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Anyone have experience with xanax withdrawals, is 3 years straight everyday on them a long time?
Thanks Ian but do these symptoms sound normal
I dont understand how taking 1.5 mg a day compared to 1.5-2-2.5-3-3.5 a day is making such a huge difference and starting withdrawals.
And insights that makes no sense? "A high percentage experienced withdrawal despite the dose actually remaining the same." They surely weren't withdrawing from anything if their dose remained the same, but that would obviously provoke anxiety in most people.
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Nelson is author of The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in Contemporary America.
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CASEY GARRISON South Korea - The Fire Department on Casey garrison tested firefighters on their abilities to quickly extinguish a fire in the barracks, and find any and all victims who may be languishing in smoke and debris July 28 on the premises of the Warrior Exercise Billets.
"What we are doing today is ensuring firefighters on Casey are proficient in what they do," said Ken Garrison, Area I training chief training officer for firefighters and emergency responders. "We will identify any weaknesses we may have and hone their firefighting and life saving skills."
Before the exercise started Chief Leo Dumond, USAG-Casey fire chief, hid a life-sized mannequin weighing 150 pounds in the shower area of an empty billet. Dumond then called in a 911 distress call to start the firefighters in route to the WEB area.
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BUSINESSDESK: The New Zealand dollar fell against the greenback as investors pause to consider the impact of the Federal Reserve's latest quantitative easing programme, pushing stock markets and other risk-sensitive assets lower.
The kiwi slipped to 82.57 US cents at 8am from 82.74 US cents at 5pm yesterday. The trade weighted index was little changed at 73.02 from 73.08.
Equity markets on both sides of the Atlantic extended this week's decline, with Wall Street's Standard & Poor's 500 Index falling 0.5% and France's CAC 40 index down 0.5%.
Investors are speculating more needs to be done to help fix the world's largest economy, after Fed chairman Ben Bernanke announced the central bank would expand its holdings of long-term securities with open-ended purchases of $US40 billion of mortgage debt a month.
"People are just reassessing the idea that QE3 will save the world," says Mike Jones, currency strategist at Bank of New Zealand. "We are seeing more profit taking than anything else. The New Zealand dollar is just settling in before another run higher."
US manufacturing figures added to the glum mood, falling to its lowest level since April 2009. The New York Empire Manufacturing survey deteriorated to minus 10.41 in September, down from minus 5.85 in August. Economists had been expecting minus 2.
The kiwi rose to 78.84 Australian cents from 78.63 cents yesterday ahead of the release of minutes to this month's Reserve Bank of Australia meeting. Australia's central bank left its official cash rate unchanged at 3.5%.
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Hi I just got 6 molly fry from my LFS. What do they eat. I gave them flakes broken up small.:-D
That should be perfect! Even the smallest Molly fry can usually handle flake food ground into a powder between fingertips. Watch them at feeding time, you should be able to tell if they're eating. Congrats on the new additions!
Thank you. I will watch them.
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"New knowledge arises out of taking radically different conceptual blocs, rubbing them together and making revolutionary fire."
The University of Cincinnati Composition Program invites proposals for the fourth annual interdisciplinary graduate student conference to be held at the University of Cincinnati on Saturday, April 6, 2013. Our emphasis this year focuses on being undisciplined: breaking down walls, bending rules, and questioning the rigid structure of our fields. In every discipline, divisions and gaps are present and are in fact necessary to generate innovation and creative thinking.
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For the ninth consecutive year, Hampton University has won the Mary McLeod Bethune Women' All-Sports Award, given to the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference's top overall women's athletic program.
Lady Pirate programs totaled 74.5 points, besting North Carolina A&T, which finished second with 68.5. Hampton won conference titles in women's basketball and outdoor track and field and finished runner-up in indoor track and field and women's tennis.
Norfolk State ranked third with 68 points.
"Winning the Mary McLeod Bethune Women's All-Sports Trophy again is symbolic of Hampton University's commitment to the welfare of our student-athletes by providing expert coaching, superb training and superior game and practice facilities," said HU athletic director Lonza Hardy in a release. "Everyone, from the administrators to the grounds crews, played significant roles in Hampton retaining its stature as the premier athletics program in the conference and one of the top mid-major powers in the nation."


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FRUITPORT, MI, December 26, 2011 /Stanford Who's Who/ — Stanford Who's Who proudly announces the addition of Edward Taylor to the exclusive ranks of premier professionals as a result of his exceptional entrepreneurial effort. Throughout his brilliant professional career, Mr. Taylor has consistently demonstrated the vision, dedication and diligence necessary to be successful in the business world.
Edward is the Owner of White Falcon Recording Studio, which is a state of the art music recording facility in Fruitport, Michigan. He utilizes his 48 plus years of experience of playing guitar in bands, as well as recording and mixing music to assist solo musicians and bands with all aspects of the recording process. Mr. Taylor is a hands-on owner, responsible for managing all phases of the business.
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Ok, first here's a new render for the 04 delorean.
Second I know I mentioned before I was going to put up stuff for the Rolls Royce up soon. Well soon didn't really happen, I've been having trouble getting the wheel wells to look right. But alas I think I have found a way to do it and it's working so far. So, homework depending, you should see pics of it either Saturday or Sunday, and that's for sure this time.
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With US markets taking a day off today for Memorial Day, liquidity will be even more sporadic than usual, and any sharp moves will be that much more accentuated, although such a likelihood is minimal with all US traders still in the Hamptons. In an otherwise very quiet overnight session, perhaps the most notable move was that of the USDJPY, which continues to be "strangely attracted" to the 101 line although selling pressure is certainly to the downside, with a downside breakout quite possible, however that would lead to an early and very unpleasant end to Abe's latest 'experiment' (to quote Weidmann). The Nikkei225 already closed down 470 points, or 3.22%, as Mrs. Watanabe's faith in the market, seems to be fading with every passing day.
What the numbers say:
- S&P 500 futures -0.3% to 1646.00
- Stoxx 600 up 0.1% to 303.7
- US 10Yr yield up 0.2bps to 2.01%
- German 10Yr yield up 1.5bps to 1.44%
- MSCI Asia Pacific down 1.2% to 137
- Gold spot up 0.6% to $1394.3/oz
- 18/19 sectors rising led by technology, autos & parts, media
- Selected movers on earnings/statements: Fiat +4.1%, Saras +3.2%, Club Med +2.6%
- Other gainers: Exor +4.1%, Commerzbank +3.2%, Aixtron +3%, Lagardere +2.6%, Suez Envir. +2.6%, Ryanair Holdings 2.4%, Freenet +2.4%, Fugro +2.4%, SAP +2.2%
- Other decliners: ADP -2.8%, Holcim -1.1%, GEA Group -1.1%, SGS -1%, Pohjola Bank -0.9%, NCC -0.8%, Kerry Group -0.8%, Kuehne & Nagel -0.7%, EMS Chemie -0.7%, Celesio -0.7%
- Asian stocks trade mixed with Nikkei, Topix declining, Shanghai, Hang Seng, Kospi rising.
- MSCI Asia Pacific down 1.1% to 137
- Nikkei 225 down 3.4%, Hang Seng up 0.3%, Kospi up 0.3%, Shanghai Composite up 0.2%, ASX down 0.5%, Sensex up 1.5%
- 9/10 sectors fall led by consumrer discretionary, utilities * Chinese YTD industrial profits for April grew 11.4% vs prior 12.1%
- Gainers: Nomura Real Estate +7.7%, Asics +6.8%, Guangzhou Auto +6.4%, Beijing Enterprises +6.4%, Reliance Communications +5.4%, Reliance Industries +5%, Airtac Intl. +5%, Orior +4.6%, SBI Holdings +4.6%, Dena Co. 4.6%
- Decliners: Mitsubishi Motor -9.3%, NSK -8%, Yamaha Motor -7.9%, Mitsubishsi Electric -7.7%, Taiyo Nippon -7.6%, Nabtesco -7.6%, Fuji Heavy -7.6%, Yaskawa Elec. -7.5%, Tepco -7.3%, Hitachi Construction Machinery -7.2%
SocGen recaps what little macro catalysts there are today:
The bounce in EUR crosses on a stronger than forecast German IFO survey on Friday proved short-lived and in doing so sent an important message: good macro-economic reports and positive data surprises from the eurozone are being met with a considerable degree of indifference among market participants, whilst disappointing data tends to magnify the downside growth risk and bolster EUR aversion. This proverbial shrug of the shoulders to eurozone data was repeated after the weekly ECB LTRO repayment data. A marked increase in total repayment (LTRO1+2) from EUR1.124bn to EUR8.123bn, the highest since April 19, made no difference even though at the margin the increase and resulting decline in the balance sheet is a positive EUR element. However, turning the argument on its head, an anaemic recovery where liquidity is diminishing (excess liquidity below EUR300bln) will keep the ECB mulling over its options to boost the flow of credit.
This week is unlikely to improve EUR sentiment dramatically considering the mostly second-tier nature of data releases and the greater focus instead of month-end flows in bonds and currencies. The direction of UST yields and the volatility in JGBs cast a large shadow over asset markets last week and wild gyrations in the Nikkei will plead for caution until the dust settles. Rate differentials have been the determining factor for currencies and this will remain the case until we hear from the ECB at the June 6 meeting. Economists will feast on a deluge of EU data including the flash estimate of EU CPI, unemployment and monthly EC confidence data, but to the market this data may not prove extremely relevant.
US and UK markets are closed for public holiday today and the resulting dent in market liquidity will keep many participants sidelined. Norwegian unemployment and Swedish retail sales data are due this morning. The NOK is the second best performer in G10 this month but the SEK took a fresh blow on Friday following disappointing confidence and economic tendency surveys. For EUR/NOK, failure to extend above 7.55 last week looks set to be followed by a return below 7.50 this week. EUR/SEK was denied of a weekly close above 8.60 after a third attempt in five weeks, but downside pressure does not look compelling either with support holding firm at 8.53 since mid-April.
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you're not Reggie Rooster are you? ....say it ain't so and I let you live/cluck/strut (delete as appropriate) .....and mound your potatoes
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solar panel roads??...........
''The idea is as simple as it is ingenious. Wherever roads are laid, solar panels could go instead. They would generate electricity, which would in turn be fed into the grid. Thus, oil is conserved twice: Electric cars could be charged with the energy produced by the panels, and the panels would replace the use of asphalt, the production of which requires petroleum.''
Great idea.....except for the math.
I'm just talking the construction.....let alone the upkeep.
In a post-dollar world, when gas is $12.00 per gallon or more, this idea will gain wide-spread acceptence.....
I hope this post-dollar world happens sooner, rather than later.......America can innovate around OIL, but only when the EMPIRE is dead........
Three times as much as asphalt. Give me a break!
considering the cost of EMPIRE (wars).......its not that expensive........Im for it only because the EMPIRE would be against it........
Solar produces more energy than it consumes. /sarc.off
absolutely ripe for one of those "mysterious"" gold/silver smash downs that the CTFC can never actually seem to "see"....
sitting with ammo ready....let's get it on! Come on, Jamie, Blythe and Ben, I been holding cash waiting for this glorious moment when you go all in .........
and, while the CTFC can't see, all the rest of the world sees lit up in glorious fireworks display how incredibly manipulated our markets are.......
and how you guys demo that you absolutely rule the world!!! And that's the way it is and will be as you take us sailing off the cliff into the abyss.....
come on gang, gold smash! silver smash! we know you got one plannned for this weekend......its been whispered about for a week!!!!
Gold is up, funny how the US markets are closed and gold has not gone down today.
ah, just wait.......they will take this down spectacularly tonight. tomorrow is options expiry, and they don't have it to meet delivery.
what else can they do? and why not? they completely own the regulators........bart and gary..their computers are programmed to completely black out all Cartel activities. So they have complete implausible deniability. And the press, despite all evidence to the contrary, will back them up......
have been saving my cash all month for this big smash up. can't wait. and when i caught the whisper of this "action" on the web, and saw the typical trading signals that the "in crowd" uses to telegraph this week....i nearly went into a coma of total bliss.......
the last grand super bloody smash.........
let's get ready to RUMMMMMBBBBBLLLLLEEEEEEEEE
China is studying the possibility of investing a portion of its $3.4 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves in U.S. real estate, said two people with direct knowledge of the situation.
The State Administration of Foreign Exchange began the study after seeing signs of a recovery in the U.S. property market, said the people, who asked not to be identified as they weren't authorized to speak publicly about the matter. China may acquire properties, invest in real estate funds or buy stakes in property companies, they said. The safety of the investments will be the top priority, said the people, who didn't elaborate on a timetable or other details.
China has set up an operation in New York to make alternative investments in the U.S., an effort by the country's foreign-exchange reserves manager to diversify away from U.S. government debt, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, citing people it didn't identify.
Prices for single-family homes increased in 89 percent of U.S. cities in the first quarter as the housing market extended its recovery following a five-year slump. The median sales price rose in 133 of 150 metropolitan areas measured from 74 year earlier, the National Association of Realtors said in a report on May 9.
"In the long run it should be a good opportunity as the U.S. property market is gradually rebounding," said Frank Chen, Shanghai-based head of China research at CBRE Group Inc. "It will help diversify the foreign reserves' investment portfolio. Properties such as office building have stable yields, which match its investment strategies."
laughing. well, the Chinese believe our propaganda. there's a wonderful, and ANOTHER, backfire. the idiots in charge pump out crap about the "rebound", and end up selling the country to the Chinese.
way to go Ben. way to go.
Maybe they discovered owning our debt was not the right way to own us.
when this all come crashing down, Ben's going to have to move off the planet.
it is stunning that everyone is allowing one guy to dictate action......and the one guy is so, so, so wrong ..... and now most of us watching know it.
But isn't at least ONE government conspiracy gonna come true? Like an attack on gold/silver? ;-)
The beauty of having some, is that you can turn off the MSM and enjoy the w/e, and... mourn the loss of those poor souls who perished in whatever "Bankers' war".


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Received a few emails from fans wondering why Sun center Tina Charles wasn't with the USA national team for the first two days of practice this week in Virginia.
Well, she was excused by the team so she could attend a family function. But she is back now and will be in clear view Friday when the US plays Australia,
Check out this link from USA Basketball to read what Geno Auriemma, Miss Maya, Asjha Jones and Tina have had to say about things so far.


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Anya Anthony, MSPA PA-C obtained her P.A. graduate degree from Western University in Pomona, California. Prior to moving to Bear Lake, she worked at a Community Clinic in California for 4 years.
After having a positive experience with a physician's assistant in an emergency room and doing some research on the position, Anya knew that's what she really wanted to do. She went back to school, while still working full time and raising a family, to earn her degree.
Bonnie Caywood, RD, LD received her Bachelor of Science in Dietetics from Idaho State University, May 2000. She completed her post-graduate dietetic internship at Idaho State University, May 2001. Bonnie has been licensed with the Idaho State Board of Medicine since September 2001 and is a registered Dietitian with Commission on Dietetic Registration since September 2001
Bonnie's professional memberships and associations are American Dietetic Association, American Kidney Association, American Diabetic Association, Healthcare Foodservice Management Association, and Certification of Training in Adult Weight Management through the Commission on Dietetic Research.
Gary S. Griffin, CRNA, Chief of Anesthesia is a highly skilled career professional with over 25 years practical anesthesia experience in hospital, trauma, intensive care and primary care environments. He specializes in trauma, obstetric, and pediatric anesthesia and is highly regarded in his ability to perform epidural anesthesia. He and his wife, Georgia, have four children, Aaron, Amy, Emily and Alec and 3 grandchildren.
Chief of Anesthesia at Bear Lake Memorial since 1985, Gary is also a staff/on call anesthetist for neighboring counties in Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. He received his diploma from the Good Samaritan Hospital School of Nursing in Portland, Oregon, in 1975, a certificate in Critical Care Nursing in 1976 from the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center, a diploma in Nurse Anesthesia from the Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri in 1978 and served as Staff Anesthetist as a US Army Reservist from 1977-1991. He is a member of the Idaho Nurse Anesthetist Association, American Association of Nurse Anesthetists, Bear River Medical Society, and American Academy of Pediatrics. Gary has been involved in civic leadership as City Councilman, City Fire Department, President of the National Oregon Trail Museum and Chairman of the Bear Lake County School District. In his 'spare' time, Gary gardens, keeps bees and has restored cars.
Dorian Grunig, Nurse Anesthetist was raised and graduated from High School in Montpelier, ID. He along with his wife Angela and three children have lived in Montpelier in December of 2004.
He along with his wife Angela and three children have lived in Montpelier since December 2004. He enjoys hunting, fishing and camping.
Alex Moss, PA-C (Physician's Assistant) received his Bachelor's Degree from Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana. Upon graduation in 2004, he and his family moved to Montpelier and he is currently employed at Dr. Clark, Dr. Crane, and Dr. Robinson's offices, located at 465 Washington Street, Montpelier (208) 847-2878.
He grew up in Rockland, Idaho and went on to work in southern Utah as a Paramedic for 3 years. Alex married Michelle Moss and they are the proud parents of Dalton, Ethan, Anika, Fenton, and Griffin. Alex loves to read, watch Jeopardy, hunt, hike, camp, and try out new hair restoration products (so far he has had no success).
|Joseph P. Dayton, PA- C (Physician;s Assitant- Started with Bear Lake Memorial Hospital with Dr. Kerry Jepsen in the Bear Lake Orthopaedic Clinic. Dayton was born in Price, UT and delivered by his OBGYN father. His mother is also in the medical field and has since retired from the nursing field. He comes from a large family and is number 10 of 12 kids, 11 boys and one girl on the end. He enjoys playing and watching sports. Dayton has spent many summers working on the family ranch in Cokeville. He graduated from Mountain View High School is Orem in 1998. Dayton served a LDS Mission to Argentina. Once he returned, he met his wife Buffy when they were both playing soccer for Utah Valley University in Orem. There he got his degree in business and returned later on to finish two years of pre-requisites before continuing his education at a Physician Assistant school in Albuquerque, NM. Joe and his wife live in Cokeville and they have five children together. Other than spending time with his family, he enjoys sports, hunting, fishing, and good movies.
Lynette D. Williams, RPh, CGP, FASCP
Trevor Robinson, M.D., OB GYN has strong ties to the Bear Lake Area. He grew up in Lovel, Wyoming. His father and grandfather are from Laketown. He and his wife, Kathleen, have four children. His interests include basketball, hiking and camping with his family, and herpetology.
Dr. Robinson is trained in high risk deliveries and is experienced in laparoscopic surgeries including hysterectomies. He has also worked for a year in a very busy Emergency Room in South Carolina. Dr. Robinson's left the Family Care Clinic at the end of 2013 but returns occasionaly to perform laproscopic hysterectomies surgeries.
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A panel has recommended that Chicago raise its minimum wage to $13 an hour.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel asked the Minimum Wage Working Group to research the issue. On Monday the panel said the higher minimum wage should be phased in over four years. The panel says the higher wages would increase earnings for about 410,000 people _ or 31 percent of Chicago workers _ and inject nearly $800 million into the Chicago economy.
The Illinois minimum wage is currently $8.25 an hour and the federal minimum wage is $7.25. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has said he supports raising the state's minimum wage.
Emanuel spokeswoman Kelley Quinn says the mayor "fully supports the group's balanced proposal."
The panel report says the wage increase could raise prices by up to 2 percent.


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May 1, 2013
Vanderbilt football sophomore Alex Hysong and women's basketball senior Tiffany Clarke have been named the Commodore Student-Athletes of the Month for April. The recipients offer their keys to academic success in interviews published on Vanderbilt's Academic Support website.
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New guide for parents from the Federal Trade Commission about protecting children online. It says that parents should get a "plain language notice" about information will be collected before they want to use features on an site or download an app that collects their personal information. I'm very curious how this is going to happen since often parents aren't involved in the app installation process for their children. Review the parent guide to understand the current rules.
The revised COPPA act went into effect on July 1, 2013. Take time to read up on and know this act.
It includes mobile devices - geolocation information, photos, videos, and audio recordings. This is going to influence MOBILE PHONES big time as well as app makers. It says they have to have actual knowledge that they are gaining information from kids under 13. What about my under 13 child who has a mobile phone. Verizon knows the age - is this enough to trigger problems. I don't have a smartphone for him but he does have an iPad mini. So many questions here that we'll need to review and understand as part of BYOT programs, etc. The biggest issue is I doubt many app makers are compliant right now.
The modified rule, approved by the Commission in December 2012, widens the definition of children's personal information to include persistent identifiers such as cookies that track a child's activity online, as well as geolocation information, photos, videos, and audio recordings.
It requires that operators of websites or online services that are either directed to children under 13 or have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information from children under 13 give notice to parents and get their verifiable consent before collecting, using, or disclosing such personal information, and keep secure the information they collect from children.
This four part video series about the "Invisible children" is an excellent model for how you can share what you're doing. The design on this page is fantastic as well. This organization creaed #kony2012 as their 10th film. They understand social media mobilization. This is an important cause and also the example of how the story wouldn't be told if it weren't for good storytellers.
We are first and foremost a "social media, storytelling organization" - they think it is fundamentally untrue that you cannot relate to someone halfway around the world.
See your tweets dissected by topic. Here's my twylah page for my Twitter account. You can see common topics and it is organized nicely. I set this up sometime back.
IF you tweet or share a to a lot of apps, this app, Drafts will connect to just about anything. Type it, then decide where to send it, or you can save your most inspirational items to tweet, Facebook, or wherever later. It links with evernote, twitter, facebook, app.net, email, messages, calendars, dropbox, evernote, bufferapp, toodledoo and more (as well as ifttt.com integration.) I'm still learning about all the ways to use this handy tool. The only thing I wish it did is that I could add to it from the web and then see it on my ipad.
"Front & Center with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Photos, videos and stories from our artists. Interviews, articles and links from our staff. A new way to follow the music!"
So many organizations are finding an audience on Tumblr and YouTube. Schools, arts, and more. The stage is no longer the only stage or the most important stage - and websites like tumblr can help struggling nonprofits attract more.
In this series, the artists are talking about how they've created new artistry around the Nutcracker. Very cool.
Google plus has rolled out a "communities" feature that some of us are testing. I've created an open flat classroom community for those who want to talk about flattening the classroom and connecting around the world. Too early to tell you what I think.
Lots of discussion about how people follow on Twitter.
My reply to Scott McLeod's post:
"I follow real educators and tend to stay away from foundations and PR junk sites who aren't real. I like real teachers no matter how many followers they have because I'd like to be able to message them and them message me back. I also like to follow people who are engaging in conversation and have interesting things to say. Sometimes if people don't follow me back and I know I won't need to message them or them me, I'll unfollow and put them on a list instead. "
My list is half happenstance and half just who says something online.
With so many sharing photos about the storm, here's an excellent article on how to make sure photos are real. This would be a great exercise to do with your students who are in school to talk about the veracity of pictures.
Jure is on the money when talking about social media and influence. Klout, Kred, etc. it really probably doesn't mean much. He points out that someone tweeting 100 times in a day is likely not to influence much of anything. I agree. There are people that I read their every tweet and then there are those that are such a firehose that it is just hit or miss. I'd rather have someone that pots 20 or less times a day at max than a post every few minutes. Can you really curate and check out that much content anyway?
Jure is my go-to person for really understanding social media. I sat down with him at Microsoft four weeks a go and the advice he gave me doubled my Twitter followers each day, while making my life easier. I read everything he writes on the Huffington Post about social media and if you're responsible for getting your school or organization's message "out there," you should too. This is an emerging field as schools work to help their brands in the "marketplace" and while you may recoil at me calling it a marketplace, in five years, when schools are out of business because they didn't understand the competition that is coming through the Internet, you'll clearly see what I'm saying.
Everyone and every organization has a brand. You can manage it or it can be managed for you by your naysayers and fans in a harem, scarem way. I'd rather be proactive and positive in my efforts. Read this article, but here's a quote I think that sums up much of what happens with social media brands online:
"What happens instead is that brands simply place themselves on a social network in an effort to engage potential consumers, and then fail because they are not using a multi-dimensional approach. Instead of connecting and engaging, they go at social media like they strategize advertising -- here's what we want to say and here's how we're going to do it. When it doesn't work, they end up blaming the network instead of acknowledging their role in failing to incorporate object and timing into their plan."
An excellent story about how Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach's daughter, Amber, became part of a viral story. This is an excellent example of how social media influence can allow students to become activists.
With graphics like this, social media has officially hit the mainstream education circuit. Schools are finding that connected teachers are becoming revilatized and reenergized. Look at this poster and think about how it compares to your district's professional development. Even better, email it to someone you know and watch the conversations begin.
I am asking everyone to read this post by my new friend Jure Klepic. This is what we're doing with the #choose2matter campaign. PLEASE read, understand, and watch. I must say that Jure took 5 minutes to answer a few questions for me about social media and helped me profoundly. It is hard to fathom that before he watched Angela's talk that he wondered if he mattered. He's talented, smart, and seems to have the world at his feet. You never know who feels like they don't matter. As a teacher, this is your job - #choose2matter don't just settle to show up. Let's be more and do more for all the Christopher and Jure's out there.
Educational networks are here to stay, but do we really understand them? This grant is a clear sign to me that we don't or that we don't think social media rules apply here.
Wikia is a massively growing website where people create wikis and remix content on video games, entertainment, and lifestyle issues. It is sort of a mix of graphics, wikis, and entertainment and shows how collaborative spaces are reaching every aspect of our lives.
Arlington County is collaborating using Yammer, a type of "social-media-esque" collaborative tool.
This website lets you mashup and create new feeds from existing ones. Take some time to manipulate feeds into smaller ones and you'll be glad you did.
A service that filters feeds for certain keywords. This is a fascinating way to drill down into feeds that have a lot of content but you just want some of it.
Location tagging is providing some great data like this visualization of where the world's tweets come from.
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The Security Assistance Command has exceeded its total foreign military sales for fiscal 2011 in the first quarter of the new fiscal year and could finish fiscal 2012 with record sales. USASAC ended fiscal 2011 with FMS sales totaling $13.5 billion; however, first quarter of fiscal 2012 ended with a total sales value of $13.8 billion.
"Several large cases for the United Arab Emirates and PM-SANG (Program Manager-Saudi Arabian National Guard) are driving the numbers," John Neil, chief of USASAC's Performance Management Office, said.
USASAC manages the Army's FMS program, which facilitates the sales of military equipment and services to eligible foreign governments. The command's first quarter total sales value of $13.8 billion was largely attributed to cases with the UAE, Egypt, PM-SANG and Saudi Arabia. The countries' requests included sales for Black Hawk and Apache helicopters, Interceptor missiles and support of the Egyptian M1A1 tank co-production effort. In fact, just five of these large weapon systems cases accounted for nearly $10 billion of the first quarter sales total, according to Tina Benscoter, senior analyst for USASAC's Project Management Office in New Cumberland, Pa.
The upward trend of gains is predicted to continue for the remainder of the current fiscal year, according to Neil.
"We still have a lot of cases in offered status, so we still expect to implement maybe another $6-8 billion on what's in development and what's already been offered," he said.
One of the cases currently in offered status is for Patriot missiles.
"If that case gets implemented I would expect somewhere around $20-plus billion for this year," Neil said.
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Jamal James had been skinned and crucified on the home-built bondage rack in his living room.
I knew what to expect before I walked into his one-bedroom dump in Crenshaw. Phone calls had been made, orders had been issued and I was prepared for what I'd find. I told myself the thing on the rack was just a corpse, and the part of me made on the street believed it. The rest of me ran inside and locked the doors.
Anton Shevakov waddled up next to me, rubbing his hands nervously. "Domino, damn, I'm glad you're here. I sit on couch for hour staring at this fucking fillet." A lot of Russian gangsters used their accents to sound hard, but Anton whined enough to dull the effect.
"A fillet is boneless," I said. "Jamal is skinless."
Anton looked from me to the corpse. "Anyway, I'm just glad you're here. It is lonely time for me sitting with him." He sighed and shook his head. "We were going to get the doughnuts."
Anton was fat. He'd come to L.A. from Moscow in 1992 and hadn't stopped eating since. The guys in the outfit called him Heavy Chevy. I wasn't one of the guys, so I called him Anton.
I looked at the body. It was naked, of course —really na-ked—but a piece of paper was covering the groin. I looked closer. It was a magazine.
"Anton, the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is stapled to his body."
"Just cover," Anton said, motioning to the coverless magazine on the coffee table. "Jesus, Domino, I'm tired of looking at dick."
"Well, take the damn thing off. I need to see Jamal like you found him."
He moved to the body and paused to consider. Then he shrugged and jerked the magazine cover from the body, returning it to the coffee table. I approached the bondage rack and examined the corpse more closely.
From the top of his head to the bottoms of his feet, Jamal's body was just muscle and bone. Not much fat—he'd been in excellent shape, lean and sculpted like an NBA small forward. Railroad spikes had been driven through his wrists and ankles into the thick wooden beams of the bondage rack. Other than that, there wasn't much to see. No blood. No empty birthday suit lying around.
"You search the apartment?"
"Yeah, nothing."
"Any juice ? "
"I didn't find the unusual magic, but Domino, it's not strong point." Like most low-level soldiers in the outfit, Anton's strong point was mostly blowing things up. Even in that, his talent was modest. If something went down, he was usually better off with a gun. "What are you going to do?"
"Object reading. See if I can pick up anything from the stiff, the room." I shrugged. "I'll look for residual juice, just to be sure."
"So you think it was hit?"
"Magic is about the only way you could peel a guy like this and not leave any blood. There's an old Mongolian ritual—you hang a guy upside down by his toes and make an incision like this…" I traced a line across the top of one shoulder, around my head and across the top of my other shoulder. "You open the top of him like that, hocus-pocus, and he just slides out of his skin like a greased hand from a glove."
"Jesus," Anton swore and crossed himself. "And the guy is alive when you take his skin?"
"Yeah, depending on how good you are and how hard you want to work at it, you could keep him alive awhile."
Anton looked at the corpse and shuddered. "But why do Jamal like this? To squeeze him?"
"I don't see why. Jamal didn't have much juice to squeeze. The ritual would burn more than you could get out of him."
Jamal had been good at what he did, but he didn't have the kind of magic that would make someone think about stealing it. Still, you didn't see a ritual execution like this very often. When you did, the guy usually got squeezed. If you just needed him dead, a bullet in the ear was a lot less trouble.
"Anyway," I said, "that's what I'm here to find out. First, tell me what happened."
Anton spread his hands helplessly. "I was to go with Jamal to shooting gallery in the Jungle. He needs to check tags, make sure they still put out. I go just in case."
Jamal had been a tagger, a graffiti artist who used his craft to tap into the juice—the magical charge—of various places like buildings, freeway overpasses and buses. Anywhere he could lay down his tags and where there was juice to tap.
The derelict hotel in Baldwin Village where junkies went to shoot up was a well-known juice box. The place reeked of pain, hunger, desperation and despair. It was bad mojo, but it was still mojo. Jamal's tags were the straw in the juice box. Shanar Rashan, the boss of our outfit, had his lips on the straw.
Like every boss of every outfit in the world's major cities, Shanar Rashan was a powerful sorcerer, probably the strongest in Southern California. The LAPD thought he was Turkish. He was actually Sumerian. Rashan had been in L.A. for almost eighty years, building his organization, expanding his territory and his control of the city's juice, though he'd used many names in that time. The investigations into his activities always seemed to hit the wall. The detectives and task forces inevitably lost interest and stuck the file in the back of a drawer before moving on to something else. Rashan had become more an urban legend than a wanted criminal.
When I drifted into the outfit as a teenager, Rashan noticed me. Unofficially adopted me, became my mentor. I already knew a lot of craft. I'd picked up a bit from my mother, a lot more from the street. But I was raw, unpolished. Rashan taught me discipline, control, finesse. When I was twenty-seven years old, he made me his youngest lieutenant. For the past eight years, I'd been his go-to girl.
And that's why I caught the last phone call when the body of an executed gangbanger turned up. One of my gangbangers. One of Rashan's soldiers.
"So I come here," Anton continued, "knock on door, no answer, and so on and so on. I have key and I don't want to stand in heat all day, so I unlock door and go in. I find Jamal hanging with no fucking skin. After I look around, make sure no one is here, I call Rafael."
The outfit didn't really have a rigid chain of command, but it did have a pecking order. It was based on how much juice you had and how close to the boss you were. Rafael Chavez sat a little higher in that pecking order than street-level soldiers like Anton and Jamal, a little lower than me. He'd been two phone calls from Rashan, and Rashan had thrown it to me.
"How do you know it's Jamal?" I asked.
"Who else would it be? " That kind of limited imagination was one reason Anton would always be a low-level soldier. He didn't have the head to be anything more. He didn't have the juice. He never would.
You can't get a good ID on a guy when he's been skinned, but Anton was probably right. My instincts told me it was Jamal hanging there. Most of him anyway. If it wasn't, I'd find out soon enough.
Witch sight involves staring at something long enough for your eyeballs to dry out. It's like looking at one of those optical illusions. You look at the pattern, then you look through it, past it, and pretty soon there's a picture of Jesus.
The only thing supernatural about magic is that most people don't believe in it, don't even notice it's all around them. It's as natural, as much a part of the world, as electricity. A rare few can see magic if they know how to look.
I stood by the door of the apartment and looked. I looked into the room, all the way in, past light, and color, and contrast and shape. I looked behind the visible to the magic that flowed beneath.
I looked first at the bondage rack. I saw the natural juice of the wood, no longer flowing, just pooling in the lumber and slowly evaporating. I saw the juice that soaked into the rack from the pleasure and pain of those who had occupied it.
I didn't think Jamal had really been into the BDSM scene. Most likely he'd been using the rack and its associated activities as a tool. He'd been trying to tap more juice, learn to harness and control it. He'd wanted to get stronger, and he'd been working out. The bondage rack was his magical Bowflex.
There was quite a lot of juice in the rack, but none of it smelled like the murder. If this had been a ritual execution, the wood should have been dripping with the black magic of the spell used to kill Jamal. If I could have gotten a taste of that juice, I could have identified the ritual. Because magic is personal, I might have been able to identify the sorcerer who performed it. Failing that, I might have been able to use the juice to recreate the murder, just as Jamal had experienced it. It wouldn't have been pleasant, but I might have gotten a look at the killer, might have been able to learn something useful from the details of the ritual.
But I didn't get any of that, because the juice just wasn't there. The rack had been cleaned. Scrubbed. On the surface, what I got was mostly the pain and terror of the victim. I also got the brute fact of his death, which stained the wood like mildew on bathroom tile. Deeper still I found only the old juice that had soaked all the way into the wood and the natural juice that had been there since it was a sapling.
I found enough juice in the corpse to confirm that it was Jamal, but I didn't find nearly enough of it. A person's magic clung to the body after death, evaporating at a measured rate until there was nothing left. This was especially true with sorcerers. If you knew how old a sorcerer's corpse was, you could get a pretty accurate idea of how powerful he'd been by how much juice was left in the body. In the old days, graves and tombs were even violated to get at the juice trapped in the moldering corpses of powerful sorcerers.
Jamal hadn't been a powerful sorcerer, but even a civilian's corpse would have more juice than remained in the kid's body. The skinless corpse was like a desiccated husk, sucked almost dry of the magic that had made Jamal a valuable if limited member of our outfit. He had been squeezed.
Whoever had done the ritual was good. It was complex magic, and most sorcerers—guys like Jamal and Anton—didn't have the craft for it. But the really impressive part was the way the killer had scrubbed away the magic after the deed was done. It isn't easy to clean up magic with magic. It would have been simpler just to obscure it, contaminate it—stir in enough random juice that you couldn't get anything useful from it. Instead the murderer had wiped away every magical trace of the ritual spell that killed my guy.
I let my gaze pan around the small living room, and my luck turned. The carpet in front of the bondage rack was stained with black juice. I knelt by the stain and touched it. It was roughly circular, about two feet in diameter, cold to the touch, damp and sticky.
I dug my fingers into the stained carpet and reached out for the juice, tapping it, allowing it to flow into me. I leaned down and tasted it.
The juice began to resolve itself into a pattern in the part of my mind or soul that makes me a sorcerer. The black stain had been left by a small rectangular box. I didn't get any sense of exact dimensions—it just doesn't work that way—but it was about the size of a normal cookie jar, maybe a little smaller. From the taste and texture of the juice, it was probably made of clay or ceramic. It was very old and somewhat crudely formed. I could see symbols, like hieroglyphs, carved into its sides, though I had no sense of their meaning.
Mixed in with the box's juice, I tasted faint notes of living human magic. Most of it was very old, and there was no way I could identify it. Some of that juice was fresher, though. It was Jamal's.
I stood up and caught myself rubbing my hands on my jeans, as if it could somehow rid me of the black juice that had soaked into my skin. I let my gaze slip back to the mundane world.
"You find anything?" Anton asked.
"I'm not sure. The killer cleaned up after himself. It's definitely Jamal, and I think he was squeezed. I might have a line on the murder weapon."
"What do you do next?"
I thought about it a moment and shrugged. "I'm leaving. I can try to contact Jamal, but I'm not going to do it here."
Anton's eyes widened. Even guys who had been around the game a while got a little creeped out by necromancy. "Tell him I'm sorry about it, Domino. Tell him I wish I got here sooner." Anton crossed himself again. "Tell him goodbye."
"Well, I'll try to get Jamal to talk to me. Probably I won't be able to say anything to him at all. If I do, I'll tell him for you."
As touching as Anton's request might have been, I knew his real motivation wasn't just the bonds of friendship. He and Jamal hadn't been that close. He was mostly worried that Jamal would blame him and stick around to haunt his ass.
Anton gestured at the corpse. "What about…?"
"Get rid of it. Clean the place. It's dark and this is Crenshaw. Shouldn't be much trouble."
It wouldn't be real messy, either, given the complete lack of blood. I took one last look at the skinned corpse hanging on the rack, and I was still glad I didn't have to do it.
"And Anton," I added, "put the word out. Tell everyone to stay sharp."
In the underworld, you never find just one skinned and crucified corpse.
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You may remember from the article I ran the other day that Rutgers University paid Snooki $32,000 to appear at a student event last week. Apparently, they have received so much negative attention for this move that they felt the need to issue a statement.
Rutgers University's Statement On Snooki
The first thing that The State University of New Jersey wants you to know is that the money didn't come from their state funding or tuition:
No state funds, tuition money, or donor contributions are used for these events. The students use funds designated for student programming. The show was promoted as a comedy act, not an academic program or lecture.
Unfortunately, this is nothing more than a game of semantics. While the funds didn't officially come from tuition, they did come from mandatory student activity fees. All undergraduate students are required to pay these fees along with their tuition in order to take classes. This means that every student who had to work during the semester, beg their parents to sell assets, take a few years off after high school in order to work and save money, or even take out loans, did so (in part) to subsidize a visit from Snooki!
At this point, I don't even care what they spent the money on (ok…yes I do!), but I do care that they are misrepresenting how they spend the money of hard working students and parents! They force every student to pay into this pool of money that they used to pay Snooki – to make a statement pretending that this money was completely separate from the money that they get from students in the form of tuition just isn't right.
After explaining that even though every student was forced to pay this money, it's ok because it wasn't labeled "tuition" on the term bill, they had this to say:
The cost for her appearance included the fee for Adam Ace, a comedian who has been named College Comedian of the Year by the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities, and the booking fee.
So, because Snooki paid her sidekick and booking agent from her $32,000 fee, that should make this waste of money acceptable? That's like bringing in a monkey and paying $100,000 – then when people call you out about wasting money, you say, "Yeah well, that money also had to pay for his food, trainer, and diaper…so it's fine"!
[No, I'm not comparing Snooki to a monkey! I'm simply making the point that just because a huge waste of money has more than one component, that doesn't make it any less of a waste!]
The Rutgers University statement on Snooki tried to ease concerns once more:
The show was promoted as a comedy act, not an academic program or lecture.
So they decided to spend $32,000 on a comedy act that only went for a couple of hours? I guess this is supposed to make outraged parents, students, and New Jersey taxpayers feel better about them wasting money. Essentially they are saying, "It's fine that she didn't provide any educational or career advice, because we planned it that way".
As a reminder, here are a few of the financial realities going on at RU:
The State University of New Jersey's Budget Crisis
Rutgers University has not paid raises to their staff since 2008 – this represents a breach of contract by the university in both 2009 and 2010 (and it is expected to happen again this year)
The State University of New Jersey has only given its faculty members 25% of their contractually obligated salary increases since 2008
New Jersey has cut higher education funding over the last few years
Rutgers has increased tuition rates for students in each of these years
The university actually has departments/units that are losing money
Over the last few years, there have been many athletic and academic programs that have been cut
The university has laid off a number of staff members
As I said in the previous article, I know that $32,000 will not solve all of these problems, but this move has caused one of the top universities in the nation to look terrible in the eyes of many prospective students and their parents. Then to issue this type of response that simply plays on the intelligence of all who are concerned, makes the situation that much worse.
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@phalx: husband and i definitely revere this as one of the best ever, but your review here told me to purchase. i don't ever watch extras, but he LOVES them. and he frakkin LOVES fancy packaging. yay christmas presents...
I should note that I purchased this previously and love it. Very cool "book" inserted in it that gives more info on the film and the extras are great. It goes without saying this is one of the best movies ever. Also, free Prime shipping if you have it.
Target price matched online, for those few that benefit from this info.
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March 1, 2004
Julie K. Boatman
We were part of a two-ship formation of Nanchang CJ-6As on our way to Bartow Municipal Airport, in central Florida. After skirting the Mickey Mouse temporary flight restriction over Walt Disney World as the sun set, we made our way toward Runway 27R. The blanket of lights southwest of Orlando fell away as we maneuvered for the final approach. Once we turned, we saw nothing but darkness where the trees and remnants of swampland lay off the approach end of the runway. I was momentarily disoriented. The black below sucked me in. As a result, I kept the speed up, feeling ground shy, and paid for my fast approach with a less-than-glamorous arrival.
With a Gulfstream III accident in 2001 at Aspen-Pitkin County Airport/Sardy Field (Aspen, Colorado), in which the pilots had the runway in sight yet struck unlit terrain just short and to the right of the runway (see " Proficient Pilot: Visual Contact," June 2001 Pilot), the undeniable hazards of night approaches to runways with surrounding terrain have come center stage. Airports in rugged locations such as Jackson, Wyoming; Taos, New Mexico; and Eagle, Colorado — as well as points east, such as Cumberland, Maryland, and Hot Springs, Virginia — are notorious. But some of the same qualities that make these airports dangerous at night can also pop up where you least expect them. A simple lack of lighting in the area — whether it's because you're out on the Great Plains or in rural areas, or you're making an approach over water or rough terrain — can erase your cues.
Anything nature-made — be it pine or dirt — that sticks up into the approach path can cause problems, as these objects are rarely illuminated. And manmade obstructions such as towers and powerlines — not all have lighting — can disappear in the dark, as the pilot of a Beechcraft A36 Bonanza discovered on a visual approach to Runway 22 at Taos Regional Airport one January evening in 1987. Although the pilot successfully landed the airplane after catching invisible lines and was unhurt, the Bonanza didn't fare so well.
The first thing to do while planning a flight to an airport that you have never approached before at night is to look at an airport/facility directory (A/FD) or other airport reference, such as AOPA's Airport Directory (either in print, on CD, or online), to determine if there are any obstructions and to which runway they pertain.
When an object such as a cell phone tower or powerline pole is lit, the red light can be difficult to pick out in a field of other lights. A safe bet is to plan a steep approach, within your skills and your airplane's capabilities, to grant you extra assurance that you have a clear path down. If you have a choice of runways, pick one with a visual approach slope indicator (VASI) or precision approach path indicator (PAPI), some kind of illuminated tool to help you determine the glide path. The lack of a VASI was mentioned in the report of a mishap at Allegheny County Airport near Pittsburgh in 1995. Without vertical guidance, the pilot touched down only 800 feet from the far end of 2,534-foot Runway 23 and rolled off the end after heavy braking. If you have the option of choosing a longer runway, with a VASI, in calm winds — as were the conditions in this case — stack the deck in your favor. While Allegheny County is neither rural nor particularly forested, Runway 23's approach path takes you over open ground during its last quarter mile, and that's enough to create a black hole effect.
When you're shopping the A/FD, look for notes on a displaced threshold. While sometimes the displacement is simply a means to reduce the noise footprint of a runway whose approach path lies over congested areas, most of the time the offset threshold is there to give approach path clearance over an obstruction. An A/FD states if a runway has a displaced threshold, and often the reason for it. You won't be able to see this as easily in the dark, so have it in mind as you plan your descent. One memorable descent to a runway with a displaced threshold didn't grab my attention until the day after, when I saw the powerlines that the PAPI helped me miss the night before.
Indeed, an airport that appears benign from a glance at the chart can turn out to be anything but an easy night haven.
Roanoke, Virginia, lies in the mouth of the Roanoke Valley, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. With the airport safely ensconced in the green area of the Cincinnati Sectional, and surrounded on three sides by city lights, you might believe that the airport poses no particular challenge at night. However, a close look at airport details tells a different story. The approach to Runway 6 at Roanoke Regional/Woodrum Field brings you down the valley from Blacksburg, over several patches of higher terrain. Departure from the same runway calls for a heading adjustment during climbout, and departures from Runway 33 and landings on Runway 15 are not authorized at night.
One pilot of a Piper Cherokee Six, after telling the tower that he had "all terrain in sight," descended for a visual approach to Runway 24 at Roanoke on a March night in 1991. He said that during the approach he "hit a downdraft" and struck a tree on a mountain ridge. He recovered the airplane and landed safely.
When you transition from cruise to descend into the traffic pattern, be aware of the lighting in the area — or lack thereof. Again, your study of the A/FD prior to blastoff should advise you of conditions particular to your time of arrival.
Take a busy, towered airport such as Atlanta's Dekalb-Peachtree Airport. Well, it's not as busy after 11 p.m. local time, when the tower folks head home and remote the frequency to Atlanta Approach — in fact, there's a voluntary curfew at that hour. But it's only voluntary, and the airport stays open, albeit not fully illuminated, after that. One pilot misunderstood Atlanta Approach's instructions concerning the runway lighting situation, and picked unlit Runway 16 for his approach. The lighted runway, 2L/20R, intersects 16/34 about two-thirds of the way down 16/34's nearly 4,000-foot length. The pilot saw the runway lights of 2L/20R, thought they were threshold lights for 16, and landed accordingly. He lost visual references during the landing as he left the lighted intersection of the runways and was unable to stop by the time he realized he was out of runway. It's a black hole indeed when the runway lights aren't on.
And that's another quandary: What if the lights go out? Whether the candlepower problem is in your airplane or on the ground, you lose an important tool when light is lost. From time to time, practice for this scenario by making landings with the airplane's landing light off. Set up for a normal descent on final and level off when it appears as though your tires would touch the lights — if they were mounted on the runway proper. Slowly ease back on the yoke and feel for the pavement that lurks below. Most runway lights are on poles about a foot or 18 inches high. The touchdown may not be perfect, but you can make it safe.
And what if you get to your destination, and the entire airport is dark? This happened last summer as we returned home from a trip to the Midwest. After a long day of flying, we descended into Frederick, Maryland, which was in the throes of a season-busting construction project, and made an attempt to key up the pilot-controlled lighting. Nothing. Another attempt (made after I snuck a peek at the airport info to ensure that we had the right procedure) also produced nothing. Only the glowing markers warning of the closed main runway simmered up through the dark at us. The black hole was all the more menacing because of that ghostly X. Our plan B, admittedly generated on the spot as we had received no notam for the lighting in a day's worth of briefings, involved heading to Leesburg, Virginia, about 22 nm away.
Haze can also add to your problems. The visibility was called at 6 to 7 miles over the last leg of our flight from Clarksburg to Martinsburg, West Virginia, over nearly 3,000-foot ridges of the Appalachians. We took off, heading east as the sun met the horizon behind us. I was sitting in back of a tandem-seat airplane, and the pilot in front was not instrument-rated. With no working attitude indicator that I could reference, I would either need to instruct him through flying in reduced visibility, over rough ground, at night, with only an airport or two worth diverting to across the 100 miles separating us from our goal — or I would have to make do with the instruments in front of me in this unfamiliar airplane. Needless to say, I was quite pleased when he decided to turn back to Clarksburg within 15 minutes of our launch, at the very time my gut came to the same conclusion.
The ground below was dark, the sky above purpled into nothing, and only a speck of light pinpointed a ridge or valley every few miles. As we re-turned to Harrison/Marion Regional Airport, and the pinpoints became a blanket of lights showing us the ground, the illumination's ability to guide us in safely, to give visual cues in the absence of daylight — the ultimate provider — was crystal clear.
E-mail the author at [email protected].
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