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Time for Leaf AnalysisThe next two weeks will be the best time to collect your leaves for mineral nutrient analysis. The appropriate time for leaf collection is between July 20th and August 20th. Leaf testing is available through UVM Agricultural and Environmental Testing Laboratory (phone: 802-656-3030 or 1-800-244-6402). Instructions for leaf sampling collections are included in this letter (orange insert). Please follow the instructions carefully so as to avoid any mistakes in the analysis. The fall is a good time to do the soil analysis. It is important to do both tests because these tests complement each other. The soil analysis tests will give you an assessment of the acidity and the fertility of the soil before the growing season, whereas leaf analysis gives you the nutritional status of the plant during the growing season. I will send a reminder in the fall for your soil analysis. It is a good idea to look at leaf analysis as a way of saving money and preventing deficiency as well as toxicity problems. Nutrient toxicity problems can be as troublesome as deficiency problems. The results of this analysis will tell you whether you need a specific element or not and if your current fertilizer program is correct.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR APPLE LEAF SAMPLE COLLECTION-VERMONT TIME TO SAMPLE: Between July 20th and August 20th. WHAT TO SAMPLE: Select 60 to 100 leaves from the middle of current season terminal shoots. If sampling is done later than July 25th, select the first full-sized, mature leaf behind the shoot tip. Select 1 or 2 leaves per shoot from several shoots on each of several trees exposed to light. Shoots to be sampled should be 5 to 7 feet above ground level in larger-sized trees and 3 to 6 feet above ground level in smaller sized trees ( young trees, trellised or slender spindle plantings). Shoots sampled should be of average vigor ( length and diameter ) for the trees in the planting. AVOID excessively strong shoots ( near pruning cuts ) and extremely weak shoots. DO NOT include spur leaves. DO NOT include leaves damaged by disease, insects, weather or mechanical injury. DO NOT mix leaves from trees of different varieties. TREES SAMPLED should represent the average condition within the orchard unless special samples are being taken to determine cause(s) of a distinct problem or condition. SOIL CONDITIONS , PAST FERTILIZER PRACTICES, AND SPRAY PROGRAMS should be uniform (similar) over the entire area sampled. If any of these conditions are different in various parts of the orchard, it will be necessary to sample these areas separately. COLLECTING AND HANDLING SAMPLES: Remove the leaves by pulling downward so the petiole remains attached to the leaf. Place leaves in a dry paper bag or perforated plastic bag and immediately label the bag so that you will know where it came from. WASH the leaves before they wilt to remove spray residues and dirt. Gently rub the leaves together in a mild detergent solution ( dish washing detergent in tap water ). SEE FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS FOR WASHING LEAVES. Place sample in a dry paper bag, with top open, and let dry at room temperature until leaves are brittle. FILL OUT the sample information sheet. BE SURE that the leaf sample bag and the information sheet have been marked with the same identification number. Each sample bag must have: Your name and /or orchardAddressVariety and AgeBlock identification number, letter or nameSecured closure ( stapled or taped ) MAKE OUT a check or money order payable to UVM Testing Service and enclose check, information sheets and leaf sample in a mailing carton. COST PER SAMPLE: $20.00 includes N, K, Ca, Mg, P, B, Mn, Zn, N:K, and K:Mg rates. Seal the carton with tape appropriate for shipping. Mail or bring the carton to the Agricultural Testing Lab, Rm. 219 Hills Building, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405 WASHING LEAF SAMPLES Wash the leaf samples while still fresh, before they wilt. If a large number of samples are involved they can be stored overnight in a cold storage, refrigerator, or ice chest to keep them from drying out. Use distilled water, available at most drugstores, for washing and rinsing the samples. Change the water as it becomes dirty or after 8 to 10 samples ( whichever occurs first ). Gently and lightly scrub the leaves together in a mild detergent solution ( most dish washing detergents are satisfactory ). Shake to remove the excess water and immediately rinse the sample in clean, distilled water. Again shake to remove excess water. Spread out sample on clean paper towels until leaf surfaces are dry. Transfer sample to paper bag, with top open, and dry at room temperature until the leaves are brittle. NOTE: Do not let leaves stand in water--complete the washing and rinsing process in one minute or less.VERMONT LEAF ANALYSIS INFORMATION SHEET(LAB USE ONLY)Lab Sample Number: ________________________ Date Sample Collected: ___________________________ Telephone Number: ______________________________Grower Address: ________________________________________Orchard Name or Block: ______________________AVERAGE TREE AGE: ________________Spur Type ( ) or Non Spur ( ) Rootstock (main): ________________________________Overall Tree Vigor (circle): GOOD MEDIUM POOR Average Terminal Growth (circle): <6" 7" to 14" 15" to 23" >24" "very important to note"General Leaf Size (circle): LARGE NORMAL SMALLOverall Green Leaf Color (circle): DARK MEDIUM LIGHT OR PALECrop Load This Year (circle): NONE LIGHT MODERATE HEAVYSoil Type: ___________________________Soil Drainage Good: YES ( ) NO ( )Is a Herbicide Program Being Used: YES ( ) NO ( )Is an Irrigation Program Being Used: YES ( ) NO ( )FERTILIZER PROGRAM (Ground or spray) for the current yearAmount per acre ( ) or per tree ( )Nitrogen: ________________________Boron: _________________________Potassium: _____________________ Calcium: _______________________Magnesium: ______________________Lime: _________________________(and when last applied) ____________________________Other Nutrients____________________________________________________________________________________________________


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Sometimes it seems like Bite Me World HQ is all about the esoteric discussion of cassoulet, coq au vin and the perils of foie gras production (those ducks and geese can get pissed, and they stand just about crotch-high). I've written about crepes (see my review of Crepes 'n Crepes), cuisine haute (at Restaurant Kevin Taylor, the Palace Arms and elsewhere), cuisine basse (my favorite, especially as practiced at places like Le Central or Z Cuisine) and cuisine merde (Brasserie Ten Ten, in particular). But there's one area of French gastronomy that doesn't get a lot of play in these pages: pastry.
There are a couple of reasons for this. First, I don't know a lot about the gentle arts of the chef pâtissier. I wish I did. Had I been able to bake a loaf of bread, pull a little sugar, melt chocolate without breaking it or tell the difference between chantilly and pastry creams, my experiences in the kitchen might have been different. But I was wired for the hot line — as a station chef, and not a terribly creative one at that, with much more of Vatel than Careme in me.
Marie Antonin Careme was a patissier (he made Napoleon's wedding cake), a genius, a workaholic and a nut. Not only did he cook for kings and write some of the most influential cookbooks of his time, but — like Emeril or Rachael Ray — he redesigned (and put his name on) pots and pans, planned kitchens and even formalized what today is the standard chef's uniform of white double-breasted jacket, checked pants and toque. He was firmly of the opinion that, as with the stripes and stars on military uniforms, a commanding officer (read: executive chef) ought to be immediately recognizable in the midst of the kitchen melee, and therefore argued that a chef's seniority ought to be reflected in the size of his toque. Careme's dress toque? Eighteen inches tall — rising up off his head like a monument to egotism and weird brilliance. He was the world's first celebrity chef (no matter how much Marco Pierre White may lobby for the title) and cut the groove that everyone else would follow hundreds of years later.
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As for Francois Vatel, other than inventing chantilly cream (at a party for Louis XIV held at the Chateau de Chantilly, natch), he was primarily a banquet chef and known most widely for his perfectionism, his obsessive-compulsiveness and the fact that he killed himself (by falling on a sword, no less) over a late fish delivery. In fact, Vatel popped his own cork in the middle of the same banquet for which he invented chantilly cream, which is the only part of his story I take issue with.
Buddy, you were a motherfucking chef. And a chef doesn't abandon his troops in the middle of dinner when things start going sideways. A chef cowboys up, shifts the fish course back, fills with chicken, then pulls out his gold card and sends one of his junior poissonardes out to the medieval Piggly Wiggly to buy them out of anything that swims. A little aspic, some fancy garnishing, and the king is none the wiser. Then, only when all is said and done — the troops paid off, the galley broken down, everyone on their way home — does a chef put away a bottle of absinthe and eat a musket ball.
History does not record who stepped into Vatel's shoes and saw the banquet through to its finish, what miserable sous or chef de partie got saddled with the duty of informing the staff that "Le chef est mort," then stepped up and ran the kitchen for the rest of the night. But I actually have a lot in common with that guy (whoever he was), too, because I've had that conversation: "Sorry, guys. Chef just called from the police station. He got drunk last night, went up on the roof and passed out. This morning, the cops had to come and get him down after his neighbor blew him in for pissing into his azalea bushes from the roof, so it looks like I'm running the show tonight."
The other reason I don't write a lot about French bakeries is that they're not good review subjects. There's not a lot of action, nowhere to sit and watch the flow of a night's service. For that matter, good bakeries do the bulk of their business between eight and eleven in the morning — hours when I am either asleep or sitting hung over on the couch in my underpants wondering exactly what I did the night before that caused me to come home with four pairs of sunglasses and $400 worth of credit-card receipts for porn and barbecue.
Still, once in a while I manage to get out of the house at a reasonably early hour. Sometimes it's for pancakes, sometimes for crepes. And last week, with the Best of Denver 2008 looming, I made the rounds of a few French bakeries. In Aurora, I stopped by Daniel's of Paris (12253 East Iliff Avenue) for fruit tarts and petits fours. Daniel's focuses on cakes, but the petits fours are really just smaller versions of their larger pièce montées — a sort of catch-as-catch-can assortment of genoise, ganache and meringues. I got out the door with a slice of delicious cherry tart and a murderously rich chocolate something-or-other, spiked with espresso and so dark that light couldn't escape. A few minutes away, at 2832 South Havana Street, is Katherine's French Bakery — a bright and sunny little space with a couple of tables and a menu that makes Katherine's more like a pastry-heavy cafe than a stand-alone bakery, with quiches, sandwiches, scratch soups and coffee. But I usually skip all of that in favor of the bakery cases — rows and rows of cakes, tarts, cookies and a delicious croissant aux amandes — that remain pretty well stocked well into the afternoon. Chef Mario Arrua came to Denver by way of Argentina and Miami; owner Katherine Keeley Pappas went the old-fashioned route, apprenticing herself to a French baker, then running off to Martigues, France, where she worked under French, Spanish and Algerian chefs in a Provençal patisserie-boulangerie.

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text: Please join the Marquette University community in celebrating the Wednesday, July 31, 2013 St. Ignatius Loyola was born in 1491 and died on this day in 1556. When he was a youth, he joined the Spanish army and his bravado led him to sustain a life-threatening injury. During his recovery, he was led by God to change his priorities from serving the Spanish king to Christ the King. Needing an education to be a credible preacher and teacher, he went to the University of Paris for a degree in theology. There, he inspired six companions to join him as a religious community. The Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, was approved in September 1540. In 1548, Ignatius was invited to open a school in Messina, Sicily. The school was such a success that people from all over Europe asked the Jesuits to open schools for their children. The tradition continues today with Jesuit universities, Jesuit high schools, Cristo Rey schools and Nativity middle schools in the United States. On July 31, we gather to celebrate the life and ministry of St. Ignatius Loyola and also his inspiration, which animates our work at Marquette. Following Mass, there will be a small luncheon reception and we are honored to have the St. Patrick's Children's Choir perform during this time. Please register here if you would like to attend the Mass and celebration. |


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Constine graduated from Stanford University in 2009 with a Master's degree in Cybersociology, examining the influence of technology on social interaction. He researched the impact of privacy controls on the socialization of children, meme popularity cycles, and what influences the click through rate of links posted to Twitter.
Constine also received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from Stanford University in 2007, with a concentration in Social Psychology & Interpersonal Processes.
Josh Constine is an experienced public speaker, and has done on-stage inteviews with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, AOL CEO Tim Cook, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, SoundCloud CEO Alex Ljung, and Senator Cory Booker. He's been quoted by The Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, The Atlantic, BBC World Magazine, Slate, and more, plus has been featured on television on NBC and Fox News. Constine is available for speaking gigs.
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Of course, in Iowa, sweet corn is a local-grown favorite.
"It's almost a sort of symbol of recognition," said Gene Loffredo, president and chief executive officer of Loffredo Fresh Produce Co. Inc., Des Moines, Iowa. "There's just something about an Iowa ear of corn. Unfortunately, (the local grown season) doesn't last long. But we definitely see a loss in retail business when home grown comes on. People just can't wait for the season to come."
As much as the locally grown movement has grown and spread over the previous few years, it's still a market that's under-supplied for the demand, said Anthony Totta, a produce consultant who owns Grow My Profits LLC in Lee's Summit, Mo.
"There's some nice quality produce produced in Missouri and Kansas, but it's hard for retailers to contract totally with them because there's not enough supply," Totta said. "It's growing, and it's becoming more sophisticated. The challenges now are how to become consolidated and distribute it."


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Like Valenti, my younger journalist friends and colleagues imagine a kaleidoscopic future where the hoarier codes of journalism are put to rest: goodbye inverted pyramid, hello a nearly reckless immediacy; goodbye measured commentary, hello pungent or radical or vulgar commentary. Yet beyond style, the new reality is that there is no clear, long-term career plan for Found Media-ites—or even for most of the rest of us. We're in the sort of moment in history that some people will say they were glad to witness, but only twenty years hence.
Found Media-ite David Cohn, twenty-six, started on the traditional path when he attended Columbia's journalism school. He began to see himself as a journalistic entrepreneur rather than a writer, however. Technology, Cohn said, is about organizing information. "Telling a story is not enough anymore," he says. While journalists have always organized information, what Cohn and others like him mean by this is a different way of thinking about what we do—rubbing off some of our collective grandiosity and seeing ourselves more simply, as workers who gather and filter data.
Another potential Found Media model is the reader-funded journalism initiatives like MyDD.com: in 2006, readers donated money so the site's writers could afford to cover a congressional race. A more likely scheme is the one used by Federated Media Publishing, a company that helps independent journalists and other writers monetize their Web sites by selling advertising for them and splitting the revenue. These are the sort of businesses and models that, in Cohn's eyes, Lost Media people should start to consider. As Cohn puts it, Found Media people are wondering, "Why are we not changing things" in the newspaper and magazine industry while "older journalists are blaming market forces" for decline. In fact, in my interviews, the younger the writers were, the less bewildered they seemed—an inversion of the usual state of things. I asked ProPublica's Steiger why almost all the Found Media-ites were young. Was it just the ability to master technology? "The environment right now is much better for young people than for people in their fifties and sixties," he said. "It is also better for the young than for people in their forties and thirties. Young people can survive on starvation wages." But what of the sustainability of these nascent young careers over the long run? After all, the collapse of economic models for journalism affects Lost Media and Found Media folk alike. Valenti, for instance, while thankful for the attention all of her cheap labor gets her, wonders when she'll get a decent check for her efforts. Although Feministing makes some money through ad sales, she hasn't yet wound up at New York magazine, where many of the best and/or most aggressive New York-area bloggers seem to go to cash in their maverick chits for establishment checks. She has, however, leapfrogged to being an author who gets book contracts and writes for magazines that her relatives have heard about, and is paying her bills by consulting for various organizations on blogging. In a paradox familiar to the stars of Found Media, she gets called to be on The Colbert Report, yet she still writes out of her kitchen in Astoria, Queens.
Of course, not all younger writers have let go and learned to love the blogs. Kiyoshi Martinez is twenty-three years old and the founder of AngryJournalist.com, a Web site for irked and neglected reporters to vent anonymously. Despite his youth, Martinez has already given up reporting to write press releases for the Illinois Senate Republican staff—a young man embittered by the newspaper business before he has reached the natural age of bitterness (forty, by my lights). "My generation is now inheriting a lot of problems created by those before them who didn't realize how the Internet would change editorial content, sales, and marketing," he told me in a phone interview, while driving past cornfields in Illinois. Martinez has tapped an empire of irate journalists, who post things like: "I'm angry that newspaper owners who routinely expected at least 20 percent margins (7 percent is the average for U.S. companies) are now crying about real competition and are dumbing down and slashing to compete." Welcome to Lost Media, at its darkest and most hostile.


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A message to the class of 2012 from the Idealist community on Twitter
Yesterday, one of our interns shared her reflections on Michelle Obama's commencement speech to the class of 2012 at Oregon State University. While many of us were inspired by Michelle's words, we wondered what advice our community of change makers would give to this year's graduates.
To that end, we asked our friends on Twitter to complete the following sentence: "Dear Class of 2012, if you want to change the world, remember…" Here is the advice they shared:
"Dear Class of 2012, if you want to change the world remember to find friends to help you out. No one can do it alone!" ~ @aimee587
"…if you want to change the world, remember you must change yourself first." ~@SummerStrauch
"…remember to live humbly and compassionately." ~@MAWGtheFROG
"…remember to start small but think big and watch the ripples reach a nation." ~@KaulanaNC
"…remember to listen to those you seek to help." ~@NonprofitJen
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We pride ourselves on providing a quality soccer environment involving both the recreation + and competitive player. Our coaches are quality trained volunteers, most of whom have first-hand experience as a previous player.
How do I register?
Annual registration is available via our website; we utilize an electronic system for registration and player communications. Registration is open until the deadline as listed on the registration webpage. Registration is always available as team space allows. Simply contact a Gillette Soccer Club coach or board member.
Player Placement
Our team placement is based on age and skill level via seasonal evaluations. Our organized evaluations are conducted by our coaches, Director of Coaching and independent evaluators, ensuring that your player will be placed appropriately.
Where do we play?
As a longtime member of Wyoming Youth Soccer we play in Wyoming USYS Tournaments, Regional Tournaments (South Dakota, Montana, Colorado), Wyoming League, and Wyoming State Cup. Our teams are open to travel to other area tournaments as the coach, parents and players decide.
How do I coach?
Gillette Soccer Club Coaches must apply every season and are reviewed by the Director of Coaching, who then brings his recommended list to the board of directors for approval. Coaches applications are on the seasonal registration page. All coaches are required to have a background check and be approved by Wyoming Youth Soccer before they are allowed to work with any of our youth.
Training Opportunities
The Gillette Soccer Club believes in continual education of not only our coaches, but also that of our players. Players have the opportunity to participate in training provided by individual seasoned coaches brought in from other areas of the country and even out of the country such as Brazil. For the last two seasons the Gillette Soccer Club has had a private coach from Brazil. We also have several camps in the summer including Challenger (June) and Tetra Brazil (August).
We also promote and encourage player participation in the Wyoming Olympic Development Program (ODP). ODP provides players opportunities for further development and advancement. Players also have the opportunity for college and national exposure through tournaments and regional camp.
Gillette Soccer Club Tournaments
We host two tournaments through the year. Our Fall Blast Tournament is held the end of August at Bicentennial Park. Our Winter Blast Tournament is held in February at the Field House of the Campbell County Parks and Recreation Center.
Referee Opportunities
We offer several training opportunities throughout the year for those twelve and over to attain their referee certificate. We only use official certified referees for our league and tournaments.
How do I get involved?
We are always looking for parent volunteers throughout the year. Our board of directors meetings are held the third Monday of each month at 7 PM. Our meetings are open to everyone and are publicly announced on our website each month.
Board of Directors
Our boards of directors are a very dedicated group volunteering many, many hours to provide a fair, enjoyable experience to all players and families. We make every decision based on the safety and interest of all players. The board of directors is open to input at all times for ways to make our organization better for all.
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ESnet, along with Calit2 (the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology) CENIC (the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California) are convening the 100G and Beyond Workshop, a one-day invited workshop on Tuesday, February 26, at Calit2 on the UC San Diego campus.
The workshop will examine the ways in which 100 gigbabit-per-second networking will impact applications in many areas, including science, health care, and media arts applications; campus and lab strategies; smart manufacturing; network innovation; and regional, national and international testbeds. ESnet, rolled out its 100 Gbps network last November – the first national 100 Gbps science network in the world.
ESnet and NERSC staff will share their expertise in a number of workshop sessions.
- Brent Draney of NERSC will chair and participate in a panel discussion on Campus and Lab Strategies.
- ESnet Chief Technologist Inder Monga will chair the Network Innovations panel, as well as join a discussion on "SDN: Hype vs. Hope."
- Zarija Lukic of CRD's Computational Cosmology Center will also join the SDN discussion, and present on "Future Coupling of Major Instruments: NERSC and SDSC."
- ESnet's Brian Tierney will describe "Deploying and Testing Networking Innovations on a Wide Scale: ESnet" as part of a panel on Scientific Workflows and Testbeds.
- ESnet Director Greg Bell will join a discussion on next steps in the closing session, "From Campus Innovation to California/National Testbeds."
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Recently a barge carrying sodium hydroxide became beached on a shallow sandbar near Homer. The barge was freed without incident, but had the hull been punctured somehow, massive amounts of the highly toxic material could have spilled out and caused one serious fish kill, Bittle said.
The runaway train explosion that leveled blocks of a Quebec town this year was a worst case scenario, Bittle stated. Winona's last derailmenta minor mishap on Wall Street earlier this summeronly tore up some pavement. However, "the potential for a major accident is great," Bittle said. "We have the product I hate to say to put us on the national stage in terms of a major disaster."
When disaster strikes, "local government is typically on its own for the first two days," Bittle explained. A new government-industry partnership called Community Awareness Emergency Response (CAER), largely sponsored by Canadian Pacific and BNSF railways, gives local governments in strategic locations along the Mississippi River, from Red Wing to Marquette, Iowa, new resources for responding to and containing hazardous material spills on the great river. Winona is one of five communities along that stretch of the river with spill response equipment and training. On Thursday, the Winona Fire Department (WFD) hitched up the CAER trailer outside Central Fire station and practiced their river "haz mat" response.
Winona Fire Captain Brandon Luehmann stood by the river with his brother's hunting rangefinder and two giant yellow ribbons. "Now is where the distancing is more critical," he hollered to his team in an idling rescue boat. "We want them to overlap."
Luehmann borrowed the distance-measuring scope to gauge the placement of the yellow "booms" in a spill containment training exercise. If oil-bearing railcars lost their cargo in the river, Luehmann and his team would use the floating, rubbery booms to contain the spill.
The team drags one of the one-hundred-foot-long booms to create the second link in a diagonal line of booms stretching up river. The team is setting a trap. The floating booms form a giant funnel waiting for any spill swept downstream on the current. "When it comes down river it'll hit this containment system," explained firefighter Matt Lisowski.
"Back a little bit. Okay! D.R., uncleat it," Lisowski calls to his teammates as they place the next boom from the fire department's small rescue craft.
The department can use the booms to form a funnel to divert a spill to an area where it can be collected either with chemical absorbing "pillows" called "pigs" or a vacuum truck. The booms can also be used to seal off an area from a spill a sensitive backwater, heron rookery, or a boat harbor, for example. In another situation, the department might direct a spill to a slough or harbor in order to trap the spill there. It all depends on what we want to do, Bittle explained.
In any case, the WFD needs to know ahead of time. "It's a big communication thing," fireman Derick "D.R." Ritter said of getting notice of an emergency. "We need to hear from Wabasha or Red Wing" that there was a spill. The WFD needs to know of an upriver spill flowing towards Winona ahead of time in order to prepare the containment system. "If the spill were here already, there wouldn't be any point," Ritter explained. Additionally, the booms only work to clean up lighter-than-water substances such as oil.
A relatively calm river made Thursday's exercise one of the department's smoothest to date, Luehmann said. Swift water blows the booms parallel to the current and makes getting them into the diagonal position needed to create a funnel system difficult, but on Thursday the biggest problem the team faced was debating whether or not their small boat could hold a Winona Post reporter without getting swamped.
Despite the extra cargo, Luehmann's team set up the spill containment system in short order. In case of a very large spill, additional response teams and equipment from Red Wing and other CAER communities up and down the river would come to Winona's aid, giving emergency responders up to 5,000 feet of boom.
When asked why Winona was chosen for the spill protection program, Bittle explained that Winona has environmental attractions that draw residents and tourists alike. "This is probably the prettiest piece of real estate on the whole river," he said. "We all owe it to do what we can to protect that."
In addition to funding from the railways, local industry groups have supported the program, including Severson Oil, Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), Wilson Oil of Redwing, and Xcel Energy, according to Bittle.
Winona firefighters prepare for hazardous material spills during a training session on the Mississippi River (left and above left). Winona Fire Captain Brandon Luehmann (below, at left) plans the next step in setting up a containment system with firefighters Derick Ritter, Matt Lisowski, and Matt Yackel (below, from left to right).


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Makes 4 servings
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1 hour 10 minutes
- 1 25.4-ounce bottle sparkling apple cider
- 1/4 cup red currant jelly
- 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) unsalted butter
- 4 large Fuji apples (about 9 ounces each)
- 3/4 cup purchased mincemeat with rum and brandy
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/4 cup dried tart cherries
- 1 tablespoon chopped crystallized ginger
Preheat oven to 400°F. Boil first 3 ingredients in large skillet until reduced to 1 1/4 cups, about 12 minutes.
Meanwhile, cut cone-shaped piece from stem end of each apple, 2 inches wide at top and 1 inch deep. Using melon baller, core, leaving bottom intact. Turn apple on its side. Starting halfway down, make 1/4-inch-deep slit all around. Mix mincemeat, walnuts, cherries, and crystallized ginger in small bowl; spoon into apples, mounding in center.
Arrange apples in 11x7x2-inch baking dish. Spoon cider mixture over and around. Bake until apples are tender, about 45 minutes. Serve in shallow bowls.
Nutritional analysis per serving: 460 calories, 10.8 g fat (3.8 g saturated fat), 15.0 mg cholesterol, 90.5 g carbs, 4.3 g dietary fiber, 50.1 g total sugars, 86.2 g net carbs, 3.0 g protein
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Birth Defects
January is Birth Defects Prevention Month. Birth defects, or congenital anomalies, affect 1 in every 33 babies born in the United States and are a leading cause of babies dying. Infants who survive and live with birth defects are at increased risk for developing many lifelong physical, cognitive, and social challenges. Medical care and support services only scrape the surface of the financial and emotional impact of living with birth defects.
Birth Defects are:
- Common: One in 33 U.S. babies is born with a major birth defect each year.
- Costly: The yearly hospital costs for birth defects exceed $2.6 billion.
- Critical: 1 in 5 infant deaths is due to birth defects, making them a leading cause of infant mortality.
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Additional Information about Birth Defects
- Arizona Birth Defects Monitoring Program
- A New Diagnosis: What Do I Do Now?
- Birth Defects Prevention Month Proclamation
Healthy women have healthier babies! Not all birth defects can be prevented, but there are some keys to reducing the risk. Women of child bearing age can reduce their risk by:
- Taking 400 mcg of folic acid every day.
- Staying up-to-date on immunizations.
- Getting regular medical checkups and knowing family history.
- Not smoking and avoiding second-hand smoke.
- Avoiding alcohol and other drugs.
Additional Birth Defects Prevention Resources
- Arizona Smoker's Helpline
- CDC National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
- CDC Preconception Health and Health Care
- Center for Hope: Services for pregnant women with substance abuse and behavioral health conditions
- Family Planning and Birth Spacing Information
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Prevention and Treatment
- National Birth Defects Prevention Network
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- Preconception Health Materials
- Project Quit


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My name is Jersey!
Facts about Jersey
- Breed: Pit Bull Terrier Mix
- Color: Brown/Chocolate - With White
- Age: Adult
- Size: Med. 26-60 lbs (12-27 kg)
- Sex: Female
Jersey's Info...
I am already spayed, housetrained, in need of an experienced adopter, up to date with shots, good with kids, good with dogs, and not good with cats.
Meet Jersey!
Jersey is a 1.5-year-old Pitty mix who was previously used for breeding. She's 48 lbs and super strong. She would be OK in a home with other dogs after a proper introduction, but would be best without cats.
So far, Jersey is displaying a very sweet disposition and loves to give kisses and cuddles! She's learned to walk well on a leash with only minor reminders not to pull, but she tends to forget her leash manners when she sees a small critter like a squirrel.
Jersey LOVES children. Loves. And it would be great to see Jersey go to a house with kids as she is so respectful of them and loving toward them. Jersey waits at the door for children to exit (rather than bowling them over), she does not jump on them, and she cuddles with them and allows them to cuddle back. Jersey has no resource guarding issues (no food possession, etc.) and is a very gentle pup with her humans.
Jersey does have a bit of anxiety at the dog park with a lot of activity around her and can be guarding of her personal space with other dogs. She definitely needs to socialize with more dogs to get comfortable.
Jersey is spayed, chipped, and up to date on vaccinations. Would you like to be her new LEASH-on-life? Let us know!
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Why Adoption is a Great Option
Jersey, a Pitt Meadows Pit Bull Terrier dog was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a Pit Bull Terrier for sale in Pitt Meadows, or seeking a Pit Bull Terrier dog from a breeder in Pitt Meadows.
- Rescues and shelter volunteers in Pitt Meadows already know the personality and tendencies of their pets. This means they can match you with the right pet. That will makes it much easier transition to owning a pet for yourself and your new pet.
- On average adoption fees are much less than you'd pay a Pitt Meadows breeder, or pet store. Plus most often rescue pets have already been to the veterinarian for a check-up, had a round of vaccinations, and are spayed or neutered. That is a lot of savings!
- You will become a hero, and give a needy dog or cat a loving home. In fact, there are even Pit Bull Terrier breeders who help with Pit Bull Terrier rescue. One puppy or kitten adopted in Pitt Meadows paves the way for another one to be saved.


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Mariners drop fifth in a row despite Kyle Seager's huge game
Seager hits two homers and drives in all Mariners runs, but Seattle can't end streak in 5-4 loss to Tampa Bay.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — For the Mariners, it was a game in which, as manager Eric Wedge put it, "One guy gave us every opportunity to win the ballgame offensively."
That guy was third baseman Kyle Seager, who had two homers Wednesday to drive in all Seattle's runs in a 5-4 defeat to the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field.
But it was also a night of freaky and frustrating occurrences that led to the Mariners' fifth straight defeat as a once-promising trip turns increasingly dark.
It was also a night in which the Mariners squandered a huge opportunity to tie the score in the eighth, and one when Wedge's patience with two supremely struggling veterans appeared to near its breaking point.
Chone Figgins was 0 for 5 with two strikeouts. Brendan Ryan was 0 for 3 with three strikeouts. On this trip, they are a combined 4 for 49 (.081). Figgins' average has dropped to .198, Ryan's to .125.
Figgins is likely to start Thursday, Wedge said, because he is 7 for 14 in his career against Tampa Bay starter Jeff Niemann, but it wouldn't be surprising if Ryan sat.
"It's not carte blanche here," Wedge said. "Figgins has numbers off this guy tomorrow so we'll give him another chance to see if he can get himself going, but it doesn't last forever. I am patient. It's a long season and we're 25 games in and have 130-some odd to play. But ultimately it's about producing. If they're not getting it done, then we'll have to change their roles."
Wedge was particularly upset with the Mariners' 14 strikeouts — 11 of them in six innings against Rays starter James Shields.
"The strikeouts are just ridiculous to me right now," he said. "These guys are better than that. Whether it be zoning up early or throughout the course of the count or sticking your nose in there with two strikes, this is not going to continue to happen, because we're not going to let it happen. If we have to change the personnel, then so be it. If we have to change the roles, then so be it. But ultimately they've got to show me a reason to keep on playing."
Throw in the ongoing travails of Justin Smoak — dropped from fourth to seventh in the order Wednesday and relegated to designated hitter — and the trio was a combined 0 for 11 with seven strikeouts in the game. They are now 8 for 77 (.104) on this trip.
In the eighth, trailing by a run, the Mariners put runners on first and third with one out on singles by Ichiro and Seager. But Alex Liddi fouled out and Smoak flied out to right on a well-struck ball.
Liddi, playing first, was also involved in a key play in the fourth, when a towering pop fly by Luke Scott dropped, untouched, between Liddi and second baseman Dustin Ackley. The ball hit a wire, but Ackley said that wasn't a factor. Instead, the culprit was miscommunication between the two fielders as the ball briefly went out of sight at its apex.
"He said he had it," Ackley explained. "I (looked) up, and it was gone. I was like, 'Does he still have it? Can he still see it?' I think when I asked him, 'Do you got it?', he thought I was saying, 'I got it.'
"I think that's where the miscommunication was. When it's so loud out there, he might have just heard, "Got it." We have to do a better job of communicating and making sure one of us has it. That was the tough part of it."
The lost out played a key role in the inning as Tampa Bay went on to score two off Mariner starter Blake Beavan to take a 4-3 lead. And after the Mariners tied it on Seager's second homer — following a three-run shot by Seager off Shields in the first — the Mariners had another fluky play on a ball hit by Scott.
Leading off the sixth, Scott hit a drive to center that sent Michael Saunders back to the wall. Saunders made a leaping attempt, but the ball glanced off his glove and over the fence. That run held on as the game-winner, and left Saunders befuddled as to what exactly happened.
"I know I got a piece of the ball. That's it," he said. "In all honesty, I got a bit of the ball. I don't know if I was going to catch it before I hit the wall, I don't know if the ball was already over the wall, I don't know. It was just one of those plays, it all happened so fast. I hit the wall and came down without the ball."
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Bible Verses About Fatherhood
Bible verses related to Fatherhood from the King James Version (KJV) by Relevance
Proverbs 20:7 - The just [man] walketh in his integrity: his children [are] blessed after him.
Ephesians 6:4 - And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Proverbs 4:1-9 - Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. (Read More...)
1 Timothy 3:8-13 - Likewise [must] the deacons [be] grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; (Read More...)
Proverbs 13:22 - A good [man] leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner [is] laid up for the just.
Genesis 18:19 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Colossians 3:21 - Fathers, provoke not your children [to anger], lest they be discouraged.
Proverbs 13:24 - He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
Proverbs 10:1 - The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son [is] the heaviness of his mother.
Psalms 103:13 - Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
Psalms 78:5-8 - For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: (Read More...)
Psalms 68:5-6 - A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, [is] God in his holy habitation. (Read More...)
Proverbs 3:11-12 - My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: (Read More...)
John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Matthew 7:9-11 - Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? (Read More...)
Proverbs 19:18 - Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.
Luke 15:20-24 - And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. (Read More...)
Job 1:4-5 - And his sons went and feasted [in their] houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them. (Read More...)
Genesis 1:27 - So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
1 Corinthians 3:11 - For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
John 14:2 - In my Father's house are many mansions: if [it were] not [so], I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Galatians 4:6 - And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Romans 8:14 - For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
John 14:6 - Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Matthew 23:9 - And call no [man] your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Malachi 2:10 - Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
Ruth 1:1-22 - Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. (Read More...)
2 Peter 2:1-22 - But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. (Read More...)
2 Timothy 3:16 - All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
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Coming Out
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Edouard François
/ Edouard François
Grenoble / France
The approach to sustainable development that we developed had to be global. We found synthesis solutions that generate, within the framework of a controlled economy, synergy effects coming within the scope of a set of technical and architectural resolutions that are based on what we consider as the inescapable fundamentals of an environmental conception of housing:
Integration of the project in its immediate environment
Realisation of a successful frame as far as thermic energy is concerned
A healthy building
A thrifty and comfortable building
For our operation in Bonnes urban development zone (in French ZAC de Bonne), SKIN WALL, we reached the following objectives:
Reduced service charges for the users-to-be:
- 50 KWH/m2 ha./year for the heating, to compare to 90 KWH/m2 ha./year that are the present regulation,
- 20 KWH/m2 ha./year for sanitary warm water, instead of 40 KWH/m2 ha./year,
- 15 KWH/m2 ha./year for electricity instead of 46 KWH/m2 ha./year
Successful facilities :
- Solar panels
- GTA with double-flow
- Co-generation
- Double windows
- Insulation from the outside
Sustainable implementation of materials.
Thermos buildings insulated from the outside:
- Limited penetration points = outside passageways, balconies on metallic framework
- Limitation of thermic bridges by suppression of acroters
- Outside services : compactness of warmed surfaces
- Thin watertight membrane
Three distinct entities that enable to :
- Identify entrance halls of the three programmes splitting them up into tree distinct streets
- Create architectural entities at humans level
- Make the South light get into the garden through the empty spaces laid out between the three entities
- Reveal the common garden inside the block to Maginot Street, creating a central entity garden
- Rationalize cells and simplify structure
- Create individual terraced gardens
An outside service to :
- Isolate the apartments from the common parts and provide the compactness of warmed surfaces
- Access to each apartment by a private terrace, hanged up among vegetation
- Identify that the apartment are all individual entities
- Create a buffer-space between public and private
A solar filter system on the East-South-West facades :
- Outside circulation planted with tree on South façade
- Balconies on East and West facades for summer sun
- Vegetable filter on East and West facades
69 crossing apartments:
- 100% of totally crossing apartments
- Double facing North/South
- Thermic comfort in summer and winter
- Lightening of the apartments
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) -The Canadian Coast Guard says a new in-shore rescue boat in Vancouver and more reliance on the auxiliary coast guard will help keep our waters safe now that the Kitsilano station will close next spring.
Jody Thomas, the Deputy Commissioner of Operations with the Coast Guard, says they plan to have the new in-shore rescue boat running before the Kits station closes down.
"The Coast Guard has determined that an in-shore rescue boat in the Vancouver, strengthened partnerships with the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary, local emergency responders and the added support from the Sea Island hovercraft are the best mix of resources to provide search and rescue services both effectively and efficiently."
Thomas says the volunteer Auxiliary Coast Guard stations in Crescent Beach, Indian Arm, Howe Sound, Richmond and Delta will help too.
"Their reaction time is 19 minutes. They're underway within 30 minutes 90 per cent of the time and we're very confident after we discuss what our needs are and what they can they provide, that we will able to ensure the level of service is maintained in Vancouver harbour."
However, Thomas admits the Coast Guard only spoke to the Department of National Defence, not the province or the City of Vancouver, before deciding to close the Kits station, despite some federal claims of "broad consultation."
"We spoke to federal partners, yes," she says, noting the closure will save the Coast Guard about $900,000 a year.
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has said he was not told about the closure before it was announced and both city council and the Vancouver Park Board are urging people to speak out on social media against the closure.
Thomas contends a "significant amount of misinformation" has been circulating about the Kits base.
"On average, to be clear, the Kitsilano station responds to 200 maritime search and rescue calls a year," she says, even though the union representing the station's workers claim they carry out 300 rescues a year.
"Yes, there were nine calls over the [Victoria Day] long weekend but they could have been handled by other resources available in the Vancouver area," Thomas says. "None were distress calls. There were no lives actually at stake."
The Coast Guard's union claims 55 lives have been saved by the Kitsilano team this year alone.
New rescue boat, volunteers to help when Kits station closes
Coast Guard admits it only talked with National Defence before deciding to close Kits base, not province or City of Vancouver
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April 12, 2012, 6:03 PM
By Eric Spitznagel
ES: Bob Dylan loves the Three Stooges? That's insane.
PF: For me it just confirms his genius. So seven or eight years go by, and we finally get to make the movie, and we just assumed they'd kick the shit out of us with the licensing fees, but they didn't. For me, having a Bob Dylan song and Larry David in the movie those are the things that really class this baby up.
ES: That was my second-favorite moment. Larry David dressed as a nun is a thing of beauty, and it might be lost on the preteen audience.
PF: I'm sure there are some little kids who won't even know that's a man. But hey, if Larry David wants to dress as a dog, we'll put him in our movie. Whatever he wants. We were offering him the role of Larry for years.
ES: That pains me to know what might've been.
PF: He used to do this amazing Larry Fine impression on Fridays [above]. Remember the show Fridays? From the '80s?
ES: Yes, I am old enough to know what that was.
PF: He passed on being our Larry, but I begged him, "Do something, anything, just be in the movie." We gave him the script, and he was like, "What about Sister Mary-Mengele?"
ES: Is it true that Sean Penn was considered for the Larry Fine part?
PF: Yeah. It's all true.
ES: I can't even think about Sean Penn in that role. It hurts my brain. Did he actually read for it?
PF: No, it never got that far. But we met with him. We met with a lot of people. We met with Tom Hanks and Russell Crowe and Benicio Del Toro. We met with everybody. And they all passed. It certainly didn't help our case that there were so many naysayers out there. Everything you read online, all the blogs it was just brutal. And I think that scared a few actors away.
ES: If the Internet is to be believed, people are very protective of the Three Stooges.
PF: It was like we were doing something sacrilegious. I was almost amused by the outpouring of anger. I was like, "Really? That's your battle? There are starving people in the world and global warming and genocide, and you're getting up every morning saying, 'I've got to make sure the Three Stooges movie doesn't get made!' That's your personal crusade in life?"
ES: "No time to worry about kids in hoodies getting murdered..."
PF: [Laughs] "That's right! Somebody's trying to make a Three Stooges movie! Not on my watch!"
ES: So that's why actors were backing out? They didn't want to incur the Internet's wrath?
PF: Well, no, it was more complicated than that. We were asking them to do something very specific. A lot of times we'd sit down with actors, and they'd say, "I have a great idea for how I'd like to play Moe. I have the perfect take." And I'd say, "We don't want a take. We want Moe. Exactly Moe." That's not what actors want to hear.
ES: It wasn't just the impressions. You followed the Stooges' comedy blueprint to the letter, right down to the crappy special effects.
PF: We had some early screenings where people would say, "Those are the worst special effects ever! You've got to change it!" And the studio agreed with them, but we were like, "No, it's got to be that way! That's the whole point."
ES: When they jump out of the hospital window, and it's obviously dummies that's the exact moment when the movie won me over.
PF: We were adamant about that. When a dummy lands, the audience needs to recognize it's a dummy, and then we'll cut away to the real guys. That's how the Stooges are done. This is low-tech, man.
ES: Anything more would've been un-Stoogey.
PF: [Laughs] Thank you, yes. It would've been tremendously un-Stoogey. We tried to go further than that. In the Stooge shorts, whenever they showed a sign, like COUNTRY CLUB, NEXT LEFT, they would hold onto the shot for way too long, to the point where you could've read the sign thirty times over. And there were never any other noises, like city sounds or whatever. All you heard was this crackling brrrrrzzzzhhhhhh.
ES: Like white noise?
PF: Yeah, yeah, white noise. It was the most amateurish thing they did, so obviously we wanted to do it that way in the movie. But the studio was like, "Absolutely not. Nope, that ain't flying."
ES: It's not like the movie's all old-school slapstick. There's plenty of modern stuff to keep it current. You've got the Jersey Shore cast, for God's sake.
PF: I know, right? What else do they want from us?
ES: Was that a nightmare to shoot?
PF: Weirdly, no, not at all. When they were coming on the set, we thought, "This is going to be a flipping nightmare." We had two days with them to shoot, and nobody was looking forward to it. They just seemed horrible. But they couldn't have been more professional. I wish I could tell asshole stories about them. But they showed up on time, they worked their butts off, they were very gracious, and they wanted to be a part of the joke. They were all awesome.
ES: Do you have a favorite?
PF: Oh, yeah. The guy... What's his name? The big dude.
ES: The guy with no neck?
PF: Yeah. No neck.
ES: Ronnie.
PF: Ronnie! Yeah, we loved Ronnie. Ronnie was the best. They were all great at taking abuse, but eventually they all got tired of it. The Situation was the first to cry uncle, I think. At some point he said, "Okay, dude, that's enough. We're not going to get hit anymore." But Ronnie would do anything. He was like, "What do you need me to do?" That's why Ronnie gets whacked way more than anybody else, because he was so game.
ES: Every time Moe smacked around Ronnie, I flinched a little bit. Of all the Jersey kids, he seems the most likely to just freak out because of 'roid rage.
PF: He's actually not that big in person. He's built, don't get me wrong. But he's only like 5'7" or something. He looks a lot bigger on TV. I mean, yeah, he's a 'roid guy. He's got to be a 'roid guy, right? But he's very cool. I've got nothing bad to say about him.
ES: Let's say this thing does a monster box office and the studio wants a sequel. Do you go with Curly or Shemp?
PF: I would always go with Curly, but there's been talk that, if we ever do a sequel, we might bring Shemp in. I'm a big Shemp fan.
ES: To replace Curly?
PF: No, just a walk-on or something. Shemp is great, but Curly trumps Shemp every time. We'll probably only go with Shemp when Will Sasso passes away. [Laughs.]
ES: So just like the real Stooges? No pressure on Sasso to drop dead or anything.
PF: Oh, no, no, no. We definitely don't want that.
ES: Speaking of sequels, there's really going to be an official Dumb and Dumber 2?
PF: Yeah, we're almost done with the script. We're shooting in September.
ES: Can you tease us with some plot points?
PF: I would love to, but none of it would sound very good.
ES: Try me.
PF: Imagine if I told you about the first one before you saw it. "Well, it's about these two guys who go to Aspen because one of them likes a girl." You'd be like, "Pete, don't fucking make that movie. It sounds like a piece of shit." That's how this one is. It's not the type of thing you can pitch. It's not a plot-oriented movie it's a character-oriented movie. I tried pitching it to my wife, and she was like, "That's doesn't sound good." Trust me, it's fucking awesome!
ES: Just tell us this: Does Jeff Daniels have any digestive issues in the sequel?
PF: No, his colon's fine this time. But we've come up with some new things that you probably haven't thought of.
ES: Involving which orifice?
PF: [Laughs] Oh, there are all sorts of orifices involved. We don't go into this lightly.
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3rd Feb 2000, 12:58 PM | #1 |
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this is probably documented somewhere but i came to you guys first because youre cool.
:P in actual feet, what would a 256x256 texture represent in UT? the reason i ask is i am creating an actual scale model of parts of my grad school for a project. it needs to be poifect! thanks guys... J |
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256 is about the same width as the narrow corridors in CTF-Command
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umm...thats a good reference point and it totally helps
but i must rephrase the question. how many square feet does 256x256 represent? |
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Well, if you figure that an Unreal player model's height is equal to about half of a 256 square, and say a model is on average 6 feet tall, I'd say a 256 X 256 square would be around 12' X 12'. If you don't trust me, go into UnrealEd and make a 256 X 256 cube (the depth can be anything) and stand in that hallway or room. Your height should equal about half the height of the wall.
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I usually put a Nali in my map when I first start making it to check the scale of my first couple of rooms. The Nali stands about a foot higher than you do.
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i read some where that one unit is equal to one inch of real space so ya just gota do the math, im to lazy :P
4th Feb 2000, 09:46 PM | #7 |
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Compiled this from several sources:
10 Units = 1 Foot 1 Foot = 0.304 800 609 6012 Meters A person in UT is 60 Units (6 F) A person eyes is 50 Units (5 F) The closest a person can get to a wall is 20 Units A persons head bobs vertically up to plus-or-minus one half foot when walking Steps · Any step that is 32 (2 feet) or fewer units tall or smaller is climbable. · Any step that is 48 (3 feet) or more units tall is unclimbable. Useful for railings and ledges. · Try to avoid steps or railings between 32 and 48 units (2-3 feet) tall, because one cant reliably predict whether a player will be able to climb it or not. Doors and grates · Do not create grates on the floor where the player can walk. The player will get stuck in them. A grate is an opening that the player can stand on but is too small for the player to fall through. · An opening 48 (3 feet) units wide or more is a door and the player can go through it. · A player can not go through an opening 32 (2 feet) units wide or less. · You can make tricky doorways designed to only let small players through, i.e. doorways less than 32 (2 feet) units wide. If you do this, only do it with a small doorway, not a long passage. If the player barely fits, she can go through a doorway easily but may get stuck on a long passage. Ceiling · For best results, the ceiling should always be at least two feet above the player's head, and it looks best when significantly higher. In regular architecture, ceilings under 10 feet high are uncommon. · Don't create ceilings (low doorways or slanted ceilings) where the player can hit his head on the ceiling. Though these situations aren't disastrous, the engine doesn't handle them well and movement becomes choppy. V-Passages · Avoid passages that get progressively narrower if there's a chance the player will get stuck at the end of one. The collision system makes thin passageways difficult to deal with. Wedge sides · Avoid creating buildings with sides that look like wedges (30 degrees or less). The player gets snagged on these. This only refers to exterior wedges (outsides of objects), not wedge corners in rooms. Wedge corners in rooms are fine. Grades · A slope less than 20 degrees behaves exactly like a floor (and is actually considered a floor). Players can move on these without obstruction. · A slope between 20 and 35 degrees is a grade. The player can move up these but she slides and must continually struggle to climb to avoid sliding all the way down. · A slope over 35 degrees is unclimbable. Light colour ------------ Red = 0 Yellow = 32 Green = 64 Blue = 128 Purple = 192 Red = 255 ============== Maximum Tolerances for Tools in UnrealEd By Richard Miller email@example.com Cylinder: ========= Max sides = 100 BSP fragmentation occurs at the seams of the very small triangles formed when using a high number, such as 100. Sphere: ======= Radial sides = x Vertical sides = x The two numbers can be any two whole numbers whose product is equal to 255 or less. A product of 256 (8x32) results in a 'subscript out of range' error. Cone: ===== Max sides = 210 - Solid cone 80 - Hollow cone 70 - Capped cone Staircase: ========== Max steps = 45 Spiral Stair: ============= Steps per full circle = x Total steps = x The two numbers can be any two whole numbers whose product is equal to 255 or less. A product of 256 (8x32) results in a 'subscript out of range' error. Make sure the height and width of the steps are sufficient to accommodate the number of steps. Curved Stair: ============= Max steps = 49 Comments: ========= The reason 255 is a common limit is most likely due to the use of 8-bit integers when UnrealEd was programmed in Visual Basic. An 8-bit integer can hold up to 256 values. That is 256 values, not numbers. Those numbers are logically 0-255. Henceforth, we cannot reach 256, which is a multiple of 8, because 0 is considered a number. The curved stair limitation of 49 is strange and no explanation can currently be given for it. It has no significance to the 360 degrees in a circle, nor is there any known significance to any integer value. This is most likely a limitation of the algorithm or code used to create a curved stair. When constructing levels, be careful to stay within these tolerances and don't go overboard. 100 sides to a curved pillar may look nice (and give Quake 3 Arena a run for its money), but it has a high risk of causing BSP errors due to the large number of small triangles. |
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actually there is a 500 poly limit on brushes
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thanks guys! you all rock...maybe i will post this "conceptual" map on the board once i straighten my stuff out so you can see what i do in my laboratory of madness...
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actually, i've heard that 1 foot is 13 units and the player is something like 80 units tall, but i never bothered to measure or anything
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Ive found that its to a better scale if 16 units is a foot and the player is about 6 foot tall. Also the Nali in a map to help with scale is a very good tip. Its better to use a Nali as oppose to a player because the actual model of the player doesnt represent its bounding box so its not really smooth, I guess... =)
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Farming in high altitude up on the Palmer Divide at 6000 feet and delivering in low - well, Denver - altitude at 5000 feet requires an understanding of the effects of altitude if you're not going to get a bad attitude.
High altitude is good for crops. Cool nights and hot days means high sugar for crops, less pests, less disease and clean air. Not to mention clearer stars, but I am still not sure that affects crops very much.
But high altitude means a later start in the spring and an earlier end in the autumn. Guess you can't have it both ways, high quality and long lasting.
We keep fields in Denver also so that we have a very long season. For example down in Denver right now, the apples are in full blossom, but up here, they are actually just starting to bud. So, we harvest the apple blossoms down hill and by the time that season is nearly over, we are in season up here! So, instead of two to three weeks of delicious teas, we can offer three to six weeks!
The tricks of making greenhouses and hoop houses to extend seasons works well, but is expensive. More expensive than employing an extra 1000 feet of earth's atmosphere. Down hill, our greenhouses and hoop houses work two to five weeks later on average than our greenhouses and hoop houses up hill.
With global warming, we are now able to grow bamboo and other delicious, nutritious crops that we couldn't dream of growing even ten years ago. But we are also no longer able to get a satisfactory fava crop or other crops that like the cold. Up hill, these crops are still possible, but it is becoming difficult at best down hill.
Down hill, where we are, also means more pollution. The city is quite polluted by vehicles, factories and, quite frankly, even medical marijuana facilities. From the dust made by raking leaves to the children running through dusty baseball diamonds, the human beings down in town make a lot of pollution. This isn't to say that the animals and plants don't also. Pollen is a big pollutant, but generally affects food less than our human pollution, which goes into the soil and into the plant easier.
The soil is different downhill than uphill, the water tastes different: these affect flavor too. Some of the best water in the world – by taste tests – can be found in Eldorado Canyon near Boulder. City water tastes different than natural waters, but while Denver Water can't compete with the natural waters of Eldorado, it is still renowned for its flavor. Our well water up on top of the hill imparts a flavor to the food that is different. Maybe better, maybe worse (depending on your tastes), but different. Our animals like the well water better than the waters in town, for what it matters.
But before you think we spend too much on gas, I'll tell you that our downhill crops are on automatic watering systems, and require less attention: we only see them on delivery days. We plant, and stay out until it's time to pay the rent.
But we do, much better, enjoy owning land. Ownership means no landowner to mow your crops on accident or on purpose, no landowner to steal your tools on purpose or… well, she knew they were ours. It is easier to protect against folks grazing their animals on your land at night. A thousand horrors await a tenant farmer. Even with good landowners, we are more inclined to plant trees on our own land. For that matter, we don't have to ask permission.
Neither uphill or downhill is better, but having a farm that is both uphill and downhill is better than having only one.