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Phoenix Peak Climber's Log
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|Only Phoenix
Date Climbed: Aug 8, 2009
|Perfect day on Phoenix!
|Posted Jul 26, 2013 5:15 pm
|Larry V
|East Willow Creek Falls variation
Date Climbed: Jul 8, 2013
|Took the summitpost route directions literally going up, but found a quick and simple way to avoid the loose gully beside the waterfall coming down. Reduces the danger by about 1000 times. Other than that it is just a long grind to the top.
|Posted Jul 10, 2013 8:29 pm
|East Willow Creek
Date Climbed: Jul 11, 2011
|Hiked Phoenix Peak from the 2WD trailhead below East Willow Creek.
|Posted Jul 16, 2011 9:35 am
|nice hike from East Willow Creek 4WD TH
Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2010
|beautiful summer day in the La Garitas. We followed Roach's route description with little difficulty.
|Posted Jul 18, 2010 11:25 pm
|Center Stock Driveway
Date Climbed: Jul 4, 2009
|CMC Trip. There were five of us total. The goal was to do both Phoenix and La Garita Peaks. We camped the night before at the tailings cleanup site in East Willow canyon, and hiked from there. We started just after 6AM and reached the top around 11:30. There was some weather brewing to the west, so we decided to skip La Garita at first, and dropped down about 200 feet from the Phoenix/Pt ~12760 saddle, before deciding the weather didn't look all that bad. With some encouragement from the others, we decided to climb back up and go for La Garita.
|Posted Jul 6, 2009 2:49 pm
|South Slopes Route
Date Climbed: Sep 11, 2005
|I missed the trail that branches off East Willow Creek somehow. I had to bushwhack west on the right hand side of the creek going west to the south slope ridge. On the way down I correctly found the trail and it eventually finds its way to the south side of the creek heading toward East Willow Creek. Sound confusing? Well it was at the time. I ended up hiking up point 13,780 as well.
|Posted Nov 6, 2008 9:58 am
|West Ridge
Date Climbed: May 24, 2008
|For Late May, it sure as hell felt like late February. Climbed with Sarah Thompson, Dominic, Chicagotransplant, Kevin and Ken.
|Posted May 27, 2008 7:05 pm
|West Ridge
Date Climbed: May 24, 2008
|Although it was Memorial Day weekend, conditions up high were definately winter-like. The nasty weather was compensated by great company though and it ended up being a memorable day.
|Posted May 27, 2008 12:20 pm
|West Ridge
Date Climbed: May 24, 2008
|Climbed with Kiefer, Sarah, Dominic, Ken and Kevin. Felt a lot more like February than May as it was windy and snowing and covered in rime. A couple of us almost got frostbite coming down.
Note to people trying to get up this one, you can't drive up East Willow Creek just yet, rock slide. You can, however, get to the trailhead via the Bachelor Loop 4x4 road.
|Posted May 27, 2008 9:37 am
|Brian Kalet
|South Slopes
Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2007
|En route to La Garita Peak. 4:45 roundtrip.
|Posted Jun 23, 2007 7:03 pm
|Ryan Kowalski
|South Slopes
Date Climbed: May 27, 2007
|Whew, this ended up being more work than I thought it would be due to the crappy deep snow in the trees. I love the La Garitas though, 3rd straight Memorial Day up in this area and never saw a person on any of our hikes. Great views from up top too.
|Posted May 30, 2007 2:16 pm
|Route Climbed: south slopes Date Climbed: July 17, 2005
|I missed the Center Stock driveway and left the 4wd too early as I forgot the first page of my directions! I just bushwacked along Whited Creek and found the old trailhead sign after 20 min. The climb to the ridge is gentle but deceivingly long. A nice remote centennial/county hp that I enjoyed by myself. Nice page, Layne!
|Posted Jul 19, 2005 4:21 pm
|Layne Bracy
|Route Climbed: Ascent: East Willow Creek Falls Descent: South slopes Date Climbed: July 2, 2005
|John Kirk and I enjoyed a nice loop hike on a beautiful day and had the mountain to ourselves. Well, we shared it with about 50 elk!
|Posted Jul 7, 2005 6:22 pm


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After playing all the major populated mmo's for the last five years, and seeing the latest successful game XIV now with 2.1 and its failure to deliver on housing, with no profits to be made in crafting or farming, and their raid gear having boxed in and awkward stats, and with EQ 2 and WoW on old systems with old graphics and gameplay, I can honestly say ESO will be the next huge successful game, and has a chance now to actually capitalize on game by making strong the weaknesses in these other games in their current state.
Where can ESO capitalize on being the next long term successful game?
1. Housing, make housing huge as EQ Next housing is going to be, and to make it cheap and accessible to everyone, this will allow them to get rid of competition from FFXIV which failed to deliver in that area, and will compete with EQ Next when it hits the markets in 2014.
2. Crafting. Make sure that crafting is useful and most profitable for end game. Another area where FFXIV has failed in 2.1 patch, and where EQ2 seemed to have failed also with the allowing of selling of raid gear to other players. If you keep the crafters at the top of the game in second best spot to raiding or other activities, you'll see you'll win the heart of every crafter out there and disgruntled crafter on other games.
3. Farming. Make sure farming is profitable and not being controlled so heavily which XIV also has just done. Not sure what EQ Next will be like for farming yet but its got to be worth doing. EQ2 also had great farming rewards with Exquisite chest drops on mobs. I'm sure ESO can do better in rewarding farmers who love to spend hours in the field farming mobs for crafters. Throwing a nice reward bone every once in a while after grinding on mobs would seal the deal and win over all farmers who like this type of gameplay.
4. Raid Gear. Make sure raid gear is worth using and wearing, with really rewarding raiding to all members and not just one or two per a raid. I would like to see more customization with stats on raid gear, where you can choose your stats or abilities on your raid gear.... I see boxed in raid gear and only a few members getting rewards far too often lately and its not very good for moral of guilds or their members. Throw each member in the guild a 5% or 10% progress per a raid towards something useful endgame, and youll have a lot of happy raiders on your hands.
6. Storylines and RPG. You must have a well written and timeline lore in game that makes the player feel part of the game . This is the most important part of the game, and the reason Mines of Moria got Expansion of the year, and XIV became such a success. It allowed the player to move through a timeline in the world and actually feel the adventure of something big happening around them XIV did such a great job of this and this is where a lot of the real competition will come from in the future. I have no doubt after seeing skyrim that they have what it takes to get this part right and the feel of RPG.
7. Dungeons. Your going to have to have dungeons that have hidden chests, secret puzzles and other things in them to be better then other games out right now and to compete with future games who will someday make their dungeons complex and puzzle orientated as a huge bonus and reward side quest to a dungeon. These puzzles and bonus rewards in dungeons should not affect completion of the dungeon though, so less smart people will still be able to progress to the end. Its going to have to be really enjoyable in the aspect of exploration and mind puzzles. Keep gameplay flowing really good and challenging on mini bosses and end bosses of the dungeons, but not cheapshot players.
8. Game World. This one is something I really have not seen a bunch of yet in recent mmo's so the bar for exploration is pretty low, but to keep any other game from competing in the future with this game is to have a massive world. One that takes atleast an hour or more to cross the entire thing.... Have a lot of hidden rewards in unexplored areas, that are randomized around the world and you can bet this could seal the deal for competition with EQ Next or any other game that might capitalize on this as a weakness in this game.
I think if all this is payed attention to and done, you will see ESO as the Next BIG One we have to play for years to come.
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Joined: 4/23/07
While I agree with absolutely everything you said. I feel if we applied your formula to any game releasing it would push it to GOTY status. Hell I'd even go for Game of the Decade.
ESO has me worried that they are going to be counting on replayability for longevity with regard to storylines. Which has been to not work in SWTOR.
While we are asking for things, the only extra thing I would add to your list is a full expansion's worth of content every 3-4 months. IMO the players should always be playing catch up to the content, not the other way around.
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Joined: 2/28/04
I agree with all your points............. except for the fact that ESO won't be the game that is going to deliver it.
The more I read about ESO, the more I think about SWTOR.
Great Single Player storyline.......... but that's all.
Nothing that could not be achieved by making TES 6.............. and with better results.
Considering I just finished Skyrim for the 4th time, I am disappointed by the direction ESO is taking, it's going to be nothing like Skyrim.
Yes I will buy the game, but I am pretty sure I won't play it past the second month, like I did with SWTOR.
My idea of ESO is more like The Repopulation with a TES skin rather than SWTOR...............
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Joined: 6/14/12
The largest mistake that ESO is going to make it having NO player housing of any kind. If they were smart they would have GUILD housing and really let all the detail of making it feel like your Guild housing stand out. With in the guild housing you can have player owned area, they also need to implement the feeling of rasing mounts, farming food, and something like a blacksmiths shop. These are things they will NOT have in the game and in the end will be the undoing of ESO.
Get smart really fast ESO dont be like SWTOR and get left behind because of self inflicted wounds.
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Joined: 1/15/11
I don't care about #1 & #4 and don't think they really add anything to a game. You didn't put PvP in your little list so I assume you are a PvE player only. I do agree with the others you suggested. The most important is the game to be fun, as soon as the game gets boring or makes you think to yourself why the hell am I playing this its usually over. If it can last longer than the new standard of 2-3 months I think it could get goty, but time is the only true test.
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Joined: 8/12/12
Sad state of affairs when the your GOTY doesnt need to have dynamic and worthwhile PVP.
Advanced Member
Joined: 3/01/07
I thought that post looked familiar, OP, and it's basically a rewrite of your FFXIV thread I just read.
Seems to me that your major wishes for any MMO, are about housing, farming and crafting. Which are all things I would appreciate as added content, but absolutely not what makes or breaks any MMO.
And btw, ESO isn't going to become GOTY 2014, unless they pay some site for that title. I hope this game gets far better than my expectations, but I've seen enough releases to have learnt to read between the lines, and this one isn't going to be a major success, I'm pretty sure of that.
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Joined: 6/06/12
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
The only way this can make GOTY is to:
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Joined: 9/01/13
Originally posted by Netspook
Pretty much sums it up. It'll do OK. It has the excitement factor of leftover pizza. It's pizza, and that's great, but you've already had it.
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Joined: 1/15/13
If they want game of the year 2014 its easy...
1. Pay for reviews and place lots of ads around internet forums
2. Use the 'gaming media' to hype the fanboys, the fanboys to hype the other fanboys and the forum moderators on forums you advertise heavily with to censor "negativity".
4. Profit
Yes, I did tend to leave that out. I think PVE is probably the most important aspect of a MMORPG game, its the base/foundation. In past games PVE and PVP always eneded up destroying games in an RPG due to the ruining of the classes to allow for a more equal power between classes. Someday they will get this right but even I don't know how they can achieve this, and you will always see PVP changes to PVE classes that end up hurting the PVE aspect of the game to a degree that always ends up in boxed classes and abliies or stats.
I tend to want to see a lot more PVE focus roles that can stray far enough lobsided as possible that no two classes could ever be equal. I don't mean to discredit PVP, I just have not seen a way to make PVP and PVE coexist in a way that would not hurt the uniqueness of PVE roles.
The Listener
Joined: 3/04/08
I don't understand why you posted this in the ESO forum. I see a generic list of things you like about MMOs and then "oh, yeah...ESO."
This post is just a copy/paste of the same post in the FF forums except over there the title was "Why I'm taking a Long Break From This Game."
What next? Wildstar? Can't wait to see the new title
Dude, if you have paid any attention at all to the official line, then you already know that most things on your list are NOT on tap. It's a PVP oriented RVR game with game PVE leveling on the side. All these features may be things you want (and honestly we share some desires) but the game is what it is.
Novice Member
Joined: 2/27/10
Scrap what they have now and start over. It is a bug step back from oblivion and skyrim so far.
Apprentice Member
Joined: 6/03/09
Looking at your list I have a feeling you are going to be very disappointed with ESO....
But that is just my opinion and since this is the internet it doesn't really matter.
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Joined: 6/12/12
For me it will be whether the PvP realm stuff is actually meaningful and makes me care enough to want to log in every day. I'm sure that I'll hate the questing and won't touch raids and dungeons. If I wanted that there are a million games that offer it and I'm sick of it. Give me something I can get invested in though, where what I do actually matters even a bit after I log off and I'll sub for a long time. Make it another PvE quest grind/endgame grind focused game and I'll quit after the first month if I play at all.
Originally posted by Iselin
First things first, take time to read them.... Second, the items I list are shocklingly to your amazement might be found in yes... both mmo's amazing that I would comment on things like housing, farming, crafting, wow and even dungeons.... haha.
Read things rather then just seeking how someone puts paragraphs together in their writing. Both are far different from each other.
Oh yes and by the way FFXIV was named game of the year, and has now fell a bit flat with 2.1, which this post is part of why it will be successful by capitalizing on last years game of the year.
The Listener
Joined: 3/04/08
Originally posted by fistorm
But, if YOU take the time, you'd realize that you r list has sweet F all to do with a game that has been in development for 5 years and will be out in less than 90 days... It has nothing to do with your wish list no matter how much you like voxels and housing.
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Joined: 1/15/13
As long as its not F2P I am going to give it a try regardless.
Played every ES game since Daggerfall on release and have even played Arena so I have no problem throwing money at this even if it ends up horrible.
Not sounding very elsder scrolls-ish though and I am reminded of Middle Earth Online and what it finally became and see some similarities.
Love Daggerfall, Think Morrowind is the best of the series by far (still play a heavily modded copy to this day), hated Oblivion but thought the Xpansion was decent (the crazy god or whatever) and loved Skyrim. So yeah, I certainly will be trying this but in all truthfulness I do not have very high hopes.
Originally posted by Jacxolope
When will people learn that this isn't how sites covering the gaming industry works?
Gaming Media follows trends from players. That's how GW2 got so much hype. No media outlet would dare bring up any negatives of that game at the time before release because of gamer blow back. Everyone was on the messiah train and the narrative was formed early on. Other games suffered from it. The Secret World was probably the most damaged. Sure some sites tried a mea culpa after the fact, but it was too late.
On top of that they need ad dollars to run their sites and if you're seen to have a bias or slant against a company, getting those ad dollars from said company might be a little difficult. What's worse is that other companies will see you as not a legitimate site and will choose not to be associated with you as well. This means no exclusive interviews, previews, videos, screenshots.
To resolve this you play neutral with the bad games, scourge the REALLY bad games and hype the hell out of the games that the author loves. Remember that many of the people writing these articles are gamers as well and are just as prone to fall victim to the hype monster. This is were bias can slip in. It can corrupt the viewpoint of the author to other games if they aren't vigilant. It can shade ones perception to write articles that will placate the masses and give them more clicks on their articles which in turn gives more ad dollars. Which then brings me to the devil advocate articles. While the pretense of an article like that is to seem objective, the truth is to piss people off so they will click on the article and read it. It drives traffic and that equals more ad dollars for their site. That's a news website thing, not just gaming news. It's the reason why you see all the headlines that don't match what the article says. Go check out CNN.com They are the worst at doing crap like this.
Sure there are articles that are paid for from companies, but those sites tend to be aligned with a specific company or platform.
Sites like MMORPG have to keep some professionalism when putting things out. They have most certainly hyped things up a bit much, but that's due to them being gamers like all of us and not from being paid by companies to do so.


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If I have 2 pens and I want to say all of them are green, I can say "Both of them are green" but if I have 3 pens should I use "Triple of them are green" or "All of them are green"?
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The word triple as an adjective means that the three are parts of one greater object, as seen in the phrase,
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Toledo Children's Hospital will host Going Wild for Kids! It is a fundraiser on March 24 to benefit the Autism Collaborative.
Co-chair Meredith Sherman had twins, Kate and Alex, five years ago. On top of the worries most first-time mother's face, her babies were born six weeks early and spent more than three weeks in Toledo Children's Hospital neonatal care unit.
"As a new mom, it was a scary time for us and the hospital staff was amazing," Sherman said. "The doctors, the nurses and the support staff made us feel everything was going to be OK, and it was. They totally put us at ease."
While her children are not autistic, when their health improved, she wanted to help the hospital in any way she could, she said. She joined the Toledo Children's Hospital Foundation Board. The foundation receives and directs charitable contributions on behalf of the hospital.
Money from the event will go toward the foundation and the Autism Collaborative, a community effort to coordinate services families need for autistic children.
"There are lots of different resources around Toledo for autistic children and families, but they're driving around to all these different specialists. This is hoping to be a catch all," Sherman said
Catina Harding, executive director of the Great Lakes Collaborative for Autism, said that she is looking forward to promoting the collaborative in the community, especially at the fundraising event.
"What we really want to do is create a coordinated effort to make a network of care where all of the different partners are communicating with each other in an organized manner," Harding said.
The first phase of the collaborative, Sherman said, will help families in the recognition stage — around age 2 — when children are first diagnosed. As it grows and as funds allow, they will add different resources building from the early stages upward.
Other organizations involved with the Autism Collaborative include Harbor, the Autism Model School, the Autism Society of Northwest Ohio, University of Toledo, Bowling Green State University, Lucas County Board of Developmental Disabilities, Help Me Grow, Bittersweet Farms, Perrysburg Schools and Mercy Health Partners, Harding said.
"While everything will not be under one roof — we will continually work with all partners to ensure the families are aware of all services available as well as how to access each," she said.
The collaborative already accomplished creating a sixth through 12th grade after school program for autistic children and are trying to establish an early intervention program at Toledo Children's Hospital.
The group has also established the Autism Collaborative Council, a group that will meet on a regular basis to assess and address the needs and strengths of services that serve families affected by autism, Harding said.
"The goal is to create a community network of care that will develop a highly personalized treatment plan for each family and provide support for each phase of each child's life," she said.
The butterfly-themed night will have both a silent and live auction and a video that will explain the Autism Collaborative. It will be the first time the video is viewed by anyone outside of those who made it, Sherman said.
Going Wild for Kids! begins at 6 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn, Perrysburg. Tickets are $100 each. For more information, call Toledo Children's Hospital at (419) 291-3493.
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I've never tried sparring with a cane, but I have used a jo (short staff, reaching from the floot to around my armpit) in escrima style sparring.
I used a DIY smack-jo (hollow plastic pipe with foam insulation, all wrapped in tape).
My partners were using solo baston / single stick (less than an arm's length), bouble bastons / two sticks, or stick and knife.
The dynamics of each encounter were as you would expect and support much of what Permalost, RockApe and others are saying here.
Some things I learned as the jo player:
- The bayonet style thrust / modified choku tsuki to the throat was the most useful tool to keep distance. Even with the bib of the fencing mask and padded weapon, the contact was enough to check an advance. Thrusts naturally came best from tsuki no gamae.
- From most stances strikes were slower than the reacitive actions of the baston player. To make sure that they didn't defend and close from one of my strikes it was important to either change lines mid strike (high #1 to low #1 being a good one), set up strikes with a minor action like a thrust or have the major strike flow into a second strike.
- Attacks on the low line without losing your posture are easier than with a short weapon. The thigh and knee got hit a lot.
- Otoshi tsuki from ude hasso surprises most partners.
- Although certain strikes come better from certain stances (e.g. wakai gamae for sweeping hit to low line) the jo player must be able to stike on a variety of lines from each stance.
- Hand changes and sliding the hand along the weapon is difficult with some non-standard weapons, like on the grippy surface of my light, bendy smack-jo. The bayonet style choku tsuki came into it's own compared to the tsuki where the weapon slides through the front hand (if the front hand is open enough for it to slide, it's not closed enough to control it after a parry). This made me play more like I was using a short spear or sword than how I imagine I'd have used a jo.
- As the jo player my priorities were to keep the fight at long range, protect my lead hand from getting hit. If the baston player closed I had to protect my head, try to regain distance and abaondon the jo in the grappling range.
- I've only used the single handed strike once. It was when my partner thought he was out of range and had let their guard drop.
Some things the bason players learned:
- If they got the jo player in the stick's largo or medio range they were at an advantage.
- Closer is not always better, corto or shorter they lost the baston's relative advantage.
- Relying on speed alone to close the range is foolish. The best time to close is after the jo has be neutralised by a hand smash, beat attack, missed hit, etc.
Mixed weapon sparring is a fun and natural way to force the players to work on particular aspects of their game.
Bastons were smak-stick style, knives were DIY foam and tape like the Tomiki tantos or rubber training blades. Fencing masks and lacrose or MMA gloves were worn in addition to normal training gear.
tl;dr Facing short weapons with a long weapon in sparring worked exactly like the people in the know say it does.
Style: Kendo--
This reminds me of one of the few things a Japanese kendo guy showed me. It was a sort of thrust to the throat area of the headgear, which would cause the whole head to kinda rock back, setting up a good cutting followup.
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The phases in learning La Canne de Combat (at my school) are
- learning La Canne de Sport
- Relearning the techniques of La Canne de Sport with a combat cane, looks like Singlestick. This is the phase I'm in right now.
- La Canne Vigny
- Using La Canne if it was a swordcane, here it starts to look like Rapier and Smallsword and in a further stage using a (blunt) training swordcane.
Now since I only train 15 to 20 minutes a week in La Canne, generally as a warming up, it will take some time before I'm through all the phases of La Canne de Combat.Originally Posted by Jiujitsu77Originally Posted by HumanzeeOriginally Posted by jk55299 on Keysi Fighting Method
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Your professor and I seem to agree.


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Workmen prepare the site of the Le Louvre Lens Museum, by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, on the eve of the inauguration of the museum in Lens, northern France, December 3, 2012. MANDATORY CREDIT Architects Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa SANAA REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol
LENS, France (AP) - It's an impoverished coal-mining town in northern France that was razed by two world wars and now faces soaring unemployment.
Lens is an unlikely site for the bastion of French culture, the Louvre, to create a €150 million extension, but it's opening this week.
"Lens is a territory that's suffered from every crisis, from every war," says Henri Loyrette, director of the Louvre. He says he hopes the museum will restimulate the region.
But for some locals, the palatial museum's gesture to bring its Leonardo Da Vincis to a city with 24-percent unemployment sounds like Marie Antoinette's words for the starving masses: "Let them eat cake."
"Why do we need a museum and culture here? We need money and jobs," says 26-year-old Amandine Grossemy.
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I've been using the GM seed and I have to say that it is really nice. The upgrade process is about as simple as it gets. Download from the Mac App Store, launch, accept the license, type in your password and go. Everything else is taken care of.
Mac OS X Lion is here!
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is here. OS X, the desktop counterpart to Apple's mobile iOS, has taken iPad innovation "Back to the Mac" with this release, including the iPad home screen-like LaunchPad for app management, automatic save and resume, etc.
"Lion is the best version of OS X yet, and we're thrilled that users around the world can download it starting today," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "Lion makes upgrading a Mac easier than ever before; just launch the Mac App Store, buy Lion with your iTunes account, and the download and install process will begin automatically."
It's also the first time a major Mac OS X version will be distributed exclusively online, through the Mac App Store. Gigabytes of download will be an interesting challenge for those with multiple machines, but especially for those with slower internet connections or restricted bandwidth. (Never mind what the launch day rush might do to the internet in general -- Apple servers have gone down during iOS releases in the early days.)
All that aside, we welcome our Mac OS X cousins to the goodness we've been enjoying for a while now in iOS. Who's getting it?
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Mac OS X Lion is here!
Bought it! Downloading it right now!
I plan to get it but going to wait a few days to see how it goes for everyone else. I use OSX on my for work laptop so I need it in working order, just in case something goes wrong. I've been a user of Windows for a long long time and a new user of OSX so I'm cautious.
I would be interested if there are instructions on how to do a 'clean' install of Lion, do you just download it from the Mac App Store and are giving the option to do a 'clean' install vs. a upgrade?
Just bought it, I had my ISP here this morning waiting with me. They connected a T8 Line straight to my laptop thunderbolt port and it downloaded in 5 secs. I already got it installed and I must say that I am pulling your leg. J/K... Downloading now! Prob be done in ummm by the time I get off work at 5pm hopefully!
Are you serious?? Apple's servers won't crash. They're getting hammered today with millions of simultaneous d/l's and are purring like a kitten.
You should be Koolaid_Joe. Apple is not impervious to crashing.
For those with multiple machines: Download once, then copy the Lion install app from your /Applications folder to your other machines (to avoid having to download it once per machine).
Wait for the USB thumb drive, it'll cost you a little more, but not nearly as much as buying two operating systems. The only reason you need snow leopard is because you need the bundled app store (which I think is BS)
It's just like when Snow Leopard came out Apple said you needed to have Leopard installed first. It wasn't true. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this isn't true either.
I'm pretty sure you need Snow Leopard installed to upgrade to Lion. Not only will you need to get a Snow Leopard DVD, once you have installed it you will need to run Software Update (possibly a few times) to get the last version of Snow Leopard. For instance they only put the Lion installer in Software Update last night.
Anyway you should keep your OS up to date all the time!
I downloaded the installer update last week on the 13th
Going to install on old MBP and see first then will try unibody. If I hit any CS5.5 issues I'll ping here.
Any news... i read on adobe that there are issues with saving in Illustrator, but only when saving to the desktop. Other than that the cs3 and above issues seem minimal.
CS2 and below WILL NOT WORK with Lion. These applications require a now discontinued feature called rosetta which made PPC (PowerPC, apple's processor prior to Intel) compatible applications compatible with Intel based macs. If you make your living with adobe CS2 or below DON'T UPGRADE until you are able to upgrade your software.
**A note to those who use photoshop's droplet feature. The code for for droplet was written for PPC and requires either a PPC based machine or Rosetta. If that's a feature that you rely on you may also want to rethink upgrading until this issue is resolved.
WOOT! $30 is insane. MSFT seriously needs to reconsider their pricing. This is practically free!
Download on my MacBook 5,2 took only 3 minutes. Install took 20 minutes. Make sure you guys do a Time Machine backup first, if not it will ask to do a fresh install which wipes everything
Painless process. Downloading onto 3 machines. Just log into app store with same ID and click purchases and then click download/install next to lion. Dowloading is quick and easy. Don't know why people are saying it's a slow download. Maybe they should get a faster connection? Lol
Well, not everyone needs a really fast connection; mine is fast enough for my needs. The download itself was 33 min., then a few more minutes after that to complete the installation (about 40 min. total). That's not too long, as I was busy with other stuff while waiting for it.
No, you shouldn't lose any files; I downloaded it today and have had no issues. But it's always a good idea to back up your hard drive, just in case.
Did it up and running is less than an hour. No problems..all apps seems to be running without issue. some minor setting to be reset otherwise from all appearances the transition was...... seamless.
Same here.
I just bought and downloaded 10.7 Lion from the Mac App Store this morning. It took a while (about 40 minutes), but once it was finished, it ran just fine. My old 24" iMac runs a bit faster now, and feels like a new machine! It's been taking a little getting used to Lion, but so far I've had no issues at all, and am really impressed with it.
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FARMERVILLE MAN BOOKED FOR CONTEST FRAUD IN BIG BUCK CONTEST Release Date: 04/14/2009
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) Enforcement Division agents booked a Farmerville man into the Ouachita Parish Correctional Center for felony contest fraud on March 18.
Powell was charged as a result of a lengthy investigation of alleged illegal night hunting and the subsequent entry of an illegally taken buck into the Simmons Sporting Goods Big Buck Contest in Bastrop and Tyner-Petrus Outdoors Big Buck contest in Monroe.
LDWF began investigating the case in October 2009 after learning that Powell allegedly killed a 12-point buck on the night of Oct. 19 at his residence in Union Parish. After being arrested on contest fraud Powell was also cited for taking deer during illegal hours and for hunting deer with illegal methods.
Committing contest fraud means to willfully and unlawfully enter a hunting or fishing contest with the intent to defraud or knowingly make false representation in an effort to win any prize awarded with a value of more than $100.
The penalty for contest fraud is a fine up to $3,000, up to one year in prison or both.
The penalty for hunting deer during illegal hours is a fine between $900 to $950, or jail time up to 120 days, or both plus court costs. Hunting deer with illegal methods is punishable by a fine between $250 and $500, or jail time up to 90 days, or both plus court costs.
Powell's bond on the contest fraud was set at $1,500 and he is scheduled for arraignment in Fourth Judicial District Court in Monroe on April 20. His arraignment for the illegal hunting violations is scheduled for May 13 in Third Judicial District Court in Farmerville.
During the investigation, LDWF agents served search warrants and obtained subpoenas used to obtain evidence documenting the investigation. The antlers entered into the contest earned a gross score of 171 Boone and Crockett Club points for contest purposes
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NAUGATUCK - Throughout the summer, parents of children who participate in sports in the Naugatuck and Kermit communities have repeatedly voiced their concern to the Mingo County Board of Education about the lack of maintenance to the ball fields located at the schools.
According to one parent, these attempts were in vain. "The grass is waist high on the Tug Valley football field; our kids can't even use it for their strengthening training for midget league football," stated Tina Fitzpatrick, the mother who has taken the bull by the horns and headed up the efforts to see this problem alleviated.
Fitzpatrick told the Daily News that she has contacted everyone she could possibly think of to have the grass mowed. She has spoken with Mingo County Schools Superintendent Randy Keathley several times, as well as Missy Endicott and Debbie Sheppard at the board's office.
Fitzpatrick relayed that she has also spoken with a Mr. Pickens at the W.Va. State Department of Education in Charleston and was informed that there are employees with the Mingo School Board whose primary job is to do nothing but keep the lawns and other school property mowed, and the weeds cut.
"The only time the entire football field was cut this summer was when County Commissioner Dave Baisden and two other men came down and had to take a bush hog to cut it, it was that high. The board promised me that they would send a couple of their guys down to take lawn mowers back over it to help mulch the high grass after it was cut but once again, that didn't happen…they never came."
Fitzpatrick commended one school board member however; who she said donated his own time and used his own personal lawn mower and furnished gas to work on the field, that person being Stephen "Cheetah" Marcum. "He really cares about these kids," said the concerned mom.
"We really appreciated him taking the time to give us a hand with this." Fitzpatrick remarked that with 80 cents of every tax dollar that is collected by the county going to the Board of Education, she sees absolutely no reason that employees can't be in place to address these matters instead of relying on the public to do their job for them.
"As many people as there are in this county that are laid off and out of work - reliable, hardworking people that would not mind one little bit to be paid to cut grass are plentiful, if the employees they have now don't want to do the job." Fitzpatrick said not only was the high grass an inconvenience for children who tried to run and play on the fields or participate in sports there, there are also safety issues that come to mind such as snakes being hidden from sight under the thick grass.
"All we're asking is for people to do the job they're hired to do," she stated. "We are tax paying parents that should not have to see our kids faced with situations like this. Mow the grass and we'll be done with it…end of story."
The final issue Fitzpatrick addressed during the interview was a portion of the chain-link fence that surrounds the Tug Valley football field that has fallen down and appears to be damaged, possibly beyond repair.
"School starts in three weeks…why are they waiting until the last minute to make these repairs and get the grass cut? I would think that it would make better sense to get these problems alleviated during the summer months when they aren't students utilizing the fields each day, but I suppose they don't see things the same way I do."
Attempts were made by the Williamson Daily News to speak with Keathley, but were unsuccessful. Updates to this problem will be featured in future editions as they become available.


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2 bodies found; SWAT standoff ends in Laveen
PHOENIX -- A three-hour standoff with a SWAT team at a home in the southwest Valley has ended Thursday morning with the discovery of two bodies.
Investigators said it appears to be a murder-suicide. The man who had barricaded himself in a guest house at 65th Drive and Southern Avenue had shot at deputies who were were responding to a 5 a.m. call reporting shots fired.
According to authorities, a woman who lives in the main house heard the shots coming from her guest house and when she went to the door, was fired upon by her 41-year-old son.
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Debra Goldman is the new executive director of the Derie Cheek Foundation.
The DCR Foundation was created in 2011 by Derie's husband, Kevin Reece. The foundation is named in memory of Derie, who died from a stroke at the age of 33.
Reece said that Goldman's combination of experience with politics and medical knowledge made her the clear and perfect choice for the position.
Goldman is a nationally certified firefighter, an EMT, and a former member and two-time Vice Chair of the Wake County Board of Education. She earned her bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University.
According to Goldman, strokes kill roughly four times more people each year than cancer. Goldman is a breast cancer survivor and said that if she had the same magnitude of stroke as she had of cancer - and if she had lived - she would not be able to communicate today because of the major effects.
Kevin Reece said that the rate of strokes is increasing, especially in women under the age of 35. Overall the number of strokes has went up 8 percent in the last five years. This is due in part from lifestyle choices and in part location, Goldman said.
"Diet and exercise are the main components, just like in many other diseases," said Goldman. Inactivity and increasingly poor meal choices are causing many of the strokes. What had once been a disease only seen in the elderly is spreading to younger and younger demographics, she said.
Reece also listed drug use as a risk factor. As drug users constantly constrict their blood vessels with substance abuse they weaken the interior walls. This makes the user much more likely to have a stroke-causing clot.
Geography is another factor according to Goldman. North Carolina is part of the "Stroke Belt," comprised of much of the Southeastern United States. The area is known for stroke rates roughly 10 percent higher than the national average. Diet also comes into play here with the Stroke Belt being known for fried Southern foods.
"Stroke does not have any boundaries. It can hit anyone at anytime," she said.
Goldman said she's a major proponent of healthy lifestyle choices. During her time at Wake County Board of Education, she implemented running clubs, healthy eating programs and other health-based initiatives in the schools in her district.
"What happened was what I had hoped would happen. When you do it with the kids then it starts to extend home. I hear from parents 'My child joined the running club and now she wants to run at home, and she keeps asking why I am not, so we are all jogging now.'"
Education is still at the heart of Goldman's mission. Through scholarships for students at Wilkes and Surry Community Colleges in the nursing field as well as lectures and programs through schools, the foundation continues to promote stroke education at young ages to prevent the increase of strokes in the 20-30 year age group.
"If we can go and educate students about stroke, lifestyle changes and the symptoms of stroke, can you imagine how it would feel to hear from a child that has recognized the symptoms that someone is having a stroke and identify that and save a life?"
Goldman listed FAST, or Face-Arms-Speech-Time, as a way to diagnose a potential stroke. FAST is a way to remember where to look for warning signs of a stroke. Ask the person to smile and check if one side of their face droops. Ask the person to raise both arms, watching to see if one arm drifts downward. Ask the person to speak so you can check for slurred speech. Finally, do not waste time. If the person you are concerned about shows any of these signs contact 911 immediately.
"If people recognize that they are having a stroke then they can be directed toward the right hospital and get the right treatment in that magic window of time," Goldman said.
She said that there is some discrepancy in the numbers, but between three and four hours is all the time a person has to receive a intravenous drug known as TDAP. If the drug is administered in time a person can prevent much of the damage from a stroke. After four hours a person is likely to be permanently injured.
Goldman said that she wanted to be a spokeswoman for those who could not speak for themselves. Due to the crippling effects of a stroke, many who do live are not physically able to campaign for stroke education themselves. Slurred speech and depression make survivors less likely to willingly speak to large groups.
Goldman and Reece expressed their desire that a stroke survivor would step forward and be willing to advocate for prevention and education. Goldman said it often takes the public hearing a firsthand account to make the message resonate with them.
Prevention was the best tactic for survival Goldman said. As important as the warning signs are, if you witnessed the FAST symptoms a stroke was already occurring. Major lifestyle changes are the only way to reduce the numbers of strokes, she said. Reece said education was the best tool in fighting strokes and making that lifestyle and perception change in the public.
When talking about his late wife, Reece said that had he known what to look for, things may have been different.
"If there was enough education on strokes I probably would have recognized what it was. Maybe if I would have recognized what it was I maybe could have prompted the EMS to have done something different or quicker."
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In today's fast-paced, on-the-go world, we cherish anything that makes our lives easier. It's why we love shopping online, mobile coupons and daily deal sites that cut down on the annual time-consuming task of holiday shopping. But what if customers could have the shopping experience of trying on clothes and socializing with friends with all the convenience built in?
The Rolling Rack Mobile Boutique – think food truck with tunics instead of tacos – is just that. Available for private events, office parties, fundraisers and more, Rolling Rack is one of the first such ventures in South Carolina and the Southeast.
Just as food trucks, pop-up shops and other mobile businesses have taken the country by storm, so is the retail shopping experience going mobile.
Amanda Stephenson had been selling clothing online for quite a while before deciding to take her business mobile. She researched the concept, renovated the truck and started booking events. It was a more realistic and cost-effective way for Stephenson to expand her online store without the big expense of a brick-and-mortar storefront.
As the holiday season approaches, individuals, businesses and other groups can book Rolling Rack for a girls' night shopping event, an employee holiday perk or just a way to do some Christmas shopping without trudging from store to store.
Just like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it's quite possible Rolling Tuesday could be the next big shopping trend.
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Chapter 8: Taking Action: Increasing Physical Activity Levels of Americans
The low level of physical activity among Americans is a major contributor to the burden of chronic disease. This burden is costly in terms of quality of life and economic resources needed to provide medical care. Like life in other modern societies around the world, life in the United States requires very little daily physical activity. The amount of physical activity we do is largely a matter of personal choice and the environmental conditions under which we live. So far, little progress has been made in meeting our national health objectives for physical activity.
Based on a careful review of the science, the Physical Activity Guidelines provides essential guidance to help Americans achieve the health benefits of regular physical activity. However, providing guidance by itself is not enough to produce change. Action is necessary. Regular physical activity needs to be made the easy choice for Americans.
To accomplish this goal, public health research suggests the use of a "socio-ecologic" approach. This comprehensive approach involves action at all levels of society: individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and public policy. Example actions include:
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- Personal goal setting (individual level);
- Social support and encouragement to be active (interpersonal level);
- Promotion of physical activity as part of worksite health promotion programs (organizational);
- Good access to parks and recreational facilities in neighborhoods (community); and
- Promotion of policies that support families who want their children to walk or bike to school (public policy).
To give a sense of how to make regular physical activity the easy choice, the remainder of this chapter first considers steps individuals can take to adopt an active lifestyle. Then it considers steps society can take to support and facilitate active lifestyles.
The purpose is to illustrate achievable steps that will make a difference, not to address everything that needs to be done.
What Can Adults Do To Get Enough Physical Activity?
Adults can find advice on how to be active from many sources, including fitness professionals, health-care providers, books, and Web sites. Here are three commonly cited steps adults can take to help meet the Guidelines.
Personalize the Benefits of Regular Physical Activity
Adults need to identify benefits of personal value to them. For many people, the health benefits, which are the focus of the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, are compelling enough. For others, different reasons are key motivators to be active. For example, physical activity:
- Provides opportunities to enjoy recreational activities, often in a social setting;
- Improves personal appearance;
- Provides a chance to help a spouse lose weight;
- Improves the quality of sleep;
- Reduces feelings of low energy; and
- Gives older adults a greater opportunity to live independently in the community.
Set Personal Goals for Physical Activity
The Guidelines alone don't provide enough information for individuals to decide the types and amounts of activity that are appropriate for them. Individuals should set goals for activity that allow them to achieve benefits they value. Simple goals are fine. For example, a brisk walk in the neighborhood with friends for 45 minutes 3 days a week and walking to lunch twice a week may be just the right approach for someone who wants to increase both physical activity and social opportunities.
In setting goals, people can consider doing a variety of activities and try both indoor and outdoor activities. In particular, public parks and recreation areas in the United States offer opportunities to experience nature and be physically active at the same time.
The best physical activity is the one that is enjoyable enough to do regularly.
Develop Knowledge To Attain Goals
It is important to learn about the types and amount of activity needed to attain personal goals. For example, if weight loss is a goal, it's useful to know that vigorous-intensity activity can be much more time-efficient in burning calories than moderate-intensity activity. If running is a goal, it's important to learn how to reduce risk of running injuries by selecting an appropriate training program and proper shoes. If regular walking is a goal, learning about neighborhood walking trails can help a person attain the goal.
Using a Pedometer To Track Walking
For adults who prefer walking as a form of aerobic activity, pedometers or step counters are useful in tracking progress toward personal goals. Popular advice, such as walking 10,000 steps a day, is not a Guideline per se, but a way people may choose to meet the Guidelines. The key to using a pedometer to meet the Guidelines is to first set a time goal (minutes of walking a day) and then calculate how many steps are needed each day to reach that goal.
Episodes of brisk walking that last at least 10 minutes count toward meeting the Guidelines. However, just counting steps using a pedometer doesn't ensure that a person will achieve those 10-minute episodes. People generally need to plan episodes of walking if they are to use a pedometer and step goals appropriately.
As a basis for setting step goals, it's preferable that people know how many steps they take per minute of a brisk walk. A person with a low fitness level, who takes fewer steps per minute than a fit adult, will need fewer steps to achieve the same amount of walking time.
One way to set a step goal is the following:
- To determine usual daily steps from baseline activity, a person wears a pedometer to observe the number of steps taken on several ordinary days with no episodes of walking for exercise. Suppose the average is about 5,000 steps a day.
- While wearing the pedometer, the person measures the number of steps taken during 10 minutes of an exercise walk. Suppose this is 1,000 steps. Then, for a goal of 40 minutes of walking for exercise, the total number of steps would be 4,000 (1,000 × 4).
- To calculate a daily step goal, add the usual daily steps (5,000) to the steps required for a 40-minute walk (4,000), to get the total steps per day (5,000 + 4,000 = 9,000).
Each week the person gradually increases the time walking for exercise until the step goal is reached. Rate of progression should be individualized. Some people who start out at 5,000 steps a day can add 500 steps per day each week. Others, who are less fit and starting out at a lower number of steps, should add a smaller number of steps each week.
How Can We Help Children and Adolescents Get Enough Physical Activity?
Many children and adolescents are naturally physically active, and they need opportunities to be active and to learn skills. They benefit from encouragement from parents and other adults. Adults can promote age-appropriate activity in youth through these steps:
- Provide time for both structured and unstructured physical activity during school and outside of school. Children need time for active play. Through recess, physical activity breaks, physical education classes, after-school programs, and active time with family and friends, youth can learn about physical activity and spend time doing it.
- Provide children and adolescents with positive feedback and good role models. It has been said that if you do not practice what you teach, you are teaching something else. Parents and teachers should model and encourage an active lifestyle for children. Praise, rewards, and encouragement help children to be active. Using physical activity as punishment does not help children to be active.
- Help young people learn skills required to do physical activity safely. As appropriate for their age, youth need to understand how to regulate the intensity of activity, increase physical activity gradually over time, set goals, use protective gear and proper equipment, follow rules, and avoid injuries.
- Promote activities that set the basis for a lifetime of activity. Children and adolescents should be exposed to a variety of activities, including active recreation, team sports, and individual sports. In this way, they can find activities they can do well and enjoy. Include exposure to activities that adults commonly do, such as jogging, bicycling, hiking, and swimming. Young people should experience non-competitive activities and activities that do not require above-average athletic skills.
Communities can provide many opportunities for physical activity, such as walking trails, bicycle lanes on roads, sidewalks, and sports fields.
What Can Communities and Government Do To Help People Be Active?
Actions by communities and government can influence whether regular physical activity is an easy choice. Communities can provide many opportunities for physical activity, such as walking trails, bicycle lanes on roads, sidewalks, and sports fields. Organizations in the community have a role to play as well. Schools, places of worship, worksites, and community centers can provide opportunities and encouragement for physical activity.
Use Evidence-Based Approaches and Tailor Them to the Needs of Individual Communities
To be effective, physical activity promotion efforts should use an "evidence-based" approach. The CDC's Guide to Community Preventive Services1 has reviewed many community-level approaches to promote physical activity, including these five strongly recommended strategies:
- Community-wide campaigns that combine physical activity messaging (distributed through television, newspapers, radio, and other media) with activities such as physical activity counseling, community health fairs, and the development of walking trails.
- Point-of-decision prompts to encourage stair use. These are signs placed at points where people make the decision either to use the stairs or to use an elevator or escalator. The signs encourage the active option of stair use.
- Physical education classes to increase activity. Physical education classes should use a curriculum that increases the amount of time students are active during class.
- Approaches that increase the reach of individual-level interventions. For example, evidence-based, individual-level interventions can reach more people when they are delivered in group settings or over the telephone.
- Interventions that increase social support for physical activity. These interventions start or enhance social-support networks, and include efforts such as organizing a buddy system (two or more people who set regular times to do physical activity together), walking groups, and community dances.
- Programs to create or enhance access to places to be physically active. This can include building walking trails and providing public access to school gymnasiums, playgrounds, or community centers. This also includes worksite activity programs that provide access to onsite or offsite fitness rooms, walking breaks, or other opportunities to engage in physical activity. Interventions to improve access should also include outreach that increases awareness of the opportunity to be active.
Implementing community-level approaches to physical activity requires collaboration across sectors.
Involve Many Sectors in Promoting Physical Activity
Interventions to improve access should also include outreach that increases awareness of the opportunity to be active.
- Policies and programs that support street-scale design principles and practices that promote physical activity. For example, these types of policies and programs use crosswalks, sidewalks, traffic calming, and other safety measures to make it easier and safer for people to choose active transportation.
- Policies and programs that support community- scale design principles and practices that promote physical activity. Community-scale design includes zoning that facilitates bicycling and walking by allowing schools, housing, and businesses to be built near one another.
The following list identifies relevant sectors and illustrates roles they play in promoting physical activity. The division of functions in the community into the following sectors does not use mutually exclusive categories. These sectors were chosen simply to illustrate how parts of the community have a role to play in promoting physical activity. Some communities may use different names and divisions of functions.
- Parks and recreation. This sector plays a lead role in providing access to places for active recreation, such as playgrounds, hiking and biking trails, basketball courts, sports fields, and swimming pools.
- Law enforcement. Concern about crime can deter people from outdoors recreation. Law enforcement can promote a safe environment that facilitates outdoor activity.
- Urban planning. Urban planning. The Guide to Community Preventive Services recommends both street-scale and community-scale design principles to promote physical activity. Urban planners have a lead role in implementing design principles to promote physical activity.
- Transportation. The transportation sector has a lead role in designing and implementing options that provide areas for safe walking and bicycling. Mass transit systems also promote walking, as people typically walk to and from transit stops. Programs that support safe walking and bicycling to school help children be more physically active.
- Education. The education sector takes a lead role in providing physical education, after-school sports, and public access to school facilities during after-school hours.
- Architecture. Architects and builders can design and construct buildings with active options, such as access to stairs. Campuses should allow pedestrians pleasant and efficient methods of walking within and between buildings.
- Employers and private organizations. Employers and private organizations. Employers can encourage workers to be physically active, facilitate active transportation by supplying showers and secure bicycle storage, and provide other incentives to be active. Private and faith-based organizations can support community physical activity initiatives financially or by providing space for programs. Health and fitness facilities and community programs can provide access to exercise programs and equipment for a broad range of people, including older adults and people with disabilities. Local sports organizations can organize road races and events for the public. Senior centers can provide exercise programs for older adults.
- Health care. Health-care providers can assess, counsel, and advise patients on physical activity and how to do it safely. Health-care providers can model healthy behaviors by being physically active themselves.
- Public health. Public health departments can monitor community progress in providing places and opportunities to be physically active and can track changes in the proportion of the population meeting the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. They can also take the lead in setting objectives and coordinating activities among sectors. Public health departments and organizations can disseminate appropriate messages and information to the public about physical activity.
The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans gives guidance on the amount of physical activity that will provide health benefits for all Americans. Broad, comprehensive strategies are needed to help all Americans meet the Guidelines. Implementing a comprehensive strategy to increase physical activity requires an evidence-based approach that occurs at multiple levels and in all sectors. A comprehensive and coordinated strategy will help Americans take action to ensure that regular physical activity is the easy and accepted choice for everyone.
1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Last updated February 21, 2008). Physical Activity. In Guide to Community Preventive Services Web site. Retrieved April 17, 2008, from www.thecommunityguide.org/pa.
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