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Wednesday, September 11, 1996 - noon
I spent most of my career as an executive in the defense
industry during the Cold War. And as I look out at this
audience, I recognize colleagues with whom I worked during those
years. You and I were all cold warriors during this critical
period in our nation's history. And during that period, I spoke
many times at the AIAA meetings. In 1979, when I was at DDR&E, I
spoke about the actions that we were taking to deter the Warsaw
Pact from launching a bold strike into Western Europe. I
described the offset strategy, applying our technology to offset
the numerical superiority of the Soviet Union. I talked about a
new generation of weapons that were being developed -- precision-
guided missiles, AMRAAM, satellites, F-18s. Of course, we were
developing the F-117. Nobody then talked about that.
In 1980, I spoke again to the AIAA. And I spoke about the
actions necessary to maintain our nuclear deterrent against the
Soviet Union. I described the major programs that were underway
to develop a Trident submarine, the Trident missile, the ALCM,
the GLCM, the Pershing, the MX -- all of them designed to close
what we perceived to be a window of vulnerability. How long ago
all that seems. And how the world has changed.
Today, the challenges we face are very different: The
challenge that you face in the defense industry, the challenge
that you face if you are in a university today, and the challenge
that we face in the Defense Department. Now, we are almost 10
years into the post-Cold War era. And the shape of the future is
becoming clearer. The threat of nuclear holocaust has receded.
But now we face a growing danger of proliferation of weapons of
mass destruction. The threat that was created in Europe is gone.
But now we face a growing danger of regional conflicts and civil
And through all this, the defense budget has dropped about
40 percent in real terms. But I expect this has probably leveled
off now and will continue at this level on into the next century.
But how do we collectively -- we in the Defense Department, you
in industry -- confront these challenges? How do we deal, for
example, with the threat of the proliferation of weapons of mass
We have helped Russia dismantle thousands, literally
thousands, of nuclear warheads in the last few years. We have
helped them destroy literally hundreds of missiles, and bombers,
and silos. We have a vigorous program to prevent rogue states --
North Korea, Iraq, Iran, Libya -- from gaining nuclear weapons.
And we are leading an effort to get the Chemical Weapon
Convention Treaty approved. In fact, this will come to a vote in
the Senate, probably later this week.
I urge you to support that treaty. One of the things it
does is destroy 40,000 tons of poison gas which is in Russia
today. That has to be in our national security interest to see
that happen. It will also restrict sales of prohibited chemicals
to the rogue nations that don't join, making it harder -- not
impossible, but harder -- for them to develop the chemical
How are we dealing with the other problems? How are we
dealing with the problems we face everyday? The danger of more
regional conflicts? And doing that in the face of a 40 percent
reduction in budget?
The last two times we cut the defense budget that much --
after the Second World War it was cut even larger and after the
Vietnam war it was cut about the same -- we had a disaster on our
hands of trying to restructure, adjust our forces. Particularly
after Vietnam, we tried to maintain the force structure and we
ended up with a large hollow force. This time we are doing it
right. We are downsizing the force, at the same time maintaining
varied high levels of readiness.
This adjustment started with Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and a
Base Force which they specified more than five years ago. That
call for a 25 percent reduction in the military forces was
continued with Les Aspin's Bottom-Up Review, which basically
sustained the cuts -- the reductions being made in the base force
-- and carried them on for three years longer, for a total of a
33 percent reduction in the force. And at the same time to
strengthen the commitment to higher readiness.
Today, today, this draw-down is essentially over. We have
gone from over 2.1 million in the armed forces to just under 1.5
million. And in my judgment, it has been successful. The
readiness of our forces is as high as it has ever been. I see
this many ways. I see it, for example, in the bill we get for
O&M. Today we are spending more O&M dollars per military
personnel than at anytime in history. I see it in the
statistics, the monthly readiness reports, which are submitted in
voluminous detail. I see it with my own eyes every time I go to
bases, go to our deployed forces. But most importantly, I see it
in the performance of our forces when we deploy them; when we
deployed them to Haiti, when we deployed them to Bosnia, when we
deployed them to Southwest Asia.
I also see the quality and morale of our forces as being
high. I see this in the recruiting statistics. We are still
bringing in historically high levels of high school graduates and
high qualification test scores. We still have historically high
records of retention rates. And again, I see this quality and
morale with my own eyes every time I visit a base. That's the
good news. But we have paid the price for this high readiness
level. That is, we had to drive the modernization funding down
to new lows to achieve that.
Now, when you do that, when you squeeze down the
modernization funding, ordinarily you would expect that to lead
to obsolescence of equipment and, therefore, to a readiness
problem because the equipment isn't functioning properly. That
has not happened to this point. The reason it has not happened
is pretty obvious if you stop to think about it. Because we are
bringing down the modernization budget at the same time we are
constricting the force, we are taking equipment out of the
forces. Obviously, we took the old equipment out. And so as a
consequence, the average age of our equipment is still at good
levels. But as I told you, the draw-down is now over. And
therefore, if we do not get the modernization back up, it would
be a year older every year with many of our systems.
So it is crucial that we get this modernization program back
on track. The question is how do we do it? The first key to
this is that we have to pour more money into it. We do not have
magic wands, we do not have smoke and mirrors. We have to put
more money in our modernization. The five-year budget of both
the Administration and the Congress do just that. The
President's budget, for example, calls for a 40 percent increase
in real terms in the modernization budget over the five-year
program. Congressional budget proposals call for about the same.
This is the good news there. A qualification on that good news
is both the Administration and the Congress have a strong
commitment to achieving a balanced budget. And as the years go
on, it will become more and more clear if these two goals are in
conflict. So that is a problem ahead of us. But at least the
baseline that we will be starting from is that the modernization
budget is scheduled in our budgets for about a 40 percent
In order to achieve this, we have to divert major resources
from infrastructure expenses to modernization. A big part of our
management in the Defense Department in the last few years, and
certainly on into the future, is going to be effecting that
transfer of funds of infrastructure to modernization. The
leading edge on this has to do with the savings from base
closing. The last few years the savings from base closing have
all been negative savings. That is, it costs us money. There is
a front-end investment associated with closing the bases. Two
years ago that was $4 billion. This is not small change. Now we
are going, within a two or three years, to a $6 billion savings
in base closing. So we are swinging about $10 billion from a
cost of $4 billion to a savings of $6 billion just to the bases
that we have closed. And by the end of the decade, during the
tail-end of this five-year program ahead of us, we will have
another $10 billion to put into modernization as a result of
those sets of actions.
The Defense Science Board in its summer study this year
recommended other major actions we can take to swing resources
from infrastructure to modernization. The most promising of
those, I thought, was the savings that can be achieved by
undertaking a vast and a comprehensive program in inventory
reduction. These are not new and untested ideas. Industry has
been doing this for years and the savings which we think can be
generated there are on the same order of magnitude of the savings
that we are going to make from the base closings.
But a third part of our strategy, however successful we are
in these other elements of our strategy, is to make major savings
in acquisition reform. This has been a primary goal of mine ever
since I came back to the Pentagon three-and-a-half years ago. It
has been the goal of other secretaries of defense, and so far in
history, it has been notable as a goal which has been noticeable
by lack of achievement. This time we are going to achieve it.
Now, the first year I was in the Pentagon, I concentrated on
getting new legislation put together and putting an acquisition
team in place. The Congress has been very supportive, very
cooperative. They gave us the legislation that we asked for.
The acquisition team that I put in place, in particular the
acquisition executives, were selected because, first of all, they
had to be experienced. They had to be able to hit the deck
running. We could not do on-the-job training for the time we had
to work this problem. They had to be dedicated to the same goal
that I was dedicated to: of really converting our acquisition
system over to one which uses commercial practices and bought
commercial components, wherever feasible. And they had to be
managers. They had to be able to drive this system, not be
driven by it. The team of acquisition executives we have in
place -- Paul Kaminski, Gil Decker, Art Money, John Douglas --
all meet those tests.
The second year of this program, we have been implementing
the new laws that we have gotten into regulations. I see Colleen
Preston in the audience here. She played a major role in making
that happen. And educating the acquisition team as to how we are
going to be doing business in the new way. And with all of that
together, then, we had to start the pilot programs -- a half-
dozen pilot programs in which we intended to demonstrate that you
really could save money and get high quality products this way.
There was considerable skepticism on that basic point.
The third year we started to get the results from the pilot
programs. And the results were stunning. You heard about that
already some this morning and I will not repeat that in detail.
In the fourth year, now our task is scaling up -- going beyond
the pilot program to hundreds of programs and applying the
techniques. Not just to the new programs being started but back
retroactively to the programs that are already underway in the
Defense Department.
All of our pilot programs have showed great promise and have
led the way to the future. The most dramatic results probably
came from the JDAM program, the Joint Direct Attack Munitions. I
don't know the extent that it has been discussed or that you are
familiar with it. Let me just tell you that program converts
dumb bombs into smart bombs. It is a program that is worthy
in and of itself, quite aside from the acquisition reform aspect
of it. But under the old acquisition system, these conversion
kits were scheduled to cost $42,000 a pop. And now we have the
fixed price bids in and we are building and delivering those
systems. And they are coming in at $14,000. Now, this is not a
5 percent or a 10 percent reduction. It is a cost of one-third
of what the original estimated cost of that program was.
We are buying tens of thousands of these munitions. So you
put that all together, that one program alone is going to save us
$3 billion -- $3 billion dollars which we will be able to apply
to other modernization programs, more force modernization. I am
absolutely convinced from the data that I have seen on those
pilot programs that we are talking about many billions of dollars
a year savings, which means we will be able to buy many more
quantities of equipment with the same resources.
But acquisition reform does more than improve the quantity
of weapons systems we have. It also improves the quality. We do
not have to make a trade-off on quality for doing this. Indeed,
the quality that we have incorporated in the new systems stem
from the new generation of computers, communication systems, semi-
conductors, and software. In all of these cases, the technology
is developing at a breathtaking pace. But it is developing at
that pace in the commercial computer, communication and software
sectors. And in the past, our defense acquisition system, by
creating barriers, had simply limited our access to this
technology in a timely way. And the new acquisition system
eliminates those barriers and speeds up by at least a generation
our access to modern communications and software technology. And
we are counting on this new technology to give our military
forces the ability to dominate the battlefields of the future.
The first element of this, and the one that is easiest to
see, is air dominance. By dominating the air, our strike forces
can devastate opposition ground and naval forces while at the
same time protecting our own forces. And the key to this air
dominance is stealth technology, and superior performance from
our interceptors and our air-to-air missiles.
Therefore, we are committed to the development of the next
generation of tactical fighters: the F-22, the F-18 E&F, the
joint strike aircraft. These programs are expensive. If you
didn't know that from personal experience, you can read about it
in the newspapers because the critics are coming out everyday
explaining just how expensive they are. And they have become,
therefore, the favorite targets of budget cutters. And those who
want to cut these programs out argue that we can maintain air
superiority without them. Well, during the Cold War, air
superiority was our goal. In DESERT STORM, however, we did not
just have air superiority. We had air dominance. And that air
dominance allowed our strike aircraft to devastate the enemy
ground forces with virtually no losses to our own. And at the
same time allowed our ground forces to operate without air
Having once experienced air dominance, we liked it. And we
are going to keep it. And we are going to keep it by tapping
into the power of information technology and by investing what we
have to invest to get it. It does not come cheap when you are
buying it. But the effectiveness of it is without question.
The second key area in achieving this dominance of our
military forces, is precision strike capabilities. These
precision strike forces allow us to destroy enemy targets with
one or two weapons. And the key to these, of course, is the PGMs
-- the Precision Guided Munitions, which again proved themselves
in DESERT STORM. Recently, there has been a report by the GAO
that have questioned whether these and other smart weapons are
worth the price. The analysis in that report made the profound
observation that in DESERT STORM we dropped many more dumb bombs
than smart bombs at a much lower cost per bomb. This analysis
missed, however, that the cost measure is not how many bombs you
drop, but how many targets you destroy. And by that measure, our
PGMs performed brilliantly. The analysis also leaves out
important details which are hard to quantify, such as the down
side to collateral damage, and such as the increased risk to the
crews that are flying the airplanes.
The one area that the critics are on safer ground is by
suggesting that we could make our smart weapons smarter. And
with that, I fully concur. And indeed, our entire R&D program in
this area is directed to just that objective. The new generation
of PGMs that we are designing now are designed to overcome the
vulnerability to counter-measures which was evident in DESERT
STORM, but never exploited by the other side, and the
vulnerability to adverse weather. Indeed, the new generation
will achieve true fire and forget capability and nearly all-
weather capability.
The third key to force dominance is focused logistics. Not
just the weapons systems we buy, but the logistics system is a
huge part of our capabilities and here, too, information
technology plays a vital role. With the systems that are now
being introduced, the tracking of logistics is going to make a
huge difference in our ability to manage the whole logistics
better on the battlefield. And there is also a very great
indirect benefit. Because with the Precision Guided Munitions,
we know we can hit a target in one or two shots and that means
dramatically fewer weapons to store, to transport, and to guard.
So we see a transformation, a true revolution in logistics,
stemming from the application of information technology, both in
the management of logistics and in the development of improved
The fourth area I want to mention that is key to battlefield
dominance is achieving situational awareness, meaning that the
commanders will have complete, real time knowledge of the
disposition of all enemy and friendly forces. We had that -- we
demonstrated that for the first time in DESERT STORM. And at the
same time, we succeeded in denying that knowledge to the opposing
forces. DESERT STORM demonstrated that when the number of forces
were roughly equal, the synergy of air dominance, precision
strike, focused logistics and situational awareness give us the
ability to dominate the battlefield. And there is little
question that with the new generation of information technology,
we can develop force dominance to an extent that we could have
only dreamed about five years ago. And the key to our succeeding
in doing this over the next 5 to 10 years is our success in
acquisition reform.
Now, I have talked about a budget for doing all this work.
And I have also said that both the Congress and the
Administration are planning 40 percent additional funds in
modernization over the next five years. They are giving you some
clue that this is not something that anybody can put into their
pocket at this stage because there is a political consensus in
Washington to balance the budget during that same period. And
the question, then, that I want to come back to, is how can we do
both? That will be one of the big issues which we will address
in our Quadrennial Defense Review coming up next year. This will
be the 1997's equivalent to the Bottom Up Review.
The revolutionary changes that we are making in military
technology and military warfare can be the tool which will help
us square this circle. And the simplest example that I have in
mind is the combination of smart weapons and smart logistics that
I just mentioned to you. Because that combination can be a real
manpower saver and a real cost saver. But, whatever we do,
whatever we do in this modernization program, does require
getting our acquisition system transformed. I sum up again, it
is not only because the cost savings will allow us to buy the
quantity of weapons we need, but require this acquisition reform
to allow us to bring in the latest generation of information
technology which is the key to the quality of our weapon systems.
I'd like to conclude with my favorite quote from Winston
Churchill, who said, You can always count on the Americans to do
the right thing after having first exhausted all other
alternatives. We have, I believe, exhausted all other
alternatives for defense acquisition. And we are finally doing
the right thing. And with your help, and with the help of
Congress and the dedicated team of acquisition executives we have
now we'll do the right thing. And the benefit to that will be to
our troops in the field who have the best and most effective
weapons systems U.S. industry can supply for them.
Thank you very much.


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sifted all-purpose flour
1 cup
4 tablespoons
confectioners' sugar
1 cup
chopped walnuts
2 tablespoons
2 teaspoons
vanilla extract
1/3 cup
confectioners' sugar for decoration
whole cloves
I've been seeing this kind of cookie recipe for a while, and decided to try this (it's a good way to use up some whole cloves I have on hand). I didn't think I made the cookies very big, and my yield was still only 23 cookies, not 30. I used all the right ingredients (my flour was unbleached, though). I baked the first dozen for 20 minutes and they didn't look too done, so the next batch baked for 23 and was better. I'll probably make this again soon, and try for 25 minutes. But then again, I live at 6200 feet so maybe that's why. These cookies are pretty mild and light. Maybe a little too floury though. Pretty easy and basic, and I'm sure with some expert tweaking they could be very good, in my opinion.
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Honeywell said Friday it is confident that SAE International, recognized as the world's leading automotive engineering association, will reconfirm that HFO-1234yf, Honeywell's new low-global-warming-potential automotive air conditioning refrigerant, is safe for use in automobiles.
SAE International, in announcing an update on its fourth and latest Cooperative Research Project on the refrigerant, said, "To date, the majority of the OEMs involved in the new CRP do not believe that any of the new information reviewed will lead to a change in the overall risk assessment."
"With the exception of Daimler, no OEM in the CRP has provided information that would suggest a concern for the safe use of R-1234yf in their vehicles," SAE International said.
"Based on today's announcement, Honeywell continues to believe that SAE International's latest evaluation will only reconfirm the overwhelming body of data – including rigorous and comprehensive studies conducted in Europe, the U.S., and Japan – that have clearly and repeatedly determined that HFO-1234yf is safe for use in automobiles," says Dr. Ian Shankland, chief technology officer for Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies. "HFO-1234yf is a safe and effective refrigerant, and it is better for the environment."
SAE International, formerly known as the Society of Automotive Engineers, is an independent, global association of more than 133,000 engineers and related technical experts in the aerospace, automotive and commercial-vehicle industries. Previously, HFO-1234yf was the subject of comprehensive testing conducted over a three-year period under an SAE International CRP using proven, standard methods for evaluating new products and materials in automobiles. That CRP, which was sponsored by 15 global automakers, including all leading German automakers, concluded that HFO-1234yf is safe for use in automobile applications.
HFO-1234yf is a highly efficient, low-global-warming refrigerant that was developed as a direct replacement to HFC-134a in mobile air-conditioning applications. Compared with HFC-134a, HFO-1234yf offers a 99.7 percent improvement in global warming potential and far exceeds the European Union Mobile Air Conditioning (MAC) Directive requirement.
Under rare conditions, HFO-1234yf exhibits mild flammability, at levels significantly lower than highly flammable materials already present under the hood of an automobile, including motor oil, automotive transmission fluid, radiator antifreeze, brake fluid, and compressor lubricant – not to mention fuel. For a video on this topic, which includes a comparison of HFO-1234yf vs. HFC-134a and other materials, visit www.1234facts.com/resources or www.1234fakten.de/ressourcen.
SAE International's previous research projects have addressed the issue of flammability, employing proven and universally accepted fault-tree risk assessment techniques to evaluate the real-world possibility of a fire and human impact. SAE International said in its latest statement that it has expanded its fault-tree assessment in the new CRP to "ensure that newly-identified information and testing from each of the OEMs is incorporated."
As part of SAE International's programs, internationally recognized laboratories – including Hughes Associates Inc. and France's Institute National de l'Environment Industriel et des Risques (INERIS) – conducted extensive testing on flammability and safety, and all concluded that HFO-1234yf is safe for use in automobiles.
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April 30, 2009
Complete Release in PDF Format
Updated Final Event Schedule
ALL-ACCESS VIDEO: Head Coach Joe Franklin Press Conference
ALL-ACCESS VIDEOS: Jermaine McQueen Interview | Jarrin Solomon Interview
UPCOMINGThe University of New Mexico will host its final home meet of 2009 on Saturday when nine collegiate and 17 New Mexico high school teams converge at the Great Friends of UNM Track Stadium for the 19th Don Kirby Memorial Invitational and Rio Rancho High School Invitational. UNM head coach Joe Franklin's decision to combine the collegiate and high school meets for the first time at the Don Kirby Invitational will make this one of the largest fields ever for a Lobo home track meet. The first event gets underway at 8 a.m. with the meet expected to conclude at 5:45 p.m.
Admission at the gate is $5 for adults, $3 for children, and free for UNM students with a Lobo ID card. Concession stands will be open throughout the day.
The Don Kirby Invitational will also mark the final home appearance for 14 New Mexico seniors, including 2008 NCAA javelin silver medalist Katie Coronado (Ruidoso, N.M.), 2009 NCAA Indoor 400m All-American Jarrin Solomon (Albuquerque La Cueva HS), Mountain West Conference javelin record holder Anthony Fairbanks (Albuquerque Highland HS), and UNM outdoor pole vault record holder Whitney Johnson (Mission Viejo, Calif.).
Senior Lee Emanuel, meanwhile, will lead a group of elite Lobo distance runners competing at Stanford's Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational on Saturday night. Emanuel, who owns the nation's second-fastest 1,500-meter time (school record 3:37.99), will run his marquee event for the second time this season.
19th DON KIRBY MEMORIAL INVITATIONAL INFORMATION/RESULTSResults: Will be posted on www.GoLobos.com immediately following the conclusion of the final event (approximately 6 p.m. Mountain)
Schedule: The action gets underway bright and early with the collegiate women's 5,000 meters at 8 a.m. The final event of the day, the collegiate men's 4x400m relay is slated to start at 5:40 p.m. High school running events will be held before and after each collegiate event throughout the day. The high school field events will all be held between 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. with the majority of the collegiate field events to follow from 12:30 to 5 p.m.
Collegiate Teams Represented (9): Colorado College, Diné College, New Mexico, New Mexico Highlands, New Mexico JC, NMMI, New Mexico State, South Plains College, UTEP.
High School Teams Represented (17): Atrisco Heritage, Belen, Bernalillo, Capital, Gallup, Goddard, Grants, Hope Christian, Los Lunas, Moriarty, Pojoaque, Raton, Rio Rancho, Robertson, St. Michael's, Valencia, West Las Vegas.
Albuquerque Weather Report: The weather report as of Wed., April 29 predicts a great day for spectators and athletes alike on Saturday. Temperatures will reach the mid 70s with some clouds to keep the sun in check. There is no chance of precipitation and wind shouldn't be a huge factor with speeds reaching 18 mph.
Don Kirby Memorial Invitational History: Named in honor of the longtime Albuquerque meet official and friend of the UNM track and field program, the first Don Kirby Memorial Invitational was held on April 2, 1991 as a scored meet between the men's and women's teams of New Mexico, San Diego State and Cal State Los Angeles. The Lobos won the men's competition 141-94 over runner up SDSU but finished second behind the Aztecs on the women's side, 128-74.5.
Last year the Lobos won 10 events and the women's team clinched the Rio Grande Rivalry title for UNM with a 204-143 victory over New Mexico State.
Directions: The G.F.O. UNM Track Stadium is located on Avenida Cesar Chavez, east of University Blvd. The track facility is on the east side of University Stadium (football). Fans should enter at the north side of the facility.
PAYTON JORDAN CARDINAL INVITATIONAL MEET INFORMATION/RESULTSLive Video: Click here for complete video coverage, including live commentary, on Flotrack.org.
Live Results: Click here for live results
Weather: The forecast in Stanford calls for a high of 69 and a 40% chance of showers. Wind isn't expected to be a factor with speeds reaching just 13 mph.
Lobos Travel Squad: Jr. Nicky Archer (Kim McDonald 10,000); Sr. Mat Ashton (10,000 - section 2); Jr. Chris Barnicle (10,000m - secion 2); Jr. David Bishop (1,500 - section 3); Sr. Laura Bowerman (5,000m); Jr. Michelle Corrigan (5,000 - section 2); Sr. Lee Emanuel (1,500 - section 1); Jr. Rory Fraser (1,500 - section 3); Jr. Ashley Gibson (1,500 - section 2); Fr. Ross Millington (1,500 - section 3).
FAREWELL SENIORSFourteen Lobo seniors will compete for the last time as collegians at G.F.O. UNM Track Stadium. The list includes two All-Americans, two conference champions, seven all-MWC honorees, and three school record holders.
2009 UNM Seniors Appearing On Saturday
Women: Katie Coronado (Ruidoso, N.M.) - javelin; Becky Green (Arlington, Texas) - 1,500m; Whitney Johnson (Mission Viejo, Calif.) - pole vault; Leslie Luna (Albuquerque, N.M.) - 5,000m; Stasia Ploskonka (Albuquerque, N.M.) - 1,500m/3,000m steeplechase; Brittany Smith (Kent, Wash.) - long/triple jumps; Vanessa Strobbe (Albuquerque, N.M.) - javelin; Andrea Wright (Greenbelt, Md.) - 800m/4x400 relay.
Men: Josh Cosio (Albuquerque, N.M.) - high jump; Ezra Esquibel (Albuquerque, N.M.) - 800m; Anthony Fairbanks (Albuquerque, N.M.) - javelin/discus; Jermaine McQueen (Raleigh, N.C.) - 4x100 relay; Domnick Meadows (Albuquerque, N.M.) - long/triple jumps; Jarrin Solomon (Albuquerque, N.M.) - 400m.
RECORD NUMBER OF QUALIFIERSNew Mexico has already smashed its program record with 16 athletes qualified for the 2009 NCAA Midwest Regional Championships (in 12 different events). Last year, UNM tied the program record with 13 individuals qualified for the regional meet. The group of 16 includes 10 men and six women.
An additional four athletes (two men, two women) have reached the NCAA provisional qualifying standard in the 10,000 meters. The 10K and multi-event competitions are the only events not contested at the regional meets.
MCQUEEN EARNS LOBOS' THIRD STRAIGHT MWC ATHLETE OF THE WEEK AWARDSenior Jermaine McQueen was selected as the Mountain West Conference Men's Outdoor Track & Field Athlete of the Week the conference office announced on April 28. New Mexico has won or shared the past three MWC Men's Athlete of the Week awards with middle distance man Lee Emanuel capturing league honors on April 14 and 21. The Lobos' three men's awards and four combined men's and women's awards this spring are tied for the most in program history (2007).
The New Mexico men have captured eight Outdoor Athlete of the Week awards over the past three years after winning just six times from 2000-06 and none in their first two seasons in the league
McQueen won the university section of the 100-meter dash with an NCAA regional-qualifying time of 10.46 to lead New Mexico at California's Brutus Hamilton Invitational on April 25. His MWC-leading time was the fastest by a Lobo since 1986 and moved him up to third on the school's all-time performers list.
McQueen, whose 100-meter time is tied for 38th in the nation, also led the Lobo 4x100 relay team to a second-place finish with a time of 40.82. The relay performance is the second-fastest time in the league this year and places the team fifth all-time in school history. The Raleigh, N.C., native moved the Lobos from third to second on the anchor leg of the relay.
The former wide receiver is the first Lobo short sprinter (100m/200m) to win the Athlete of the Week award.
LAST TIME OUT: Brutus Hamilton Invitational (California)Day Two
Senior Jermaine McQueen won the university section of the 100 meters with an NCAA regional qualifying time of 10.46 to lead the University of New Mexico at California's Brutus Hamilton Invitational on April 25. McQueen's Mountain West Conference leading time was the fastest by a Lobo since 1986 and moved him up to third on the school's all-time performers list.
The former wide receiver for the UNM football team punched his ticket to the regional meet in the 200 meters earlier in the year.
McQueen's freshman teammate Thomas Trujillo (Rio Rancho, N.M.) clocked a season-best 10.84 to finish fourth in the 100.
The duo also led the Lobo 4x100 relay team to a second place finish, behind the host Bears, with a time of 40.82. It's the second-fastest time in the MWC this year and moved the team into fifth on the all-time UNM performers list.
Junior Alesha Walker helped New Mexico sweep the 100, winning with a time of 12.01 in her season-debut in the event.
Senior Katie Coronado paced the Lobos' in the field, finishing second (top collegian) in the javelin with a throw of 156' 4" (47.66m).
Day One
Junior Kim Perkins clocked an NCAA regional qualifying time of 59.88 in the 400-meter hurdles to lead a strong effort by the Lobos on day one. Senior Anthony Fairbanks had the top performance in the field, extending his Mountain West Conference lead in the javelin with a throw of 218' 4" (66.54m).
Perkins was the story of the day, however, as she finished second in the 400 hurdles and became the first woman in school history to advance to the regional championships in the event. New Mexico now has a program record 16 athletes qualified for the regional meet - already three more than last year's record-tying total.
The Clovis, N.M. product cut a remarkable 1.51 seconds off her previous best in the hurdles and clocked the third-fastest time in UNM history. It was the fastest time by a Lobo since 1986.
Fairbanks, meanwhile, added another two feet to his season-best and regional qualifying mark in the javelin in a second place finish.
Elsewhere, senior transfer Laura Bowerman ran her fastest 5,000m since 2005 with a time of 16:52.16 (3rd). Bowerman was just 0.16 seconds off the NCAA regional qualifying standard as she became the eighth woman in UNM history to run under 17 minutes in the event.
Redshirt freshman Alex Darling jumped into third on the Lobos' all-time performers list in the 3,000 steeplechase with a time of 11:06.09 (2nd) in her debut in the event. Senior teammates Stasia Ploskonka ran a career-best 11:13.96 (4th all-time) to finish third in the event.
One of the most surprising performance of the day came from junior Kelly Fortner, who smashed her previous best in the pole vault by over a foot with a jump of 11' 7 ¾" (3.55m) to finish tied for third in the section B competition. Fortner's effort moved her up to seventh on the UNM all-time performers list.
Solomon At The Penn Relays
On April 25, meanwhile, senior Jarrin Solomon ran a sensational anchor split time of 44.86 to lead the Trinidad & Tobago in the nationally-televised "USA vs. The World" 4x400 race at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia. Only six men on the seven national teams in the race, including two USA squads, ran faster splits than Solomon.
The Albuquerque La Cueva product, who holds dual citizenship with the United States, led the T&T team to a time of 3:03.57. The USA Red team won the event with a time of 2:59.78. .
NATIONAL RANKINGS WATCHThe New Mexico men moved up five spots to No. 33 while the women also climbed five spots to No. 44 in the week four USATFCCCA national team rankings. There are 201 teams currently ranked on the women's list and 187 on the men's side. The Lobos are fourth among the nine women's teams in the MWC and second among the six men's teams in the league.
TOP-10 PERFORMERSThe 2009 Lobos have put their name on the school's top-10 performers list in 16 events so far this spring, including school records for Lee Emanuel in the 1,500 and Katie Coronado in the javelin. Here's the rest of the top-10 performers this year:
Men's 100 Meters
3. Jermaine McQueen.....10.46.....2009
Men's 200 Meters
5. Jermaine McQueen.....21.11.....2009
Men's 400 Meters
5. Jarrin Solomon.....46.27.....2009
Men's 1,500 Meters
1. Lee Emanuel.....3:37.99.....2009
7. Ross Millington.....3:45.04.....2009
10. David Bishop.....3:46.79.....2009
Men's 5,000 Meters
3. Rory Fraser.....13:39.85.....2009
8. Chris Barnicle.....14:00.16.....2009
10. Mat Ashton.....14:05.66.....2009
Men's 10,000 Meters
7. Chris Barnicle.....28:58.96.....2009
Men's 4x100-Meter Relay
5. Trujillo, Reid, Roberts, McQueen.....40.82.....2009
Women's 1,500 Meters
4. Ashley Gibson.....4:23.96.....2009
Women's 5,000 Meters
4. Nicky Archer.....16:47.38.....2009
8. Laura Bowerman.....16:52.16.....2009
Women's 10,000 Meters
3. Michelle Corrigan.....34:12.31.....2009
5. Nicky Archer.....34:32.21.....2009
400-Meter Hurdles
3. Kim Perkins.....59.88.....2009
3,000-Meter Steeplechase
3. Alex Darling.....11:06.09.....2009
4. Stasia Ploskonka.....11:13.79.....2009
Pole Vault
7. Kelly Fortner.....11-07.75.....2009
8. Amber Menke.....11-01.75.....2009
8. Aditi Majumdar.....11-01.75.....2009
Women's Triple Jump
8. Asal Salehpoor.....38-08.25.....2009
Women's Hammer
5. Tami Williams.....145-04.....2009
Women's Javelin
1. Katie Coronado.....181-00.....2009
PERSONNEL MOVESHead coach Joe Franklin announced that junior All-American Deanna Young (triple jump/long jump) will undergo knee surgery and will redshirt the 2009 outdoor season. Senior Sandy Fortner, the 2008 MWC pentathlon/heptathlon champion, will continue to redshirt outdoors while she recovers from a knee injury.
Junior long jumper/sprinter Alesha Walker, however, will return to action after redshirting the 2009 indoor season. Walker was the `09 outdoor MWC runner-up in the long jump and holds the school record in the event with a top mark of 21-04.00.


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I'm Pedro Santos, a Portuguese software engineer with a strong entrepreneurial spirit, always thinking of new projects to develop and always with several ideas just flowing on my mind. Unfortunately, ever since I finished school I have been programming other people's ideas, and sometimes, I also have to dot it in a suit.
You can check my professional profile for my CV, where you'll find out that I took Computer Science at ISEL and that at the moment I'm happily employed at PDM&FC.
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I'm interested in software development and game development. I've done several games and several web applications over the years, and from time to time I still find the time to implement my ideas. I teamed up with my two great friends, Nuno and Tiago, to form Zi Yu Studios, our programming team, soon to be start-up, later to buy Google. One of our most successful projects is Orion's Belt, a web based game that will soon rule the world. You'll see.
Meanwhile, we're creating several projects to build our portfolio and to learn more about e-business. Our projects are listed as thumbnails on the right menu of this page, feel free to pay them a visit (be warned, most of them are in Portuguese).
My History!
I'm not from the Spectrum days, I'm more from the Pentium 200 days. My first program was a Quiz game in Pascal, witch I soon ported to C. I did a lot of small word games in Visual Basic also. Then I leaned C++ at school and SDL. I did a C++ Tutorial in Portuguese that had a lot of readers and that helped a lot of people.
I also started to create web pages to display my games. It took a lot of time before I could actually develop decent web applications. Most of my web sites are gone, but Web Archive helped me to remember them:
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The University of New Mexico Lobos men's basketball team defeated New Mexico Highlands 92-70 in exhibition play Monday night.
The Lobos led by as many as 26 points in the first half.
The team had six players in double figures. Alex Kirk led the team with 16 points. Kirk also had eight rebounds.
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Wildlife belongs to the state only when it benefits them. What about when you hit an animal with your car? No one takes claim for it then, whether it be state or the private ranch that was home to the wild animal before it committed suicide. I know this is off topic and sorry about that, but what about animal attacks. Does the state pay for that? I bring this up because if someone got hurt on a private ranch by their livestock, pet, or something else isn't the owner responsible?
The whole deal of adding to cost to the size aninmal really makes me sick ! I have been lucky enough to be drawn for tags that I knew I might never get the chance to do again and so was able to afford a guide, but my senerio was like a lot of other lucky hunters, my guide made hold off on a couple of big bulls because he thought we could do better and we did. NO EXTRA CHARGE !!
What if...say a big bull or big buck bolts through the trees and a guy has only seconds to react? Does the guide call a "time-out" to assess the B&C score? What nonsense. You paid for the hunt, and the outfitter doesn't own the animals..the public does.
Although I know a few Outfitters who think they own them. Can you say "Hunting is becoming a RICH man's sport? My $0.02.
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I was an SCI member for 1 year and knew it was not for me either..... I have nothing against them and I think they do alot of good things, I just couldnt get past all the big fences.
This is the way they do it in Europe. I've never been there, but on all the shows I've seen they charge by the inch (probably by the mm as they use the metric system). Craig Boddington writes for a couple magazines and I recall him not shooting a giant ibex in Spain because he couldn't afford it. That resonated deeply with me. I probably couldn't afford it anyway (even if they didn't charge trophy fees) but I'll damn sure never hunt there as long as this practice continues.
Trophy fees on private land in the US are here to stay, but on public land they should have never existed. Wildlife is owned by the people. They are a common resource that should be managed by science and enjoyed by everyone: not just hunters, not just photographers, not just tree hugging hippies, but Everyone! Animals on Public land should not be exploited or profited from by individuals. A guide or outfitter should not get paid for the size of the animal. They should get paid for the camp conditions, food prep, scouting and knowledge of the land, and general hard work hunting trying to get the client an animal that he/she can be proud of. If they go above and beyond the call of duty to find, or just get lucky and stumble upon a world class specimen and the client kills it, then the client should tip well to show their appreciation.
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Now and then our Tour Survival Guide will check in with rockers about life on the road. Here's lead singer Amy Lee on keeping her sanity with video games and tour hygiene.
When Bathing's Not An Option
Makeup remover wipes and Wet Wipes in general. We're constantly trying to refresh and get more. The tour is gross and you can only bathe half the time, and when you can't bathe, you can always use a wet wipe. I always have to wear a lot of makeup on stage, so my face takes a beating.
Look Who's Talking Now
Kirstie Alley came to a show recently — it was really cool. She said hi and we all took pictures. She was getting an autograph for her son. We all thought that was really, really cool.
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I either read or play stupid Japanese video games. My biggest obsession is Katamari — you have this ball and you start rolling up stuff — it sticks to you if it's smaller than you. So you start rolling up tacks and carmels and sticks of gum. The bigger you get you start rolling up people, and they're screaming, and cars and buildings, until you roll up the whole world. It's fun for me, because I'm a total control freak, so it's like I'm cleaning up. I'm making this big massive city of buildings and noise and cars [into] a clean, green pasture. It makes me feel better. It's one of those weird OCD things.
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The other day I had a great show. I was so excited, I was like, "Thank you! We love you! Goodnight!" The whole show had been perfect. I had my hands up in the air . . . and as I turned to start walking . . . off the stage I was right in front of [the] monitors. I didn't fall on my butt, but I had to catch myself with my hands on the ground. I turned around and gave the metal horns.
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The Honorable Thomas J. O'Sullivan, of Orange, died on June 3, 1996, at the age of eighty-two. Judge O'Sullivan was appointed to the Court of Common Pleas in 1967 and was elevated to the Superior Court in 1969. He took senior judge status in 1979 and reached the mandatory retirement age of seventy in 1984.
After receiving his B.A. from Yale College in 1935, Judge O'Sullivan received his L.L.B. from the Yale University School of Law in 1938 and was admitted to the Connecticut bar that same year.
Judge O'Sullivan had a varied legal career, including trial attorney for the New Haven Railroad, corporation counsel for the city of Derby, and prosecutor for the city of Shelton. He began his career on the bench as a judge of the City Court of Derby from 1945 to 1946 and became a judge of the Town Court of Orange from 1950 to 1951 and from 1955 to 1961.
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Loyola Marymount scored twice in the second half to break a 1-1 tie and upended New Mexico State, 3-1, Friday evening in the season openers for both teams.
The Aggies drew first blood at 12:47 in the first half when Jennae Cambra received a pass from Layla Todd on the right flank and headed it into the net to give NM State an early 1-0 advantage.
The Lions notched it at 1-all at 34:13 when Sydney Zuccolotto scored and at halftime the match was tied at 1-1.
At 58:38 in the second stanza LMU's Callie Taylor received a corner kick in front of the goal and headed it home and the Lions took a 2-1 lead.
Less than one minute later Jill Farley scored to give the Lions a 3-1 lead.
The Lions outshot the Aggies by an 18-6 margin – including 8-2 in the second half.
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Five Ole Miss players who surprised this springApril 7th, 2014 | Hugh Kellenberger |
OXFORD -- Every spring it happens. Football practice begins and ends, and the consistent question is, 'Who is improved?' There's a reason for that: suggesting a group of players have gotten ...Read more
Deterrian Shackelford: 'The time is now'April 5th, 2014 | The Clarion-Ledger |
OXFORD -- The always-engaging, always-quotable Deterrian Shackelford met with the media Saturday following the Grove Bowl. Shackelford, announced earlier in the day as the Chucky Mullins Award winn ...Read more
Practice notes: Hugh Freeze responds to Denzel Nkemdiche video, and Serderius Bryant takes blame (with video)March 17th, 2014 | Hugh Kellenberger |
OXFORD -- There's a clear separation emerging between Ole Miss' all-SEC linebackers, Denzel Nkemdiche and Serderius Bryant. Unfortunately for Ole Miss, it's off the field. A video circulated ...Read more
Tom Allen likes his depth, Deterrian Shackelford's leadership and Serderius Bryant's attitudeMarch 7th, 2014 | Hugh Kellenberger |
OXFORD -- Ole Miss linebackers coach Tom Allen is going through his first spring practices without Mike Marry. Allen also does not have suspended linebacker Denzel Nkemdiche available. Still, Allen ...Read more
Deterrian Shackelford explains new role, decision to return to Ole Miss (with video)March 6th, 2014 | Hugh Kellenberger |
OXFORD -- That Deterrian Shackelford was approved by the NCAA for a sixth year of eligibility was, to him, a "gimme." When you miss two full seasons with an ACL tear that required two surgeries, you h ...Read more
Practice notes: Eugene Brazley gets a look (with video)March 5th, 2014 | Hugh Kellenberger |
OXFORD -- Eugene Brazley's freshman season was over before it began. The running back from New Orleans, a three-star prospect in the class of 2013, tore his ACL before arriving on campus. While he ...Read more
Full list of positional changes and injured playersMarch 4th, 2014 | Hugh Kellenberger |
OXFORD -- Ole Miss will have a fairly lengthy list of positional changes in the spring, starting with Channing Ward. The junior, the top recruit in the class of 2012, will be a tight end for the d ...Read more
Bobby Hill not on latest Ole Miss roster, and some positional change notesMarch 4th, 2014 | Hugh Kellenberger |
OXFORD -- Ole Miss will have its first practice of the spring tonight, and we'll have full coverage of it later on. But in the meantime, here are some things gathered from a look at Ole Miss' just- ...Read more
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Woman crossing road hit, killed by taxi in San Antonio
Alia Malik, San Antonio Express-News : August 6, 2014 : Updated: August 6, 2014 2:00pm
SAN ANTONIO -- A woman was hit and killed by a taxi late Tuesday on the Northeast Side, according to police.
The woman, who has not been identified, was crossing FM 78 just after 10:30 p.m. at Springfield Road, police said. She appeared to be intoxicated and was not in a crosswalk, according to police.
A Ford Crown Victoria Yellow Cab hit the woman, police said. The driver stopped to help, but the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Stepped up holiday patrols set for Naples Bay after ruling strikes speed zone law
NAPLES - When boaters cruise along Naples Bay on the Fourth of July, there will be more marine officers patrolling the waters.
Enhanced marine patrols are normal for holidays, but Independence Day is the first one since a Collier County judge on June 21 struck down the city's boat speed law. The law had created extended idle-speed zones on weekends and holidays in Naples Bay.
"The officers' primary objective, as always, will be safe operation of vessels in the waterways of Naples," said Lt. John Barkley, a Naples police spokesman. "Although they will not be enforcing the slow speed, minimum wake under the city ordinance, they will be enforcing all other applicable Florida state statutes in regard to safe and legal vessel operation."
Among laws that officers will enforce are manatee idle-speed zones, careless and reckless operation, boating under the influence of alcohol or drugs and equipment violations.
On Tuesday afternoon, City Attorney Bob Pritt sent a memo to City Manager Bill Moss, outlining the laws that will be enforced.
There will be one officer on the bay in the morning, Barkley said, and two patrol boats beginning in the afternoon. They'll work with Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers, who will increase patrols, and the Collier County sheriff's Marine Bureau, which won't add officers; neither agency would disclose numbers.
Speeds are 30 mph on the navigable channel of Naples Bay, but all areas outside that are manatee protection, idle-speed zones.
For years, boaters and charter boat captains fought Naples' extended, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. holiday and weekend idle-speed zones, from Marker 32 to 10, at Keewaydin Island. The Marine Industries Association then joined the battle to prevent 24/7 idle-zone enforcement.
In December 2006, a state administrative law judge ruled testimony showed safety on Naples Bay wasn't at risk and slowing down boats could make it dangerous. The Conservation Commission ignored that and issued a sign permit, prompting another win by boaters two years later, when the 2nd District Court of Appeal overturned the permit to post speed signs.
But Naples officials began enforcement again just before the New Year, prompting two charter captains to get ticketed to challenge enforcement.
Arguing that the 1994 ordinance controls the time "gap" until signs are posted is contrary to law, the judge ruled. And because the 2004 city law changed portions of the earlier ordinance, he ruled it was in direct conflict so it entirely repealed the 1994 law.
On June 21, County Judge Mike Provost ruled that because the 2004 city ordinance involving extended boat speed zones changed portions of a 1994 city ordinance, it was in direct conflict and repealed the '94 law city officials were enforcing.
"It's like slowing you down on all of I-75, like making a school zone when school isn't even in session," charter boat captain Allen Walburn said of the slow-speed zones.
Walburn helped organize the legal fight and contended waterfront homeowners in Port Royal and elsewhere along the bay were behind the push for idle speeds.
Naples officials have until July 21 to file a notice of appeal of Provost's order.
Meanwhile, boaters have emailed the Naples city manager to say there's confusion over the signs that remain in the bay and that they should be removed, as state rules require when an ordinance is repealed or invalidated.
One Naples councilman speculated what could happen if someone who knows the speed zones are invalid encounters someone who doesn't and is obeying the signs.
"You have one guy who has read the Naples Daily News and then you have the guy who has not read the Daily News and is reading the signs," said Councilman Doug Finlay, a kayaker who said the confusion is dangerous. "Heaven forbid if the fast boat runs into the back of the slow boat."
He also emailed the manager.
Moss said city officials are reviewing options, including how to deal with the invalidated signs and if filing a notice of appeal, which would "stay" or delay the ruling, is the best move.
"There's not a simple solution," Moss said, noting that the reflective signs can't be covered because it could present a danger and they'd still need Conservation Commission approval to cover signs.
"Taking down the signs is an option, but if we won the appeal (removing and reinstalling) could cost $50,000 to $100,000," he said
Late Tuesday, Kent Safiert, the attorney who represented the boaters before the administrative law judge and appellate court, was told by the Conservation Commission's legal counsel that the agency is working to identify which markers were erected under a city ordinance passed in 1994.
"Once they identify the ones that represent the '94 ordinance, they will remove them," Safiert said. " ... They've got a lot of inventorying to do regarding what has to be removed or amended. Hopefully, it won't take too long."
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Dunstable Downs
|Dunstable Downs
|797 ft (243 m)
|c. 344 ft
|Parent peak
|Haddington Hill
|County Top
|Chiltern Hills, England
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|51°51′51″N 0°32′11″W / 51.864243°N 0.536344°WCoordinates: 51°51′51″N 0°32′11″W / 51.864243°N 0.536344°W
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Dunstable Downs are part of the Chiltern Hills, in southern Bedfordshire in England. They are a chalk escarpment forming the north-eastern reaches of the Chilterns. At 797 ft (243 m), Dunstable Downs are the highest point of the county of Bedfordshire.[1]
Because of its elevation, Dunstable Downs hosted a station in the shutter telegraph chain which connected the Admiralty in London to its naval ships in the port of Great Yarmouth during the years 1808 to 1814.[2]
Whipsnade Zoo has cut an enormous lion shape into the chalk into the side of one of the hills. The lion can be seen from the B489 (Aylesbury to Dunstable road).
The downs are used by gliders, kite fliers, hang gliders and paragliders in the area because of their height. The London Gliding Club is based at the foot of the downs.
Much of the downs are managed by the National Trust as part of the Dunstable Downs, Countryside Centre & Whipsnade Estate property.
Central Bedfordshire Council and the National Trust commissioned Architype architects to build a visitor centre known as the Chilterns Gateway Centre, on the very top of Dunstable Downs. The summit is right next to the B4541 road that crosses the hill, and so an ascent of the hill requires nothing more than getting out of a car at the highest point and walking across to the trig point.
For those who wish to climb the hill from the base, it is possible to do a circular walk from the village of Whipsnade by following the Icknield Way Path and Chiltern Way, both of which are marked on Ordnance Survey maps. This circuit can be extended to take in the northern top of Five Knolls. The hill can also be ascended from Dunstable to the north. The Icknield Way Trail,[3] a horse rider and off-road cycle route, has been established following a similar route to the Icknield Way Path which passes over the Dunstable Downs.
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|Site of Special Scientific Interest
|Area of Search
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|73.36 hectare (181.27 acre)
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|Natural England
The downs are home to a wide variety of wildlife including many rare wild flowers, such as the Bee Orchid, and different butterfly species, like the Marbled White and the Chalkhill Blue.
Areas of the west-facing slope were notified in 1987 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) called Dunstable and Whipsnade Downs. This includes parts of Whipsnade Zoo.[4]
Blow's Downs[edit]
Blow's Downs (51°52′55″N 0°30′04″W / 51.8819°N 0.5012°W) are a continuation of the Dunstable Downs escarpment on the eastern side of Dunstable. This is also known as Blow's Down, and the apostrophe is sometimes omitted.[5]
The area is designated an SSSI,[6] most of which is managed as a nature reserve by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.[7]
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Notes and references[edit]
- ^ "Geographical Facts, Figures and Statistics about Bedfordshire". Bedfordshire Libraries. Retrieved 23 February 2008.[dead link]
- ^ "Shutter telegraph signalled new era". Great Yarmouth Mercury. Retrieved 23 February 2008.
- ^ Icknield Way Trail.
- ^ "Dunstable and Whipsnade Downs" (PDF). English Nature. Retrieved 23 February 2008.
- ^ The plural form was used by the Ordnance Survey in the 19th century (Bedfordshire 32NE, published in 1891). It is used by local authors such as W. G. Smith (Dunstable: Its History and Surroundings) and V. Evans (The Book of Dunstable and Houghton Regis), in the publications of the Bedfordshire Natural History Society, in the Dunstable Gazette, and by the Wildlife Trust as the name of its reserve. The singular form is used by Dunstable Town Council in the name of its Blows Down Management Committee, and by Natural England as the name of the SSSI.
- ^ Natural England, Blow's Down.
- ^ Wildlife Trust, Blow's Downs.
External links[edit]
- Dunstable Downs, Countryside Centre & Whipsnade Estate at the National Trust
- The lion is very clear on 5
- London Gliding Club


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The thing is this...you guys HAVE to stop thinking as DRUMMERS and think as musicians.
No one, and I mean NO ONE except other drummers care about all of those chops. The chops must serve the music. There are so so many guys who can play this roll or that combination and will never get called for a gig. Musicality is the most important thing. That means good sound, time, taste, communication and big ears.
Steve is a perfect example of the ultimate musical drummer- that is why he is on so many records for so many years. Even if he had never taken great solos he would go down in history as having THE defining groove of the 1970's.
Max Roach once told me that the most important thing that I can do is learn to play the piano. Everytime I would see him he would ask,"so, hows th epiano coming?"
Advice like this from a master is not to be taken lightly.
BTW in regards to the gadd vinnie dave thing.... I was just talking to a respected WORKING drummer here in nyc and we both commented on the fact that gadd blew them both away with his musicality. When he comes in at half the dynamic level that the other guys played you realize that he is about MUSIC and not sports.
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