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'Reasonable' gun control is a slogan, not a solution
I have been a pro-Second Amendment activist for more than a half century and have seen many attacks on the right to keep and bear arms. The arguments are long on emotionalism and very short on logic. Many politicians and the liberal media have an agenda to disarm the American public and will use propaganda, lies and half truths to further this agenda. I have seen it time and time again. Once more, they are focusing on "reasonable" gun control laws like banning military style "assault weapons" and high-capacity magazines. This is only a slogan, not a solution.
Using the Sandy Hook tragedy as the focal point for their argument against high-capacity magazines is one of the biggest pieces of deceit. Adam Lanza could have murdered the 20 school children with an old double-barreled shotgun. What 5-year-old child could stop a grown man from shooting and reloading as many times as he chose?
The Webster incident showed another side of the argument. A criminal who should never have been let out of prison got two guns illegally and shot four firefighters, killing two. During this short period of time, an off-duty law enforcement officer came on the scene and fortunately had a gun with him. He neutralized the situation, which obviously saved the lives of the two wounded men and prevented other responders from danger. Wayne LaPierre was correct when he said that the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
Politicians tout that their laws are reasonable and "all we want is …" They get the bill passed and at the press conference, often the tune changes to: "This is a good first step." Law-abiding gun owners look at history and fear that their good first step will turn into a goose step. That is why we are opposing more gun control laws.
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It's Top 12 night on "The X Factor" -- where "the fight really starts," according to Demi Lovato.
But hold on for a sec. The amped-up, 'roid-rage announcer guy says there's a "big twist!!!!!" coming our way. Moments later, Simon Cowell announces that a mistake was made last week and they're bringing back an eliminated contestant. And that contestant is ...
Diamond White!
Justice is served. Britney Spears never should have dumped the teen dyamo. (And actually, this isn't such a surprise. We thought all along they might bring her back).
The other headline is that, one night after America went to the polls, it's time to vote for our "X Factor" favorites. Yes, the judges are getting out of the way and letting us make some decisions around here.
And so here's how it went down on movie theme night:
Arin Ray (Teens)
"American Boy" featured in Obsessed (2009)
This song sucks, but Arin delivers it smoothly and with confidence. (Though, what was with the whole checkered flag/race-car motif?) Simon compliments Britney on the work she's done with Arin and says "You're turning into a little pop star."
As for Britney, she drops her first "amazing" of the night (We sense a drinking game in the making).
But the first really awakward line of the night is delivered by co-host Khloe Kardashian-Odom, who tells Arin, "You can be my American Boy." Ugh.
Paige Thomas (Young adults)
"Take My Breath Away"
Look, up in the air! Is it a bird? A plane? No, it's Paige descending from the ceiling in a billowy white angel dress. Yes, it's the "X Factor" in all its wretched, overproduced glory. Once on stage, there's a guy rubbing up against her like a dog in heat. This is just absurd. As for the song, who really knows? "You don't want to to turn this into a karoke competition. You've got to make records," says Simon, who goes on to say more attention should have been paid to the song itself. Coach Demi disagrees, but Simon's right. It did not take our breath away.
Vino Alan (Over 25s)
"When A Man Loves A Woman"
This soulful rendition is 100 times better than last week's performance (and he's not even dropping from the ceiling). Just him alone on the stage with that big raspy voice of his. Demi calls it "phenomenal," but says she has a hard time seeing Vino as a "No. 1 artist." Simon tells Demi that was a "stupid" thing to say (We love it when they fight), pointing out that he watched Susan Boyle become a star. Coach L.A. Reid is proud of his singer, even admitting that they took notes from Simon last week in order to make improvements.
EMBLEM 3 (Groups)
"My Girl"/"California Girls"
Last week's headliners again bring their infectious energy to this mash-up, which is a bit uneven, but plays well to their SoCal roots and is as buoyant and catchy and fun as we've come to expect. Right in their wheelhouse. (Turns out that they had only one day to learn it, according to Simon). L.A. Reid says he wants to be critical, but that was "perfect." Britney: "I was blown away ... you owned it." Meanwhile, the little girls in the audience continue to squeal.
Beatrice Miller (Teens)
We love this 13-year-old cutey-pie, but to our ears, this performance comes across as a bit rough and strained. L.A., however, says he loves her tone, and Demi admires how she pours her heart into every song. Simon points out that there were a few "vocal issues," but says he can see her working in the business. Britney adds to the compliments by saying she feels that Beatrice has the "best personality in the competition."
Jennel Garcia (Young Adults)
"I Love Rock 'N Roll"
Jennel goes all Joan Jett on us tonight and she's working it -- ferociously belting out the lyrics and vamping her way across the stage. L.A. isn't a fan, calling it a "Joan Jett parody." But Britney says it was "Hot, hot, hot." As for Simon, he says he doesn't like what Demi has done with Jannel's look, asserting that she used to be "fun and charming" and is now "unrecognizable." You are better than this, he insists -- as Demi tries to butt in and protest.
Tate Stevens (Over 25s)
"Wanted Dead or Alive"
Our country crooner channels Bon Jovi and on a steel horse he rides. And he's also stalking the stage with more confidence and showmanship than we're used to seeing from him. Tate has a likable, everyman appeal and you just can't help rooting for the guy. Says Britney: "You're a slice of America. You nailed it." Demi: "As a person who loves country music, I feel you have what it takes." Simon: "It feels like you've arrived back in this competition."
Lyric 145 (Groups)
A shocker! This hip-hop trio takes on Disney and Mary Poppins (while dressed in costumes straight out of "Alice in Wonderland"). It's wild. It's trippy. It's inventive. Most of all, it's fun. L.A. says it's not his cup of tea, but it was "perfect." Britney calls it "intriguing and entertaining." Demi points to coach Simon and says, "Who knew that in that rusty old brain that there were some fresh, cool, hip thoughts? ... You nailed it." Simon, however, credits Lyric with the song choice and calls the performance "bloody fantastic." But we want to know: What does Julie Andrews think?
Diamond White (Teens)
"I Have Nothing"
Little Miss Reprieve comes roaring back into the competition with this Whitney Houston favorite from "The Bodyguard." OK, so she's not on Whitney's level, but Diamond proves she belongs. Welcome back. Demi: "That just tugged at my heart." Simon: "This proves dreams can come true ... You come back fighting. ... Great song. Great performance." Britney, the woman who sent her home, adds that, "I feel like you definitely channeled Whitney in that performance and she would be very proud."
CeCe Frey (Young Adults)
"Eye of the Tiger"
This song from "Rocky" is loud and theatrical, but it's no knockout. The vocals are all over the place (again) -- with more shouting than singing -- and her red leather costume is pretty darn wacky, too. Britney calls her a rebel and "courageous," but Simon says, "I think anything recognizable about you from the beginning has been thrown away and this song choice was absolutely horrible." We'll second that emotion.
Carly Rose Sonenclar (Teens)
"It Will Rain"
Oh, so much better than last week. The silly schoolgirl skirt and dancers are gone and we get to concentrate on Carly's powerful voice in this cover of the Bruno Mars hit (featured in the first "Twilight" film). The arrangement is still a little much, but L.A. calls it "heartfelt and honest," while Demi says, "I would watch this over and over. You're incredible." "I feel like you should have closed the show because nobody can follow that," adds Britney.
Jason Brock (Over 25s)
"I Believe I Can Fly"
Dressed in a bright red blazer, Mr. Entertainment (as L.A. calls him) seems to be in his element with this hokey song, backed by a choir and lots and lots of candles, for some reason. It all feels more like retro Vegas than cutting edge, so we think Mr. Entertainment could be in trouble. Demi feels that L.A. Reid hasn't guided Jason in the right direction, calling him "very predictable and very cabaret." As for Simon, well, "I like you, but I don't believe you could fly," he says. "Maybe jump a couple inches off the ground. ... "You look like a singer in an Italian restaurant,"
Fifth Harmony (Groups)
"A Thousand Years"
The girl group formerly known as 1432, which was formerly known as LYLAS, takes this song sitting down (on stools) amid a fog bank to close out the show. Nice, sweet harmonies, but it doesn't exactly blow us away. There's potential here, though, and we want to see more of them.
Up next is Thursday's elimination show and our guess is that either CeCe or Jason is going to be headed home. But more importantly -- at least for the teen girls watching -- the boy-band sensation One Direction will appear and perform two songs.

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People have been waiting three months for Colorado Springs' oldest park to open again.
North Cheyenne Canon Park was closed due to flood damage, but the City of Colorado Springs repaired it for about $235,000 and is hoping FEMA will reimburse most of the cost for the construction.
Visitors to the park said they were sad to see the park close.
"It was kind of disheartening," said Jerry Betances, who visited the park.
"It was sad because you don't realize what you take for granted, I was up at the canyon two to three times a week when it was opened," said Lori Passarelli, who visited the park.
But when the park opened again, the people started pouring in.
"I have been looking forward to this (day) since I heard it was going to reopen," Passarelli said.
Not only were the people happy, but their pets were too.
"The best part is my big dog gets to come out and play. We are just enjoying the day," Betances said.
Even though construction has stopped for today, Colorado Springs Operation Manager Cathy Railton said there is more work to do.
"There can be some improvements on the edges of the trails. I know Captain Jack's (trail) will eventually (open), work will start on that again and some of those (trails) leading up to the forest.," Railton said.
If you would like to help maintain the trails in the park, you can donate to the Friends of Cheyenne Canon Group. You can click on the Hot Button for more information under our Big Stories section


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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Poolish Baguettes (BBA Challenge)
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Wow,it looks like the ancient endearing term of "little brick bastards' for loaves is just an ancient memory! Wtg! Simply amazing!!! ;);)
- November 4, 2009 at 10:46 PM
- lakegirl said...
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- November 5, 2009 at 6:13 AM
- lakegirl said...
Your baquettes look beautiful. We just used poolish in my cooking class Tuesday night. I'd never heard of it before, now here it pops up again. You're right, I think it's similar to sourdough starter. Funny how sourdough starter seems to be making a comeback lately!
- November 5, 2009 at 6:14 AM
- Rosemary & Garlic said...
I am looking forward to these, ship your baguettes pans to TX would you? Did you get them at KA? The dough transfer to the hearth like oven is frightening for me.
- November 5, 2009 at 7:07 AM
- SallyBR said...
Great baguettes! I have those pans, somehow don't put them to use, shame on me!
I'll give them a try next time - it's just that they don't work with my method of steaming the bread during baking.
I look forward to your Portuguese sweet rolls...
- November 5, 2009 at 7:37 AM
- Barbara Bakes said...
Your bread is gorgeous! I'm a bit jealous of your new pan! I've had better luck with a razor blade for scoring. I got one at the hardware store with a cover.
- November 5, 2009 at 8:07 AM
- Moogie said...
I can smell the heavenly aroma clear to Georgia.
- November 5, 2009 at 8:23 AM
- June said...
Ohh...I can smell the aroma too. Good job! They look beautiful Mags and I absolutely love yor new pans, in fact I covet your new pans. I used to make baguettes fairly often a long time ago when I first got my KitchenAid and used a box cutter to score - you know the ones with the snap off blade? Worked like a darn.
- November 5, 2009 at 8:58 AM
- Alyssa said...
I'm currently 'stuck' at the flavored breads, but you make me wish I was further along. Your baguette is beautiful, and I envy your use of your new pan. What a great tool.
- November 5, 2009 at 9:17 AM
- stephchows said...
those look 100% professional!!!! I think I need to hire you to bake me bread every day... although I'd be much rounded if I did that :D
- November 5, 2009 at 9:24 AM
- Frieda said...
Congrats on a great bread and for sticking with the BBA ~ I just got back from vacation and recovering from a cold...then I'll jump back on the BBA. I'm sure there are many others still plugging along ~
- November 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM
- Mags said...
Anon (Bob & Lynn?): I know! Isn't it crazy how far I've come?
lakegirl: In just a few weeks I'll be hitting the sourdough segment of Bread Baker's Apprentice. I'm really looking forward to it as I've never really worked with starter before all this.
Rosemary: I got the baguette pan from Amazon. I've edited my post and now you can link right to the page the pan is on.
Sally: I think this pan just might keep me in the bread baking business. I was getting so frustrated with the transfer of the loaves to the oven.
Barbara: I need to try a razor blade again to see if that helps. I've been using one of those little tools specifically for scoring bread and it's just not doing the trick.
Moogie: You need to come visit and we'll sit a spell and eat a slice (or two!)
June: You too need to come visit and share a loaf (and a bottle) with me!
Alyssa: I can remember getting very tired of the enriched breads and so excited to get past them.
Steph: Rounded...lol. I would know, I've become VERY well-rounded!
Frieda: Great! I'm so glad to hear that you're still doing the challenge!
- November 5, 2009 at 12:02 PM
- Cathy (breadexperience) said...
Great job! Your baguettes look fabulous! I've been wondering the same thing about the other BBA participants. I'm sure they'll jump back in when they can. You're two breads ahead of me but I'm still plugging right along. Happy Baking!
- November 5, 2009 at 4:18 PM
- Cindy said...
Wonderful crumb on your baguettes. I was thinking about getting some pans. They look like they work quite well. I also heard of this tool called a super peel (www.superpeel.com) that helps you load the dough onto your stone. It looks kind of cool. Check it out.
I have also been wondering about the rest of our group. I guess life got in the way of bread.
- November 5, 2009 at 5:10 PM
- Mags said...
Cathy: Thanks! Glad to hear that you're still baking away!
Cindy: OMG...I have to have one of those superpeels! I think that just may be the answer.
- November 5, 2009 at 8:04 PM
- Jen @ My Kitchen Addiction said...
Pretty... I just bought one of those baguette pans a few weeks ago, but the bread I have attempted to make looks *nothing* like yours (and nothing like bread, frankly). I'm thinking you should come over hear and teach me how to make bread.
- November 5, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Your baguettes look wonderful. I've been fooling around with the poolish starter for the last couple of weeks. It really seems to make a difference in the flavor but also in the amount of yeast needed to raise the dough. I also got tired of messing with using a knife to (poorly) score the bread, so I used my kitchen shears (dipped in water). The top smooshed a little, but it sprang back in the oven quickly. I want your pans!
- November 5, 2009 at 11:42 PM
- Lady P said...
man those pans are just spiffy as can be! i think you are doing simply marvelous at this bread making business
but you still had me with the panetonne
- November 6, 2009 at 1:44 AM
- Mags said...
Jen: I'd be more than happy to do that! And you could show me how to take pictures! (cuz I think your photos are just so lovely.)
Anon: I love the kitchen shears idea. I'm definitely going to give that a go.
Lady P: Thanks! I'm pretty proud of myself for having come this far. A year ago I knew absolutely nothing about baking bread.
- November 6, 2009 at 6:21 AM
- misterrios said...
My! Aren't we far ahead of everyone! Glad to see you are still charging through along with our dwindling group. But remember that there is no time limit on the challenge- otherwise I would make two a week just to be done with it!
I think the problem with scoring lies with your hesitation to take a blade to those suckers. If not, then it's all about the surface tension of the dough.
Nevertheless, I bet that by the end, you will have beautifully scored breads, even though these are as beautiful as they come.
- November 6, 2009 at 6:32 AM
- Mags said...
misterrios: Thanks for the tips and for commenting. I think I may just back off the challenge for awhile and wait for those who are still in the challenge to catch up.
- November 6, 2009 at 4:00 PM
- Brittany (He Cooks She Cooks) said...
I've never seen a baguette pan before. How cool!
- November 7, 2009 at 10:24 PM
- ap269 said...
These baguette pans are great, aren't they?! I've been owning one for a short time, too, and I'm really happy about this purchase. Wasn't too happy with my poolish baguettes, though, because the crumb wasn't open and the taste was kinda bland. But the scoring worked like a charm! http://springhin.de/4N2bB
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SAN JOSE -- The new owners of a 57-acre site in North San Jose are planning 1 million square feet of industrial space to help create several hundred jobs in a part of the city that officials envision as a hub for cutting-edge manufacturing.
The proposed development on a site north of Highway 237 near the corner of North First Street and Nortech Parkway -- to be built on empty land by the owners of the property, Principal Real Estate Investors and Trammel Crow Partners -- underscores that the tech boom has broadened beyond Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Cupertino and Santa Clara.
"The primary reason we have so much optimism is the demonstrated job growth we are seeing in Silicon Valley," said Rod Vogel, a managing director with Principal Real Estate. "Over the last 12 to 18 months we have seen quite an increase in employment in Silicon Valley and in the San Francisco area as well."
The development dovetails with the vision that city officials have sketched for that part of San Jose.
"This could become an exciting innovation district," said Kim Walesh, the city's economic development director. "San Jose has a large concentration of advanced manufacturing capability."
Six of the 10 largest contract technology manufacturers already have a presence in San Jose, according to Walesh, including Sanmina-SCI, Flextronics and Foxconn.
During the 12 months that ended in March, job totals increased 3.3 percent in the South Bay, while rising 2.8 percent in the San Francisco-San Mateo-Marin region, according to figures released by the state's Employment Development Department. In contrast, in the same 12 months, California's job market expanded by only 2 percent and the nation's by 1.5 percent, government reports show.
Developers of the latest North San Jose project are confident enough that they intend to build 500,000 square feet of space on a "spec" basis, without any tenants identified or signed up ahead of time.
"We are still fine-tuning the business plan, but the primary idea is to build up to 1 million square feet of industrial space," Vogel said. "It would be light industrial, manufacturing and warehouses."
The first phase of the project would probably consist of two or three buildings. The remaining 500,000 square feet would be allocated to tenants that want to lease buildings before they are constructed, or sold to businesses.
"There would be hundreds of jobs at this location when it's fully built out," Vogel said.
The property, which Principal and Trammel bought from Cisco Systems, is already zoned for these kinds of industrial, manufacturing and warehouse operations, Vogel said. That means the company can proceed with development without long delays.
"We will start construction in the third quarter of this year," he said.
City officials believe the new development could reshape North San Jose.
"This is becoming a very interesting area for San Jose, with the transit, the housing and the new development there," Walesh said.
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Cason Kirby asks judge to require Kelly Horwitz to submit specific information about each contested vote before trial
Trial scheduled to begin Oct. 31
Published: Friday, October 18, 2013 at 4:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, October 18, 2013 at 4:59 p.m.
With a potential witness list of nearly 400 University of Alabama students, a trial to determine the winner of the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education District 4 seat is expected to be time-consuming.
Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court Judge James Roberts ruled late Thursday that Kelly Horwitz's contest of the Aug. 27 election will proceed to trial. She claims that orchestrated voter fraud by members of Greek organizations skewed the results in favor of opponent Cason Kirby, who outpolled her 416-329.
In a motion filed Friday, Kirby's attorneys asked the judge to require Horwitz to submit specific information about why each of the 397 contested votes should be considered illegal. Kirby's counsell asked that this be done at least seven to 10 days prior to the Oct. 31 trial date.
"Without this process, this case will be an extraordinary waste of time," Kirby's attorney Andrew Campbell wrote in the filing.
During Tuesday's hearing, Campbell said Horwitz is attempting to disenfranchise student voters.
"We expect to move forward with this challenge as expeditiously and efficiently as possible," Horwitz wrote in a statement issued Friday. "Let me be clear that this challenge has never been an effort to 'disenfranchise' student voters. Nor, as a sorority alumna myself, do I disapprove of fraternities and sororities.
"Many decent and brave students who are members of these houses have come forward to share concerns and details regarding the election, and I expect others will do so."
Horwitz claims many of ballots cast by students were tainted by offers of free alcoholic drinks and that many of those students did not meet residency requirements to vote in the district. Her attorneys said in court they intend to call the disputed voters to the stand and ask them numerous questions, including whether they were pressured to vote or support a particular candidate, when they registered and where they lived at the time.
If it is determined a vote was illegally cast, attorneys are permitted to then ask a witness how they voted. Hortwitz needs 88 of Kirby's votes to be thrown out in order to win the election.
Campbell called that approach a "fishing expedition" and said Horwitz's attorneys should know that information before calling witnesses to the stand.
Campbell filed a copy of an email he says was sent by a woman whose name is on the list of 397 contested voters. This women claims that she graduated from UA in May and became a legal resident of the district on May 17. She says she has a full-time job in Tuscaloosa and is no longer affiliated with any groups accused of bribery.
Horwitz said that anyone on the list with questions should contact her attorneys.
The full text of her statement reads:
"On Thursday, Oct. 17, Judge James H. Roberts Jr., of the Circuit Court in Tuscaloosa, issued an order in my election contest challenging the results of the election for the District 4 seat on the Tuscaloosa City Board of Education. In his order, Judge Roberts makes clear that my contest may proceed, so that evidence may be presented and testimony taken in open court with respect to illegal votes in the District 4 election.
"Let me be clear that this challenge has never been an effort to 'disenfranchise' student voters. Nor, as a sorority alumna myself, do I disapprove of fraternities and sororities. Many decent and brave students who are members of these houses have come forward to share concerns and details regarding the election, and I expect others will do so. Like all voters, students can and should exercise their franchise -- freely, legally, and after conscientious consideration. What is especially unfortunate in this case is that many students were misused: given bad advice or no advice about residency requirements, and pressured by offers of private gain in exchange for their votes. I hope that those who ought to know better will treat them with more respect in the future, and that Tuscaloosa can look forward to a fully free and fair electoral process.
"We expect to move forward with this challenge as expeditiously and efficiently as possible. Voters on the challenge list who have questions or wish to clear this matter up, or others who have relevant information about the election, should contact my attorney, James H. Anderson, of Jackson, Anderson, & Patty, P.C., in Montgomery, AL, at (334) 834-5311."
Kirby will take office on Nov. 4. His attorney Andy Campbell, with the firm Leitman, Siegal, Payne & Campbell, P.C. can be reached at (205) 251-5900.
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by Ken Campbell - October 25, 2013 11:12 AM UTC
There is too much inconsistency in the NHL when it comes to suspension lengths, which is why the league should take steps to define what each infraction would cost a player.
The NHL Players' Association has been taking a beating lately over the fact that it represented Patrick Kaleta in the appeal of his 10-game suspension.
by Ken Campbell - October 22, 2013 4:28 PM UTC
It was the morning of the Toronto Maple Leafs 10th game of the season and that could mean only one thing. It was also the last bag skate for David Clarkson ever. Well, maybe not ever.
It was the morning of the Toronto Maple Leafs 10th game of the season and that could mean only one thing. It was also the last bag skate for David Clarkson ever.
by Ken Campbell - October 21, 2013 4:33 PM UTC
Players drafted out of major junior have different rules as to where they can be assigned at age 19 than those who were drafted out of other leagues - and it's time for that to change.
If Sean Monahan suits up for the Calgary Flames tonight in Los Angeles and Tuesday night in Phoenix, he will have played nine games this season and the Flames will face a crucial, possibly franchise-altering decision whether to keep him in Calgary this season or send him back to junior hockey.
by Ken Campbell - October 15, 2013 7:20 PM UTC
The Edmonton Oilers look like the same lottery team they've been the past few seasons and it's time the young core they've built through the draft matures as a responsible unit.
In a Tuesday morning tweet, Pittsburgh Penguins owner Mario Lemieux asked the following question: "How many goals for Sid tonight?" Given that the Penguins are hosting the Edmonton Oilers, the sky might be the limit the way both Sid the Kid and the Oilers kids are playing.
by Ken Campbell - October 7, 2013 12:30 PM UTC
After the Flyers dimissed coach Peter Laviolette, owner Ed Snider defended his team's culture, which has always been about winning, though it tries to accomplish it in bold ways.
All right, so the Philadelphia Flyers are rapidly becoming a train wreck, one of the most dysfunctional franchises in the NHL. But when it comes to setting a course, there are a lot of teams that could only aspire to be so dysfunctional.
by Ken Campbell - October 7, 2013 11:52 AM UTC
The Finnish Flash has said he would retire before, so what's different this time? Hopefully nothing.
Midway through the first period, the 15,004 in attendance at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg rose to their feet and cheered Teemu Selanne. They did the same after he was named first star of the game.
by Ken Campbell - September 17, 2013 7:44 PM UTC
Just as it looked like city council would vote down the proposed new building, GTA Sports presented a new offer to Markham.
As a rule, your trusty correspondent has never been a big fan of public money going to private arenas, which tend to be monuments to the rich.
by Ken Campbell - August 17, 2013 1:41 PM UTC
The deputy mayor of Markham will put forth a motion to kill the arena deal that would need to be in place for another NHL team in Ontario.
The prospect of a 20,000-seat rink, and the chance of any NHL team that might come with it, could be dead by the end of September if the deputy mayor of Markham has his way.
by Ken Campbell - August 12, 2013 3:15 PM UTC
Ban on hitting until the age of 13 a smart decision, though danger looms when the bodies start to fly.
When Hockey Canada announced in late May a ban on bodychecking until the bantam age group, I wasn't sure what to think. That's because I can appreciate both sides of the argument.
by Ken Campbell - August 7, 2013 10:39 AM UTC
Roberto Luongo has been treated poorly in Vancouver, but he's there to stay and should make the most of it.
This summer, the state of Florida has experienced an invasion of gallinippers: a mutant mosquito the size of a quarter that can apparently only be taken out with a shotgun.
by Ken Campbell - July 26, 2013 11:35 AM UTC
Free agent signings have slowed, but there are still plenty of NHL caliber players available, which means it's time to expand.
After spending enough money in the first days of free agency to make an amorous and thirsty sailor on shore leave blush, NHL teams have been eerily quiet these days, haven't they? There are a number of reasons for that, not the least of which is it's the dog days of the summer and GMs are using the time to get away from the business of hockey before it drives them crazy.
by Ken Campbell - July 22, 2013 12:50 PM UTC
Owners have never been fans of the arbitration process, but it encourages team and player to agree on a fair price that often doesn't inflate salaries.
Despite what the NHL has historically thought of the arbitration process, the three-year deal Sam Gagner signed with the Edmonton Oilers is a perfect example of how well it actually works.


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FALLS VILLAGE — The Northwest corner's annual Thanksgiving Day noggin-knocker, The Berkshire Bowl, is on.
Officials from Gilbert and Housatonic talked Sunday and have decided to play the game despite Housatonic's season-long problems with low numbers and injuries that have resulted in five forfeits, including this Saturday's game against Nonnewaug which will be played at a sub-varsity level.
Housatonic coach Deron Bayer gave much of the credit for the decision to Gilbert coach Scott Salius.
"I was planning on calling Scott tonight (Monday) but Scott called me Sunday and I'm just blown away," said Bayer. "He is a class guy and he wants to make this a positive experience for both teams. We're both trying to do what is best. It is a great tradition."
Salius feels the season should end on the field for the Mountaineers.
''I'm happy for Housatonic. It has persevered through the forfeits, especially their seniors," said Salius. "I'm glad it is going to end with the Berkshire Bowl. They look forward to it. I'm very happy the season could end with the tradition continuing."
Both coaches acknowledged that the competitiveness of the game may be lacking but didn't expect that to deter from the experience.
"Obviously (Housatonic) is down and we're having a good season," said Salius whose team is 8-1. "There is the lopsided factor but speaking to Coach Bayer, it is all about sportsmanship. That's the meaning of it."
"Our goal is to be competitive," said Bayer. "We want the kids to have a positive experience, and Scott has always done the right thing. We'll try to put our best team on the field."
Housatonic has been practicing with 16 or 17 players most of the time and, at times, just 13, according to Bayer. The goal has been to keep the program going, and that has been achieved.
"The kids deserve the credit. They're the ones seeing it through," said Bayer. "I didn't know what their reaction would be when we started cancelling games but they have come to practice, run drills the best they can and have worked really hard."
Housatonic hopes to have around 18 players for the game.
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—Marvin McMickle,
Timothy Lee, and Iain Torrance Named Distinguished Alumni at Bicentennial
Reunion Banquet—
Princeton, NJ, October
26, 2012–The Princeton Theological Seminary Alumni/ae Council
honored the Reverend Dr. Marvin McMickle, Class of 1983, the Reverend Dr.
Timothy Lee, Class of 1961, and the Reverend Dr. Iain Torrance, the Seminary's
sixth president, as Distinguished Alumni on October 22, 2012 at the Alumni/ae
Bicentennial Reunion.
McMickle is the president of Colgate
Rochester Crozer Divinity School, and was for twenty-four years the pastor of
Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio. He was honored for his commitment to
the cause of social justice and the betterment of the human condition both in
Cleveland, and in Montclair, New Jersey, where he also served as pastor,
evidenced in his work with the NAACP, the Shaker Heights School Board, and the
Urban League. He was also recognized for his scholarship and his books on
preaching, on African American history, and on the African American church.
In accepting the award, McMickle recounted
a story from his high school years, when a guidance counselor told him that he
"did not have the mind for college," and suggested that he instead become a
carpenter. In 1983, when he received his Doctor of Ministry from Princeton
Seminary, McMickle said his mother whispered in his ear: "Where is your
guidance counselor today?" McMickle told alumni/ae and guests gathered at the
reunion, "I gratefully receive this award on behalf of every student who was
ever told their lives wouldn't amount to anything. You never know what you can
do when God gets hold of you."
Timothy Lee was born in North Korea in 1930 and left his
village to flee to South Korea as a teenager, barely escaping with his life,
never to see friends or his homeland again.
"By the power and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, I was able to come to
America," he said, "and to study at Princeton Seminary. I have known God's love
through prayer and provision in times of great loss, and here I am back at my
beloved alma mater for the first time in fifty-one years! I have been carrying
my Princeton Seminary Directory [an annual picture book of all students and
faculty] since I graduated."
Lee was honored for his ministry in two cultures, having
been the first Korean ordained to ministry by the Presbyterian Church (US), in
1961, when he was called as pastor of Poolesville Presbyterian Church in Maryland,
and five years later being the first Korean minister sent back to Korea as a
missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. The award also
recognized Lee for his commitment to education in serving as principal of Mokpo
Bible Institute and of Taejon Presbyterian Theological Seminary, where he
taught many who are now leaders in the Korean church.
Not an actual graduate of Princeton
Seminary, Iain Torrance was named an honorary alumnus and recognized for his
leadership as the institution's sixth president. The award gave tribute to his
prophetic and courageous leadership at the cusp of the Seminary's third
century, ensuring the school's stability in a difficult economic time and
setting a vision for theological education that uses the best technological
resources to promote the mission of the church around the world.
Torrance was also honored for his work and
commitment to the global church, where he has represented Princeton Seminary in
church and academy from Ghana to China, from Lebanon to Puerto Rico, and for
his vision for a new theological library at Princeton Seminary that will give
access to the Seminary's vast theological resources and collections to scholars
and pastors around the world.
Plaques recognizing the three
distinguished alumni will be permanently displayed in the foyer of the
Administration Building on the campus.
Princeton Theological Seminary was founded
in 1812, the first seminary established by the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church. Currently celebrating its Bicentennial, it is the largest Presbyterian Seminary
in the country, with more than 500 students in six graduate degree programs.
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The sculptor Emile Derré was born in Montmartre. An anarchist and Dreyfusard, he is best known today for his decoration on Parisian façades. This stoneware tile produced by a company specialising in architectural ceramics is an example of the artists' early work.
This model (or single version, no stone version having been found) was exhibited at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Français in 1895 with the title Stone fragment of a door pillar for an ancient abbey, 15th century, marking his admiration for the art of the Middle Ages. When it was exhibited again at the Universal Exhibition in 1900, it bore the Symbolist title, The soul of old stones.
The material, shape, plastic treatment and initial title hark back to the unfinished masterpiece by Jean Carriès, the Monumental Door, enamelled stoneware fragments of which were exhibited as a posthumous tribute at the National Fine Art Salon in the spring of 1895. The figure of the old beggar woman is in the miserabilist naturalist vein of the late 19th century, a trend which is well represented in the City of Paris collections. The Petit Palais already owns a work by Derré in the form of a monumental vase from the Sèvres factory acquired in 1931.


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The MaHPIC scientists use systems biology to study and catalog in molecular detail how malaria parasites interact with their human and non-human primate (NHP) hosts. In particular, they will monitor and investigate the development and progression of the disease over an extended time course. Knowledge being gained from these long-term experiments is fundamental for understanding mechanisms of pathogenesis and for developing and evaluating new diagnostic tools, antimalarial drugs and vaccines for different types of malaria. The MaHPIC project is a large team effort designed to integrate clinical information on malaria with biological data generated by immune profiling, functional genomics, proteomics, lipidomics and metabolomics technologies and to analyze these data with powerful methods of informatics, mathematical modeling and computational analysis.
The MaHPIC project involves investigations of several NHP model infections as well as clinical samples from humans living in several parts of the world where malaria is endemic. The project entails the collection of comprehensive data on how infections caused by different Plasmodium species produce changes in host and parasite genes, proteins, lipids, the immune response and metabolism. Non-human primate infections are initiated with sporozoites of several Plasmodium species that cause malaria in humans and NHP (P. falciparum, P. vivax and P. knowlesi) or in experimental infections of NHP (P. coatneyi and P. cynomolgi). As an integral part of the project, computational researchers are designing mathematical models to simulate, analyze, and explain host-pathogen interactions that occur during a new or repeated infection and identify patterns that may define the course of the disease and its severity. Together, the insights will help guide the development of future experimental plans and interventions. The MaHPIC furthermore aims to reveal possible biomarkers or drug targets associated with relapsing blood-stage infections caused by the activation of P. vivax and P. cynomolgi hypnozoite (dormant) forms in the liver. Also investigated are co-infections and morbidities, as well as different cultural and environmental backgrounds of the diverse global communities involved in MaHPIC collaborations. These collaborations often involve NIAID-supported International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research.
The central unifying hypothesis of this project is: "Non-Human Primate host interactions with Plasmodium pathogens are model systems that will provide insights into corresponding mechanisms in humans and reveal early indicators for human malarial disease conditions".
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United States Mint Opens Sales for the 2013 American Eagle Silver Proof Coin on January 24
WASHINGTON - The United States Mint will begin accepting orders for the 2013 American Eagle Silver Proof Coin at noon Eastern Time on January 24, 2013. The coin will be priced at $62.95. There is no household order limit for this product. Customer demand will determine the number of coins minted.
The obverse (heads side) design of the American Eagle Silver Proof Coin features Adolph A. Weinman's full-length figure of Liberty in full stride, enveloped in folds of the flag, with her right hand extended and branches of laurel and oak in her left. The reverse (tails side) design features former United States Mint Sculptor-Engraver John Mercanti's heraldic eagle with shield, an olive branch in the right talon and arrows in the left.
The American Eagle Silver Proof Coins are struck using .999 fine silver blanks that are specially treated and cleaned to ensure high-quality strikes. Each coin carries the "W" mint mark, indicating its production at the United States Mint at West Point. The coins are encapsulated in plastic, mounted in a satin-lined presentation case, and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Orders will be accepted at the bureau's online catalog, http://www.usmint.gov/catalog/, and at 1-800-USA-MINT (872-6468). Hearing- and speech-impaired customers with TTY equipment may order at 1-888-321-MINT. A fee of $4.95 will be added to all domestic orders for shipping and handling.
Later this year, the United States Mint will also offer a special two-coin set of American Eagle Silver Coins, both of which will be struck at its facility at West Point, N.Y. The 2013 American Eagle West Point Two-Coin Silver Set (final product name subject to change) will include one American Eagle Silver Reverse Proof Coin and one American Eagle Silver Uncirculated Coin with an "enhanced" finish. (A "reverse proof" coin reverses the mirror-like background finish of a traditional proof coin and applies it to the design elements, creating a magnificent contrast.) These two coins will only be available in this special set. The bureau expects to begin accepting orders for the set in the spring. Pricing and other information will be available prior to its release.
The United States Mint was created by Congress in 1792. It is the Nation's sole manufacturer of legal tender coinage and is responsible for producing circulating coinage for the Nation to conduct its trade and commerce. The United States Mint also produces numismatic products including proof, uncirculated and commemorative coins; Congressional Gold Medals; and silver and gold bullion coins. The United States Mint's numismatic programs are self-sustaining and operate at no cost to the taxpayer.
Note: To ensure that all members of the public have fair and equal access to United States Mint products, orders placed prior to the official on-sale date and time January 24, 2013, at noon ET, shall not be deemed accepted by the United States Mint and will not be honored. For more information, please review the United States Mint's Frequently Asked Questions, Answer ID #175.
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Editor's note: This is an excerpt from "Women of Vail," by Elaine Kelton and Carolyn Pope. The Vail Daily is serializing the book as Vail celebrates its 50th anniversary. Books are available for purchase at www.bookwormofedwards.com, the Colorado Ski Museum, Pepi's, Gorsuch, Annie's and the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens.
Authors' note: Christie Hill (known as Blanche Hauserman in Vail's early years) was one of the first women to arrive for Vail's opening in September 1962 with her husband, Dick Hauserman. Blanche had a well-traveled and unique life. She was raised in Boston and later moved to North Conway, N.H., where she fell in love with skiing and met and married Austrian skier Benno Rybizka. She moved to Mont Tremblant in Canada and on to Sun Valley, Idaho. John Fripp, former ski school director at Mont Tremblant, remembers her well, "Blanche Rybizka? She was a real dish. She was on the front page of Life magazine." During that time, Blanche Christian (as she had been known during her modeling career) traveled the world to model ski wear. She graced the cover of Life twice but considered herself a skier, not a model. Blanche was a good friend of Peter Seibert, who later convinced her to come and be part of Vail's new frontier. She had a vision for Vail and was dedicated to making it work. Friends still talk of her elegance, enthusiasm and crisp sense of humor.
Although Christie gives much credit to her husband during the early years of Vail, she was his partner and an independent businesswoman as well. Although Dick created the Vail logo, Christie was crucial in designing the famous Vail ski instructor parka, suggesting that the distinctive diagonal stripe across the chest and back mimic the sashes that the Queen's guards wear in England. She still lives in the same apartment above the original Vail Blanche, at the base of the Vista Bahn.
By Christie Hill
I moved to Vail because I am an adventuress, and I have skied all my life. Peter Seibert came to me when they were building Vail. I knew him and Bob Parker from the East, and they convinced me to come here and open a store. I had done a lot of magazine covers, so I wasn't just known in the ski world. I knew an awful lot of people, so when they were trying to raise money for Vail, they asked me to help.
I was the only skier in my family. I had been modeling and was good friends with Toni Frissell (the fashion photographer), and she did a couple of big pictures for me in Vogue magazine. I wasn't known in the fashion industry, so the photographers wanted to know who I was, and that is how I got started. Dick Hauserman and I met and married before we came to Vail. He worked in his family's business, the Hauserman Co., and was tired of it. I suggested we go do something else. When we first came to Vail, he had nothing to do, but since he was a salesman, he really got into promoting Vail. I believe that without Dick, there would be no Vail. He used to stop people on the streets and tell them to come into town. He was a huge salesman for the fledgling resort.
When I first arrived, there was no town. I can't remember exactly the feeling when I saw the place, but I knew we wanted to build something. I knew this part of the country. Dick wasn't a skier, and he didn't learn to ski until after we were married. It was a tradeoff; but he wanted me to golf. So I told him, "I'll learn to golf if you learn to ski."
We stayed at Jack Olson's until my place was completed. Jack lived in Minturn, but he had a little house across the road just to the west in Vail. Dick had to go back East, and I stayed in the house by myself while Dick was gone. The house had mice, and I was alone. When I heard them running around at night, I took a blanket and pinned it tightly around my neck so they couldn't get to me. I'd sit with a flashlight to see where the hole was so I could stuff it so they wouldn't get to me.
A flat mountain
Vail was in the middle of nowhere. Pete Seibert took me out on a snowcat on the mountain and asked, "What do you think of it?" I replied, "It's flat." He surmised, "That's what most skiers want, and this will bring in the skiers." He was right, of course, because there are more average skiers than expert skiers, and this mountain could give many more skiers the ski experience. Pete also took me to the top of the mountain and showed me the back bowls. I used to ski a lot and also taught skiing. My first reaction about the skiing here remained: this was a flat mountain, that's all. We didn't have any steep runs back then.
My building (Vail Blanche, with the apartment upstairs) was the first commercial building in Vail. Vail Blanche was right downstairs from my residence and was completed around 1963. I spent 1962 planning for the opening with my partner, Bunny Langmaid, whom I had known from Boston. There were very few women in Vail at the time. Those who were here soon became friends. I don't feel that I gave up anything moving to Vail. There was nothing difficult at all about it; it was an adventure. I thought it was wonderful, and I never thought of leaving. Of course, there were hard times. For example, early on, we had to get water straight out of the creek. First, I'd brush my teeth then wash my face. Then we poured it in the toilet tank and put up a sign that said, "Don't flush unless necessary." The only toilet that really worked well at all belonged to the Fitzhugh Scotts.
We realized the dream of Vail was coming together that first Christmas. Because there was no snow, the Ute Indians had been invited to do a snow dance. The fact that there was no snow actually made us happy because we were still building the gondola, and the Vail Blanche building was connected to it. Every day was a challenge, and opening the store that first day was quite remarkable.
It was also the first day we put water through the pipes in the house above the shop. The pipes broke, and water came down through the electric lights into the shop. Pepi Gramshammer was in the shop, and he always helped me because I did the ski boots. The water poured right on top of him! There weren't many customers, fortunately. In fact, we had so few customers that I used to deliver their shoes or whatever they bought to their hotel.
Long days
Many of the wives helped in the shop. Camille Bishop and Heather Slifer worked there, as did Anne Staufer. It was one of the only places to work. Bunny and I were very busy running the shop, cleaning and doing everything ourselves, but I skied every day. Bunny and I put a sign on the door that said, "Gone skiing." We got up around 5 a.m. and did the things you had to do here, like carrying the water, and then opened at 9 a.m. We'd ski and come back to the shop around 2:30 or 3 p.m. and stay open until 6 or 7 p.m. We were always exhausted.
As the population grew, people had parties. People like the Parkers would have you over in the evening for a little party, which meant we got together to have some drinks. Drinking wasn't too much of a problem because we couldn't afford it. During the summers, we'd fish and hike. I did everything with Bunny and Joe.
Larry Burdick came the first year and started building the Red Lion. He went back to Kalamazoo and brought back his wife, Marge. He was a wonderful man, the son of a banker, and had skied in Europe. When Larry designed the Red Lion, he gave it a European look. There were often skiers with broken legs coming off the mountain after a day of skiing. We'd have them lined up in the middle of the road on pallets in front of the Red Lion. Dr. Steinberg would come by and examine them, and I'd give them a shot of brandy to keep them going.
There was a very simple grocery store in Minturn. I taught the man who ran it about food, told him about Pepperidge Farm and convinced him to bring in a variety of products. The only locals around Minturn worked around the railroad or the mines. I remember an older man who owned part of the river and didn't want people fishing on his easement. He put up a sign that said, "Anyone who steps over this line will be shot into hell."
Nobody cared who anyone was. We all worked hard. In my opinion, it was the women who made this town. The women built Vail. Without them, we wouldn't have the schools or the community. I'm not the kind to remember the inconveniences, because I came to pioneer. Of course, there were inconveniences, but you didn't expect to have what you had before. This is home. I've never thought of going anywhere else.
"Women of Vail" was produced by a team that includes Elaine Kelton and Carolyn Pope, publishers; Joanne Morgan, designer and production; and Rosalie Hill Isom, writer-editor.


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Walter M. Hanson, 88, a longtime Lake Region area farmer, passed away on Monday, February 4, 2013 at the Heartland Care Center, Devils Lake with loving family at his side.�� Funeral services for Walter will be held on Monday, February 11 at 11 a.m. at St. Olaf Lutheran Church, Devils Lake with Rev. Jeff Nicla officiating.� Visitation will be held on Sunday from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m. with a time of remembrance at 5 p.m.��Visitation on Monday will be at the church one hour prior to the funeral service. Walter will be interred in the Devils Lake Cemetery with Military Honors accorded by the Neathery-Simensen Post #756, Devils Lake Veterans of Foreign Wars and the North Dakota Military Funeral Honors Team.� Gilbertson Funeral Home, Devils Lake, is in charge of arrangements.
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The event will highlight prostate cancer awareness and feature valuable health information. Entertainment begins at 1:05 p.m., and game time is 2:09 p.m.
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Year-Round Pow-Wow Planning The Arlee Pow-wow will be a year-round affair for at least five tribal members. The Tribal Council, last Friday, voted to advertise for applications to five volunteer positions on a new Arlee Powwow Planning Committee. Selections will be made from applications during the September 8 meeting of the Tribal Council. The 1972 Arlee Pow-wow, which is still $1,596.89 in the hole, high-lighted a number of areas where planning could be improved. It was pointed out that ticket sales did not reflect the "packed house" conditions at the Pow-wow or the "standing-room-only" accomodations at the rodeo. The council felt that tighter restrictions on the gate and capital improvements to the fences would probably increase the revenue from the events. Other suggestions to improve the event included: —An increase in the budget for improvements to the grounds (providing for sanitary facilities and concession stands) and the rodeo arena. —The possibility of eliminating the charge to non-members at the Pow-wow gate, requiring a Recreational use permit instead. —The use of voluntary labor to offset the cost of some facits of improvement (members of the St. Ignatius district indicated they would devote their time to helping with the grounds). —Request additional help from the Kicking Horse Manpower Training Center. A year-round planning committee would be something new on the Flathead reservation. However, other reservations, including Crow and Blackfoot, have been organizing their Pow-wows under full-time committees for a number of years. Saws Silent On Largest Timber Cut Dixon—Advertisement for bids on the Valley creek logging unit—the largest projected cut out in the history of the reservation—will be delayed for at least a couple more wppks. The Tribal Council last Friday decided by a tie vote of four to four not to call for the bids pending the results of a study on the feasibility of a tribally owned lumber mill. Voting against the measure to open the bids immediately were councilmen Tom Pablo, Hot Springs, Harold Mitchell Jr., and Tom "Bearhead" Swaney, St. Ignatius and John Malatare, Arlee. In resisting the motion to open the bidding (made by Poison Councilman E.W. "Bill" Morigeau) opponents pointed out the tribe should be given first crack at the 81.3 million board feet of timber if they do decide to go into a integrated timber processing industry. Malatare said it would be bad business to sell the 16,000 acres of prime timber south of Dixon before the $15,000 study on the possibility of tribal purchase of the Pack (Continued on Fage 3) Published By The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Dixon, Montana 59831 __..........-.._____________----- -7-' "JVTBT • , .—ToOWT~^ ~ AR-KOOSTA Volume 2. Number 8 Moon of the Wild Onion — 25 PRICE 10c Council Votes To Distribute M.P. Settlement Children's Money To Go In BIA Trust Dixon—There wasn't much of problem deciding what to do Councilmen Voted For People A series of district meetings were held around the reservation during the month of Aug. to sound the feelings of the people about the $11,249,913.81 Kerr Dam payment. Although some councilmen with the $11,249,913.81 Montana offered alternatives to total Power Judgment—100 percent distribution, there was an distribution—the only dispute overwhelming consensus that last Friday at the Tribal Council the money should be split among meeting was what to do with the the membership. The only children's money. The Council, guided by the results of a series of district meetings (see story in next column), in a close vote decided question remaining, then, was what to do with the children's money. Councilman Tom Swaney to pay-out the adult shares and calIed his st- Ignatius con-place minor's money in a stituents together on Aug. 3. Of Bureau of Indian Affairs trust tne 80 persons present, all but account. The money belonging to four favored 100 percent those under 18 years of age distribution with the children's would go into the same account shares g°ing to the parents, as the land settlement monies Swaney, in spite of his stated and earn the children about 6 personal feelings, voted at last percent annual interest. Friday's council meeting to The vote to distribute the make« a ful1 payout with monies with the trust provision children's shares going to the for children was four to three Parents, with three absences. Voting for polson Councilman Ew (Continued on Next Page) "Bill" Morigeau held a meeting Aug. 8. Some 90 persons attending at the Poison Community Center voted to per-capita out all the money and pay minor's shares to parents. Morigeau offered an unsuccessful motion to this effect at Friday's Tribal Council meeting. He then voted in opposition to a motion to withhold children's money in Bureau of Indian Affairs trust accounts. (Continued on Page 3) Dividends Are Paid It's no news to those that have received it but a $100 income dividend was mailed to all tribal members Friday, Aug. 18. The check, one of three annual income dividends budgeted by the Tribal Council, was sent to an enrollment 5,643. The money is regarded as "recurrent income" and comes from normal sources of tribal revenue such as forestry, power leases and grazing contracts.
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A most efficient way to stretch out the March 16-18 Freeride Flow Festival at Kirkwood Mountain Resort is with yoga.
Three of San Francisco's most popular yogis will head classes during the backcountry ski-music and yoga event, including Stephanie Snyder.
"It will be a fun flow but it will also be therapeutic for them and help prepare them or unwind them from where ever they are coming or going," Snyder said. "It will be special for the snow crowd. Vinyasa flow is particularly athletic."
Freeride Flow Festival will join winter athletes of all abilities with professional sports athletes, backcountry experts and top industry vendors for clinics, demonstrations, electronic DJs, performances and a whole lot of apres ski. Tickets are on sale now at FreerideFlowFest.com.
Snyder will instruct two classes on Friday, March 16, one focusing on hips, the other upper body, heart and shoulders. She typically has about 130 attend here weekly classes in the yoga hotbed of San Francisco. Pradeep Teotia and Pete Guinosso also will conduct classes.
"Yoga is a huge business right now, and just getting bigger and bigger," she said. "In the Bay Area, it's part of the culture but also growing in middle America because it's lost its stigma. It's not so much a new-agey, fluffy kind of thing.
"In an hour or hour and half they get every thing they need. A good workout. They get therapeutic results for their body as well. They get stress relief. It helps regulate your metabolism, your hormones, your brain chemistry, so you get a lot of things taken care of with one stop. That's become more important these days. It's not just about omming and chanting, although we do that a lot in my class."
Snyder, 40, began learning yoga when she was in her early 20s.
"Before I learned yoga I was a basket case," she said. "I was high-strung and anxious. Yoga helped me in every aspect of my life."
Confirmed athletes for the event are Sage Cattabriga-Alosa, professional big mountain skier; Alison Gannett, leading the KEEN Rippin' Chix Backcountry Camp and Steeps Clinics; legendary ski pioneer Kent Krietler, as backcountry guide and yoga instructor; Lorenzo Worster, world renowned telemark skier; Hanna Hardaway, two-time Olympian; Brooke Edwards, freeride instructor and Tough Guy Productions event coordinator; Maeve Nevins, backcountry instructor; and Wendy Lautner, published author and backcountry enthusiast.
Yoga can help prepare riders for their big days.
"We will be stengthening and lengthening the quads and the hip flexor, shoulders, unwinding the low back just set them up for having a good time over the weekend, especially because I am teaching them all on Friday," Snyder said. "I won't work them too hard but still make it a fun class."


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Theora is Xiph.Org's video codec, intended for use within the Ogg
project's Ogg multimedia streaming system. Theora is derived
directly from On2's VP3 codec.
This is alpha testing software; the API will probably change.
WWW: http://www.theora.org
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/multimedia/linux-f10-libtheora/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install linux-f10-libtheora
cd /usr/ports/multimedia/linux-f10-libtheora/ && make install clean
pkg install linux-f10-libtheora
PKGNAME: linux-f10-libtheora
SHA256 (rpm/i386/fedora/10/libtheora-1.0rc1-2.fc10.i386.rpm) = a9f982914329a25cf5e2b611763980fe19ee0f9201ada9177f0ac86ddf9e35a7
SIZE (rpm/i386/fedora/10/libtheora-1.0rc1-2.fc10.i386.rpm) = 206852
SHA256 (rpm/i386/fedora/10/libtheora-1.0rc1-2.fc10.src.rpm) = c8a35d1515c8aacef90f933d39d0a25461c84f205d852adaa058095ea4a7d5d8
SIZE (rpm/i386/fedora/10/libtheora-1.0rc1-2.fc10.src.rpm) = 1708830
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Remove trailing whitespace from Makefiles, M-X.
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The Fedora 10 infrastructure ports have been in use since June 2009 and, while
having served a great deed, have become unsupported upstream and hence affected
by unfixed security vulnerabilities. In addition to that, many recent Linux
binaries need newer libc / stdlibc++ versions.
This commit adds the linux-c6- userland as drop-in replacement for the -f10
infrastructure, as well as upgrading the linux_base-c6 port to CentOS 6.5.
If you want to switch to linux-c6 ports, please define at /etc/make.conf:
Add staging support for linux-f10-* ports maintained by emulation@
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Readd CONFLICTS line with linux-libtheora-[0-9]*
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Triggered by: distilator
Reviewed by: netchild (emulation)
Here are new Linux Fedora 10 infrastructure ports.
Those ports are intended to be used with 8-CURRENT at least
with SVN r192206.
If you want to switch to linux-f10 ports, please define at /etc/make.conf:
An upgrading procedure is shown at /usr/ports/UPDATING, entries 20090401
and 20070327.
For the first time all tested linux ports work as expected(!):
. acroread8;
. google-earth;
. skype;
. seamonkey.
Many thanks for kernel folks who really did the main work
(and I wrote only some lines of ports).
There is a good chance that those ports may become a default
for 8.0-RELEASE. Please, test and report back to emulation@ ML.
Repocopies finished:
accessibility/linux-f8-atk -> accessibility/linux-f10-atk
archivers/linux-f8-ucl -> archivers/linux-f10-ucl
archivers/linux-f8-upx -> archivers/linux-f10-upx
audio/linux-f8-alsa-lib -> audio/linux-f10-alsa-lib
audio/linux-f8-arts -> audio/linux-f10-arts
audio/linux-f8-esound -> audio/linux-f10-esound
audio/linux-f8-freealut -> audio/linux-f10-freealut
audio/linux-f8-libaudiofile -> audio/linux-f10-libaudiofile
audio/linux-f8-libogg -> audio/linux-f10-libogg
audio/linux-f8-libvorbis -> audio/linux-f10-libvorbis
audio/linux-f8-openal -> audio/linux-f10-openal
audio/linux-f8-sdl_mixer -> audio/linux-f10-sdl_mixer
databases/linux-f8-sqlite3 -> databases/linux-f10-sqlite3
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Analysts React to Rio Tinto Management Reshuffle, Writedown
Rio Tinto PLC's chief executive Tom Albanese is paying with his job for the miner's ill-timed $38 billion acquisition of Alcan Inc. in 2007, as well as a coal acquisition in Mozambique, which led the company to announce a $14 billion impairment charge Thursday.
Rio Tinto's share price bounced back to be down less than 2% in London in mid-morning, signaling that investors are encouraged that the Anglo-Australian miner is taking bold steps to shake-up the business, after Anglo-Americanrecently named a new head, and BHP Billiton said it is looking for a successor to current chief executive Marius Kloppers.
Here's what analysts are saying about the news:
Liberum Capital
Rio Tinto "appears to be taking the front foot on write downs and appears to have been more proactive on culpability than Anglo-American, launching management changes and cost cutting before the market has asked for it." It adds that Sam Walsh (head of Rio's iron ore business and its Australian operations) is a logical replacement for Tom Albanese, as he has a strong operational heritage and may be more focused on iron ore growth.
Edison Investment Research
"When a company writes off the equivalent of approaching one sixth of its market capitalization, the CEO has to carry the can. Rio was however until today one of the more stable miners – investors may wonder what else is out there in the sector."
The house upgrades Rio Tinto to "buy" from "neutral" and raises the price target to 4000p from 3300p. "We believe today's announcement could significantly realign Rio Tinto with shareholder interests through reduced M&A and reduced capital expenditure spend."
"Sam Walsh is well known to the market and has been in charge of Rio's iron ore business for some time. He is seen as a pretty straight shooter, but perhaps his credentials in strategically managing such a diverse business may be questioned by the market. We do not think you will see any major change in strategy from the group with the new appointment. We certainly think they'll be steering well clear of any acquisitions, possible upside being increased capital returns for shareholders. Overall will be taken negatively today given the scale of the write-downs, and the fact that it seems the management change was effectively forced."
S.P. Angel
"Tom Albanese had to take the fall since these acquisitions were done under his watch. Having an insider such as Sam Walsh taking over is good news for the company given his success in building up the iron ore business. Once these write downs are out of the way the market can focus on Rio's initiatives to cut costs where in iron ore they have an ambitious target to bring down CFR (cost and freight) cost/tonne to around $35/t from the current $47/t. If they are successful in achieving this that could be significant upside to the valuation of the shares."


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Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series introducing the new attorneys working in the 5th Judicial District.
BRECKENRIDGE - In July 2004, a blue Honda cut off Tommy "TJ" Halfacre in traffic. Angry, he and a friend who was in the car with him decided to follow the car home and rob the driver.
But Carlos Orellana, a Guatemalan immigrant who was working two jobs, didn't have any money. Halfacre shot him in the head and escaped, leaving the friend to take the fall.
Four years later, the fugitive had been featured on Colorado's 20 Most Wanted list and more than once on the television show America's Most Wanted when he was finally captured in Kansas City and returned to Aurora to face charges and deputy district attorney John Franks.
Franks won and Halfacre was sent to prison for the rest of his life.
As a prosecutor, Franks is new to Summit County. But he's not new to the profession. Summit County's new deputy DA in charge of felony cases brought 24 years of experience in the urban 18th Judicial District with him when he relocated to Breckenridge in January.
Things are different here, he said.
"It's a much smaller community," noted Franks, who was married to his wife at Father Dyer church in Breckenridge nearly 30 years ago. "The caseload is smaller and you can devote more time to individual cases in terms of trying to get a fair result."
There isn't as much violent crime in Summit County as there is in Aurora, and certainly not of the kind he dealt with in the Halfacre case, but Franks has already seen some serious cases, helping to resolve two domestic violence cases in recent weeks.
He said he hopes to offer his experience to others in an office where the District Attorney comes from a defense background.
"The law can be very tricky and there's a lot of things you learn through experience, sometimes technical legal things, sometimes things about how to deal with people," he said. "They've certainly been gracious about asking my opinion on things."
Franks, 57, is a sixth-generation Coloradan and longtime Front Range resident. His only venture out of the state was for college, when he went as far as Ohio to meet his future wife and earn a degree in English. He always knew he wanted to return home to Denver, but law school wasn't immediately part of the plan.
"I did things an English major would do, like drive a truck and work in a warehouse," he jokes. "I liked physical work, but at some stage you decide you want to use that part of your brain. I knew I didn't want to be working on a cold warehouse floor when I was an old man."
A job as a clerk for a judge in the late 1980s solidified his decision to go back to school and study law. He attended the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, focusing on prosecution. It hasn't always been an easy profession. He's handled cases even a seasoned prosecutor describes as horrible and knows well what it means to interact with people under the worst possible circumstances.
Still, he says, there's great honor in the work.
"It's our jobs to do the right thing," he said. "That's a pretty great job description."
The Rocky Mountain News contributed to the reporting of this story.
This story has been updated from an earlier version to reflect a correction. Mr. Franks is 57 years old, not 67 as previously stated.


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NAACP president denounces 'extreme policies' of far right
Published: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at 10:59 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 at 10:59 p.m.
BREVARD - In a fiery speech before a near-capacity crowd at Brevard College's Porter Center Wednesday, the Rev. William Barber II called on mountain residents to join him Feb. 8 for a march on Raleigh to protest what he called "extreme policies" of the "far right."
The Brevard appearance by Barber, president of the North Carolina conference of the NAACP, was part of a 15-city tour to rally activists to attend the Moral Monday march, which he said will not be an act of civil disobedience that enters the State Capitol as in the past.
More than 930 people were arrested last year at weekly nonviolent protests over conservative legislation enacted by Gov. Pat McCrory and a GOP-led General Assembly, most for trespassing and failing to disperse.
Charges lodged against more more than 50 people during a May 20 "Moral Monday" march will be dropped, Barber said Wednesday, because "the state's shabby case is falling apart and the Constitution is reminding people that...the state capitol belongs to the people and not temporary politicians."
More than 17,000 attended Moral Monday marches last year, he said, protesting a "voter suppression bill," cuts in education funding, "unjust" tax policies and McCrory's decision not to expand Medicaid coverage to 500,000 uninsured poor, among other issues.
Barber said the Feb. 8 march will kick off an election year of "non-violent direct action, litigation, grassroots voter education and voter participation because we believe that North Carolina can still be a state where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great."
His speech was hosted by Transylvanians Forward Together, a local outgrowth of the Moral Mondays movement seeking recognition as a local NAACP chapter. Barber said he'll present the chapter to the NAACP's national board in February, calling the 200-member Brevard group "historic" in its diversity of races and faiths.
Barber said the Transylvania group - part of what he described as "our anti-racist, anti-poverty, pro-labor, deeply moral, deeply constitutional, forward together movement" - represents what the NAACP looked like in 1909 and what the social justice movement needs to emulate nationwide.
"We have to break ourselves free from that old Southern strategy that kept whites and blacks and Latinos from working together and cause people to vote against their own future because of certain fears," he said.
He said right-wing extremists suggest the great moral issues raised by the Bible are abortion, homosexuality and prayer in schools, which are mentioned in perhaps "six or seven Scriptures." Meanwhile, he said, they dismiss more than 300 pieces of Scripture dealing with the poor, sick and vulnerable.
"So if you're going to be a conservative ... then how do you say so little about what God says so much, and so much about what God says so little?" Barber asked, to loud applause from the audience.
But Barber said social justice should not be about party politics. Historically, civil rights, bettering public education, universal health care and tackling poverty were bipartisan issues, he said, citing the policies of Teddy Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.
He said Reagan championed the Earned Income Tax Credit, which he said legislators cut for 900,000 North Carolinians. "When you pass a policy that makes Ronald Reagan look like a liberal, that's mighty low," Barber said.
"We've got to keep this movement going that builds coalitions around values, not race and color," Barber said. "We are the generation that must destroy the myth of our time, and that is the notion that extreme policies harm a small subset of people, such as people of color, or women, or the LGBT community or immigrants, when in fact extreme policies harm us all."
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CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi men's tennis team will send three players to compete in the USTA/ITA Texas Regional Championships in Waco, Texas. The largest Division I tournament in the state of Texas starts Saturday, Oct. 19 and continues through Tuesday, Oct. 22 on the campus of Baylor University.
"I believe the Texas Region is the strongest region in Division I tennis," Director of Tennis Steve Moore said. "This is one of the strongest college tennis tournaments and is one of the highest-level college tournaments in the United States."
The Islanders men's team has held strong showings over the years with both Laurent Montoisy and Dmitry Novikov reaching the quarterfinals for the men's team. Last year, on the men's side, the Texas Region saw four teams ranked in the top 20 in the Division I Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) rankings and eight teams in the top 60, including the Islanders at No. 51 nationally.
Moore, who was selected by his peers to be the regional chairman for the ITA Tennis Region, will send Kevin Bettendroffer, Ricardo Mayagoitia and Javier Pujol to compete. Bettendroffer captured the men's singles title of the Marco & Co. Catering Islanders Open with a 6-3, 7-6 (3) victory over Mayagoitia, while Pujol won the consolation title of the men's singles final.
Bettendroffer and Mayagoitia will team up in doubles play to take on Andres Alfonzo and Blake Wiggins of Texas Tech in the round of 64 at 8 a.m. The winner will advance to the round of 32 at 4 p.m. and will play Tommy Bennett and Adam Gustafsson of Rice.
Bettendroffer will then face Guiherme Gesser of Abilene Christian at 9:15 a.m. in singles play. The winner will face No. 3 Shane Vinsant of Texas A&M at 1:30 p.m. Pujol will open singles play against Leif Berger of Rice at 10:30 a.m. with the winner slated to play TCU's No. 9 Arnau Dachs at 3 p.m. Mayagoitia is scheduled to play Carlos DiLaura of Texas Tech in singles action at 12:15 p.m. The winner will face either Sebastian Job (UTPA) or Facundo Lugones (TCU) at 3:45 p.m.
There are 12 regions nationally in the ITA and the winner and the runner-ups of this tournament will represent their region at the National Indoors held in New York at the U.S. Open.


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Today: Carl Icahn pushes Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook to increase stock buyback program while his Netflix (NFLX) investment continues to pay off. Also: Wall Street gains despite government shutdown, with tech stocks leading the way.
The Lead: Apple and Netflix investments help Icahn, but he wants more
Activist investor Carl Icahn is making plenty of money from his big Silicon Valley investment of 2012, Netflix, but he is pushing for payback on his big 2013 bet of $2 billion on Apple, calling a larger share-buyback plan a "no-brainer."
Icahn tweeted Tuesday that he asked Apple CEO Tim Cook to increase the Cupertino tech giant's stock-repurchase program to $150 billion during a dinner the two shared Monday evening. Cook announced in April a plan to return $100 billion to the company's shareholders, who have withstood a drop in Apple's share prices from highs of more than $700 hit in Sept. 2012 to lows of less than $400 in 2013; $60 billion of that plan involves Apple repurchasing shares from investors like Icahn.
"I feel very strongly about this," Icahn told CNBC in a Tuesday interview. "I can't promise you the stock will go up and I can't promise you they will do the buyback. But I can promise you that I'm not going away until they hear a lot more from me concerning this."
Icahn also said in the CNBC interview that his fund has built up a $2 billion investment in Apple, after originally announcing a purchase of about $1 billion of shares in August. While that represents about a half a percent of Apple's market cap, it was apparently enough to get Apple's top executives to visit his New York home for a dinner.
As is typical when Icahn tweets about a company, shares zoomed higher. Apple stock gained 2.4 percent to $487.96 Tuesday, with a noticeable spike occurring midway through the morning session, when Icahn's tweet arrived. That is less of a bump than the day Icahn announced his original investment in Apple, but the endpoint is similar: Apple shares gained 4.8 percent that day to $489.57.
Repurchasing more shares would decrease the amount of available Apple stock on the public markets, likely boosting Apple's share price in the short term, though the actual effect of increasing the buyback from $60 billion to $150 billion is not a given. Icahn termed it a "no-brainer" because of the company's strong underlying metrics and low interest rates available for Apple's to borrow money.
"They have a golden opportunity to go borrow money," Icahn told CNBC.
Analysts aren't so sure that increasing the buyback would be good for Apple's businesses: JMP Securities analyst Alex Gauna told Bloomberg News that Apple needs to focus more on revenues.
"To justify the valuation on the stock, it's got to get back to earnings growth. They have to be always innovating and putting in place the mechanisms for growth, or it doesn't matter how much cash they return to shareholders," he said.
While Apple's share price is still relatively near the same price as when Icahn, a prominent voice in the investment community since a hostile takeover of TWA in 1985, began scooping up stock, the same can't be said for the investor's other Silicon Valley gambit, Netflix. On the day that he filed notice of ownership of 5.4 million shares in Netflix, the Los Gatos video-on-demand service's stock jumped 13.9 percent to $79.24; Tuesday, Netflix shares again hit record intraday and closing prices, moving as high as $324.70 before closing with a 5 percent gain at $324.62.
Netflix shares may have received a boost from a pair of positive reports. Janney Capital wrote Monday night that Web usage shows Netflix is growing internationally and is receiving "a very high level of interest in its originals that is on par with major hit pay TV shows," with "originals" referring to the company's self-produced shows such as "House of Cards" and "Orange is the New Black." MKM Partners analyst Rob Sanderson followed that report Tuesday morning by writing that Netflix international subscription growth could eclipse the company's forecasts and propel Netflix in the future.
"We continue to think international subs will surprise and eventually be as large (or larger) than domestic," Sanderson wrote.
Despite massive gains, Icahn said Tuesday he has not sold any Netflix stock. He is growing more pessimistic, however, using the same language as he did for Apple with a different meaning.
"(Netflix is) not the no-brainer that it was when we first bought it," he said.
SV150 market report: Wall Street shrugs off shutdown, tech stocks lead the way
A day after declines blamed on an impending shutdown of the federal government, stocks zoomed higher on the first day of select closures due to the partisan wrangling in Washington. Technology stocks were some of main beneficiaries of Tuesday's investor largesse, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq leading Wall Street's main indexes with a 1.2 percent gain and the SV150 coming in right behind with a 1.1 percent increase.
Yelp, which gained more than 90 percent in the third quarter, started the fourth quarter off with a bang, increasing 7.5 percent to a record closing price of $71.12 after Cowen and Co. analysts bumped up their price target on the stock from $60 to $80 and Needham analysts reiterated their price target of $78 in Tuesday notes to clients. Yahoo (YHOO) hit its highest intraday and closing prices in more than five years, surpassing the $34 mark and closing with a 3.4 percent increase to $34.31. The Sunnyvale Internet company, which is waiting for Asian investment Alibaba to file for a U.S. initial public offering, received a price target boost to $39 from Citi analyst Mark May, who noted the coming Alibaba payoff as well as "encouraging signs that the new management team's efforts are resulting in improved user trends and mobile traction."
Google (GOOG) gained 1.3 percent to $887 after a European regulator detailed the concessions the Mountain View company has offered to make in order to avoid antitrust charges overseas. Facebook, one of only two SV150 companies to experience greater growth in the third quarter than Yelp, gained 0.4 percent to $50.42 while announcing a new ad system that will allow app makers to remind users of apps they have downloaded but are not using.
On the negative side, Intel (INTC) dropped 0.4 percent to $22.83 as reports claimed the Santa Clara chipmaker could lose the executive in charge of its television ambitions to the Hulu CEO post and that Intel had agreed to acquire a Palo Alto startup for $20 million. Cisco (CSCO) dropped 0.1 percent to $23.24 after reporting Monday afternoon that CEO John Chambers' salary had nearly doubled.
Up: Yelp, Netflix, Zynga, SunPower (SPWRA), Yahoo, SolarCity, Electronic Arts (ERTS), Apple, Workday, LinkedIn, Pandora, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Juniper, VMware, Salesforce, AMD, Google
Down: Palo Alto Networks, Symantec, Intel, Applied Materials, Tesla, Gilead
The SV150 index of Silicon Valley's largest tech companies: Up 14.91, or 1.12 percent, to 1,349.61
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Up 13.45, or 0.8 percent, to 1,695
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Up 62.03, or 0.41 percent, to 15,191.7
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Up 46.5, or 1.23 percent, to 3,817.98
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Mitchell Anderson | January 26, 2009
By Mitchell Anderson • Monday, January 26, 2009 - 19:28
It has been a particularly nasty week for climate news.
First came word that Antarctica was warming with potentially catastrophic consequences. Then a study that climate change was killing off forests in North America. The latest grim finding is that global warming will lead to massive ocean dead-zones that may persist for 100,000 years.
This latest horseman of the apocalypse trotted out in the form of a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience by researchers from the University of Copenhagen. They found that warmer ocean temperatures from climate change will lead to enormous areas depleted in oxygen and unable to support marine life.
"We conclude that substantial reductions in fossil-fuel use over the next few generations are needed if extensive ocean oxygen depletion for thousands of years is to be avoided," the study says.
While it seems likely that we will continue this uncontrolled experiment with the planet's biosphere and see what happens, researchers are suggesting this might not be such a hot idea.
"What mankind does for the next several decades will play a large role in climate on Earth over the next tens of thousands of years," said geochemist Gary Shaffer of the University of Copenhagen.
Why so long? The reasons have to do with the enormous inertia of the world's oceans. Scientists estimate that it would take literally centuries for natural processes to remove enough carbon from the atmosphere to bring dead-zones back to life.
The term "dead-zone" obviously does not bode well for the world's seafood industry. According to researchers, "it would affect the ability of the ocean to produce fish, shellfish, the types of things that people eat. It's not just oxygen: it's a switch in ecosystem structure, " said Shaffer.
These areas already exist off many developed coastlines and have doubled in area every decade since 1960.
This latest research does not include the frightening implications of the world's oceans becoming more acidic – also due to burning fossil fuels. The marine environment has already become 30% more acid since the industrial revolution, and is on track to hit 150% by the end of the century. This sea change in ocean chemistry will have devastating implications for marine life such as coral and plankton that form the foundation of the ocean ecosystem.
Nor does this latest research consider the possibility of the massive amount methane ice buried in the ocean sediments burbling to the surface in a warming world.
If that happens, there will a couple more Old Testament ponies going for a little ride.
Some of the freed methane would combine with dissolved ocean oxygen making the dead zone issue worse.
The rest would be released into the atmosphere, greatly compounding our climate change problems. Methane is 21 times as strong a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide.
To recap: dead-zones, acidification and methane are all a direct result of the continued burning fossil fuels. According to Shaffer, "You put those together and you have a potent mix."
Several more reasons to kick the oil habit as fast as possible.
climate criminal replied on Permalink
Let's hope that the scenarios
Let's hope that the scenarios are significantly worse than what actually will happen. However, that would seem increasingly to be wishful thinking indeed. But while we must hope for the best (in-order to preserve our sanity and to avoid causing our children to lose their childhood), we must prepare for the worst by doing our utmost to go carbon neutral and if possible carbon negative.
And to that end we need legislators to legislate accordingly and to educate the populace about what the science actually says, rather than the codswallop served-up by the deniers.
So much bad news and it's
So much bad news and it's only Tuesday! What else can we look forward to this week?
Ian Forrester replied on Permalink
Harper losing his job?
Now that would really upset you but I doubt it is going to happen since $34 billion (a year) buys a lot of votes.
It's becoming almost Monty
It's becoming almost Monty Pythonesque the absurd alarmist scenarios being peddled to the public Frank. Is it any wonder the general public is tuning out on the issue?
paul s just proved my point
You're saying the scientists are obviously wrong because you feel their theory is "Monty Pythonesque" and "absurd", even though you can't be bothered to explain why.
Or, in short, you don't like bad news that contradicts your ideology.
– bi
Dead zones
Are these "researchers" unaware of the millions of tons of nitrates, phosphates and just plain manure being flushed into the sea from urban sewage and excessively fertilized farmland?
Is there any environmental problem that somebody hasn't blamed on GW?
Even the IPCC bureaucrats haven't been silly enough to claim that there has been any significant warming of the oceans but why quibble about the possibility of perceptible heat transfer from the atmosphere into that vast resevoir? So much for the state of scholarship in the 21st century.
Lots of problems = no problem?
Are these "researchers" unaware of the millions of tons of nitrates, phosphates and just plain manure being flushed into the sea from urban sewage and excessively fertilized farmland?
So you're saying that because there are other problems in addition to global warming, therefore there's no problem at all?
– bi
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Several more reasons to start
Several more reasons to start a meaningful dialogue about enacting a revenue-neutral carbon-tax. We need to raise the cost of carbon-based energy while providing incentives for the development of new, climate-friendly technologies. www/climatetaskforce.org