the east shore of Yellowstone Lake. My wife and I took a canoe up the lake which was a great trip in of itself.
Back in the 70's I was a backcountry ranger for the forest service. I was mounted. I've spent most of my backpacking time since then trying to avoid those places where there is a lot of horse traffic. I have nothing against horse people. There are good ones and bad ones, just as there are backpackers who don't practice LNT principles. The fact is that horses have more impact on the environment. In the Rocky Mountain West horse use is part of the heritage and that isn't going to change. It is easy enough to plan routes where the horses don't go so if you want solitude don't go into areas where the horses go and certainly don't go into famous hunting areas during hunting season.
One of the comments above mentions that hunting groups and outfitter groups are also wilderness advocates. I agree with that however, they are also a force that is lobbying to open up the hunting of wolves in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. I don't have anything against hunting for food however as far as wolves go, I don't think anyone eats them. Hunting just as an act of killing something doesn't agree with me.
I am curious how Mark Jenkins defines "the most remote spot in the Lower 48." Where he went is certainly not the place farthest from the nearest road. I suspect that location may lie within the big wildernesses of northern ID or MT, or perhaps even in the Grand Canyon. It is also certainly not the point farthest from the nearest trail, since he was on a trail, and he is unlikely to get more than five miles from the nearest trail in that area. It is also not the place that requires the longest walk from a trailhead. There are also certainly places he could have gone where his chances of meeting someone are even less, and places that are farther from where anyone else has ever stood, such as on the walls of the Grand Canyon. I have heard elsewhere that the most remote place in the Lower 48 is in Yellowstone, but never with documentation. It would be great if someone could provide that.
On another note, the impact of hunters on horseback, or horseback riders in general, in wild areas is directly related to the management policies of the agency that manages them. It is hard to blame hunters if the Park or nearby National Forests allow hunters on horseback in large groups, allow them to cross fragile meadows, don't provide enough leave-no-trace education, and don't give high enough priority to hiring backcountry rangers to enforce the rules and provide on-the-spot wilderness education.
I often run into hunters in the Oregon and Washington Cascades and have been in the Wind River Range in Wyoming in September when I came across hunters. Most of have been just like anyone else...nice folks.
As for stereotypes of hunters, I think the writer is correct when he describes clients on guided hunts. I've seen them myself. They are often wearing brand new politically correct outfits, are overweight, and according to a guide I know locally, many expect their trip to be like a 4-star hotel and they have no clue how to field dress an animal nor how to take care of themselves in inclement weather. They're often very good at drinking.
And I learned a long time ago that if you're on a major horse highway you're on the wrong trail. Also, people on horseback pioneered or improved many of the trails we all use and, at least here in Oregon, many horse people get out in the spring with their crosscut saws and axes to clear blow-down.
Oh, and when you encounter horses on the trail I believe the thing to do is to move off the trail to the downside of the trail if there is downhill that's not too steep for safety.
Lest we forget who paid for the reintroduction of wolves, is still bearing the costs and pays the largest majority of wildlife conservation... I also noticed that groups like Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and Mule Deer Foundation are not on your lists of groups to support. They too support preservation of land for wildlife propogation, and not just for hunting purposes. Through purchase and conservation easements, they set aside land for wintering grounds, calving grounds, and yes, in some cases, even hunting.
Well said, J Miller.
I'm both a backpacker and a hunter and I find it amusing to an extent on the back and forth jabs.
Could this article have anymore stereotypes about hunters?
When the suburban hiker/backpacker finally ponies up the money and supports wildlife like hunters do THEN they can grip.
Hunters and Ranchers are the true environmentalists.
"Remote" isn't just being the farthest from a road or human habitation. I did a survey on "Summit Post.com" and the two places that won the "remote" award were not even close to Yellowstone National Park. Number one on climbers and backpackers list was the Picket Range in North Cascade National Park. Specifically Mt Luna in the heart of the range. Number two was in Canyonlands National Monument. What both sites have in common is a lack of humans. Getting to either of the two locations takes time and inflicts its share of pain on he who ventures there. Although both places offer very different environments they hold in common a real threat of danger reaching them. Reaching the Pickets requires bushwacking, river crossings, glacier travel, ice climbing and rock climbing skills in a weather environment which can go from sunny 80 degree temps to snowing and 35 degrees within two hours.
Canyonlands is approached mainly by river running the Green and Colorado River System. Then backpacking up canyons with little water and either extreme high temperatures over 100 degrees or cold temps in the 30's.
No! Yellowstone may have the farthest point to hike to from civilization, but it "taint" the most remote spot in the Lower 48!!!!!!!!
Wonderful article. The feeling of being at the most remote spot in the lower 48 must truly be inspirational. However, the discussion along the trek about the "nature" of "wilderness" is what makes the article so noteworthy. I think what we're dealing with here (and I find this every time I discuss "wilderness" with anyone) is conservation vs. preservation, and the lines that blur between the two and also between conservation and unchecked overuse/abuse. What a catch-22 we are all in as lovers of the wild. I am unquestionably guilty of wanting the entire length of my hike to myself...therefore, I cannot scold others for their desires to enjoy the land in their own way. For me, it comes down to a question of sustainability and respect for nature, however you choose to enjoy it...and as always, keeping the over-indulging characteristics of our society in check. Shame on anyone who would hunt an animal simply for a wall mount. To leave an animal to rot while taking home its rack is as bad as slaughtering a cow to mount the hooves. And shame too, on anyone who scolds a man who responsibly hunts and eats what he kills.
Everyone has their own sense of "wilderness"...its up to all of us to realize that there is nothing stopping us from completely destroying it except ourselves.
You might want to thank those outfitters and "wranglers" you demonize in the backcountry for paying for the conservation of the land they love more than life.. Sure there are a few bad apples but i've met a bad apple or too with a high tech backpack as well... One trip into a place you have never been and you are an expert on the subject. Spend three years there and tell me what you learn.. You might find yourself insignifigant and lonely.. That's how anyone feels back there.. Be carefull who you judge.. You are no different than those "dudes".. They are searching for adventure same as you except they just happen not to be walking.. Build yourself a "walking" trail if you don't want to get muddy next time..


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52-year-old Barry Church And 23-year-old Carmen Wright of Philadelphia are the innocent victims of Trenton, New Jersey's latest gun violence.
"It's a mother's worst nightmare," says Ruth Wright, Carmen's mother.
Ruth Wright's nightmare unfolded just after 11 p.m. on Saturday night while her daughter Carmen was visiting her 22-year-old cousin.
Police say a Chevy Blazer flipped over after slamming into two parked cars, it then plowed into Wright and her cousin as they were crossing East State Street.
Police found the driver, 22-year-old Hassan Allen, inside with a gunshot wound to the neck.
Carmen's mother urges any shooting witnesses to break the cycle of silence.
"I'm begging you to come forward. Its a mothers worst night mare," pleads Ruth. "If you have any heart or conscience."
Just three blocks up from the crash, bullet shells litter the 1100 block of State Street. That's where 52-year-old Barry Church was found shot to death. Police say he was enjoying the evening on the steps of this house.
"It's heartache. It's pain. I'm sick and tired of this violence," says Rooney Morris.
As firefighters tried to wash away the remnants of the violent night that left two people dead and two cousins in the hospital, the families' of the three innocent victims are now left to deal with heartache and the emotional aftermath of gun violence.
"I'm still feeling like he's still outside maybe visiting his brother or friend or something," says Joann Morris, Barry's girlfriend.
"He meant a lot to me. Meant a lot to me. Didn't realize how much until he's gone," says Rooney.
"It's not her time. she's got work to do..." says Carmen's older sister.
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