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New rules helped to make the NHRA season-opener one of the most action-packed drag races in a long time. Chevys ruled as the Bow-Tie brigade made repeated trips to NHRA's winner's circle at the 2000 NHRA AutoZone Winternationals.
Among the new rules are two important ones that are intended to keep spectators glued to their seats. NHRA proved that they're intent on putting on a good show when they decided to levy a stiff penalty on anyone who soils the track. This caused many teams to think twice before pushing their machine to the ragged edge (and blowing up midway through their run). The result was far fewer oil downs and a lot more side-by-side racing. The other rule gives teams less time between rounds. This rule made for some interesting trips down the return road as team struggled to get beck to their pits and set up for the next round.
Another rule change had some racers up in arms. Top Fuel and Funny Car teams are now required to run a mixture of only 90 percent nitromethane (with the remaining 10 percent being methanol). Decreased horsepower was the primary concern for the teams, but this reporter believes the spectators will be the benefactors, as cars are less likely to break and therefore have a better chance at making it to the next round.
The effects of the new rules seemed to have little effect on speeds, as many of the vehicles were posting times and speeds near those clocked at the end of the 1999.
Funny Car
In the pro classes, Jerry Toliver's Camaro-bodied fuel coupe won his second consecutive race at Pomona's Fairplex, once again defeating one of Team Force's Mustangs in the final round and putting Chevy at the top of the points for that nitro class. Though having problems, the Prudhomme-owned Camaro piloted by Ron Capps made progress all weekend and is sure to be a force in future competition.
Pro Stock
In the Pro Stock pits, only Kurt Johnson made it past qualifying at the Winternationals. In the first round Johnson began to get out of shape but didn't get the opportunity to straighten things out, as Ron Krisher's Pontiac crossed the centerline at about half track and collected Johnson's Camaro. The two F-bodies were damaged, but Kurt was able to bandage his car up enough to show up for the next round. Knowing his car wasn't repaired enough to make the run, Johnson staged and hoped George Marnell would redlight or break. When that didn't happen, Kurt limped down the track and packed up for the weekend.
Though it wasn't the greatest showing, the Pro Stock Camaros are expected to put up a valiant fight for the title. At Pomona there were only two Camaros (Johnson and V. Gaines) flying the Chevy Bow-Tie. Pontiac ruled the roost with enough Firebirds to dominate the class (if only they could get rid of that pesky Jeg Coughlin and his Olds). Only time will tell how much of a contender the Camaro will be in Pro Stock.
Pro Stock Trucks
The S10 trucks moved into the prime time show and didn't disappoint. With an impressive array of great-looking and brightly colored haulers, the S10 trucks continued the domination they started when the Pro Stock Truck class was first introduced. The popularity of the Pro Stock Truck class was evident, as the field was one of the largest in the entire program.
Bob Panella, driving the same S-10 with which he won the 1999 NHRA Pro Stock Truck World Championship, opened the defense of his championship by defeating fellow Chevy racer Greg Stanfield for the title.
Both Toliver and Panella qualified in the number two spot, and when it counted both men stepped up their performance. For Panella it was a matter of simply outrunning the competition as he drove around Greg Stanfield's S-10 in the final. Toliver took a different road to the winner's circle, using superior starting line reflexes to get his victory over Tony Pedregon.


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We all know the UFC is the top dog in the MMA world. There is no disputing that. They have the best production, the best fighters, the best everything. But there are still other organizations that while being B-league still matter in the MMA picture. Since we generally have threads for the important PPV and they come and go quickly, it's hard to keep an open discussion about the state of current MMA without building the discussion around a specific PPV.
For instance, I want to talk about the latest Strikeforce event and the state of women's MMA.
In a single event, Strikeforce tanked both divsions. Sarah Kaufman got clowned badly by Marloes Coenen and will have to swallow her words about deserving to be co-headliner in a televised event. But this was a match that follows the Strikeforce Bizarro MMA rules of title contendership: you only get a title shot after you lose a fight against a high profile fighter. Marloes Coenen is huge for the 135lb (61Kg) division and jumped straight into a title shot after getting badly beaten by Chris Santos. Miesha Tate, who won the tournament for contendership, had to wait around while Sarah was fed to a much bigger opponent who shouldn't even be fighting at that weight and certainly not for a title right after such a loss. On the other hand, Chris Santos is so dominant that the only match-up that Strikeforce can get her that sells PPV is Gina Carano and that just isn't going to happen.
What are your opinions on women's MMA? Positive, negative, couldn't care less?
Also, what do you think is the future for the WEC? Should it be the prime development territory for the UFC and eventually their champions should seemlessly jump into the UFC? The roster is much shallower than in the UFC so there aren't many top-level match-ups available. Should guys like Ben Henderson get into LW UFC contendership after clearing their division or should Zuffa expand the WEC roster with more top-flight competition instead of prospects? Maybe the other way around, people dropping from the UFC into the WEC, I don't know.

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Please add your thoughts for Adam if you have any... thanks!
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- Brian Davis said...
This question has come up a couple of times in different forums, and I think there's a couple points to be made.
Your administrator is correct, most of the bugs have been massaged out of the RCX system, and they're likely are some bugs in the new system. So there's a choice here: do you want to follow the herd (less risky, but always a little bit behind), or lead the way (more risk, but also more reward potential)? That's an old debate that I don't want to get into, but it's an important context to this.
The NXT has at least two things that should really recommend it to your setting:
(1) It looks to become *the* LEGO supported platform for education robotics. I will keep my RCXs until they die natural deaths, but for a school that needs to replace or maintain equipment, depending on a legacy product where support will forseeably be discontinued seems short-sighted. This is, ultimately, an economic issue: buy a classroom RCX set now, and quite probably have to upgrade to a NXT based system in a few years, or buy a NXT based system now that may last significantly longer?
(2) From my experience, I would *much* rather teach programming techniques with NXT-G than with RIS, and I probably prefer NXT-G over Robolab as well. Again, both of those older languages will see dropping support and improvements, while NXT-G will I think see an increase in functionality (it already has *far* more than RIS). NXT-G provides user-named variables of several types, on-screen display (wonderful for debugging), and the ability to record information for later download to the computer (RIS lacks all of these, while Robolab lacks the first two).
For me, these two factors would heavily bias the decision in favor of the NXT. Also, for a similar price as the RCX-based system, you get three motors and more sensors.
The studless building issue is a significant point. Esepcially for us adults, this often seems an "odd" or "unnatural" building style. And it *may* challenge your students more (depending on your goals, that could be a good thing, although it may take more time in the schedule). But a partial solution to this to provide the students with plenty of examples of simple robots, construction techniques, etc. I've built a very simple two-motor "roverbot" (JennToo... should I put out the plans somewhere?) for just this reason - it's a simple build, and allows the builder to get familier with the building style, but at the same time rapidly make a platform to starting learning programming on. The LEGO models offer a lot of other similar teaching tips in their construction.
My conclusion? Not important - it's *your* decision. But in my opinion, there are a lot of strength in switching to a NXT based program... *especially* if the school has not yet invested in the hardware (hardware that again, for the RCX, is likely to be phased out of production and support over the years. Not immediately by any means, but over time).
Brian "I need to write shorter comments" Davis
- Jul 8, 2006, 11:23:00 PM
There is a thread on the nxtasy.org forum on this subject, visit the forum and give you opinion:
nxtasy.org forum
- Jul 8, 2006, 11:40:00 PM
- Filip said...
I agree totally with Brian "you really should write shorter comments but I like them" Davis. I believe there are lots of things that you can teach using the NXT, which are much harder using the RCX.
For instance, making a robot drive straight is easy with the NXT, but it is not with the RCX. Students get frustrated when even simple things like that are not working the way they expect them to. Servo motors in general are much easier to teach and use than ordinary motors (for robots doing tasks).
There is another consideration: a number of third party sensors and other extensions for the NXT are already being announced from various places. In the future, I expect a wide choice in parts that plug-and-play with the NXT. The (educational) pallet will be substantially wider than it will ever be for the RCX.
And don't even get me started on Bluetooth, which opens up amazing capabilities beyond what a "simple" NXT can do.
Filip "not so short either"
- Jul 8, 2006, 11:49:00 PM
- Drew Stevenson said...
Never claiming to be short (6'2) especially in commnents I wade in.
As a teacher I know how valuable time is, and NXT may take a couple more hours to learn to build, but you save that in program learning time.
Also beware student frustration. RIS inventions that are not designed by master builders often tear themselves apart. The studless building is much easier in this regard. Check out
This will show you a british trial school. I know its propoganda I love to pick holes in propoganda but I wholely support and agree with what the kids are saying. Its easy to build basic or complex. YOUR choice! if your students have interests in programing or building or other aspects then they can simplify the other parts to get to what they enjoy. No student left behind policies frustrate me but I think NXT really lets ALL learners participate easily.
You'll find some students will go the simplist route, some will come in at lunch to do more - but all will learn and succeed once they start.
Personally I find the NXT to be far more versitile. Keep an eye out for my classroom bot (a highspeed interactive instant feedback quiz or game show assistant - like the remote response systems used in some universities.) www.nxtidea.blogspot.com
Also NXT has legacy abilities. Buy some used RIS parts and your good to go with added abilities. OR if your admin is still not satisfied order 2x 1/2 class sets (a little more for 2 site liscenses) and start them with the one you think is easier and work up to the other (alittle more time to learn 2 programs unless you use a 3rd party). Oh and you'd want to see www.hitechnic.com to buy IR relays which allow NXT to talk to RIS (and boss it around).
YOUR BEST BET IS TO GO 97% NXT and just use RIS for extra parts.
In a class enviroment the only draw back is the post market cables - Learn to make and crimp your own cables (good skill anyways to have and supposedly easy.)
Drew the longwinded
- Jul 9, 2006, 2:26:00 AM
The feedback from this blog and similiar ones used by MDP testers has been pretty positive.
As a result, I just purchased 22 NXT sets for my son's elementary school.
I can see holding back if you already have RCX kits at the school but if you need to make a new purchase, I think the choice is pretty clear.
- Jul 9, 2006, 4:20:00 AM
- Drew Stevenson said...
Wow - I'm 26 years old - do you want to adopt me??? Wow very generous. Thats wonderful the kids will really enjoy that. Elementry often gets overlooked for the really cool things.
- Jul 9, 2006, 8:06:00 AM
I'm 42. You've got 16 years to start a family, enroll them in school and start throwing your weight around.
- Jul 9, 2006, 10:32:00 AM
I just realized that I may have implied that I paid for the equipment.
Not so. The PTA gave me 2k. Then the Principal wanted to match it. Then the county threw more money into the pot.
I really only wanted to raise enough for eight sets and a classroom license to teach an after school club of 16 students. Now I'm into a school site license, 22 sets, curriculum from CMU and four teams registered with thee FLL.
Sometime you just got to say:
"what the $#$&* " - obscure movie reference
- Jul 9, 2006, 10:42:00 AM
I just got my NXT in today. It was a breeze. I never programmed my RCX so I cannot compare. But the NXT system was quiet easy to use. The quickstart build included with the commercial package was very easy. I wish I could have played with one of these in school.
good luck
- Jul 9, 2006, 2:47:00 PM
I still agree with Adam on 1 aspect...the studded beams versus the Studless beams. I find that the older studded beams are a very important addition to the newer style beams and it is funny that in some new Lego boxes these older beams are still used in combination...so it seems obvious that Lego still welcomes this "alliance". Can any of you MDP'ers make a point to Lego to perhaps come up with service packs with various studded beam assortments to please the many existing lego fans...they used to have these service packs...I know because I bought many of them!
Please make this point to Lego!!
Regards from a Lego Fan
- Jul 9, 2006, 8:47:00 PM
- Drew Stevenson said...
Lego Does make packs of studded technic beams and others. Check the lego parts collection.
- Jul 10, 2006, 12:24:00 PM
Dear Drew Stevenson,
Again, yes, directly available for US Customers on the Lego Education Site and Shop but NOT on the Corporate Lego.com shop. Again Lego Education does not sell or deliver to other nations...for example Holland, Germany or UK....already called the Sales Manager at Lego Education in the US and that was confirmed. People keep forgetting that US customers are lucky with Lego Education but for Europeans it is a true hassly!!!!!!
Regards from a Dutch lego Fan.
- Jul 10, 2006, 9:06:00 PM
- S Wright said...
I too am a teacher and I can say for certain that when school starts up again next month I will be using the new NXT in my classroom.
I received my first set a week ago (obviously not and educational version) so I have had neumerous opportunity to use it. I would certainly say that for a classroom setting it will be much easier to use than the previous RCX. Keep in mind that I am not working with middle school students, I am an elementary teacher, so I certainly do not go into the depth of programming and building as you are sure to do, however for me programming using the new system is easier and makes more sense.
As for your question about building, I also think that it is is easier. My students had a very hard time attaching the old motors to the gears and wheels, and maikng the robots work properly. It took a large amount of time before they became accustomed to how things worked. The new studless system combined with the new motors is easier and again seems to make more sense (to me). I am hoping that my students will catch on quicker, and I think they will.
Connecting the sensors and motors is easier, and there is no longer a concern of attaching the wires backwards and thus having the motor turn in the opposite direction that the students intended. Althought this turned out to be a good learning tool, it will again make the learning curve much shorter.
If you want my opinion, go with the new sets. They are far imporved from the old, will engage the students much more effectively, and provide many more learning opportunities and activities.
- Jul 11, 2006, 1:24:00 PM
This is kind of delayed question for Devid Levy's post on this thread...
How can I find the Curriculum from CMU? I'd like to use it for my kids' school too...
- Jul 31, 2006, 12:42:00 PM
- Jim Kelly said...
I'll see what I can find for out for you...
- Jul 31, 2006, 10:40:00 PM


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By Claire Walla
If you drove past the windmill in Sag Harbor last Sunday, you may have noticed a sign.
"F*** Obama, Occupy." (Missing letters included.)
It produced at least one angry call to the Sag Harbor Village Police station, which reported the incident as an "offensive sign." Whether you like it or not — and whether or not you agree with this sentiment — they're back.
After a few-month hiatus, the group of activists associated with the national Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, known locally as Occupy East End (OEE), took to the Sag Harbor windmill last Sunday, March 25 to reinstate efforts to, well, occupy the Hamptons.
The group had been meeting in the Lutheran Church in Bridgehampton for much of the winter, due to the seasonal chill. But now they're back here in Sag Harbor, where their efforts to gather support are much more visible.
This reemergence, which last week drew a crowd of about 10, follows in the wake of major Occupy rumblings in New York City, where OWS protestors effectively created another protest encampment in Union Square at 14th Street.
OEE members Shannone Ball and Matt Laspia were there last Friday night when police officers shut down Union Square from the hours of 1 to 6 a.m. While the two OEE members condemned the actions of the NYC police officers, who, dressed in riot gear, barricaded people out of the park, Ball and Laspia said the fight to change the U.S. banking system and instill more equality was still going strong.
And they want the East End to follow suit.
Ball, who largely facilitated last Sunday's meeting, spoke on behalf of the Direct Action Working Group, of which she is a part.
"I'm trying to put together a map of the 1 percent, where they live, so we can protest them," Ball said. "They vacation in our resort town and they deplete our resources."
Protesting might include standing outside these locations with picket signs. The details aren't really clear. Ball said she's also in the process of making a list of people who dock their boats in Sag Harbor; the people who, as Ball described them, "continue to commit crimes and not be responsible for them."
The thrust of the Occupy movement has focused on the U.S. banking industry, which protesters in large part blame for the economic collapse of 2008 and the continually growing divide between rich and poor in this country.
"We don't want to occupy The American Hotel, we love The American Hotel," Ball clarified during the meeting. "But, if Lloyd Blankfein [CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs] is eating there, we have to be there."
Ball further articulated the group's intentions by saying its efforts are not aimed at creating a "lynch mob" mentality. Rather, the goal is to foster "productive direct actions."
In addition to picketing, this could include protest marches.
Southampton resident Bob Shainwald supported that notion when he explained he had attended a march in Port Jefferson the previous Saturday, which had attracted a crowd of about 80 people, "mainly my age, all white," he added.
It was a silent march through the downtown section of the waterfront town, held primarily to mark the anniversary of the war in Iraq.
While last Sunday's OEE meeting was not exactly well attended — according to group organizer Larry Darcey there are upwards of 25 active members the group — the meeting still followed procedures outlined by OWS.
The group went through committee reports, group members used hand signals to support comments or interrupt words that didn't follow protocol, and the meeting ended with a portion called "soapbox," during which all members were invited to share opinions.
Last week the group didn't have much to report; members primarily focused on the name shifting from "Occupy the Hamptons" to "Occupy the East End," a change that was voted in the week prior. The group will exist under both headings until April 18, when the name change will be official.
OEE member Michael Clarjen-Arconada, part of the East End Clean Water Working Group, said "We want to focus on clean water to find permanent solutions to the problem of water pollution."
Because water and food and education, he concluded, should be "free for all!"
Picking up where Clarjen-Arconada left off, Matt Laspia — who is also part of a grassroots organization called Produce in the Projects — said that every Sunday he would make an effort to bring fresh vegetables to the meetings. They would be free to all in attendance. (His pick-up truck, parked at the curb beside the windmill, displayed a sign that read: "Free Kale.")
Produce in the Projects is an organization that teams up with homeowners across Long Island and Queens to dig-up lawns and replant a variety of vegetables.
"They take half and we take half," Laspia said.
All 10 members standing around Laspia raised their arms and wiggled their fingers to show their support.
The group will be meeting next Sunday, April 1 at 2 p.m. at the windmill.


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Thomas Berry, Dreamer of the Earth: The Spiritual Ecology of the Father of Environmentalism, edited by Ervin Laszlo and Allan Combs
Inner Traditions, 9781594773952, 160 pp., 2011
Dreamer of the Earth is a collection of essays written by intellectuals and eco-activists regarding the impact of Berry's writings on their lives and philosophies as well as a lengthy essay by Thomas Berry himself. Thomas Berry was a Christian mystic, a student of Thomas Aquinas and Teilhard de Chardin his writings remain some of the most thoughtful commentary on the modern condition produced in the last 80 years.
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Make a Gift to the Film Society Today!
Thanks to you, 2011 has been a year of momentous and exciting growth at the Film Society. As we close our fiscal year-end books on December 31, we ask you to consider supporting our organization by making a gift today.
The Romanian Film Festival Comes to Lincoln Center
Now in its sixth year, the popular annual fest comes to Film Society for a week-long celebration of Romanian cinema, including some of the best recent releases, retrospectives of the films of Radu Muntean and Liviu Ciulei, and special discussions and events.
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Just so everyone knows, those codes are valid til November 4th so plenty of time to redeem them.
Axton one isn't great but I'm loving the gaige one
There was a rumour on the official Borderlands 2 forum that there were also going to be extra heads released (jack o'lanterns etc) but they've not materialised
Posted 01 November 2012 - 15:21
No problemo, I'll be on a quite late (no change there though!) as I have a works do tonight
Ya, the heads never showed up on anything I was waiting for them too, since I had nothing better to do last night lol.
And I'll be on later tonight too jedi if you wouldn't mind duping a CC for me. I've killed the warrior probably 100 times and haven't found it yet lol.
Posted 01 November 2012 - 15:30
No problemo, I'll be on a quite late (no change there though!) as I have a works do tonight
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After doing a lot of reading on here, the official forums and various other places I've found out that I have only seen about half the game so far, despite being on playthrough 2.5 already. I'm missing most of the trophies still (especially the discover all locations ones) so I've still got a long way to go to get the maximum out of this game. I consider that pretty good value for money considering I've been playing it constantly since about a week after release.
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There really is a lot to the game.
I have one fear though.... they are raising the level cap. This means that when they do, we will all have to refarm for weapons that will be better. Not sure if the current legendaries will scale , if there will be new ones to farm, or what... but I'm a little worried about having to redo it all. I hope they put in some sort of upgrade system into weapons, maybe using eridium or whatever.
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In 2009, Eric Davidson, an engineer formerly employed with the St. Joe Company, went before the Board of County Commissioners with a warning: due to recent construction at WindMark Beach, the 32-acre community of St. Joseph Shoes would soon be fighting floodwaters.
Originally planned as a branch of the high-end Miraval Resort Spas, the WindMark area was cleared with the original plans of constructing a hotel. Davidson, who worked with St. Joe 2004-2008, said that as massive redesign went into effect, more and more land was cleared leaving the area in disarray.
"It was chaos on a large scale," said Davidson. "They were trying to jam something in there that didn't fit.
"It didn't make any sense on paper."
According to Davidson's presentation to commissioners, due to the filling and re-grading of the area during construction in 2007, water flow and drainage changed directions and stormwater accumulation no longer had anywhere to go.
Eventually the deal with Miraval was canceled and WindMark was annexed into the city, but the damage to the area was already done.
Traditional patterns of stormwater drainage to the St. Joseph Shores, located directly to the south of WindMark, were blocked off by the hotel building pad and several retention ponds were put into the area.
Davidson, a resident of St. Joseph Shores at the time, saw that when these basins filled with rain and overflowed, the rain would go the only direction it could: downhill.
Davidson, who self-described his career as "fixing broken construction projects" said that it was only a matter of time before heavy rains put the St. Joseph Shores community underwater.
"The writing was on the wall," he said, just as he told commissioners in 2009.
Despite the presentation, the warning fell on deaf ears.
Residents of St. Joseph Shores banded together to create Watermark Way LLC in hopes to streamline communication with the large companies.
Davidson's hope was to create a comprehensive stormwater management plan for the area, created and implemented cooperatively between Gulf County, the St. Joe Company, and the residents of St. Joseph Shores.
The group is still waiting.
In 2008 it seemed Davidson's predictions came true. The backyard of St. Joseph Shores resident Betty Price began to flood with each heavy rain. A 32-year resident of the area, Price said that this was the first time flooding had ever occurred.
In September 2009, Price's son, Stan, went before the BOCC seeking drainage to be added to the area.
Then-Commissioner Bill Williams passed a motion for a feasibility study and cost estimate and recommended that Stan be part of a stormwater committee. According to Stan, neither idea came to fruition.
For the next six years as the yard continued to flood, Price got into a system of calling Public Works and a water pump and limited fuel supply would be delivered. The catch is that Price must wade out into the water to refuel and restart the pump every three hours.
In January of this year Davidson, Price and several other St. Joseph Shores residents filed a complained with the Florida Board of Professional Engineers in Tallahassee against Preble-Rish Engineering for performing building code inspector duties.
The complaint questioned how platted roadways could be turned into canals, how grades could be raised all around a platted subdivision leading to property being consistently underwater and how the St. Joseph Shores subdivision had been converted into an enclave in clear violation of Florida statute.
Because the complaint was aimed at a company rather than an individual, Davidson said it was ignored.
"I'm not trying to destroy anyone's career," said Davidson. "I'm not doing this to be an antagonist.
"I just want to see it fixed."
Price and her son Stan attended the BOCC's bi-monthly meeting last month during which county administrator Don Butler presented a brief overview of the area and its problems to the commissioners.
"It went nowhere," said Price. "They did nothing to solve the problem, they just talked about it."
After the meeting Price received several truckloads of dirt from the county at her property. Price's family had to use a borrowed tractor to create a levy around her garage to keep water from filling the carport and utility room, allowing it to dry out for the first time in months.
Stan was able to clean out the black mold from the utility room and carport, but with plans to help his mother sell the house, he said he worried that the constant flooding would prevent any interest on the market and believed that value of the property had already decreased significantly.
County Commissioner Joanna Bryan previously suggested to Stan, and did so again following Butler's presentation, that she doesn't believe that the county owns the land behind St. Joseph Shores.
The Prices are less concerned with learning who owns the land and desperate for assistance of any kind so that they don't end up underwater.
Much like the ongoing issues with the Americus Ditch in St. Joe Beach, it seemed that the BOCC has another mess on its hands from a previous administration, the Prices said, and the BOCC does not seem keen on assuming any responsibility.
Davidson has suggested that the community band together to enter litigation with engineers Preble-Rish and the St. Joe Company. Stan said he had already spoken with an attorney, but has not yet retained them, in hopes the problem can be settled without having to go to court.


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Siskiyou Wilderness > Bear Mountain > Climber's Log
Bear Mountain Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2013
|Puppi Burma and I tagged the summit of Bear mountain or Bear peak as we refer to it on july 4th. I scouted the climb from the far side of the punchbowl and opted to hike straight up from the campsite area along the northwest side of the punchbowl to a line that steadily climbs beneath the cliff faces to the upper section of the talus chute in the southwest corner of the mountain face. Some exposure but relatively safe. The talus chute would have been an easier and safer climb, but my opinion is this western line we hiked was more fun and rewarding. The view was incredible.
|Posted Feb 22, 2014 5:03 pm
|Western Chute
Date Climbed: Jun 30, 2012
|Went up the western most chute. Still a little snow but mostly avoidable. Very cloudy, obscured views but incredible climb! Staying close to lake as well as close to the cliff on the ridge avoid most of the shrubs and are not bad at all. Still no register on top.
|Posted Jul 3, 2012 3:49 pm
|Great remote summit
Date Climbed: Sep 22, 2007
|Great hike to Devil's Punchbowl and up the easiest, westernmost chute from there. Over to Salmon the next day.
|Posted Jun 13, 2010 2:09 pm
|Great highpoint!
Date Climbed: Oct 10, 2009
|Made a backpacking trip out of this one. Faith & I took 3 hours to get to the lake from the TH. From there we decided to stash our stuff at the campsite & continue. Bucking the book description, we headed off SW (ca. 17.20), taking a loose class 4ish gully system to gain the ridge to the N of the prominent SW subpeak. Nice to see some views of Shasta & the ocean before darkness overtook us.
Much bushwhacking through impressive fields of manzanita got us to the 'standard' 'trail.' Working our way around (when possible) & through (when necessary) the brush, coupled with occasional enjoyable scrambling, we finally summited at 20.00. Great weather, some good snacks & bubbly made for an enjoyable summit time. View of Crescent City lights was cool too.
On the way down (took off at 20.32) it took 3 tries before we finally found the correct descent gully (that we hadn't gone up)- other alternatives cliffed out/got too nasty. Finally back at camp at 0.18. Tasty Bites, wine, & sleeping bags were never so good! Descent next day from the Punchbowl actually took longer than the previous day up (a first?)!
Great trip with fabulous company.
|Posted Oct 13, 2009 5:12 pm
|From Doe Flat TH
Date Climbed: Sep 7, 2009
|3:10 From parking area. Nice trail. The brush around Devil's Punchbowl was pretty nasty. I took the west ridge route using the gully. It wasn't that loose, and aside from the bushwhack, it was a nice climb.
|Posted Sep 8, 2009 7:04 pm
|Via Devil's Punchbowl
Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2009
|A fun, but long day for me. There is a plastic bottle nested in the red can with a few slips of paper but no writing implement. I didn't have one.
Looks like some good fishing can be had in Devil's Punchbowl
|Posted Jul 18, 2009 12:29 am
|Brian Kalet
|Devils Punchbowl
Date Climbed: Jul 21, 2008
|3rd county highpoint of 7 in 4 days.
|Posted Jul 25, 2008 2:34 am
|With Eric
Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2007
|A new trail as Bob Burd mentions is a nice renovation for this one as it cuts off some elevation loss and gain. Even with it, my gps tracked a bit over 14 miles and 4000+ elevation gain. The stuff in the chute makes for slow going and my hat is off to Bob B. for his 5 hour round trip time. There is no longer a register on the summit but the red can is still there.
|Posted Jun 24, 2007 10:46 pm
|SW Gully
Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2007
|I hiked this via the trail, then around the West side of the lake and up the SW Gully. Then we went along the ridge and up to the top. Same route down but I took a shortcut around the lakeside brush. The snow is pretty much all gone.
|Posted Jun 24, 2007 8:16 pm
|Bob Burd
|NE Ridge
Date Climbed: Oct 6, 2006
|Like DMT I followed the lake clockwise on the descent, but I found it *way* better than the route the other way around the lake. Goes to show how subjective this is. :-)
The NE Ridge was a great scramble. Trip Report
|Posted Oct 15, 2006 5:09 am
|Devils Punchbowl
Date Climbed: May 29, 2005
|Still lots of snow around the lake and up the chutes. Nice area. I also saw the largest black bear I've ever seen hiking back to the trailhead. This is really out there.
|Posted Aug 15, 2006 11:36 pm
|Dennis Poulin
|Route Climbed: Crosscountry Ridge Route Date Climbed: 26 July 2003
|Don't follow me by taking the ridge route. The trail is much easier to Devils Punchbowl. It is bad enough from the lake to the summit without bushwhacking along the ridge for several hours.
|Posted Oct 4, 2005 10:50 pm


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With any car we build, restore, or modify, there are certain temptations we must avoid to ensure that the end product conforms to the performance and aesthetic standards we set at the beginning of the project. So while it may be tempting to install a high-powered engine in our '71 C3 at the outset, the fact is that the car itself won't be ready for a big-inch powerplant until we perform some basic upgrades. Adding incredible power to an otherwise factory Stingray is usually a recipe for disaster-since the engine will outperform the other parts of the automobile-so, as you've likely noticed, we're improving various portions of our car's systems to ready them for an upgraded powerplant. Last month we installed an aluminum radiator and other cooling system components to ensure our C3 doesn't run too warm, and this month we'll be upgrading the fuel system with some high-performance components from Summit Racing Equipment.
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Carbureted C3 Corvettes like ours came with an engine-driven fuel pump that draws gasoline through a line to the pump and then provides pressurized fuel to the carburetor. The main problem with this style of system is the difficulty it has sucking gasoline the six or so feet from the fuel tank to the pump. If the pump can't pull enough fuel, it can't provide a pressurized fuel supply to the carburetor. Once the carb's float bowls run dry, the engine will run lean, and eventually stop running altogether. Though commonly called "vapor lock," the real name for this problem is fuel starvation, and it can have many causes, including clogged fuel filters or lines, corroded pick-up units, trash in the tank, or inadequate supply-line diameter.
Of course, the most common cause of fuel starvation is a fuel pump that's not rated to provide as much gasoline as the engine is using. This is generally what happens when you add a more powerful engine to a car without upgrading the stock pump. The car will run fine during normal driving, but once the throttle is opened, the pump simply won't be able to keep up with the engine's fueling demands. You can get away with this for a while if you don't drive too aggressively, as the carburetor's float bowls provide a buffer for the fuel system. As you apply full throttle, the bowls will drain, and assuming you let off the gas before they drain completely, they'll refill while the car is idling or cruising normally. Since Corvettes were made for aggressive driving, however, it pays to upgrade the fuel-delivery system, especially if you plan to increase the engine's output like we do.


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CHIPLEY — The second most successful business in Florida, behind tourism, is the retail business — and the Retail Center at Florida State University in Tallahassee is leading the nation in training young professionals for a career in the retail field.
"These students are on-purpose students," said center director Ann K. Langston. "That means they chose to study retail, they aren't there by accident."
Like success in retail, it takes training and planning to make future retailers, Langston told the Washington County Chamber of Commerce members on Thursday.
"Retail moves very quickly, and we are always updating our curriculum," Langston said. "We try to be responsive to the industry."
The Retail Merchandising and Product Development Department and Center at FSU was created in 2006 and is the premier center of its kind. Housed in the College of Human Sciences, the RMPD department provides a channel for communications and exchange between the retail and retail-related industries and FSU's RMPD majors and affiliated faculty, according to a release about the program.
"The Center creates partnerships among retail and retail-related businesses and FSU students and faculty to promote education, research and service; offering an educated, qualified work force; sponsored research opportunities in areas of interest; and expertise to help it meet its targeted needs," according to the release.
The Center also holds an annual Retail Summit, Langston said, and works with corporate sponsors such as JCPenney, HSN and Macy's among others to develop retail programs.
Langston said that according to her research, Chipley alone generates $169,785,000 annually in retail sales, with 40 percent of that amount being spent on general merchandise. One in four jobs in our economy are found in retail, she said.
"That is the kind of impact retail has on our economy," Langston said. "so it is important to keep our students and faculty up-to-date on the industry."
Langston also discussed the "Millennial Generation," those born between 1980 and 2000, and their impact on the workplace.
"This is a huge generation coming up, and they will change our economy," she said. Langston also said the Millennial Generation's reliance on technology not only changes the way members of this group shop, but the way retailers present merchandise to attract these customers.
"They like shopping solutions, they want decisions made for them," Langston said, using outfits – complete ensembles including everything from jewelry to clothing to shoes — as an example of Millennial marketing. Millennial shoppers look for an experience as much as an item, and they want to be able to checkout quickly.
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When Elizabeth Leighton discovered Boring, she couldn't wait to tell all her Dull friends.
Leighton was making her way from Flagstaff, Ariz., to Seattle earlier this year when the Scotland resident stopped in Oregon to tour energy-efficient homes. When she arrived in the rural Clackamas County community named after homesteader William H. Boring, Leighton whipped out her phone to send a message to a friend in Dull, a tiny village in Scotland.
"Obviously, this is an opportunity for a twinning with Dull and Boring," wrote Leighton, who lives in a neighboring village called Grandtully. Her friend Emma Burtles took the "twinning" idea to a meeting of the Dull women's book club, and the idea became more than just a clever joke.
In February, Burtles sent an e-mail to Stephen Bates, Boring Community Planning Organization chairman, who responded with a declaration of the partnership. Because the two areas aren't cities, the relationship will be "unofficially official," according to Bates.
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Boring leaders plan to sell T-shirts and even developed a tagline for the partnership: "Boring and Dull: A Pair for the Ages."
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Akin Unmasks the Pro-Life Movement
If you're going to slander the estimated 32,000 women a year who become pregnant after being raped, it's probably not wise to do it on a Sunday, when it will lead the next week's news coverage. Republican nominee for Missouri Senate Todd Akin chose not to follow this bit of wisdom, instead declaring in a television interview yesterday that women can't get pregnant from rape.
"First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare," Akin told KTVI-TV in an interview posted Sunday. "If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
For people who don't follow the anti-choice movement closely, this statement might be a stunner for the simple reason that it makes no biological sense; a rapist's sperm swims as well as a non-rapist's. But for those of us who do, it's no surprise. The myth that "real" rapes don't result in pregnancy is widespread among anti-choicers—and not just the fringe (Akin, for instance, used to be on the board of Missouri Right to Life). You can see a variation of this myth at the anti-choice website Abortion Facts:
To get pregnant and stay pregnant, a woman's body must produce a very sophisticated mix of hormones. Hormone production is controlled by a part of the brain which is easily influenced by emotions. There's no greater emotional trauma that can be experienced by a woman than an assault rape. This can radically upset her possibility of ovulation, fertilization, implantation and even nurturing of a pregnancy.
Akin's comment should serve as a reminder that despite its sentimentality surrounding the fetus, the anti-choice movement is motivated by misogyny and ignorance about human sexuality. In this case, what underlies the rape-doesn't-get-you-pregnant myth is the notion that sex is shameful and that slutty women will do anything—even send an innocent man to jail to kill a baby—in order to avoid facing the consequences of their actions.
You can see this logic play out broadly in discussions about rape as well as abortion. The most common defense in rape cases is that the victim consented to sex and only "cried rape" in order to seem less promiscuous. The claim, of course, is nonsensical. Why would a woman trying to put a one-night stand behind her invite grilling by detectives and defense attorneys? Why would someone so concerned about maintaining the illusion of purity subject her sex life to examination by a crowd of jurors? That the myth persists nonetheless goes a long way to explaining why we have such low rape conviction rates. When it comes to abortion, anti-choice activists accuse women going into abortion clinics of taking the easy way out, as if raising an unwanted child is the rightful price of having sex.
While most everyone can see the absurdity of Akin's comments, fewer pick up on the deeper problem of "rape exceptions" to abortion bans. When journalists and politicians refer to banning abortions except in the case of rape, they are assuming that there's a way to construct abortion policy that allows women who "deserve" abortions to get them while preventing those dirty girls who consented to sex from having them. This is simply not the case.
We know from research that even with a rape exception, most rape victims who seek an abortion will be denied. Take Medicaid, for instance, which will not cover an abortion unless the patient is a rape victim. Research by Ibis Reproductive Health, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving women's access to reproductive services, has shown that only 37 percent of women who qualified for rape exceptions got the necessary funding for their abortions. Between the onerous paperwork demands to demonstrate that one is, to use Akin's term, a "legitimate" rape victim and bureaucrats who are understandably anxious about making exceptions even when they're called for, doctors and patients simply found it impossible to get the funding they need.
In this light, what's surprising is not that an anti-choice politician accused pregnant rape victims of lying to cover their shame, but that anti-choice politicians manage to avoid saying similar things with regularity. Unfortunately, we live in a political climate where statements like Akin's will likely be dismissed as a gaffe instead of serving as an opportunity to discuss what motivates such myths. Such is the nature of our shallow, scandal-driven media: It points our heads in the direction of deeper truths, but moves to the next story before we can take the time to see them.
Tue, 2012-08-21 10:26
This strikes me as a very good time to seize the day and carry the fight to the anti-abortion crowd. Attacking Akin has its value, but it could be the moment to not only educate the public about the facts of abortion, but to push back at the entire anti-abortion agenda.
Tue, 2012-08-21 19:21
Maybe we should do what is constitutional and push abortion back to the states where it belongs. Then we wouldn't have to waste all this time with people running for federal office talking about abortion. Both sides have valid points.
If one state wants to have abortion on demand and you don't like it; don't live there. If another state wants to have no abortion at all and you don't like it; don't live there. We have bigger problems than arguing about this. Social issues should be left to the states so we don't end up with these huge divisions between the country nationally. Obviously this author wants to spend more time denigrating the other side than actually finding solutions to the real problems that we have like WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH JOBS!
Wed, 2012-08-22 12:45
I get the feeling politicians and pundits on both sides of the aisle would rather talk about abortion than their records. Especially the loudest voices on abortion and women's rights. Ask yourself how much time Obama or Congress spent enforcing laws or legislating a pregnant woman's body. Both sides have their wackos. The key is to ignore them and focus on the real issues.
Tue, 2012-08-21 23:12
Wed, 2012-08-22 21:04
The anti-abortion people consider women "property" just like they do in Saudi Arabia or Iran or Afghanistan for that matter. How long before Republicans start complaining about women in tight shorts or short skirts? Or leaving their hair uncovered? And why do the Republicans want to fight wars with Muslims who have the same attitudes towards women that Republicans do?
Thu, 2012-08-23 04:13
Some commenters have it all wrong. Pushing abortion 'to the states' and if you don't like the law, move is plain idiotic. The Supreme Law of the Land should prevail, cuz' for those who don't recall there were free states and slave states during slavery, which didn't address the issue of slavery being wrong, but instead allowed slaves to be 3/5 of a person, and slave states to be appeased in Congress. As for there being equal points on both sides, bull hockey! There is only either the gov't decides on abortion, or the woman does. With gov't deciding, women's privacy doesn't exist, that is the issue, not whether a women's body issues is someones else's decisions to make. Women are not represented in Congress as it is. Does anyone believe that the 112th Congressional House would have passed HR3and HR358, if 50% of its members were women? 77% of the US does not think abortion should be illegal, so why the hell are we electing dumbass RethuggliCANTS-from-whacka-doodie-da-dee-da-ville and turncoat Democrats who do not represent that 77%?Abortion is not immoral and single women being promiscuous is not a sin anymore than men's promiscuousness is. Men should not be voting on an issue for which they themselves will never have to decide on since they cannot get pregnant. Women are not cattle, and until they are truly represented in a 50% ratio women to men Congress, this issue won't be resolved.
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Gloucester's inner harbor pays no mind to the picturesque. It's a working Massachusetts port, a saguaro-shaped inlet bordered by fish wholesalers, ice manufacturers, whale-watch operators, and commercial docks. Gloucester's sailors and their weatherworn vessels are part of a fishing tradition dating back nearly 400 years; the first English fishermen arrived in 1623, and since then, the city has seen fortunes made and more than 10,000 men lost in the pursuit of ocean bounty.
People put a lot of stock in that heritage here. When two strangers meet in town, it's not unusual to hear them map a shared connection via the fishery:
I'm a D'Amico on my mother's side. She worked at Good Harbor Fillet …
… Oh yeah, you're Johnny's kid, right?
The heritage is everything, a chain linking one generation to the next. And now it seems as endangered as the Atlantic codfish that made this fishery great. In the name of protecting the very fish that Gloucester depends on, federal and state governments have taken many steps over the years, each seemingly more threatening to the fishermen than the last. In 2010, they instituted a catch-share policy that promotes consolidation, forcing more of the region's small independent dayboat operators–the backbone of Gloucester's fleet–out of business. Then last August, after several years of encouraging news about replenished cod stocks, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), having determined that the cod fishery was again on the brink of collapse, proposed catch-limit cuts of more than 70 percent for 2013, with cuts in other species, as well, such as yellowtail flounder and sole. (Catch limits for 2012 had already been cut by 22 percent.) Last September, after months of wrangling by Massachusetts' congressional delegation and its governor, the U.S. Commerce Department declared a groundfish disaster and urged Congress to appropriate a $100 million relief package for New England and New York fisheries. Also on the table, however, is a controversial $100 million boat and permit buyback program, which could end up putting even more fishermen out of work. Could their grandfathers and great-grandfathers ever have imagined a time when they could not fish here?
It seems as though it's all bad news. But on one dock, workers for Ocean Crest Seafoods are busy unloading fish, weighing a regulation catch of cod, sorting them and putting them into plastic bins with ice that comes rattling down a chute from Cape Pond Ice next door. Ocean Crest has many customers through its wholesale distribution business and its Neptune's Harvest organic-fertilizer company. But one customer is different: a three-year-old experiment, a bright and shining spot in the midst of all the grim news. It's a CSF, a community-supported fishery, called Cape Ann Fresh Catch (CAFC).
Like the community-supported agriculture (CSA) model that gives small farmers a way to sell their goods directly to consumers–partial insurance against bad crop years–community-supported fisheries invite members to pay upfront for a fixed allotment of fish–in Cape Ann's case, about five pounds of whole fish or two pounds of fillets–on a weekly or biweekly basis. The fish, which may be cod, bluefish, hake, sole, monkfish, redfish, haddock, or yellowtail, depending on the season, are delivered to 18 drop-off points around the Greater Boston area and the North Shore. The fish are always caught the same day, never frozen, never "fishy." In exchange for this bounty, shareholders relinquish the right to shop by species. Barring kosher and allergy considerations, you get whatever the ocean turns up that day.
The offices of Cape Ann Fresh Catch are housed in an industrial building a couple of miles back from the water. CAFC is a joint project of the Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Association (a.k.a. "the Wives"), a nonprofit advocacy group with which it shares office space, and the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance. The president of the Wives is Angela Sanfilippo, whose husband, Johnny, was a fishing-boat captain for decades; she and NAMA coordinating director Niaz Dorry were instrumental in launching the CSF.
Small and stout, Angela still speaks with the staccato lilt of Sicily, her home until 1963, and when she's not advocating for the fishery or trying to talk sense into policymakers, she's at the stove making roasted fish, fish stew, or spaghetti with fish. There's a full stove in the office break room; most of the women are Italian, and even though they work, they cook. Though the office is always busy (this past fall the CSF had some 700 subscribers), someone fixes lunch with whatever is left from the day's deliveries. (Just try to say no to second helpings with these women.) Their combined talents have even produced the Gloucester Fishermen's Wives Cookbook: Stories and Recipes (2005; Twin Lights Publishers).
Talking about the origins of Fresh Catch, Angela summarizes simply: "We needed to help people make money." They saw Port Clyde, Maine, succeeding with a first-of-its-kind CSF program, so they floated the idea at the Gloucester farmers' market in June 2009 and soon had 100 potential customers on board. "I go to the post office and there's a huge stack of envelopes," Angela says. "And in every envelope there's a check."