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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -Jason Labarbera put on a show in front of his hometown crowd.
Labarbera stopped 43 shots and the Los Angeles Kings beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 on Saturday night.
The Kings won for the fourth time in five games, rebounding after a disappointing 6-1 loss to the Calgary Flames one night earlier.
Labarbera, who was born and raised in the Vancouver area, was pulled from that contest after giving up five goals.
He had to be sharp early on against the Canucks, robbing Henrik Sedin and then Taylor Pyatt from point blank range on the first shift of the game, then turning around and stopping Alexandre Burrows on a breakaway the next shift.
That's the kind of night it was for Labarbera, with pucks coming at him from all angles.
"It's fun as long as the puck is hitting you," Labarbera said. "I felt good out there tonight. Obviously, for me it's a big thrill for me to play in Vancouver. I'm a B.C. kid who grew up watching the Canucks, so for me to play well here is a huge thing for me."
Los Angeles built up a three-goal lead and then hung on when the Canucks battled back within a goal two times. Vancouver outshot the Kings 46-24, but was unable to draw even.
"I think we worked pretty good, we generated 46 shots and we can't do that by standing still," said Markus Naslund. "But I think the mistakes are what we need to cut out. I think we were turning pucks over way too many times and not only that, we're giving up quality chances and it cost us tonight."
Vancouver came out flying in the early going and could easily have had a three-goal lead if not for the goaltending of Labarbera.
"We had the start that we wanted and we had the right players getting the scoring chances, we just couldn't get anything past their goaltender," said Vancouver coach Alain Vigneault. "I like the fact that our guys buckled down and battled really hard, but the difference tonight was goaltending. Their goaltender was outstanding.
"This was one of our best nights and defensively we only gave up 11 scoring chances; we played an overall very solid game and the difference was their goaltender."
Jack Johnson gave the Kings the lead midway through the first period, stepping up from the point and firing a slapshot that overpowered Vancouver goalie Roberto Luongo.
The goal was just the second of Johnson's career, both coming at GM Place against the Canucks.
Scott Thornton made it 2-0 just 2 minutes into the second period with his fourth of the year. Four minutes later, Dustin Brown gave the Kings a three-goal lead when he beat Luongo for his 24th of the season.
The Canucks were guilty of poor defensive zone coverage on both goals.
Jason LaBarbera Backstopped his team to a victory stopping 43 of 46 shots. |
Alexander Frolov Scored the game winner late in the third period, and finished with one goal and one assist. |
Mason Raymond Had one goal and 4 shots, playing on Vancouver's most effective line. |
"We were sloppy at times in our end, giving up plays that we don't usually give up," defenseman Mattias Ohlund said. "We scored three goals that should have been enough to win the game but we gave up some goals that we shouldn't have and usually don't."
Vancouver came back with two goals before the second period was over. Brad Isbister and Trevor Linden both beat Labarbera.
Alexander Frolov's 10th of the year restored the Kings two-goal lead with 7:40 to play in the third period.
Mason Raymond made it a one-goal game again with just under 4 minutes to play, stepping in front of a poor clearing attempt by Jaroslav Modry and ripping the puck past a startled Labarbera.
The Kings have won three straight over the Canucks this year, outscoring them 12-7.
"They're in last place in the conference and they beat us all three games, so I don't have much to say about that," said a frustrated Luongo. "We've lost five of six so I don't think our confidence is so high right now, but in situations like that you just have to work hard and make sure that you do things right in practice and they carry over in the game."
Notes: LW Ladislav Nagy (sore neck) was a late scratch for the Kings. Nagy had 12 points in the 12 games he has played since returning from a hip flexor on Dec. 22. ... RW Brian Willsie (back) missed his second straight game and D Willie Mitchell missed his first game of the year for the Canucks with a sore back. Mitchell is day-to-day. ... The Canucks honored C Markus Naslund prior to the game for playing 1000 NHL games. Naslund reached the milestone on Thursday in Detroit.
1st Period | ||||
08:52 LAK | Jack Johnson (2) ASST: Alex Frolov (26) | 1 - 0 LAK | ||
2nd Period | ||||
01:57 LAK | Scott Thornton (4) ASST: Derek Armstrong (15) | 2 - 0 LAK | ||
06:34 LAK | Dustin Brown (24) ASST: Anze Kopitar (27), Patrick O'Sullivan (15) | 3 - 0 LAK | ||
14:20 VAN | Brad Isbister (3) ASST: Kris Beech (5), Aaron Miller (7) | 3 - 1 LAK | ||
15:29 VAN | Trevor Linden (4) ASST: Daniel Sedin (24), Markus Naslund (22) | 3 - 2 LAK | ||
3rd Period | ||||
12:20 LAK | Alex Frolov (10) ASST: Michal Handzus (8), Kyle Calder (9) | 4 - 2 LAK | ||
15:41 VAN | Mason Raymond (4) ASST: NONE | 4 - 3 LAK |
1st Period | ||
05:08 LAK | Raitis Ivanans Holding against Ryan Kesler | |
16:22 LAK | Jaroslav Modry Hooking against Henrik Sedin | |
2nd Period | ||
07:59 VAN | Daniel Sedin Interference against Michal Handzus | |
09:29 VAN | Aaron Miller Roughing against Dustin Brown | |
16:20 LAK | Kevin Dallman Too many men/ice - bench | |
18:29 VAN | Alexandre Burrows Tripping against Brad Stuart | |
3rd Period | ||
03:55 LAK | Jeff Giuliano Hooking against Jeff Cowan |
Saves: 43 | EV: 35 - 38 |
Saves: 20 | EV: 14 - 18 |


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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Sevenfold Booth
Some shots of our home at the Top Shop Trade Show. I was so stoked that we got to hang out with my friends Phil and his team from Precision skateboards from Lincoln Nebraska. They are in our top friends hit them up on the 'space. 21 + years in business and I won't say how old Phil is, but I think the bones bridgrade are punk ass little kids to him and he still rips harder than men half his age, check the big bowl footage tomorrow!
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Boomerang Bowl
Top 7 and random skate clip
Party Bus!
After the first day of the Contest/Show, they had a VIP charter bus to take all the companies and shops into downtown Minneapolis. 60 plus drunk skaters wilding out! My homey Rob from Plus Skateshop in Michigan and I beat up on some of his team riders and one of mine on the pool tables at the first spot we went to, the kids might rip us on the park, but we held it down on the tables. Then we went to some punk bar and saw a local band, it started to snow and the whole posse got back into the party bus for a wild ride back to park. Chris Teta's doppelganger was riding in the overhead compartment and many other crazy things went down on the ride back, I think Scott's got more photos from the bus on the flickr page.
Pendelton Deck
Trade Snow
Monday, April 28, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Spring Catalog
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Praise Mother Africa
Monday, April 21, 2008
A place for Spambots
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
The Shapes of Things to Come
Sheckle me Not
Monday, April 14, 2008
Dropping Anchor
Knugget Cords
Signature Socks
Jake Update
Marco, Polo
Friday, April 11, 2008
C List Pro Claims Boycott Saved Vert
Six days after announcing that skateboarding and BMX vert would no longer be part of the X Games, ESPN announced Wednesday that it has changed its mind. The popular disciplines will be part of X Games 14 this summer in Los Angeles
After ESPN announced its decision last week, skateboarders threatened to boycott the Big Air discipline. Big Air features riders swooping down a 60-foot ramp at speeds approaching 40 mph, clearing a 55-foot gap, then skating up another 27-foot ramp.
Asked if he thought the skaters' threatened boycott impacted ESPN's decision, longtime pro vert skateboarder Andy Macdonald of Pacific Beach said, "I think it was the factor that got 'em to take a look at it."
Thursday, April 10, 2008
American Hardcore Movie
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Round and Round
Talk about perfect timing, the one day Alex is in town to hang out, and the wheels he designed for us show up! What Sevenfold has done to bring back quality USA made decks in a toy grade market we are bringing to the wild world of wheels! USA made by and tested for skateboarders. This ain't no roller skate wheel made in china, it's the real wheel deal.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
C List Pro's
Monday, April 7, 2008
Classic Photo
Ray Barbee
I think it was last week, we were talking about 10 people who changed skateboarding, and I forgot to mention Ray Barbee. Kids need to youtube his Public Domain and Ban This parts, to understand how he changed it. He made skateboarding so accesable to everyone, just being able to skate down the street and film a part had not really been done before. Element needs to give him a pro model, I'm sure Mike Vallely could give up one the eight pro decks that he's white knuckling onto his career with.
Friday, April 4, 2008
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They were usually corrupt and often inefficient, but the oldstyle politicians had their uses. Now almost all are gone
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"Save America's Treasures" has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington's tent.
65% of Americans don't know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
The "Teaching American History" grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
40% of Americans can't identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
"There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country," John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
The "We the People Program," which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
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Welcome to Strategy Guide, hosted by everyone's favorite intergalactic space alien, Guido, and his pet cow Jorge! This time, Guido picks one of the toughest Nintendo games ever made, and attempts to prove it is impossible.
As promised (and on time might I add), I present to you: Episode 2! You don't need to watch episode 1 to understand this, as each episode stands on its own. Those of you who are familiar with the series should notice that the animation is a lot more fluid. To make a long story short, I changed my technique and jacked the fps from 24 to 30, for your viewing pleasure! Please enjoy the cartoon - your laughs and support keep me going.
And now for the Episode 2 FAQ, because you KNOW someone will ask!
Q: I was expecting more of the family after seeing the trailer. What gives?
A: This episode serves as a great jumping point for future installments. I now have a universe of characters at my disposal. Unfortunately, I have to introduce those characters before I can use them! So, episode 2 serves and an introduction to the Strategy Guide universe. Each following episode will contain one or more of Guido's family members.
Q: I've gotten to stage 3! Do you really suck?
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Q: Do you know the Stage Select Code for this game?
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Course Section: 001
Credit Hours: 3
Instructor(s): Calleros
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NOTE: This class will be taught on a compressed schedule meeting on Mondays & Wednesdays for 4 hours per week through April 5, 2010.
This course will examine the Reconstruction-era Civil Rights Acts,
particularly sections 1981, 1983, 1985, and 1988 of Title 42 of the U.S.
Code, with an emphasis on sections 1981 and 1983. Section 1981
imposes liability for racial discrimination in contractual relations, and
section 1983 imposes liability for deprivation of federal rights under the
auspices of state authority. The latter will consume most of the semester.
Although we will necessarily discuss federal constitutional and statutory
rights that litigants seek to vindicate under section 1983, our study will
focus on the statutory prerequisites to liability, such as the requirement
that the deprivation be taken "under the color of" state law, various
immunities from liability, standards for imposing liability on supervisors
or governmental entities, and remedies. The class will also briefly address
other civil rights issues, such as employment discrimination under Title
VII and civil rights issues that may emerge during the semester.
Additional Information:
Credit Hours: 3
Grading Option: Numeric Grade and ONE-Time Pass Option is Available, or Letter Grade Only
Graduation Writing Requirement: No
Flexible Writing Requirement: No
Skills Requirement: No
Prerequisite: None
Special Withdrawal Course: No
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Though there have been great advances in the use of remotely sensed data in the Earth sciences and global climate research in the past several decades, the potential for applying remotely sensed data to a range of human welfare issues is largely undefined and unrealized. What does remotely sensed data offer that other capabilities do not? How can realizing the potential enable decisions that benefit human health and welfare? What can be done to overcome the barriers to the use of remotely sensed data for human welfare purposes? Workshop participants again assembled into two groups to discuss these questions as they relate to food security and human health issues, respectively.
Workshop participants noted that as in other areas of science, the integration of knowledge gained from remotely sensed data into decisions on human welfare can be categorized into four separate processes: observing, explaining, projecting (forecasting), and applying in practice. Remote sensing applications are usually associated with observing and then, to a lesser extent, with explaining and projecting. Remote sensing provides a means to indirectly observe patterns or changes, which then informs explanations of causal relationships and processes. Projections are based on observations, understanding of processes, and assumptions about the future. Modeling tools developed for making projections are tested and refined by further observations. The modeling tools can then be used to aid decision makers in responding to crises or implementing longer-term development strategies. Creating a thread linking observation, explanation, and projection to application is vital to providing appropriate information to the domain of decision makers.
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Contributions of Land Remote Sensing for Decisions about Food Security and Human Health: Workshop Report
Challenges and Potential for Applying Land Remote Sensing to Human Welfare
Though there have been great advances in the use of remotely sensed data in the Earth sciences and global climate research in the past several decades, the potential for applying remotely sensed data to a range of human welfare issues is largely undefined and unrealized. What does remotely sensed data offer that other capabilities do not? How can realizing the potential enable decisions that benefit human health and welfare? What can be done to overcome the barriers to the use of remotely sensed data for human welfare purposes? Workshop participants again assembled into two groups to discuss these questions as they relate to food security and human health issues, respectively.
Workshop participants noted that as in other areas of science, the integration of knowledge gained from remotely sensed data into decisions on human welfare can be categorized into four separate processes: observing, explaining, projecting (forecasting), and applying in practice. Remote sensing applications are usually associated with observing and then, to a lesser extent, with explaining and projecting. Remote sensing provides a means to indirectly observe patterns or changes, which then informs explanations of causal relationships and processes. Projections are based on observations, understanding of processes, and assumptions about the future. Modeling tools developed for making projections are tested and refined by further observations. The modeling tools can then be used to aid decision makers in responding to crises or implementing longer-term development strategies. Creating a thread linking observation, explanation, and projection to application is vital to providing appropriate information to the domain of decision makers.
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Chapter 2 of this report offers examples of how the use of remotely sensed data can contribute to human health and welfare. This chapter summarizes workshop discussions regarding opportunities and challenges in the application of remotely sensed data of attributes of the land surface such as land cover, human infrastructure, productivity of vegetation, and seasonality for improving food security and human health.
Workshop participants recognized that environmental and socioeconomic information provided by remote sensing and other sources constitutes only one aspect of effective decision making. The political, economic, and institutional setting defines the framework in which such information can be used. Decision makers need relevant information to make informed decisions that will have significance and impact and also need robust institutional capabilities to be able to support and carry out their decisions. While good information and institutional capabilities are both critical for effective decision making, it is often the lack of the latter that inhibits good decision making from being actualized.
Although substantial donor resources are dedicated to providing food aid, the ability to monitor food availability and predict food shortages is of equal—or arguably greater—importance in promoting food security. Food security issues can be divided into three general elements: food availability, accessibility, and utilization. Integrating remote sensing information into decision-making networks can improve the capacity of decision makers to make effective choices in each of these domains. Remote sensing technologies provide seasonal information that is cheaper, more timely, and available over larger areas than traditional sources of information on food accessibility. Greater investments in remote sensing infrastructures could aid policy makers in forecasting future food availability and accessibility and to plan appropriately, perhaps by instituting multigenerational development efforts.
The production and delivery of food resources to populations in need involves interactions between a complex array of social and environmental factors. Decision makers must understand where food shortages are likely to occur and be aware of the location and accessibility of surplus food resources. Remote sensing identifies vulnerabilities based on environmental variability and can enhance land-based environmental data. Incorporating information from remotely sensed data, in combination with administrative and agricultural records over long periods of time, can allow decision makers to identify areas more statistically prone to food crises and to identify the physical accessibility and quality of needed resources. In order to lessen the severity of food crises, decision makers
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must be aware of factors that contribute to them, including general human and livestock health and the quality and availability of clean water supplies. Strategically deciding to fix wells and improve human and livestock health prior to a crisis may ultimately be of greater long-term benefit than supplying food, because health and income sources will then be more resistant to crises and require less food aid.
A key challenge in the effective use of remotely sensed data is getting the appropriate data products into the hands of the appropriate decision makers, in time frames reasonable for action. Although there are examples of government agencies (such as the U.S. Geological Survey, Environmental Protection Agency, and regional multi-government agency groups such as the South African Development Community), international agencies (such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization), and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) (such as conservation NGOs including the World Wildlife Fund and Conservation International) developing the required technical knowledge to take advantage of remote sensing technologies, there is generally insufficient communication between the community interpreting remote sensing data and the policy-making community. The challenge is to develop the capacity for these groups to communicate so that the remote sensing community understands the needs of policy makers and policy makers understand the capabilities of remote sensing.
To help decision makers comprehend the potential of remotely sensed data applications, data must be provided in the form of knowledge delivery and as a tool for decision making, rather than as a list of observations or prescriptions. The integration of data is key: when combined with socioeconomic data, remote sensing data can be useful for direct applications to decisions about human welfare. The Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET), for example, has monthly briefings with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other organizations and distributes a two-page executive overview describing the status of food security in Africa several times a month (see Appendix C). Such communication distills data analysis down to concise points, identifying areas of risk on a country-level map for high-level decision makers. By learning what information decision makers need, FEWS NET can translate remotely sensed data into information that contributes directly to effective planning for potential food shortages. To date, there has been no indication of the long-term changes and practices due to FEWS NET activities. An evaluation of programs such as FEWS NET is needed, since the effectiveness of its methods has not been fully analyzed.
To process and provide the appropriate remotely sensed data and information, infrastructures created by groups such as FEWS NET must consist of teams of remote sensing specialists, ground receiving stations,
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and web-based data archives. FEWS NET's infrastructure allows fairly effective communication among specific agencies, providing ample opportunity for policy makers and the remote sensing community to communicate the needs and abilities of each. In many cases, however, decision makers are unable to react to what has been learned from remotely sensed data. The crisis may already exist and procurement cycles may be out of phase with the timing of data used for policy decisions.
Remote sensing infrastructures do not exist, and expertise is not available in many at-risk areas to take advantage of the current state of the technology of remote sensing applications. NGOs often fill this gap by providing critical expertise, particularly in developing countries. Many NGOs, intergovernmental organizations, and aid organizations are international in scope, and often have excellent in-house technical resources (such as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization). In developing countries, national universities can play a critical role in developing local remote sensing infrastructures by disseminating remote sensing resources and training future generations of remote sensing specialists. Many universities in less developed nations have connections to U.S. land-grant institutions that can provide them with means to acquire useful and necessary skills to tackle local problems. Despite an awareness of the value of remote sensing applications, however, there are often only limited resources dedicated within organizations focused on remote sensing applications.
To realize the full potential of remote sensing for food security issues, integrated approaches are necessary that relate the real-time connections between food, water, and health. The importance of remote sensing applications to food security goes beyond disaster relief. The scientific community can be most useful to decision makers by integrating the biophysical domain with social data. Livelihood analysis, as done by FEWS NET, is an example of socially informed remote sensing analysis and the benefits of cross-disciplinary collaborations. Remote sensing, natural, and social scientists are beginning to develop approaches to integrate the natural and social sciences with remotely sensed data and can work together with decision makers to apply remote sensing information to decisions about human welfare.
Remotely sensed data provide a spatial perspective on human health issues not typically incorporated into human health research and applications. Remotely sensed data, as applied to human health and welfare, can assist in taking into account multiple factors affecting health, such as food production,
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availability, and distribution; environmental health hazards; contagious and infectious diseases; chronic health issues; and health delivery. All of these factors have traditionally been considered separately by a variety of organizations. Health professionals do not typically observe the human land uses and ecological conditions affecting human health from the viewpoint of the remote sensing satellite. For health professionals, who often view issues in terms of point estimates or community averages, the visual and spatial perspective from remote sensing fosters a more integrated approach.
Remotely sensed data, in combination with other data, can provide spatial information on environmental conditions for understanding distributions of water-borne disease, air quality, soil, and vegetation as they influence community health and livestock. Remotely sensed data also provide spatial information on land use and infrastructure, which aids in determining where people live, where vulnerable populations live, the distribution of urban populations, and the quality of roads and other infrastructure for health care delivery. Interdisciplinary and international collaboration are needed between remote sensing scientists, ecologists, and human health scientists to realize the full potential of remote sensing applications.
The successful application of remotely sensed data to public health issues depends on several factors, including the need for cooperation between the remote sensing and public health communities. From the remote sensing side, successful application depends on the following:
Identifying what parameters on the Earth's surface need to be measured remotely and for use in health applications;
Determining the relevant variables that can be extracted from existing remote sensing satellites, such as human infrastructure and habitats for disease vectors;
Developing multi-resolution sensors at multiple spatial and temporal resolutions to monitor a range of health phenomena, especially sensors that are able to detect conditions in urban areas with complex mixtures of vegetation, buildings, and roads;
Educating local health officials on possible contributions of remotely sensed data; and most importantly,
Maintaining the continuity of current satellite coverage so that change of environmental conditions and their effects on health can be monitored over extended time frames.
It would be helpful if collected data, such as those listed in Table 3-1, were integrated with socioeconomic data on population distributions and livelihoods to realize the potential for human health applications. If data directly and indirectly measure disease, the data can be used
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TABLE 3-1 Environmental Conditions and Change Requiring Monitoring by Multiple Types of Remote Sensing (e.g., optical, radar, microwave)
Examples of Remote Sensing Technologies and Existing Sensors
Water quality (e.g., temperature, oxygen content)
Water availability
Water locations and types (e.g., wetlands, lakes)
Monitor conditions conducive to waterborne disease growth or migration (worms, flu, meningitis, cholera, malaria, West Nile virus, AIDS); wetland mapping
Radar, multi-spectral optical (Landsat)
Air and atmosphere
Ozone measurements
Heat and temperature
UV measurements
Wind dynamics
Dust movements
Air quality, atmospheric chemistry, climate change—monitoring these conditions allows for indirect measurement of diseases such as asthma
Thermal reflectances (MOPITT)
Soil and vegetation
Soil moisture
Vegetation types
Vegetation productivity
Habitats for disease vectors
Multi-temporal, multi-spectral optical (MODIS, Landsat)
Land use and land cover
Land cover
Cropland extent
Soil, water, and livestock interactions; land-sea interface; detection of floodplains, ice cover
Multi-temporal, multi-spectral optical (MODIS, Landsat)
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Examples of Remote Sensing Technologies and Existing Sensors
Roads and transportation
Water access
Waste disposal
Urban population distributions at high resolution
Disease vector tracking; improving health service response in times of emergency; developing GIS data layers for modeling housing, land cover, etc.; high-resolution population distributions that can assist in health issues associated with infrastructure (i.e., obesity as related to infrastructure); understanding of teleconnections
Very high resolution optical (IKONOS, QuickBird)
NOTE: GIS = geographic information systems; NODIS = Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer; MOPITT = Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere; NDVI = Normalized Difference Vegetation Index.
to map diseases, estimate the burden of disease (the suffering of the society beyond that directly caused by the disease), and target intervention strategies.
From the health researcher's point of view, there are several challenges that bar the regular application of remotely sensed data in the health arena:
Remotely sensed data are expensive; affordable data access is key to bringing the technology to health applications.
There are few in situ ground truth data accompanying remote sensing technology, which will inhibit the use of the technology. In situ data are needed to verify analyses of data derived from remote sensing and to collect other data that cannot be detected remotely.
Health research professionals are not typically trained to use the tools required to analyze remotely sensed data.
Privacy concerns inhibit the sharing of health data by the health care community. In particular, lack of locational information on disease cases inhibits spatial analyses using remote sensing.
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Overcoming these obstacles will greatly enhance the toolbox of health researchers by allowing them to more easily understand the relationships among infrastructure, the physical properties of land and water, health statistics, and access to health care delivery.
To realize and maximize the potential of applying remotely sensed data to decisions about health and health care, the issues of the remote sensing and health research communities can be solved simultaneously, with cooperation between the two. Workshop participants noted that achievable, short-term (five-year) priorities include improving the understanding of ecological processes in health (e.g., from vector-borne diseases including hantavirus, cholera, and West Nile virus) and learning how to fuse remotely sensed data with traditional land-based data (e.g., settlement and population data). Most workshop participants observed that limitations in data access, data sharing, and the continuity of observations have to be addressed. Long-term priorities are to develop an end-to-end system to support health applications and multi-scale, multi-temporal data for surveillance, monitoring, and prediction.
Workshop discussions highlighted that the use of remote sensing data for human health applications is not as advanced as its application for food security issues. The interdisciplinary collaborations are not as firmly established as, for example, those between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and groups monitoring agricultural yields. Despite this difference, workshop participants identified common themes that are applicable to both domains. Although the workshop did not consider other domains in human welfare, such as disaster management, the themes are likely applicable to those areas as well. The common themes that emerged about the needs to realize the potential for human health applications include the following:
Need for integration of spatial data on environmental conditions derived from land remote sensing with socioeconomic data;
Need for communication between remote sensing scientists and decision makers to determine effective use of land remote sensing for human welfare issues; and
Need for acquisition, archiving, and access to long-term data—both historical and future—and for development of the capacity to interpret data.
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Integration of Land Remote Sensing and Socioeconomic Data
Remote sensing has been applied to many areas such as weather forecasting, global change research, and local applications (e.g., precision agriculture). The potential for a major contribution to human welfare is largely unrealized. The success of this use of remote sensing rests with the ability to integrate remote sensing data with socioeconomic information. The research community is only at the beginning steps of achieving this integration. There is great value in combining spatial and socioeconomic data for use by policy makers. Additional research on how this integration should occur might be considered. Socioeconomic information such as land management and land tenure is crucial at global, regional, and parcel scales, and the dynamics and differences in patterns and processes of land use that occur between these scales have to be better understood. Data that provide a means of discriminating among different agricultural or land practices (e.g., tilled versus untilled soil, differences in tillage practices) can be valuable information for agricultural policy making. An understanding of coupled urban-agricultural systems will be increasingly important as urban areas continue their rapid expansion and food and amenities are cycled between the two areas.
In addition to the benefits of combining socioeconomic and remote sensing at various scales, remote sensing data and information can be used to improve agricultural production on a seasonal basis by identifying where the crop yields are high and low and where drought or other types of water stress are likely to affect certain crops or regions unfavorably. If adaptive management techniques are to be employed, ongoing agricultural monitoring, via remote sensing as well as other methods, is necessary. The data obtained through monitoring can be used to make informed decisions about what areas are likely to experience declines in yields in a specific season and how commodity pricing may be impacted. On a larger scale, remote sensing is currently used to predict El Niño phenomena, which can have significant implications for agriculture. In the human health domain, the integration of socioeconomic information, such as locations and vulnerabilities of human populations and access to health infrastructure, with environmental conditions, such as habitats for disease vectors and potential disease outbreaks, is key to providing information that is effective in generating response strategies.
Effective Communication Between Land Remote Sensing Community and Decision Makers
To be most useful in decision making, technicians and policy analysts trained in remote sensing and geographic information analysis could
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become part of interdisciplinary teams. Information from such teams could provide useful information that feeds into decisions, for example, to promote sustainability while maximizing crop yields and/or avoiding food or livelihood crises. Particular emphasis could be placed on increasing user capacity within lesser developed countries and building a cohort of individuals with adequate technical and analytical training to take advantage of access to remote sensing data and information. In all parts of the world, communication between technical experts and policy makers is inadequate. Policy makers could become better informed about the utility of remote sensing data, to ensure both that resources are available to utilize these data and that data are fed into all appropriate stages of the decision-making process. Minimum data needs and levels of accuracy would be communicated. In addition, public and private sector data users would understand and implement integrated communications and knowledge management strategies. When remote sensing data and information are disseminated, activities such as culturally specific outreach and data presentation could occur to make the data meaningful to recipients.
Human health is the outcome of numerous physical and socioeconomic factors. Because remote sensing techniques can monitor human health only through indirect means, it is important for decision makers and remote sensing scientists to communicate early and often regarding data and knowledge needs and transfer. If a population is experiencing a state of relatively good health and prosperity due to the combination of environmental and socioeconomic factors, it is important to observe any changes in those factors that could adversely affect the population. It is important that the observations are made rapidly in order to employ adaptive management practices. For example, the ability to monitor change could allow decision makers to predict the migration and rate of disease transmission to, from, or within populated areas and improve the ability for health service response during times of crisis or emergency.
Decision makers and remote sensing scientists might consider developing a series of short- and long-term priorities in order to determine data needs and develop the ability to implement decision-making strategies. Short-term (five-year) priorities include the following:
Understanding ecological processes and how they interact with disease occurrences;
Fusing settlement and population data with other types of remotely sensed data into geographic information systems (GIS) layers;
Developing risk-based decision-making practices to enable action to be taken even when data do not provide complete certainty;
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Providing opportunities for interactions among scientists from different disciplines to understand the ecological and social dimensions of health; and
Enabling access to data at a reasonable cost.
Long-term (10-year) goals include
An end-to-end system to support health applications, including the collection, analysis, and application of data in decision making; and
Multi-scale, multi-temporal data for surveillance, monitoring, and prediction.
Data Access and Technical Capacity
To expand the use of remote sensing data in human welfare decision making, these data have to be more readily available, more affordable, and deliverable in useful formats. Decision makers responsible for allocating resources for remote sensing technologies might consider communicating with remote sensing practitioners to determine what data types and data scales are necessary (i.e., countrywide versus crop specific). Data could be delivered in formats more compatible with GIS applications commonly in use in order to be combined easily with other types of data. Training and capacity building in the use of remotely sensed data could be increased, especially in developing countries. Organizations such as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), in partnership with the U.S. Department of State, the military, or universities, might consider distributing data for no or low cost in large quantities that could then be made accessible to new practitioners with the ability to deal with large data sets.
With the exception of the Landsat program, remote sensing platforms were generally not designed to generate data for current research and applications addressing the links between land cover, environmental conditions, and human welfare. Nevertheless, the data are potentially useful for early warning systems similar to FEWS NET. FEWS NET, now established for many years, may be supplemented by future early warning systems such as a global disease monitoring and early warning system, a poverty monitoring and early warning system, and a biodiversity monitoring and early warning system. These systems would be driven by timely and accurate remotely sensed data.
The main challenges in establishing these types of early warning systems lie in the following:
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Constructing an archive of global environmental data accessible to all;
Developing appropriate image-processing algorithms that produce relevant, processed data layers;
Developing robust predictive models for biodiversity, agriculture, health, poverty, and environmental changes through time;
Linking model outputs to the formulation of environmentally sound policies that are effective at the grass-roots level; and
Producing a monitoring and feedback system that returns quality field data from project areas, to improve the modelling process.
Since human welfare issues involve understanding change over time, archival data (historical maps, aerial photography, pre-satellite era data, and historical satellite data) are key resources that must be preserved. Continued long-term monitoring and archiving of data from current satellite platforms are vital for the same reasons. It would be beneficial for funding considerations and planning of satellite missions to be made with the long term in mind, although funding streams are often not continuous and current project durations tend to be for only one to two years. Workshop participants identified the lack of time series and real-time data from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and other data sources as major barriers to the application of remote sensing technologies to human welfare improvement. Decisions will also have to be made on whether resources are better spent on the collection of more remotely sensed data or on more data analysis.
Potential benefits from the use of remote sensing data and information in food security will be enhanced and made more affordable both by improvements in current technologies and by additional international competition in the development of satellites and sensors, which will increase data availability. Non-satellite technologies for remote sensing could also be advanced, including enhanced aerial photography and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. Finally, new types of data collection, analysis, and access technologies could be developed to make comparable data for global and regional estimates of the extent of tillage, land use, and land cover change. Because of the growth of urban populations throughout the world and the limited amount of land available for agriculture, agricultural land is a resource that will require careful monitoring and protection.


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TUCSON, Ariz. – The New Mexico State women's tennis team began spring competition on Sunday by losing 4-0 to the University of Arizona, a top-100 team, at the Robson Tennis Center.
"It was a tough first match of the season versus #73-ranked Arizona," Aggie head coach Ivan Fernandez said. "We competed well but the nerves showed in our first match. It was great to see the team play against a strong team."
NM State lost three singles matches and two doubles, the remaining matches remained unfinished.
Aggie sophomore Ashvarya Shrivastava, playing at the No. 2 spot, lost 6-1, 6-0 to Kim Stubbe. Junior Denise Van Der Ben, meanwhile, lost to the 110th-ranked player in the country, Akila James, 6-2, 6-2 and sophomore Mia Brandt lost 6-3, 6-2 to Laura Oldham.
On the doubles side, the NM State duos of Shrivastava and senior Annemieke Witte, along with freshman Marie-Pier Thiffault and sophomore Chole Joliff, both lost their respective matches 6-1.
The Aggies will remain in Tucson as they will now face the University of San Francisco on Monday, Feb. 3, at the Robson Tennis Center. The matches are scheduled for an 11 a.m. (MT) start.
"This match gives us a great idea of what we need to continue to work on to get to the next level," Fernandez said. "I really liked what I saw out there today, the girls played hard and I know we will get better with each match. We will be ready to play San Francisco tomorrow, another tough opponent."
#1 Singles |
#114 Lacey Smyth |
Unfinished |
#2 Singles |
University of Arizona |
6-1,6-0 |
#3 Singles |
#110 Akilah James |
University of Arizona |
6-2,6-2 |
#4 Singles |
Unfinished |
#5 Singles |
Unfinished |
#6 Singles |
University of Arizona |
6-3,6-2 |
#1 Doubles |
Unfinished |
#2 Doubles |
University of Arizona |
6-1 |
#3 Doubles |
University of Arizona |
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2010-2011 Season - Celebrating 35 Years Old Courthouse Theatresm presents
The comedy-musical "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" is based on the popular 1988 film by the same title starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin. It's about two fraudsters, Lawrence Jameson and Freddy Benson, living on the French Riviera. Lawrence is a cultivated and suave gentleman who cons rich ladies out of their money. Freddy on the other hand is a small time American thief who cons women into giving him money by telling made up stories about his sick grandmother. They agree that the first person to successfully steal $50,000 from the young Chistine Colgate will get to stay in town, while the loser gets to leave. The battle between them then starts, with many twists and laughs along the way. PG-13
A Musical David Yazbek and Jeffrey Lane
Audition dates: May 23rd & 24th @ 7-9pm
Character information
Performances: August 5, ,6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21 at 8:00pm August 8, 15, 22 at 2:30pm - Sunday Matinees
Musical Director: John Stafford
Choreographer: Mitzi Ballard
Kim Baysinger .................. Christine Will Baysinger ................... Lawrence Tommy Warlick ................. Freddie Sloane Wood .................... Jolene Nick Culp .......................... Andre Lauren Hill .........................Muriel Becca Randolph .................Ensemble Bonnie Gregory ..................Ensemble Courtney Kiger................... Ensemble Dominique Clarke .............. Ensemble Jacob Brayton ....................Ensemble Jamison Middlemiss .......... Ensemble Laura Layton ..................... Ensemble Laura Raynor ......................Ensemble Nancy Cottingham ... ........ Ensemble Paul Reynolds ...................Ensemble Ryan Wood .......................Ensemble Shane Brayton .................. Ensemble
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Desert Sea - New Mexico and Southwestern Sailing
Southwestern sailing, New Mexico sailing, sailboats, Rio Grande Sailing Yacht Club, New Mexico Sailing Club, Arizona Yacht Club, sailboat racing, Elephant Butte Lake, sailors, sail, boat safety, past commodore, race management, club race officer, Etchells, s/v Black Magic, Santana 20, boating safety, Heron Lake, New Mexico, Shroyer Center, Laguna Vista Estates, Rio Arriba County, Albuquerque, Tempe Town Lake, Lake Pleasant
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Monday, July 30, 2007
More pictures from Dillon; View from a small kayak
Black-hulled Ensign-class sailboat. We also greeted another Ensign with an attractive female crew who docked just after we returned to the marina from our sail.
Black Magic is in the water, and the water is just fine. Provided you don't mind chilly water. Or switchy mountain lake winds.
On Saturday, we hauled her out of the water at Heron Lake, de-rigged, and parked her in the driveway at Five O'Clock Somewhere. With just the two of us, de-rigging took a bit longer than when we have more crew. "Tadpole" was visiting his grandparents, preparatory to going to Hummingbird Music Camp on Sunday for an intensive half-week workshop with his fellow members of the Albuquerque Youth Orchestra. Previously when he was in the orchestra he played string bass, but this year he's in the orchestra as a cellist.
Sunday morning we drove, boat and all, to our community center (Shroyer Center), where we joined several dozen other land owners for the "Bluegrass Breakfast" and then I attended a meeting of the Shroyer Center board along with the other officers and board members.
Then Carol Anne and I were able to drive north into the high mountain country. From our cabin, at an elevation of about 7,350 feet, to Chama, at an elevation of about 7,850 feet, we then climbed to Cumbres Pass (just over 10,000 feet above sea level, exact height depending on whether you view the highway sign or the railroad crossing sign), and the even-higher La Manga Pass before beginning the abrupt descent into the Conejos River valley.
Fortunately, we'd had the trailer in for maintenance the week before, including replacing some burnt-out LED (light-emitting diode, more efficient than old-timey incandescents and more resistant to burning out when flooded) lights, installing Bearing Buddies, re-packing wheel bearings, and doing an electrical check and making sure the electrical brakes and brake controller were ready to go ... and stop.
We had to mind our navigation, since Alamosa featured a bit of construction on the southwest edge of downtown. The north side of Poncha Springs has a turn that one has to watch out for (Carol Anne says it's obvious), and the south edge of Buena Vista has a highway leading off to the east that one has to remember NOT to take. Leadville was a place we considered for a late lunch, but parking is limited in its downtown. (For future reference, there's parking near the northeast part of downtown Leadville, at either the Family Dollar, or at or next door to the Pizza Hut.)
With only a V-8 gas engine (as opposed to a truck diesel), it was a long climb up each time we had a major ascent. The drive up the San Luis Valley to Poncha Pass was one such climb; then so too was the long road up through Buena Vista to Leadville, at some 10,200 feet. And, that wasn't the vertical climax of our journey, which appropriately occurred near Climax and the Climax Molybdenum Mine at Fremont Pass, at an elevation of about 11,300 feet. The mine sponsors an am-radio broadcast that tells of what a wonderful job they're doing on environmental remediation and paying taxes and such (even though the mine isn't producing moly currently). "Tadpole" would be interested in visiting the mine, since he spent a week this summer at New Mexico Tech learning about mining engineering.
Leadville is only about 30 miles from Frisco and Dillon Lake. On the way down from Climax we passed by a National Forest parking area with some unusual vehicles occupying it ... a "Big Red" emergency response bus, lots of vans and trucks from television stations, and raising dust in the center, a large military helicoper. Later we learned that volunteer search and rescue team members and a helicopter had successfully rescued a hiker who had suffered a heart attack while traversing steep terrain made even more challenging by loose scree (small rocks or cobbles).
View astern of Black Magic on Monday afternoon. A few other boats were out on the water ... but we expect many more next weekend.
In Dillon, we left Black Magic and her trailer next to the condo we're occupying for the week and unloaded and unpacked our duffle. Next was a visit to the Frisco Marina, where we paid for and located our slip. Then we found that a favorite restaurant from last year had closed, but that was no bother after all, because we then made our way to Pug Ryan's brewpub and eatery. There Carol Anne found the perfect French onion soup, accompanied with a house salad with bleu cheese dressing and washed down with the Scottish Ale Formerly Known As Kilt Lifter. It certainly lifted her spirits and the meal left her with a welcome feeling of contentment and satisfaction. (Near synonymous descriptors used for rhetorical emphasis only; I may be wordy (and prolix), but please don't accuse me of painting the lily or gilding gold, to use the original allusion and not the debased cliche'.)
Grocery shopping and a bit of scenic driving took care of the rest of the day, leaving us to settle in our condo Sunday evening. There we found the place well stocked with provisions; former renters had left quite a few goodies for us, including food and booze. A couple of challenges had to be figured out, since the means of getting the computer going and getting us connected to the Internet took some special engineering involving some very creative connections of phone lines (a previous renter may have lost or absconded with a phone line to the computer).
Sunday's activities in rigging Black Magic are pretty well described in Five O'Clock Somewhere ( http://itsfiveoclocksomewhere.blogspot.com ). We came, we rigged, we broke for barbecue. (Foremast Latin: veni, rigi, bbq-y.) Then it was time to bend on a couple of sails, launch (the keel just barely touched bottom during the launch), and sail for a bit.
Sailing in Dillon means sailing within sight of a whole big heap of mountains.
and more mountains. Summit County has the highest average elevation in the USA. Flatlanders may find it takes a while to become acclimated to the altitude.
and more mountains. Summit County has the highest average elevation in the USA. Flatlanders may find it takes a while to become acclimated to the altitude.
The dramatic profiles of some nearby peaks are a local hallmark that appear on the Dillon Yacht Club burgee. The DYC advertises itself as the nation's highest yacht club. (Brax, this refers to altitude and not necessarily to mind-altering substances. However, the lack of oxygen, the stunning views, good local microbrew beers [made much more potent by altitude], and all the healthy-looking people to ogle, suffice to make newcomers more than a little dizzy. )
After our sail, we returned to the condo, where we recovered for a bit and began dinner preparations. I returned to the marina to kayak for a while and take more pictures, then worked on more rigging and preparation details for Black Magic. I got some more telltales placed and got the shroud tension corrected to good values for practice sailing this week, and dug up some parts we will need for working on the boat. Then it was time to buy some groceries at the Frisco Safeway and report back home for dinner.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Do you dream...
...of ice cream?
Would it be even better after a day of sailing?
Then read carefully, for here are not one, but two opportunties to sail and scream from ice cream:
Saturday, August 25, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. will be the Shroyer Center ice cream social and dessert potluck in the Laguna Vista neighborhood near Heron Lake, New Mexico. Donations and sharing appreciated. Think chocolate, Neapolitan, sherbet, ice cream, dark vanilla, mint chip.... and brownies, and cake, and maybe some nice peach or apple or cherry pie... yum.
Sunday, September 2, 2007, after the Laguna Vista annual meeting and the conclusion of the Rocky Mountain Buccaneer Rodeo at the New Mexico Sailing Club will be another ice cream and dessert social. The social will be held around 5:30 or so at the Heron Lake Marina. It will cap a busy weekend that'll also see a regular regatta along with championship sailing of Buccaneer 18 sailboats from New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado. Saturday will feature a club-sponsored dinner potluck.
After Sunday's dessert social will be an NMSC club meeting. One of the important business items will be solicitation of candidates so we can present officer and board candidates for 2008 to the club. We can post membership lists to make it easier to pick on people who don't show up at the meeting.
Diary-like updates
Today I awoke early and drove Jer's '99 MX5 to the Miata dealership.
"Tadpole" drove me home, then I hopped aboard Babe and drove to Los Lunas to retrieve our Etchells trailer from AccuTrak, which built the basic trailer before we'd customized it last May. It had been in the equivalent of a "boat trailer spa", getting brake lines checked, some l.e.d. lights replaced, wheel bearings repacked, and Bearing Buddies installed. Because the AMS grease that was used for repacking is not compatible with what's in my mini grease gun, I bought a tube of AMS grease and was advised to re-pack bearings at least every year or two.
Back home, I did some New Mexico Sailing Club business with our treasurer at his brokerage, including dropping off a form for ordering parts for our marina. We'll be getting almost $15,000 worth of encased foam floats, anchors, braces, winches, cable, etc. The floats would be able to support some 40 or 50 tons and, placed end to end, span about the length of (an American) football field. Men and boys and their toys... my toy blocks are about 3 feet x 4 feet x 20 inches and I get to play with them to make marina floats, gangway supports and extensions, and work barge flotation. It occurs to me, that were the sailing club marina maintenance budget somewhat larger, that we could get enough blocks to temporarily stack into a giant castle or towering lighthouse. Whee!
Then it was time to go to work!
Still to be done... maintenance service on our Expedition, shopping for tools and groceries, many more preparations for our trip to Dillon. And, the Mazda service advisor called and offered us the opportunity to invest $400.00 to 1,200.00-plus in the Miata... oxygen sensor and whatever caused it to fail, valve cover gasket, timing chain, fan belt, front and rear brakes.
Carol Anne and Tad are still looking for a car to replace the Cavalier. They'd answered an ad for an 1980s red Mercedes that was equipped with a driver's side airbag, but the seller, "Proch-not-now" was "interesting". He didn't answer Carol Anne when she asked for the VIN so she could get a Carfax report, didn't answer questions about tires, and wouldn't agree to let a mechanic look at the car. Then, he missed an appointment to show the car on Friday. Finally, when Carol Anne and Tad showed up for their appointment on Monday, the seller was gone and the seller's adult son told them that the car had been sold over the weekend. So, they'd wasted a trip -- but in hindsight were glad not to have done business with this particularly peculiar person.
Oh, and did I mention...
Tad circled an advertisement in the newspaper and Carol Anne pointed it out to me...
for another Sunfish sailboat for sale. I must suppose that means they expect me to go out and buy it. Stay tuned... after all, we may not fish pianos on this blog, but we can tune a 'fish.
Last weekend's sailing was somewhat limited, among many distractions, but we did race on Saturday. We were first to finish in both races, but split on corrected time. I also kayaked around the marina cove and did more yardwork at our cabin. On Sunday, I did some assembly of encased floats into a raft as part of a marina gangway project.
Heron and Elephant Butte Lake Level Updates
Heron Lake, New Mexico
11:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 25, 2007
7,154.41 feet elev. above m.s.l., 238,542 acre feet
Up 0.05' (3/5 inch) and 221 acre feet in 24 hours.
Up 0.08' (1 inch) and 352 a.f. in 71 hrs.
Azotea Tunnel flow is 28 cubic feet per second (19 to 98 cfs in past 71 hours).
Willow Creek flow is 19 c.f.s. (19-86 cfs).
Assembly has begun on a raft that will support a 32-foot gangway extension.
Several boats have arrived recently at the marina, ranging from 18 to 30 l.o.a.
Elephant Butte Lake
9:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 25, 2007
4,338.04 ft. elev. above benchmark
479,385 acre feet
Down 0.22' (2.6 inches) and 2,805 a.f. in 24 hrs.
Down 0.66' (8 inches) and 8,426 a.f. in 71 hrs.
Although the lake is going down more than a foot per week, the decrease is slower than that projections made in the US Bureau of Reclamation's Operations Plan.
The Ops Plan predicted that the Butte would reach 4,333.10' at 419,011 a.f. today, and would be losing 4.8 inches and 4,791 a.f. per day, with water flowing out at 2,430 c.f.s. Today's actual level is 4.96 feet and 60,374 a.f. higher. The actual loss of 2,805 a.f. is only about 59% of the 4,791 a.f. projection, and the outflow of 1,810 c.f.s. is 75% of the 2,430 c.f.s. projection.
The Ops Plan made a conservative projection that, on October 14, the lake would reach a low point of 4,310.75' elev. at 200,080 a.f.
But, the most likely low point is something like an October 6 level of 4,322.05' above benchmark with 299,500 a.f.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Calendar extension
"Zorro" called in with some planned dates for spring 2008 sailing.
So, the sailing calendar now looks something like,
7/21, Sat. . NMSC summer series 3 regatta, Heron
. . . . . . . . RGSC trailer cruise to Heron Lake
. . . . . . . . (San Diego one design weekend)
7/29, Sun. . Team Black Magic to Dillon
8/4, Sat. . . Dillon Open
8/5, Sun. . . Dillon Open
8/11, Sat. . (San Diego one design weekend)
. . . . . . . . (Eagle project, Heron Lake)
8/18, Sat. . NMSC summer series 4 regatta
. . . . . . . . (Eagle project, Heron Lake)
. . . . . . . . (Shroyer Center chili cookoff, ice cream)
8/19, Sun. . NMSC regatta or match race tune-up
8/25, Sat. . . (Eagle project, Heron Lake)
9/1, Sat. . . . Rocky Mountain Buccaneer Rodeo
. . . . . . . . . . NMSC club and board meeting, potluck dinner
9/2, Sun. . . . Rocky Mountain Buccaneer Rodeo
. . . . . . . . . . NMSC ice cream social
9/8, Sat. . . . . (San Diego one-design weekend)
9/15, Sat. . . . Final NMSC fun race
9/22, Sat. . . . RGSC Desert Classic/Fall Series 1 Regatta
9/23, Sun. . . . RGSC Desert Classic/Fall Series 1 Regatta
. . . . . . . . . . (Adams/Mallory national finals, San Diego)
9/28, Fri. . . . RGSC Sunrise 10/25 mile regatta; social, exhibition
9/29, Sat. . . . RGSC Sunrise 10/25 miler; skipper/crew meeting, start
9/30, Sun. . . RGSC Sunrise 10/25 miler; breakfast/awards
10/13, Sat. . . RGSC Governor's Cup/Fall Series 2 Regatta
10/14, Sun. . . RGSC Governor's Cup/Fall Series 2 Regatta
10/27, Sat. . . RGSC Halloween/Fall Series 3 Regatta
10/28, Sun. . . RGSC Halloween/Fall Series 3 Regatta
11/10, Sat. . . (San Diego one design weekend)
11/17, Sat. . . Commodore's Cup/Fall Series 4 (1 day only)
12/1, Sat. . . Kris Kringle, RGSC Holiday party
12/1, Sat. . . Etchells match races
12/2, Sun. . . Etchells match racing
12/8, Sat. . . Elephant Butte marine parade
12/15, Sat. . . NMSC holiday party, Bernalillo
1/1, Mon. . . . New Year's day regatta, San Diego
1/19, Sat. . . Arizona YC regatta
1/20, Sun. . . Arizona YC regatta
1/26, Sat. . . . RGSC Frostbite Regatta, Butte
. . . . . . . . . . (Tad, AYO Concert, Rio Rancho)
2/16, Sat. . . . RGSC Chute-Out Regatta (1 day only), Butte
3/8, Sat. . . . RGSC Spring Series 1 regatta
3/8, Sat. . . . RGSC Spring Series 1 regatta
3/22, Sat. . . . RGSC Pickle Race
3/29, Sat. . . . RGSC Spring Series 2 regatta
3/30, Sun. . . . RGSC Spring Series 2 regatta
4/12, Sat. . . . RGSC Spring Series 3 regatta
. . . . . . . . . . (Tad, AYO dress rehearsal, Popejoy Hall)
4/13, Sun. . . . RGSC Spring Series 3 regatta
. . . . . . . . . . (Tad, AYO concert at Popejoy)
4/19, Sat. . . . RGSC raft-up
4/25, Fri. . . . (CNM end of term grading)
4/26, Sat. . . . RGSC Spring Series 4 regatta
4/27, Sat. . . . RGSC Spring Series 4 regatta
5/3, Sat. . . . . possible tune-up, practice regatta or quarterfinals
5/10, Sat. . . . Jack and Jill hers-and-his regatta
5/11, Sun. . . . Joshua Sloucm single-hand regatta
5/17, Sat. . . . Anniversary Cup Regatta
5/29, Thu. . . . Mallory semi-finals registration, welcome
5/30, Fri. . . . . Mallory practice race, races 1, 2
5/31, Sat. . . . Mallory races 3, 4, 5, 6
6/1, Sun. . . . . Mallory lay day, optional races 7-12, awards, travel
Volunteers, on and off the water
With so many projects and happenings to be done, both local sailing clubs are in great need of volunteers.
Need someone close to city with time to help with ship's store.
Need more volunteers to provide chase boats for races.
Will need some candidates for board of directors and officers this fall.
Need committee volunteers for Mallory Cup semifinals regatta in 2008.
Need 3-4 candidates for board of directors and candidates for commodore, vice commodore, and secretary (these current officers are term-limited).
Need race committee volunteers/trainees.
Need committee volunteers for national regatta bid for 2009.
Need work party volunteers to renovate B dock, re-float dockhouse/pavillion, install gangway, improve work barge.
Need help for NMSC/WOWs (women on the water) to re-establish ship's store.
weekend plans and beyond
Mobility has improved greatly for us now that the Expedition is out of the shop, Jer's Mitata has new tires (but still awaits a service appointment), and we've borrowed the folks' Cherokee for "Tadpole" to use to get to cat-sitting and a friend's Eagle Scout project. Yesterday evening we had a saiing club social, though attendance was rather low. At least we did get to greet one new sailor who recently bought a pocket cruiser.
This weekend we plan to help host some visiting youth at Heron Lake, welcome some Rio Grande Sailing Club boats and crews to Heron Lake, and have an around-the-buoys regatta. We also need to move our MacGregor north, and retrieve our Etchells trailer from Elephant Butte Lake in southern NM. It's not terribly long until we leave for Dillon, Colorado, and the Dillon Open.
Lake Conditions
Azotea Tunnel flow, 40 c.f.s. (31-154 min./max flow in past 71 hours),
Willow Creek 38 cfs (38-104),
Heron 7/19/2007 1100
7154.31 ft. elev., 238,102 a.f.;
+.02' +88a.f./71 hours
+.02' +88 a.f./71 hours
Heron is almost exactly even for the past week,
and up just a quarter-inch in three days.
Elephant Butte
San Marcial Floodway 12 c.f.s. (9-18),
Elephant Butte Lake as of 7/19 0900:
4,339.40 ft. elevation above benchmark,
496,818 acre feet of water;
down .28' (3.4") and 3,630 a.f. in 24 hours;
down .82 and 11,025 a.f. in 71 hours.;
-1720 cfs discharge from dam;
operations plan projection for today was 448,052/4335.52
(lake is now 48,762 a.f., and 3.88' above the projection).
The ops. plan projection for the low point on Oct. 14th
is 200,529 a.f. at elevation 4,310.75.
However, with the lake 3.88' above projection so far,
and with the like going down at 3.4" instead of the
projected 4.8 inches per day, the lake shouldn't go
nearly so low.
My guess for the worst-case level would be an
Oct. 4 level of 265,675 a.f. at 4,318.5 ft. elev.
The more probable lowest level is something like
280,000 a.f., at 4,320' elev..
Monday, July 16, 2007
Heron Lake Marina, July 14, 2007
Calendar update
So much to do, so little time to sail.
This week: ransom Expedition from Ford dealership mechanics, get new tires on Miata, discuss claim for totaled Cavalier with insurance company. Retrieve Etchells trailer from Elephant Butte and bring north to Heron Lake, OR bring MacGregor 26 north to Heron Lake so Syzygy can serve as a committee boat for the Rocky Mountain Buccaneer Rodeo.
Next Wednesday (25th) -- Rio Grande Sailing Club fleet social, 6:30 at the JB's Restaurant on Hotel Circle in Albuquerque. Morning service appointment for the Miata. Tad's string bass lesson.
Soon: Take "Black Magic" to Dillon for the Dillon Open.
"Facilities" near Heron Lake Marina
Generic update...
Heron Lake, Monday, July 16, 2007. 11:00 a.m.
7,154.29 ' elevation, 238,014 acre feet.
Up 0.03' (1/4 inch, 133 a.f.) in 24 hours; up 0.08' (1 inch, 352 a.f.) in 71 hours.
Azotea Tunnel flow 69 cubic feet per second (35 - 148 cfs).
Willow Creek flow 109 cfs (48 - 177 cfs).
Today I took "Tadpole" to his string bass lesson, where he also was briefed on his cat-sitting assignment. Mocha will be left behind while her regular staff is out of town, so Tad now knows what to do to meet her basic needs. Crystal, the service lane manager at the Ford dealership called with the diagnosis for Babe, our Expedition; it seems that the "carbon canister assembly" and "evaporative canister vent solenoid" need to be replaced. $ 505 (same as our area code) will be the bill. The carbon canister filters the fuel tank vent system; with it clogged the car was over-revving on startup and the engine was not running at full power. The mechanic will have to remove some body panels near the driver's side rear wheel to get at the carbon canister and solenoid, which are also adjacent to the fuel tank.
Yesterday (Sunday), Tadpole tried to sail a Sunfish, but didn't have much luck. Winds were very light, oscillating between light breezes and calms. Tad would take a boat out when the breeze came up a bit, only to become becalmed. This happened three times. Eventually, we did some kayaking and I began bolting some boards to three encased marina floats, making the beginning of a raft. The raft will be used to support an old gangway and provide a base for the long gangway when it is re-installed to the south of, and lower than its old location.
Saturday Tad got a tow out into the main body of the lake and sailed the rest of the way to the Ridge Rock courtesy dock, delivering signal flags to decorate the New Mexico Sailing Club exhibit at the Osprey Festival. He then got to sail back most of the way across the lake, but it was very slow going in light breezes. Several of the rest of us talked to occasional visitors. Unfortunately, although the Heron Lake State Park Osprey Festival was successful as a whole, with many hundreds of visitors at the visitors' center, only a small fraction of the attendees made it as far as Ridge Rock. So, the odds of winning a free sailboat ride or discount on a sailing club membership for the small flock of Osprey Fest visitors who registered at our exhibit are very very good.
Saturday evening we ran up to Chama, saw the train, got groceries, and visited with Roger, of the Shamrock Hotel and gift shop. Roger is of course a great enthusiast of the historic Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad as well as motel proprietor.
In the cyberseas, I spent time working on a Notice of Race and logistics for the Rocky Mountain Buccaneer Rodeo, to be held this Labor Day weekend at Heron Lake. The regatta will in a sense be a dress rehearsal for a bid to host the Buccaneer North American Championship regatta in 2009. That's also the year that our in-laws will be having an eclipse trip and anniversary party in the South Pacific near Tahiti, so we'll have to block off a couple of weeks or so for that, including perhaps a possible sailing charter after the week on the ocean cruise ship.
Willow Creek boat ramp, Heron Lake, New Mexico, NMSC
Heron Lake, in northern New Mexico not far from the Colorado border, is a "no wake lake"; motors are restricted to trolling speed except in special circumstances. Wake is defined as any white white visible off the bow or sides of a boat. The lake now has about 7 square miles of surface area, and about 9 square miles when full. The marina is located within the protected, almost landlocked confines of Willow Creek Cove near the northeastern end of the lake and adjacent to the mouth of Willow Creek, which fills the lake with water from the San Juan-Chama Project.
Close-up view of the end of the Willow Creek boat ramp, showing part of a turn-around, courtesty dock, and Heron Lake Marina in background.
Willow Creek boat ramp with a lake level of about 7,154 feet above sea level -- about 30 feet below maximum elevation and about 29 feet of water under most of the marina.
Courtesy dock and marina.
Zoom view of Willow Creek boat ramp courtesy dock with the New Mexico Sailing Club's marina in the background.
Zoom view of Willow Creek boat ramp courtesy dock with the New Mexico Sailing Club's marina in the background.
Pull-through parking spaces at the top of the Willow Creek boat ramp at Heron Lake State Park. On one of the busiest days of the year, 10 of the 20 pull-through spaces and most of the regular parking spaces were vacant. The mast-up storage lot beyond is about 1/3 occupied. It is operated by Heron Lake State Park, whereas the marina is owned and operated by the New Mexico Sailing Club. NMSC members take half-week turns serving as "dock masters" during the marina season, which runs usually from early May until mid October.
Heron Lake, mast raising pole and Willow Creek boat ramp
"Tadpole" sails a Sunfish dinghy on the west side of Heron Lake on Saturday, July 14. Most of the weekend featured very light air, making it a good weekend for small dinghies, kayaks, and fishing boats. Many of us spent a good part of Saturday staffing the New Mexico Sailing Club information booth at Heron Lake State Park's Osprey Festival.
Mast raising pole, with the Willow Creek boat ramp boat trailer parking area beyond and Heron Lake Marina in background.
Mast-raising pole with marina in background.
Heron Lake State Park administers the mast-up boat storage lot adjacent to the Willow Creek boat ramp.
Heron Lake State Park administers the mast-up boat storage lot adjacent to the Willow Creek boat ramp.
One side of the mast-up boat storage lot, boat ramp parking, mast-raising pole, and marina in Willow Creek Cove.
Another view of the mast-up storage lot at Heron Lake State Park.
Close view of mast-raising pole with Heron Lake Marina beyond. The Heron Lake Marina is operated by the New Mexico Sailing Club and has volunteer dockmasters on duty during the marina season, which usually extends from May through October.
Vault toilets such as this one adjacent to the Willow Creek boat ramp are located in all camping areas, and one is located adjacent to the marina. In addition, full bath houses with hot showers are located in the Blanco Campground near the boat ramp and in the Island View/Salmon Run campground on the south shore of the lake.
Vault toilets such as this one adjacent to the Willow Creek boat ramp are located in all camping areas, and one is located adjacent to the marina. In addition, full bath houses with hot showers are located in the Blanco Campground near the boat ramp and in the Island View/Salmon Run campground on the south shore of the lake.


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Mansion Dangling on Texas Cliff to be Set on Fire
The White Bluff Fire Department will standby when this house is set on fire Friday.
Photo credit: AP Photo/WFAA.Com
EDITOR'S NOTE -- Bales of hay saturated with diesel fuel will be placed inside the home and lit on fire at 10 a.m. Friday.
WHITNEY, Texas (AP) — The owner of a vacant luxury house teetering on a crumbling 75-foot cliff over a Central Texas lake has decided to burn the house and clear the lot of the debris.
Tom Hemrick, Hill County's emergency management coordinator, said Thursday the house would be burned Friday morning. Then a long-reach excavator will be used to clear the debris before the foundation slab is removed.
The 4,000-square-foot house is on a cliff overlooking Lake Whitney on the Brazos River at White Bluff Resort, 60 miles south of Fort Worth. The house has been crumbling into the lake as the cliff on which it's perched has given way. The house was condemned and evacuated about two weeks ago.
Tax records show it was built in 2007 and is worth more than $700,000.
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lululemon athletica raked in $1.6 billion in net revenue last year, and it accomplished this without an exorbitant marketing budget or fancy analytics software. Unlike rival sports-apparel makers Nike and Under Armour , Lululemon doesn't spend tens of millions on celebrity endorsements or Super Bowl ads. The yoga-gear retailer instead relies on grass-roots marketing and community outreach to sell its products. In addition to generating sales through its traditional retail channel, Lululemon is capturing sales in other more subtle ways today.
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Source: Lululemon Athletica.
Lululemon's athletic-team sales program enables local sports teams to order uniforms or sports gear in bulk. "Through the team sales program, we develop relationships with athletic teams, yoga studios and fitness facilities that are elevating their communities by being a stand for health and fitness," according to the company.
In addition to driving bulk order sales, this retail channel means scores of athletic teams around the country act as unofficial ambassadors for the Lululemon brand. Last year, Lululemon supplied all of the shorts and shirts for the fifth-annual Wall Street Decathlon, as well as uniforms for the 2012 Olympic men's beach volleyball team, according to Bloomberg.
Playing in the little leagues Having an athletic-team sales division is undoubtedly important for creating brand awareness around Lululemon apparel. However, the company is still light-years behind both Nike and Under Armour when it comes to sales to college and professional athletic teams.
Source: Nike.
Nike dominates the college football scene, outfitting 46 of the 65 power conference schools this season. Meanwhile, Under Armour comes in with 12% of the college football market, or eight of the 65 power conference schools, according to Louisville Sports. Nike is also the top dog when it comes to the NFL. In fact, a reported $1.1 billion deal means Nike will be the sole uniform manufacturer for the National Football League through 2016.
Given the tough competition from Nike and Under Armour in the athletic-teams space, it is a good thing that Lululemon has two other strategic sales channels in play.
Wholesale, yoga, and hard goods Lululemon fuels sales within its wholesale program through partnerships that put its products into gyms, fitness centers, and yoga studios in various markets. Lululemon today is working with a limited number of partners in Canada, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and the U.K., according to the company. Through these strategic partnerships, Lululemon gets personal trainers and yoga instructors from leading fitness facilities around the world to wear and promote its products.
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Similarly, Lululemon provides local yoga studios in various markets with lulu-branded equipment, including yoga blocks and mats. Many of these studios even sell Lululemon gear to their members. Lululemon wouldn't say what it charges for these supplies, but it is probably similar to the company's arrangement with so-called brand ambassadors.
As of March, Lululemon had roughly 900 brand ambassadors in North America alone. These are fitness leaders including Olympians, gym owners, fitness coaches, and yoga instructors who teach classes and train exclusively in Lululemon gear. In return, they get 15% off all Lulu merchandise.
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Book Collecting 2000
Allen and Patricia Ahearn
Writing from the Heart
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A Gentle Madness
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Patience & Fortitude
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Among the Gently Mad
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How to Read and Why
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Sixpence House
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The Most Wonderful Books
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Jaipur: Rich tributes were today paid
here to gallant soldiers of the Indian armed forces, who laid
down their lives fighting for the nation and achieved historic
victory over Pakistan.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, Lieutenant
General C K S Sabu, General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of
South Western Command along with other defence officers laid
wreath at the Amar Jawan Jyoti here at an official ceremony
held to commemorate the occasion.
Senior state officers were also present on the