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Im looking for part time job beside school..but alas, almost every minimum wage employment using this fucked up test-system as standard. You dont have much choice..either you do it, or leave...
but many-many.., alot of people with good intention didn't get a job because they failed the test, WTF?
I personally can't do the test without subsequently mental damage afterward..
Thank God, there's online version..so I can distract my mind with music when I becoming too tired.
I remember in 2005..I gotta do it on paper, inside interrogation-like office with eerie silence.
these questions...Jesus Christ! Where do I start?
If you ask things like these to your friend, you def gonna get smacked..
There is no possible human-way for us to be 100% fit to this demented demands of "perfect-robot-worker"- role model.
So here's how to play; pick any of these questions, the one irritates you most..
in this thread, you're free to say whatever you like... No Strongly disagree, disagree, Agree or strongly Agree answers...
Any trouble you have is your own fault
It is easy for you to feel what others are feeling
It is fun to go to events with big crowds
It is maddening when the court lets guilty criminals go free
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When your friends need help, they call you first
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you don't work hard because it doesn't pay off anyway
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Cleaning up crime in Yakima
Half a year into the job and Yakima's Police Chief Dominic Rizzi started to settle in.
Reporter: "What's your favorite part about Yakima? The fruit the wine?"
Rizzi: "No actually, it's the scenery, the scenery it's just so beautiful."
Chief Rizzi hoped to make it more beautiful -- removing graffiti, gangs and other crime.
Reporter: "Talk to me about some of the changes you've made as far as ordinances or other legal changes"
Rizzi: "Well the first thing that, after talking to the City Manger about the graffiti ordinance making the victim a victim for a second time"
That meant homeowners faced a fine if they delayed on cleaning graffiti from their property. Now Yakima will clean it for you for free. And taggers will get jail time.
Rizzi: "They are getting locked up more frequently and therefore at some point there will be diminishing return that they are going to realize it's not worth the effort to do the graffiti "
Reporter: "It's not worth going to jail for some tagging"
Rizzi: "Exactly"
Reporter: "How many arrest have we had do you know?"
Rizzi: "I don't have the numbers on the arrest but I will tell you that just yesterday or the day before we locked up two individuals for doing graffiti."
Yakima also added a new law to keep gangs from hanging out in Yakima neighborhoods. It's called a nuisance-abatement ordinance. It punished property owners for allowing gangs to stay there.
Rizzi: "Kind of force that owner to police their own property."
Reporter: "And if they don't are we going to shut them down."
Rizzi: "If they refuse to comply ultimately that property could be seized."
Rizzi also worked to better use the laws already in place.
Rizzi: "We did make a change to where we are starting to go after the auto thieves at a local level and they get longer sentences."
Rizzi: "So instead of just arrested someone and booking them and sending them to court. We are looking at what is the best avenue to prosecutes them and there are a lot of times where we are going to get a better bang by going federally or municipal."
The Chief promised this is just the beginning of changes planned for Yakima.
Rizzi: "We are going to keep pushing and making noise for what's best for our city."


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A man told police someone fired gunshots at his car as he dropped off a girl he�d met online.
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22 September 2011
A Shepherd Neame pub is putting itself literally at the heart of the community by taking delivery of a potentially life-saving piece of equipment.The Highwayman in Horsmonden, near Tonbridge, now has a defibrillator, a machine to treat emergency heart conditions such as cardiac arrest, courtesy of South East Coast Ambulance Service (SEACamb).
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21 September 2011
On Saturday I spent the evening at the Wye Hops Beer Festival, this is a new event run by Wye Heritage to commemorate hop development at Wye College. I was there to give a talk and tutored tasting as part of the day, which is always a great opportunity to discuss beers and peoples likes and dislikes as well as giving a taster of future developments.
19 September 2011
Last week we had Simon and Mel come to the brewery to tour, review beer and brew a Ginger Porter in the pilot brewery. Simon has been reviewing beers on YouTube for the last year and his wife Mel has recently joined in they are known as RealAleGuide and MrsRealAleGuide. Here you can see all the stages of brewing the ginger porter. Part 1: Arriving at the brewery
15 September 2011
Oranjeboom has produced a special edition lager 'Three Brothers' in aid of The Dannyboy Trust, a charity dedicated to helping young people.
12 September 2011
Eastenders actress and national treasure, June Brown, visited London's Tom Cribb pub to explore her family history as part of BBC1's Who Do You Think You Are?She was the first celebrity to feature in the new series, which traces family trees and explores major themes in British social history.


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Sleep Sheep
This sweet sheep provides relaxing white noise that's perfect for bedtime. Choose from four sounds (Mother's Heartbeat, Spring Showers, Ocean Surf, and Whale Songs) to help create a tranquil sleeping environment. Also features a simple push-button sound selection and automatic time-out function.
Why it's a giggle pick Suitable for children of all ages, the soothing sounds will calm your child to sleep in no time.
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Rated 4 out of 5 by aspurway Great-But stops at 45 min!
We love the Sleep Sheep- it permanently lives on the side of my baby's bassinet. There are two downsides, in my opinion: 1) The noise stops at 45 min- the exact time of a baby's sleep cycle, so if you don't catch it and "reset" it before it stops, it can wake baby up. I wish it had the option to go continuously. 2) It's a little quiet, wish it was louder. That being said, we still use it religiously, we just have to run in and out of the room to catch it and play again before the 45 min is up!
April 21, 2013
Rated 5 out of 5 Love it!
The sleep sheep is amazing. We have a sound machine that runs all night but our sleep sheep is perfect for outings and nights at grandmas.
December 11, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 Long lasting
Baby is 5 months and we haven't had to change the batteries once. I turn it on every night when putting her in crib. I wish it played continuously and was louder, but it seems to do the trick.
December 11, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 Great for all Ages!
My son is now 2 years and 4 months and we still use this for him every night and have been since he was born. I love how you can take the noise machine out of the sheep for travel. We have brought this on every trip we have taken, and it helps with consistency and comfort. This has been a lifesaver for us!
December 11, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by Maman1013 Love!
We received the Sleep Sheep as a gift and have used it from the very first day. We started with the heartbeat sound during the early weeks and now like the waves. We bought a second Sleep Sheep to take with us on vacation and now my son uses it at daycare.
March 22, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by moonrose2715 Good White Noise
If you need a short amount of white noise (30-45 minutes) then this is a great product. The waves and rain are both quite soothing. I personally think the whale noises and "heartbeat" are freaky sounding so I never used them for my daughter.
March 20, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by Cortney A Godsend
This was probably the only reason our daughter is able to sleep through the night. There is a strap on the back of the lamb that enables you to hang it off of the side of your crib. You are able to control the sound to be as soft or loud as you want and all 4 are really calming and relaxing (the ocean waves is our favorite!)
March 18, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5 by BrooklynMom30 Great for helping my baby sleep!
This is such a great toy! My son hears it and I see him realize that it's time to go to sleep. Invaluable.
March 18, 2012
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Sleep Sheep is made in China.Q:
Understand a mobile also gives the baby something to look at. So suppose if one has to get a mobile, what does the sleepsheep add?Answers
The Sleep Sheep doesn't hang over your crib like a mobile does. It sits next to the crib and provides four soothing sounds to help your baby fall asleep peacefully. Think of it as a soft, fluffy white noise machine!1 of 1
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…but also, probably, worse than it could have been. In Dream Diamond Girl world where blueberry muffins grow on trees and my computer never freezes up. Ah, Dream Diamond Girl world… okay. Back to the point. The Giants finished up the (what feels like endless) roadtrip today in Cinci with a 9th inning comeback – hugs, Angel Pagan – and now have a winning record, at 10-9. Can you believe we're 19 games into the season? And if so, can you believe the Giants have only been on the road for less than a week? It feels like ages, people.
I want to break it all down, because when there are no off-days, I feel perpetually rushed.
See, I'm pretty bipolar about off-days. On the one hand, as I've bemoaned before, I loathe them. No baseball? Shoot me, please. On the other hand, the chance to sit back and have a mini-offseason to think things over is rather useful. On that note…
I case you can't see that, because my camera does night like text, that reads "Dear Bud Selig, The Giants like off-days, too. Love, SF Diamond Girl."
Just throwing that out there.
Anyhow. The Giants have a pretty strong case of very good stuff and very bad stuff, but not necessarily a lot in the middle. The Sandoval hit streak gets more amazing and weird and wonderful every day and, as it turns out, Pagan has a bit of a hit streak going as well. The hitting with RISP numbers are still dismal and the bullpen is facing difficulties as well. The team hasn't quite clicked out there, save for a few times, and the minor injuries certainly build up to create trouble. Freddy Sanchez had a setback in rehab and one series away from May, that raises some pretty serious questions. (And I'm not talking the "Are you related to Jonathan???" kind of serious questions."
Mostly, though, I am feeling optimistic. No, really. I am. Three-and-a-half out from the Dodgers and the season is progressing. Basically aside from Timmy's struggles, the Giants haven't had any huge surprises, performance-wise. They've been dismal with RISP for a good long while now and as long as the pitching holds up, they are perfectly good.
And if the pitching doesn't hold up, well, the NFL draft was today and the season isn't that far off. The Niners might compete and stuff, especially if they hire me as GM. Don't be too depressed, Giants fans.
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rianbay812 wrote:ohhh skateskier
2 rianmechs. But I won't take credit for this amazing piece of work. Well done!
rianbay812 wrote:ohhh skateskier
2 rianmechs. But I won't take credit for this amazing piece of work. Well done!
rianbay812 wrote:And I would also like to remind everyone of this thing Jyo made like a year and a half ago
rianbay812 wrote:Then one of me in a speedo???? HAHAHA
I'm 5'10'' and change, my swimmers body just makes me look tall
Glad you're keepin' up on the cyber-stalking there!
rianbay812 wrote:Really? Whenever I have a life size image of jyo floating around in my head I have you at about 5'11", or about the height of my brother.
What you lack in height you made up for in fantastic contraption haha
Jyo wrote:I would also like to think that all the nutrition went straight to this big head of mine
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Laying in bed last night I thought of a way to make a bridge that only requires beginning momentum, and stays up indefinately afterwords no matter how much weight is on the end. Came up with this: http://www.fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=11401931
http://www.fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=11401971 Here's how awesome it is.
without the mech http://www.fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=11401985
Working on a way to do it with a double underbridge
http://www.fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=11401958 Here. I demonstrated how rediculously sturdy it is by dropping two 20 piece weights on it.
rianbay812 wrote:The real point of this post was to say that the diamond isn't needed anymore; you just need something to hold the joint once it gets past 180 degrees and it will be indefinitely stable.
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It is exciting to feel energy build around a library and cultural arts center in downtown Columbus. The Columbus City Council has had their support galvanized by grant money coming "So when you think of a library in 100, 300, or 500 years, imagine a beautiful building with spaces for discussion, contemplation and creation where wisdom can be shared. Imagine skilled librarians making sure that everyone has access to organized, meaningful resources that raise the level of public discussion above the din of the internet. Imagine all that topped off with a collection of the best hardbacks available."
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Contemplative article about the "future Library"!
We invite you to submit a proposal for the session of Preservation and Conservation Strategic Programme at the 81st IFLA General Conference and Assembly to be held in Cape Town, South Africa in August 2015. The theme of the session will look closely at the library networks within Africa, their response to natural disasters and man-made conflicts as well as the strength of the community. The Preservation of Conservation Strategic Programme therefore encourages submissions around the topics of: Responses of the (international, regional and national) library community to natural disasters in AfricaResponses of the (international, regional and national) library community to man-made conflicts in AfricaLessons learned from disaster responses (including challenges and successes)The importance of regional cooperation to effective disaster responseThe importance of adequate training for effective disaster response
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Call for papers - IFLA
Johnson County Public Library recently launched a new reference service. Johnson County Public Library recently launched a new reference service. Library patrons can talk with a reference librarian by live chat on the website or via text message and can ask about finding library materials, basic reference questions and using online resources like e-books and e-audiobooks. The chat service can be accessed by clicking the "Talk to a Librarian" button at the top of the website.
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E-chat with librarians!
Thousands of love letters, crabby diatribes, intimate photos, and sales receipts from well-known British artists are now available for public scrutiny thanks to a new online archive launched by London's Tate Gallery. http://www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/transforming-tate-britain-archives-access
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Digitisation programme!
Archival materials help tell the story in Amazon's critically acclaimed series Transparent.
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The use of archives in a television series
The end of the year seems to bring out journalists' list making tendencies. Our web feeds have been filled lately with Top 10 this and Best of...that. We think there are enough lists out there so...
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List about beautiful and spectacular libraries!
The NASIG Core Competencies Task Force (CCTF) is seeking comment on a draft of the Core Competencies for Print Serials Librarians. This document adds to the NASIG Core Competencies for Electronic Resources Librarians by describing the skills that librarians need to manage physical format serials in today's libraries. Via liblist4u, Ayla Stein
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"Opensource.com moderator Nicole Engard attended a talk by Phil Shapiro at the 2014 All Things Open conference in Raleigh, NC in which Phil laid out his vision for how libraries need to adapt to the changes ..." "Phil Shapiro, one of my fellow Opensource.com Community Moderators, gave a talk at All Things Open 2014 about open source and libraries. This is a recap of that talk. Too many people ask, "What is the future of libraries?" and not, "What should the future be?" A book that we must read is: Expect More: Demanding Better Libraries For Today's Complex World. If we don't expect more of libraries, we're not going to see libraries change. We have to change the frame of mind that libraries belong the directors—they actually belong to the people and they should be serving the people. Phil asks how we get some communities to participate in managing libraries. Start looking at your library's collection and see if there is at least 1% of the collection in the STEM arena. Should that percent be more? Maybe 5% or 10% more? There is no set answer here, but maybe we need to make a suggestion to our libraries. Maybe instead of just books our funds should go to empower the community more in the technology arena. Maybe we should have co-working space in our library—this can be fee based even—and could be something as low as $30.00/month. That would be a way for libraries to help the unemployed and the community as a whole."
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Future of the library
We've seen many hotels that offer a small shelf of loaner books, but these hotels went above and beyond in creating a literary oasis for their guests....
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All of these! We can relate!
Dayton library seeks to change perception with new programming "The Dayton Metro Library is debuting a new type of programming as it seeks to update its image as part of its $187 million system-wide renovation. The library is hosting a free after-work networking event called "ShakesBeer: A Downtown Mix and Mingle" on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 4:30 p.m. The library is partnering with The Human Race Theatre Company and Warped Wing Brewing Company to offer a modernized, 40-minute version of Shakespeare's Othello, with a craft beer networking session at Warped Wing afterward. As the library is in the midst of planning its $64 million update to the main facility on Third Street, some residents have expressed concern that building a new library doesn't make sense since physical books are becoming less important in a digital-based society."
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Libraries adapting to the future
When you think of a library, most people think of a quiet place to study. If you want to get work done and spread out, you go to a coffee shop. Newer libraries offer the same amenities as coffee shops, and sometimes even more. Read more: http://www.fastcompany.com/3034143/the-public-library-wants-to-be-your-office
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The library of the future! Definitely
By Phil Spirito, Monroe Library Managing Librarian "Stop by the Monroe Library branch of the Sno-Isle Library System any day of the week and you will often see a staff person working in a one-on one session with a customer. Although everyone in the library is strongly encouraged to approach staff and ask for help, these customers have scheduled an appointment to meet with a staff person to get individual help on a wide range of topics. Do you need help downloading an e-book? Are you starting a difficult research project? Do you want individual coaching on basic computer skills? Are you stumped by your new smart phone? Do you need someone to review your resume? If you need help, you can make an appointment with a staff person to get help on almost any topic at the time that works best for you."
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Kate Byrne: "The last two years have seen the program grow and develop far beyond anything we could have imagined so to celebrate the ILN's second birthday we would like to share some of those incredible things with you: Over the last 2 years we have held 4 rounds of the programThose 4 rounds have provided connections for over 1500 participants from 103 countries on 5 continents.Of those participants, over 80% plan to enrol for another round.Our web presence has grown dramatically since we launched this website and our Twitter account – we now have nearly 1400 Twitter followers and over 3300 Facebook likes.This website has received 125,000 hits including visits from all over the globe; every country except 11 of them.It seems almost impossible to believe how quickly the time has flown by - but we realised that two years and three days ago we launched this website and the very first call for applications. The la...
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Invaluable for international mentorship, international peer mentoring and international networking - for librarians and archivists!
Julia Brungs: "Past issues of IPN now available IFLA is very happy to announce that all remaining past issues of the International Preservation News (IPN) have been digitised by the Preservation and Conservation Centre at the Library of Congress. IFLA would like to thank the Library of Congress for digitising these early editions of IPN and making them available to IFLA. The IPN archive of over 60 past issues is now complete and freely available online. We encourage everyone to re-discover these past issues of IPN, an important series that was published by IFLA for over 25 years with regular contributions from PAC Regional Centres. IPN ceased publication in December 2013. The IFLA Journal is picking up the mandate of IPN and will publish an issue dedicated to Cultural Heritage in its 3rd volume of 2015."
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Great resource!
The AABC Archivist's Toolkit offers access to a wide range of on-line and published resources for archivists and archives workers at all levels. Special care is taken to provide resources for small and medium-sized archives. Intended for the British Columbia archives community, the AABC Archivist's Toolkit has evolved into much more. Archives-related sites across Canada and internationally link to this valuable site. Recommendations for additions, revisions and corrections are encouraged and should be directed to the Archives Association of British Columbia at firstname.lastname@example.com. If you are looking for a copy of A Manual for Small Archives, originally published in 1988 and last revised in 1994, you can download a PDF (3.5 MB). Revision is ongoing. Submissions of additions, revisions and corrections are encouraged. Revision date: July 2012, BCANS
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Great resource!
Journalist's Resource sifts through the academic journals so you don't have to. Here are 12 of the studies about social and digital media they found most interesting in 2014. Via Valerie Hawkins, Library, American Library Association
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12 studies!
Libraries should be re-branded as vibrant community hubs offering free wifi, comfy sofas and coffee, according to government-commissioned report The recommendations are made in the Independent Library Report for England, commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport earlier this year.
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Эпоха библиотек как молчаливых читальных залов с книгами в качестве единственного продукта закончилась, и для того, чтобы выжить, они должны стать "живыми и привлекательными эпицентрами деятельности общества». |


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Wetlands are a home to many species of migratory and resident birds, reptiles and amphibians, fish, insects, and plants. They also benefit society by storing floodwaters, filtering pollutants, serving as a carbon sink, and providing recreation sites for boating and fishing, just to name a few. There are three major groups of wetlands: marine, tidal, and non-tidal. Marine wetlands occur in coastal shallows. Tidal wetlands also occur in coastal areas but inland from the ocean. These are often referred to as estuaries and are affected by tides. Non-tidal wetlands occur inland and are not subject to tidal influences. These account for 94% of all the wetlands in the United States. Some examples of non-tidal wetlands are Prairie Potholes, Peat Bogs, Fens, Playas, Mountain Meadows, and Riverine wetlands on floodplains. Sometimes these non-tidal wetlands are called "upland wetlands", "fresh water wetlands", or "inland wetlands" to designate them as occurring in areas not influenced directly by coastal waters.
By 1984, over half (54%) of all the wetlands in the U.S. had been drained or filled for development or agriculture. Congress responded to these alarming figures by passing two critical wetland conservation and restoration Federal programs administered by NRCS to slow or reverse these alarming trends. These two programs are the Wetland Conservation Provisions (WC) which was authorized in the 1985 Farm Bill, and the Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) which was later authorized in the 1990 Farm Bill. Through these two programs, NRCS works with farmers and ranchers to maintain or increase important wetland benefits, while ensuring their ability to continue to produce food and fiber.
For more information on wetland types, and wetland gains and losses visit the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Wetland Status and Trends reports.
The first legal protection of wetlands came from President Jimmy Carter in 1977. He signed Executive Order 11990 into law requiring Federal government agencies to take steps to avoid impacts to wetland when possible. Then, in 1989 President George H. W. Bush established the National policy of "no-net loss of wetlands". This set the groundwork to replace each newly impacted wetland with a replacement wetland of the same size and with similar wetland functions and values. Primarily through the work of NRCS in their Wetland Conservation Provisions, Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP), and formerly the Wetland Reserve Program (1990 - 2014), and the Wetland Reserve Program, non-tidal wetland acres within the U.S. have actually increased in recent years—about 250,000 acres of forested wetlands were created between 1998 and 2004, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It was on Earth Day, 2004, that President George W. Bush announced that "no-net loss" had been accomplished nationally and that we had a net-gain of wetlands: more wetlands had been restored or created than were being destroyed in the U.S. He also announced a new policy beyond "no-net loss". That goal was to establish 3 million more acres of wetlands beyond those being lost.
Today, natural wetlands are still being lost, but at a much slower rate than in the past. And those that are lost are compensated for through the development of other wetlands; a process called wetland mitigation.
Wetland Conservation Provisions
The Wetland Conservation (WC) provisions, commonly referred to as "Swampbuster," prohibit USDA program participants from converting remaining wetlands on their agricultural operations to cropland, pasture, or hay land unless the wetland acres, functions, and values are compensated for through wetland mitigation. USDA program participants must certify annually that they are in compliance with the WC provisions. The WC provisions are the only law that affords protection to many remaining wetland types.
NRCS provides assistance to USDA program participants by identifying wetlands that are subject to the WC provisions and to respond to potential issues of non-compliance. If it is determined that a wetland has been converted, then NRCS works with the farmer or rancher to regain eligibility by developing a wetland restoration plan or compensatory mitigation plan.
For more information about how to access the functions and values of wetlands, visit: Wetland Assessment.
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The Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP) is designed to provide a financial incentive to private landowners to encourage the restoration of wetlands previously drained. This very popular program has enrolled approximately 2.5 million acres since it was created in 1994.
Most of this acreage has been enrolled in the permanent easement option, where NRCS pays a per-acre easement fee, plus 100 percent of the cost to restore the agricultural lands back to natural wetland ecosystems. The landowner retains title, control of access, and hunting rights, but must protect the restored wetland ecosystem for future generations. The landowner can sell the land, but the easement (and protections) remain enforce for perpetuity.


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Only War | Published 31 January 2013 |
"In the end, only the Emperor can judge you. Only He is qualified to weigh acts of righteousness against deeds of vile treachery and find a verdict for your soul. It is merely my humble task to commend you to His final justice."
–Lord Commissar Salieri
Final Testament, a complete adventure for Only War, is now available for download from drivethrurpg.com and rpgnow.com! This action-packed three-part campaign takes players to the war-ravaged mining world of Hervara, where they must do battle at one of the Imperium's most brutal fronts.
Throughout the course of Final Testament, the Guardsmen will experience the tragedy of war and the harsh consequences of their own actions. While fighting savagely against a variety of enemies, they will navigate social and tactical encounters that require them to tread carefully amidst powers beyond their reckoning. In Final Testament, the players will constantly be challenged to innovate and overcome unusual obstacles, even as they strive to uphold the honor of the Imperial Guard—and perhaps even survive!
The mining world of Hervara is beset by war, ravaged by the conflict between the Severan Dominate and the Imperium of Mankind. Final Testament draws players in, pitting them against new challenges in each of its three chapters:
A Deadly Secret Awaits
Developer Max Brooke took a moment to share his thoughts on Final Testament:
Final Testament is the first book-length adventure supplement for Only War. It drops the players into the action (literally) on the world of Hervara, where the men and women of the Imperial Guard struggle to retake this key mining world from the traitorous forces of the Severan Dominate and their separatist allies.
The course of the war in the Spinward Front hangs on wresting worlds like Hervara away from the Severan Dominate. However, even greater forces are at play here, and a deadly secret sleeps beneath the ash-choked wastes of Hervara's surface. Deep in the dark and rock heart of Hervara rests a cursed weapon of without peer: an Imperial Ordinatus. An ancient miracle of a forgotten age, this vast weapons platform is capable of scouring entire armies from the field and deciding the fate of the war on Hervara. If the Guardsmen can find a way to end up on the right end of the barrel, they can tip the outcome of the conflict in their favor—and they might even survive to tell of it!
I won't go into any more detail about the plot now, but I'm looking forward to hear how players handle the trials and dilemmas that their characters must face in this exciting adventure across a war-torn world in the Spinward Front!
Head to our Only War website to read our previews, then download Final Testament from drivethrurpg.com or rpgnow.com today!
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Courtesy Harris FarmsJohn Harris, right, chief executive officer of Coalinga, Calif.-based Harris Farms, discusses water policy with Sen. Dianne Feinstein during a May 2013 Western Growers Association meeting in Washington, D.C.Spring lettuce will be one of the first crop casualties if water allocations to Fresno County growers — already just 20% last year — are eliminated this year.
Duda Farm Fresh Foods, which operates a transitional deal in Huron, Calif., plans to skip that production. And Harris Farms, based in the county, will probably abandon the 3,000 acres it devotes to lettuce — 1,500 each in the spring and fall — said William Bourdeau, executive vice president.
Initial water allocations, expected around March 1, are almost certain to be zero according to Fresno, Calif.-based Westlands Water District.
"A lot of land is going to be fallow and a lot of people are going to be unemployed," Bourdeau said. "Everyone's scrambling."
The district's bleak assessment came in response to a Jan. 3 snow survey by the California Department of Water Resources that underscored the state's drought problem. Growers, though, argue that pumping restrictions and water policy make their situation worse than it need be.
For Harris Farms, stopping spring and fall production would mean about 72 million fewer heads of lettuce – mostly romaine and iceberg – hitting the market. Altogether, the company plans to fallow 9,000 of its 14,000 Westside acres. Among affected crops are melons, tomatoes, bell peppers, broccoli and cabbage.
"The only reason we're not fallowing more is because the rest are permanent crops — either almonds, pistachios or asparagus," Bourdeau said.
Duda Farm Fresh Foods plans to extend its Yuma, Ariz., season on leaf items and start early in the Salinas Valley to make up for the loss of Huron lettuce in late March and early April. It's about a three-weak deal.
"For the first time ever, we're not going to Huron this spring," said Sammy Duda, vice president. "Our grower didn't know what allocation if any he would get. It's not final that we're never going back, but it's had an impact on our program."
Duda expects no supply gap, but spring gaps could become more common if Huron proves unfeasible in future years.
"There's a reason we switch districts when we do," he said. "You're trying to be in the best place all the time and each of these growing districts has a normal beginning and end. Any time you stretch those windows, you're in less certain territory."
Salinas, Calif.-based Coastline Produce, on the other hand, anticipates only a slight reduction in its Huron acreage for iceberg, said Mark McBride, salesman. In recent years some Salinas companies, such as D'Arrigo Bros. Co. of California, stopped going to Huron for various reasons. Improved growing techniques and varieties in Yuma extended the season there, shortening the Huron transition. Others still consider it an important transition.


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Samuel Adams Hops-Infused Churros
Yields 8 servings
2 cups milk
½ cup Tettnang Tettnanger hop flowers (can substitute U.S. Tettnang hops)
6 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup all-purpose flour
3 large eggs
1. Bring milk and hops to heat/scald (about 180°F). Steep for about 10-15 minutes, then strain.
2. Take 1 cup of hops infused milk, butter, and salt. Bring to boil in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add flour, stir until mixture forms a ball and pulls away from sides of pan, about 30 seconds. Remove from heat, let cool about 3 minutes.
3. Add eggs one at a time, and stir until batter is smooth. Put mixture into a pastry bag fitted with a large open-star pastry tip.
4. Set fryer temperature (or vegetable oil in a deep frying pan) to 330°F, hold pastry bag a few inches above the oil, squeeze out batter, snipping off 4-inch lengths with a knife or kitchen scissors.
5. Fry 6-8 churros at a time, turning once, until golden brown. Transfer to paper towel to absorb extra grease. Roll in cinnamon sugar when still warm.


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Enchanting Dinnerware Set!
You will absolutely love this dinnerware set! The colors are just beautiful and the floral motif with the birds is enchanting! The quality is truly there for the price. You will enjoy serving meals for years to come with this eye appealing dinnerware. Cheers!
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I purchased the dinner plates, the bird salad plates, and the bowls, and they are all just exquisite in their designs. I especially love he fluted sides of the salad plates, but all of the dinnerware are well designed and just beautiful. They are also quite inexpensive but look pricey.
November 11, 2012
Vintage flair
I love these plates! They are so adorable and have a very vintage flair, which I adore. I paired them with the green Verde dinner plates and bowls. They go wonderfully in my farmstyle kitchen!
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Simone- Yep, it's a non clomid month. First in a long long time.
Amy- It's near Mt. Baker,,,,Church mountain hike, It's about 10 miles and 3700ft climb. It was a lot of fun, but definately grueling.
Alix- YAY!!! Congrats! It's about time! Wonderful news!
Christine- I glad you are doing so well! Can hardly believe Jordyn is that old already, wow!
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Alix: Congrats!!! I added your BFP to the board, and a EDD of 4/2014.. If that changes, let me know I'll change it! Congrats again!
Tara: now its your turn for a miracle baby FX'd for you! Is your DH excited about the consult? is he going to do it with you?
Christine: Well, I'd stick to charting if you are on the fence, but the same ingredient on the mini pill is whats in mirena.. so, It wouldnt have worked for me either. I bled for 8 months, I need a break LOL. But since you did good on mirena, it may be fine for you. If you are on the fence, i wouldnt do it. I know several people who have used it, autumn included..and they say its great. Im too forgetful for it to be sucessful.
afm- after temp stayed the same (pretty much) for 3 days, it went up this morning, I checked it like 3 times to make sure.. lol. So not sure what to expect. Kinda early for O.. if i even will. But then again, BF'ing could have my body all confused still
DH did pick up the estrace, no directions from dr m. so i used 1/4 of an applicator and see how that goes.
Usually its a twice a week thing, so hopefully it helps.
Brie- I think DH is going to come home for the phone consult. I figured I would probably put it on speaker phone. I think he is glad to be moving forward.
AFM- Had a dream I had a baby girl last night was BFing....I think these dreams start happening when I get close to O, so I'm hoping that I O on my own. Better yet that dream would come true.
Tara: Maybe you already O'd and caught that eggie, and those are those de ja vu dreams I hope you did O on your own, that'd be great! Maybe with so many clomid cycles, your body has figured out what to do now. Wouldnt that be great? I am excited for you either way, for the IVF consult..and the possibility that you wont even need to persue it further. This is the free consult right?
Alix: Hmm.. did they set you up for an ultrasound yet? you will get a EDD at that point and they will be able to tell you how far along you are at that point. I know my OB GYN wouldnt even do an orientation (and a pregnancy test as well) until you were at least six weeks and no ultrasound until they thought you were past 8 weeks, unless you were having issues, like bleeding. Happy and healthy 9 months to you!!
afm- JD leaves tomorrow. I'll be glad for some peace and quiet.. i swear the two of them together is a constant wrestle fest! I can go into a different room, close the door, and in a minute they are right in there following me, wrestling beside me. It drives me bonkers! I dont care if they wrestle, but geez NOT on top of me, please!
DH is looking forward to BDing, but now that hes made me wait all this time, Im not even really excited. The last time hurt pretty bad, so it wasnt even enjoyable. Im just used to the "no not today, hes in the next room" routine that Im beyond wanting it. Plus, I really think I O'd already so the drive is decreasing anyway. Oh well, his loss. I have to go clean since we are expecting his ex in laws to be here sometime this evening. They wanted to see me and Layla. lol Weird much? Just a lil but i guess its better than ex in law drama.
Alix- Sounds like you found out on the early side. You are probably 4 weeks ish since technically you start counting from AF. Having an early US will help give you the best dates if your LMP was unreliable.
Brie- That is so frustrating that you aren't in the mood anymore from having to wait it out for so long. Hope dh can do something romantic. That's kinda funny that his ex in-laws want to see you and Layla. You'd think his ex wouldn't like that unless it's a scouting mission. But, hey if you all get along then that's even better. I sure pray my dream comes true and would save us a lot of money, too. It felt so real although it's something I've been thinking a lot about lately, too. Yeah the consult is free for the phone one. Not sure what the next step will be once we talk to her on the phone. Looking forward to Monday afternoon.
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"Do I Have To Dance All Night" Keeps On Dancing
- Not Unlike Leonard Cohen
As many readers know, I am an unrepentant fan of Leonard Cohen's "Do I Have To Dance All Night," a fascination well documented at Heck Of A Guy, beginning with The Best Leonard Cohen Song You've Never Heard (Probably).
That first post focuses on the quasi-funky version of "Do I Have To Dance All Night" that Cohen, aided and abetted by backup vocalist, Laura Brannigan, performed, sometimes twice in the same concert, during his 1976 tour. This was also the version that was released for sale, albeit only as a 7″ single and only in Europe.
To promote the 1976 rendition of "Do I Have To Dance All Night," (or, as I prefer to think of it, to enrich the tragically empty lives of my fellow earth-dwellers who have not yet heard this hymn of cosmic salvation), I recently put together a "Do I Have To Dance All Night" video that, as previously (and accurately) described, "kinda, sorta fits the music."
The 1980 Revision Of Do I Have To Dance All Night
Compared to the 1976 rendition, the version of "Do I Have To Dance All Night" performed on the 1980 tour has a distinctly slower tempo and a less disco-more Eastern sound1 which utilizes the style and talents of his band, Passenger, the jazz fusion group co-founded by Roscoe Beck which featured oriental instruments (John Bilezikjian on oud and mandolin and Raffi Hakopian on gypsy violin),2 and Sharon Robinson, the backup singer for the 1980 tour.3
The Making Of The Video For "Do I Have To Dance All Night" (1980 Version)
Neither version of "Do I Have To Dance All Night" has an official or performance video. As I did earlier with the "Do I Have To Dance All Night" video, I have now "cobbled together a pastiche of Cohen-associated photos and clips that kinda sorta fits the music."
Piecing together a video for the 1980 version of "Do I Have To Dance All Night" was a significantly more difficult task than it was for the 1976 edition. This was in part due to my profligate use of my favorite segments from Cohen-related and graphics for that first effort (I did not plan on making a second "Do I Have To Dance All Night" video at the time), but the primary problem has to do with the musicological differences between the renditions and the predominate styles of the source videos. The 1976 performance features an upbeat tempo that works well with a wide variety of video scenes while the slower rhythms of the 1980 recording fit a much smaller group of clips.
Likewise, the mood of the two versions vary in sync with their respective beats. While almost every dancing scene I found, for example, seemed to fit the music of the 1976 version, only smooth, gliding dance moves worked, with a couple of exceptions, in the 1980 rendition. One victim of this kind of incongruity were the extraordinarily popular shots from the 2008-2009 Word Tour in which Leonard Cohen performs his jig while singing about "the white man dancing" in "The Future." While these segments, without any alteration other than extracting them from their sources, fit into the first video easily, they clashed with the rhythm (and tone) of the 1980 version of the song.
Reflecting the similarities and contrasts between the two versions of the song, the two videos have parallel scenes (the opening of the 1980 version's video is obviously derivative of its predecessor) and other scenes set against the same group of words in the lyrics that have nothing in common.
My self-imposed rules governing sources follow:
- All videos and graphics used have a readily apparent connection to Leonard Cohen. For example, in addition to Cohen's own music videos, potential sources included documentaries about and interviews with Cohen.4
- Source videos which contributed clips to the composite video for 1976's "Do I Have To Dance All Night" are also mined for components to be used in the video for 1980's "Do I Have To Dance All Night," but the exact scenes are not re-used.
As was true for the first "Do I Have To Dance All Night" video, "the optimal viewer mindset is thinking of this not as a music video but rather something to watch while listening to a … Leonard Cohen tune" that I find impressive and especially enjoyable. "As a bonus, Leonard Cohen fans may garner a modicum of entertainment by figuring out the origins of the clips and the identities of the various characters on the video."5
Although second novels, second albums, second films, and even, I suspect, second homemade cut and paste YouTube videos are notoriously problematic, I'm happy enough with the result.
It is, after all, the world's best – and only – video of the 1980 version of Leonard Cohen's "Do I Have To Dance All Night."
Leonard Cohen – Do I Have To Dance All Night
Amsterdam: Oct 30, 1980
Video by Allan Showalter
Credit Due Department: Photo by Laszlo of Montreal
- See Another Best Leonard Cohen Song Some Of You Still Haven't Heard [↩]
- Passenger is yet another connection between Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell. According to KOOP, in 1979, Passenger moved from Austin to Los Angeles to work with Joni Mitchell in a project that fell through, after which the band was "tapped by Leonard Cohen to be the core band of his latest album and follow-up tour that year." Cohen was, however, actually introduced to the band through a producer with whom he and Mitchell both worked. This excerpt from Field Commander Cohen summarizes the events:
In 1978 Leonard Cohen contacted music producer Henry Lewy to work with him on the recording of Recent Songs. Lewy had previously used the musicians from Passenger, a Texas-based fusion-rock group, on an album he had produced for Joni Mitchell and so he called upon them for Leonard's album. Thus, Mitch Watkins (electric guitar), Paul Ostermayer (sax), Steve Meador (drums), Roscoe Beck (bass), and Bill Ginn (keyboards) joined violinist Raffi Hakopian, oudist John Bilezikjian and vocalists Jennifer Warnes and Sharon Robinson at A&M Studios in Los Angeles for the recording of the album.
- Sharon Robinson and Jennifer Warnes were the backup vocalists on the 1979 tour, but Warnes did not return for the 1980 tour. [↩]
- I think my video premiering today has only one ringer that is so obscure that only a hard core Cohenite – or a loyal Heck Of A Guy reader – is likely to recognize the source. My guess is that only a few folks will be able to identify all of the other clips but a significant number will recognize having seen them all before although they may not bit be able to name the source and any given segment, except the potential ringer, will be specifically identified by at least a few dozen folks. [↩]
- A listing of the specific sources of the visual segments of this video can be found at Do I Have To Dance All Night (1980 Version) Video Sources. [↩]


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A small shed is home to a laboratory that transforms leftover french fry oil from the Meadows Casino and creates biodiesel fuel. The oil creates 200 gallons of biodiesel a week and fuels most of the equipment on the racetrack property.
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Horse manure is loaded into a truck to be taken to Creekside Mushrooms Ltd. farm in Worthington, Armstrong County, to create compost for the farm's mushrooms. About 550 tons of manure is sent to the farm each month.
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The Meadows Racetrack & Casino is increasingly green thanks to some things that aren't so pristine.
Fat from french fries, horse manure and runoff water are integral elements of green initiatives the racetrack has implemented.
The moves are environmentally friendly and cost-effective, a win-win at a place that specializes in win, place and show.
"If you would have told me years ago that I would be involved in something like this . . ." said Mike Jeannot, president of Meadows Racing, smiling as he stood outside a small building beyond the racing oval.
That hut is home for the biodiesel lab, said Dan Mangan, racing facilities manager at the North Strabane Township racetrack. The oil that had been used to make fries in Meadows kitchens is placed in a vat inside and converted into biodiesel fuel, which, he said, is used to operate "almost all equipment" on track property.
Mangan, a longtime employee from Peters Township, heats the vat of oil, tests it and mixes in potassium hydroxide and methanol. He then lets the solution sit for eight hours, "cleans" it and tests it for acidity.
The initiative is only a month old, but already yielding environmental and financial benefits.
There are three restaurants and a food court at the complex, which is open round-the-clock daily. That translates to a lot of french fries, and about 200 gallons of reusable oil each week.
"That's roughly 10,000 gallons a year," said Mangan, of Peters Township. "All from french fry fat."
Savings should be formidable. Mangan said the conversion costs 70 to 75 cents a gallon and the charge for off-road diesel is about $3.49, about $2.75 a gallon less.
Horse manure, of course, is plentiful at the Meadows, and the source of a project that goes back to before Mangan was hired in 1990. The track stores a mix of manure and used straw in a large tent and, by contract, supplies the mix to Creekside Mushrooms Ltd. for use as compost.
Creekside Mushrooms, near Worthington in Armstrong County, is described at agmap.psu.edu/businesses as "the world's largest single site mushroom growing facility and the only underground mushroom farm in the United States."
The farm pays the Meadows a nominal amount for the manure mix, receiving about 10 tractor-trailer loads per week, or 550 tons a month. "Creekside takes what it needs and sells the rest to other mushroom companies," Mangan said, And the compost it does use is later used elsewhere.
This contract, Jeannot said, saves the track the large expense of removing the manure-hay mix and having it treated at a landfill.
Speaking of large expenses . . . about 40,000 gallons of water are needed on a typical summer day to control dust and "cushion" the limestone track for the hard-charging horses, A smaller volume is sufficient at other times – about 4,000 to 6,000 on a mild day last week. The track is used a lot – four days of racing year-round – creating a dusty, packed-down surface if not hydrated adequately.
"We always used fresh water because it was available," said Jeannot, of Moon Township. "The cost and environmental reasons are why we decided to use runoff water."
This is a new project that, pending the completion of some electrical work, may be implemented this week. The water comes from a tributary of Chartiers Creek, unnamed and snaking through the Meadows property. The state Department of Environmental Protection oversees the process, by which a pump in the tributary gathers the water, which is stored in three underground cisterns, then is moved to trucks that sprinkle the racing surface.
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Backcountry activists in the Mountain West defend the whitebark pine against climate change and beetle attacks.
43@ 47' 31" N, 110@ 08' 11" W This is a tree that David Gonzales calls "the Fighter." It's rooted in the loamy soil of a high mountain pass in western Wyoming, poised at the edge of a clearing beneath a sheer volcanic scarp that locals call the Breccia Cliffs. In the summer, downy gray Clark's nutcrackershop purposefully among its branches. Elk bed down beneath it in the fall. Come winter, the frozen footprints of foxes and ermine speckle the snowfall around its trunk. But unlike these animals, the flitty faux-jays and the migrating elk, the Fighter itself is stoic, unmoving. Archimedean, even. Its position on this earth is fixed.
The Fighter is a whitebark pine, a high-elevation species of five-needle conifer that's mostly known these days for the trouble it's in. Throughout the northern Rockies, entire forests of whitebark are being wiped out by a pair of complementary afflictions: white pine blister rust, an invasive fungal disease that causes branches to swell with cankers, and the mountain pine beetle, a largely low-elevation pest that's increasingly "moved up" to infest subalpine trees, thanks to steadily warming temperatures. Needles on a dying whitebark turn red at first, then fall off, leaving behind only a bare tangle of branches. The Fighter is the last green tree from a grove of a few hundred, standing at the head of its now-gray phalanx like a general before a column of ghost soldiers. This is why David Gonzales gave the Fighter its name.
43@ 28' 51" N, 110@ 45' 50" W This is the hippie cafe in Jackson where I met Gonzales some months ago. On a Sunday morning in July the tables were filled with toned thirty-somethings munching gluten-free pancakes. Gonzales sat at a patio table with his ever-present collie mix, Pepi. We'd barely shaken hands before the other volunteers started showing up, a motley and Patagonia-clad crew donating their day off to the nonprofit startup that Gonzales calls TreeFight.
Gonzales's position on this earth is also fixed, relatively speaking. After three decades migrating around Texas and the Southwest--first as an adolescent, then as a cub reporter for the Dallas Morning News--he settled in Jackson in 1998, and the adjacent Tetons got into his blood. A gonzo skier and backcountry junkie, Gonzales clicked into Jackson Hole like a boot into bindings, and he has no intention of leaving. At 45, he's broad and scruffy, fond of the kind of rumpled performance apparel that makes everyone in Jackson look like they just came in from backpacking. Professionally, he's your quintessential mountain-town jack-of-all-trades: author of a popular coffee-table book on the region, a successful ski photographer, a filmmaker who has won awards for his documentary shorts.
The idea of running an environmental nonprofit never occurred to Gonzales until the fall of 2009, when a friend introduced him to GIS specialist and whitebark advocate Wally Macfarlane. As a skier, Gonzales was vaguely aware of the tree's plight. He'd noticed the burnt-red splotches staining the canopy while riding the tram at Jackson Hole Mountain. Macfarlane, meanwhile, had just completed an aerial survey of whitebark damage in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), working with retired Forest Service entomologist and renowned pine-beetle authority Jesse Logan. The project, cosponsored by the U.S. Forest Service and the Natural Resources Defense Council, raised eyebrows in Yellowstone management and conservation circles by suggesting that as much as 85 percent of all whitebark stands in the GYE had already suffered moderate to massive beetle kills--more than anyone had imagined. Gonzales was soon skiing into remote whitebark territory with Macfarlane and Logan, learning how climate change had prompted the infestation and wondering what could be done. "We were just saying, we're not going to throw up our hands and give up," he recalls. "We're going to try and do something, even if that means putting Band-Aids on trees."
TreeFight launched the following summer, after a friend in the National Park Service introduced Gonzales to a synthesized pheromone called verbenone. A nontoxic repellent popular with commercial foresters, verbenone mimics the scent that pine beetles emit to warn their brethren away from already-occupied trees. Ecologists in Grand Teton National Park had been tagging stands with verbenone packets for years, stapling them to individual trees with high cone production and rust-resistance, hoping to keep beetles away from the highest-value trees. Inspired, Gonzales arranged a partnership with the Forest Service to tag and monitor strategically selected stands in the surrounding Bridger-Teton National Forest. So in June of 2010, after some fundraising and a credit-card purchase of 700 verbenone packets, Gonzales led the first in a series of TreeFight "missions," heading into the high, wild backcountry around Jackson Hole.
Which is what we were heading out to do that crisp July morning. At the cafe, Gonzales gave a half-dozen volunteers a quick tutorial on how to staple a packet, photograph the tree, and record its GPS coordinates. Although our troop was on the small side, TreeFight leads rotating groups of volunteers on about a dozen missions each summer, sometimes taking out teams of 20 or more. These missions, it turns out, play to the strengths of Gonzales's natural peer group, the kind of folks who are happy to spend a day bushwhacking uphill through grizzly country with a backpack full of gear. Among the crew of outdoor badasses gathered at the hippie cafe was pro skier and cover girl Lynsey Dyer, an outspoken cheerleader for TreeFight who has lent some rock-star cred to the fight to save the whitebark. Another was a wide-eyed second grader tagging along with his dad. Gonzales is quick to point out that today's second graders will bear the brunt of climate change as adults. On the way to the trailhead, I asked whether he thought the little guy could handle the rigors of TreeFighting. "I hope so," he said. "He's my ideal audience."
39@ 43' 01" N, 105@ 07' 54" W This is the boxy regional headquarters of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Denver, where officials announced in the summer of 2011 that whitebark pine deserved protection under the Endangered Species Act. The species was formally declared "warranted, but precluded," an increasingly popular designation that basically puts whitebark on a waiting list for full protection and a recovery plan, awaiting the day when the agency can afford it. The decision did give the whitebark's plight a certain PR boost, however, and it mandates an annual assessment of the species' status. This past January two Montana-based conservation groups filed a lawsuit in federal court to force Fish and Wildlife to bypass this waiting list. Barring a dismissal or a surprise change of policy from the agency, the court will consider the case later this year.
Until then, the whitebark enjoys Fish and Wildlife's second-highest priority, reserved for threats that are "imminent and of high magnitude." Among the reasons for this: the importance of whitebark pine nuts to pre-hibernation grizzly bears. In fall grizzlies in the GYE will gorge on troves of the high-fat seeds, hidden by squirrels in cone caches called middens. In excellent cone years before the current beetle infestation broke out in the 1990s, whitebark seeds could account for an astonishing 97 percent of the annual nourishment of any given grizzly in Yellowstone National Park. When cone counts are down, fewer bears occupy the high country during their hungry season, leading to more human-bear dustups, which are potentially fatal for both sides.
Whitebark seeds are also a favorite snack of the Clark's nutcracker, an ash-colored corvid whose needlenose beak evolved for the very purpose of prying open the pine's stubborn cones. The tree and bird are mutualists, with whitebark almost totally dependent on the nutcracker's food-storage habits for its seed dispersal. The birds, for their part, eat seeds from several different pine species, thriving even at lower elevations and in whitebark-free parts of the West. But early research suggests that the whitebark's collapse in the GYE may still have a profound impact on nutcracker populations. Taza Schaming, a doctoral researcher from Cornell University, has collected preliminary data suggesting that Clark's nutcrackers, like some other corvid species, may not breed in years following notably poor cone production. An indefinite stretch of bad cone years, then, could spell trouble for nutcracker numbers, and because the birds essentially plant each new generation of trees, this would all but doom any potential whitebark rebound.
The Fish and Wildlife Service report also describes how beetles and blister rust manage to kill trees, destroying rings of bark around the trunk and branches, preventing the flow of nutrients and water. Prominently featured is this breezy line: "Currently, there is no known way to stop whitebark pine mortality caused by white pine blister rust and mountain pine beetle." But wait a minute--what about all those packets of verbenone?
43@ 47' 11" N, 110@ 08' 03" W This is the trailhead for our TreeFight mission up Togwotee Pass, in the shadow of the Breccia Cliffs. As we hit the trail that morning, Gonzales confided in me verbenone's dirty little secret. "My line about it," he said, "is that verbenone might actually be better at attracting people to trees than it is at repelling beetles."
And herein lies the real motivation behind TreeFight. Verbenone is indeed largely unproven. Among its critics is beetle guru Logan, who argues that there's not enough data showing that trees tagged with the chemical fare any better than trees without. "I think in the long term it doesn't make a bit of difference," Logan says. He's one of several biologists who have already declared whitebark functionally lost in significant portions of the GYE. In the best of scenarios, verbenone may postpone the inevitable infestation of a few trees--maybe long enough for a cold snap to curtail the beetle population, or to buy time while the Forest Service plants a few stands of nursery-bred, rust-resistant saplings. In the worst-case scenario, it may be doing nothing at all.
Gonzales is well aware of this, and it's why he sees verbenone as simply a means to an end, one front in a much larger campaign. In the years since TreeFight's founding, the group has expanded its focus well beyond verbenone-tagging. Last year TreeFighters trekked into the backcountry on a series of replanting missions, seeding one thousand whitebarks and planting two thousand new seedlings on Forest Service lands around Jackson Hole. They also partnered with ornithologist Schaming, leading troops of volunteers and students into the woods to help collect bird-call data for a population survey of Clark's nutcrackers.
If this last task sounds a bit Sisyphean--asking gaggles of middle-school kids to sit quietly in the woods for hours at a time--think of it as a metaphor for the whole of TreeFight's efforts. Because, as Gonzales freely admits, all of these missions are Band-Aids--the verbenone, the replanting, the nutcracker studies, all of it. Ultimately, the only sure steps to prevent the pine beetle's climate-driven advance are those that reduce carbon emissions. This is why, as far as Gonzales is concerned, "TreeFight's greatest value is bringing back evidence from these forests that our world is changing way more quickly than most people think." In other words, what he and his TreeFighters really want is nothing less than to turn whitebark pine into a national cause celebre for climate change.
To that end, the group is fanatically dedicated to churning out and disseminating new media. As we hiked to our targeted stand, passing the Fighter on our way, I could barely stop to pee without another TreeFighter rolling HD digital video of it. After TreeFight's first year, Gonzales produced a 20-minute documentary called Seeing Red. It showed at Telluride's popular Mountainfilm fest, then toured 52 cities in the Backcountry Film Festival, winning best environmental film and showing to more than 5,000 people. A second film is in the works. TreeFight also has plans for an app that would let backcountry recreationists help tag and monitor trees, sans verbenone--a sort of Facebook for foliage, where users can keep tabs on their favorite trees' health while showing off their photography skills. Last year the group armed schoolkids with smartphones and cameras and marched them into the woods to shoot geo-tagged "TreeArt," then made screen prints for display at a local arts festival. Needless to say, Gonzales and crew are social-media-savvy to the max, with tens of thousands of followers on social networks you haven't even heard of yet, like Pheed.
"David understands these new media ways of communication--he's wired into ways to communicate with the generation that matters," says Logan, who, along with Macfarlane, serves as an adviser to TreeFight. "He's coming up with really innovative ideas beyond stapling verbenone packets to get people involved and maybe impress on them that what we're doing is really driving this problem." At the heart of all this is the provocative notion that a gnarly little high-altitude tree can step up to become the next whale or polar bear. But if Gonzales is ignoring traditional eco-wisdom that cuddly megafauna make the best environmental spokesmen, he has a simple reason for doing so. "Trees can't move," he explains flatly. "They can't migrate with the seasons or climb higher to adapt to warming temperatures. And because of this, they're the most effective temperature gauge on the planet."
Shortly after noon, the TreeFighters and I reached a ridge crowded with still-verdant whitebark. We fanned out in pairs, with Pepi scrambling happily from group to group. It's a charismatic tree, you have to admit. Unmolested, a single pine can live a thousand years, and some older specimens have a sculptural, almost Seussian quality to them. Methodically, we started stapling the first of several dozen citronella-smelling packets, posing after each for a high-resolution, geo-tagged photo.
43@ 52' 39" N, 110@ 34' 39" W This is the rustic-posh Jackson Lake Lodge in Grand Teton National Park. A few months after our mission up Togwotee Pass, I went there to watch Gonzales give a presentation at Jackson Hole's inaugural TEDx Conference. He was endearingly terrified throughout, but he managed to hit the highlights, and a short clip from Seeing Red drew an audible chorus of whoas from the crowd. Naturally soft-spoken, Gonzales is slowly embracing the role of public speaker. He has since presented at the estimable Yale School of Forestry and hopes to bring TreeFight's message to new audiences this summer and beyond.
Later, over a post-conference beer, Gonzales acknowledged another advantage of a tree's essential fixedness. It allows us, he said, to form relationships with it that we simply can't with an otter or a giant panda. The comment reminded me of a quote from the Viennese philosopher Martin Buber: "[A]s I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation," Buber writes, "and the tree ceases to be an It." That kind of relationship is what turned Gonzales from a ski-bum auteur into an activist, and he's betting it can do the same for others. In the end, TreeFight's mission has less to do with fighting than with conversion: helping whitebark cease to be an It before whitebark ceases to be.
This story originally ran as "Fight Club" in the May-June 2013 issue of Audubon magazine.


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