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Officials Said No Water Was Being Diverted From The Scott River. Evidence Suggests That's Simply Not True…
I recently posted a photograph of a stacked-up school of Klamath Chinook salmon swimming in circles while they waited their chance to migrate up Siskiyou County's Scott River.
The Scott River was running at a bare-bones 18 cfs-22 cfs, and the Karuk and Yurok tribes had called on the US Forest Service to invoke their 40 cfs water right to protect the salmon.
The response from officials and irrigators was immediate, most suggesting there was simply no water, and that no irrigation diversions were occurring. In an email, County Supervisor Grace Bennett said that Farmer's Ditch (a sizable diversion from the Scott) was dry and had been since August 19.
That's good information. Except, unfortunately, it isn't true.
On his KlamBlog, Felice Pace posted photographs of the Farmer's Ditch diversion running at levels far in excess of "none":
His photographs were taken on October 24 (after the October 15 irrigation shutoff date), and though those using Farmer's Ditch hold a year-round livestock watering right, Pace is correct in pointing out the diversion — which is essentially dewatering the Scott — is far larger than needed to water livestock.
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A large number of Chinook Salmon are in the Scott River waiting to get to their spawning grounds. However, because the Farmers Ditch is running full at an estimated 6-8 cubic feet per second 10 full days after irrigation was supposed to end under the Scott River Adjudication, the Scott River is dewatered and disconnected in the area below the Farmer's Ditch.
Unless this ditch is turned down or off soon, Chinook salmon will not be able to spawn in the Upper Scott River, the east Fork, the South Fork, Sugar Creek, Wildcat Creek and several other tributaries. Spawning and production fro the largest run in recent history will be lost. The benefit of millions of dollars the state and federal government has spent restoring habitat above the Farmer's Ditch will be rendered useless and ineffective. This is something you can and should stop.
Irrigators along the Farmers Ditch are using the pretext of a stock-watering right to continue irrigation far beyond the legal irrigation season. I have pictures showing that some of the fields being irrigated do not even have livestock in them. I also have pictures of the full ditch and the dewatered river below this diversion. I am going to send those to the press this morning along with a copy of this message to you. If you will supply me with an e-mail address that will get noticed, I'll send those pictures to you too.
Pace has long suggested that some irrigators — who hold a livestock water right — divert far more water than is needed and then bleed off most of it irrigating fields before delivering a tiny fraction of the water to livestock.
It's important to point out that many Scott Valley water rights holders have voluntarily stopped exercising their livestock watering rights in order to provide water for salmon (the Scott River is now running 32 cfs, up from the 18 cfs when the original photos were taken).
It's equally important to point out that a few bad actors are making a mockery of those efforts by illegally withdrawing water and endangering salmon, and that the Department of Fish & Game, the Forest Service, DWR and others have seemingly looked the other way when these abuses occur.
In fact, the whole community looks the other way (from Pace's Klamblog):
A few years ago this ditch was turned on in the Spring in a manner that dewatered the Scott River below the diversion. Several hundred thousand Salmon and Steelhead died as a result, including listed Coho Salmon. While state officials knew about this and referred the ditch manager to the DA, only a slap on the wrist resulted and the matter was not reported to or by the press. In this way, state officials and the DA countenanced lawbreaking and thereby encouraged that lawbreaking – and the dewatering of the river – to continue.
I remember the case above, and despite contacting the DA's office at the time, never received a callback or other followup.
In an email response to my earlier post about the Scott, the County's Resource Manager said that pretty much all the diversions had been shut off since October 1, and that people should talk to officials before issuing "personal diatribes" on the Scott River's situation.
I couldn't agree more, except that recent experience suggests we don't seem to get much in the way of truth from those discussions.
Meanwhile, The Scott Keeps Dropping
The Scott River and Scott Valley are a mess; flows in the river have been dropping ever since the 1980s surface water adjudication process, despite the fact that precipitation levels haven't changed (from the Kurak/Yurok tribes press release):
Before the adjudication, it was rare for flows to ever drop below 30 cubic feet per second (cfs). In fact between 1942 and 1980, the Scott dropped below 30 cfs on average only 5.6 days a year, mostly in drought years. Between 1980 and 2009, the flows dipped below 30 cfs on average 35 days a year. This year, the river has been below 30 cfs since August 3rd!
So what's drying up the Scott River? This Klamath Riverkeepers op-ed likely hits the reason on the head:
It's also of note that precipitation patterns have not significantly changed over the years of record, so changing weather patterns are not to blame. What has changed? The number of wells drilled in Scott Valley. Prior to 1980, there were 406 wells, of which 99 were specified as irrigation wells. As of 2010, there were 790 wells in Scott Valley, 172 of which were specified as irrigation wells. Because they were drilled outside the "zone of adjudication," these new wells are not regulated and not part of the adjudication. That is to say the existing adjudication no longer describes water use in the valley since these new wells effectively suck water out from under existing water rights holders including the Forest Service. This fact has recently been documented by a groundwater analysis by the Karuk Tribe.
It gets a little grim.
There are clearly some water users who are trying to help the salmon, though many act as if they would happily see them extirpated from the Scott (some of them contend the coho salmon aren't even native to the watershed, though we dealt with that lie here).
Layered over the top of all this are hot-button issues like private property rights, though those who assert those rights for water forget that the public holds water rights too, and that water users don't own the salmon.
This last is important, because extirpating the salmon is essentially privatizing a public resource; if you consider those salmon public property, then most of the private property rhetoric heard up here is revealed as mere posturing — a "patriotic" excuse for a few people to siphon off a public resource for their own benefit.
See you wondering where all the water went, Tom Chandler.


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Amtrak Announces Ambitious Eco-Plans for HOK-Designed Overhaul of Washington D.C...
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- Union Station Renovation-HOK Parsons BrinkerhoffWashington D.C.'s Union Station is the second busiest train station in the nation—behind New York's Penn Station—and yet it has seen very little improvement since its completion in 1907. At the end of July, Amtrak announced very ambitious plans to overhaul the station and bring it into the next century of high-speed rail service while giving it a major green upgrade. The master plan for the train station renovation was designed by HOK in collaboration with Parsons Brinkerhoff and it could cost up to $6.5 billion. The renovation also includes the addition of over 3 million square feet of new residential, commercial and public open space on the tracks to the north.1
- Union Station Renovation-HOK Parsons BrinkerhoffAmtraks unveiled plans on July 25th to give D.C.'s Union Station a major overhaul and a slew of new upgrades. The original Daniel Burnham-designed station will remain as is architecturally, but will receive a number of upgrades in terms of efficiency.2
- Union Station Renovation-HOK Parsons BrinkerhoffThe heart of the project though is to the north in the train yard. As high speed rail begins here in the US, Union Station will need to be prepared to accommodate new trains and increased traffic between the north and south.3
- Union Station Renovation-HOK Parsons BrinkerhoffMuch of the $6.5B upgrades will be made out of necessity to handle some 300,000 passengers a day, triple its current volume, and double the number of trains it can accommodate.4
- Union Station Renovation-HOK Parsons BrinkerhoffBesides the transportation upgrades the train yard, which is currently open with nothing on top of it, will be covered with a new glass train shed roof to provide protection and daylighting for passengers.5
- Union Station Renovation-HOK Parsons BrinkerhoffPast the shed, trains will go underneath a brand new residential and commercial development along with a new public park in similar style to New York's HighLine. Connection with the city's existing public transport network will be improved as well aspublic space surrounding it.6
- Union Station Renovation-HOK Parsons BrinkerhoffCurrently D.C.'s train yard is wasted space, but the master plan could turn it into a brilliant mixed-use eco development, help preserve historic architecture and advance the station into the next age of high speed rail.7
- Union Station Renovation-HOK Parsons BrinkerhoffPlan of 1st Street level showing new concourses below the tracks and platforms.8
- Union Station Renovation-HOK Parsons BrinkerhoffMain level plan of the station showing reconstructed tracks and platforms and the historic train station.9
- Union Station Renovation-HOK Parsons Brinkerhoff1st Street plan showing connections to various modes of transportation.10
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TULSA, Okla. ?C The University of Arizona menˇ?s tennis team continued its terrific play on Sunday at the Polo Ralph Lauren All American Championships with Bruno Alcala and Jay Goldman both advancing to the qualifying round of the grand slam tournament.
Alcala faced Christian Bierich of Iowa and won; 7-6(3), 4-6, 7-5.? Alcala then would go onto to play Ball Stateˇ?s Jose Perdemo and win in straight sets; 6-3, 7-6(3).
Goldman played Chris Chirico in the third round and beat him; 7-6(2), 6-2.? In the fourth round of action, Goldman beat Anders Dalskov to advance to qualifying play; 7-5, 6-1
Head Coach Tad Berkowitz on Alcala and Goldman advancing to qualifying play, ˇ?Itˇ?s a great accomplishment for both Bruno and Jay to be able to come in here and win three consecutive matches, Iˇ?m very pleased with their performance.ˇ±
Peter Zimmer, looking for his third win in a row, battled Hubert Chodiewicz, but eventually lost; 7-6(4), 6-0.
For tomorrowˇ?s tournament action, senior Claudio Christen will get his first match under way against Mariusz Adamski of Wake Forest.
Christen and Goldman will also team up to compete in doubles action. They will take on Jakob Klaeson and Kalle Norberg of Mississippi.
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Sayville's Tom Westman, winner of 2005's Survivor: Palau is returning to this season's Survior: Heroes vs. Villains.
This is the 20th eidition of the reality show, Survivor pitting the nice against the not so nice.
After winning survivor 10, Westman left the FDNY and joined the Hartford Financial Group as an excutive. Survivor came knocking a few years back to have Westman return but since he just started his new job he rebuffed the offer.
The third time is a charm - when Survivor knocked - this time Westman opened the door and said, "YES".
Westman was one of the best "Survivor" contestants ever - winning five of seven immunity challenges. He won the competition - the question is can he do it again??
To help promote the upcoming show, 10 of the survivor contestants made an appearance on Letterman to read the top 10 'Survivor' List.
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A 42 year old man was identified and charged by the Digos (investigative unit) of the Police Headquarters in Pesaro and the Polposta for making death threats against Valentino Rossi and threatening to kill the Italian champion during the upcoming Mugello GP.
The man who lives in Casale Monferrato (Alessandria) using a false name was completely obsessed by his hatred of Rossi, making numerous and threatening phone calls that involved not only Rossi, but also targeting Rossi's family and close friends phones. The man also announced his intention to carry out the threat by calling the television media and newspapers.
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Nearly three years ago I wrote series of articles that I called Lucy's Sail (Google), about the change of OWN's business direction and our focus and commitment to the cloud. It almost instantly made me the SMB community public enemy #1 but after thirty-something straight months of profit and revenue growth during the implosion of the US economy there are few people out there that doubt the cloud. That debate ended a while ago and even today the perennial powers of HP and Dell are both reporting lower demand for steel.
Imagine a crowded room full of people that love to talk and everyone has a microphone. Sometimes in order to get your message out you have to either be louder or just make the most extreme comment you possibly can in order to get people to start paying attention. I believe I went with "You have to redesign your business around the cloud or face career choices of a used car salesman or Geeksquad handy man dusting CPU and case fans by day, installing TVs at night." I went on to hire Andy Goodman as my personal body guard and during one of the MVP meetings in Seattle sat down with Paul Fitzgerald and Kevin Beares to talk about their Aurora concept.
What I actually do for a living
I am in the business of making money. So while at times I may say stuff that makes you scratch your head, polar opinions rarely make it into contracts and into checks – there are no absolutes. So when it comes to the cloud – yes, it is and will grow as an even more dominant technology. But does that immediately or ultimately signify the death of all desktops, servers and client owned IT infrastructure? Only if you're suicidal.
When I first spoke to Paul and Kevin about what I was working on, I explained that I have been doing the "hosting" business for a long time and actually worked with clients directly in the late 90's on helping move things to the data center. One thing I learned early on is that in a utopian IT deployment, the client would retain all the control and data storage but outsourced all the nightmares: licensing, security, patching, upgrading, backing up, planning for capacity upgrades and general maintenance. Your typical small or medium business cares extremely little about their IT overall – but they care a lot about their data. Even the more IT strategic companies that buy the latest and the greatest will cringe and think about the TCO and costs associated with keeping everything moving. Here is what the SMB IT needs to look like:
Your small business owner does not want you to build a chicken coop, get bird feed, install a solar power array or a wind turbine to power the kitchen and then make them slaughter a bird every time they want a chicken. Ron said it right: "Set it and forget it." – they want you to set their IT up and they don't want to think about it, hear about it, meet you to consider projects or plan to eat a roasted chicken 18 months from now.
Your typical small or medium sized business loves the cloud because it's simple, efficient and easy. But if they knew the risk, they would take their data control a lot more seriously.
Your typical small or medium sized business loves the cloud because it's simple, efficient and easy. But if they knew the risk, they would take their data control a lot more seriously.
If you Google for "cloud downtime" or lost data you will see that cloud is far from bullet proof or immune from problems. Stuff goes down. And when it goes down it's not like an eMachines box that comes back after a reboot – it's arrays and arrays and arrays of clusters that need to be brought back up. Some cloud providers have even lost their clients data – permanently.
So what's the competitive advantage to the IT Solution Provider who wants to fulfill their clients need for a simple and manageable IT but wants to give them control over their data? This is a long conversation Kevin, Paul and I had in '07/'08 and those guys delivered their vision in the form of Aurora aka Small Business Server 2011 Essentials. Here is mine:
ExchangeDefender for SBS Essentials
ExchangeDefender Hosted Exchange now directly integrates in SBS 2011 Essentials for account management, control and maintenance:
Built in directly into the SBS 2011 Dashboard, you can manage your ExchangeDefender cloud services and see any service alerts, service status, link to the documentation and all the relevant stuff without all the complex things your typical user does not care about.
It ties back elegantly into your Shockey Monkey portal which is already branded with your logo, company name, your pricing scheme and backed by a company that doesn't compete with you. The authentication isolates accounts and change management to the accounts owned by this company and gives them the full management power without having to remember passwords or hop from service to service, site to site.
Account management is dead simple and gives the business control they want without the mess or complexity they don't want, don't need and can't afford.
Tie that in with the Outlook 2007/2010 integration between ExchangeDefender and their desktop, Shockey Monkey backoffice management that gives you support and integration back to your PSA, ability to link in your existing business model with a cloud service provider that delivers seamless integration across Hosted Exchange/SharePoint, Offsite Backups, business continuity, hosting and everything else you need in the cloud where you call the shots, name the price and keep control of your client? How's that business model looking now?
Oh, one more thing…
Wouldn't it be cool if this thing also took all of the data your client stores in the cloud across Exchange, SharePoint, ExchangeDefender and so on… and created a local backup / snapshot / cache on your SBS 2011 Essentials box? Turning the local server into a secure storage locker for all your cloud stuff that you don't want to build yourself? I hope that got your attention and I'll get it to you later this year, but everything else you can have starting tomorrow after the TechEd launch. If you see my guys there, make them show it to you live.
Anyhow, my name is Vlad and I just built your business model and support tools for the next few years. Click here and then give me a call.
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I'll send you the links to get it, it goes on PinPoint after the TechEd event wraps up here this week.
You know Vlad, it's funny that you used Ron in that example, I have a long history of going down the wrong fork in the road. I actually dated his daughter many many moons ago, I could have been in the son-in-law business. Hello Lisa where ever you are! Maybe it's time to take another look at this cloud thing before it's took late :>)
It was nice that someone understood what i was trying to achieve. It was not smooth sailing internally but i will not go there in such a public place. Vlad, I am not even slightly surprised that it was you who understand the vision and actually executed on it. Your track record is pretty clear.
Hybrid will be the model for awhile and to help move the bulk, not just early adopters but the less willing, of the small business space, to the cloud we needed a hook. A really well integrated way to make the microsoft cloud, the microsoft partner channel, and the realities of small business IT to come together and create one of those rare win-win situations in the midst of the biggest transormation in computing since the browser.
I always joked that aurora was like a really nice trojan horse that slipped in quietly with it's low cost and easy installation, helped solve (with a partners help) the nagging real and perceived issues with small business IT networks. Lowering the TCO of windows client drives customer SAT, defends us against Google's "no-IT cost pitch" but most importantly frees up the SB owner to think about what is next with their IT.
Would investing in powerful collab tools, richer email, etc now be possible if the nagging and silly issues like backup, av, etc were taken off the table once and for all. this is the question i wanted the business owner to ask themselves.
This forces the VAP community to continue to move up the stack from providing very basic services to the more expensive ones. But the money is better and the fire drills less frequent when you offer those kinds of services and you aren't dealing with issues like viruses and client backup that should have been solved years ago.
The entire world of IT is filled with pundits and analysts predicting cloud adoption. We all say it is inevitable. Maybe that is true but digging deep into the data and deeply into the customer responses to the research we did several years ago, it was very clear to me that we have no idea WHEN. ( i like to joke internally that it is august 12th 2014 around 5pm, it's a sunny evening and i am barbecuing, steaks i think. mmm)
Adoption is dependent on the vertical, the workload, the business owner, the timing of the last major investment they made in on-prem, how many times major companies screw up (see recent news) planet alignment and horoscopes. And most importantly it is based on when YOU tell the business owner it makes sense.
The smartest bet was to create customer choice. Not the choice to choose a competitor to Microsoft but the choice to choose on-prem or cloud where it made sense to them. I wanted to speed the sales process up 100 fold. I wanted VAPs to show up with an arsenal of choice, acquire the customer, generate the revenue stream, rinse lather repeat.
But most importantly i wanted to take the customer's sales objections OFF the table. "don't like cloud for customer list?" okey dokey, her is on-prem. "dont like on-prem for accounting?" okey dokey here is cloud. Either way, buy SOMETING SB owner because you need to import your IT to be competitive!!
Well… I think this is the culmination of a 5 year long dream at the end of a 15 year long journey working in one of the most rewarding,remarkable and undeniably important market segmets there is. Thanks vlad, thanks everyone. Sell aurora!! (when it makes sense for you and your customer)!!
Finally an official date for ubiquitous cloud adoption we can plan around. Thx Paul :>)
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Glad to see things are moving swimmingly, your comment doesn't reveal any frustration at all Right there with you on the whole thing though!
I learned A LOT while developing Shockey Monkey by myself and facing all the challenges of living up in the cloud and seeing first hand the hypocritical nature of your average IT Solution Provider. Their clients are even worse in that regard. So how do you plan around it and build a sustainable model that fits them both?
This is something that I've been trying to figure out financially with my buddies Frank Gurnee and Brian Friestat and I think you'll like what the different organizations have come up with.
It feels good to ship, right?
This is very sweet! Can't wait to see it… Perfect!!
On a related note, ZDnet just put up a new "news" blog posting saying that the future is not in HTML – it's in Internet-connected native mobile apps.
I take such opinion-based articles with a grain of salt, but at the same time, I don't think it's wrong to say that native apps are here to stay for a long time, and adding connected services is going to be where developers will put most of their focus for the time being while HTML5 is still being worked on.
IMO HTML5 is nowhere near where it needs to be in order to match the capabilities of native development, and it's not even a complete standard yet. Cross-platform compatibility for HTML5 is still many years off too.
So, how do you get this?
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iPods may account for just 7 percent of 2011 Apple revenue
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Scrivener for iOS to arrive in late July
For some long-time Scrivener users, to quote Paul Simon, "these are the days of miracle and wonders." As it marks its 10th anniversary in business, developer Keith Blount has announced that the long-awaited iOS version of his creative-writing tool Scrivener is to be submitted to the App Store, following strong praise from beta-testers. The program, expected in late July, will sell for $20 and work with both the iPad and iPhone. When we interviewed Blount last January, he added that Scrivener 3 for Mac would follow along shorty afterwards. http://bit.ly/2901XLE
WhatsApp now handles over 100M calls daily
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Adele's '25' album now streaming
Recording artist Adele has "pulled a Kanye" after saying that her current album "25" would not be available for streaming. The seven-month-old record, which has yielded a number of hit singles, is now available for streaming on all the major streaming services, such as Apple Music and Spotify, as of today in most major markets, with worldwide distribution to come. Reportedly, the singer had demanded streaming be limited to paid subscribers -- a condition that has hurt some streamers with artists, who aren't paid royalties for free or trial listens . Apple pays performers its normal royalty rates during its free trial, avoiding the issue -- and having repeated success in both signing up exclusives and placing those exclusives into the top of the charts. http://ti.me/28U7NOu
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A new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s case from SanDisk appears to be the "holy grail" of accessories: a stylish and protective case that offers both extra storage as well as the option of extra battery power as well. The iXpand Memory case offers either 32GB, 64GB, or 128GB of additional storage incorporated into the case, and an optional add-on battery pack (sold separately) adds up to an extra day or more of charge. Through the associated iXpand app, camera photos and videos can be automatically stored on the extra storage, optionally password-protected, The cost for the case is (in order of storage capacity) $60, $100, and $130. The battery pack's release data has not yet been announced, but the add-on should retail for an additional $30. http://bit.ly/291epHu
Fifth Hong Kong store to open June 30
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There appears to be a reproducible bug in the current version of iTunes -- version 12.4.1, running on OS X 10.11.5, both the current non-beta versions of the respective software -- that causes a streamed song to become "stuck" in endless buffering if the streamed item just before this happened was 60 seconds or less in length. The problem appears to stem from code in iTunes that signals the next track to start downloading one minute before the currently-playing track is done, and thus songs shorter than one minute don't trigger the download. Locally-stored music is unaffected by the bug, and the problem does not appear to exist in either the macOS Sierra developer beta or versions of iTunes earlier than 12.4, and does not affect the iOS Music app at all. http://bit.ly/291cN0l
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MONTVILLE TWP. — A Fairlawn man was injured when a Jeep Liberty went through a red light and hit his motorcycle Wednesday night at Interstate 71 and state Route 18, according to the Ohio Highway Patrol.
Lt. Bill Haymaker, commander of the Medina post of the patrol, said a 2006 tan Jeep Liberty driven by Matthew Sarko, 16, of Avon Lake, was turning left from the exit ramp off I-71 onto state Route 18 west at 10:14 p.m. Sarko went through a red light and hit a 2004 Harley-Davidson motorcycle traveling east on Route 18, Haymaker said.
The motorcyclist, Carmen Cassella, 56, of Fairlawn, was taken to Medina Hospital and then transferred by emergency helicopter to Cleveland MetroHealth Medical Center, the lieutenant said.
Cassella was listed in good condition Thursday, a hospital spokeswoman said.
Sarko was cited with failure to yield and driving outside restrictions, because he was driving with four other teenage passengers, Haymaker said.
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Interview with Lindsey Jean Bishop
Submitted by Kris Thompson on
Lindsey Jean Bishop is relatively new to Colorado cycling but in such a short time has really made an impact. Unlike other folks interviewed on 303cycling.com Lindsey is primarily a rider of the dirt and not asphalt and she is a women explaining her story from a women's view point. She also doesn't come from the 303 cycling bubble but resides in Colorado Springs.
Photo by Rob O'Dea
[303Cycling] Explain a little about yourself, where you were raised, what got you into cycling,
college, degree and current job.
[Lindsey] I grew up in northwest NJ and always enjoyed the outdoors. In high school I loved competing in sports, especially track and soccer. I got an academic scholarship to Syracuse University where I studied Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Inclusive Elementary Education. In hindsight, I worked a little too hard and graduated as the co-valedictorian of my college. My dorking-out also caused me to get out of shape and I began to miss feeling like an athlete. The summer before my senior year, in 2005, I did a mountain bike race and was invited to join Team Bulldog, a team out of northwest NJ. I decided mountain bikers were cool people and started doing more races. That summer I met Alison Dunlap at my first NORBA (Snowshoe, WV) and she encouraged me to start riding bikes more. I reinstated a Cycling Club at Syracuse University and began racing collegiate with the ECCC.
The following year Syracuse offered to fund my Master's degree in Literacy. It made riding and racing very difficult. The many early-morning/late-night trainer sessions paid off when I won my Expert category XC National MTB Championship last June (2007). Two months later I finished my MS program in Literacy and moved out to Colorado Springs to focus more on becoming a bike racer. I was lucky to receive a gorgeous Cyclocross bike from Felt last fall, enabling me to start racing 'cross and I fell in love with it!
I've been living out here in Colorado for over a year now and I'm working as a live-in nanny and a tutor. I just finished my first professional mountain bike season with Mafia Racing where I learned a lot! I also became more experienced with road racing and learned how to train with a power meter. Next summer I'll be dividing my focus more evenly between mountain bike and road racing. I'm excited to be racing with Mafia Racing for mountain bike and Colorado Bike Law on the road!
[303Cycling] What do you see are the advantages to training in CO springs?
[Lindsey] I moved here from the northeast, so I was primarily attracted to the dry, temperate climate and the mountains. Pikes Peak and the surrounding foothills makes for incredible mountain biking, all within riding distance of downtown. The Velodrome is another great resource, which I'm looking forward to becoming more familiar with next year. The presence of USA Cycling, our Olympic training center and legends like Alison Dunlap also makes this town pretty special.
[303Cycling] What you would say/or do to encourage more women to take up competitive cycling?
[Lindsey] It makes a massive difference when more experienced female racers are supportive and nurturing to novice women. I remember how ecstatic I was when Alison Dunlap sat down to talk with me at my first NORBA in 2005. It was my first summer of racing and her encouragement absolutely meant the world to me. Most of us aren't World Champions, but we can still have a profoundly positive influence on the growth of women's cycling by being kind and giving guidance to the novices among us. Thank you to the road racers who provided me with guidance during the road races I tried this past summer!!
Photo by Kris Thompson
[303Cycling] What are the barriers for women in cycling?
[Lindsey] Prize money isn't equal, there aren't as many events for women and the events are shorter than men's. Also, there aren't many resources available to help support female racers; for example, there are very few teams with sponsored positions for women.
[303Cycling] Would you say your mountain biking background puts you at an advantage over other
"roadie" girls in CX?
[Lindsey] No, the "roadie" girls are definitely solid bike handlers too. Plus they are really strong racers! My east coast mountain bike experience definitely helps me out when it's muddy or icy though. I tend to race well in super sketchy conditions and in bad weather. It makes me feel like a little kid.
[303Cycling] What are the cycling cultural differences between the womens MTB crowd and CX?
[Lindsey] CX is great because it brings mountain bike and road racers together. The only cultural difference I've noticed is that CX racing in general is more laid back than both road and mountain bike. It's basically off-season for all of us. So although we all race our hardest when the gun goes off, the vast majority of CX'ers seem to embrace the simple joys of "more cowbell", laughing at ourselves during CX racing mishaps, and taking time to appreciate Mafia Racing's generous partnership with PBR (inside the beer gardens, of course). I love my team.
[303Cycling] What are your long term goals with cycling? Quit your job do it full time?
[Lindsey] I would like to make racing into a reasonably sustainable career for as long as I can. I'd also like to race internationally.
Anything else you want to add is fine.
If I could be a professional cruiser-bike rider, I would definitely go that route too.
And in case you are wondering, she is not related to Jeremy Bishop!
Thanks Lindsey for the interview!
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womens racing in Colorado
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
In a typical ACA race day in CO there are less than 35 women racing TOTAL. That # is usually smaller than any 1 of the main men's fields(pro1/2, 3, 4, 35 plus, 35 plus cat. 4). But somehow it is prize money and lack of racing that is the problem? No offense to Ms. Bishop, but as a male racer, club president, and promoter I get really tired of hearing these excuses.
Outside of that good interview and an interesting story. Good luck to her as she workes to balance road and mountain bike racing.
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I don't read her statement
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
I don't read her statement about prize money as an "excuse" - she is out there racing, doing her best. She's expressing a desire for a women's sport to receive equal treatment. I, too, know there are fewer women racing, and it's hard to justify prize money for fewer entrants. However, I'd like to see the full-time pro/neo-pro have a chance at making a little money, whether male or female.
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Lindsey's interview reflects her whole approach to racing and to life - do it for the joy of it - no excuses. She sets an example for the sport as a whole - lay out the facts and keep it positive. She's a breath of fresh air that will make the community proud.
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The female neo-pros have a
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
The female neo-pros have a lot of chances to make $$$ in this sport since their fields are so much smaller and often paying much deeper on a percentage basis.
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Riders from southern CO
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Great interview! Good Luck tomorrow Lindsey.
Good to get some representation from the south side of the state
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Great Interview!
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Keep up the good work, Lindsey! You make the northeast proud!
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What an inspiration to other
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
What an inspiration to other women. Lindsey is exactly what team sponsors are looking for. Talented, competitive, smart and not to mention darling. She has what it takes to be a professional cyclist. She will exceed her own expectations and that of others. Someday we will look back and know she was a part of Colorado racing and be thankful for it.
Good luck Lindsey!
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Neat insight
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
It's interesting to get a little insight as to where someone comes from, it will also be fun to watch her as she calls Colorado home. We had seen her at the CX races, but never knew who she was, her background, etc. All we saw was this cutie rippin' up the course. Very cool.
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Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Medieval and Renaissance Studies really?!!! Oh geez, my crush just grew that much more!!
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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on
Lindsey rocks! I have witnessed her at the local CX races and she is aways in the mix.
I can also agree that she is great for women cyclists. I just came off working as the tech director for the US pro women's racing team, Value Act Capital. And the younger talented riders is just what this sport needs.
Welcome to the scene Lindsey!
Also you can catch Lindsey in the Fall 2009 Pearl Izumi catalog.
Brian Dallas
Dealer Sales // Pearl Izumi
UCI Professional Mechanic
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text: Syracuse Police Department Syracuse police release video from Father's Day shooting By Tom Magnarelli • Jun 24, 2016 Syracuse Police Department The Syracuse Police Department has released a video from the Father's Day shooting that happened over the weekend where a police officer fired her gun and one man was shot and killed. The video starts with a large crowd of party-goers running frantically away. The video appears to show a woman in uniform, presumably Officer Kelsey Francemone running towards the chaos. Francemone is the officer Syracuse Police said fired her weapon. Syracuse's National Action Network calls for independent review of Father's Day shooting By Tom Magnarelli • Jun 23, 2016 Tom Magnarelli / WRVO News Listen Listening... / 2:24 The Syracuse National Action Network and many in the city's African American community are calling for an independent review into what happened at a cookout event on Syracuse's Near West Side that turned into a shooting on Sunday. Many questions remain as to why one man was killed and a police officer discharged her gun. Syracuse police officer cleared by grand jury in fatal shooting By Tom Magnarelli • May 25, 2016 Tom Magnarelli / WRVO News A Syracuse police officer has been cleared by a grand jury of any wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of an armed woman. Police officers Darrin Ettinger and Jeremy Decker were called to the scene back in February on a complaint of drug dealing. Upon arriving, the woman, brandishing a sawed-off shotgun, ran away from police officers, who told her multiple times to drop her weapon. The woman turned and pivoted towards Decker, pointing the gun in his direction. Ettinger fired two shots that hit the woman. Former Syracuse police spokesman pleads guilty to stealing $32,000 from NY state By Tom Magnarelli • May 17, 2016 Former Syracuse police sergeant and spokesperson Tom Connellan has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $32,000 from New York state in unearned wages. The theft comes from falsifying reports he made for a part-time job. Protesters upset with Syracuse Police participation in tactical conference By Tom Magnarelli • Apr 28, 2016 Tom Magnarelli / WRVO News A conference for the New York Tactical Officers Association is being held at the Turning Stone Resort this week. Various social justice groups from across the state are protesting the conference which they say contributes to the militarization of police departments. Syracuse Citizen Review Board head stepping down, lawsuit against police still pending By Tom Magnarelli • Apr 11, 2016 Tom Magnarelli / WRVO News Listen Listening... / 1:49 The administrator for Syracuse's Citizen Review Board, which investigates complaints against the police department, is stepping down next month. This comes amidst a pending lawsuit the review board brought against the Syracuse Police Department. 25 new Syracuse police officers could help alleviate overtime concerns By Tom Magnarelli • Mar 8, 2016 Tom Magnarelli / WRVO News The city of Syracuse swore in a new class of police officers on Monday. The new recruits are filling spots being vacated by retiring officers and helping to cut down on overtime. Kimberly Dishaw of Syracuse is one of the 25 new officers. "I'm just overwhelmed, excited, ready to start class," Dishaw said. The officers now begin 26 weeks at the police academy before another 12 weeks of field training. Speaking to the new recruits, Police Chief Frank Fowler told them it is a challenging time to be an officer. Father charged with second-degree murder of 21-month-old daughter who went missing in Syracuse By Tom Magnarelli • Feb 24, 2016 Tom Magnarelli / WRVO News Listen Listening... / 1:08 The father of a 21-month-old girl who went missing in Syracuse is now being charged with her death. A 911 call and an Amber Alert assisted police in the investigation. Syracuse police activate AMBER Alert for missing 21-month-old girl By WRVO News • Feb 21, 2016 Syracuse police have issued an AMBER Alert as they continue to search for a 21-month-old girl who may have been taken by her custodial father. New smartphone app lets you tip-off Syracuse police By Ellen Abbott • Jan 21, 2016 Ellen Abbott / WRVO News The Syracuse Police Department is trying to use technology to get more people to tip them off about criminal activity. A new smartphone app for Apple and Android phones, called SPD Tips, is now available. It allows people to anonymously contact police directly with a tip. It goes along with the 411 tips link on the department's website, according to police Chief Frank Fowler. Recent shootings in Syracuse have happened in same area By Tom Magnarelli • Nov 10, 2015 Tom Magnarelli / WRVO News Listen Listening... / 1:40 Two shootings in Syracuse on Monday and two more shootings on Sunday all occurred about a mile from each other. A majority of the shootings that have happened recently are in a certain area of the city's south side. Syracuse mayor responds to police union president's call for more police officers By Ellen Abbott • Jul 15, 2015 City of Syracuse Listen Listening... / 1:39 The president of Syracuse's Police Benevolent Association is calling for more cops on the street, in the wake of a violent stretch in the city. Over the 4th of July weekend, 10 people were shot in a 24-hour span. In a letter to the editor on Syracuse.com, PBA president Jeff Piedmonte suggests residents contact Mayor Stephanie Miner, urging her to hire 50 more police officers. Piedmonte says there are currently 417 police officers on the streets, the lowest number since the 1970s. He says that's dangerously low, especially at a time of an uptick in crime. Discussion over surplus military equipment welcomed in Syracuse By Ellen Abbott • May 19, 2015 DJ Leln / via Flickr President Barack Obama is calling on more public awareness and debate regarding military equipment that is distributed to local law enforcement agencies. Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner says she would welcome such discussions. Police say gang member arrests prove TRUCE initiative works By Ellen Abbott • Apr 2, 2015 Ellen Abbott / WRVO News Enhanced enforcement by the Syracuse Police Department this winter, as part of the TRUCE initiative, has led to the arrest of 20 Bricktown and Bootcamp gang members. Syracuse TRUCE started two years ago, as a collaboration between police and community service organizations with the aim of reducing gun violence in the city. Regional police academy graduates 57 new officers By Ryan Delaney • Feb 20, 2015 Ryan Delaney / WRVO It was graduation day for a group of recruits from the Syracuse Police Academy. Fifty-seven men and women were given their badges during a ceremony at the Palace Theater. Among them is Dan Medlock, who is joining the Syracuse Police Department. He says all the scrutiny police officers have been given in recent months was on his mind during the training. Syracuse police launching data-driven crime reduction program By Ryan Delaney • Feb 2, 2015 Ryan Delaney / WRVO The Syracuse Police Department will soon be using a data-driven approach to reducing gun and other violent crime. The police department will launch a program that it says will help it better pinpoint where in the city to target crime prevention efforts, which Mayor Stephanie Miner spoke about it in her recent state of the city address. "This data-oriented strategy will enable our officers to systematically diagnose trends in gun violence," she said. It's called the Problem Oriented Policing program, or POP. Syracuse common council accepts grant for military hardware, one lawmaker objects By Ellen Abbott • Jan 28, 2015 Public Domain Syracuse common councilors agreed this week to accept more military hardware for the police department through a state grant program, but not every lawmaker is on board with accepting the equipment. Among the items on the list of equipment the $100,000 grant will obtain are: entry rams, tubular assault equipment and a Bearcat Ram-Cam four-way monitor. Democrat Jean Kessner wonders why police need it. "We're a city. We're not a war zone," Kessner said. "I don't know what they are. I can't pretend to know, and that's kind of a problem." Protesters stage die-in, march in downtown Syracuse By Ellen Abbott • Dec 9, 2014 Ellen Abbott / WRVO Following a die-in and demonstration on the Syracuse University campus, more than 200 protesters shut down the street in front the justice center in Syracuse last night as they marched down the hill into downtown Syracuse. Syracuse Police to implement new Taser guidelines next year By Ellen Abbott • Dec 8, 2014 hermanturnip / Flickr The Syracuse Police Department will implement new rules regarding the use of Tasers next year. The changes come as the result of a settlement of a lawsuit filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union charging Taser abuse in city schools. The lawsuit involved the use of Tasers against two students, including one who was trying to break up a fight between other students, and another involving a diabetic student who was upset over academic issues and lying on the floor. In both cases no charges were filed, even as both students were handcuffed and taken from school. 25 assault rifles and 1 armored truck: The hand-me-down military gear Syracuse police have By Ryan Delaney • Dec 5, 2014 DJ Leln / via Flickr Listen Listening... / 3:03 Some of the hand-me-down gear the Syracuse police force has received from the Pentagon is harmless - and in fact pretty useful: First aid kits, 40 pairs of long johns, 50 pairs of winter boots, even electrical tape and bungee cords. Community activists call for proactive response to Ferguson decision By Ryan Delaney • Nov 25, 2014 Ryan Delaney / WRVO Syracuse activists want events in Ferguson, Missouri to lead to more dialogue and understanding between the community and law enforcement. They renewed those calls Tuesday afternoon with a few chants of "No justice, no peace" downtown. It was a much more restrained affair in Syracuse than the destructive protests outside St. Louis, Missouri Monday and Tuesday. Syracuse council renews call to change residency laws for cops, firefighters By Ryan Delaney • Oct 29, 2014 Ken Hawkins / Flickr Syracuse city councilors are hoping to convince state-level lawmakers to change a law that allows police, firefighters and sanitation workers to live outside the cities they work in. A non-binding resolution issued by the council comes after they learned only about three dozen of the city's roughly 450 police officers actually live in the city. Firefighters and sanitation workers are also exempt, though a higher percentage of those employees live in the city. That results in tens of millions of dollars in city salaries leaving the city, the council estimates. Faith leaders, police hope to be 'proactive' in improving relations By Ryan Delaney • Oct 23, 2014 Ryan Delaney / WRVO Members of the Syracuse faith community and the city's police department want to be "proactive" in improving the relationship between the community and police department. African-African faith leaders will hold a series of monthly community meetings at different churches in the city beginning next month with the goal of facilitating a dialog between the police department and community members. Police departments get new vests through state-funded program By Ellen Abbott • Aug 25, 2014 Ellen Abbott / WRVO A new state program is providing bulletproof vests for police departments across the state. One Syracuse Police detective is living proof of how important these vests are to an officer on the street. It was April 13, 2009, when Syracuse Police Detective Richard Curran and his partner found themselves in a shootout on Syracuse's south side with a wanted parolee who was carrying an illegal .357 handgun. Curran was wearing an up-to-date bulletproof vest, and was shot at close range. Large class begins Syracuse police academy By Ryan Delaney • Aug 22, 2014 A large class of new recruits has begun training to become Syracuse police officers, but if you ask Syracuse police chief Frank Fowler, it's still not enough cops. "Keep bringing them," he said. "I tell you, I can find work for every police officer that you send my way. But this is a great start and I'm glad to have it." Fowler was speaking after the swearing in of a new class of officers. Syracuse is buffeting its police ranks more than normal. It swore in 35 officers to begin six months of training on Thursday. Syracuse police union reaches 5-year contract with city By Ryan Delaney • Jun 13, 2014 Ken Hawkins / Flickr Syracuse police officers have reached a new labor contract with the city, more than three years after the old one expired. It's not uncommon for police union contracts to lapse, but this one stretched on for a while, mostly over health care costs and coverage. The new contract is for five years, but it applies retroactively to when the old one expired at the end of 2010. The 428 Syracuse police officers will have to pay about twice as much for health insurance, but will get two percent raises for 2013, 2014 and 2015. Syracuse residents ask city for more security cameras By Ryan Delaney • May 20, 2014 Mike Fleming / via Flickr The Syracuse Police Department says its network of security cameras in the city are helping fight crime. And some neighborhood advocates are asking for more. Nearly 40 cameras have been installed in parts of the city since 2011. They're on the Near Westside, in the Pioneer Homes complex and along Butternut Street on the north side. Twenty more cameras will be online by the end of the summer, mostly downtown and along East Fayette Street. Syracuse budget hearing highlights need for first responders and literacy By Ellen Abbott • May 1, 2014 Ellen Abbott / WRVO Pleas for funding for a literacy program, and concerns about public safety spending rounded out comments at last night's public hearing on the city of Syracuse's proposed 2014-2015 budget. In all, six people spoke to common councilors about Mayor Stephanie Miner's proposed $660 million spending plan last night. Among them was Felicia Salley, a mother of three from Syracuse's southside. She says the Imagination Library, run by the Literacy Coalition of Onondaga County, has helped her kids prepare for school by providing each of her children one new age-appropriate book a month. Syracuse considers adding more police, firefighters By Ellen Abbott • Apr 8, 2014 Ellen Abbott / WRVO If Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner's proposed budget is approved as is by the Common Council, the city will soon beef up its police and fire departments. Miner says even as the city budget continues to be tight, it's time for the new officers, with more than 200 potential police and fire retirements looming this year. "You always are trying to manage, and manage and looking at how many retirements you're going to have and how many you've already had, where your needs are and how you can balance those needs," Miner said. Syracuse homicide rate at recent high in 2013 By Tom Magnarelli • Feb 11, 2014 Tom Magnarelli / WRVO The homicide rate in Syracuse was at a recent high in 2013. The city had 22 homicides in 2013, a 60 percent increase from the 13 homicides in 2012. Sargent Tom Connellan, the public information officer for the Syracuse Police Department, said it is very difficult to predict a homicide. "We can target gun violence, we can target a lot of other crimes, but sometimes these are just crimes of opportunity or crimes of passion. Some involved domestic related incidents. 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In an ongoing series to spell out exactly how unfair and hard it is to get anything done in our region. I am going dig deep into specific projects and let the reader be the judge. Since the Painted Hills project is back on the Board of Supervisor's agenda for review this week we thought we'd update the readers on the challenge the project has been. Read yesterday's Star's article – HERE.
A little history on Painted Hills. Picture a tract of land, with beautiful saguaros and pristine desert that took 1000's of years to create (never mind that virtually the entirety of Pima County was once such pristine desert). The property totals 283 acres on Tucson's west side which would turn in to 260 high end homes. The project is owned by the TDB Tucson Group who represents the Dallas Police and Firefighters' Pension System and is being developed by LandBaron a Las Vegas firm. Lots of big dollars and professional firms involved.
Here is were it starts to get interesting. Apparently Pima County identified the land as part of it's open space purchases from voter approved bond money. At one point there was an offer to purchase the property for $4.25 million. The ultimate sale price came in at $27 million well beyond the County's budget.
The new land owner went through the motions to turn the property into a CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT which is a way to encourage higher density infill. By becoming a cluster development the developer agreed to the Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan requirements and set aside over 200 acres of the total of 283 for open space. The cluster development requires that housing be grouped in clusters on the development instead of checker boarded around the site. Tough mistake but a mistake none the less. From The Weekly:
Officials from Pima County Development Services say cluster subdivisions allow high-density development on small parcels of land without compromising more open space. Critics use Painted Hills as an example to show that they can also offer a loophole to developers: Cluster subdivisions like Painted Hills effectively create a de facto rezoning with less scrutiny while ignoring the guidelines in the county's Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan.
Let me see if I understand, buyer buys the land, understands the rules BEFORE buying the land, buyer goes to work on turning their investment into a profit. Enter the neighbors, a couple of which happen to be none other than Chuck Huckleberry, the Pima County Administrator and Carolyn Campbell from the Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection. (learn more HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE). Probably two of the most powerful environmental leaders in Tucson just happen to be your new neighbors. NIMBY starts taking on a whole new meaning.
Neighbors file suit to block the development. Board of Supervisors take another look at the cluster development problem and fix the loop hole. The Board seeks legal advice about RETROACTIVLY applying the fixed ordinance to the Painted Hills development.
Silvyn (attorny for LandBaron) warned the county that applying cluster revisions retroactively is "unconstitutional," because the development has completed its county review process.
What's a little unconstitutionality among friends.
The Tucson Weekly ran a feature profiling the Friends of Painted Hills discussion.
I'm not taking a position on what, if or how this property does or does not ever get developed. Leave it as open space, turn it into apartments, section 8 housing you name it I really don't have a horse in the race so I don't particularly care.
Here is where I have a major issue; how on earth can a government entity so blatantly disregard private property rights. Unless I missed something we do live in America. Pima County could have cowboyed up and purchased the property but didn't. The group that did buy the land did their due diligence and knew exactly what they were getting into. The rules were posted and the developer followed them to the 'T'. In return they've received nothing but grief. I can bet you that the buyer, Dallas Police and Fire Pension Fund are cursing the day they ever set foot in Tucson.
As of the April 17th, 2008 publishing of the Weekly article the legal opinion on if the retroactive application of the ordinance fix is waiting a ruling. But why stop there, let's hit the project with everything we got. Oct 21, 2008 the Star ran an article about the City of Tucson, denying water hook up to four new developments located outside of Tucson city limits, you guessed it Painted Hills is one of them.
Of the four projects at stake, Painted Hills is the most controversial…..In its legal claim filed Oct. 8 at City Hall, Painted Hills developer TDB Tucson Group said city officials ignored three requests for comment on water service when Pima County officials were reviewing the developer's application for approval of its subdivision layout. ….Tucson Water lines already exist along West Speedway and Anklam roads next to the Painted Hills property, and Tucson Water already serves properties on three sides of this parcel, Iurino wrote. The letter quoted a 2007 memo from Assistant City Attorney Chris Avery saying the city cannot arbitrarily refuse to provide water to "infill" development within an existing service area."We're not really protesting anything. All we're doing is saying this is one of those situations where city has a clear obligation to serve," said Keri Silvyn, another attorney for the developer.The city's stance was welcomed by neighbors who have fought the Painted Hills project."I think that the City Council and mayor understand the value of the natural environment, that it is an irreplaceable asset to the character of life and quality of life and are supporting (a) clear mandate voters made by approving bonds to buy that land," said Lissa Gibbs, a neighboring resident.Ward 1 Councilwoman Regina Romero. "It's not about Painted Hills — it's about the future and planning of all our development."
Yeah right!
It goes something like this;
1. Elected representatives approve a zoning plan for up zoning on a piece of property. Usually the lots are zoned for 3 acres to 25 acres or restricted to agriculture or churches. The developer often buys the land contingent on these zoning changes. With the vote from the elected officials in hand the transaction is completed.
2. Environmental activists learn about the impact of the development on the SDCP or on the habitat of a pygmy owl or the (insert plant or animal name here – try the Gila Chub, Tucson shovel-nosed snake, the Pima Pinaple Cactus, Southwest Willow Flycatcher or whatever). Their efforts go into full court press.
3. The Enviro's drum up support from the adjacent neighbors. This plan includes door to door marketing to each neighbor. The goal is to stress the traffic impact of the new development or just about anything that will stoke the fires of the NIMBY crowd. Petitions are signed, special elections are demanded, court actions are started. The Enviro's use some or all of these efforts to over rule the original zoning or council approved vote.
4. The cycle goes on costing the developer untold dollars and more importantly TIME. The Enviro's are organized, they know the rules and they pull every legal lever they can. Usually the cost of legal engagement is minimal because the federal species acts are set up force the government to do the heavy lifting. Whether it's getting federal designation of the Santa Cruz as navigable, or forcing a mining company to go through the federal process to cross a small wash leading to their quarry, the Enviro's use the laws and our taxpayer funded court system to do their work.
5. If the petition process isn't the best fit, the Enviro's can pit one jurisdiction against another. You see that in State Land Department wedged between Pima County and Oro Valley, or the developer in Sahuarita that was being played between the county and the Town of Sahaurita. Using political leverage with the help of an Enviro friendly jurisdiction against one another is common place. These power player jurisdictions use future annexation of land as a tool to get municipalities into line. (Oro Valley and Marana recently adopted the SDCP.)
6. Building in requirements to all developments are another tactic. Enviro's have successfully built in requirements for future developments to include; native plant preservation, rain water harvesting, water shed and rainwater retention basins, 100 year assured water supplies just to name a few. Some of these new development design specifications are useful and important. Many are simply pandering to a special interest and down right ridiculous. All of these added requirements cost money. Guess who ultimately pays the price for these extra steps? The developer? Absolutely not, the cost gets passed directly to you and I the end consumers.
7. When all else fails and probably the Enviro's greatest ace in the hole is there ability to count votes from elected officials. By picking, supporting, funding and working to get the elected officials in office the Enviro lobby wields tremendous influence with elected officials in towns, cities and the county.
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As a foundation for the major, all students must take
Writing in the Major Requirement: Environmental Studies requires writing that synthesizes information from a variety of sources, clearly articulates both science- and value-based arguments, and conveys complicated ideas. Students must learn to write independent pieces and to write effectively in a collaborative setting. In introductory courses for the major, students advance their writing skills through analytical case studies and scientific papers and reports; this focus continues in 200-level courses. The capstone challenges students to describe their complex research findings in narrative and graphical forms and discuss the relevance of their finding in a manner accessible to community groups. Environmental Studies majors fulfill the Skidmore writing-in-the-major requirement as they complete the requirements for the Environmental Studies major, learning to write in a variety of disciplines and for a variety of audiences, including the general public.
Social and Cultural Perspectives Track
The Social and Cultural Perspectives track draws upon disciplinary and interdisciplinary foundations in the social sciences, humanities, and arts to build an understanding of how changes in the environment affect social organization and cultural development. Conversely, these courses also focus on how society and culture shape the environment and on the consequences of that influence. This track is well-suited for students interested in environmentally related activities in literature, journalism, education, sustainable development, policy and law, social service, public health, and resource management.
Students in the Social and Cultural Perspectives track must successfully complete 42 to 48 credits in approved courses that count toward the ES major.
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2. Three courses from the Social and Cultural Core classes:
3a. Two courses, at least three credits each, from ES Cluster A: Culture, Society, and the Environment; and
3b. An additional 3 credits in ES Cluster A; at least 6 credits of Cluster A must be at the 300 level. Up to 3 credits in total of ES 271, ES 371, ES 299, and ES 399 may count toward the major.
4. Two courses from ES Cluster B1: Exploring the Natural World (at least one course with a lab);
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By Definition;
praise (prz), n.
1. Expression of approval, commendation, or admiration.
2. The extolling or exaltation of a deity, ruler, or hero.
3. Archaic A reason for praise; merit.
en·cour·age (n-kûrj, -kr-)
1. To inspire with hope, courage, or confidence; hearten.
2. To give support to; foster.
3. To stimulate; spur.
I believe the very definition of 'encourage' epitomises the roles of parenting and teaching – inspire, courage, confidence, support, foster, stimulate, spur on. Contrast this with the words defining praise – approval, admiration, exalt, extol.
Whilst there is obviously a place for each when spending time with children, the difference is that encouragement acknowledges effort, the process and celebrates success whilst praise makes a judgment and is about giving a child your approval of their actions.
Compare, "That is a beautiful painting," with, "What bright colours you've chosen. What do you like most about your painting?"
It is more useful to say to the child, "Thanks for letting Joe play – it really cheered him up," than, "You're a nice girl."
It is important that we try to encourage and acknowledge much more regularly than we praise;
- Practise giving your child more specific feedback.
- Encourage their efforts, acknowledging successes and failures.
- Focus encouragement on the learning process and their learning style rather than the final outcome.
You will find an excellent article from the New York Magazine about the inverse power of praise, including interesting results of recent research here: How Not to Talk to Your Kids: The Inverse Power of Praise By Po Bronson
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Artists don't want to fit a mold. They seek unique and independent self-expression. Wendy Sittner does that without the influence from traditional art training. Some artists emerge and evolve like her. It begins with strong conviction and determination. It takes hard and deliberate work to produce art that one can defend on merit.
When I first saw her work it was at Stifel & Capra. It was difficult to assess because there was no context. I featured one of her works that was a tube of paint surrounded by words. Artists who incorporate words and phrases is a genre. It takes time to read the words and to absorb the point. There is nothing wrong with that because art is intended to evoke a response, however unique that may be.
When artists provide words, that is being very specific and leaves less to the discretion of the patron viewer, unless, of course there is latitude in interpreting the meaning of those words.
"I am a mixed-media artist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker. My clinical work inspires my art, which is often based on themes of emotional healing and meaningful life experiences."
As with many artists, you will discover that Wendy has affinity with certain subjects, ideas, and art forms. As you experience her work over time and in different venues you may discover some of those elements as they transform and migrate from idea and form. It is art that's in transition and on the move. It is rich as in collections of things and assemblages.
She enjoys insects and things that are a part of nature. It may be a "bejeweled beetle" or a moth. It could be a sand-sculpted porpoise on the beach.
She describes herself as a mixed-media artist who is also a repurposer. As she continues her development and discovers new techniques and art forms, who knows where this talent will trend, because after all, she is about "impermanence".
"I am interested in the impermanence of life, including the mortality of humanity, and the fleeting nature of happy versus tragic experiences. I am inspired by life lessons offered by the natural world, particularly regarding the cycle of decay and regrowth. I examine whether people take from nature a message of hope or a sense of tragedy. My artwork encompasses mixed-media works on canvas, assemblage art, and book arts. I often repurpose old materials and incorporate them into my newly created works to convey the repetitive nature of the cycle (and re-cycling) of life and related emotional experiences. Overall, my work exposes viewers to a spectrum, ranging from bright revelations to dark introspection."
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Nov. 10, 2012
Notes | Quotes | Final Stats | Photo Gallery | UW Photo Gallery
|Washington 34, Utah 15
Saturday, Nov. 10 | CenturyLink Field | Attedance: 60,050
Notes | Quotes | Final Stats | Photo Gallery
By Gregg Bell
UW Director of Writing
SEATTLE - The most awaited moment of the Huskies' wildly seesawing season wasn't Keith Price leaping, reaching the ball out across the goal line, and getting whacked in the end zone for a touchdown run against Utah.
It was what he did immediately afterward.
The previously burdened, sullen quarterback popped up as if a Jack in the Box. He smiled through his customized mouthpiece. He shook his head up and down, faced the roaring CenturyLink Field crowd -- and jubilantly put his hands on both hips to strike a look-at-me pose.
The swagger was finally back in KP17.
"Yeah, a little bit," Price said with a more sly grin after his first three-touchdown day against a Football Bowl Subdivision team since his NCAA-record seven touchdowns in last December's Alamo Bowl.
It was one of many revitalizing aspects of suddenly smokin' Washington's 34-15 ransacking of Utah Saturday night.
"I'm starting to get it back," Price said. "I just needed to get myself together."
Bishop Sankey ran for 162 yards on 36 carries with two touchdowns to become the 10th running back in UW history with 1,000 yards in a season. Austin Seferian-Jenkins caught seven more passes from Price for 99 yards to pass Mark Bruener and become Washington's all-time leader for career receptions by a tight end - as a sophomore. He even debuted as a pass-rush defensive end.
Price completed 24 of 33 passes for a season-high 277 yards and two touchdowns passing plus his first rushing touchdown since he outplayed Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III in that astounding Alamo Bowl 11 months ago.
And the Huskies got bowl eligible by bowling over the stunned Utes on a thumping Senior Night in front of 60,050 at cold-yet-sizzling CenturyLink Field.
The flummoxed, emotion-wracked Price that had turned the ball over 10 times while UW lost three in a row? More gone than that warm weather in Seattle.
Yeah, the Huskies don't remember that, either.
"He was much more the Keith we grew to know and love last season," coach Steve Sarkisian said after Washington (6-4, 4-3 Pac-12) won its third straight. "It's just the energy that he brings. He got an infectious energy that the team really responds to.
"And I'm happy for him. It's been a grind for him this season. He's been through a lot. He's an awesome, awesome kid. And he deserved to have a game like this, to get going."
As Sarkisian noted, all aspects were finally going for the Huskies as they qualified for their third consecutive bowl.
How long ago was that winless season? Eons?
"We talked early on this season as a football team about taking the next step," Sarkisian said of an encore to his 5-7, 7-6 and 7-6 start to his UW tenure. "We're not here playing just to get bowl eligible anymore.
"There is a lot of meat left on the bone in this season."
The Utes (4-6, 2-5) took an early 8-0 lead - then watched Sankey, Seferian-Jenkins, Price, and a thumping defense dominate. UW scored 34 of the next 41 points to improve to 8-0 all-time against Utah.
Price's first touchdown pass came early in the second quarter when Kasen Williams turned his turf cleats into ballet shoes and stuck his toes straight down inside the back line of the end zone, Lynn Swann style. The stylish, 8-yard touchdown catch cut Utah's early lead to 8-7.
Price's other scoring pass was DiAndre Campbell's first touchdown since the Portland State game. It was the first time in seven games someone other than Seferian-Jenkins or Williams had a TD reception, and it put UW up 21-8 early in the third quarter.
The offensive line with four first-year starters that created this shocking 1,000-yard season for Sankey also neutralized national-defensive-player-of-the-year candidate Star Lotulelei and Utah's outstanding defensive front.
The grit and refusal to yield was best exemplified by John Timu. The sophomore linebacker and co-captain got hit in the side of the helmet by his own, flying teammate while trying to stop a Utah run in the third quarter with the Huskies leading 21-15. He lay prone unable to feel the right side of his body for a moment as trainers and doctors rushed to him and a sideline cart was summoned to take him off.
Then, remember how he was carted off strapped to a board to a hospital against California last season, Timu told trainers, "No way I am getting on that. Get that out of here. I'm walking off."
And he did.
Seferian-Jenkins made two big catches - the first when Price threw just before scrambling out of bounds and the 6-foot-6 ASJ leaped over a sprawling defender at the sideline - then made a key block on the left edge that Sankey ran behind for a 2-yard score. After that, Timu came back in. On third down, he deflected away a pass by Utes freshman Travis Wilson to force another three and out and allow UW to seize control of the game at 27-15.
That took the Huskies into the fourth quarter. They then proved Sarkisian correct after the coach had said Thursday UW had become a "lunch-pail, blue-collar" team.
The Dawgs went on an 16-play, 82-yard drive Price twice extended by scrambling for a combined 18 yards on third downs. Seferian-Jenkins passed Bruener (1991-94) with his 96th career catch as a tight end on the drive that Sankey finished with a 4-yard scoring run. That put Washington up 34-15 with 3:58 to go.
It was the first time since that 67-56 Alamo Bowl loss to Baylor that the Huskies had scored more than 21 points on a FBS foe. (UW had 52 in week three against Portland State, when Price threw for three touchdowns).
Sankey was Sarkisian's No. 3 running back entering fall camp. Then Deontae Cooper tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee in August. Jesse Callier did the same early in the opener against San Diego State Sept. 1. Suddenly, the supposedly scat back was running like Chris Polk between the tackles.
And now he is the 10th running back in UW's storied history to rush for 1,000 yards.
"I didn't think this was how this season would go, at the beginning," Sankey deadpanned.
The special teams also had a big hand in this complete victory. The Huskies had Travis Coons loft pooch kickoffs repeatedly well short of Reggie Dunn, Utah's extraordinary returner who had run three kickoffs back 100 yards in the previous two games to set an NCAA record. Yet the swarming defense handled Utah's great field position as if the Utes were backed up to their own goal line instead of closer to midfield. It collected three sacks and six tackles for losses - including a sack and two TFLs by end Andrew Hudson.
"It was a really cool win for our team because we executed in all three phases really well," Sarkisian said.
The Huskies go to Colorado (1-9, 1-6) next Saturday. Kickoff in Boulder, Colo., is at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time on FX cable television nationally.
Chances are, Price is going to be back to smilin' and posin' and grinnin' again - back to being "Teeth" Price, vintage 2011.
"That'd be Keith," Seferian-Jenkins said.
"Keith Price's swagger is back."
For once, the tight end's - and now defensive end's -- grin was as wide as his quarterback's.
INSIDE THE DAWGS: Seferian-Jenkins said defensive-line coach Tosh Lupoi came to him early in the week with the idea of putting him at DE in UW's nickel, five-defensive backs defense on passing downs to fill in with Talia Crichton injured. The 260-pound former high school defensive back lowered his shoulders and sped through Utah LT Sam Brenner multiple times while playing on about a half dozen third downs. He called his offense "OK" - and his defense "subpar," adding, "I hope to play D-end again next week. I hope I didn't do too badly that they won't put me back in there." ... ASJ on passing Bruener. "It's a blessing to be even mentioned with the best tight end to ever play at U-Dub ... I look at it more as being about the people around me." He named Price, Sarkisian and Sankey. ... The 11 seniors honored before the game: FB Jonathan Amosa, WR Cody Bruns, Crichton, LB Nate Fellner, S Justin Glenn, CB Anthony Gobern, CB Adam Long, TB Cole Sager, C Drew Schaefer, DT Semisi Tokolahi, and CB Desmond Trufant. Sarkisian hugged each one in the tunnel leading to the locker room. He had extra long ones with helmet taps for the final two, Schaefer and Trufant. ... Sankey's five career 100-yard games have all come within the last two months. ... Walk-on sophomore Drew Schultz made his first career start, at DT. It was on his second career appearance.


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It's nice method to teach children have a good habit. the tune of song is nice too.
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2 September 2011 at 7:36am
It's a great little rhyme to help kids remember when to brush their teeth. I use this little rhyme to help teach my class when I'm working. Although it has a great tune to it, It would be lovelier if it were longer but still had that rhyming tune. My class adores this tune and they said "We wish their was a tune for taking a shower and getting dressed."
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14 January 2011 at 11:05pm
I sing this to my grandson while he brushes his teeth, he is only 21 months old.


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Two Exams To Retire for Oracle 8 and 8i DBA Certification Tracks
By Harold Green on Aug 24, 2009
Effective September 25, 2009, the "Oracle8: New Features for Administrators" exam (1Z0-010) and the "Oracle8i: New Features for Administrators" exam (1Z0-020) will be retired.
Exam 1Z0-010 is part of the upgrade path for Oracle 7.3 DBAs to upgrade to version 8. Exam 1Z0-020 is part of the upgrade path for Oracle 8 DBAs to upgrade to version 8i. These two exams may be taken through September 25, 2009 by registering at Prometric.
Oracle7.3 and Oracle8 DBA OCPs will continue to have the option to upgrade to version Oracle9i OCP by taking exam 1Z0-035 ("Oracle9i DBA New Features for Oracle7.3 and Oracle8 OCPs").
Please note that that the credentials remains valid indefinitely for those holding the Oracle8 and/or 8i DBA OCP certification. This retirement therefore has no effect on those who complete the certification requirements before September 25, 2009.
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