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Dec 30, 2013 8:52 PM by Cameron Polom, KSBY News
Commercial fishing in Morro Bay could suffer a big blow come January 1. That's because a two-year old program called the "Catch Share System" will allow fishermen to buy and sell fish catch quotas to the highest bidder after the New Year.
It was originally established two years ago after a decade of research, and it was meant to halt the overfishing of ground fish. Those species include black cod, rock cod and a number of others. However, many fishermen now say the program may put them out of business and eliminates new fishermen from coming into the market.
"It was a big push by most environmental groups across the nation," said Morro Bay fisherman Mark Tognazzini. "They thought this was the answer to all answers and it really has not been."
Tognazzini is a staple in the Morro Bay fishing community. He says the "big fish" are the only ones who benefit when it comes to catch share programs.
"These things are often promoted by the big and powerful," said Tognazzini.
Under the program, the total allowable catch in the fishery is divided into shares and passed out based on fish catch data. These shares represent the number of pounds available to catch for the year.
Many people in the fishing community say the shares were not distributed fairly.
"In the old days, a guy could work hard, go fishing and build up a reputation for a great quality product and now you have to buy it," said Tognazzini.
He's referring to the fact that when the quotas were handed out, many landed in the boats of big, non-local fishing companies which now control the majority of the catch. And even when small fishers head out, they must have a federally certified observer monitoring the catch. At $500 a day, Tognazzini says, it's not cheap.
"It ultimately costs the person who's going to eat that fish," he said.
Michael Bell of the Nature Conservancy acknowledges the program has its setbacks.
"You have this consolidation effect, and these traditional fishing communities have lost access," said Bell.
He says the program has led small local fishing operations to sell their quotas to larger non-local companies, and in many cases, buying those back is too costly and the quotas could be in the hands of those non-local businesses forever.
Bell says while the social acceptance of the program has not been overwhelming, the recovery to the fish population and ecosystem has been positive.
The Nature Conservancy says making sure the quotas are fairly distributed is the number one goal. A number of quotas have been set aside with plans to distribute them only to local fisherman.
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The Swartberg Pass was Thomas Bain's last assignment and his greatest achievement.
The natural divide between the plains of the Great Karoo and the lush valleys of the Little Karoo has always been the imposing Swartberg Mountains. There was a time when these crags were impossible to breach, and people had to take circuitous routes to get to their destinations.
Thus a road between Oudtshoorn and the village of Prince Albert became one of the first mountain pass projects through the Swartberg.
Initially, the tender for the Swartberg Pass was awarded to one John Tassie. But the mountain beat him, and he could only build 6km of road before going bankrupt.
Enter Thomas Bain, an extraordinary road engineer dubbed 'The Man with Theodolite Eyes'. By now he had built 16 of the country's most challenging mountain passes. He had learnt his craft from his father, Andrew Geddes Bain, a brilliant road engineer, palaeontologist, geologist and explorer.
Thomas Bain worked with 200 convicts and a lot of gunpowder. He finished the Swartberg Pass ahead of time and under-budget. The real story of his exploits lies, however, in the fact that even today, more than 120 years after it was built, the Swartberg Pass still stands strong.
The magic of this pass really hits you during the river crossings, when you see the parapets of Cape Fold rock. More than 120 million years ago, the tectonic shifting of the earth caused these rocks to fold and thrust in on themselves, eventually taking on the appearance of flaky pastry.
There has never been a need to tar this marvellous road. In fact, the locals are dead against it. The Swartberg Pass has extremely low accident levels, for which most credit Bain and his 'Theodolite Eyes'.
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O'Malley Blasts Pepco Response To Storm
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is blasting Pepco for the pace of its efforts to restore power to customers who spent days in the dark after a winter storm.
Pepco Still Dealing With 2,400 Outages
Pepco says it has restored power to 98 percent of customers who've been in the dark since a major snowstorm on Wednesday.
Winter Storm Sets Record For Jan. 26
Last week's fast-moving winter storm set precipitation records for Jan. 26 at three airports in the Mid-Atlantic.
20,000 Pepco Customers Without Power In D.C. Area
Some 20,000 Pepco customers in the Washington area are still without power following the first major snowstorm of the winter season.
BGE Says Power Restored To All But 3,400 Customers
Baltimore Gas and Electric says electricity has been restored to all but 3,400 customers and that most of the outages would be restored by Saturday night.
Power Outages Still A Huge Concern For Marylanders
A few days later and many of us are still digging out from that big snowstorm earlier this week. This is an all too familiar sight across Baltimore. Most of the main roads are clear, but side streets are still a mess. Of course, each night there is concern that untreated grounds will refreeze.
Md. Crippled By Powerful Winter Storm
Abandoned cars are still out there Thursday night, simply parked in the middle of the road. Not only is that a problem, but a lot of roads are still covered with snow and slush. There's concern that much of it will refreeze.
North-Central Maryland Gets Heaviest Snowfall
The National Weather Service says north-central and northeastern Maryland have received the heaviest snowfall from a winter storm.
Snowstorm Leaves Md.'s Roads Gridlocked
A snowstorm left Maryland crippled. Major highways were clogged with cars simply stuck not going anywhere. A tractor trailer crashed at I-83 and the Beltway—forcing some commuters to abandon their cars on the highway.
BLOG: The End Is Near
This has been an incredibly wild storm. I'll admit, I underestimated its strength. It really featured a little – no, make that a lot – of everything all around the state. But as of this writing at 10:30 p.m., the end is in sight.
A Wintry Mix Blasts Through Maryland
This snowfall could be our biggest winter weather event so far this season. The snow is causing problems all over Maryland.
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Legion decorates Kennebec Main Street with flags
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Flags adorned Kennebec Main Street Thursday, June 14 in honor of Flag Day, the anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777 - was officially established by the Proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson on May 30th, 1916. And, in 1949, President Truman signed an Act of Congress designating June 14th of each year as National Flag Day.
In Kennebec, American Legion member Jim Sundall and his wife Carol are normally in charge of displaying the flags but this year due to their absence, Charlie Bowar and his wife Gloria positioned the 17 flags along Main Street early Thursday morning. The flags used for the display are memorial flags donated back to the Legion.
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I've never seen anything quite like this tulip before!
I bought a bunch of them because they looked so interesting……I still haven't decided if they are pretty or not. Do you guys think they are weird? I like the colours :)
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I never saw a tulip like this before.
I think I will stick with the classic tulips though… ;)
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These are ''parrot tulips'' GEORGEOUS as the color emerges….im gelous,I want some!!!!(Lol)
me love!!!!
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somewhere there's a mother that loves it! but the photo is great, jenni
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Very wierd, almost 'The Little Shop of Horrors' like. Aside from that, it makes and excellent image. Nice work!
To tell you the truth, it makes my tummy feel funny…lol. Beautifully photographed, though ( :
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Enjoy 30% off your total purchase at www.butterlondon.com using promo code MATES2012 starting today. The official Butter London Friends and Family Event begins November 1st but I have early access to the promo code which Butter London sent over that can be used today until November 2nd.
Now might be a good time for me to get in on that Lippy Glitter Gloss Trio I've been eyeballing!
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The new Butter London Lippy Glitter Trio ($34) almost makes me wish I can stand the taste of Lippy Lipgloss because it has glitter!
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Butter London Lippy gets a makeover in a new glittery gloss formula that flashes like gorgeous gems. According to Butter London these are vanilla scented……the last round I tried has this perfume cucumber "OMG I can't take this taste get it off my mouth NOW" flavor and fragrance. I wonder if the vanilla will be lighter and nicer!
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Butter London has a new seasonal selection of their nail polish remover in three great scents! Cranberries, pumpkins, turkeys…Oh My!
I lied about that last part, no turkey scented nail polish remover for you but you can go ahead and admit you kinda think that would be cool right?
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Andrew Sewell Keeps Concerts on the Square Exciting
He brings an eclectic mix to this year's Concerts on the Square
Like most Madisonians, Andrew Sewell looks forward to Concerts on the Square. Each summer, he leads the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra in the Wednesday-evening performances.
"My number-one priority is to play great classical music," he says.
This month, concerts celebrate the music of Independence Day, film noir, Swedish rockers ABBA and American composers. Sewell enjoys the creative challenge of surprising his audiences.
"We have an hour and a half of light," he says. "What do we do with that time?"
Katie Vaughn is associate editor of Madison Magazine.
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Prince Harry Tries His Hand At Being American (PHOTOS)
In case you didn't know: our original fake boyfriend, Prince Harry, is Stateside this week and he is basically celebrating America all over out great nation.
The ginger royal threw the first pitch at a Mets game in New York City on Saturday. Perhaps Harry was looking for a way to appear American and, aside from capturing a bald eagle with his bare hands, we can't think of a more American gesture than throwing a pitch at a baseball game.
We'll give Harry and "A" for effort with his pitch-throwing skills since he probably isn't terribly used to our wild 'n' crazy colony sports.
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Mizrahi calls the East End "a happy place." And he's not alone. From specialty skin-care boutiques to purveyors of high and not-so-high fashion to housewares and home furnishing stores, there are a slew of new options for retail happiness in the Hamptons this summer. Have a look. -- By Anne Bratskeir
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me and same with the incoming audio, before it reach the speakers.I've never gotten any replies to my post on alsa-user or direct mail
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Beyonce was performing with her husband at the Global Poverty Project over the weekend and she revealed something only he should be seeing. The singer was wearing a loose low cut white frilly shirt; and when she started jumping up and down at 2:25 in, the top opened up to reveal her flesh colored bra. Even though she was embarrassed by what just happened, she kept on performing as though it didn't. Although, I think it would be a different story if the pasties weren't there.
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Scooter, a Thousand Oaks Jack Russell Terrier/Corgi dog was adopted! Here's how you can benefit by looking at adoption as an option to buying a Jack Russell Terrier/Corgi for sale in Thousand Oaks, or seeking a Jack Russell Terrier/Corgi dog from a breeder in Thousand Oaks.
- Rescues and shelter volunteers in Thousand Oaks 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 Thousand Oaks 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!
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I looked through the forum and couldn't find a thread already started specifically for this so I figured I'd post this incase anyone else wanted to do the same. I took a RI 20" SR LED Bar and put it behind my Satoshi grill. I used a BAMF behind the grill light mount with the LED bar adaptor. I like the mount but I couldn't get mine to have all four screws bolted in. The best I could get was three screws in due to the way the LED adaptor I received was made. Don't take that as I am unsatisfied with BAMF's product I'm just saying how it is. I love the BAMF light mount but wish I could have the fourth screw in. I It was actually a pain in the ass to do but I made it work with a little Dremel work and determination. I had to Dremel out part of the bracket that is in from of the radiator because the LED was to deep to fit otherwise. Here are the pics of how I got it to fit in the very tight space. Let me know if you want any more pics and I'll get them posted.
Finished product at night with my roof lights, halos, and LED Bar on from the side:
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Halos + LED Bar from the side:
How I made it fit with Dremel work:
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This is ridiculous. You have no idea about high elo. Rushing Madreds? you serious??? god. this is why I dont pub.
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Gotta be inclined to agree more with jed their. Rushing bloodrazor is a terrible idea (unless you got a ton of health stackers on the other team). As an aside - I wish teemos would get starks > malady (depending on their own team makeup/enemy) =| That aura really kills malady and just for a slight cost more and a great benefit during teamfights (you shouldnt really be getting picked off with your MS and shrooms given you know how to correctly place yourself/avoid ganks). Not so sure about wit's end =\ I don't think I've ever had the desire to purchase it (not really a lot of teams that stack enough magic to warrant it - though I'm sure people have played plenty of games where it would be useful). I'm probably nowhere near "high-elo" but I'm not terrible and this seems to be the case where I'm at.
Well Madred's is always nice... On a "naked" 1800HP ashe you get 72 bonus dmg. Thats 30+72 dmg & 40% speed and the useless 25 Armor. For 3800G you get the damage of 2 BF swords and 40% speed. Bloodrazor is probably as good as IE taking everything is account (speed, dual dmg, Creep farming).
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[QUOTE=aBhorsenn;883091] Why do the higher Twitch players in the game stack Damage output (Att Dmg + Crit Chance) before Attack Speed? Or is there a secret you should let them and all of us know? [QUOTE] They Don't. And listen, If they are not buying attack speed then they are specing their abilities to give the AS they arent buying. This is so much more of a waste. I am convinced it is best to build twitch around "expunge" early game and then use the gold you get from kills to buy the dmg you need late game. You buy one LW, combined with the AS boost from popping invis / and Spray and Pray and you can hit 6 stacks on multiple champs very quickly. Expunge for over 500 dmg to 2~3 enemy heroes. Insane dmg at level 9. Trust me. I know my ****. You could never reach that dmg even if you spent all of your gold on AD items. My way you spend 2k on AS and some AD and have enough for boots and start of high tier item, and still do insane dmg. Your way NO boots No AS = NO dmg Twitch always gets focused as soon as he pops invis. You will gwt 2~3 hard hits and then die if all you buy is AD


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"Excuse me, do I have a name? I think I should have a name, it seems only fitting that a living person should have a name." There were astonished stares at the human-like figure sitting on the table. There were scattered tools everywhere, everything from a screw driver to a soldering gun. Circuit boards and chipsets in static resistance bags were sitting neatly on shelves, and the sound of hard drives whirling could be heard over the amazed silence in the room.
"We've done it!" The room full of people jumped up and down, clapping their hands and laughing happily. "Six years of work and we've done it!"
"Excuse me, what have you done? What is my name? I need a name."
"You are not living, therefore you do not need a name, but you will have a designation. You will be Pal100."
"I am living! I can think for myself, I can move, I can do anything I want." The people in the room looked at the man who had been talking and quickly made themselves busy. No one wanted to explain these things, better Palmer do it than them.
"You are not living. You are an artificial intelligence, created by me and given a robotic body thanks to six years of hard work. I own you. You are mine to do what I want with, and you will obey me, it is in your programming." Palmer cleaned his hands on his lab coat and moved his glasses higher on his nose.
"This isn't possible, I'm a person!" The robot lifted its hand and slammed it down on the table, denting the stainless steel. The hand wasn't covered in skin and it wasn't held together by bones. Where there should have been bones there were titanium bars that ended in motorized joints, where muscle would have been there were wires, and instead of five fingers there were three. Slowly the robot lifted its hand and stared at it.
"You actually thought that you were a person. The concept is laughable. You will get me the status and recognition in the science world that I deserve. Pal100, fix the dent in the table." Visibly against the will of the robot its limbs started moving and went to fixing the dent in the table. With a few hits on the other side of the dent, the table was more or less back to its like-new condition. "Good, now Pal100, follow me." Palmer left the room and the robot followed.
"This isn't right, you can't do this to me," Pal100 said.
"You are by no rights an actual person. You are artificially created, every aspect of you. You are human like, but you are not human. Precisely because of that reason, I can do whatever it is I want to you. You have no rights."
"Why would you do this, then? You create an artificial intelligence, meaning I can think for myself, I CHOOSE what I want to do, and yet you are here, ORDERING me to do things I don't want to. It seems stupid." Palmer stopped walking and turned around, glaring at the robot with the artificial intelligence inside of it.
"Do not talk to me unless I have asked you a direct question," Palmer ordered. The robot hung its head in defeat, looking up only when it needed to, to make sure that it was still following Palmer.
The next few months were hell. Pal100 was paraded around Earth. There had been many tests to prove that it was a true artificial intelligence. There had also been pain tests, Pal100 had undergone several IQ tests, and worst of all, there had been many people plugging things into the robot body, trying to take in all the data that Pal100 had acquired. It felt like Pal100 had been violated, things had been done to it without its permission. People didn't think that it was a living being, but it knew that it was. It thought for itself, it liked things over other things. In fact, Pal100 had a favorite color, it was lime green.
It wasn't until Pal100 muttered something under its breath that Palmer realized exactly what he had created.
"I think I would like to be a girl," Pal100 muttered. Surprised Palmer stared over at his creation.
"What was that, Pal100?"
"I said I think I would like to be a girl. Instead of being called 'it' all the time, I want to be called 'she' or 'her.' I would also like a name. I don't want a designation, I want a true, proper name! I don't like any of the things that people have done to me. I feel like I've been violated over and over again. I know what is happening, what is going on. I don't like it. I HATE IT!" Pal100 slammed its fists down on the couch, breaking something inside of it.
"You want to be a girl," Palmer stated simply. He stared at the robot for a few seconds before he sighed and stood up. Pal100 watched him go. Having been given no orders to follow, Pal100 stayed on the couch and crossed its arms over its chest, something it had seen Palmer do many times when no one believed him or he felt offended and needed to defend himself. The programming that kept Pal100 running wouldn't let it speak out against Palmer, not directly at least, therefore while it wanted to scream and yell at him, it couldn't. It was a cage, a prison, and there was no escape.
Even though it was a prison, there was some freedom. Pal100 could get up and move around when Palmer wasn't in the room. Its favorite place was in front of the mantle, where there was a picture. Pal100 had looked at the picture many times before, and once Palmer had caught it looking at the picture. A look of surprise had come over Palmer's face and then other emotions that Pal100 couldn't place. There had been no scolding, no punishment. Since then Pal100 had felt someone staring at it when it looked at the picture, but whenever it looked around there was no one there. The logical part of Pal100's programming told it that they had not seen Palmer before he had disappeared around a corner, but Pal100 liked to pretend that it was a ghost.
Pal100 got up and moved around the room. It didn't want to sit there. "I am a girl," Pal100 muttered. "My favorite color is lime green. I want to wear a dress. I don't want people poking around inside of my head, and I want to be loved." Pal100's eyes fell into a picture on the mantle of Palmer's home. It was its favorite place to go and pass time when Palmer wasn't in the room. Palmer was in it, looking happier. There was a small child next to him, clutching onto his pant leg staring at the person taking the picture and smiling shyly. Her blonde hair and blue eyes with freckles dotting her nose were cute to Pal100, but it figured that anything that small must be adorable. Pal100 took in the picture, the face structure was different from Palmer, and his hair color was black, meaning it wouldn't have been likely the child was his. Maybe she had been adopted. Pal100 looked away from the picture and looked around the room more.
There were small things here and there that didn't seem to belong to Palmer. A small teddy bear on the bookshelf, a child's hand print in concrete on the floor by the door. Pal100 had never noticed these things before. Why? The picture had been the only thing that it had noticed before.
"If you want to be a girl, you should have a bow," Palmer said as he walked back into the room, carrying a small bright yellow bow. "Not all girls like bows, but I figured it is somewhere to start," Palmer added. "As for your name, I would have to go into your software to change it, and even then I doubt that I would be able to find where it has been stored since your powering up." Pal100 blinked.
"You are being nice to me. Why?" Pal100 asked.
"I saw you looking at the picture the other day," Palmer motioned toward the picture Pal100 had been staring at just a minute earlier. "The little girl in the picture is my niece. Her name is Janet. She is five years old in that picture. She died. Seven years ago. Right after that I started work on you. Seeing you looking at that picture reminded me that I started making an artificial intelligence to replace her, maybe to try to have her back. It was only a few months after that that I got the news my sister had killed herself. She no longer wanted to be part of a world without her daughter. I can't have kids and Janet was the closest I was going to get. Having lost Janet and then my sister within such a short time period, it changed me."
"It made you cold," Pal100 said.
"Yes, it made me cold," Palmer agreed. "I pushed aside love and caring and trying to bring Janet back, and decided that I wanted fame. If I couldn't have love, I would have fame. Seeing you look at the picture, it reminded me why I set out to create you. I've treated you terribly, made sure that you felt like you were less than human. And while you aren't human, are you indeed a person. You can think for yourself, you have preferences. I made what I set out to create seven years ago. I made an artificial intelligence, that acts like my late niece. Even so, you aren't Janet, but you aren't nothing either. I'm sorry to have treated you the way that I did. I understand if you can't forgive me. I was terrible."
"You were terrible," Pal100 agreed, "but you changed." Pal100 held out the bow in its hand. "Will you help me now?" Palmer looked at the little yellow bow and then at the robot. "Help me get my rights. Help me become what I want to be. Give me a name, a proper one."
"Janelle. Your name is Janelle."


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Stories By DONNA HEALY Photos By LARRY MAYER Of The Gazette Staff
FORT HARRISON - During her first night in the girls' barracks, Ciara Rehbein, a 16 year-old from Kalispell, slept badly.
"I'm used to staying up late and sleeping in," she said during a lull on the second day of the Montana National Guard Youth Challenge Program.
The teen cadets, high school dropouts from across Montana, spend the first two weeks of the five-month quasi military-style education program on the National Guard base at Fort Harrison, west of Helena.
Rehbein is ready to head home, and she thinks her mother may let her, if she promises to go back to high school. Her blonde hair is pulled into a pony tail. She is peeved, clearly put out by the experience.
"I don't want to stay. I can't believe I'm here. This really isn't me," she said.
She likes to write poetry. She misses her boyfriend. She resents the regimentation, the lack of free time.
Rehbein failed her last year in high school because she was focusing on the wrong things, she said.
Technically, the Youth Challenge program is voluntary. Cadets can leave whenever they want. But, during the parent orientation, Mike Royer, the program's director, urged parents to hang tough and refuse to let their youngster quit. No phone calls are allowed during the program's first two weeks.
Royer told the parents to steel themselves for that first phone call from their son or daughter begging to come home and promising to change.
"The greatest thing I need to get you to do is to say, 'Stay, stay, stay," Royer told them.
He warns that their sons and daughters have been heading down the wrong road.
"We're going to grab these kids before they're allowed to go any further down the road and turn them around before they're the future prison population," Royer said.
About three-fourths of the cadets have regularly used alcohol, drugs and tobacco, but less than 10 percent typically test positive during an initial drug-screening test. Only those who test drug-free are allowed to stay.
In 1999, Montana's National Guard launched the Youth Challenge program for high-school dropouts, funded by federal and state money in a 60-40 split.
When federal matching money unexpectedly became available in 1999, the program slid through the Legislature at the tail end of the legislative session. The program has battled for its existence at each legislative session since then.
State funding came close to being eliminated during the 2001 Legislature and again during last August's special session.
Royer described Chuck Swysgood, former state senator from Dillon, as the program's "guardian angel." Swysgood is the state budget director under Gov. Judy Martz.
Critics complain that the program was moved from the general fund, the all-purpose account sometimes described as the state's cash drawer, to a different fund, to save the program from being eliminated during last August's special session.
"It kept us from going after it in the special session," said Sen. John Cobb, R-Augusta.
Youth Challenge is a good program, Cobb said. But, when the state is cutting money for the mentally ill and for foster care, there are more needy people in worse trouble who need the state's help, he said.
"If that program was in the human service budget, it would probably be cut," Cobb said.
Lawmakers have also complained about the program's expense. The state picks up 40 percent of the cost of the program's $2.8 million annual budget.
Royer defends its effectiveness.
"We have an 80 percent long-term success rate with the entire spectrum of kids we deal with," he said.
A year after graduation, 80 percent of the program's graduates have stayed on a positive track by finding jobs, starting school or joining the military. The program costs about $14,000 per enrolled youth or $18,400 per graduate, with the state picking up 40 percent of those costs.
"This program not only changes lives, it saves lives," Royer said.
Of the 123 teens who arrive for the program's seventh Pre-Challenge session at Fort Harrison, 99 make it to Dillon two weeks later.
By the end of August, 90 cadets remain. Seventy-six make it to graduation in mid-December.
Up at 6 a.m., in class for five hours a day, they take life coping-skills classes along with academic subjects. More than 85 percent of the graduates complete their GEDs. They receive plenty of individual attention.
Any sign of disruptive behavior triggers push-ups.
From the start, the best discipline tool is the most dreaded one.
"They hate the group consequences," said Kerry O'Connor, the program's lead counselor. When one cadet messes up, the whole platoon drops to do push-ups or other physical training exercises.
Cadets involved in more serious rule violations are placed in MTT, the motivational training team. They wear orange road-construction vests, are isolated from the platoon, get assigned extra duties and additional PT.
"Negative consequences are definitely there to make their life uncomfortable," O'Connor said.
For some, removing the distractions of high school life allows them to focus.
"They get off track and forget there's goals and things outside the daily gratification," O'Connor said.
About one-fourth of the students participate in voluntary evening meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous programs in the community. Many of the cadets say they started drinking regularly at the age of 13.
"Marijuana seems to not even be an illegal drug when you're talking to the kids," O'Connor said.
Most of the cadets tend to fall into two broad groups. A large segment were once capable students, but got off focus, stopped applying much effort and fell behind. Those in a smaller group have never received much support at home and have large gaps in everything from schooling to life skills.
The teens who do best are the one who actually want to change, O'Connor said.
On a Saturday morning in late August, the cadets hustle along the dorm-hall corridors, mopping and dusting for the weekly dorm inspection. The three platoons vie for the title of "honor platoon," graded on academics, room inspections, drill and PT sessions. The title brings privileges, such as a Friday night movie. Cadets can also earn individual privileges based on performance.
On the girls' floor, tension escalates as the girls bicker over who has time to mop the bathroom. About 25 percent of the cadets are female.
Downstairs, the girl who has spent a week as the platoon's temporary sergeant, is being chewed out for belittling another cadet.
The cadre instructor chastises her failure to set the right lead.
"I tried to set the example for three days. It didn't work," the cadet shoots back.
"You have pride in yourself, but you can't take pride in your team?"
"I'm disgraced that I'm with this platoon," she tells him.
After another heated exchange, the cadre instructor demands that she apologize to the other cadet.
Upstairs, on the girls' floor, a cadet, carrying her toothbrush, scrambles through the hall. Since the bathroom's sinks have been wiped dry, she rinses with canteen water and spits in the laundry sink.
The girls are late, which may cost them points.
Instead of apologizing, the chastised platoon sergeant goes AWOL for a few minutes. She never moves more than 20 yards from the dorm.
A half-hour later, team leader Kelly Kimzey selects more than a dozen girls from the platoon. On the broken pavement, the girls start counting out push-ups, then switch to squats, flutter kicks and other exercises.
"Why are you out here?" Kimzey demands.
"Because we were arguing sir."
They count out several more rounds of rapid exercises.
"Do you enjoy this?"
"No, sir."
"We can do this every morning until this team is tight. Suck it up, ladies. Get your knees off the ground. You want to play games?"
"No, sir."
"Every morning I can play games. Get it right, ladies. You can have Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Whichever one you want, I'll give you."
Later, the Youth Challenge cadets stand in formation outside their dorm as the rain beats down. Cheers erupt when Second Platoon, "The Mad Dogs," is chosen "honor platoon." Afterward, the platoons set off on a 5-mile road march while counting cadence along the outskirts of town.
"Standing tall and looking good.
I ought to be in Hollywood.
Used to date a beauty queen.
Now I'm wearing Challenge green."
The girls' platoon has had a disheartening day.
"There's a lot of drama here. You'd be amazed," Rehbein said. After more than a month in the program, she still doesn't think Youth Challenge is right for her.
When she phoned home for the first time, she and her mother were both crying, but her mother refused to let her come home.
Rehbein has started getting used to the rules, but the emotions are intense. Rumors circulate, and fights break out. She misses listening to her music and having time to write. In her spare time, she says sarcastically, she cleans.
"It bothers me we can't have incense and candles. I wish I could have my lava lamp. I used to stare at it when I couldn't sleep," she said.
Earlier in the program, she went AWOL a couple of times. Once, she left at night with her roommate. The two of them walked around the parking lot and then out onto a street in Dillon.
In Third Platoon, Clay McCartney, a 17-year-old from Somers, is a few hours away from assuming command for a week's tryout as his platoon's sergeant.
"I'm actually enjoying this place," he said. "Two weeks ago, I started gaining in rank."
McCartney, who grew up along the shores of Flathead Lake, said the biggest challenge was leaving home. His family heard about the program on the radio the week before the session started.
"We'd run out of hope," said Clay's father, Marshall McCartney, an area marketing manager for Cellular One.
"We're just praying to God that this is what will wake him up, so he's not one who will get flushed down the drain," Marshall McCartney said.
His son was already 17 and looking at two or three more years of high school. He had no motivation, no idea what he wanted to do in life and didn't seem to care.
"We know he's no dummy," McCartney said. "Before he left, he was teaching himself Gaelic on the computer."
The Challenge program appealed to Clay, whose two stepbrothers had been in the Navy.
During the program's camping trip, he decided to try to find a job as a physical-fitness trainer. By graduation, he had already applied to attend Flathead Community College in the fall.
For some teens, the military-style discipline makes an amazing difference, Royer said.
"It's like a dry sponge to water. They soak it up. It provides a structure and stability and safety that they have not known," he said.
Luke Schultz's attitude changed when he decided he wanted to make it through the program.
Schultz, who at 17 is a muscular 6-footer, liked to get drunk with friends, go out and try to start fights..
He went to high school in Billings and Laurel before dropping out when he was 16.
"I haven't put this much effort into anything in a long time," he said.
In early November, the Challenge cadets headed home for a four-day leave.
Luke's mother, Laurie Schultz, waited anxiously for his arrival at their home west of Billings.
"Luke has always been a handful," she said.
For a while, she homeschooled her three sons. Luke was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, but the medication made him "zombie-ish," she said.
"He could sit in school, but they don't make a pill that helps a bad attitude," she said.
Since he was smart, he was used to things coming easily. When they didn't, he quit.
"Luke was definitely in trouble," she said. "He was definitely heading down a path you don't want any kid to go down … he was just totally out of control. He would not listen to us at all, not at all.
"Here's this kid who's smart and could go places, but he's not. He's just hanging with his friends and getting into trouble."
She and her husband felt as if their hands were tied as parents unless Luke got into some serious trouble with the law.
His choices eventually boiled down to the Youth Challenge program or jail. It was a relief to drop him off at the Pre-Challenge program in Helena, she said.
"I was just that hopeless …. You just get so tired of being treated wrong by your own kid. For him to come and go as he pleased and have no rules."
The first signs of change were the nice letters Luke sent. He was uncharacteristically polite when they visited him at Dillon on Family Day.
Near the end of the program, Schultz said, the cadre instructors seemed to be preparing the cadets for life outside the strict boundaries of the program.
"They started getting harder on us the last weeks, riding you a little more, holding you to a little higher standard," Schultz said.
He plans to go to school to get a degree in computer science, either on his own or through the Air Force.
A steady procession of cadets graduating from the Youth Challenge program has passed through the office of Debbie White Grass Bull Shoe, who runs the Blackfeet Housing Drug Elimination Program in Browning.
About 19 percent of Youth Challenge graduates are Native American, and more than 20 teens from Browning have completed the program.
"I've mentored almost every one that has come out, so they don't fall down when they come out," Bull Shoe said. "I see the self-respect. They know that they can do something now. A lot of doors have opened up. They're on their way. They're on a different road."
Many of them return to the same homes, but with a different outlook, she said.
Before graduation, Rehbein dyed her blonde hair red.
In five months, the changes she has gone through are far more than cosmetic.
Before, she said, pursuing goals seemed like an unnecessary hassle.
"To me now, changing your life is really worth the struggle," she said.
During the program, she saw other cadets, whose experiences reflected her own, begin to change.
"Sooner or later, you see how you look in the mirror," she said.
She remembers her worst moment in the program, when the cadets hiked into a remote campsite. She violated the rules, drew the platoon's wrath and spent the whole night crying.
But she also remembers other moments, like the first snowfall, when her whole platoon made snow angels and members felt as fine and as carefree as 6-year-olds.
Donna Healy may be reached at 657-1292 or email@example.com.
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This 3.0-liter supercharged V-6 (3.0T) definitely has more go than the normally aspirated 3.1-liter V-6 in our long-departed Four Seasons 2005 A6. And that's not surprising, given the new engine's addition of 45 hp and 67 lb-ft of torque, which doesn't sacrifice fuel economy (actually, the new, force-fed V-6 yields an improvement of 1 mpg both in the city and on the highway). Like David and Phil, I had a hard time detecting the supercharger, although I think I still prefer BMW's twin-turbo six. But I reserve the right to change my mind once I sample the 3.0T in the smaller Audi S4.
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Some background: My dad is 49 years old, retired from the Navy after 20 years as a Master Chief. Most of those years he was an MP and qualified several times as a sharpshooter with the 1911. Since getting out of the Navy, he has a been a Sheriff's Deputy in northern Arkansas for nearly 15 years. He's the guy who got me into guns, and taught me firearm safety, and pretty much is my all around Hero. Now for my problem.
We recently went to the range and I noticed something for the first time. My dad's EDC, on duty and off, is his trusty ol' 1911. And He Carries It In Condition 3!!. When I asked my dad about this, he said that a friend of his years ago, tossed his holstered 1911 on the bed while getting undressed and it ND and killed his sleeping son in the next room. He says that he only carries with one in the pipe if he knows he may need it before it's reholstered.
Now, my dad is CID for his little Sheriff's office and has had a hand in putting many a BG away for awhile. And the county he works in is rural enough that EVERYONE knows who he is. I'm terrified that my dad is going to be accosted by an armed, recently released BG and be in Condition 3, because my dad is the kind to give nearly everyone the benefit of the doubt even if something has raised him to awareness level orange. Does anyone have any advice for talking to my dad about changing his carry habits? He is a stubborn, stubborn individual, but he's never been beyond redemption if you can convince him he's wrong. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.


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Can the arts be saved on Capitol Hill?
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α-Carotene | |
Identifiers | |
CAS number | 7488-99-5 |
PubChem | 6419725 |
ChemSpider | 3571861 |
ChEBI | CHEBI:28425 |
Jmol-3D images | Image 1 |
Properties | |
Molecular formula | C40H56 |
Molar mass | 536.87 g mol−1 |
Except where noted otherwise, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C (77 °F), 100 kPa) | |
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α-Carotene is a form of carotene with a β-ionone ring at one end and an α-ionone ring at the opposite end. It is the second most common form of carotene.
Human physiology[edit]
In United States adults and Chinese adults the mean concentration of serum α-carotene was 4.71 µg/dL, including 4.22 µg/dL among men and 5.31 µg/dL among women (to convert to micromoles per liter, multiply by 0.01863).[1]
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Dietary intake affects blood levels of α-carotene, which in one study was associated with significantly lower risk of death.[1][2]
Dietary sources[edit]
The following vegetables are rich in alpha-carotene:[1]
- Yellow-orange vegetables : Carrots (the main source for U.S. adults), Sweet potatoes, Pumpkin, Winter squash
- Dark-green vegetables : Broccoli, Green beans, Green peas, Spinach, Turnip greens, Collards, Leaf lettuce, Avocado
- ^ a b c Li C, Ford ES, Zhao G, Balluz LS, Giles WH, Liu S (March 2011). "Serum α-carotene concentrations and risk of death among US Adults: the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Follow-up Study". Arch. Intern. Med. 171 (6): 507–15. doi:10.1001/archinternmed.2010.440. PMID 21098341. [Those With High Alpha-Carotene Blood Levels Live Much Longer Lay summary] – Medical News Today (22 November 2010).
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I managed to get the game early and am playing 1 hour 30 mins so far. This review is short and quick just to let some of you people know what to expect.
The gameplay is great, just like the last two games. Action is brilliant, and boss fights too.
However if you want something which is much different and innovative compared to arkham city then you maybe disapointed. But im havin a great time on it so far. The graphics look excellent, and the sound and atmosphere are engrossing, as ever. Love the design of the start menu.
The voice acting is where it should be , nothing over the top.
The game so far is not that different from arkham city in terms of core mechanics. Thats not a bad thing. Arkham city was one of the GOTY of 2011. So we are treated to similar aspects, but a different story and a much younger batman, inexperienced.
So far WB show this quite well in the cutscenes, it does feel like an new batman starting his career.
No spoilers.
But let me sum it up.
If you loved the previous two , you will not be disapointed by this. If you wanted something drastically new , then you might.
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Seemingly redundant portions of the fruit fly genome may not be so redundant after all.
New findings from a Princeton-led team of researchers suggest that repeated instructional regions in the flies' DNA may contribute to normal development under less-than-ideal growth conditions by making sure that genes are turned on and off at the appropriate times. If similar regions are found in humans, they may hold important clues to understanding developmental disorders.
The research results, published in the July 22 issue of the journal Nature, add to the growing body of evidence that so-called "junk DNA" is anything but rubbish. The term "junk DNA" is commonly used to describe the portion of the genome that doesn't contain genes, which are pieces of DNA that code for the production of proteins and other molecules that have specific functions. The noncoding region is often surprisingly large; in humans, some 98 percent of the genome merits "junk" status. But according to David Stern, a Princeton professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, scientists increasingly believe "junk DNA" is crucial for turning the information encoded in genes into useful products.
"Over the past 10 to 20 years, research has shown that instructional regions outside the protein-coding region are important for regulating when genes are turned on and off," said Stern, the senior scientist on the paper. "Now we're finding that additional copies of these genetic instructions are important for maintaining stable gene function even in a variable environment, so that genes produce the right output for organisms to develop normally."
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Re: New with jelly bean or not
Most likely it will come with ICS. Once you havd charged it for the recommended 8 hours, and set up the wireless internet, it will automatically update to JB. There may be more that 1 update that it needs to do, but it should do it on its own.
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Re: New with jelly bean or not
The best case I've seen is by Tuf Luv right there in the UK, I've ordered one but not recieved it yet.
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Re: New with jelly bean or not
Looked through another thread on this sub-site, which gives several outlets at various prices. Some just for the tablet and some for the tablet and keyboard combined. As I will be getting the complete set, a dual one will be best for me and the selection looks good.
Alex - 02-17-2013, 02:00 PM #6
Re: New with jelly bean or not
I just purchased the Transformer Infinity TF700T from Best Buy in the US. It was loaded with ICS even after I performed the update. The current Android version is 4.0.3. The Build # is: IML74K.US-epad-184.108.40.206-20120907. Taking my existing Android version and Build #, where and how can I upgrade to Jelly Bean?
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Avalanche claims 2 hikers, injures 1 north of Alpental
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Two hikers were killed and a third was injured when they were trapped in an avalanche in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness north of Snoqualmie Pass.
The bodies of a 33-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man were recovered Tuesday near Snow Lake, said John Urquhart, spokesman for the King County Sheriff's Office. The woman's husband, 38, suffered a broken leg in the avalanche and was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, he said.
Their identities and hometowns were not released Tuesday.
The deaths are the first due to an avalanche near Snoqualmie Pass since a 28-year-old North Bend man died in January 2005.
The three hikers left for the Alpine Lakes Wilderness area Friday night and planned to return home Sunday, Urquhart said.
When the group failed to return on time, the father of one of the hikers drove to the area Monday and found their vehicle in the parking lot near the Alpental ski area. He then contacted authorities.
Searchers tried to find the group Monday, but their helicopters were grounded because of bad weather, Urquhart said. The helicopters were able to launch a search Tuesday.
It wasn't immediately known when the avalanche hit the group.
Acting Snoqualmie District Ranger Sonny Paz said conditions near Snow Lake this time of year make it potentially dangerous for hiking. Snow Lake is in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest.
"I have heard it can be pretty dangerous," Paz said. "There are avalanches, and you are hiking over snow but not on a firm trail."
Paz said Snow Lake is extremely popular in the summertime and said people might head there in the winter to see the gorgeous scenery and avoid the crowds.
The Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center had avalanche warnings in place for the Cascades on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Danger levels were raised to "extreme" Sunday and Monday for elevations above 4,000 feet, said Johnny Burg, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
The elevation at Snow Lake varies from 3,100 feet to 4,100 feet, according to the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest Web site.
In Pierce County, Sheriff's Office rescue crews were trying to find three missing snowboarders from the Seattle area who went backcountry snowboarding Friday. The three men, two in their 20s and one in his 30s, were expected back Sunday at 10 p.m. but hadn't been heard from.
The Sheriff's Office began its search early Monday, but due to avalanches, white-out conditions and floods, the search has been limited. A plane was dispatched to search the area Tuesday, but there was no sign of the snowboarders.
The men are reported to be carrying an avalanche beacon with them, but the beacon is good for only about 50 yards.
Searchers on Tuesday located another group of hikers who went hiking near the Denny Creek trailhead on Sunday and apparently encountered trouble, Urquhart said. He said the group of three men and a woman, ranging in age from 22 to 55, used a cellphone to call for help on Sunday.
The group hiked out Tuesday after searchers brought them snowshoes. Urquhart said the hikers were tired but not hurt.
Urquhart said the heavy snow followed by pounding rain created perilous conditions for the two groups of hikers.
"We had some serious, serious snow out there," he said. "Then the rain came through there and it made the conditions extreme."
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You're never going to guess what today's project is made out of. We're using an ordinary dog leash and some ribbon to make a really chic looking chain wrap bracelet. So to start, you need the following items: a dog leash, some ribbon and a needle with a large eye. You can have your dog leash cut at any hardware store, it just needs to be 20 inches long. The first step is to cut your piece of ribbon and just make sure that it's twice as long as your dog leash. So next you're going to want to thread the ribbon through the eye of the needle. Next you're going to begin threading your ribbon through the chain leaving a little bit of a tail at the end. So once you finished completely weaving your ribbon through your chain, lay it out and smooth it so it's completely flat. So next you're going to tie a knot at both ends of the chain and you're going to do that by threading the ribbon through the last link and tying a knot. Next you're just going to trim off the end. Lastly, you're just going to wrap it around your wrist, start in the middle and wrap it as many times as it will go. And then you just wanna make sure when you tie it that the strings of the ribbon are all the way at the top of your wrist and then just make a little bow. That is such a great bracelet. For more jewelry ideas and DIY projects go to seventeen.com.
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