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The Economist Warns that America's National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble
No, but I think it is the line "less kid-safe" that does it.
The Economist Warns that America's National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble
Are there others who think that my summary left the impression that The Economist has argued for 'Disneyfication" of America's national parks? That certainly was not what I had in mind.
The Economist Warns that America's National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble
It sounds like the real problem is the lack of money NPS has for operations and imporvements at our National Parks.
It is a new spin on an old problem that is only getting worse. -
The Economist Warns that America's National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble
Coming back to the original bullet point: "Americans believe that their national parks are much less entertaining, less user-friendly, and less kid-safe than they should be."
This is a value statement. Allow me to re-phrase that same statement: "Americans believe that their national parks should be much more entertaining."
What does this mean, really? A major synonym of "entertaining" is "amusing", and there lies my problem with "making national parks more entertaining (amusing)." Put "amusing" and "park" together, and, well, you've got Disneyland. If you're looking for an amusement park experience, then by all means, please visit one of the 259 amusement parks in America. But please keep bungee jumping, ziplines, roller coasters, log rides, smashed penny machines, carnivals, and all their related "amusements" out of national parks.
If an individual can't find entertainment or enjoyment in tracking animals, watching ants work, sitting next to a towering waterfall, canoeing, hiking, exploring Anasazi ruins, discovering dinosaur tracks, or strolling through wildflower fields, then national parks are not for this individual. No one should compromise what national parks are for the amusement of, as Beamis puts it, the "bloated, mind-numbed masses of postmodern America".
The Economist Warns that America's National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble
First of all, I'd suggest that people read the Economist Article. That's a good summary here, but contrary to the impression left, the Economist is not advocating the Disneyfication of our National Parks. They mostly advoacte maintenance and renovation, with some modern conveniences added in. It didn't sound like too much of a nightmare, though I don't think I would do anything to facilitate cell phones and TV watching in the parks.
I think Ted Clayton and Kirby Adams pretty much have the right of this discussion. I consider myself an environmentalist, but the snobbery (I'd say elitism if the Republicans hadn't misappropriated the word) I saw in few of the commenters here is appalling. If the Parks are only for those relatively few Americans who appreciate complete wilderness, then the Economist was right. Why should the rest of the population pay for something used by only a tiny minority and a bunch of animals? And I don't place much faith in voluntary contributions either. I think what we'd end up with is sky high user fees. That way we can ensure that only a few people get to see them, but those few will be very rich. Or maybe those Eurpoean vistors will pay for the Parks.
I envy people who can access the roadless wildernesses with just the packs on their backs. It's not going to happen much for me though. I'm 44 years old with a bad back, limited budgets and vacation time. For people like me, the public areas of our National Parks or a National Forest campground are often as close as we can get to a wilderness experience. And those retirees in their RV's? Well they've been working their whole lives just so they could have a few years to tour the country and see the wonders of the Parks. Those families with screaming kids in the cafeteria? Where do you think environmentalists come from? How do learn to appreciate nature if you never see it? How many parents do you know that are willing to take their young kids on extended wilderness hikes?
The National Parks were never solely about preservation. They were established for the benefit and use of of the American people. They were intended to help teach people to appreciate and want to protect nature, and to bring them closer to nature, not to exclude them from it.
The Economist Warns that America's National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble
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Most new immigrants go to state parks, but that may change as time goes on as Hispanics are a sort of new part of the population is many parts of the US.
One "thing" that may or may not be a problem is how the NPS can't advertises. I am personally conflicted on this issue.
What's the Solution For Cape Hatteras National Seashore?
Thank you both again for your insight on this matter. It is definitely something worth exploring when this issue once again goes to court. (Notice I didn't say "If"...) It would seem that these practices do fall under the "C&T" heading, but I do see that "securing" them legally would be problematic, especially this late in the game. Had this point been pondered prior to the lawsuit that created the CD, it may have had a chance to be enacted. These days, I have my doubts. It would seem that "Establishment" may exist today, by your descriptions, and the fact that ROW's exist in the guise of "Interdunal" roads that are located for the most part West of the dune lines, with many of these roads being decades old. The beach itself could also be considered an ROW, in many places.
I do consider this to be useful information against what we face in CHNSRA, as we need every legal loophole out there to help keep access. I plan to get this information in front of those who can make the best use of it, and see what they think. Thank you both again for your excellent descriptions of how a similar issue played out in far-away Alaska, and how it can possibly work in Cape Hatteras. I think I understand it well enough now to attempt to pass it along. Warning, some plaregism of your posts may be necessary! I hope you don't mind...
Thanks again!
Another Look at Those GPS Rangers in the National Parks
I have trouble seeing anything negative about this. I just got back from an extended trip through Olympic, Theodroe Roosevelt, Badlands, and Yellowstone National Parks. I saw a lot of the old-school interpretation you speak of, Kurt. And I hate to say this, but old school isn't always the best school. Yes, I saw some beautiful interaction between rangers (perhaps volunteers?) and families at Hurricane Ridge. I was also warmly engaged by several rangers at the Hoh VC. I was really impressed by the knowledge of these folks and their willingness to say "I don't know" when the subject at hand exceeded their knowledge. I mean no arrogance by this, but I usually walk into a national park knowing more about specific aspects of natural history than a lot of the rangers. I spent two years studying Olympic natural history before going there. That's just my thing. I love probing the rangers to find any morsels they have to add to my book learning. Unfortunately outside of my experience at the rainforest in ONP, I've run into some rangers that don't seem to grasp more than the list of memorized facts they regurgitate. I also saw a lot of verbal regurgitation that lacked any enthusiasm. While a ranger at Hurricane Ridge had a bunch of ultra-hyper kids all excited and focused on sub-alpine meadow ecology, there was another young ranger stumbling through a monotone presentation about the mountains that was painful to watch.
Like teachers in our schools, there will be rangers with the talent to interpret and those that simply can't. I think electronic interpretation filling in some gaps that lack of funds or lack of skill create can only be a good thing. And just as the Internet hasn't sent books to their grave, GPS units won't replace rangers, be they grand or mediocre.
-Kirby.....Lansing, MI
The Economist Warns that America's National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble
I can empathize with your frustration with the environmentalist movement. I cringe at the public actions of environmental groups that only serve as fodder for the "environmentalist wackos" commentaries on Rush Limbaugh's show. No one's going to make an environmentalist of Limbaugh, but a lot of mainstream America is repulsed by comments that are seemingly or genuinely misanthropic. That's why my money goes to groups like the Nature Conservancy, an organization built more on principles of true conservation than Ed Abbey-style "set fire to the billboards" - even if that means (gasp!) sleeping with the corporate enemy now and then.
I can't speak for Barky and Frank, but my reaction to the entertainment comments was born of the sentiment you accuse Frank of holding - that the parks are for people seeking distance from Disney and Hollywood and Microsoft, and that not an inch (beyond the visitor centers, that actually make some serious effort at education) should be sacrificed to these conventional consumer lifestyles for the sake of attracting more visitors that won't appreciate anything outside of the entertainment complexes anyway. I suspect a higher percentage of land in this country is already devoted to consumerist entertainment than the percentage of folks who prefer such entertainment over the kind you and I enjoy. I will take your point that the message mustn't be snarling, sneering, or snickering, but I won't concede that parks must be comprised to any further extent than they already are. I don't know that you're saying that either. Your gripe is more with the delivery than the message?
The problem here is that the situation for the preservation of wilderness and nature is dire. Measured words and compromises will end with defeat of the minority. In my opinion, the great diversity of lifestyles you speak of, while certainly a beauty of humanity, are not compatible with great diversity and vitality of the natural world given population growth run amok. Those who love land unsullied by human hands are left to vehemently defend the last refuges and/or rail against population growth. Both of those courses are likely to marginalize us, unless we find some means of inciting a respectable passion without writing the new Monkey Wrench Gang. I'm not sure how that's going to happen.
And, having just returned from ten glorious days in ONP and the San Juan Islands, let me say that I envy you for every day you get to spend out there. When finances allow, I hope to join you. I need to milk a little more cash out of corporate America first, hoping the monster will fund my own escape from it
-Kirby.....Lansing, MI
The Economist Warns that America's National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble
Kirby said:
My distinct impression is that, more accurately, Frank objects that any square inch of a Park unit is developed in line with conventional consumer lifestyles. And, I think Frank is forthrightly expressing the environmentalist norm there - not just his own viewpoint."Frank's frustration [is] with the need to make every square inch of our country entertaining, user-friendly ...
Kirby, Frank, Barky: I have lived all my life in the woods of the Olympic Peninsula. I spent a long hitch in the Navy ... got a peek at Florida, upstate Illinois ... a long peek at San Diego and San Fransisco (Oceania, Asia, etc) ... and returned thankfully to the woods. I know the natural estate as relatively few are privileged ... and I seek it, embrace it, and pay the cost of abiding with it, by preference.
If there is anything I have less use for - personally - than rampant Western consumerism, it might be rampant Western corporatism (two sides of the same dubious coin, imo). I share these basic objections & sensitivities of conventional environmentalism, and others.
I am speaking out here against the positions expressed by Barky & Frank, partly to defend the Great Unwashed who are the human victims of the 'anti' sentiment, but also in rebuke & warning to a fallacious and self-destructive modus operandi of the environmental movement.
Environmentalism will do neither me nor the assets it purports to protect any good, if it defames itself and ends up going the way of the Hippies ... which I think is a good description of what is unfolding right now. Environmentalism is on track to become the dissipated, long-haired joke of yesteryear.
Hippies espoused Peace (cool!), Love (yeah!), and Dope. Dope? What kind of stupid trash-talk is that? Had the Hippie movement been able to rid itself of the perverse fetish of drugs, it may have won the world. Seriously. Those of us who were there will testify, it was more powerful & pervasive than environmentalism has ever been. Did I not see John Lennon invoked?
Environmentalism likewise embodies wonderful principles & ideals. And, it has developed an abiding, increasingly snarling hostility toward the culture & society in which it is embedded. It looks at the great diversity of lifestyles which differ from it's own model, and sneers. It looks at the great democratic tradition that gave it birth, and snickers.
Environmentalists have perhaps one fourth the ballot-power needed to enact their viewpoint within a democracy ... and they are progressively setting themselves up as the enemy of the three quarters. Do the math.
The outcome of these (essentially anti-social) environmental policies, postures & attitudes is likely to be rejection by & marginalization within society ... not unlike what happened to the Hippies. Environmentalism is stepping over the line, and the Sleeping Giant appears to be waking.
People who love and are committed to environmentalism really ought to do some serious reflection soon ... and toss the bong before their dreams go up in smoke.
The Economist Warns that America's National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble
As nearly every individual in this forum has stated the same reaction to this discussion, National Parks were not established for the entertainment and modernization of contemporary America. Well, no sh*t Sherlock. Anyone who would demand our National Parks were "customized" should be deemed insane and sent away - in my mind. But the truth is that the majority of Americans tend towards a disrespectful approach to "animals, nature, wildlife, conservation et al..." Our society grows more intolerably ignorant with every passing day! just turn on the boob tube. It is appalling when someone can pick up a whole bag full of trash on a trail in one of our parks. The only thing that concerns me here is that this lack of interest would generate less tax dollars to fund the maintenance of the parks. My father has worked at Shenandoah National Park for nearly 30 years (getting ready to retire ; ) as a park maintenance crew member - Since Bush began the heavily outsourcing projects a few years back, I think around 9/11 thousands of National Park employees have been laid off and fired. With the amount of employees left there is no way to keep up with maintaining trails going deeper into wilderness, nor is it necessary. Over time there will be less trails, and less visitors in our parks, requiring less maintenance. Which means the parks will generate less "income", however the overhead will continue to decrease significantly. Our National Parks will cost obsolete tax dollars to maintain. It may also be mentioned that it is not a lack of interest of the public towards our National Park system that is the cause; the cause of the decline is the root of that issue, in that the Federal Government did not properly maintain interest in the parks with advertising. And the minimal advertisment they did use merely portraythe parks to be tourist attractions - instead of places of preservation! The Federal Government or ratherpowers above it have influenced the world to behave in ridiculous ways. Unless something is done about this CIA/KGB method of brainwashing to create profits for trillionaires, as in a conscious effort of the masses to reject "public opinion" altering techniques - this world is headed for sh*t anyways, and all of our National Parks will be nuked, and none of this will even matter - but if the world doesn't end soon in fire and brimstone then yes, conservation and global warming are important issues, and "public opinion" regarding these issues needs a major shift in the opposite direction, a task easily achieved by the powers that be ; )
Find Me, Spot. Staying Found in The National Parks
A great invention.
The Economist Warns that America's National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble
Tastes change, institutions change and different races of people will predominate for varying periods time of in any given locale.
Enjoying wilderness and the outdoors is becoming a less and less popular pastime for the bloated, mind-numbed masses of postmodern America. That's just great by me! I don't want them there anyway.
The Euros enjoy the parks and they've got a more valuable currency (at least it is this week) to spend here so let's welcome them with open arms. They actually like to hike and learn about natural history too. Go figure.
No matter how busy a park is I can always find a place to go where I won't be bothered. A spot where I can take off my clothes and swim or roll boulders down on unsuspecting motor-homes while remaining undetected by the gun-toting LE rangers. Parks are a laugh a minute for me whether crowded or deserted.
This whole issue is a non-starter. The Economist? Does anyone actually read that anymore?
The Economist Warns that America's National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble
Actually, though, entertainment is a normal, healthy human behavior. Our propensity for and capability to create settings for entertainment and the social & psychological rewards it brings, is one of the more attractive things about humans.
Ted, I'm sure you appreciate that there are many definitions of "entertainment", and that what is arguably the most attractive trait of humans, our individuality, grants us all the right to define what entertains each of us. I would submit that it is obvious The Economist uses "entertainment" in the context of the referenced article with its grandest Disneyesque connotation. I have friends that save up for years to go to Disneyworld. To me, any location labeled as "Disney" is synonymous with hell on earth. To each his own, and I thank God for the Disney properties for those who favor them, as earnestly as I give thanks for the national parks I visit for precisely the purpose of escaping the social interactions forced upon me daily. You may call me a misanthrope, but I'm not the only one. (Sorry, started channeling John Lennon there.) Frank's frustration with the need to make every square inch of our country entertaining, user-friendly, and kid-safe is not unique to him. We're ever-growing in numbers and our refuges for the entertainment we enjoy are rapidly being taken from us. For now the parks, save for a hundred yard radius around the tourist-trap visitor centers/gift shops, still stand as havens for those seeking the best nature has to offer - sans-society. I pray they continue to be woefully boring.
Now, for an another argument, you can suggest that without an adequate study of how many people Like Frank and me pay taxes, this money shouldn't be used to prop up entertainment-less parks. We can save that for a later day. Being of several minds on that argument, I can't articulate my thoughts at this late hour.
-Kirby.....Lansing, MI
Find Me, Spot. Staying Found in The National Parks
Spot is a step in a good direction. It combines several independent, pre-existing services, to make a useful new service.
The unit-cost is $169.99, which is certainly ball-park or better for devices in this genre.
The base service-fee is $99.99/yr, likewise a realistic outlay for normal people. The Google Map/tracker option is $49.99, which could be a nice 3rd-party gift.
As a 'peace of mind' status-tracker, it sounds good, and cost-effective. As a way of recording information as you proceed on your adventure (update your website?) this isn't it. Yet.
Another Look at Those GPS Rangers in the National Parks
When I walk in the creek-canyons and woods surrounding my home here on the Olympic Peninsula, I come across many specific specimens & sites that I want to remember & revisit, to watch how they develop and further pursue thoughts & questions that they stimulate.
Long ago, I began to take notes on my walks, first describing locations in terms of dead-reckoning and triangulation from other features (it is often very hard to return to a given site within the trackless 'jungle' here.
Later, I began using my GPS to record the location of ... great ancient snags, robust patches of Devil's Club, the stray Dogwood, a Wild Ginger bed, nurse logs ... it's endless!
I am going to investigate this GPS Ranger product to see how it works, and how they try to implement the 'mission' ... which seems fairly close to my own activity.
The Economist Warns that America's National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble
Frank expresses a sincere disdain for entertainment, and perhaps for people who seek it. Actually, though, entertainment is a normal, healthy human behavior. Our propensity for and capability to create settings for entertainment and the social & psychological rewards it brings, is one of the more attractive things about humans.
The enjoyment of entertainment is not the mark of a depraved or deviant person.
The culture of new Mexican Americans may be a generation or two out of step with white, environmentalist America ... but we know that not so long ago, the now purified & worthy 'good' Americans flocked to the bleachers to watch Yellowstone Rangers feed garbage to fighting bears at the dump. Real classy, those 'good' Americans. So the Mexicans threw down their litter - they should "stay out"? I have to think there is a more winning approach.
These sorts of attitudes will diminish the long term prospect that the environment movement will be able to effect the better causes & goals that they have taken up.
The Economist Warns that America's National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble
I agree with most of the comments above. I can add some commentary on the notion that International visitors are picking up the attendance slack. In early August 2008 I visited Yosemite and Sequoia and it was EXTREMELY rare to hear any English speaking visitors on all the walks to the points of interest or at visitor centers. I honestly felt like I was somewhere in Europe.
The Economist Warns that America's National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble
Barky takes The Economist's point that the 'anti' policies of environmentalists have reduced Park attendance one step further, by describing them as "good".
I in turn will take Barky's point an additional step, by describing the attendance-reducing effect of environmentalist policies as "intentional".
It is commonplace to hear & read citizens lament that environmentalists are working to drive people from public facilities. I'm not saying anything new, by noting that environmentalists take up many supposedly protection-motivated causes, as surreptitious proxies to discourage & impair public use to the Parks.
I will diverge from The Economists interpretation that present trends will lead to further declines of public interest in the Parks, though, and will instead predict that environmentalist-instigated deprecation of the public & human role of Parks and other national lands will accelerate the decline of environmentalism in national politics.
Even here in the pages of The Traveler, I read comments openly dismissive of the role of democracy & representation in the setting of our Parks' and National policies.
I will diverge from The Economist's conclusions, by predicting that is the environmental movement, rather than our Park system, that is in "deep, deep trouble".
The Economist Warns that America's National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble
• Attendance for America's national parks peaked more than 20 years ago (in 1987).
Good. Parks were far too crowded. At least we won't hear the news talking about "loving our parks to death" any more.
• The annual attendance declines for California's Yosemite National Park (9 of the past 13 years) should be considered ominous, given that California is America's most dependable bellwether state and Yosemite is California's most attractive park.
How much of this decline is due to problems accessing the park due to roads being washed out?
• Having become more satisfied with the recreational options available in/near cities, Americans are now less interested in outdoor recreation opportunities in rural, back country, and wilderness locales.
Lower wilderness use means lower wilderness impact.
• Americans believe that their national parks are much less entertaining, less user-friendly, and less kid-safe than they should be.
It's not the job of national parks to "entertain" people. The Organic Act says nothing of entertainment. If you want entertainment, visit Disneyland or watch a movie. User-friendly? Does this mean the NPS should install elevators to Crater Lake's water level (as many visitors--jokingly?--requested)? "Kid-safe"? What does this even mean?
• Hispanics, the fastest growing component of the American population, show little interest in visiting or paying for national parks; since Hispanics will soon account for 20-25 percent of country's population, this should be a matter of great concern.
Here, some might say I'm coming across as prejudiced, but as an "honorary Mexican" (a title given by my best friend), I'll take the risk. I visited Silver Falls State Park in Oreogn on a Mexican holiday and picked up a full bag of trash on my hike down to the falls. I can say "good" to this statement. If other cultures can't learn how to preserve nature and not throw trash on trails, then they should stay out of national parks.
• International tourists are taking up much of the slack created by diminished park-visiting interest on the part of Americans. By implication, the National Park Service needs to work much harder attracting and pleasing them.
I don't think it's the job of the NPS to "please" international visitors.
• Environmentalists pose the greatest obstacle to restoring national park attendance to historically higher norms; by blocking needed convenience- and entertainment- related developments in the parks, environmentalists have taken away the main tool for increasing park attractiveness.
Thank god. Parks are for preservation and not for entertainment. If you can't find entertainment in watching wildlife or sitting near a waterfall, then national parks are not for you. And "needed" convenience development? National parks are NOT cities.
• As national park visitation continues to decline, Americans will become less willing to see their tax money spent to improve the national parks and expand the National Park System.
First, I don't think national parks "need" improving. They were fine they way they were (wild). However, this is a huge argument for moving national park funding from a tax-based funding system to one consisting of voluntary transactions.
The Economist Warns that America's National Park System is in Deep, Deep Trouble
Um, good??
The NPS system's primary mission, IMO, is the preservation of undamaged natural ecosystems, unique natural features, and sites of national historic importance. What better way to preserve a site than have fewer visitors tromping around them?
The thought that fewer people supporting the parks = less public funding to keep the parks healthy is a problem, but I'm not terribly upset that fewer people visit them in the first place.
When I hear that "we need to increase attendance at the parks", all I see is the government turning these national treasures into little Disney Worlds, where we clear-cut acres of old-growth to put up rides and let ATVs run rampant and let people shoot stuff. I'd rather have them be pockets of wilderness devoid of human activity.
Maybe I'm just being extra-cynical this evening ...
My travels through the National Park System: americaincontext.com
National Park Quiz 16: Waterfalls
Thanks for the feedback, Joseph and Anon. Dark Hollow Falls is a cascade waterfall, not a plunge waterfall. (Don't know if it can also be considered a tier horse tail.) Sorry it took so long to correct the typo in the answer section, but I only found out about the problem a few minutes ago. I've just returned from northern Michigan, where we've been ensconced at a place with no TV, a "maybe yes, maybe no" cell phone signal (as Kurt can attest), and of course, no Internet access to check on Traveler commentary. How's that for weaselspeak?
Another Look at Those GPS Rangers in the National Parks
As an educator I feel that this is a wonderful way to enhance a students experience. It allows students to get speicific information in a format that they are more comfortable with. Students will be more into using the GPS than a guidebook.
North Cascades National Park Officials Over a Barrel With Stocking Trout
Lakes in the high-country of Olympic Nat'l Park were also stocked with fish - as part of the very popular 'enhancement' programs early in the 20th C., before the land became Park. There was a fervor for this kind of activity during the 1920s, etc., and when airplanes became sufficiently competent it became the rage to fly over every plausible body of water in the mountains, throwing out buckets of fry.
A few seasons ago my party was in the well-known Seven Lakes Basin, and we fell into conversation with a very agreeable Ranger-gal (she flopped down on her belly and slurped untreated water from the lake-edge with us!). In the course of our visit, I asked, "Are there still fish in these lakes, and is fishing allowed?"
She became highly animated: "Oh yes, absolutely, go after them, get rid of them - all of them! They eat the native salamander tadpoles."
That piqued my curiosity - "Has the Park tried getting rid of them - put scientists & experts to work on it"? She nodded slowly, "Yes, we tried several things ... and then even tried sterilizing them [the lakes]."
In desperation - after all plausible ideas failed - the Park tried chemically sterilizing several test-lakes. That got rid of the trout, alright, but the second phase of the operation, to restore the treated lakes with 'transfusions' from healthy lakes didn't work. Something was lost that prevented acceptable recovery, and the experts could not identify & overcome the problem.
... So, while North Cascades may stop maintenance-stocking, trout populations in similar sub-alpine lakes in nearby Olympic Park have proved very resilient, without a recurring stocking program (50 years or more?).
What's the Solution For Cape Hatteras National Seashore?
James R. Pepper,
I wanted people to see that just because their favored activities on Cape Hatteras are customary & traditional, that does not mean they will be meaningful (much less decisive) in court. So I provided examples.
At the same time, I wanted to counter the general assumption that things customary & traditional are the mark of fuzzy-headed thinking. That C&T is the recourse of whimsical or even whiny folk. Again, I used examples.
Some of these illustrative examples are admittedly less than fully-willing participants in my thesis, but I think they inform us in useful ways even if they are slightly tortured.
Rights-of-way is a useful example, because it underscores the factor of "scope": having the right to use a certain trail has no bearing on other trails or routes in the same area or in other areas. There is no such thing as a "right to movement", which allows us to use whatever route one would like. Rights-of-way are ('have' to be) "established" and they are limited to a specific scope - free movement is not an "entitlement". Customs & traditions likewise have a scope, are established, and are not entitlements.
But the important non-similarity between ROW and C&T, is that C&T cannot be secured under 'common law', as can ROW. To "secure" a C&T practice, it must be recognized 'in writing'. In a Treaty, as part of an Enactment of a duly authorized Agency of the Government (NPS), by Act of Congress, or within contracts between any combination of public & private parties. All of these documents & instruments have been used to recognize - and "codify" - specific customary & traditional practices as rights. But the right exists, only after it's in writing, not just because C&T has been established.
Customs & traditions are almost always "established" informally, in a fashion that parallels common law provisions, but they are "secured" only under formal legal purview.
The precedent in Alaska for the legal recognition of customary & traditional practices does not mean that other cases of C&T are now guaranteed recognition. What has happened in Alaska, though, has certainly added muscularity & stature to customs & traditions as contenders in the legal process. Events & conditions in Alaska make it far easier and more credible, for folks everywhere to look at their own customs & traditions as meaningful players in the social & legal scene.
I agree with James' statement...
... and I hope my statements in this comment are compatible with his."The rights are not "secured" based on custom. Custom in Alaska informed the Congress, and the Congress then determined what statutory uses would be permitted, subject to reasonable regulation. There was no inherent customary and traditional "right" of access, and no such prior right exists on the beaches of Hatteras."


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This example shows how to create a categorical array. categorical is a data type for storing data with values from a finite set of discrete categories. These categories can have a natural order, but it is not required. A categorical array provides efficient storage and convenient manipulation of data, while also maintaining meaningful names for the values. Categorical arrays are often used in a table to define groups of rows.
By default, categorical arrays contain categories that have no mathematical ordering. For example, the discrete set of pet categories {'dog' 'cat' 'bird'} has no meaningful mathematical ordering, so MATLAB® uses the alphabetical ordering {'bird' 'cat' 'dog'}. ordinal categorical arrays contain categories that have a meaningful mathematical ordering. For example, the discrete set of size categories {'small', 'medium', 'large'} has the mathematical ordering small < medium < large.
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Create Categorical Array from Cell Array of Strings
You can use the categorical function to create a categorical array from a numeric array, logical array, cell array of strings, or an existing categorical array.
Create a 1-by-11 cell array of strings containing state names from New England.
state = {'MA','ME','CT','VT','ME','NH','VT','MA','NH','CT','RI'};
Convert the cell array of strings, state, to a categorical array that has no mathematical order.
state = categorical(state) class(state)
state = Columns 1 through 9 MA ME CT VT ME NH VT MA NH Columns 10 through 11 CT RI ans = categorical
List the discrete categories in the variable state.
ans = 'CT' 'MA' 'ME' 'NH' 'RI' 'VT'
The categories are listed in alphabetical order.
Create Ordinal Categorical Array from Cell Array of Strings
Create a 1-by-8 cell array of strings containing the sizes of eight objects.
AllSizes = {'medium','large','small','small','medium',... 'large','medium','small'};
The cell array of strings, AllSizes, has three distinct values: 'large', 'medium', and 'small'. With the cell array of strings, there is no convenient way to indicate that small < medium < large.
Convert the cell array of strings, AllSizes, to an ordinal categorical array. Use valueset to specify the values small, medium, and large, which define the categories. For an ordinal categorical array, the first category specified is the smallest and the last category is the largest.
valueset = {'small','medium','large'}; sizeOrd = categorical(AllSizes,valueset,'Ordinal',true) class(sizeOrd)
sizeOrd = Columns 1 through 6 medium large small small medium large Columns 7 through 8 medium small ans = categorical
The order of the values in the categorical array, sizeOrd, remains unchanged.
List the discrete categories in the categorical variable, sizeOrd.
ans = 'small' 'medium' 'large'
The categories are listed in the specified order to match the mathematical ordering small < medium < large.
Create Ordinal Categorical Array by Binning Data
Create a vector of 100 integers between 1 and 44.
x = gallery('integerdata',44,[100,1],1);
Use the histc function to create three bins for the data from x. Put all values between 1 and 15 into bin one, all the values between 15 and 30 into bin two, and all the values between 30 and 45 into bin three. Each bin includes the left endpoint, but does not include the right endpoint.
[~,bin] = histc(x,[1,15,30,45]);
bin is a 100-by-1 vector indicating the bin number for each entry from x.
Create and ordinal categorical array, sizeOrd2, where the three bins become the categories, small, medium, and large.
valueset = 1:3; catnames = {'small','medium','large'}; sizeOrd2 = categorical(bin,valueset,catnames,'Ordinal',true);
sizeOrd2 is a 100-by-1 ordinal categorical array with three categories, such that small < medium < large.
Use the summary function to print a summary of the categorical array.
small 33 medium 36 large 31
There are 33 elements in the category small, 36 in the category medium, and 31 in the category large.
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Single, Female and The Master Year
I may be older and wiser but I don't know the answer to these questions. Maybe Socrates could answer my question with a question so we would find the answer together. Who knows. All I know is that life just slipped by so fast. One moment I was 16 and leaving home. Next moment here I am, suddenly more than twice that age, and back on the West Coast. The one thing I must say that makes me pleased about this particular birthday is that it marks the fourth year in a row living in California. Had I turned 33 still stuck back East it would be unhappy birthday to me instead. California is home for many reasons apart from the obvious. Long before I was even 16 my gut just knew that my 30's and beyond would be spent loving living in California. If I was still domiciled in the place where I existed for over a decade before moving to California, a spot on Earth that never felt like home, this day would have been exclusively bitter instead of bittersweet. For 33 to coincide with another year living where I feel physically and spiritually home, softens the sucker punch from Father Time. My point is, if birthdays are a benchmark to measure how far you have come in life, does having certain things necessarily indicate that you have used your time on Earth so far as well as you could have? Certainly this is something to ponder, yet pondering can quickly turn into navel-gazing, and I refuse to waste time doing that.
People asked me if I had any goals or intentions for this new year of life. The answer is no. I don't know why. I used to write down life objectives each birthday up until two years ago. Why I stopped is unknown to me. With time and life such fleeting experiences I guess I just wanted to simply live in the moment as much as possible. Being useful and productive is still really important. But getting older can force you to make it a priority to enjoy the here and now.
Reflections on turning 33 would not be an honest self-examination without addressing the innately female question posed to me by my mother as she wished me a Happy Birthday. Mom didn't ask if I was going to start thinking seriously about finding someone and making her a grandchild or two. She has always been more modern in that regard. Mom asked me where the time went. Her statement was more of an afterthought but I couldn't help but ask myself: why aren't I somewhere else by now? Meaning: wasn't I supposed to be married already, have a child or two, own a summer cottage in Lake Tahoe, or anything else associated with this life stage that I am definitely in now. Our value as a person does not equal the balance sheet for the assets in our personal investment portfolio. Yet as much as there are second acts in life and California in particular is the land reinvention, time does run out. The clock will stop one day. If you don't have the things that matter most to most people by a ccertain deadline, you never will.


text: what is the story and how do you use the ability to talk a story. In the United States, we are all lately encouraged to read read read more to children everyday and although reading is a wonderful and resourceful means of educating children, there are centuries old cultures and even modern places of culturally blended people that carry on the most powerful tradition of talking story. For many generations, people have used the practice of talk story, oral tradition. Storytellers and those who appreciate the traditions of "Talk Story" in their culture, have been benefiting from stories for generations. STORYTELLING is a way that cognitive recognition is used because the cognitive skill may ultimately depend opon some ability to creatively visualize a story within the listener's reasonable thought. Professionals in the field of Education know that visualization skills are developed when young readers create mental images of characters and settings. An additional benefit to the listener of a STORYTELLER is realized when children hear a story and they are actually preparing to exercise a learned a pattern of semantics of language and the flow of speech through developing their own listening skills. One popular professional storyteller, Bill Wood, has documented that according to the British Council, storytelling can have the following benefits: promote a feeling of well-being and relaxation; increase children's willingness to communicate thoughts and feelings; encourage active participation; increase verbal proficieny; encourage use of imagination and creativity; encourage cooperation between students; enhance listening skills.* Consequently, we may conclude that storytelling or, even reading a story without the pictures, can be interpreted creatively by a child listener and is encouraged to promote their overall well being.There are curiously more studies that are being done which support the idea that storytelling helps to develop a good pattern of thinking for children learning language skills at The Georgetown University Cognitive Recovery Lab. Storytelling helps develop neural potential to organize and build an understanding of the world around us.An American storyteller for over twenty years, the delightful Bill Wood at billwoodstoryteller.com has quoted the book, "The Magic Child" by Dr. Joseph Chilton an author who specializes in child development who he says "neural potential goes unrealized and development is impaired unless storytelling and play are provided on a regular basis." Also, Jane M. Healy Ph.D. an Educational Psychologist from her book titled "Endangered Minds" where she explains that a strong foundadtion of oral language skills, along with reading and writing-stories... language... allows us to organize and make sense of the world. In the NATIVE AMERICAN TALKING STICK symbolizes that there is an utmost respect for free speech - and the "Talking Stick" of the Cherokee Tribe assures that the speaker whom holds the "Talking Stick" while talking has in their hands the freedom and power to speak whatever they have upon their heart to say and that they do not have to worry about being afraid of receiving any act of retaliation or even feelings of humiliation for what they have said. The "talking stick" gives to the person whom is holding it, a most sacred power - that of words. Only the person holding the "Talking Stick" is allowed to speak while at such a meeting at which the "Talking Stick" is being used. The "Talking Stick" is used in council meetings. All of the council members there are silent unless they hold the "talking stick", and of course they are expected to listen to the one speaking. The Native American research and training center in Tuscon Arizona and the Cherokee Tribe as told by Carol Locust, Ph, D. "The Talking Stick has been used for centuries by many American Indian Tribes." ..."The Talking Stick was commonly used in council circles to designate who had the right to speak"The Talking Stick of the Cherokee Tribe has the following special features : An eagle feather: tied to the talking stick to add courage and wisdom to speak the truth. Rabbit fur: on the end of the stick as a reminder to speak words from the heart that must be soft and warm. A blue stone: a reminder that the Great Spirit will hear the message spoken from the heart as well as from the words that are spoken. The shell, iridescent and ever changing: reminds that all creation changes as through the days, and seasons, and throughout the years, as well, people and the situations they are in will change.Four colors of beads:yellow for the sunrise (east), red for the sunset (west), white for the snow (north), and green for the earth (south): Symbols of the powers of the universe that are represented in the "Talking Stick" held in the hands as a speaker will speak what it is that is on his heart. Great Buffalo strands of hair: The speaker speaks with the power and strength of this the great and sacred animal."The speaker should not forget that he carries within himself a sacred spark of the Great Spirit, and therefore he is also sacred. If he feels he can not honor the talking stick with his words, he should refrain from speaking so he will not dishonor himself. When he is again in control of his words, the stick will be returned to him." ** HAWAIIAN TALK STORY is a part of their culture and is taken to still another level in their everyday lifestyle through sharing it in public places. The choice to tell others about who they are in the present day and time is a welcome tradition that is brought into talk story events in many places and often in the Islands of Hawaii. When you visit a home there you will likely find folks talking story in the friendliest way imaginable, so it only makes sense that the resort hotels there would offer the tradition of talk story to make their guests feel welcome. For example, a young surfer is invited to a resort hotel to talk story about his life experiences of becoming a surfer.The modern day Hawaiian Talk Story is more like chatting with friends and telling a story from your life. *** FREEDOM OF SPEECH - must be practiced if we are to know what it is and have the ability to teach it to our children. Vitally important skill to the best future of our United States of America. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution codifies the Freedom of Speech some speech is permited and some is not for example while there is freedom of the press there is copyright laws in effect and while there is freedom of religion there is a law against slander or false statements damaging the character of a person. Criticism of the government is always allowed in the United States where people have a right to petition the government for regress or backward movement of grievances or circumstances thought to be unjust. The tradition of a petition is something that the people of the United States have always used when they feel they have reasonable grounds to complain. Any person in the United States of America may feel the freedom to sign a petition because no one ought to think that their name signed on a petition will make them a target of injustice or cause them to suffer in any way. They are allowed to request to question a story via a petition. THE CHINESE ORAL TRADITION OF TALK STORY is when the telling of stories that are important to the people telling them is passed down between generations. The stories are the way, and have been for thousands of years, for the people of China to be sure to keep their very important every day life and likewise their Dynasty history alive. The Chinese Oral Tradition also strengthens communities, and builds the people that live in those communities self esteem. Talk story is a vital element of the Chinese culture and even today there are public talk story events in Chinese communities that are open to the public. This is a very memorable way of passing down history to many Chinese American people as well as to any of those who choose to listen.Folks that attend the talk story events are led to better understand their history and how to accept their identity.****To talk a story is different from to read a story. Talk story without looking at pictures and you will help children discover their own imaginations. The creativity of the children's minds are left to interpret words in light of their own understanding. Communication skills are developed differently when talking story rather than reading a story book. Sometimes, your child can benefit from talking story rather than reading a bedtime story. The results may surprise you, and help you both to develop an even nicer relationship. The stories by Hans Christian Andersen have been told and celebrated for over 200 years around the world - as illustrated by Princess Laurentien of Netherlands in photo at 200th celebration in 2005. *To read more about how a school in the UK uses storytelling as great tool for a child's imagination go to: http://www.kumon.co.uk/blog/how-storytelling-can-fuel-a-childs-imagination/ (viewed 3mar14 mms) *****To visit the web page of Bill Wood the Storyteller go to: billwoodstoryteller .com (viewed 3mar14 mms) **To read about the tradition of Native American talking stick from the Cherokee Tribe go to: https://www.acaciart.com/stories/archive6.html (viewed 3mar14 mms) ****To learn more about talk story events in a Chinese neighborhood go to: http://www.asianfortunenews.com/2013/11/monthly-talk-story-series-uncove... (viewed 3mar14 mms) ***To learn more about talk story events at the hawaiian resort Turtle Bay go to: http://www.turtlebayresort.com/things_to_do/resort_activities/talk_story/ (viewed 3mar14 mms)


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Help - Its driving me mad :(
Hello all,
I am trying to build a useful website and I have spent a few hours staring at this really basic code and I can not see anything wrong .
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The error is on this page - http://www.lets-get-started.net
If you view it in Moz FF the paragraph starting with:
"BRAND NEW - Fort Knox Level Digital Security..."
Is all pushed over to the right hand side.
And after entering the list it suddenly goes back to where ir should be.
It is as if there is an image pushing it all over.
I look using "outlines" option in FF but can not see any reason for this mess.
I hope that you can help.
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1)Fix the errors in your markup
2)There is no propertyI would prefer to be using position:float rather than
position:relative - but I haven' fgured that out yet.position:float
, may be you are referringfloat:left/right/none;
3) Don't use top,left properties with relatively positioned element.
4)Clear your floats www.positioniseverything.net/easyclearing.html
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Distinguished gentlemen, lend us your ears. Brioni, the made-in-Italy label catering to fashionistos, recently opened three new boutiques with Bal Harbour Shops being one of them. Joining newbie doors in Chicago and Costa Mesa, the Bal Harbour door boasts approximately 2,300 square feet of premium custom-tailored suits, blazers, formal shirts, jeans, silk ties, exotic skin shoes, belts and socks.
Masculine in every sense of the word, the store is decidedly decadent — a man's world, if you will. Replete with prized lacquers, bronzed brass, velvet and ribbed wood, the stire exudes a sumptuous feel, much like the house's fabrics.
"We are extremely proud of celebrating these openings in the U.S. which we consider a very important market for the development of our expansion strategy," Brioni CEO Francesco Pesci says.
With these latest openings, Brioni brings the total number of U.S. stores to seven. We suspect other major cities will be following suit.
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11 And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring. | 11 All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the LORD had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring. |
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When it was first discovered, the Uncompahgre Fritillary was described as a distinct species, Boloria acrocnema (Gall and Sperling 1980). However, based on molecular genetic and other data now available, Simonsen et al. (2010) concluded that the treatment of this taxon in recent years as a subspecies of B. improba (B. i. acrocnema) is appropriate (one of these authors, F.A.H. Sperling, was one of the two authors of the original description).
- Gall, L. F. andF.A.H. Sperling. 1980. A new high elevation species of Boloria from southwestern Colorado (Nymphalidae) with a discussion of phenetics and hierarchical decisions. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 34: 230-252.
- Simonsen, T.J., N. Wahlberg, A.D. Warren, and F.A.H. Sperling. 2010. The evolutionary history of Boloria (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): phylogeny, zoogeography and larval–foodplant relationships. Systematics and Biodiversity 8(4): 513-529.


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POSTED: Monday, January 30, 2012 - 6:49pm
UPDATED: Monday, January 30, 2012 - 8:22pm
UPDATE: A neighbor tells KETK the homeowner went down to visit a sister while leaving a hamburger on a skillet.
The neighbor believes this to be the cause of the fire.
Whitehouse- Whitehouse Fire Departments tell KETK a single story house has caught fire.
They say the fire in 50% involved in the attic, and that flames are visible.
3 Fire unites are on scene, and are in the process of putting the fire out.
The cause of the fire is still unknown.
No injuries have been reported.
Fire crews in Whitehouse are responding to a structure fire on the 14,000 block of Peninsula Street, according to Smith County officials.
Details are limited at this time, but KETK has a crew on the way and will keep you updated when information becomes available.


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Sunday, January 25, 2015
Dec 23
FedEx and Magic Johnson Make Holiday Magic for Kids On a dark, rainy Saturday morning in Los Angeles, the Magic Johnson AMC Theater is buzzing with holiday singing, colorful arts and crafts activities, and the pitter-patter of little feet. The 300 kids in the theater's front lobby are too busy making gingerbread houses and Santa Claus masks to notice that two FedEx trucks have pulled up in front of the building.
Sep 24
We're ready to be the difference! Even during tough times, FedEx Cares Week gives us the chance to help our neighbors and our communities. Explore some of the ways FedEx team members around the world are lending a hand:
Sep 24
Joining in FedEx Cares Week for the first time, more than 40 FedEx Ground and Home Delivery team members in Charlotte, NC helped sort through donations at the Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina – many showing up to volunteer right after their night shift at the hub and before going home to sleep.
Sep 24
Since the announcement of our annual FedEx Cares Week, team members from China have participated in different activities. In Shanghai, team members donated clothing for people living in poor areas. On the evening of September 16, volunteers from different FedEx offices in Shanghai came to the headquarters to sort and pack the donated clothing. They gathered in a big conference room and participated in our activity despite the fact that they just finished a full work day of work.
Sep 24
It was a cool and cloudy day in New York, and fall was in the air as volunteers gathered at the Lower East Side's Henry Street Settlement. This was the second year FedEx Cares activities focused on Henry Street, which delivers a wide range of social services and arts programming to more than 100,000 New Yorkers each year.


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USAID Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator Gloria Steele testifies before the House Committee on Appropriations on the FY 2011 Global Health and Child Survival account budget request
During a House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs hearing titled "Global Health and HIV/AIDS programs at the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development,†USAID Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator Gloria Steele, testified on the FY 2011 Global Health and Child Survival (GHCS) account budget request. Topics covered in her testimony include: a breakdown of the FY 2011 budget request and program plans; health systems strengthening; integrating health programs; engaging with multilateral, nongovernmental, faith-based, and community based organizations; public-private partnerships; and research.
- Area: Administration, Budget
- Information Type: Statements & Speeches
- Organization/Initiative: GHI, USAID
- Issue/Condition: Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Nutrition/Food Security, Family Planning/Reproductive Health, Maternal & Child Health, Malaria, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), Pandemic Influenza, Health System Strengthening (HSS)


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Little Falls Man Charged In Death Of Teens
LITTLE FALLS, Minn. (AP) -A Little Falls man has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the shooting deaths of two teenager he said broke into his home.
64-year-old Byron David Smith was charged in a criminal complain filed Monday.
The complaint quote Smith telling investigators he shot 17-year-old Nicholas Brady Schaeffel and 18-year-old Haile Kifer as they came down into his basement.
The complain says Smith told investigators he fired "more shots than I needed to" he told them he was afraid the teens might have a weapon.
School officials say the victims were cousins.
Kifer was a senior at Little Falls High School. Superintendent Stephen Jones said Sunday he was notified of her death by investigators.
Schaeffel was a student at Pillager High School. The Star Tribune identified him after interviewing his principal.
The sheriff's department says police visited his home near Little Falls on Friday afternoon. Officers say 64-year-old Byron David Smith immediately confessed to killing two people the previous day about noon.
Morrison County Sheriff Michel Wetzel says people have every right to defend themselves and their homes, but circumstances suggest Smith went beyond that point.
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Hang onto your mouse! A recap of 25 speakers, 14 sessions and 4 musical performance in just over 4 minutes!
The future isn't as far away as you might think. In many ways, it's already here.
Clearing up misconceptions about two very misunderstood terms
The poet illuminates the lives of two vaudeville icons
The story behind the music project that brought together the Wu-Tang Clan and classic jazz artists like Ahmad Jamal and Lonnie Liston Smith.
Photo credit: Ed Marshall Photography NYC
Dr. Irvin, our opening keynote speaker, really brought it. After nearly 40 minutes of blowing our heads separating the fact and fiction of what the future will be like, this five minute clip has him summarizing things. The important takeaways here are the [...]
My first thought: Thank you. That's right, the first Festival of the New Black Imagination was a success, and I think the groundwork is laid for an even bigger and better event next year. But it couldn't have happened without the support of a bunch of people. Yes, I did a lot [...]
It's all coming together. We'll be unveiling the Festival agenda shortly, i.e., what our speakers are going to discuss. But in the meantime, check out the speakers themselves. I mean, between the futurist, the visual artists, the music icons, the architect, the filmmaker, the entrepreneurs and poet, cultural critics [...]


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Bengals play well most of opener, bungle it away
CINCINNATI (AP) - Defensive end Carlos Dunlap didn't need a whole lot of words to sum it up.
''This one hurts,'' Dunlap said. ''This one really hurts.''
For the second year in a row, the Cincinnati Bengals opened the season with the type of performance that stung a lot.
The Bengals played impressively for the first three quarters in Chicago, moving the ball easily and clamping down on defense. They bungled it away at the end with an avalanche of mistakes that allowed the Bears to rally for a 24-21 win.
Some of the biggest mistakes came from their leading players.
All-Pro receiver A.J. Green let one of Andy Dalton's passes go off his hands for an interception inside the Chicago 20-yard line, thwarting one threat. Mohamed Sanu fumbled the ball inside the Bears' 20-yard line after a catch, setting up Chicago's go-ahead touchdown drive.
During that drive, the defense twice had to use timeouts because it had the wrong number of players on the field, leaving the Bengals with no opportunity to stop the clock in the closing minutes.
And, finally, the most notable gaffe: With the Bears set to punt the ball with 1:06 to go, middle linebacker Rey Maualuga - a team captain last season - threw a defender to the ground, drawing a penalty that let Chicago run out the clock.
Cornerback Dre Kirkpatrick also drew a 15-yard penalty for a personal foul that set up Chicago's 58-yard field goal to close the first half.
Simply, the Bengals lost their composure at key moments. Both Kirkpatrick and Maualuga exchanged words and pushes with a defender, letting it escalate until they were penalized.
''I don't want to see our guys do that,'' coach Marvin Lewis said on Monday. ''They know better than that. They've never been that way, so we have to get it on the right page quickly.
''It's plain and simple. It's no revolutionary thing. You can't be the second offender.''
What made it so painful was that it ruined some really good moments in the first three quarters. Andy Dalton completed 79 percent of his passes for 282 yards and two touchdowns to Green. He also had the two interceptions, including the one that deflected off Green's hands.
''That's a catch that A.J. will make 100 times out of 101,'' offensive coordinator Jay Gruden said on Monday. ''If you're going to be targeted that many times a year, you're going to have a drop or two.''
The Bengals had touchdown drives of 97, 91 and 80 yards against one of the NFL's top defenses, an impressive performance by any measure.
''I don't know if I've ever been around when you have a 97-yard drive, a 91-yard drive and an 80-yard touchdown drive,'' Lewis said.
In the end, it didn't matter. When the Bengals set their goals at the start of the season, one of them was to learn how to close out tough games on the road against premier teams. They wasted their first chance to do it.
''We were pretty good against a pretty good defense, but just not good enough,'' Gruden said.
NOTES: Lewis said LT Andrew Whitworth, who sat out the opener as he recovers from offseason surgery on his left knee, might be ready to play in the home opener next Monday night against the Pittsburgh Steelers. ... LB Vontaze Burfict had a sore right leg on Monday, but Lewis thinks he'll be able to play against the Steelers. Burfict took a helmet to the side of the left knee as he was tackled following an interception, but returned to the game.
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CHICAGO, IL - SEPTEMBER 08: Lance Briggs #55 of the Chicago Bears tackles Jermaine Gresham #84 of the Cincinnati Bengals on September 8, 2013 at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by David Banks/Getty Images)


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Change in Directors or Principal Officers
On January 14, 2014, the boards of directors of Bank of the Carolinas Corporation (the "Company") and its wholly owned subsidiary, Bank of the Carolinas (the "Bank"), elected Megan W. Patton as senior vice president and chief financial officer of the Company and the Bank. Per the bylaws of the Company and the Bank, Ms. Patton will hold these positions until her resignation, retirement, removal, death, or disqualification, or until the election and qualification of her successor. Ms. Patton, age 32, has been employed by the Bank since June 2008 and has served as an internal auditor, controller, and vice president.


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Three Corpus Christi men sentenced to prison following undercover firearms purchases by police
CORPUS CHRISTI - Three suspected Corpus Christi gang members were sentenced to prison Thursday stemming from an undercover operation where officers bought firearms and ammunition from the men.
Benito Rodriguez, 36; Andy Soliz; 25, and Adrian Fernandez, 21; pleaded guilty Sept. 4 to one count each of felon in possession of a firearm charges, the U.S. attorney's office reported.
Rodriguez was sentenced to 15 years in prison, while Soliz was sentenced to 6½ years and Fernandez received 5½ years.
The charges stem from an undercover operation involving agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and members of the Corpus Christi Police Department's gang and narcotics units.
Undercover officers purchased several handguns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition from the men at a home that had been the target of a drive-by shooting, according to a news release.
Investigators discovered the guns were stolen from a Corpus Christi gun dealer.


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Welcome to Maldron Hotels
Welcome to Maldron Hotels & Partner Hotels, part of Dalata Hotel Group. We are proud to offer the largest selection of hotels in Ireland with almost 20 locations to choose from throughout Ireland and the UK. The portfolio ranges from three star city hotels, ideally located airport hotels to luxurious five star resorts and a lot more in between!
One of the many things that we are proud of as a group is the level of consistency shown throughout our hotels in terms of looking after you, are most-valued guests. During your stay with us our aim remains the same.. to make you feel as at home as possible in the comfort of our home. We offer the perfect combination of value, outstanding facilities and excellent customer service from your initial booking process right through to your morning of departure.
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Young's Literal Translation (YLT) | New International Version (NIV) |
14 They are yet speaking with him, and eunuchs of the king have come, and haste to bring in Haman unto the banquet that Esther hath made. | 14 While they were still talking with him, the king's eunuchs arrived and hurried Haman away to the banquet Esther had prepared. |
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You're driving down a highway when the car in front of you swerves to avoid something. You swerve too—right off the road.
You are able to stop on the grass, but the other car can't. It flips and the driver is ejected. You find him lying on the ground, bleeding, groaning, but otherwise not responding.
At this point, what's the number-one thing you'll avoid doing if possible, even though it might be tempting?
Answer: moving him—unless you do it the right way.
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Police: Suspect followed woman, stabbed her in Colonie woods
COLONIE -- Police say a Level III sex offender fallowed a woman off a bus before dragging her into the woods and stabbing her repeatedly.
James Sayers, 43, is expected to be charged early net week. Authorities say he followed the 50-year-old victim for 1.2 miles after they both got off the same bus traveling from Albany around 6 p.m. on Monday.
After following her, police say Sayers grabbed the victim by the neck and dragged her into the woods by Wall Street. He then allegedly stabbed the woman multiple times in the face, throat and side of her body.
Colonie Police Chief Steve Heider says that if the woman had not fought back against Sayers, she would have died. She is currently recovering, and in stable condition.
Sayers is a registered sex offender, convicted of first degree rape involving a 9-year-old victim. He also served 14 years in jail for his involvement in a robbery. The suspect is currently in custody on a parole violation for removing an electronic device off his ankle.


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Many of us have their own special Lomo stories - how we got introduced and hooked by this magnificent world. My story is a little different from those... It is about the person who kept me excited about this world.


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