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Love the drums in this one, Tim!
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Hi Tim, purchased Energy Unleashed and in listening on a decent sound system the opening kick drum and drums break builds and use in between stanzas generally overwhelms the underscore feel. Is it possible to do a mix with these elements set back or omitted? Hope you can assist? Thanks, Ivan. email: email@example.com


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Clanfield conceded twice in the last six minutes to lose 2-1 at home to Tuffley Rovers in Uhlsport Hellenic League Division 1 West.
All the action came late on, with Jack Allan opening the scoring for the hosts in the 75th minute.
But Clanfield were unable to close the gap on the top three as they stumbled late on.
Tuffley equalised through a Shayne Bradley penalty in the 84th minute and Junior Mbika grabbed the winner a minute from time.
In Division 2 West, Old Woodstock Town crashed to an 8-0 defeat at Cirencester Town Development.
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Germany's strange, misguided obsession with the Native American
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Thanks to a small problem in data formatting, the US Selective Service System recently sent notices to more than 14,000 Pennsylvania men who were most likely eligible for military service... during World War I. The error came thanks to a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) clerk's failure to include the century when exporting data from a drivers' license database for transfer to the Selective Service.
According to an Associated Press report, the error wasn't caught because the Selective Service System's database only uses two-digit codes for birth years—so records from men born between 1893 and 1897 were flagged by the system as being from 1993 to 1997. As a result, men born over 117 years ago received notices that they would face imprisonment and fines if they did not immediately register for the draft.
PennDOT spokesperson Jan McKnight told the AP, "We made a mistake, a quite serious selection error."
In this video shot at Le Parc de Balzac in Angers, France, French juggler Lindzee Poi once again performs some impressive optical tricks with four rings. This time out he does so with his eyes covered for added difficulty.
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Buried Face Down
by DURGA CHEW-BOSE
dir. Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines
120 minutes
"You need a half-a-cup of white sugar and half-a-cup of brown," instructs Mrs. Hartling, Southside High School's Home Economics teacher. In Seventeen, the documentary by Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines, Mrs. Hartling's class is in the final lap of their senior year. They are loud and unimpressed, near delirious. Sitting on a counter, one boy casually beats batter with one hand while resting his head on the other. Another student, Lynn Massie, is taking a nap. When questioned about skipping class, one girl quips, "So?" Her parting shot, "Kiss my ass."
The year is 1982. The town is Muncie, Indiana. And the kitchen classroom, like Mrs. Hartling's shrill and grinding voice, her tunic apron and Estelle Getty glasses, is a time capsule dressed in blue checkerboard curtains, fluorescent lights, plywood cupboards, and beige stoves. Today, pie: "Never re-roll a pie crust! Ever!" Tomorrow, citizenship, and "how to be a good person, to be honest."
Conceived and produced by Peter Davis for PBS, Middletown was a six-part television documentary inspired by the sociological studies of Robert and Helen Lynd, Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture (1929) and Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts (1937). Divided into categories — religion, work, politics, play, marriage, and education — the series is a close and critical meditation on everyday working class American life in the early 1980s.
Reminiscent of Robert Drew and D.A. Pennebaker, Middletown is a slow moving train, slackening its pace in Muncie. Happenings, whatever they may be, are coeval. The mayoral election no more important than the pizza parlor facing foreclosure or a couple's second go at love.
But Seventeen, the sixth in the series, never made it to television. Scheduled to air nearly thirty years ago on April 28th, 1982, the film was deemed too controversial and ran into what Davis calls, "an institutional buzzsaw." While it eventually went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, hailed as "without a doubt one of the greatest movies, perhaps the greatest, about teenage life ever made," PBS's decision to cut it from the series resembles an adult dismissing his or her adolescent years. A shame, because more so than revolt or hotheaded choices, a "me too" moment in high school is closest to windfall.
Teenagers being teenagers, the plenary account — smoking pot, "getting good and drunk," merrily swearing, giving birth while the baby's father is at "the Boy's Club playing basketball," being angry and scrappy and rude, partying and getting sad, reading "dirty books" out loud in the library, disrespecting teachers, crudely talking about sex — was simply too hot for TV. Like the girl in Mrs. Hartling's class, whose duelling "So?" is nasty but also bankrupt and idle, Seventeen is a portrait of what it is to be young, pivoting from stitch to sweet spot, stitch to sweet spot.
Perhaps most decisive was the subject of interracial dating: "White girls don't mess with black guys but we swallow our pride for you guys because we care for you guys," Tink and Massie inform their dates at the fair. When a cross is burned on Lynn parents' lawn, she challenges the taboo and continues to see John. Harassing phone calls result; threats are made — parent to classmate, classmate to classmate. "My mom carries a gun and she ain't afraid to use it. Neither am I," Lynn barks into the receiver.
In his 1985 review of the film, Vincent Canby likened Lynn to Belle Starr. One, a high school senior with Kristy McNichol hair, nervy swagger, and a slight squawk when she yells. The other, a 19th century Oklahoma outlaw. While the comparison is dreamy, it does appreciate the fugitive quality of adolescence, that roaming fidget and fixed urge to not give a damn. "Get me the hell outta here," Lynn mumbles in monotone one day. She's referring to Muncie. But without much of a plan, the here is more immediate: that day, that week, her house, a dip in her after school plans, her bad mood. Lynn's solution? "Gonna get bombed outta my head."
Although those rarely seen on screen bits are true (and do wonder what would happen if Albert Maysles, Larry Clark and Joey Jeremiah were to toss around a few ideas), Seventeen does enjoy the airier side of high school: the boys, the girls, the feelings, the prom, the epistolary mechanics of it all. In one scene, Lynn, who emerges as one of the Seventeen's main faces, sits in her car with her girlfriend and reads a note from a boy. She's already read it, chances are more than once, and skips over words feverishly only to jump back and enjoy them for what feels like the first time. As if running her eyes up and down a BINGO card, anticipating a win, she holds the crumpled piece of paper breathlessly. Moments later, dulled by after school boredom, Lynn coolly admits to cheating on him multiple times. She chucks his note on the dashboard and smiles, "I went out on him all the time." The girls laugh, roll down the windows, turn up the radio, and sing off-tune.
At the championship basketball game, angst fades and the gym's yellow lights, the pompoms, the players, all burnish the crowd's faces with what PBS originally had in mind. A row of high school seniors watching their last basketball game is a conceit often used in movies because it's so easy to pretend the entire world exists in those minutes. Even Lynn lets loose a keenness she would never reveal to her teachers or parents.
Later that week Lynn invites everyone over for a party. Her parents, Jim and Shari, are present but not as chaperones. They drink with her friends, even making breakfast late into the night, drunkenly frying eggs and flipping pancakes. One boy chews on a piece of bacon, catching it before it falls out of his mouth. He can barely stand up. Nearby, an off-duty soldier shares his story about being "15 or 20 miles from the warzone," as a crowd hangs on his every word. The Four Tops, "Reach Out I'll Be There," plays.
The house is chaotic but grows drowsy, and gets at why this, the documentary, is the best way to portray a teenager. Those moments on the weekend when the party starts to die down and boys get hungry and girls are told not to be shy, and unfailingly, someone is trying to revive the affair with music or booze, is specific to that time in life because later on, though the same nights recur over and over, "passing the time" is no longer a valid activity. Even the expression expires.
In the film's most moving scene, a group gathers in a bedroom listening to the radio. Their friend, Church Mouse, has just died in a car accident and they've dedicated a song to him at the local station. "Crank it!" one boy shouts as Bob Seger's "Against the Wind" begins. It plays in its entirety. The lyrics resonate sincerely — a perfect send-off. You realize early on that nobody will cry, and briefly, you half expect the friends to grow up before your very eyes. Never have you seen them so thoughtful at school. As the song fades, so do those sober minutes. Somebody mentions how Church Mouse was buried in his tennis shoes. He pauses and continues, "I wanna be buried face down so the world can kiss my ass." And just like that, the kids are back. Gloriously so.
Durga Chew-Bose is the senior editor of This Recording. She is a writer living in Brooklyn. She last wrote in these pages about Rachel McAdams. She tumbls here and twitters here. You can find an archive of her writing on This Recording here.
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'Landed' by Ian Strange
You may have heard that a skeleton was found at the Transbay Terminal construction site, 60 feet down. "The agency said its archaeologists worked in coordination with the San Francisco coroner's office and determined that the remains are of Native American descent." 60 feet down is pretty old, especially when you consider that in the 1840s when Yerba Buena started booming, First Street once bordered the water.
How old? Well, in 1969, construction workers digging out BART found a skeleton 75 feet below Civic Center. Turns out it was nearly 5000 years old.
The top half of the skeleton was lost during construction, but from the remaining half archaeologists determined that it was a 24-26 year old female who may have drowned in a creek. @davely was kind enough to scan an 1972 article from California Geology journal which had this diagram:
I took the liberty of redrawing the diagram in color, and stretching the vertical axis for clarity.
Archaeologists found both fresh and salt-water plant matter attached to the skeleton, indicating that our friend may have died in a creek or a marsh near the shore. She was found 26 feet below current sea level, which implies that sea level 5000 years ago was around that level.
San Francisco Bay as we know it is relatively new — as the ice age ended, sea levels rose dramatically. 18,000 years ago, to get to the beach you would need to take the N-Judah or the K past the Farallons, which were once hills by the sea. The Bay was a valley with a river running through it, and the Golden Gate was a waterfall.
"You could have stood on the headlands above the Golden Gate and watched the mighty flow of the river as it poured through the valley, tumbling over great cascades or waterfalls."
Doris Sloan, Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region
San Francisco would have been Walnut Creek.
But as the waters rose the Farallons were cut off.
map via Late Pleistocene to Holocene History of San Francisco Bay, Prof. Lynn Ingram, UC Berkeley
These once were hills, separated only by sand dunes.
Around 10,000 years ago, the sea breeched the Golden Gate and continued to rise rapidly, filling the valley we now know as San Francisco Bay. There must have been settlements by the water — imagine each generation having to pull back, each high tide greater than the last.
In 1818, a Spanish missionary recorded some of the oral traditions of the Ohlone and neighboring tribes. One story went like this:
"What is now the port of San Francisco was formerly according to the tradition of the old ones an oak grove, and without water other than of a river that crossed at its foot, and in evidence of this tradition, they say you still find in the port and marsh, trunks and roots of oak trees."
However, no known archeological site in central California appears much older than 5,000 years… One way to approach this problem is to assume that traces of the earliest central Californians have been covered by the rising sea. Given the rapidity of changes in sea levels and shorelines 5,000-10,000 years ago, sites of habitation located at that time along the shores of estuaries must now lie beneath mud and tidal water.
He asks:
How old, then, is the aboriginal tradition recorded by Mariano Payeras? If originated by people who actually saw the site of the Bay before widespread submergence, this tradition must be nearly 10,000 years old. Such antiquity, though improbable, cannot be ruled out.
Perhaps one day 10,000 years from now, archaeologists will find and decode flash memory that will reveal this map.
(Hi future archaeologists! Hope you extended BART and still have burritos.)
Paul de Vivie (1853 - 1930), nom de plume Vélocio, devised a code for the wise cyclist:
1. Keep your stops short and few.
2. Eat before you're hungry, drink before you're thirsty.
3. Never get too tired to eat or sleep.
4. Add a layer before you're cold, take one off before you're hot.
5. Lay off wine, meat and tobacco on tour.
6. Ride within yourself, especially in the first hour.
7. Never show off.
Coronado High by Joshuah Bearman
Before anyone had heard of the Mexican cartels and the Colombian kingpins, there was a group of Cali surfers, friends who discovered weed in the '60s and—in a fit of stoner inspiration—figured out how to smuggle in the best, most potent stuff on earth. Over a decade, they built an empire that made hundreds of millions, while laughing at the war on drugs. Joshuah Bearman, the writer who brought you 'Argo,' tells the whole true story
Timeless visual exorcism of our greatest moral shortcomings, bridging antiquity and today.
Predating both Arabian Nights and the Grimm fairy tales by centuries, the fables of Aesop, an ancient Greek slave and storyteller who lived between 620 and 560 BCE, endure as some of humanity's most influential narratives. "He made use of humble incidents to teach great truths," wrote the Greek philosopher Philostratus of Aesop, and indeed these fables explore the most complex facets of human morality and its failings — deceit, greed, vanity, impatience, egotism, cowardice — through seemingly simple stories featuring animal protagonists. The fables themselves weren't recorded in writing during Aesop's lifetime and how exactly they made their way from ancient Greece to world domination remains uncertain. Though the core morality tales have endured over the centuries, the stories have been retold and reimagined over and over, and among the most magical aspects of their constant reinvention has been the art that has accompanied them.
There is hardly a more wonderful, or better-matched, visual take on the tales than that by Alice and Martin Provensen, whose gift for translating history's greatest storytelling into visual magic spans from Homer to classic fairy tales to William Blake.
In 1965, nearly a decade after their adaptation of the Iliad and Odyssey, they illustrated Louis Untermeyer's version of Aesop's Fables (public library) — sadly, another ghost from the cemetery of out-of-print gems, but one summoned back to life here for a new round of admiration and appreciation, thanks to my own surviving copy of the magnificent tome and some generous friends' large-format scanner. From The Boy Who Cried Wolf to The Fox and the Grapes to The Tortoise and the Hare to The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs, these familiar, beloved tales shine with uncommon warmth and wisdom under the Provensens' vibrant touch and expressive elegance.
Aesop's Fables is sublime in its entirety, and the few remaining copies still findable online and off are very much worth the scavenger hunt.
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Tech evangelist Robert Scoble is a lot of things to a lot of people.
The prolific blogger, tweeter and speaker has over half a million followers on Facebook, is in a massive 4.1 million circles on Google+, and has another 350,000 followers on Twitter. He carries three phones and wears two motion-sensing wristbands. He's written one book on social media, and is publishing a second on wearable technology and ubiquitous information shortly. He's the chief Glasshole, a former Microsoftie, and current startup liason officer for Rackspace. He probably meets more startups and founders of companies both giant and tiny than anyone else. His first act of evangelism was to get Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak to donate $40,000 worth of Macs to his college in 1989.
And he's got a pretty good view of what's happening to Apple, Google, and the entire mobile industry.
That mobile industry is currently undergoing massive change.
From slow and ugly beginnings six years ago, Android has risen to surpass Apple's iPhone and capture 80 percent global market share. Phones have long been won by Android, but Apple's iPad was recently still the king of the tablets, until iPad's market share was chopped in half. And while critics argue that the high end of the market — and the only end that matters — is still Apple's, others are saying that this is just Macs vs PCs all over again.
All of which has led to Apple's board finally waking up and telling Tim Cook to speed up.
Scoble was once first in line for the Apple iPhone, but he's now using Moto X and Samsung Android-based smartphones. I met him at the Grow Conference in Vancouver last week and talked to him about tech, Apple, Google, iPhone, Android, and everything in between.
VentureBeat: Global iPhone share is way down. Does iPhone still matter?
Scoble: iPhone is still dramatically important. If I was doing a startup company for mobile, I would still do iPhone first. But even among San Francisco cool kids, Android is growing.
It used to be the case that Apple was the only brand for the tech passionates. Now, partly because of screen sizes, openness, and choice, Android is growing.
But a lot of people forget about the stores – even me, when I started saying that Apple is going to struggle. Apple has hundreds of stores around the world that are beautiful, and they have a distribution system, and a staff of 40 or 50 people that will help you.
That's significant.
As long as Apple stays "up" enough, I think most people won't switch off of Apple. But there are lots of people in the world who can't afford Apple. The new Firefox phone is now $30 in Spain, with a subsidy. I understand why they're selling.
I happen to be fortunate: I live in San Francisco, and I can afford a $600 phone. Or two of them!
VentureBeat: You're using Android mostly, but you also have a Nokia. What do you think about Windows Phone?
Scoble: I hate Windows Phone.
I don't like the utility of it, and there's no way to change that. They force you to take their look, and you can't skin it, can't change it. Right now it's reminding me about birthdays every day – there's a lot of ugliness. [Scoble has 5,000 friends -- the maximum -- on Facebook.]
More importantly, it's Windows and the app ecosystem isn't there. The cool kids aren't using it, and until the cool kids start using it, I don't believe in it. And the app developers don't put the love into it. The best developers are going to dream about doing something cool and putting it on iPhone because that's where the money is.
This is what Steve Jobs understood:
Brands are defined not by the best thing on the product, but by the worst thing. He always asked me to look at the back of the product, the back of the iMac, saying "look at how beautiful the back is." Very few people understand that you're defined by the thing that you can't see.
Android's not there either – sometimes I try to make a call and it just doesn't work. I can't get my wife off of iPhone: iPhone works … it's clean and it's beautiful and it doesn't bite you.
For me it's not as exciting or innovative on the top end, but the bottom end is higher.
Microsoft has 16 billion-dollar businesses. When you think about that, it's mind-blowing, right? But they're boring! Now the iPhone team alone is bigger than Microsoft, and Windows Phone has four percent market share.
How the world has changed!
VentureBeat: Apple CEO Tim Cook has started to take some heat recently. Talk to me about that.
Scoble: I think he has two problems.
First, let's be honest, Steve Jobs pushed that company hard. Really hard.
My next-door neighbor was on the first iPhone team, and he told me he almost killed himself working for Steve Jobs because he demands so much from you. He did not take substandard performance, and he would keep you up, and he would call you on a Sunday when you're having family time … and essentially randomize your whole life.
And he was 'god,' and when he did that, it was 'god' calling!
So having the company relax a bit and sort of cruise after that's gone is sort of understandable. Now you have to get the company back in hard core mode, but some of the talent has left. They're starting up a startup, or left for Flipboard, or working for Facebook. They've lost some of their intellectual capital and they have to replace that and go out and recruit the new hottest kids.
But the second issue is Tim.
Tim just doesn't hit me as a guy who's excited about the future. (Ballmer is the same way, or even worse.) For Tim Cook … I just don't know that he'd be talking to me about Google Glass and excited by that, if he wasn't at Apple.
He just doesn't come across like he's a product guy who's trying to cut through the forest in a new way.
Steve had that innate sense of what would make an interesting product, and even when he bashed something … like he would say nobody is going to watch a video on an iPhone, he did it in a way that made you feel like he's sort of right, the screen sort of does suck, and the battery life sort of does suck, but I do want to watch on my iPhone, and I could see how he could fix that.
He still kept your belief that he knew where the future was going. Tim hasn't yet had that connection, that sense.
To be fair to Tim, he hasn't built the Apple II and Pixar and Next. He's a supply chain guy who built an organizational dynamic.
But he needs to change that belief in us, that he can be the guy who can discern where the future's going.
VentureBeat: Can he be that guy?
Scoble: I don't think so. I don't think people can be taught in a year or two to be that guy.
The next question is, is there someone inside Apple who can be that guy or girl? Someone who can become the product person that we have that relationship with that we see as running Apple and bringing that innovation out.
There are a few people there who are candidates, but we haven't seen that engine kick over.
I've had lunch with Google cofounders Larry and Sergey, and they talk about products, and they make me believe they really understand – and they care, and they understand where the future's going.
For example, they can have a really long argument about what we just got put on our wrist [a sleep and energy monitoring health bracelet]. Is that going to be successful? They could have a real in-depth conversation about the future, but Tim just doesn't come across like he's all that futuristic. So it makes the company boring.
VentureBeat: What does that mean for Apple?
Scoble: The thing that we're bitching about is: Is Apple Apple, or is Apple Microsoft?
It's OK, I guess, to be a Microsoft and to be a highly-profitable money-generating machine … but it's not what Apple is. We grew up seeing Apple doing something new and different.
Let's put it this way: Tim is going to run one of the most important companies ever. I don't see how he's going to lose profits or even market share that much.
But Woz and Jobs introduced a new product to the world — sort of like this Google Glass — and made it work, and made an ecosystem and a new business happen that no one else saw, and we miss that in Apple. We want Apple to see a new product that's not obvious and keep surprising us, and keep coming out every three or four or five years and really doing something like 'whoa, I didn't expect that … and I want it.'
VentureBeat: What about iWatch?
An iWatch prototype
Scoble: Now even "normal" people are wearing more devices like Nike's Fuelband, Fitbits, or Jawbone Up. It's now acceptable in the normal world to wear something smart on your wrist.
Soon, Apple's coming out with iWatch, apparently.
Even if it's next year, it's going to be geek jewelry, and normal people are going to want it because it's probably going to be very beautiful looking, and it will be a new thing to show off, and I now have a new display for my mobile phone.
It probably will have a sensor to study how active you are, and play some health games with you — or a new kind of wrist-action Angry Birds or something [laughing] … maybe a little Ping Pong game. If you have a display that goes all the way around your wrist and you have a 3-axis sensor, you can think about all sorts of new little video games you can put on there.
Pebble's doing some of the R&D in this space, but let's be honest, Apple has a brand and distribution and the best supply chain in the world.
VentureBeat: Apple is taking a long time to come out with new iPhone models, cheaper models. Why?
Scoble: Steve put some DNA into that company.
He liked to keep the number of products down. It's easy to explain, and it's clean, and it's beautiful. When you go to the Apple store and they announce a new model, there's one phone, and one poster on the wall, and one line, and you don't have to think about do I get this phone or that phone [laughing].
Meanwhile, on Android you have to think about it. Do I want one with this screen, or that screen, a super-big screen, a huge camera, do I want this brand, do I want LTE? There are so many choices.
VentureBeat: You're wearing Google Glass, you curate news for Glassholes. What do you think is the future of Glass?
Scoble: Google Glass has 600,000 times more computing power than the Apollo missions. Now it's 39 grams and on my face! In other words, you have a Cray supercomputer on your face, and it will cost $300.
This is the first consumer device that knows where I'm looking and where I'm aiming, and also the first that you're forced to talk to because it has no real keyboard, no real touchscreen. It's a very interesting product, and all the sensors are fully on, all the time. People at Google are starting to wear them with custom Warby Parker frames, the women are starting to wear them with cool-looking feminine frames, not these masculine ones.
I'm pretty excited about where Google's going – I think it will be a product that will stand up for decades as the launch of a new genre.
It's an Apple II — a product that takes us to a new place. And we thought Apple had a lock on that kind of innovation! It turns out that's not true – they're playing defense, and I've moved my world over to Google.
I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company — I'm in favor of anything that's best of breed.
Right now, this is best of breed.
Photograph by Roger Anis, El Shorouk/AP
British astronaut Tim Peake — who will be going to the International Space Station in 2015 on Expedition 46 — recently posted photos of a toolbox and is contents that will be taken aboard the ISS.
images via Tim Peake
Time goes by, and this sound becomes iconic, showing up in TV shows and movies, and becoming international short-hand for "you have a text message"…
This quest begins when Your Superior walks up to your desk anytime between 4:30 and 5:01 pm. He will ask you to print out eleven reports double-sided black and white, bind them in three-ring binders that have "those transparent slide-y things on the cover" and print out color cover sheets on card stock paper. There's a timer on this quest. You'll need to finish this by 2:45 pm the next day. AlI characters will tell you different times so you should record this in your Quest Journal for later reference.
Begin the quest by printing out the reports using the second-to-last version that was emailed to you last Wednesday. Using the latest version results in having to reprint pages 7 and 8 for all of the reports and you will be unable to complete the quest in time unless you have the Amulet of Convincing Computer Crashes. (If you have this equipped, use it when Your Superior incorrectly claims that the meeting starts at 2 pm.)
Once you have the reports printed, you'll need to access the three-ring binders. Unlike previous quests, which directed you to Storage Closet 3, you will need to access the locked Meeting Room Storage Closet A. Go to Human Resources and ask Sherryl first. She will tell you that she has the key to the meeting room but not the storage closet. Accept the offer to get the key to the meeting room and head back to the meeting room.
Once in the meeting room, try to open Storage Closet A just as Lawrence walks by. He will notice that you are trying to get into the closet and open it for you. If you take the red three-ring binders you will activate the Avoid 'Office Supplies Missing' Meeting side quest. The blue three-ring binders will give you +2 to Synergy and the black ones will give you +2 to Self-Direction. Choose whichever you are missing from your résumé.
Go back to your desk and put the three-ring binders in a desk drawer, otherwise Dave will steal one. When you attempt to print the color cover sheets you'll be presented with 25 arcane printer names. Only one printer, Fujitsiu Photocopier 3 (not hooked up to print via CUPS), has the card stock you need. You will have to solve the printer naming code puzzle in order to choose the correct printer with the card stock. Three wrong tries will result in getting a memo from IT and your printing access will be revoked.
The correct printer name is derived from the formula PRINTER BRAND/INK OPTIONS/OFFICE SECTION NUMBER/NAME OF PERSON THAT SET UP THE PRINTER – YEAR THEIR FAVORITE BASEBALL TEAM WON THE WORLD SERIES. You can find the office section number and the names of the various IT people that set up the printers on the wall of the server room in the basement. You should have found this in the Help Boss Use Outlook side quest.
If you are printing on the first day of the quest use FUJ-COL-3/KEVIN-93. If you're printing on the day that it is due, the copier will be out of order and you will have to print to your default printer and then walk all the way over to Fujitsiu Photocopier 3 and make a color copy on the correct paper stock.
Once you've completed the printing, you have to find the New Three-Hole Punch that used to be near the copy station. Go ask Anne if she saw who took it. She will tell you it is not her job to babysit the office supplies. At this point you have three dialogue options. If you reply with "EAT SHIT ANNE, I'VE HAD A LONG DAY," she will reveal a secret three-hole punch but you'll be required to pay an extra $30 for an expensive lunch during the Requisite Working Lunch Meeting quest. Selecting "Oh, okay, sorry." and then talking to Jordan two desks down will reveal the hole-punch. Selecting "I'm sorry, I just thought you'd be a decent human being and help me out" will cause the break room to run out of K-cups during the boss fight.
(Note: Anne is susceptible to pleading attacks. If you cast level 6 ignorance she will usually give you a hint for the quest, but this will reduce future dialogue options unless you have the Cloak of Small Talk.)
Return the key to Sherryl by placing it on her desk while she's at lunch. Otherwise, she will ask what you are doing this weekend and you will have to play the Weekend Work Social Obligations side quest which will cost you $60 and force you to attend a baby shower on a Saturday morning. (This will decrease your charisma by 3.)
Play the Assemble the Reports mini-game. If you get more than 5 paper cuts you will bleed on the reports, lose the game and have to start over. Complete the mini-game by 2:45 and bring the reports to Conference Room A. There you will find Your Superior who will tell you that the meeting has moved upstairs to Conference Room C but no one knows the room has changed. Make two signs for the room change and make sure to put the second one on the back door that attaches to the administrative office suite or The Boss will blame you for missing the meeting.
After making the signs bring the reports to Conference Room C. Make sure to avoid Dave by walking by his desk while he's looking at porn. If Dave catches you he will shoot you with a Nerf gun and your wisdom will drop by 2 points for the next half hour, raising your probability of repeating what someone else has already said in the meeting. When you get to Conference Room C sit in one of the seats along the wall. If you downloaded the Zynga DLC you can play Words With Friends while the meeting takes place.
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Marla Streb: scientist, classical pianist, downhill racer, cross-country racer, all-around bad ass and now...in the Mountain Biking Hall of Fame.
By Sal Ruibal
One of the great things about mountain biking is that you can talk about the "good ol' old days" and they happened just a few years ago. The hardtail mountain bike is a time machine that's stuck on 1991. The dinosaurs still walk among us.
The men and women who first discovered that fire could weld metal tubes into a gizmo that would take you to places both physical and metaphysical might live down your street, if you live in Santa Rosa or Marin. I can go to East Coast races and see Gunnar Shogren and wife Betsy still ripping away wins from kids just out of college.
Beneath all of that is the ethos of constant progression. Who would have thought that 26-inch wheels would be extinct before Ned Overend?
But I come not to praise the past, but to honor the present. Today's present was seeing an email from the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame that said my friend Marla Streb was selected to the 2014 Hall of Fame. Marla has won races that go up, races that go down, races that get lost in jungles and emerge on the gritty streets of Baltimore.
Kids can tell her kids that, "Yo Mamma manuals like a monkey on marshmallows." I've seen Marla Streb get hit by a car, roll over onto the street, change the bent wheel and proceed to ride into my local woods and come out 20 minutes later with 30 people I've never met riding behind her.
Yes, she has a closet full of medals and championship jerseys and yadda-yadda-yadda.
This photo originally appeared in Outside Magazine. A whole lot of people bought that issue. That kind of explains itself...
Every year there is a new champion, but every year Marla is somewhere, somehow showing somebody how to ride a bike. She sailed to Costa Rica to show the Ticos how to build trails in the jungle for a mountain bike resort that will bring gringo dollars to their towns.
The craziest thing she ever did (that I know of) was to pose buck naked for a Yeti poster. Crazy like a foxy fox. I have a lot of bike posters, medals and memorabilia in my basement bike room, but the first thing anyone notices is the huge photo of a gorgeous woman with an amazing, athletic body flying on a mountain bike.
Who wouldn't want to ride with her?
Cross-country racing has gone stale. A bunch of skinny euros Frooming around on three-pound 29ers with 45 psi of helium in their tires.
Mountain biking needs more Marlas. Marla was freeriding when she thought she was just riding back to the house. She rides downhill like it was flat and like flat when it is uphill. She's a scientist (not like that meth lab guy) and a classical pianist.
So let me rejoice in the fact that my friend Marla is now a neighbor in the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame. Come up and see our two-dimensional selves in Crested Butte some time. She'll be the naked one.
This was the final shakedown run before the CT. Morgan and Mark drove to Mill Valley and rode up to Pantoll in the afternoon to assure we got a spot in the campground since it fills so quickly in the summer months. I worked until 6 and left directly from the shop. Hit the other side of the bridge and got out of the wind (which sucked majorly the whole damn way across the span). I decided that in the interest of time I'd take the road out to Tennessee Valley rd and then poach some fire road (it was cold and foggy, very little chance to piss someone off, which meets all my requirements for poaching a trail) along the coast out to Muir Beach to meet with Morgan and Mark.
Started up Coastal and immediately ran into the damn fog again. I did, however, get a nice view of TN Beach and Valley before my ascent into nothingness.
Pedaled for a while and saw more people than I thought I would so I chickened out of the poached route and headed up the legal version (which added some time and elevation…bummer). I forgot how disorienting fog can be. Riding up a trail I've ridden probably 10 times before was a completely different experience when I couldn't see more than 20 feet in any direction. Up a couple more hills, a couple more false summits, then down some steep fireroad and finally I arrived here:
Since it took me so long to get to this point, Morgan and Mark had made the decision to try and beat the impending darkness and headed up the mountain ahead of me. I grabbed some water from the hose at the Pelican Inn and headed off. I decided to take the safe route and avoid riding up HWY1 solo since it was getting dark and visibility was less than perfect. I rode into Muir Woods and hopped on a trail that will remain nameless due to it's less-than-legitimate nature. After riding into the darkness and back into the fog, I met up with Coastal Trail and made the turn up towards Pantoll.
Night riding always messes with my brain a bit. Starring into the tunnel of light 15 feet in front of my tire get's my mind doing weird things. I had not, however, experienced night riding in the fog…quite a different thing entirely. The tunnel of light is amplified by the fog and feels even more lonely. In the middle of going over this thought in my head and about twenty minutes into the climb, something jumped across the trail in front of my headlight beam, just close enough that I could clearly see that it was larger than a squirrel. Definitely startled the hell out of me and my mind went immediately to "holy shit, that was probably a mountain lion." After 30 seconds of internal argument over the real-world chances of this ACTUALLY being a mountain lion, I decided that it was indeed NOT a mountain lion and that I was being an idiot and that I should just get the hell back to riding my bike and get to camp. I believe the main motivator was the pint of bourbon in my seat pack, but I can't be sure. Long story short, I made it to camp, boiled some water, ate some ramen/potato/bacon concoction, and drank some whiskey. Tarps were pitched, sleeping bags were weaseled into, slumber was enjoyed by all.
Next morning I was up before, what seemed like at least, anyone else in the entire camp. I made some coffee and wandered around a bit.
While enjoying some delicious (read: not that delicious, but convenient and packable) Foldgers coffee crystals I noticed a flock of these assholes roaming about:
I watched them make a meal out of our neighbors groceries and contemplated shooing them away. I decided that if you were dumb enough to leave your food out overnight when there is a food locker NEXT TO YOU PICNIC TABLE you probably deserve to have your shit ransacked by winged assholes. Anyways, ate breakfast, loaded the bikes, and rolled.
Hit Coastal on the way down and ran smack into the middle of a trail running race.
Why these folks were running down Coastal and not Dipsea was confusing. But nevertheless we gave our brakes a nice workout and kept speeds close to running pace so as not to piss anyone off.
Hit HWY1 at the bottom of the trail and cruised towards a fun little cutoff into Muir Beach to avoid to descent on 1 which was socked in with fog, not that it's ever really a safe place to ride a bike. Plus, when given the option of dirt or pavement, one should always choose dirt.
We met a rather unfriendly fellow along the way who told us we were ruining his town or something. It always seems like the people who yell at cyclists are the ones who need to ride a bike the most: fat, lazy, and unhappy. Oh well, my day undoubtedly ruled a lot harder than his. Hit the bottom of Dias Ridge and spun our way back towards the inland.
Once the unpleasant climb was over we cruised through a few groups of very nice hikers and what looked like a group of college kids on a class outing. We decided to take a little offshoot and immediately got somewhat lost. Luckily there was a nice woman in trail running attire who was more than willing to point us in the right direction and give us a few tips on which trails were more fun than others. We parted ways as she waited for a running partner and we found the first of the singletracks she had mentioned. Down we went.
After minutes of discussing what that little circular sign actually meant we decided to turn left rather and straight. No reason to piss off anyone in Marin County right now with all the trail use legality bullshit they're going through. Through some trees, a good amount of easy hike-a-bike, and we were back to civilization (not that we were really ever out of it in the first place, but it sounds cool to say we were).
Burritos were purchased by Morgan as Mark and I figured a way to mount my Jones to the roof without a 135mm rack adapter…what we came up with was truly a work of genius. Combine the intelligence of a doctor with the practicality of bicycle mechanic and you get…
A haphazardly strapped and lashed bicycle on a roof rack. For what it's worth, it was solid a hell and didn't move an inch on the drive home.
Great, albeit quick, little trip. I always forget how awesome our backyard is here in the Bay Area. Thanks Morgan and Mark for an awesome time. Next up: Colorado Trail in two weeks. See ya there!
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Another bashing Toronto article. The fact is that Calgary is a primary producer town dominated with a dualistic third-world economy, dependent on oil and gas and agriculture for the majority of the province's production and wealth. Of course when you have the rents that Alberta has, you can afford to have low taxes, etc. Toronto cannot compete, if you were merely to look at tax rates, etc. However, Calgary will probably never attract major banks to the city because it is too far away from the financial centres of the N.E. United States--Chicago, NYC, Boston--and even Canada--Montreal. Calgary is just another Dubai, who thinks it can buy its way to prosperity, and to a certain extent it can, but to have a solid base you need much more than money.
Another thing, of course Calgary is going to have a higher rate of growth than Toronto, its starting from a much smaller base. So I don't see the relevance of the growth rates, its like comparing the growth of office in Boise, Idaho to NYC of course NYC is going to have a lower rate, let's not deceive the people.
The problem in Toronto is that since the reforms of the mid-1990s, Ontario and Toronto specifically has been paying much more in taxes than it get backs from the other levels of government. With the downloading of services on the city and to the citizens of the city, of course costs rise, quality declines, wages in real terms decrease, inequality increases and all the other. Calgary was able to avoid this fate because of the rents afforded by the natural resources it has. The other problem is that the growth of Calgary's oil economy is undermining the industrial base in the rest of the country, via a higher exchange rate--Dutch disease.
In my humble opinion, Toronto should be the future of Canadian society and Calgary its past, but the cunning of history plays again.
It is very easy to explain the success of Calgary. Calgary votes in Conservatives at all levels of government, which as a result makes it a city that supports free enterprise and has little government bureaucracy/regulation. As a result, Alberta has by far the lowest taxes in the country, which allows people to spend their own money instead of it being taken by the "nanny state" which spends your hard earned money for you. As a result, buisnesses love setting up in Calgary, and therefore makes all of its citizens prosperous, happy and free. Calgary also has a great location, right at the base of the Rocky Mountains, convenient to skiing. In contrast, Toronto constantly elects Liberals and Socialists who believe that they know what's best for everyone, so as a result, taxes are high, and the government reglations are ridiculous. Not suprisingly, Toronto is broke and whines and complains to the rest of the province and the country that it doesn't get it's "fair share" every year, and as a result, taxes keep climbing, making it even a less attractive place to live. Toronto deserves this, because Toronto would elect a dog if it was running for the Liberal party. At this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if Toronto resembled Detroit in twenty years, abandoned and completely broke.
This doesn't only apply to Canada, in the United States the best performing states are in the South, which elects Republicans. In contrast, most of the rest of the country votes in high tax, high spending Democrats and as a result, are stagnant or in decline. Hong Kong and Singapore have climbed out of poverty in the last 50 years, mainly due to embracing the free market and as a result, have a high rate of Economic Freedom. Europe on the other hand, is completely bankrupt due to its ridiculous public sector entitlements and Greece is just foreshadowing whats going to happen in the rest of Western Europe.
In conclusion, Calgary is an economic dynamo. The contrast will even become more striking in future years, when all of Toronto's big financial institutions (which keep Toronto afloat at the moment) will pack up and leave stagnant Ontario for free and prosperous Alberta.
I'm sorry, but I've lived in Calgary and am still a frequent visitor: this would never be my choice of a city to live in. In has refined suburban sprawl to an art-form and its downtown has all the vitality of the City Morgue. It's a great place if working and commuting are what turns you on, but to live?
The nicest place in the city?: that point on the airport runway where the wheels leave the ground.
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I grew up in Calgary, worked in oil and gas and embraced the laissez-faire purviews of government. This until the urban sprawl, reckless abandon for the environment and lack of innovation outside of oil extraction brought me to realize that there are few places in Calgary one can lead a career that isn't a derivative in some way, shape or form of scraping the bottom of the barrel. It is a shame that we Albertans over emphasize and pride ourselves on conservatism; void of meaningful policy debate, there is nothing left to discuss but whether the new Ford or Toyota truck has the better interior and which new suburban development has the nicest man-made lake.
It is time to wake up Alberta. The East has lost the momentum (trust me I just spent 3 years in Montreal) and Alberta has the opportunity to attract top talent from across Canada and abroad who will propel new industries to flourish. This won't happen unless Albertans embrace other political views and drop their staunch disapproval of all things Liberal. A more open Alberta would be for the good of the people and the future of the country.
Until such time I will be in Europe.
I side with those who portray Alberta as a geologically lucky place (oil and gas) rather than a society that can be valued in human capital terms.
Ontario gave the world the Blackberry and many other innovations; Alberta pumps out the same stuff as Saudi Arabia and the Niger Delta. And it has paid for its gaudy, energy-glomming lifestyle with one of the worst environmental disasters of the 21st century. In future history texts, the Tar Sands will rank alongside the Aral Sea and the deformed atomic babies of north Kazakhstan. (And yes, the tar sands pollution will cause similar birth defects when the concentrations reach sufficient levels.)
There are a hundred Albertas out there in the world – places where they just happened to find something in the ground that they could sell, then had a good run for awhile. Funny, though, how so many of them ended up as ghost towns.
Head offices moving to Calgary? I take The Economist's word on that, but head offices have been shrinking for some time as a source of employment. They can have as little as a few dozen people. And for every one that relocates to Calgary, ten others will consider the six-month winter and the "summers" that are so cold you can rarely wear a T-shirt, and decide to stay in Toronto.
As a Canadian, I have been lectured all my life about the "potential" of the great, open West. But it is Ontario that still gains the most population (too much for my taste). That must be indicative of something. Open spaces are often open for a reason: no one wants to live there because of the climate, or they just can't manage to get by. As The Economist has noted, global trends are for more and more of humanity to concentrate in a few urban super-agglomerations. The only potential one in the West is Vancouver.
By the way, regional booms are the stuff of Canadian myth. There's always one somewhere and the Toronto media loudly trumpets it, as if to reassure us that there will be one less region getting "equalization payments" from us. Newfoundland has its oil and gas, but its main export is still people. New Brunswick was going to lead the world in call centers. Nova Scotia wanted to be the next Silicon Valley. And then there is always good old British Columbia, like California living way beyond its means, but in this case on timber and condominium sales.
As for Quebec, it has more serious business leaders and innovation than all of the regions I just mentioned. But that should come as no surprise since it has a real culture, something which is indispensable to real development.
I personally feel the prairie provinces (as we call them) will see a leveling off of population, in no small part because the resource industries are so mechanized. In the long run I see an actual decline. Remember, even cattle ranching – the original Alberta boom – doesn't require all that many cowboys.
I was born in Toronto and lived 11 years in Calgary until I was 20. There's no comparison. People live in Toronto because it's a nice place to live. People live in Calgary because of the oil/gas industry. To Dave Canuck's comments I would add that it is way too cold and there are too many people like Bob1980 who think that its success is due to anything but oil/gas. As for the Toronto Star: when has it ever bemoaned anything else?
I am a young man in Toronto - and I look westward with longing.
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This is a beautiful article, thank you. Canada's capital markets remain in Eastern Canada. Following the Bre-X scandal, the former Vancouver Stock Exchange moved to the TSX Group as Canada's venture exchange. Montreal remains the center for derivatives and options trading. Given the physical location of Canada's capital markets, setting up shop in Calgary would make the 2700 Kilometrers appear as grotesque indifference on the part of the new securities commission.
Or perhaps as the power of politics shifts to the West, those responsible for such a decision regarding the securities commission are being swayed by the "eternal" Western Canadian belief that "if it's from Toronto, we must be able to improve on it," even if that removed by physical distance or direct experience.
The "chest thumping" is not unusual to Calgary or those Conservatives from the prairie. Toronto's gloom is more likely cyclical than ever lasting and something which traders of all stripes are likely to relate to as part of the market's process. Be it capital markets or the market for Provincial politics.
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Calgary is not likely to supplant Toronto in the near future in terms of the aggregate influence, simply because Toronto is so much more populous than Calgary, as pointed out in the article.
This does not mean, however, that Calgary cannot be more vibrant or more livable than Toronto. I expect that in the future, the comparisons between Toronto and Calgary are going to be a bit like comparing New York against cities in Texas or California. New York may have a bigger population, all the banks and more culture, but beneath this glittering surface would be the reality of an ugly city that has lost its middle-class and struggling with an ever-growing legions of urban poor; while for your average, middle-class citizens, cities out in the West offer so much more opportunities.
Why doesn't Canada use it's massive land to build an experimental "anti-Calgary" or "New Toronto" where the best concepts in city planning are applied? Given all these city comparisons (sprawl, culture, jobs, etc), why not take the best from each and create a totally new place to live? Instead, one has to decide between oil, skiing, cookie cutter houses versus culture, proximity to financial centers, car industry, and high rises. Maybe it is not possible to create a perfect city that suits all needs?
Sorry, but the cities I enjoy visiting most have evolved organically, over hundreds of years. Calgary is mostly an urban sprawl of tic-tac houses and big box shopping centers extending out to the horizon, and situated in the middle of nowhere. The only reason for moving there would be to find work. When that dries up, and it's happened a couple of times already, so goes the city. Unless they drastically re-model it, it will have no appeal, except to the Yee-Haa Giddy-Up Stampeder crowd.
My family homesteaded parts of what are now Calgary, and I have many friends and relatives who love and adore this city, perhaps as only a westerner can understand. Although it is beyond the conception of the liberal mercenaries who pass through, there are those of us spiritually and physically tied to this land, (GASP goes the liberal elite!). No Calgary is not a place one must live only to work, if you come here to do that, fine, make your money and leave- we welcome your freedom either way. And, no need to snicker "she just hasn't had the opportunity to travel, poor thing" I was educated in New York, worked in Washington DC, and lived in Los Angeles. Your roots are your roots.
Calgary simply is what it is, there are no pretenses necessary. Unlike Toronto, where the energy is about as lively as my grandmothers nursing home, we don't laughably market ourselves as Canada's "New York City".
What one can say with certainty (and cheerfulness), is that Calgary is one of the last bastions on earth to reject the nefarious nanny-state. The tidal wave of statism flooding North America, wrapped in this absurd notion of civic cosmopolitanism and the modern environmental movement, led by Obama's cult of personality.
Lastly just remember Ontario: "we make it, you take it". How pathetically, liberal.
Toronto's problems, and Ontario's for that matter, stem from our system of equalization payments. It's pretty tough to keep up with all the money being sucked out of Ontario. As someone else pointed out here, people live in Toronto because they want to. People live in Calgary because they have to. Most of the Atlantic Canadians who populate Alberta would move back in a heartbeat if they could find a job.
"Toronto is New York run by the Swiss." - Peter Ustinov
there's a joke when Americans get pissed about American politics, they would say "that's it, i am moving to Canada". When Canadians are pissed about Canadian politics, Canadians would say "that's it, i am moving to Europe".
I thought that was just a joke until i read your comment :D
I think some contributor's need to check where the money flows in our Canadian equalization system, Ontario has been a welfare recipient for the last 2 years - on top of all the other Federal bureaucracies $$$ being sucked out of the rest of Canada, & spent in Ottawa & Toronto.
As long as we have a healthy competition, it's going to benefit all of us overall in the long term. I am from Toronto, but it makes no sense to have Toronto (and Montreal) dominant in everything in Canada.
In a way, many of our industries in Canada are monopolized by one or a few companies (based in Toronto and Montreal), as a result, sometimes we end up paying much higher prices for service and products than our neighbor in the South. Therefore, it's good to have newly developed companies challenge the traditional dominant players here. eg. Air Canada is the dominant airline in Canada and their tickets are usually expensive compare to big American airlines, in recent years, Westjet from Calgary often have cheaper tickets than Air Canada.
In the mean time, Toronto can grow it's strength in many areas through more competition.
"Of the 20 biggest companies in Canada, ten are based in the Toronto area. But six are now in Calgary."
"Head offices moving to Calgary?"
It's not that they are moving physically to Calgary, those head offices were there all along, but grew into top 20 matterial only recently, pushing a Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver based head office company down to the 21st position. Although some did move physically, most were in Calgary all along.
So the money is shifting westwards, turning lesser company into top 20 material.
It would be incorrect to point to the possibility of Toronto not being the capital of a national regulator as being the result of western growth. The truth is that every province would like to have the national regulator, and Toronto is the naturally unpopular but natural choice. It's not as if the people in power are trying to decide between two choices on the merits.
As for Toronto and Calgary; Toronto hasn't had a car industry in decades and has been always budget pressed since provincial downloading of costs. Calgary's benefits and problems can still be summed up with one word: oil. When you look to the west and cities, Vancouver is the one that's always the most livable of them, and it doesn't rely on one industry.
Certainly the western cities could exceed Toronto at present growth rates... maybe in a century from now. But how many trends can you actually project as lasting longer in the future than they already have in the past?
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there's a joke when Americans get pissed about American politics, they would say "that's it, i am moving to Canada". When Canadians are pissed about Canadian politics, Canadians would say "that's it, i am moving to Europe".
I thought that was just a joke until i read your comment :D
It is, in fact just a joke. Canada suffers about a net loss of 5,000 to 15,000 people annually in its immigration-emigration policy with the US. Many of Canada's most educated workforce cross borders often to take advantage of a whole new scale of opportunities that the American giant offers - but not many cross the Atlantic to do so in Europe. In fact, if memory serves right, there has been a persistent trickle of western European immigration to Canada, with 10,000 from Britain and France alone every year.
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GRANTS PASS — The Oregon Health Authority will be paying less attention to toxic algae blooms in rivers and lakes after a federal grant expired.
The agency will continue to issue warnings that tell Oregonians to stay out of some lakes, but it will have fewer resources to keep track of water samples and do public education, said environmental toxicologist David Farrer.
There will also be fewer public outreach efforts and less money for materials.
The funding amounted to about $150,000 a year, which covered two employees, travel and materials.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said grants went to nine states for five years to help build public awareness on harmful algae blooms.
The focus of the grants was to gather data for a project to monitor illness from harmful blooms, spokeswoman Bernadette Burden said.
Experts say harmful algae blooms have been increasing worldwide, driven by warmer temperatures and more frequent rainstorms related to global warming. The rainstorms wash nutrients such as nitrogen into the waterways. The nitrogen comes from excess fertilizer on farmland, leaky septic systems around waterways, water treatment plants, livestock feed lots, and even smog.
"This gives us even more reason to tighten the knobs on nutrient inputs into these bloom-sensitive waters," said Hans Paerl, a professor of marine and environmental sciences at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
While the grant was in force, Oregon posted 14 toxic algae warnings in 2008, 20 in 2009, 21 in 2010, 18 in 2011, nine in 2012 and nine so far this year. The warnings tend to peak in late summer, when temperatures and hours of sunlight are high, Farrer said.
Increased public awareness may account for the initial increase in warnings, but it's not clear why the number fell in recent years.
"So many water bodies just aren't monitored, either because they are too small, no one is in charge or they are too remote," Farrer said. "It's hard to tell if all the increase we saw was just increased awareness or there were actually more blooms going on."
Blue-green algae is one of the most ancient forms of life on Earth. Billions of years ago it began separating oxygen from water, to create the atmosphere we depend on today, said Paerl. In its evolution, some varieties produced a toxin that is harmful to people and animals.
Scientists disagree on the role of the toxins various algae produce, but they are harmful to people and animals, particularly livestock and wildlife, which are more likely to drink from a lake or river with algae than a person is. Recently, wildlife authorities blamed the deaths of 100 elk in New Mexico on toxic algae.
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