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What an ignorant comment by Costas and NBC. A crime of passion would not have occurred without a gun? Give me a break. There are many other ways this tragedy could have still happened. For example? See Shakespeare. Rather than take the high road and express empathy towards the individual families envolved, Costas and NBC go after a political issue during a sports broadcast. Pathetic.
The OJ murder puts an end to this non-sense about guns.
How? The fact that there are other ways to murder someone does not mean guns don't make it easier.
The fact is it's much easier to go to the kitchen drawer and get a knife than it is to purchase a gun so your argument is pointless kidding....
You are 100% correct. using a knife to kill someone is much, easier than using a gun. That is why 99% of murders are the result of stabbing, How long do you think it will take before the drug gangs will figure out what you already did and stop using guns and switch over to knives? -
Gee bing, considering a large explosive device could take care of all their targets in one fatal swoop, I'm surprised they haven't taken to just blowing everything up.
You have an unnatural obsession with guns.
Unless Belcher slit her throat with a knife, or beat her to death with his own hands.
Lots of ways for a frustrated lover to kill. Guns are only a tool.-
True and true. Guns just make it easier and more impulsive I think.
It is easier to grab a knife from the kitchen than to load a handgun.
We must of course fully recognize all citizens have a Constitutional right to own a gun even felons. A right is also a choice. We need to improve our education on guns and encourage better choices. The NFL is a great venue to demonstrate how silly some gun right concepts are. Should the players all have guns on the field? Sadly some would say its their Constitutional right.
Felons are not allowed to own guns. It is a felony for them to possess them. Unfortunately, the justice department under the Obama administration has greatly reduced prosecuting these felons found with guns. If you want guns and criminals off the street, you must prosecute to the full extent of the law those found violating the law. Lock up the criminals and leave law abiding gun owners alone.
2008 Supreme Court opened that door. I believe that was under a certain President Bush. Nevertheless, except for the Obama comment, I agree with your comment.
http://www.nysun.com/national/supreme-court-decision-may-permit-felons-to-own/80870/ -
Your just as misinformed as Bob Costas.
Are you kidding, why doesnt obama change the laws about punishing felons who are found with guns?
Is Bob Costas under the impression that people care about his opinions on gun control?
What's next, Brent Musburger on abortion?
Chris Berman on islamic jihad? -
I'm as liberal as they come, but I know that gun control doesn't work. In all of the recent shootings, guns were just a tool. These people would have found a way to hurt others or themselves even if guns were banned.
We need to figure out what flips the trigger in people that cases them to do something like this. That is the real issue here, not guns. -
Pretty sure it was during the pre-game, not at halftime.
I usually like Costas, but he's dead wrong on this. Murderers and criminals don't care about gun laws. Like drugs, restricting access to guns won't solve anything. Let's not kid ourselves that he wouldn't have killed Ms. Perkins were it not for guns. If he used a knife would we be talking about banning knives? What about plastic bags if he suffocated her? There are plenty of ways to kill someone if one is motivated or troubled enough to do it. Why does one do this and what happens in their life that puts them on a path to doing this? Where are the people that could have intervened and stopped him? Let's look for the root causes of the crime and work on them instead of blaming the tool he used to carry it out.
Where were Costas comments on his buddy King Putt using drones to check off items on his kill list ?
"If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today."
Maybe Bob should be working for The Friends Physic network.-
"The Friends Physic Network?" E=mc squared? F=ma? P=mv? This whole thing is getting complicated!

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Commuter world, post your ride here.Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.Cross-posted from the general pictures thread, my new uber-commuter:
Boardman pro CX from wiggle. - Aluminium frame with carbon fork - Avid BB7 disc brakes - Conti 4 seasons 28c tyres - SRAM Force groupo - SKS chromoplastic mudguards (too big but I already had them) - Rack and rack bag for clothes All-up weight out of the box was 9.8kg. After the rack, bag, mudguards, lights, spare tube, patch kit and pump the weight ready to go is 12.5kg. Hopefully I'm able to make it up the hill of death on the way to work tomorrow!
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.Wow that looks pretty nice Andrew. Can I ask how much that set up cost?
i love my bike(s)
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.
Base bike was $1600, don't remember what the mudguards and rack etc cost because I've had them for a while now but perhaps $1850 all up with the tyres? Had to pay for shipping and customs from the UK too. I was considering the 'team' version which is the same frame, fork and wheels but with an Apex groupo (which I'm sure would have been fine) and BB5 brakes (which I'd heard bad things about) but in the end the BB7's and force groupo plus a 20% off deal at wiggle were too tempting.
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.Phwoar, shiny!
"Lexa": 2012 Trek Lexa S; "Bluey": 2006 Trek 7.0FX
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.That bike looks great Andrew. Much better than my Merida.
I have been commuting on a new bike for the last 2 days. New Trek superfly al 29er. Now I have a choice of 3 bikes to ride to work on
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.Commute by stealth! I like it.
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Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.
Hides the grime well
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.sweet ride you have there, any issues with the chain bouncing off the chain ring? also what rims are those? H+son?
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.
Comes off on the outside occasionally, but only when I drop down to the smallest cog in a hurry. Not enough to make me look into to a fix. The wheelset I built - Deep V's laced to circus monekys mtb hubs.
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.Very nice Crawf. I love it
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here. The ultimate streetfighter. That is cool enough to chill beer.
What frame is it Crawf? Shaun ...whatever the road rules, self-preservation is the absolute priority for a cyclist when mixing it with motorised traffic.
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Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.needs a longer rear der cable housing ! holy
7 steel bikes and counting
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.Mulger, it's a China jobby, an ICAN SP-AC024.
Yeh that RD cable is a bit long but I wanted to keep it long during 'break in', shifting is still sweet though, will get to it one day.
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.My 2010 Giant Seek 2 ... with the requisite commuter additions! Good enough to be a fun ride, not good enough to worry about commutes in the rain.
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.few upgrades to my ride :
H+son rims with all-city hubs, All City cranks, KMC single speed chain, and white industries freewheel
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.Can't beat black
I'd be wrapping some white reflective tape around those white areas.
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.This is my commuter, hastily built over a weekend with what I had available but so far it's been great. It's built from a 27" spaced Ricardo Viva Tange 900 frame, SKS Chromoplastics, Campagnolo Khamsin wheel and Veloce groupset. I had to use some Tektro R538 57mm brakes for reach which are on the way, and I'm changing the rear cassette for a 13-29.
Plans once I finish uni in a few weeks is to re coat the frame in a deep red, gold pin stripe the lugs, and build some new wheels with some silver Ambrosio 32/36 hole hubs and silver Mavic Open Sport eyeleted rims, maybe randoneur bars too.
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.picky i know, but your rear brake has jumped the fence !
7 steel bikes and counting
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.I know! the Campagnolo brakes wouldn't fit because the cable adjuster fouls the rack and I'm waiting for my 57mm Tektro's to get here. That's a stop gap .. a front brake on the rear .. it works
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.Wow there are some amazing bikes here. Might as well post my new(secondhand) bike which will be used as a commuter. My cash flow
at the moment is pretty tight so it was bargain basement or bust. I picked it up a couple of weeks ago for $100. Now I've read all about Reid bikes here on this forum but I figured beggars can't be choosers. After a day full of adjusting, aligning and tightening it was all running smooth. I've only put about 100kmon it so far, and it hasn't missed a beat, it's been smooth, quiet, it brakes ok but it's not amazing. It's a bit heavy but coming from my last bike, a 16kg mountain anchor, 11kg is fine. I will be changing a couple of things as I go, but for now, I'm content
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.Cell SS-300 (Mostly Tiagra w/ 105 RD, carbon forks)
Ribmo 32c tyres (80/100 PSI) Pro Bar Ends AyUps, Radbot 1000, Smart front/rear M-520 SPDs (replaced A-530's that were on for 5 weeks) Deuter rack pack panniers (ortlieb connectors) SKS P45 Chromoplastics (with nylon-coated u-clips on front forks) Aerowedge (with spare tube, patches, tyre levers, CO2) Accessories have cost more than the bike...
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.
Crawf you're a very bad man! You build some great looking bikes. After not pulling the trigger on the custom Ti bike / frame you were selling I've been thinking long and hard about building up a disc drop bar commute - and I think I've found the template. I did a quick search for that frame and got some prices, and more importantly approval from the finance department! Though it will require me to go N-1 but that's OK as it will replace 2 bikes, one of which hasn't been ridden in quite some time. Did you get the frame from Alibaba? That's what came up when I searched for ICAN SP-AC024 and they were very quick with a reply regarding pricing and geometry. I'd like to ask you a few more questions regarding the build & components if you don't mind but I'll do it via PM is that's OK? Norco VFR1 Disc, Merida 903, Mofo Single Speed, Giant MTB, soon to be vintage Gazelle fixie
Re: Commuter world, post your ride here.I did a bit of colour coding on my commuter tonight.
I love reflective side walls too
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The primary objective of this pilot study is to assess the efficacy of lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra, a protease inhibitor, PI) when used in combination with maraviroc (Selzentry, an HIV entry inhibitor) for the treatment of antiretroviral naïve HIV infected patients. Twenty patients will be enrolled and studied for 48 weeks.
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HIV Infections |
Drug: lopinavir/ritonavir plus maraviroc |
Phase 4 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Kaletra and Maraviroc in Antiretroviral Therapy-Naïve Patients - KALMAR Study -Version 1.0 Amendment 2 |
- Assess proportion of participants with HIV RNA levels <50 and < 400 copies/mL. [ Time Frame: week 48 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Assess proportion of participants with HIV RNA < 50 and <400 copies/ml. [ Time Frame: week 24 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Assess the proportion of participants at study termination with VL < 50 copies/ml. [ Time Frame: week 48 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Determine the time to viral suppression (VL < 50 copies/ml). [ Time Frame: 48 weeks ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Determine the median change in VL from baseline to week 24, to week 48 and to study termination. [ Time Frame: week 24, week 48 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Assess the changes in CD4+ T cell count. [ Time Frame: week 24, 48 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Assess development of HIV resistance mutations and in HIV co-receptor tropism changes in participants who develop virologic rebound. [ Time Frame: week 48 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Assess safety and tolerability including any lipid changes. [ Time Frame: week 48 ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
Enrollment: | 1 |
Study Start Date: | April 2010 |
Study Completion Date: | June 2014 |
Primary Completion Date: | June 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Experimental: open label single arm
Drug: lopinavir/ritonavir plus maraviroc
Drug: lopinavir/ritonavir plus maraviroc
Lopinavir/ritonavir 400 mg/100 mg two tablets twice daily with Maraviroc 150 mg one tablet twice daily will be administered for 48 weeks to participants meeting entry criteria.
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As patients with HIV are living longer it is important to explore antiretroviral treatments which may reduce the development of long term complications while preserving future HIV treatment options. This trial explores an antiretroviral treatment regimen which does not include the nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor class which is thought to have long-term toxicity. This is a non-randomized, open label trial in participants meeting entry requirements.
Participants will be evaluated at screening, baseline,and weeks 4, 8, 12, 24, 36, and 48 to include clinical assessments as well as laboratory assessments.
An interim analysis will be performed when all patients have reached the week 24 visit.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
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- The patient has signed and dated approved informed consent form.
- There is confirmed laboratory diagnosis of HIV infection (positive ELISA HIV antibody test confirmed by Western blot, p24 antigen assay, quantitative HIV-1 RNA assay, or HIV culture).
- The patient is at least 18 years of age.
- ART-naïve, lopinavir/ritonavir susceptible on genotypic testing, CCR5-tropic virus on Trofile testing (ESTA).
- Negative pregnancy test within 72 hours prior to start of study for women of childbearing potential.
- Females of childbearing potential and males must utilize effective barrier contraception.
- HIV RNA greater than 1,000 copies per mL at entry.
- Liver enzymes (AST, ALT) < 3 times the upper limit of normal.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who are pregnant or breast-feeding.
- Active alcohol or substance abuse sufficient, in the Investigator's opinion that makes compliance to the study protocol unlikely.
- Suspected or active HIV-related opportunistic infection or condition requiring acute therapy within 30 days of entry into the trial.
- Patients on therapy for hepatitis B.
- Patients with hepatitis B surface antigen, or any evidence of active hepatitis B such as positive hepatitis B DNA and/or presence of hepatitis e antigen or e antibody.
- Acute hepatitis B or C within 60 days of entry.
- Patients harboring preexistent co-receptor CXCR4 tropic or dual-or mixed-tropic HIV.
- Patients harboring HIV resistant to lopinavir/ritonavir on genotypic testing.
- The presence of decompensated heart failure, myocardial infarction within 1 year, bypass surgery, severe vascular disease, or active hepatobiliary disease.
- Concomitant use of rifampin, ergot derivatives (i.e. dihydroergotamine, ergotamine), cisapride, lovastatin, simvastatin, triazolam, orally administered midazolam, carbamazepine, phenytoin, St. John's wort, ketoconazole, itraconazole, clarithromycin, telithromycin, amiodarone, bepridil, flecainide, propafenone, quinidine, voriconazole or nefazodone.
- Patients with concomitant diagnosis of malignancy or cancer other than basal cell carcinoma within the past 5 years.
- Concomitant use of investigational agents including the use of any investigational vaccines.
- Any other clinical conditions or prior therapy that, in the opinion of the investigator, would make the patient unsuitable for study, or unable to comply with the dosing requirements.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01068873
United States, Pennsylvania | |
Temple General Internal Medicine | |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19140 |
Principal Investigator: | Mary van den Berg-Wolf, MD | Temple University |
No publications provided
Responsible Party: | Stephanie Brictson, Administrator, Temple University |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01068873 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | Temple IRB 12848 |
Study First Received: | February 12, 2010 |
Last Updated: | June 5, 2014 |
Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Keywords provided by Temple University:
HIV Protease Inhibitor CCR5 Co-receptor Antagonist treatment naive |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lopinavir Ritonavir Anti-HIV Agents Anti-Infective Agents Anti-Retroviral Agents Antiviral Agents |
Enzyme Inhibitors HIV Protease Inhibitors Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Pharmacologic Actions Protease Inhibitors Therapeutic Uses |
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Since 2003, FCCP has served as a voice for the photography community of the Florida Gulf Coast. Whether you are a photographer, a collector, a student, or are just interested in new trends in photography, FCCP is the home for you. Join the FCCP community today!
FCCP is the largest photography related organization in the Greater Tampa Bay Area, with over 3000 members. We also sponsor over 1,000 photography related events every year ranging from trips to Africa and Yellowstone to fieldtrips to a park near your home.
FCCP members range from 13 to 96 and include people just starting out in photography and photographers with 50 or more years of experience. Every one, with all levels of interest and experience, is welcome at all of our events.
Classes for January, February and March start registering December 9! Click here to learn more about our Beginning Photography Bootcamps and Click here to learn about our Photo Editing Workshops. Click here to learn about our In-the-Field-Mini Workshops. Click here for NEW workshops for iPhone and Android users. Follow the links and register for a workshop today! Workshops and classes for April, May and June will start registering the second week of March.
Big groups many times suffer from inactivity, so how active is this group? We are the most active photography Meetup group in the world and one of the 50 most active Meetups in the World. While other groups struggle to offer 40 to 60 meetups in a year or two, we offer 125 to 150 separate events, classes, workshops, PhotoWalks and social activities every month. Take a look over to the left and you'll see that in a little over 5 years we've had over 3,500 great activities for all our members. You'll also see that we have over 100 activities scheduled in the coming months around the Greater Tampa Bay area.
So what's it like going on a PhotoWalk with a 100 other Photographers? Well, we wouldn't know, because our PhotoWalks generally have 20 photographers or less. Because we offer so many opportunities, photographers get to pick and choose the types of walks, classes and workshops that interest them. Check out our Upcoming and Past Events and you'll see a great photographer to leader ratio. We even do PhotoWalks for just two or three members, no cliquishness or last minute cancellations here (except for dangerous weather, your safety always comes first with FCCP).
What kind of places do you go to on the PhotoWalks? We have on average 4 to 5 PhotoWalks per week. We've been to many of the Pinellas County Parks, Hillsborough County Parks and many city parks. Destinations include Lowry Park Zoo, MacDill Airfest, Bok Tower, Heritage Village,Florida Botanical Gardens, Sarasota Classic Car Museum, Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum, Brooksville Raid Civil War reenactment, Kennedy Space Center - Shuttle Launch, Village of the Artists - Bradenton, Florida Aquarium, American Victory Ship - Tampa, and hundreds of other great locations.
Are all the PhotoWalks elaborate or expensive? No, most of our PhotoWalks are to local parks and area destinations. Most parks are free as well as the Street Photography we do in places like Tarpon Springs, Gulf Port, Ybor City, Clearwater Beach and area Farmer's Markets. A few charge for parking, but most are absolutely free for all members. We get to practice macro, portraiture, landscape, wildlife, bird photography, HDR, B&W and so much more.
What other kinds of events and activities do you do? FCCP has weekly morning meetings every Tuesday and Wednesday mornings We meet at the Independent in Tampa and O'Keefe's Family Restaurant in Clearwater for Coffee and snacks.
The third Tuesday of the Month we have a New Member/Old Member Mixer at different restaurants or pubs around the Bay. We go to photo exhibits at local museums and galleries, show DVD's about photography and famous photographers and many other social activities.
I've been to other photo classes and workshops and they're packed. There's no opportunity to ask questions or even talk to the instructor. The classes have a great instructor to student ratio. We limit class sizes to 20 or less and some of the advanced classes are limited to as few as 5 students. Most of the other local clubs offer few educational opportunities and when they do, the classes are huge or fill up so quickly few members can register. Our classes aren't just offered once or twice a year, but repeat on a regular schedule. You'll have the chance to learn at your pace and have a wide range of classes, such as HDR, Beginning and Advanced Photo classes, B&W, Infrared, Lightroom, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and much, much more. New classes, Bootcamps, workshops, In-the-Field Mini Workshops and webinars are being added all the time.
How come you charge for your classes when many clubs don't charge? FCCP has many free learning opportunities, not just one or two per month. Every Wednesday morning, every Tuesday morning, you'll have an opportunity ask questions and get answer from "real" teachers, not a couple of guys sitting around that got their photo education from reading a book or attending a weekend workshop.
Jeff taught photography for 4 years at Montana State University and for 5 years at the Dunedin Fine Art Center. You spent a lot of money on your camera outfit, so spend just a little on your education and learn from the best.
What if I can't make it to a class or workshop? Try our Webinars and Webcasts. We're the only local photo group that offers classes over the internet and via email. You get live interaction with the instructors and students with the convenience of being at your home, or even your office. We've even had students take webinars in their pajamas, how cool is that?
It's cool going out and shooting and learning all this stuff, but what do I do with all the thousands of photos I'll have? I'm glad you asked, because FCCP has a strong commitment to you and our community by getting your photographs publicly displayed. We have an ongoing, permanent display of our members photos in several local community organization buildings.
We also offer our members several additional opportunities throughout the year, to display their work as well. More chance to show your work means more chances to get exposure and recognition for the great photos you'll be taking. Heck, you may even sell a few along the way.
Want to learn more, or even help out? Great, we have a committee of over 25 members that oversee all of our exhibits and gallery shows and they welcome any help they can get.
So far, so good, but what's the catch, what is all this going to cost me? Most all of our activities are FREE. In fact over 95% are free. The PhotoWalks, social activities, even some of the classes, workshops and webinars are free. Sure, you have to pay your own admission fees when we go to places like the zoo, aquarium and others, but we get great group rates that saves us bucks in the long run.
What's all the stuff about Dues, FCCP Supporters and Basic Members? The dues are optional and will get you great discounts and perks. FCCP Supporters get free camera and sensor cleanings (that alone will pay for your membership and more), 2 free mini-workshops, discounts on classes, workshops and webinars the rest of the year. FCCP Supporters get some great perks from merchants (like B&H Photo and Adorama), discounts on software (Adobe, NIK, onOne, Topaz Labs and Photomatix), discounts on lens rentals, and free photo printing (this year Nation's Photo Lab will give every FCCP Supporter a no strings attached $50 Gift Card). Basic Members aren't totally left out, they get some cool perks as well, but hey it's free.
So who organizes this stuff, leads the PhotoWalks and teaches the classes? Jeff Donald, the guy in the photo over to the left, organizes the group. But he's not superman, though sometimes he thinks so, he's got the help of a bunch of great Co-Organizers, Assistant Organizers and Volunteers. They help with the PhotoWalks, Webcasts, website, and they even teach a few classes or workshops.
But Jeff is the main guy. He's got over 30 years experience in photo retail, teaching, computers and photography. He's taught at Montana State University, the Dunedin Fine Art Center and the Digital Photo Academy, he's worked for national companies like Apple Computer and Ritz Camera, and owned his own business, IMPACT Video Productions. If you get a chance ask him over a beer about his travels to Africa, the Philippines, and other cool places (really cool places like Churchill Manitoba, the Polar Bear Capitol of the World).
Jeez, is he like 100 years old or something? No, he just looks it, he's only 56.
Ok, so what happens next? Watch the video and get a feel for what the group is like. Ted, he's an Assistant Organizer, put the video together and he's got some other great videos on the site as well. When you're ready, click the Join button in the upper right. In a day or two Jeff or one of the Assistants will email you a getting started kit. But the rest is up to you. Sign up for an upcoming PhotoWalk (the partial list is below the video and to the right) and get out and take some pictures. RSVP for a class or webinar, or go to the New Member Mixer, there are two every month and they're free.
So what if I want to learn more about the group? You've gotten this far, so go ahead and click the button, you know you want to. Check out some of the links below or better yet come to one of the many PhotoWalks and get a real feel for the fun you're going to have as a member of FCCP.
See all the activities class, workshops, webinars and PhotoWalks on our calendar.
See our leadership team here and if you have a skill to share or just want to help out, send Jeff an email.
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Two walk away from crash, plane destroyed
Pilot John Fehrman, pictured, and his passenger, Isaac Preston, escaped serious injury when Fehrman's plane made an emergency landing in a rugged and remote area northwest of Antelope Lake. The 1946 Euro Coupe was completely destroyed in the crash. Photo by Isaac Preston |
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Two Plumas County men escaped serious injury when the plane they were flying went down in rugged terrain early Sunday afternoon, July 27.
Quincy business owner and pilot John Fehrman said his 1946 Euro Coupe 415C, based in Quincy, didn't respond as he applied power to climb and clear a ridge. He said he was left with no choice other than making an emergency landing in a thicket of pine trees.
Fehrman, 62, a seasoned pilot who has logged more than 7,000 hours of civilian flight time, departed the Chester airport at approximately 10:20 a.m. with passenger Isaac Preston.
The scenic flight around the Lake Almanor, Indian Valley and Lassen Peak areas was scheduled to take about an hour. It was a 40th birthday present for Preston, a Chester resident.
The two-seat light sports plane went down about 11 a.m., approximately 10 miles northwest of Antelope Lake on the fringe of the terrain burned by the Moonlight Fire.
Unable to get cellphone reception at the scene of the accident, the two decided to begin walking down the mountain. They followed a logging road in hopes of finding a spot with cellphone reception so they could make contact with family members, whom they both knew by then would be very worried.
After hiking several miles, the two crash survivors spotted a couple of miners in the distance near a pickup truck. Fehrman said they reached the two men and told them what had happened. The miners responded by saying they thought they were having a bad day when their pickup truck had broken down, leaving them stranded as well. Fortunately, there was plenty of food and water in the truck for all.
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The Cubs and Reds will get to know each other pretty well this week as the two teams will settle in for a five-game set at Great American Ball Park, starting with Monday's matchup between Edwin Jackson and Mike Leake.
The two teams have not played a five-game series since Sept. 6-9, 1999 at Wrigley Field. This week was scheduled as a four-game set until a rainout on April 28 forced a doubleheader on Tuesday.
After gaining a game on the first-place Brewers in a weekend series win over Milwaukee, Cincinnati will be looking to continue its push toward the top of the division by taking advantage of the last-place Cubs. The Reds currently sit in fourth place, six games behind Milwaukee, but fewer than three games separate the middle three teams in the division.
The Reds will start the series with Leake, who is 7-2 with a 3.04 ERA in 14 career starts against Chicago, including 3-0 with a 1.71 ERA in four starts against the Cubs in 2013. Leake is trying to rebound from his last start, in which he allowed three runs on a season-high 11 hits in a loss to the Padres.
"They found a lot of holes. They hit me and they made me work at trying to keep the ball down," Leake said after that loss. "Really, all in all, I'm not that disappointed. They hit some good pitches that were decent pitches. I made a couple of mistakes, obviously the first at-bat. The rest weren't actually bad mistakes like that one. Good job by them battling and hitting me early in counts."
The Cubs have lost both their games since trading hurlers Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel, and they'll send Jackson to the bump on Monday to try to right the ship. Jackson is 5-8 with a 4.99 ERA this season, and he posted his second quality start since May 17 in his last try against the Red Sox.
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"[Welington Castillo] and I were able to get into a nice groove and mix up the pitches and keep them off-balance," Jackson said after that win. "This is a tough team to face and a tough lineup. We want to keep them off-balance as much as we can."
Jackson has struggled away from Wrigley Field this year: He carries a 3.86 ERA in eight home starts and a 6.06 ERA in nine on the road.
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The Cubs' starting rotation remains in flux following the trade of Samardzija and Hammel to the Athletics on Saturday.
Manager Rick Renteria has the pitching schedule set through the first three games of a five-game set at the Reds. Jackson will start the series opener on Monday, Travis Wood will pitch the first game of the doubleheader on Tuesday and Triple-A Iowa left-hander Tsuyoshi Wada will start the nightcap.
Renteria said the starting pitchers for Wednesday and Thursday will likely be determined on Monday or Tuesday.
Along with Wada, Iowa right-hander Dallas Beeler could also see action in the Majors in the near future. Beeler surrendered one unearned run and four hits over six innings in his lone start for the Cubs on June 28 against the Nationals.
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Though Joey Votto was not in the lineup for in Sunday's series finale against Milwaukee, manager Bryan Price said it was just a day off for the first baseman, who is still on the rebound from a left quad strain that put him on the disabled list last month. Votto is expected to be in the lineup for Monday's series opener against Chicago.
"For Joey, it's just a day off," Price said. "We're trying to be conscientious of the fact that he is playing at well below 100 percent right now and trying to keep him as healthy as we can under the circumstances, which is challenging. He's got some challenges, physically. I just thought it was a good idea to give him a day off today."
Votto has been out of the starting lineup three times since returning from the DL, and Price said the downtime is a normal part of Votto's return to full health.
"We knew the process when we initially put Joey on the disabled list that when we got him back, we weren't going to be able to get him to 100 percent over the course of the regular season," Price said. "We decided to do some strengthening exercises and really work on getting the inflammation and a lot of the soreness out of there. We accomplished that to a certain degree.
"Some days are better than others. This was my decision today not to play, though I stay in contact with Joey on how he's feeling. He didn't ask to come out. I just thought it was a good day to give him a breather and reassess and get ready for tomorrow."
Worth noting
• The Cubs' 2-1 loss on Sunday to Washington snapped a streak of three straight road series wins. They have won five of their last seven road games.
• Reds catcher Brayan Pena was placed on the paternity list on Sunday following the birth of his daughter Isabella.
• The Reds are 8-0-1 in series against National League Central rivals Chicago, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh.
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United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
- Date submitted: 1 Nov 2011
- Stakeholder type: United Nations & Other IGOs
- Name: United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
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The Submission of the UNCCD Secretariat to the Preparatory Process for Rio+ 20
1 November 2011
Land and soil in the context of a green economy for sustainable development,
food security and poverty eradication
?The time has come for the international community to commit itself
to a land degradation neutral world?
?Let us resolve today to adopt a target of no more land degradation by the end of this decade?
A) The importance of productive land/fertile soil for sustainable development
1. Land, defined as a system engaged in generating biological productivity, is the earth.s infrastructure for
life. Its rate of production and quality depend on the major component of land, soil and its fertility. Soil
organic matter, derived from the vegetation supported by the soil, is the major component that modulates
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productivity, the entire human population that also derives other benefit generated by soil through its
vegetation cover, like atmospheric oxygen, climate regulation and water filtration provisions. Therefore
soil functions and services acquire the status of a global common, whose protection from degradation
benefits all, hence it requires partnership and cooperation at the global scale.
3. The degradation of land is a major threat to life on earth, including humans, and when occurring in
drylands, where productivity is constrained by water, it is termed Desertification. Land degradation results
from various factors including human activities and climatic variations/shocks induced disasters such as
drought and floods. It is expressed by a persistent reduction of biological productivity, driven by
overexploitation of land resources by users striving to increase economic productivity, which results in
fertility loss and soil depletion.
4. Drivers of change - population growth, increased consumption and inequity generate the excess demand
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causing health problems and political instability.
B) The scope of the challenge
5. Despite the crippling effects of land degradation or soil nutrients depletion, the world has continued
building towards ?a soil peak. which will have far-worse consequences than the current ?oil peak.. The
threats and far-reaching impacts of land degradation are ignored largely because the issue is still a blind
spot for the international community, despite the search for sustainability.
6. Our most significant non-renewable geo resource is productive land/fertile soil. Nevertheless each year,
an estimated 24 billion tons of fertile soil are lost. Arable land loss is estimated at 30 to 35 times the
historical rate. Land degradation directly affects 1.5 billion people globally. When poverty is assessed in
terms of infant mortality rate, 74% of the poor (42% of the very and 32% of the moderately poor) are
directly affected by land degradation globally.
7. Land is a finite resource; land degradation depletes the resource base for our common food security. In
the dry lands, due to drought and Desertification 12 million ha of land are transformed in new man-made
deserts each year. That is an area with the potential to produce 20 million tons of grain each year.
8. Desertification, land degradation are now pervasive in all ecosystems and corrode the three pillars of
sustainable development. Most certainly, land degradation is a global phenomenon, with 78% of the
degrading land taking place in the non-drylands. Degrading the buffer zone of the drylands increases
drylands. vulnerability to degradation. The demand for productive land is high and competition over
various land uses is intense. The recent food crises were not accidents and they are not over. But in an
increasingly interdependent world, land-related crises will mutate into new global crises.
9. Africa is the most vulnerable region to phenomenon of Desertification. Over 45 per cent of Africa is
affected by Desertification, 55 per cent of which is at high or very high risk. 2/3 of Africa.s arable land
could be lost by 2025 if this trend continues.
10. As for drought, the percentage of Earth.s land area stricken by serious drought has more than doubled
from the 1970s to the early 2000s and the world is facing the possibility of widespread drought in the
coming decades; but this has yet to be fully recognized by the international community. Unfortunately,
drought in our time still implies famine and claims lives. The tragic situation happening in the Horn of
Africa is a stark reminder that we still have a long way to go.
11. In the last two decades, significant land recovery and improvement have occurred in the drylands. In
many cases, drylands populations have been leading these innovations and progresses. For instance,
farmer-managed natural regeneration and agroforestry techniques through planting of ?fertilizer trees? on
farmlands and grazing lands have already been adopted in many regions and, have contributed to
improving over six million hectares across Africa. A major scaling-up of these systems should be pursued
everywhere by improving public policies and institutions and harnessing the potentials of the civil society
and the private sector.
12. On another hand, more than 2 billion ha worldwide still offer opportunities for rehabilitation through
forest and landscape restoration. One 1.5 billion ha would be best-suited for mosaic restoration, in which
forests and trees are combined with other land uses, including agroforestry, smallholder agriculture. It
offers ?a vast opportunity to reduce poverty, improve food security, reduce climate change, and conserve
C) The Global Policy Response from the ?Earth Summit in Rio? and its Agenda 21
13. The UNFCCC, the CBD and the UNCCD (the Rio Conventions) are the offspring of the Earth Summit
held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. While UNFCCC and CBD address the atmosphere and the life on earth,
respectively, the UNCCD addresses the degradation of the earth.s infrastructure for life, land, with a
specific mandate for the arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, the dry-lands where productivity is
constrained by water.
14. While the awareness of the global community to climate change and biodiversity loss has dramatically
increased since the Rio Summit, the significance of land and soil to humanity remain obscure to many,
and the risks to livelihoods emanating from its degradation does not receive the attention it deserves. This
may be attributed, in part, to the limited textual mandate of the UNCCD and its limited geographical
focus, resulting in increasing persistent degradation and poverty, especially in drylands.
15. UNCCD objective is attending Desertification Land Degradation and mitigating the effects of Droughts.
More specific targets provided by its ten-year strategic plan 2008-2018, are to promote the functioning of
the dryland ecosystem, improving well-being of the users of these ecosystems, generate global benefits
through promoting dryland ecosystem functions, and mobilize resources for achieving the Convention.s
D) Addressing DLDD in the context of a green economy for sustainable development and
poverty eradication: the need for action at the UNCSD or Rio + 20
16. Poverty and hunger, food insecurity and vulnerability to climatic shocks are likely to remain the major
global challenges for sustainable development in the next decades. For the large majority of the poor and
the most vulnerable and the ecosystems they depend on, adaptation and resilience will better ensured
through addressing DLDD issues.
17. Trilemma of addressing DLDD (rates per minute)
? Causes
? Population increase: 150 people
? CO2 carbon increase: 6150 ton
? Tropical deforestation (total dryland and non-dryland): 25 ha
? Urban encroachment: 5.5 ha
? Effects
? Soil degradation: 10 ha
? Deaths from hunger: 16 people (incl. 12 children)
? Consequences
? Political instability
? Civil strife
18. If we do not take bold actions to protect, restore and manage land and soils sustainably, we will miss
climate change adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity, forests and MDGs targets; we will not alleviate
rural poverty and hunger, ensure long-term food security, build resilience to drought and water stress.
This will lead to consequences including more political conflicts over scarce resources and continued
forced migrations.
19. ?The strategy is to grow more produce from less land, more crop per drop of water, more yield per unit
input of fertilizers and pesticides, more food per unit of energy, and more biomass per unit C and
environmental foot-print.?
20. Green Economy is geared to capture opportunities provided by Sustainable Land Management (SLM)
used for preventing degradation and restoring degraded land, provided that the available institutional
framework is engaged in establishing schemes of payments for ecosystem services and creating market
mechanisms for land-derived ecosystem service, thus offsetting the short-term economic losses of land
users practicing conservation and ecological agriculture, for the sake of generating sustainable income at
the long run, and conferring not only local but also regional and even global benefit.
21. Therefore land-use in agriculture, energy and forestry should be one of the cornerstones of the green
economy for sustainable development food security and poverty eradication.
22. At the High-Level Meeting convened by the UN-GA, many leaders ?stressed that if the international
community was serious in its commitment about reversing land degradation and Desertification, the time
had come to commit for building a land degradation neutral world, to set measurable sustainable
development targets towards zero net land degradation as a commitment to build a land
degradation neutral world.?
23. Actions on the ground required for achieving a zero net rate of global land degradation are in line with the
Sustainable Land Management (SLM) approach, which can be effectively streamlined into the Green
Economy initiative, thus empowering it as a tool for attaining sustainable development in rural areas the
world over.
24. Both SLM and Green Economy internalize the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment approach of
addressing agriculture as cultivated ecosystems, which provide bundle of services, including biological
productivity and its products of commercial value, but also other services essential for human well-being,
including local as well as global climate regulation, and providing habitats for biodiversity, which is
involved in service provision.
E) Means or implementation
25. The current state of DLDD and its gloomy outlook call for new and bold set of actions to be endorsed by
Rio+20 conference. First, to set an ambitious but attainable target such as a state of global Zero Net Rate
of Land Degradation. Achieving this target requires implementing action of prevention, coupled with
action for rehabilitation and restoration of already degraded lands.
26. Another action addresses the need for an international framework attending committed to land and soil
issues, which would rally political support for strengthening the current weak and fragmented
international regime for land and soil. Initiatives to set a new legally-binding instrument for soil and land
failed, and none of the existing environmental instruments is amenable for focusing on land, on top of its
current mandate. The UNCCD, however, is the only legally-binding instrument dedicated to land, and it
only requires some updates through appropriate means for functioning as the required land-dedicated
27. At the High-Level Meeting convened by the UN-GA many leaders also ?emphasized that at a time when
there is evidence of accelerating trends in land degradation in all ecosystems, the planet could ill afford,
for world leaders, to limit their efforts to tackle these phenomenon only in the drylands. It was pointed out
that if we waited till other ecosystems were degraded and desertified before taking action, other
interrelated challenges such as food security, poverty, forced migration, adverse impact of climate
change, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, political instability and conflict would be exacerbated and
sustainable development and the MDGs could not be effectively realized.
28. There was a call to to enhance and foster the implementation of the United Nations Convention to
Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as a global policy and monitoring framework to address the issues of
soils and land degradation?.8 Without necessarily amending the UNCCD, several mechanisms could be
explored for achieving that purpose including through a protocol for attending global land and soil
29. Monitoring the pace of approaching the target require means of assessing land degradation and modes of
land management that prevent degradation and promote restoration. Knowledge is available but much of
it is fragmented and non-consensual. More specifically a consensual and authoritative assessment of land
degradation and monitoring of its trends does not yet exist. Almost 25 years ago, the Bruntland report
titled ?Our Common Future? warned us that if human needs are to be met, the Earth.s natural resources
must be conserved and more specifically that land use in agriculture and forestry must be based on a
scientific assessment of both land capacity and the annual depletion of topsoil.
30. Attending the global land and soil therefore requires a scientifically credible, transparent and independent
assessment of existing, policy-relevant but not policy-prescriptive knowledge, to be provided by a
globally agreed strong and effective science-policy interface, similar to the ones attending climate and
biodiversity, IPCC and IPBES, respectively. The assignments might be ?to provide an ongoing
authoritative and globally agreed scientific assessment on the state of the world.s soils, with a
complementary commitment to set and monitor quantitative targets to prevent degradation and restore
degraded soils, with a view to providing comprehensive ongoing information and targets to policy
makers, land managers and other stakeholders on soil quality, to improve food security and enhance other
ecosystem services, with the long-term aim of eradicating poverty, eliminating malnutrition and
promoting ecological, economic and social/cultural sustainability as the basis of a green economy?.


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