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Parents need to know that Slaves of Socorro is the fourth book in Brotherband Chronicles, the companion series to the popular Ranger's Apprentice series. After defeating pirates in Book 3, The Hunters, young Captain Hal and his Brotherband crew take on slave traders and are determined to free slaves by any means necessary. There are some bloody moments where men bash heads with clubs, old and new injuries gush blood, noses are broken, and enemies are killed with arrows and darts or run through with swords but also some moments where the Brotherband choose to knock men unconscious rather than kill them. This mostly teenage crew is definitely in a man's world and is often offered ale at port -- but they always refuse graciously and explain they'd much rather drink coffee. As always, Hal's shipmates make a great team and will face any danger with him. The hulking, farsighted Ingvar finally gets a chance to show his heroism and doesn't disappoint.
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After their big win against the pirates in Book 3, Captain Hal and his Skandian crew of the Heron are twiddling their thumbs at home in Hallasholm, wishing for another high-seas assignment. It's not long before Erak the Oberjarl (head of government) sends them packing -- all the way to the country of Araluen for a one-year tour of duty to help protect them from raiders and pirates. When they arrive to relieve another Skandian crew of their duties, they're hardly settled in when a nearby town is raided and 12 people are taken to be sold as slaves. What's worse, Hal knows the culprit: The ship's captain is named Tursgud, a Skandian and former Brotherband training rival. That makes Hal and the Heron crew even more determined to track them down and save the slaves. He's sure they're headed farther south to the slave markets of Socorro, a busy port town crawling with tight security. They're going to need a plan.
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- Oduro's goal for Chicago after 25 seconds was the fastest yet for the Fire and fifth fastest in MLS history.
- Toronto's two best starters combined to foul up the afternoon just 25 seconds in Saturday. Goalkeeper Milos Kocik probably had better options than laying the ball at Torsten Frings' feet with pressure afoot left and right of the veteran German. Still, a player of Frings' experience should understand the danger and could presumably deal with the situation adequately without turning the moment into a fiasco. So, plenty of blame to go around on that one.
- Chicago center back Jalil Anibaba continues to show he has lots of potential. The communication between he and veteran Arne Friedrich was better Saturday than in their first match as a pairing. Let's see if Friedrich can mentor Anibaba the way, say, Gregg Berhalter once successfully mentored a young Omar Gonzalez.
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- If the 3-4-3 is really the best formation for Toronto, then why shift radically into a 4-4-2 (with Frings and Julian de Guzman in the middle) after 60 minutes?
- After two quiet starts, Reggie Lambe's bright work along TFC's right side was a promising sign, never mind his two goals for the home side.
- As productive as Lambe was on offense, he the guilty party on Chicago's second, losing Gonzalo Segares on a free kick that turned into an equalizer at a critical time, right before intermission and right after Toronto had taken a lead.
- That 40th minute goal from Lambe gave Toronto's its first lead of 2012. Yes, that's accurate.
- Chicago goalkeeper Sean Johnson, still with so much to learn, made two mistakes on Lambe's second. He was barely challenged and yet decided to punch rather than catch a manageable ball at the 6. As Lambe collected his punch about 25 yards from goal, Johnson was poorly stationed about a step or step-and-a-half too far to his left, so he was in no position to deal with Lambe's shot toward the near post.
- Things improved dramatically for Toronto once Frings moved into the midfield. (More on that later, in another PST post.)
- The loss certainly won't fall at Frings' or Ryan Johnson's feet. Both TFC en came oh-so-close to late equalizers. More than that, both were pushing passionately for the late goal, leaving it all on the BMO grass.
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The timing could not have been more perfect for the Mountain Counties Water Resources Association to talk about "The Complete Story" of the California Water Plan on Feb. 6. Just as the all-day meeting began at 9 a.m. at The Ridge Golf Club and Event Center in Auburn, the first drops of rain fell. They heralded the first of two storms over four days.
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With aerial technology and advanced scientific instruments, more is becoming known about atmospheric rivers. At the Oct. 5, 2012, Delta Stewardship Council meeting, then-Lead Scientist Peter Goodwin reported on a Science Program Brown Bag luncheon in 2011: Michael Dettinger, from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, described atmospheric rivers as "narrow corridors of concentrated moisture in the atmosphere. Within these corridors, moisture in the air flows like a river. The corridors are approximately 150-200 miles across, can be thousands of miles long, and are responsible for most of the horizontal transport of water vapor outside of the tropics." They move with the weather and are present somewhere on the earth at any time.
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The California Water Plan addresses the weather extremes, drought and flooding. The Complete Story at The Ridge included discussion of the Mountain Counties Overlay Area.
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John Kingsbury, Mountain Counties Executive Director
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Update 2013 contains a quantification of flood risk for the first time. It addresses forest and watershed management. It sets out the ratios of how water is supplied and how it is used. Massera said future funding will be a combination of regional and state dollars. Federal investment will be minimal at best.
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Moeller said the Mountain Counties Area regional report was created for the first time in 2005 to inform decision-makers about the value and characteristics of the natural infrastructure and cultural resources in the area, principally, water. It moves the question of California's water reliability from the Central Valley and California's cities up to the watersheds that are the source of more than 40 percent of the state's developed water supply. The larger Sierra Nevada region is the source of 60 percent.
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Gary Lippner, P.E., Chief Regional Planning and Coordination Branch, Division of Integrated Regional Water Management, DWR
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Jim Branham, Executive Officer, Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Branham began by referring to a film called "The Big Burn" that was shown on Jan. 29 as part of the American Experience series on the Public Broadcasting System. Over a weekend in August 1910, hundreds of wildfires burned more than 3 million acres in the Bitterroot Mountains that straddle the Montana-Idaho border. Temperatures reached almost 2000 degrees. At least 100 people, including firefighters, died from falling trees, flames and smoke inhalation. It was beyond the ability of the newly formed, five-year-old U.S. Forest Service to mount a response.
A century later, our forests are again in crisis, said Branham. Not all fires are bad. Some species of trees need fire to reproduce. Smaller fires at regular intervals keep forests healthy. Without them, fuels have built up on forest floors over decades, making the forests vulnerable to catastrophic fires caused by lightning or human activities. Multiple years of drought exacerbate the conditions.
Fire intensity is increasing. More land burned between 2000-2015 than the entire seven previous decades. The models were not able to predict the trend.
All the benefits are at risk, he said. The entire Sierra Nevada region is the origin for more than 60 percent of California's developed water supply. It is the primary source of fresh water flowing into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Healthy forests store, or sequester, massive amounts of carbon. The Rim Fire released greenhouse gas emissions equal to what 2.3 million vehicles would release in a year. Forests are home to hundreds of plant and animal species. California's forests provide world-class recreation to millions of visitors from around the world. They are major producers of wood products and hydroelectric power.
Large-scale fires are expensive to fight and expensive to heal. In California, 6 to 9 million acres need restoration.
Tree spacing affects water supply as well as fire management. If the trees are close together, snowfall does not reach the ground. If the trees are far apart, snow melts too early in the year.
Reversing a longstanding policy of forest management is not easy. Branham cited impediments such as insufficient funding and resources, lack of biomass wood processing infrastructure, lengthy and complex planning processes, learning to use fire as a management tool, and developing more contracting to maximize local benefits to forest communities. He quoted a Tuolumne County supervisor who complained that the leading economic driver in his community is meth.
Branham said conflict does not work. He cited the title of a country song, "A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action." In keeping with that theme, the Sierra Nevada Conservancy and the U.S. Forest Service are launching the Sierra Nevada Watershed Improvement Program.
California Water Action Plan Implementation
Gary Bardini, Deputy Director, DWR
Bardini continued the action motif in his presentation on sustainable water management. "We have a plan," he said. "We need action. We need to lead the way. We need innovation. No more status quo. We need to break through."
The Implementation Report 2014-2018, prepared for the legislature, is available for download at: http://resources.ca.gov/california_water_action_plan. The report contains A Roadmap for Sustainability, Drought Response and a Foundation for Future work, The Next Four Years and Beyond, and Financing.
Of the 10 priority actions in the California Water Action Plan, five relate to Mountain Counties.
2. Increase regional self-reliance and integrated water management across all levels of government
4. Protect and restore important ecosystems
5. Manage and prepare for dry periods
6. Expand water storage capacity and improve groundwater management
10. Identify sustainable and integrated financing opportunities
Bardini said DWR and the State Water Board will have a prominent role in developing regulations, providing grants and local assistance. The 2015-16 state budget includes $1.8 billion to implement the plan. The estimated cost of the plan for the next three years is $5 billion. Proposition 1, passed last November, can provide $400 million over a 10-year period. The balance will need to be provided by the state general fund and local and federal sources.
The 11 Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) groups in the Mountain Counties Overlay Area have been awarded $51 million for implementation projects so far, using Proposition 84 and 1E funds. The balance of Proposition 84 funds, $220 million, will be disbursed in a final round this year.
Proposition 1 contains $2.7 billion for the public benefits of water storage, including groundwater, reservoir reoperation and conjunctive use. The California Water Commission is the granting agency. The maximum state share for public benefit of a project is 50 percent. Ecosystem benefits must be 50 percent of the public benefit share. Other benefits eligible for funding are water quality improvement, flood control, emergency response, and recreation.
He said the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014 is based on managing groundwater at the local level with state assistance and oversight.
Bardini summarized his message: "Everyone has to be willing to take risk, to do what we haven't done. We are at a breakthrough, not a crossroads."
Special guest appearance
Dave Breninger, Placer County Water Agency (PCWA) General Manager
Kingsbury interrupted the scheduled program to invite Dave Breninger to make some impromptu remarks. Breninger had announced his retirement as general manager of Placer County Water Agency on Oct. 30, 2014, effective March 6, 2015. He is recognized as a statewide leader on water issues and a strong advocate for mountain counties water interests.
"Everything builds on itself going forward," said Breninger. He remarked that he had been working on the American River Project for 23 years, his entire tenure at PCWA. He said, "Downstream should look more at the watershed. The state is becoming more active in the mountain counties.
Time to celebrate
To celebrate completion of Update 2013 and the Mountain Counties Regional Report, Kingsbury invited Angela Avery to join him and invited Kamyar Guivetchi to cut a cake that was later served as dessert. Angela Avery said that DWR went out of its way to work with locals. She added that she hopes the report will prove valuable and go forward.
Kingsbury responded, "We (Mountain Counties) look forward to working with you to implement the plan.
Keynote speaker
Nielsen was first elected to the California State Senate in 1978, where he served until 1990. He was the Republican leader from 1983 to 1987. Afterward he served on the Agriculture Labor Relations Board. He was appointed to the Board of Parole and Prison terms in 1992, and was chairman from 1993 to 2000. In 2012, Nielsen was re-elected to the Senate, representing the 4th district. The 4th Senate district borders Shasta County on the north and extends south on both sides of Interstate 5 into Rancho Cordova. Several Mountain Counties are in the 4th Senate District. Nielsen lives in Gerber, Tehama County, southeast of Red Bluff, where he is a rancher.
Nielsen said he represents the Lake Oroville area. It was the last big surface storage project built in California, he added. Oroville Dam opened in 1968 for the purpose of providing irrigation water, flood control and hydroelectric power. Nielsen echoed Breninger's statement that until recently the water source areas in the mountain counties were left out of consideration. "Water was Delta-centric," said Nielsen. Our water future was not predicted on sharing scarcity or providing for the needs of our grandchildren. He expressed concern that area-of-origin protections could be eroded through the 2009 Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act.
Nielsen is a vigorous supporter of the Sites Reservoir in Colusa County. Sites is one of three projects that could be funded by Proposition 1 to add surface storage to the state. The three were investigated by the CALFED program and found worthy of further study. Besides Sites, the other two are raising the height of Shasta Dam and building Temperance Flat Dam.
Sites is a large off-stream reservoir west of the Sacramento River north of the Delta. The dam would provide hydropower. Our goal is to be turning dirt in one year, Nielsen said. He also advocated for the Temperance Flat reservoir in Fresno and Madera counties.
Nielsen spoke about forest and wildlands. He said he is working on the issue of runoff. Sediment control is important to ranchers and farmers.
"Savor your success," he encouraged. "Stay informed and involved."
Panel: Proposition 1-The Water Bond
Gary Bardini, Deputy Director, DWR; Jim Branham, Executive Officer, Sierra Nevada Conservancy; Daniel Curtin, Commissioner, California Water Commission; John Donnelly, Executive Director, California Wildlife Conservation Board; Steven Moore, P.E., Board Member, State Water Resources Control Board; Sandy Morey, Deputy Director, California Department of Fish and Wildlife; Dan Ray, Executive Officer, Delta Stewardship Council
The afternoon panel, which included seven state agency officials, provided their views and perspective on Proposition 1 funding sources, followed by a series of questions posed by Kingsbury. Questions from the audience followed.
"The California Water Plan, Update 2013, and the Governor's Action Plan, along with the passage of Proposition 1 (water bond) on last November's ballot mark an important milestone to improve California's water outlook. Now, the focus is how to allocate the $7.545 billion contained in the bond," said Kingsbury.
"As we all know, the ultimate value and effectiveness of the bond will depend on how it is implemented and how the funds are allocated and spent. The very difficult challenge for these seven state agencies will be to effectively allocate the water bond money from the key funding areas into a holistic statewide implementation program", said Kingsbury.
Some of the highlights are:
Gary Bardini began with a cautionary note. He said the $7.5 billion bond is a good next step investment, but this time the government will be frugal. It will be based on the Governor's Action Plan. It took several tries to get a bond measure on the ballot, and was reduced significantly from the original proposal. California has spent $15 billion over 20 years. How much more can we continue to spend, he submitted. Government is not the only source. We need more stable financing, he said.
Daniel Curtin started by commending Nielsen. He brings an air of civility to the floor and to debates that has been lacking recently, he said. However, Nielsen's hope of breaking ground on Sites reservoir next year is not realistic. There will be no allocations until Sept. 15, 2016. The California Water Commission is planning to hold meetings outside the capitol in the fall. Whatever allocations are made will have to be matched in an equal amount.
Curtin said that upper watershed management projects qualify, as do local storage projects. The bond gives us a new approach, he said. Water, forestry, air quality, and biomass are all linked, and regulated by different agencies. All the agencies have a pot of money.
John Donnelly said the California Wildlife Conservation Board (CWF) was established in 1947. It is a three-member independent board. Its primary responsibilities are to select, authorize and allocate funds for the purchase of land and waters suitable for recreation purposes and the preservation, protection and restoration of wildlife habitat. CWF funds 11 programs from different bond measures: riparian, forest, wetlands, agricultural lands, oaks, habitat enhancement, acquisition, tax credit, public access and monitoring. Applications are accepted for habitat restoration projects and for improvements to public access facilities on a continuous basis.
Sandy Morey said the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) has two pots of money from the Proposition 1 bond. They will fund multi-benefit ecosystem and watershed protection and restoration projects at a rate of $31 million a year for 10 years. The Watershed Restoration
Grant Program, with a total of $285 million, will focus on water quality, river, and watershed protection and restoration projects of statewide importance outside the Delta. The Delta Water Quality and Ecosystem Restoration Grant Program, with $87.5 million, will focus on water quality, ecosystem restoration and fish protection facilities that benefit the Delta. DFW will be looking at meadows, forests and degraded streams. The focus will be on outcomes, said Morey. Co-benefits are water storage, water supply and water quality.
Steven Moore mentioned the importance of resource stewardship in times of drought. "Thank you, Mountain Counties," he said, for water saved through conservation.
He said the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) has an accelerated process for granting five pots of money. The categories are: small wastewater projects, safe drinking water, recycled water, storm water, groundwater cleanup. On the SWRCB website, there is one application for everything. "The Complete Story" begins with a complete application, he said.
Dan Ray said a goal of the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) is to diversify water supplies so Californians don't have to be so dependent on waters that flow through the Delta. "We are breaking ground on projects that were planned 10 years ago," he said. The Central Valley Flood Protection Plan, which will be funded through Proposition 1E, will be a benefit to upstream users, allowing more water to be reserved for upstream use. Levee priorities will also be addressed.
The Delta Plan, including the Science Plan, is incorporated into the Water Action Plan. The Interagency Integration Committee, with the Science Program, is tracking outcomes. This shortens the 10-12 year lag time experienced in the past.
Jim Branham said the Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) receives $25 million, or one-half of one percent of the $7.5 billion Proposition 1 funds. SNC is a state agency created in 2004. Critical issues SNC is working on are: California's primary watershed, healthy forests, bioenergy, and abandoned mines. The focus of the Proposition 1 grants is healthy forests. The $25 million will be released over a period of 10 years, with $10 million released each of the first two years. Draft guidelines are on the website. Public comments will be accepted through March 27.
Steven Moore encapsulated the discussion, saying, "We want to make the water bond workable for all Californians."
Kingsbury acknowledged and thanked the supporters, participants and guests at the day-long event. Placer County Water Agency was host. Parjana and Parjana Distribution underwrote the video programming. Sierra Nevada Conservancy, EN2 Resources, Inc., Cardno, and West Consultants, Inc. sponsored the program.
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Lil Community: Hands Off My Belly!
A whole lot can happen once a woman's pregnant. This post was submitted by member cheekyredhead in our Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me? group.
A pregnant belly must be a weirdo magnet. Strangers who otherwise would have ignored you completely suddenly feel compelled to grab your belly. Why is it okay to be groped by people you don't even know? When pregnant, my husband and I went into Nordstrom and suddenly a man appeared out of nowhere, fell to his knees and put his head on my belly. Astonished and in shock I stood there afraid to move. My husband asked me if I knew the guy and I shook my head NO."Get off my wife!" my husband demanded. The guy seemed to finally realize how inappropriate he was and immediately got up and took off. I felt like I needed to go home and shower. Why is it that people, strangers, seem to think that it is okay to grope a pregnant woman's belly? It happens in elevators, grocery stores, and public places everywhere. People at church even seemed to think it was perfectly okay to take liberties with my belly. Seriously....I don't get it. I can't be the only woman this has happened to.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is Mr. Sergeant Smith doing in scene "A" of "Greeks (or the Slugs)"?
(a) Reading a newspaper.
(b) Posing for photographs.
(c) Making a phonecall.
(d) Writing a letter.
2. Who does Aretha urge to smile in scene "A" of "Open House"?
(a) Blanca and Anglor.
(b) Blanca.
(c) Charles and Blanca.
(d) Charles and Anglor.
3. What horse does Lucius describe betting successfully on in scene "B" of "Betting on the Dust Commander"?
(a) Gravy Train.
(b) Banana Split.
(c) Dust Commander.
(d) Mad Monkey.
4. Mrs. Smith explains to her children in scene "D" of "Greeks (or the Slugs)" that their father's posting is how far away?
(a) Two states.
(b) 1,000 miles.
(c) An entire time zone.
(d) An eight hour flight.
5. What is the first of four short plays anthologized under the title "Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom"?
(a) "Squirrels."
(b) "Snails."
(c) "Sasquatch."
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(b) An Optometrist.
(c) A Naturalist.
(d) A policeman.
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(a) Gospel.
(b) Blues.
(c) Reggae.
(d) Jazz.
8. Who arrives looking for the person with the cockroach bites in scene "F" of "Snails"?
(a) Veronica.
(b) Chona.
(c) Lutzky.
(d) Molly.
9. In "Elements of Style" Parks suggests that the use of language involves what?
(a) Grammatical understanding.
(b) The entire body.
(c) Emotional density.
(d) The throat.
10. In "An Equation for Black People Onstage," Parks calls for African-Americans "to show the world and ourselves our beautiful and powerfully" what?
(a) "Creative minds."
(b) "Accurate wisdom."
(c) "Infinite variety."
(d) "Interesting culture."
11. Where was Suzan-Lori Parks born?
(a) Fort Knox, Kentucky.
(b) Springfield, Illinois.
(c) St. Louis, Missouri.
(d) Nashville, Tennessee.
12. Who describes how important it is for everyone in the family to have a clean, pressed appearance in scene "B" of "Greeks (or the Slugs)"?
(a) Mrs. Smith.
(b) Muffy.
(c) Buffy.
(d) Mr. Sergeant Smith.
13. Aretha recalls a conversation with a slave-master named what in scene "D" of "Open House"?
(a) Charles.
(b) Frederick.
(c) Daniel.
(d) Roger.
14. Who prepares to extract Aretha's teeth in scene "D" of "Open House"?
(a) Charles.
(b) Blanca.
(c) Miss Faith.
(d) Anglor.
15. What does Lucius criticize Mare for not doing correctly in scene "B" of "Betting on the Dust Commander"?
(a) Wiping her tears.
(b) Washing the dishes.
(c) Mopping the floor.
(d) Baking bread.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression or presented in a spiritual or performance setting?
2. What does Lucius ask Mare to say at the end of scene "A" of "Betting on the Dust Commander"?
3. In scene "B" of "Betting on the Dust Commander," Lucius tells Mare that his favorite horse is always what?
4. What term refers to a vacation or leave of absence granted to an enlisted person?
5. In "Elements of Style," Parks suggests that every playwright begin by asking why a story needs to be what?
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posted on Mar, 20 2012 @ 02:54 AM
I noticed the BLM has an online mining claim database.
[Incidentally, I could only get it to work in IE, not firefox.]
Digging through Groom Lake history, there were some guys that tried to use a mining claim so that they could "own" Bald Mountain and thus look at the base. This is all documented in David Darlington's "Dreamland Chronicles", but not with much detail. Basically some Greenpeace activists caught a glimpse of the F117 in 1983 when doing a protest at the NTS. That brought out investigators which lead to a land grab in 1988.The exact year of the mining claim isn't documented, but presumably this would be in the range of 1983 to 1988. This is all on page 59 of the book.
Using the BLM report generator, I can only find three mine claims in the area of Bald Mountain. That would be the New Kahama, with claim numbers 140518, 140519, and 140520. They are closed claims, which would make sense. The claims are located in the Mount Diablo meridian (NV21), Township 6 south, range 55 east, section 25. Just my luck the server is now down, but it was reported closed in 1990 IIRC. There are two mines in that section on the topo map, locations
37.388645; -115.798547
37.385255; -115.798161
However, there is a section on the USGS topo map around 37.543827; -115.796616. However, that location is the Mount Diablo meridian (NV21) township 5 south range 55E section 1. No mine claim is located there, but the areas shows up as an unrestricted "hole" in the restricted range.
You can plug these coordiantes into
if you don't have any way to view old topo maps.
If you want to look up the meridan township range section nonsense, you can use the geocommunicator. [May the force be with you, since it is a little tricky.]
So maybe I cleaned up the documentation in the Dreamland Chronicles, but that hole in the range is still not documented as far as I can tell.
posted on Mar, 20 2012 @ 08:24 PM
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The section you want on the geocommunicator is
I'm going to archive the claim data as a webpage rather than make people suffer through doing the searches.
posted on Mar, 22 2012 @ 01:17 AM
This is the "mystery box" as it appears on the UGSG topo map, but pulled from the geocommunicator. This is basically to log the arcane Nevada meridian township range coordinate system should someone want to bug the state as to the nature of this area. I have found no mining claims in this box.
This is the mining claim I found on Bald Mountain.
The time range looks close to what was indicated in the Dreamland Chronicles. The Greenpeace event was in 1983. The claim started in 1986. The termination is after the land grab, but not by much.
Regular visitors to the area probably noticed a road full of switchbacks going up a hill near Queen City Summit. You can't miss it if you are driving north of Rachel to Base Camp or Tonopah. It is recent (maybe 4 years) and shows up well on Google Earth. Check out coordinates
The general area is full of old, not so old, and recent mining roads. However the top of the switchback road doesn't have any active mining claim. I've been on the top and found nothing of interest. There are plenty of abandoned claims from Pioneer Oil and Gas in that location.
I noticed a grid of holes appear on Google Earth around Queen City Summit. They are not noticeable just driving by the area. Check out coordinates
The grid is 5x9. [The thing that looks like a trailer is a water tank for cattle.]
These claims are current as of 2012.
In Nevada, if you swing a dead cat by the tail, it is likely to land on a mining claim.
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The Montana Department of Transportation will enlist professional help to clean up "The Island," a loose community of at least 22 identifiable campsites east and west of the Reserve Street Bridge in Missoula.
Ed Toavs, MDT's Missoula district administrator, on Wednesday told local civic and law enforcement leaders that the department was seeking an environmental contractor to do the job but he wanted to make sure they all were on board.
"There's going to be permitting involved, so the main thing is we want to make sure we do everything correctly when we go to clean this up and we're not missing anything that somebody else might think of," Toavs said.
Most of the illegal camps are in the floodplain south of the Clark Fork River, on land that according to Toavs was bought by MDT to use as a borrow source when Reserve Street was built decades ago.
Many but not all the camps appear abandoned as winter sets in, but the Island becomes a teeming village of tents, shanties and, in one case, a two-story wood hut in warm weather.
Health officials worry about the excrement, trash and debris that get washed down the river, especially during high water. Law enforcement officers worry about safety issues, for neighbors, sportsmen and river cleanup crews who venture into the area, though only occasional violence has been reported over the years.
On Wednesday, at MDT's Missoula district headquarters, Toavs called together a group that included Missoula County Sheriff Carl Ibsen, Assistant Police Chief Mike Brady, County Commissioner Michele Landquist, Missoula Mayor John Engen (via teleconference) and city-county health officials.
On hand, too, were Travis Mateer, the homeless outreach coordinator for the Poverello Center, as well as the Transportation Department maintenance chief Jack May and maintenance engineer Steve Miller.
They discussed a three-pronged strategy to remove the camps on an unadvertised date and clean up what Ibsen said were "massive amounts of trash" near the river, all before spring runoff and ideally much sooner. Then comes the hard part – discouraging re-establishment of the camp.
Unlike other bridges in Missoula, the Reserve Street span doesn't have people living directly underneath it. Some of the encampments can be seen by neighbors and passers-by, while others are tucked well away from view.
"It's like Vietnam, some of it," May said. "It's a jungle down there. You can be 50 feet away (from a campsite) and not even know it's there."
Mateer has visited the Island several times in recent months to educate campers on the social services available to them in town at the Poverello Center. He said on one occasion a camper paid $200 to secure a preferred site by another who was moving out.
Brady and Ibsen agreed it'll take continued vigilance to keep the Island camps from popping up again. They likened the campaign to police efforts over the past four decades to limit the illegal campsites on the Kim Williams Trail in Hellgate Canyon east of town.
"If all these years doing this line of work gives me any insight into it, we will move the difficulty rather than 100 percent eliminate it," Ibsen said.
Mateer said he suspects that campers with the mobility to access and live on the Island will move to the Kim Williams Trail when it's shut down.
That, Toavs said, is why he wanted to get others involved in MDT's cleanup. It will undoubtedly effect the city, county and perhaps private landowners. The state will foot the bill for purging its own land of the illegal camps, but Toavs doubts that state taxpayer dollars can be tapped for the properties of others.
Peter Nielsen of the Missoula City-County Health Department brought the matter to MDT earlier this year after receiving complaints from residents for the past several years.
His staff has attempted to follow up the complaints by checking the site out, "but it's been difficult to do that," Nielsen said. "They've encountered hostile situations and haven't been very productive in getting things done."
The matter came to a head after those participating in an Earth Day river cleanup were warned by police not to venture into the area, even though it was a prime target area to be cleaned.
Nielsen said later in the summer he was in the Kelly Island area downstream from the illegal campsites and noticed "a lot of trash that I had not seen in previous years in that area – camping-related trash like sleeping bags and backpacks that obviously had washed down from, if not this area, a similar area upstream. And this one's pretty close."
He gave May a call at MDT and set the wheels in motion.
"It became clear the more we looked at it that maybe we'd been looking the other way on this area for a long time," Nielsen said. "It's gotten to where people have dug in down there and become established to a degree that's uncommon in many other areas where folks camp."
Reporter Kim Briggeman can be reached at 523-5266 or at email@example.com.


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It took the industry 15 years to arrive at this digital camera. Looks like the awesome cameras from back in the days when camera builders gave a shajt. It is made in Japan, that alone will make me buy this unit. It looks like a real camera, not like the gazillions of plastic Chinese made bs that flooded the US market in the bast 25 years. Great job Fujifilm, this camera will put you on the top of the game (as long as you keep the Made in Japan stamp on it.)
Lens characteristics (cont.)
Macro Focus
The X100 has impressive close-up capability - it can focus to just 10cm from the front of the lens, giving an image area of approximately 81mm x 54mm, equating to a maximum magnification of approximately 0.3x. This is one significant benefit over its most direct competitor, the Leica X1, which has a rather limiting 30cm closest focus distance.
As mentioned above, wide open sharpness in the macro range (and at minimum focus especially) is highly lacking, with the lens suffering badly from spherical aberration. Fujifilm warns about this in the manual, and advises against shooting with the lens wide open at such close subject distances; however for certain subjects this defect can be used creatively to add some atmosphere to the shot. Stopping down to F4 improves matters substantially, and the lens becomes critically sharp at F8.
F2, JPEG, minimum focus | 100% crop, center |
F4 | 100% crop, center |
F8 | 100% crop, center |
The X100's flare characteristics are, like the camera itself, distinctly individual. With bright light sources inside the frame it's impressively resistant to overall contrast loss, but it does tend to produce an array of ghost images radiating outwards, which as usual become increasingly defined on stopping down. Where the lens can occasionally come unstuck, though, is with light impinging obliquely on the front element, which can result in image detail being degraded significantly. This kind of flare can be guarded against simply by using a hood.
F8, sun in corner of frame | F8, sun directly above and ahead |
The X100's flare characteristics tend to be most obvious (and, depending on your point of view, problematic) when shooting in low light or at night, which is when flare patterns and ghost images can become most visible against dark backgrounds. The X100 can also give quite extraordinary flare effects at F2, with psychedelic radial streaks emanating from point light sources covering an angle of about 150 degrees. This is quite unlike anything we've ever seen before - it certainly adds an unusual look to images.
F2, bright white LED 'flash' | Detail of flare pattern |
Background blur ('Bokeh')
One of the advantages of the X100's APS-C sensor and fast F2 lens is the ability to blur the background to some degree (and rather more than with typical small-sensor compact cameras). The degree of background blur is mainly a function of the lens's angle of view and the diameter of its entrance pupil, and this means that the X100's 23mm F2 lens offers broadly similar capability to the Panasonic 20mm F1.7 for Micro Four Thirds, or a 35mm F2.8 lens on a full frame camera.
The X100 is capable of producing quite pleasingly blurred backgrounds, and in most situations the quality of the blur is attractive enough. Under certain situations backgrounds can get a little fragmented and 'busy', mainly with complex distant backgrounds at intermediate subject distances (around 2-3m) and with the lens wide open. Closer backgrounds are notably smoother and more pleasant, and on the whole there's not much to complain about here.
F2, distant background | 50% crop, top right |
F2, close focus | 50% crop, top centre |
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US 4780370 A Abstract Powdered composition for ashtray use, comprising a powdered mass constituted by silica, impregnated by at least one odor-absorbing product adapted to absorb the odors of tobacco ash, fag-ends, or cigar butts, etc. This odor-absorbing product can advantageously be ricinoleate or grillocin; preferably, the impregnation products comprise the odor-absorbing product (5 to 15%), perfume (35 to 45%) and a solvent (50%).
Claims(5) 1. Powder composition for ashtray use, comprising a power mass of silica, impregnated with at least one odor-absorbing product selected from the group consisting of ricinoleate and grillocin.
2. Composition according to claim 1, wherein the powder mass is impregnated in addition with a product containing at least one perfume and at least one solvent.
3. Composition according to claim 2, wherein the impregnation products are present in the following proportions by weight:
______________________________________odor-absorbing product 5 to 15%perfume (35-45% extract) 35 to 45%solvent 50%______________________________________ 4. Composition according to claim 1, wherein the powder mass is colored.
5. Composition according to claim 1 wherein the granulometry of the powder mass is approximately uniform and comprised between 200 and 400 μm.
Description The present invention relates to a powder composition for ashtray use, comprising a powdered mass constituted by silica, and it also relates to a method for its manufacture. Various powder compositions are already known intended for avoiding the diffusion of undesirable odors, particularly odors released by tobacco ash, fag-ends or cigar butts, etc. These known compositions generally have the common feature of including a granular mass constituted at least to a large extent by silica, which is impregnated by a perfumed additive. The essential drawback of these known compositions is that the function of absorbing undesirable odors is left to the granular mass alone although this granular mass certainly possesses good extinguishing properties for smothering incandescent portions, however it has only mediocre effectiveness for absorbing odors. These prior art products have hence essentially the capacity of enabling the odorous release of the perfumed additive which becomes added to the undesirable odor, to mask the latter as far as possible. The result thereof is a highly charged atmosphere and the mixture of smells which arises therefrom may prove to be scarcely pleasant and poorly tolerated. In addition, the perfumed additive which is added to the granular mass, in a product available in the trade, retains its fatty residues which causes agglomeration of the grains and reduces the flow properties of the granular mass; in addition, this product makes greasy the objects with which it is placed in contact, which thereby considerably limits the conditions of use. It is an essential object of the invention to provide a powder composition for ashtray use which does not show the drawbacks of the products known at present and which responds better to the various exigencies of practice. For this purpose, according to a first aspect of the invention there is provided a powder composition for ashtray use, comprising a powder mass constituted by silica, which is characterized in that this powder mass is impregnated by at least one odor-absorbing product adapted to absorb the smells of tobacco, tobacco ash, tars, etc., released by tobacco ash, and/or fag-ends, cigar butts, etc., and the odor-absorbant product can advantageously be ricinoleate or grillocin. Through this fact, the composition according to the invention is suitable for ensuring effective and efficient deodorization by absorbing the odors released by tobacco ash, fag-ends or cigar butts, etc., whilst preserving its useful extinguishing property. It is still possible to impregnate the powder mass with other additives, in particular with a perfume; but in this case the perfume is no longer for the purpose of combatting undesirable emanations: it may be freely selected and especially it may be dosed to provide as discreet a release as desired. Advantageously in this case, the impregnation products are present in the following proportions by weight: ______________________________________odor-absorbing product 5 to 15%perfume (35-45% extract) 35 to 45%solvent 50%______________________________________ The solvent (for example that marketed under the name Shell T) ensures the removal of the fatty residues from the perfume and permits a completely dry powdered mass to be obtained, which is non-sticky, non-greasy, and free-flowing. Of couse, it is possible to provide for the powdered mass to be colored. A second aspect of the invention is directed to a method for the preparation of a powdered composition for ashtray use, comprising a powdered mass constituted by silica, which is characterized by the following steps: heating and mixing the powdered mass. then spraying, onto this heated and mixed powdered mass, a liquid solution containing at least one odor-absorbant product, particularly ricinoleate or grillocin. Preferably, the heating of the powdered mass is effectuated at a temperature comprised between about 180� and 220� C., preferably about 200� C. As the case may warrant, before carrying out the spraying of the liquid solution, the powdered mass is dyed by soaking and stirring in a liquid dye bath containing pasty hydroplasts diluted in a dispersion liquid, then by heating to a temperature comprised between about 180� and 220� C. the evaporation of the liquid phase, the aforesaid spraying of the liquid solution being done at the end of the drying step. By means of the method according to the invention, there is obtained a powder composition which is completely dry and which therefore preserves fully its free-flowing character. This composition possesses an excellent power of absorption of odors of tobacco ash and fag-ends, can release a discrete perfume, is aesthetically pleasant, and does not stain the articles with which it is in contact. Its action is permanent, and not momentaneous like the various aerosols or candles at present used for this same purpose. In addition, its cost of manufacture remains modest and it can be obtained in large amounts and automatically by simple industrial production processes. Simple in use, this powder composition is designed for individual, collective or special ashtrays, such as those used in hotels or aircraft, by procuring added security against fires by reason of its high extinguishing power. It is desirable to select a silica of fairly fine particle size comprised between 200 and 400 μm, preferably of the order of 300 μm, that is to say a silica of glass-making quality having a selected constant and permanent granulometry. The adjuvants sprayed onto the silica are present in the proportion of 5 to 15% for the odor-absorbing product, 35 to 45% for the perfume and about 50% for the solvent (proportions by weight). The amount of perfume incorporated may be 4 grams per liter of silica, with 35-40% extract, with various adjuvants such as a fixing agent. By way of example, it is possible to use the following perfume compositions: ______________________________________Citral 2%Libsea Cubeba 5%Mint Terpenes 2%Citrus composition 71%Fixing agent 20%______________________________________ ______________________________________Jasmin base 5%Opopanax base 5%Spiced base 10%Carnation base 2%Arora CX 8%Floral composition 50%Fixing agent 20%______________________________________ ______________________________________Lavender 50-52 10%Fine lavender 3.5%Fine absolute lavender 10%Coumarin 1%Lavender fixing agent 5.7%Benzyl benzoate 25%Reinforcing agent 2.9%Amber musk 5.7%Fixing agent 5.7%Base composition 30.5%______________________________________ As is self-evident and as emerges already besides from the foregoing, the invention is in no way limited to its methods of application and embodiments which have been more especially envisaged; it encompasses thereof, on the contrary, all modifications. Patent Citations
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