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Speaker: Dianne Nodier Eysink, BCBS (April 2013 WIM Meeting)
Women in Media - Baton Rouge
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM (CDT)
BCBS Corporate Communications Director Dianne Nodier Eysink
Wednesday, April 17th
Networking at 11:30am, Luncheon from 12pm-1pm
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Dianne Nodier Eysink, Director of Corporate Communications, joined Blue Cross in 1991. She has more than 25 years of experience in journalism, advertising, public relations and corporate communications. At Blue Cross, Dianne's duties including overseeing corporate advertising created and administered by an in-house agency, public relations, media relations, internal communications, marketing communications and direct marketing.
Dianne and her team will discuss their latest advertising and social media campaign and how it relates to the company's response to healthcare reform.
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Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning. Here's everything that you need to know before taking that first sip of coffee today.
Only about half a year has passed since Apple released Mac OS X Lion, but the Cupertino-based company is already teasing us with a peek at the next version of its operating system: Mountain Lion.
Meanwhile, Apple needs to overhaul iOS security after news of the latest leak, say developers. And at least one Congressman has questions too.
You can expect Android 5.0 Jelly Bean to launch by June. That's around the same time Motorola will get Ice Cream Sandwich.
Facebook is launching verified accounts on Twitter, and it's allowing pseudonyms too.
Facebook on the like cannot be forced to block users from downloading songs illegally, as this would push up their costs and infringe privacy, says EU's highest court.
Police in a small Massachusetts town are asking the FBI for assistance after photos of at least 17 high school girls turned up on pornographic websites.
Meanwhile, the South Korean government is considering another law to further curb rampant game playing and Internet addiction among its youth, one that automatically regulates the amount of time a student get to spend with video games in a 24-hour period.
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BOURBONNAIS, Ill. – The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) announced the brackets for the 29th Annual Women's Soccer Championship on Monday, Nov. 12. The No. 11 Olivet Nazarene University Tigers will host Viterbo University (Wis.) at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 17 in the opening round. The winner will advance to Orange Beach Ala. for the remainder of the tournament running from Nov. 26- Dec. 1.
Olivet enters the game with an overall record of 16-3 and earned an automatic bid to the tournament by winning the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference (CCAC) regular season. The Tigers completed a sweep of the CCAC's with a perfect 11-0 record, and more impressively doing so without allowing a single goal against. The 11-game shutout streak was a first in conference history.
The Tigers enter the game with 20 players on the roster that has scored at least one goal and 16 with at least one assist, making them difficult to defend. They are led by freshman Liz Wahl (Homer Glen, Ill.) with nine goals, including five game winners. Wahl was named CCAC Freshman of the Year earlier this week. Freshman Elizabeth Hetrick (Plainfield, Ill.) and sophomore Jessica Higer (Kuna, Idaho) are tied for second on the team with seven goals apiece. Senior Katie Dirkse (Downers Grove, Ill.) leads the Tigers with five assists, while senior Meghan Pipal (Wheaton, Ill.) is close behind with four.
While the diverse Tiger offense is hard to defend, the defense is near impossible to penetrate. The Tigers have allowed just seven goals on the season. The Tigers finished the season with 15 shut-outs, including 12 in a row that ran through the entire CCAC season. The defense wall is led by seniors Devin Johnston (Bloomingdale, Ill.), Katrina Holm (Antioch, Ill.), Katie Dirkse (Downers Grove, Ill.), and junior Rachel Kilbry (Spring Lake, Mich.) and is anchored by senior goal keeper Wendy Espejel (Ontario, Calif.). The Tigers allowed just seven goals on the season. Of the mere 99 shots allowed, only 32 were shots-on-goal. Espejel finished with 40 saves and accounted for 10 of the team's shut-outs.
Viterbo (15-2-1, 8-0) received an automatic bid for winning the Midwest Collegiate Conference (MCC)
Offensively, the V-Hawks are led by a trio that accounts for 53 of the teams 71 goals on the season. Leading the pack is freshman Molly Machometa (McHenry, Ill.) who enters the game with 31 goals and nine assists. She is ranked 1st in the NAIA in goals/game (1.82) and points/game (4.18) and second in total points (71), shots on goal/game (3.88) and total goals scored (31). Junior Steph Wisen (Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.) leads the team in assists with 16 and has added 12 goals of her own. Freshman Courtney Morgan (Appleton, Wis.) has added 10 goals and two assists.
The V-Hawks defense has allowed just 17 goals on the season. They appear to use a battery of goal keepers. Getting the most playing time in the net is sophomore McKenzie Guth (Onalaska, Wis.). She enters the game with nine goals against with 50 saves in 12 games. Freshmen Ashley Hicks (Waukegan, Ill.) and Alicia Seachord (Lincoln, Neb.) have also seen significant time in goal. Hicks has appeared in nine games, allowing four goals and has recorded 34 saves. Seachord also has four goals against with 19 saves in seven appearances.


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The Technical Definition Post-Traumatic Growth is a term psychologists are now using to describe the positive change occurring in an individual after they've experienced a highly stressful life event. It refers to the idea that suffering does not have to debilitate a person. In fact, finding a way to endure through significant suffering can actually… Read more!
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In a major setback to Bollywood actor Salman Khan, three witnesses in the 2002 hit-and-run case identified him in a sessions court saying they had seen him getting down from the car which had met with an accident in suburban Bandra on September 28, 2002.
The witnesses were among the injured who were run over by the car when they were sleeping on a footpath near American Express Bakery on that day. The court is conducting the re-trial of this case after the charges of culpable homicide were added recently.
While one witness said he saw the actor getting down from the front door on the right hand side, the other said he had seen Salman Khan getting down from the driver's seat. Another witness said the actor had got down from the vehicle but did not remember from which side he got down.
One person was killed and four people were injured in the incident after which police booked Salman Khan in this case on the charge of rash and negligent driving and other charges. Recently he was charged with an additional charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder which attracts a 10-year sentence.
The three witnesses who deposed on Tuesday (May 6) were Manu Khan, Mohammed Kalim Iqbal Pathan and Muslim Shaikh. All of them were workers of the bakery which was hit by the car.
The prosecution has alleged the Toyota Land Cruiser involved in the incident was driven by Salman who was under the influence of liquor. So far, four witnesses have deposed in the re-trial. One among them is a panch witness and the other three are eye witnesses. The prosecution led by Jagannath Kenjralkar would examine another three witnesses on May 19.
All the witnesses told Judge D W Deshpande that they saw the actor getting down from the car. He was held by the people who were shouting "nichey utro" (get down). Salman Khan was held by the people but another person, who also got down from the vehicle, said he was a policeman and hence they released the actor who ran away from the spot, they said.
During cross-examination, Salman's lawyer Srikant Shivade alleged that the witnesses were tutored by police to say they had seen Salman getting down from the car.
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One of the witnesses Muslim Shaikh was confronted with his earlier statement of 2006 made before a magistrate wherein he had not stated a word about Salman getting down from the car.
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Abuja — Nigeria's ruling People's Democratic Party appears to be crumbling as five more senators defected to a powerful new opposition coalition. But some analysts said it's not just ruling party members adjusting allegiances ahead of 2015 presidential elections.
The People's Democratic Party, or the PDP, has been in power in Nigeria since the country transitioned from military rule to democracy in 1999. It is easily the most powerful, organized and well-funded party in the country.
But in recent months, the unshakable prowess of the PDP has been challenged as five governors and 37 members of the House of Representatives abandoned the party. They all joined a new party, the All Progressive Congress, or APC, which formed last year when Nigeria's major opposition parties merged.
"The battle within the party is intensifying," said Clement Nwankwo, director of the Democracy and Legal Advocacy Center in Abuja.
He said the battle began because Nigeria's many problems haven't been fixed or even addressed in the past four years under President Goodluck Jonathan. The country's poverty, insecurity, lack of electricity, and near-economic collapse in several regions are just some reasons the president's party is losing clout.
"Conversely, you have people who love the environment that he provides for their business, for their making money and so on. So they would do everything to keep him there. Including close aids of his keep saying to him, 'Mr. President, don't mind all of them. The PDP is a big machine. It's going to win elections," said Nwankwo.
But it's not just ruling party members that are changing allies.
This is Ibrahim Shekarau, an APC leader and a former governor of Kano state, holding a press conference alongside dozens of other northern leaders on Wednesday. He says they are all leaving the new opposition, to join the ruling party. He said the APC lacks "commitment, transparency and accountability."
Some observers say political moves made these days are more about jockeying for power than supporting policies. Onyiye Gandhi, a lawyer in the Niger Delta, the heart of Jonathan's support base. "This is politics. You only have permanent interests. There are no permanent friends," Gandhi explained. "There are no permanent enemies."
The elections are planned for early 2015 and Jonathan is widely expected to run. After his 2011 victory, nearly a thousand people were killed in post-election violence.
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The Ferruginous Hawk—North America's largest hawk—is often mistaken for an eagle due to its size. The word "ferruginous" derives from the Latin word for iron, referring to the rusty brown of the species' light color morph. (There is also a less-common dark morph).
ABC's Dan Casey, our Northern Rockies Conservation Officer, is an admirer. "I have been observing the same pair—one light morph and one dark—nesting on a small prairie hillside north of Cutbank, Montana, for five years or more."
Along with the Rough-legged Hawk, the Ferruginous is the only American hawk to have legs feathered all the way to the toes, an adaptation that may help preserve heat on the windy, often frigid plains where it makes its home. The feathering may also protect it from the bites of rodent prey.
Although populations of the Ferruginous Hawk are currently stable, Dan says that a new threat is emerging. "One of the highest known densities of Ferruginous Hawks is along the Kevin Rim, just south of the Alberta border in north-central Montana. This is an area threatened by profuse wind turbine development." Siting of wind turbines is a key concern of ABC's Bird-Safe Wind Program.
Other threats to the species include habitat loss due to agricultural expansion and pest management programs directed at prey species such as prairie dogs. These programs may reduce the food supply and poison the hawks directly when they eat animals killed by rodenticides.
Along with prairie dogs, rabbits and ground squirrels are important prey for the birds, and they raise larger broods in years when these mammals are abundant. In winter, one place the birds can be found is Mexico's Chihuahuan desert grasslands, where ABC is working to conserve the endangered Worthen's Sparrow.


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Violence erupts at funeral for slain teenager
Hundreds of youth escorted off property
INDIANAPOLIS - Every available North District officer was summoned to a northeast side funeral home early Tuesday afternoon to quell a mass disturbance that disrupted the funeral service of a 16-year-old fatally shot last week.
Metro police were already on hand at the funeral of James Johnson, who was gunned down last Tuesday on the playground of the Hawthorne Place apartments.
Several fights broke out in the parking lot of the Lavenia and Summers Home for Funerals, located in the 5800 block of East 38th Street.
Someone from the funeral home said they always have a number of police on hand when funerals are conducted for victims of homicide, particularly someone as young as Johnson.
Police have yet to arrest anyone for the murder.
Members of the clergy, who were also in attendance to try and keep order, said there were members of at least three gangs present.
"People are hurt. People are angry," said Bishop Horatio Luster, with the Ten Point Coalition. "And it just escalated into something unnecessary. Differences of opinion. You had two to three different cliques here, or as they call them, gangs. Some differences of opinion, hurt, pain."
Hundreds of youth were escorted off the property and scores more were told not to go to the cemetery.
Police had to break up another fight at the cemetery.
Police made no arrests this afternoon.
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11 September. Arctic Sea. Two polar bears walk on ice floe. The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is on an expedition to the Arctic to document the lowest sea ice level on record.
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Selena Gomez and 'The Wizards of Waverly Place' return in a Disney specialAdd to Favorites | Wizards of Waverly Place
If you are one of the many young (and not-so-young) people who has not moved past the end of "The Wizards of Waverly Place," you are in luck. The Disney Channel will air a "Wizards" special -- complete with superstar Selena Gomez -- called "Alex vs. Alex" on March 15.
You may not be able to wait until that time. This is OK -- there is now a video to preview what is in store for Alex Russo and the family.
The video features Gomez explaining exactly what we can expect in the one-hour special. It seems that the Russo family takes a trip to Italy in order to visit some relatives. But of course, magic has to complicate even a family vacation. Alex accidentally uses a spell that splits her into an "Evil Alex" and a "Good Alex." As evil twins are wont to do, Evil Alex soon makes plans to take over the world. Good Alex has to stop her. The whole thing reaches a climax during a battle at the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
So it's not exactly a normal family vacation.
"Alex vs. Alex" co-stars Jake T. Austin, Jennifer Stone, David DeLuise, Maria Canals-Barrera, Gregg Sulkin and Beau Mirchoff. It airs Friday, March 15 at 8pm on The Disney Channel.
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Python Chapters
Making a program to decipher by substitution.
Deciphering is the reverse of enciphering, so we can use the same programming techniques that we've already learned. The design of the program is called an algorithm, and it's useful to write this out before starting to program.
You begin the program with declarations of the cipher and also 'plain', 'key' and 'alphabet' like this:
cipher='''ACRMQ IFNFU DQFQZ OMOHM HIHAD TFKQZ OPHEE FTQZO KRDDA DIQAN OAMHU AENPH EEHDN HPEOH KPHEE QZHQC HWDFQ YONOD AON'''
key = 'HYPNOTIZABLECDFGJKMQRSUVWX'
alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
plain = ''
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remove spaces from ciphertext
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find its position in the key
find letter in same position in alphabet
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A nine-member interim management committee charged with the responsibility to steer the affairs of the Brikama Area Council (BAC) before the next local government election, which is slated for April, was inaugurated Monday at the BAC Chambers in Brikama. The appointment of the nine members is in tandem with the Local Government Act.
The chairperson of the committee is the governor of the West Coast Region, Alhagie Lamin Sanneh. Other members are: Alhagie Jammeh, Adama Bojang, Fa Ansu Sanneh, Masaikou Bojang, Kaddy Jatta, Bana Darboe, Omar Touray and Karamo Colley. The inaugural ceremony also coincided with the first briefing session of the members with the senior staff and management of the Council.
In his inaugural address, Governor Sanneh described their mandate as challenging and expressed hope that with the vast experience of the committee members, there will be a smooth steering of the affairs of the Council. He urged the interim team to offer technical advice to the Council on policy matters during its stipulated term, while hoping that the members will leave up to expectation.
While urging the staff and management of the Council to cooperate and support the interim team, Governor Sanneh also reiterated his team's resolve and determination to transform the Council.
On his part, Tamba S.Kinteh, the chief executive officer of the Council, congratulated the members of the interim committee in their appointment. He expressed hope that with the caliber of individuals appointed into the committee, success will be surely achieved. He assured them of the support and cooperation of the staff and management of the Council during the period of their tenure.
Speaking on behalf of the committee, Omar Touray thanked President Jammeh through the governor for the trust and confidence bestowed on them. He assured of the committee's commitment to tirelessly work for the progress of the Council. He also implored on the staff of the Council to render adequate and relevant support to his colleagues in the execution of their mandate.
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Sunday: All Saturday tickets, including hospitality badges will be valid for general grounds entry. Only those with Sunday hospitality badges will be admitted to hospitality venues.
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Tiger Woods has one fantastic finish on a Monday at Torrey Pines. Could another one be in the offing?
Woods and his fellow PGA Tour pros will be playing in San Diego on Monday because thick fog hung on the cliffs of Torrey Pines all day on Saturday, forcing the third round of the Farmers Insurance Open to be postponed until Sunday.
Play will resume at 7 a.m. on Sunday, with the golfers playing until dark to get as much of the third and fourth rounds in as they can. The groups will not be re-paired for the fourth round.
Because there is not enough available daylight this time of year to allow 36 holes to be played in one day, the tournament will be extended to Monday for the first time in its 61-year history. How much golf will be required on Monday will depend on how much is finished on Sunday.
"Fog's the worst," said PGA Tour rules official Mark Russell. "In this situation, the whole golf course is fogged in. But I've been here before (in 2005) when five holes were fogged in and the others weren't.
"It's just difficult to deal with, especially when you know the weather is nice. It's not raining. There is no dangerous situation. You just can't see."
The players usually hope against all wet stuff, but in this case tour meteorologist Stewart Williams said the forecasted rain for Sunday morning would help break up the fog. He said a 10 to 15 mph wind expected in the afternoon also would help.
Situated at 11 under par after rounds of 68-65, Woods will take a two-stroke lead into the third round in search of his eighth overall win at Torrey Pines. Even those who are mildly cognizant of golf probably remember what he did the last time he played on a Monday at Torrey, beating Rocco Mediate in a spectacular 19-hole playoff in the 2008 U.S. Open.
Woods never got to Torrey Pines on Saturday. Contacted by a PGA Tour official for his reaction on the postponement, Woods responded, "I have been out here long enough to know this is part of the game. I'll be ready to go (Sunday)."
There were players who weren't as fortunate to just kick back in their hotel room. Escondido High alum John Mallinger, for instance, got up at 4:45 a.m. and arrived at the course at 5:15 a.m. to begin preparing for his 7:20 a.m. round.
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CHICAGO – The BoatUS Foundation's Teens Afloat program is accepting applications from interested non-profit groups that offer on-the-water education for teens to receive discounted lifejackets through the program.
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By Catharine Richert
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann had some choice words for a recently passed $26 billion bill meant to aid states hit hard by the economic downturn.
"Taxpayer money will essentially be laundered through the public employee unions, and spent to reelect those same Democrats this fall," Bachmann said on the Aug. 10 episode of FOX News's Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano.
The next day, she clarified her point on another FOX News program, saying, "Quite literally what will happen is this money will be shifted over to public employee unions. The unions will skim off the top; they'll put a good portion of that into political action committees."
Bachmann's claim underscores an opinion held by other Republicans that the legislation is meant to win favor with teachers and other workers during an election year. Some have argued that, because the funding will be used to maintain worker salaries, a portion of that money could end up with unions in the form of dues.
Bachmann's claim implies that state aid will literally be used to pad Democrats' campaign-funding chests. But that's not true. The money will go to states, not unions.
The bill includes rules on how the money will be administered and what it can be used for.
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The legislation includes $10 billion to prevent teacher layoffs and about $16 billion to help states maintain expanded Medicaid coverage that was established by the federal stimulus bill.
Bachmann is vague on which "public employee unions" she's talking about, and her office did not respond to inquiries for clarification. But it appears she's referring to teachers' unions. (The Medicaid component of the bill doesn't change how the federal government matches state funding for the program.)
The $10 billion in education funding will be administered by the Department of Education. It will allocate funding to states based total population and school age population. Then, states will distribute funds to schools based on formulas. The Minnesota Department of Education has not decided how it will allocate the funds, but it's important to note that the decision will be left up to state officials, not teachers' unions.
Furthermore, the bill expressly states that the education funding must "be used only for awards to local educational agencies for the support of elementary and secondary education... for the 2010-2011 school year." The legislation also states that the money can be used only to pay school employees who would otherwise be laid-off or to rehire employees. Moreover, the funding cannot be used to pay-off state debt or for "rainy-day" funds.
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Bachmann is wrong to say that the state aid will be "laundered" through public employee unions and used to help reelect Democrats. In fact, the bill is clear that the money can only be used to keep teachers on the payroll.
Her claim does not pass the PoliGraph test.
FOX Business, Rep. Michele Bachmann on Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano, Aug. 10, 2010
YouTube, Rep. Michele Bachmann on FOX News, Aug. 11, 2010
Reuters, House Passes State Aid Bill, by Lisa Lambert, Aug. 11, 2010
THOMAS, H.R. 1586, accessed Aug. 13, 2010
Summary, The Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act, accessed Aug. 13, 2010
Kaiser Family Foundation, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA): Medicaid and Health Care Provisions, accessed Aug. 16, 2010
Department of Education, Title I -- Improving The Academic Achievement Of The Disadvantaged, accessed Aug. 16, 2010
The Washington Post, Bachmann and Angle agree: State aid is "laundered" money for Dems, by Greg Sargent, Aug. 11, 2010
Interview, Christine Dufour, spokeswoman, Minnesota Department of Education, Aug. 16, 2010
Interview, Lonnie Hartley, spokesman, Education Minnesota, Aug. 16, 2010
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Britain's infant Darwin Initiative is turning out to have been at best premature, at worst verging on the stillborn.
Consider its life so far. Three weeks ago, John Major turned up essentially empty-handed at the Earth Summit in Rio. But from his metaphorical back pocket he flourished an initiative, named after one of Britain's most famous scientists. Major promised to harness British expertise in biodiversity - characterised by a wealth of academic experience stretching back centuries and the world status of such national institutions as the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and the Natural History Museum.
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Comparison of Garmin Topo 24K vs 100K for trail riding.
Got a new GPS and wanted to see what map set was best for trail /adventure riding.
Here is a comparison of the various map sets: Garmin Topo 24K 2012 vs Garmin Topo 100K 2012 vs my old 2004 Garmin Topo West 100K......and the winner for most trails and most legible, visible maps for trail riding is....
2004 Topo West.
Here are two map comparison w/ areas I'm familiar with.
Area 1 :
Utah, Eagle Canyon by Swazye's Cabin in the San Raffael Swell
2004 Topo 100K
2012 Topo 100K
and finally the map the one would assume would provide the most trail detail...... the brand spanking new 2012 Garmin Topo 24K:
How is it possible that at the same resolution the 24K shows many fewer trails than the 100K series.
The 100K 2004 & 2012 are identical on trial, but I prefer the look and clarity of the 2004 version. It's easier to see the trail on the GPS while riding since the topo features are more simple. The 2012 100K has too much shading and relief for easy viewing while trail riding.
Area 2:
Hackett Gulch, Colorado by Westcreek.
2004 100K Topo:
2012 100K Topo
2012 24K Topo
Heck even the City Nav has as many trail as the 24K Topo!
2012 City Nav:
Let me know if you would like to see other areas in Co or Ut.
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I just sent Garmin the following question and am curiously awaiting their response.
I just purchased a new Montana to replace my old 276C and got the latest version of Topo 24K Mountain Central to go with it for my off-road motorcycle rides. I'm kind of disappointed w/ the new 24K topo. When comparing it w/ my old 2004 version of Topo West 100K I find that the new 24K shows fewer trails than my 2004 100K Topo. How is this possible? Shouldn't the 24K show much more detail than the 100K?
Thanks, Dan
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That was a quick response. Specially since it was onna Sunday.
The TOPO US 24k mapping is more detailed in almost every way. An important distinction between the TOPO US 24k and the TOPO US 100k is that the 24k mapping includes routable trails and roads, whereas the 100k map does not have routable trails and roads. This may impact which trails are viewable in the map. What area are you in? I will check the available trails on both mapping products to double check the available trails.
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So it seems that for trail riding the 100K is better since it provides more trails, while the 24K Topo only shows the trails that are routable.
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I have the the 478C (276 w/xm stuff and marine) and I loaded the topo stuff and i thought that all topo was not route-able. Guess I was wrong. But I will have to test that today !!
shown on my map info page.
TOPO U.S. 24K West Released: March, 2009 Version: 2.00 (most current version according to Garmin website)
TOPO U.S. 100K Topo 100K Released: March, 2009 Version: 4.00 (most current version according to Garmin website)
CN North America NT 2013.10
US Marine Detail map g2 v3.50
AMR standard autoroute basemap, NR
my PC says:
Topo US 2008 Version 4.00
Topo US 24K West Version 2.00
CN North America NT 2013.1 version 16.10
global map
So I set mine in sim mode.
Confirmed. 2008 topo will not route on trails on my 478
using my 2009 24k, I routed myself to a remote place, then selecting "menu", then "map info" then I checked "topo 2008" then unchecked "24K"......the route was still there. but in my case/location some of the road was not on that map. But it did seem to eliminate some of the contour clutter. Oddly enough, my CNNANT 2013.10 had that trail on it anyway.
So I just might route using 2009 24k, OR CNNANT then change over to 2008 topo to declutter the 24k OR populate the CNNANT the screen a bit.
Just to let some of the new folks know that in the 276/478 series (maybe others?) that the order that is seen on the "map information" page, the top one is the primary map and sets an order of precedence. So just in case I did not word that correctly... if you have CNNANT on the top and then topo 2008 and then topo 24k under that and they are all checked. You will only view CNNANT. Uncheck that top one and the Topo 2008 will be viewed. hmmm hope that made sense.
Anyway I learned something from Yellow Pig, thanks for asking Garmin
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I recently discovered the same road/trail discrepancies between Topo 100k and Topo 24k in planning a primitive road dirt bike trip in SE Utah.
The 100k maps showed lots of roads not in the 24k set and vice versa. I found I had to really use both map sets to plan the trip. On one stretch I was kind of worried that the 24k map set showed a long road not going thru and there were no bailouts. I could see the road on Google Earth so we decided to ride it and it did go thru.
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The final explanation straight from the horses mouth:
First off, thank you for the inquiry regarding the differences between our Topo products. I looked into this problem and believe I found most of the answers to your questions. This issue arises from the fact that the older Topo 100K maps were treated as a "dumping ground" for all trails regardless of their scale, quality and accuracy. When we started making the 24K maps we decided to limit the product to higher quality datasets and included Navteq data so the product would be routable. In concern of map size, we felt that having a routable product was more of a service to our customers than adding, in some places, pretty shoddy trail information. You are not the first person to bring up a concern regarding the removal of some of our trails and it is currently being looked into by our outdoor team. I can't guarantee that they will decide to comb through the trail data and add the good material to the maps, but it is definitely being discussed. Feel free to pass along any other questions you may have and I apologize if this issue has caused you any inconvenience.
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Wonder how good the 24k maps I'm building will be from the USGS data.
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I've not used the 100k maps so I cannot comment on them. But I spent the money on both the Garmin West and Southwest map sets before finding out they were a major waste of money. I have found that the free GPS FileDepot maps have many more roads and trails on them than the Garmin 24k ones do. Routable does no good if the roads don't show on the map in the first place. So I just draw a track following the roads I intend to ride and load that onto the GPS unit. As long as I have that pink line to follow I'm fine!
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Very useful! So Dan the original poster was showing screen shots from his 24k "Mountain Central" (a 2 state set that retails for $99). And others have posted about the 24k "West" or "Southwest" DVD (each one covers 4 states and retails for $129).
I am wondering why Garmin sells both types? Is it just to offer a slighty cheaper set if you only needed say 1 state like Colorado?
Is the data on these 2 the same or completely different (for the same area)?
Could anyone with the 24k Southwest DVD (including Colorado) please post screen shots of the identical area that Yellow Pig posted in the beginning? Then at least for those 2 spots we could compare.
The 1st comparison is near I-70 in central Utah at: 38.85, -110.85
The 2nd comparison is NW of Colorado Springs, CO at: 39.08, -105.35
This would be most helpful, thanks. I just ordered a new Montana and the 24k Southwest, so maybe I will send it back???
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With the cards or downloads, they are tied to the card or unit, whereas with DVD you do not have that limitation.
I haven't used the card or download version, but I'm betting the data/detail are the same, it is only a difference in delivery method.
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I hope somebody shows us a specific screen shot examples of my request above. And if you do, please specify if it was on a uSD card, download or DVD. Thanks.
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One needs to remember that dual sporters are almost certainly not the main market for Garmin's mapset. It would probably be the footborne recreationalists who are the major purchasers of these mapsets. For hunters, hikers, etc, more detail in hypsography is going to be infinitely more important than a routable trail. I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't a little bit of legal defense involved: "We could be sued if somebody used a trail we put in the map that led them into danger". Sort of like handguns that have "This firearm will discharge with the magazine removed" rollstamped into the frame... But that's an aside.
I can tell you that trails are an enormous difficulty for mapping. Take a look up in Canada where Backroad Mapbooks have been providing detailed recreational maps for backcountry recreationalists for nearly 20 years now, first paper only in gazette form, now paper and Garmin mapping as well. They try to have everything - trails, campsites, paddling routes, you name it. I've done some consulting work and ground truthing for them; narrowing it down to trails, the problems are legion.
First, what defines a "trail" anyways? Some are truly foot only, man or beast. And when does a wildlife trail become a human "trail" - when recreationalists start regularly using it and it becomes known? So who finally maps the thing? Conventionally, some government agency does, normally one associated with parks or outdoor recreation. But money for those projects is nonexistent, and if it was done, they didn't hand the warden or ranger a high quality GPS. They were asked to sketch it in on a paper topo map in the course of a horseback back country patrol (been there, done that), using the contour lines, creeks, etc as a guide. Or they were handed one of the earliest Garmin GPS units to capture the trail - and nobody has been told to update the mapping ever since.
Or they relied on "local knowledge". There were posts here a few years ago from somebody wanting to know if anyone had ridden the Grease Trail, an old native trade route heading north from Ft Ware, because they wanted to ride it on their KLR. Sure enough, on maps, there is a nice straight line from Ft Ware heading north towards the Yukon. I supported a friend who wanted to try hiking it last year by making some custom Garmin maps for him. Found out very quickly that the "trail" involved some government official in the distant past asking some native guy who had been over the trail at least once on a horse to draw a line on a map.... I'm sure the native guy did his best, but I'm also sure he probably never used a map in his life and probably hadn't been on that trail (or at least in its entirety, if ever even that) in probably 20 years. Short story - they fought through swamps and alder for about 30 miles before showing the good common sense to turn around and return to Ft Ware. Said they encountered hints of trails here and there, but that's about it - the forest and bush reclaims trails and roads pretty quickly when unused.
An example of official government mapping: Banff is Canada's most heavily hiked in national parks, and Waterton nearby adjoins Glacier in Montana. Go see if you can find any digital trail information available for those parks from the government.
The explosion in personal GPS devices (particularly present day, with their enhanced reception and accuracy) has been a game changer, and neither the government nor recreationalists have responded well to it. There is no organized data warehouse I'm aware of that collects trail input with a data manager who has a system for groundtruthing submitted data to ensure it is both reliable data (or has a reliability rating) and updated as changes occur.
Backroads Mapbooks approach has been to seek data from any source they could find, not just for trails but for the billions of miles of dirt roads that access (or often just used to access) logging, mining exploration, etc. Many of the roads in their mapping (which might be what the OP would consider a ridable "trail") haven't been passable even by foot for over 20 years now. Alder hell... So you have a problem in that sources will give you mapping data - but while people will add mapping data, RARELY does anyone get sent to remove road and trail features when they are no longer passable as roads and trails.
So when you're Garmin (or Backroads Mapbooks or a similar company) what do you do? Your GIS/cartography employees have had it drilled into them from Day One in their profession that mapping information must be reliable. You can't groundtruth the whole bloody country like governments do with gazetted highways, public roads, streets, etc. The question that nobody has fully resolved yet is how you collect reliable trail data that you're confident about putting in your maps. Look at all the posts we see here where somebody was pissed because a road that supposedly went through turned into a dead end, or now had a fence running right across it somewhere with "no trespassing" signs.
To end a long story, until somebody decides to take the initiative to formalize a means of collecting, groundtruthing, and updating/removing trail and non-public road data, companies are never going to be able to provide uniformly satisfactory data for those features in their mapsets. A trail on slick rock in Utah may have been there for a thousand years and be reliable when mapped for the next thousand. But in Washington, Idaho, Montana, etc, old mining and trade trails disappeared a decade after falling into disuse.
In my view, the most reliable source for trail data is going to be private, cooperative websites like http://www.dualsportmaps.com/. It happens to be dual sport riding specific, unlike websites like http://www.gpsies.com/?language=en which warehouses tracks for hiking, horses, mountain bikes, you name it.
My take - with my recreation being in NW Montana through SE BC - is that the 24k maps are far more valuable than the 100k maps due to the far more accurate hypsography and natural features. I have no interest in routable trails or roads for a variety of issues. The enhanced natural features of fine scale mapping really assist in orienting yourself to your surroundings when you're somewhere in a maze of old roads, new roads, and sometimes no roads.
The tracks don't have to be in the mapping for my Garmin, at least in my view. It sure would be nice if they were, but I can go get them from a place like DualSportMaps, where somebody actually rode the trail, made comments, attached pictures, points of interest, etc. And where people who later rode the trail added commentary on the accuracy, updates, etc. I know a track in DualSportMaps is going to be far more accurate for dual sporting than anything that Garmin can come up with, given their necessary generalist approach to mapping.
The moral of the story is: get the mapping you'd like to have by collecting and sharing the mapping you'd like to have. Think on this for a moment: if every ADV member riding with a GPS collected and submitted GPS data from the tracks they ride off public highways (ie the data Garmin and others have a hard time collecting and ground truthing) to a website like DualSportMaps... how long do you think it would take to have a truly comprehensive GPS datawarehouse of the dual sporting available?
I've been uploading and mapping the crap out of the best dual sport riding in SE BC for that very reason, and I suspect others have been doing the same with popular riding around places like Colorado and Utah.
One final note: Backroads Mapbooks http://backroadmapbooks.com/GPS/index.html realizes that much of their collected road and trail data from governments, forestry companies, etc is unreliable or no longer in existance. Their approach to getting road and trail data current and reliable as possible is this: purchasers of their products who submit trail and road corrections, new roads, new trails, etc get free map updates for as long as they continue the process of submitting corrections and updates. Most purchasers probably don't bother, but there's an example of where at least the users of the product have an opportunity to improve the areas they use that they see shortcomings in.
There are other private recreational Garmin mapping providers throughout North America at least, and some of them probably do the same as Backroads. Between that and websites like DualSportMaps, it seems to me that the quality of the GPS mapping available to dual sporters (and hikers, mountain bikers, etc) is in our own hands. Instead of just (correctly) complaining that the mapping for our Garmins lacks what we need, we can do something to change that.
BTW, just for clarity, I have no financial or other personal interest related to any company or website mentioned here, other than the fact I've paid for and use their products when they are for sale instead of free.
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Thanks Jager, that was quite informative and I got a few new ideas. I totally agree about it being up to US in the dual sport community to improve the dual sport map content OURSELVES by taking time to upload maps. I put some tracks from Baja in GPSXchange.com because that was where I found the best Baja tracks before my trip so I tried to give back. I'd like to see DualSportMaps.com take off and grow and I appreciate their initiative. The last time I looked there I couldn't find much for they area I was interested in.
I totally understand your point about trails - but roads, even small ones and especially in high desert areas like Utah, are nice to have every one you can find. Sure sometimes they may not be passable anymore and that is a risk.
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Stow has always been very keen to build links with other institutions because we recognise the strength in sharing and working together.
From a student perspective, some of the most important partnerships are our links with local and national universities.
These mean that we can offer, in very many cases, a route from an HNC or HND into an associated undergraduate degree course, often with direct entry to either second or third year. This is important because, although HNC/D qualifications are valuable in their own right, they provide a stepping stone into degree programmes without additional time or cost.
We currently have strong links with:
University of Strathclyde (http://www.strath.ac.uk/)
University of the West of Scotland (http://www.uws.ac.uk/)
Glasgow Caledonian University (http://www.gcal.ac.uk/)
The Open University (http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/)