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Alma Plaza editorial
Original post made by Not so fast, Duveneck/St. Francis, on Mar 28, 2007
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Boy, if only the City Council would listen!!!
The editors say: "We agree with neighbors and the planning commission that a stronger retail presence is called for on this site, other than the market."
this raises some interesting points. As the editors point out, due to a deed restriction, the market can be no bigger than 18,000 sq. ft. Who will want to open a market that size? Remember also that Trader Joes will soon be opening in Town and Country.
What other retail presence would they like to have in Alma Plaza? While it is well and good that they want a strong retail presence, are there really any small retailers/mom and pop stores that will want to go in a new Alma Plaza.
another question is what effect will a market and other retail have on retail in areas near Alma Plaza (JJ&F/California Ave, Charleston Plaza/Piazza's, Midtown shopping district).
I have a feeling, because of the entities involved--a vocal neighborhood group and a weak-willed City Council, this will drag on for a while longer.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 28, 2007 at 9:45 am
And in the meantime, Alma Plaza will become a haven for the type of crime we saw last Sunday, and worse.... If I was a local resident, I would want to get things moving fast just to get rid of that derelict look to the place. If gangs or drug dealers move in big time, I would certainly not like to live in that neighborhood.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Mar 28, 2007 at 12:23 pm
For some reason the original link I posted is broken.
Here it is again:
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a resident of University South
on Mar 28, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Is there a clearer example of the confusion (hypocrisy?) of some residents re Palo Alto and housing. We have been given a fair share allocation of county housing need and the City and some residents complain that the allocation is unfair because we don't have enough "room" for housing. Just to be clear, this issue has gone to court in some cases and "not enough" is not legally defensible.
But here as in other places (e.g., Edgewood Plaza) there are active proposals for housing and always they are opposed or cut back. It seems like when residents are given feasible housing proposals they are opposed in some form.
Instead residents ask for more retail, which has greater traffic impact, all the while complaining about traffic. At Alma as at Edgewood what residents desire for retail rarely meets any market test. It is a wish list and duplicated elsewhere nearby. I am not aware that the region or city is short of coffee shops or places to get food. I am trying to be open-minded about this but it sure feels like shopping convenience triumphing over our oblogation (legal and moral) to participate in addressing regional issues.
It is hard for me to see how the City Council and local neighbors are dealing in good faith with what regional and business leaders say is the most critical regional economic challenge--not enough housing.
I posted this on the other Alma Plaza thread also. Weekly editor, how do you want us to handle when a post responds to more than one thread.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Mar 29, 2007 at 6:49 am
Mr. Levy, not true what you said about traffic. A mega-store (60,000 sq ft) grocery might draw more into Palo Alto, but a 18,000 sq ft neighborhood store decreases distance driven to shop, encourages biking, and thus DECREASES aggregate mileage driven in town.
a resident of University South
on Mar 29, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Well, we will have a chance to see how residents react to an Alma Plaza plan that includes a grocery store and coffee shop and housing. Will residents still complain about the housing and want it reduced?
In response to the comments here and in the other thread.
One, yes a fair share housing allocation for cities is suggested by ABAG (the regional plannning agency) as required by state law for housing in low, moderate-income and maket rate units. A city can appeal and if they win a reduced number of units, they are reallocated to other cities in the county. The criteria for determining a city's fair share are projected job and housing growth and exisiting jobs and access to tranist--where Palo Alto rates high.
Many relatively built out and affluent cities complain here and in every region of the state. Generally they all make the same claims as are made by Palo Alto residents as they, like Palo Alto residents, act to reduce the scope of every housing proposal received.
Part of Palo Alto is a "stand up" city. We are not afraid to stand up for national and worldwide policies that we think are right whether that be civil rights, global warming or wars that residents oppose.
I just wish that some of that "caring about the broader common good" was reflected in votes on housing here.
As far as retail and traffic there are three considerations. First, residents are conflicted as to whether they really want big units like Costco for convenience and tax revenue or smaller retail units. But the Edgewood and Alma examples show that smaller retail is often out-competed by bigger stores and the smaller stores close. Second, once people get on their bikes or walk there are better store options close by, which are likely to prevail anyway in the marketplace.
Finally, I do not drive and lived near Edgewood Plaza for 20 years. I sure didn't see many people walking or biking and carrying groceries back that way. I think it is a fond wish but not reality.
I remain convinced that this is mainly about people wishing the congestion of daily urban life could pass them by and go bother other people and a council caught between the very human emotions of getting beat on by their friends while all the while they advocate regional and worldwide responsiblibty in other areas.
a resident of Gunn High School
on Mar 30, 2007 at 7:20 am
Are the neighbors of Alma Plaza nimby's because they desire more retail on the site instead of more housing. The area surrounding Alma Plaza has the three-story Stanford Villa apartments on one side. A two-story apartment complex that backs to Alma Plaza but fronts on Ramona Street. A small professional building and a small two-story apartment complex on the corner of Alma and Meadow. Starting from these apartments on the corner of Meadow (including the three-story Stanford Villa apartments)there is an apartment row of one-story and two-story apartment complexes stretching from Meadow until Oregon Expressway.
Other than the 14 BMR units proposed in the Alma Plaza plans the other homes will be large and expensive. With prices above 1.2 million for houses that will be 1800-2000 sq feet on small lots (I believe 2000 sq foot lots but I'm not positive of the figure). Somehow I think in Palo Alto there's more need for additional affordable housing which is not being achieved on this site with the current plan. If the developer were to do all first floor retail with apartments or condo's above(imagine Santana Row on a small scale)it would 1)meet the neighbors need and city's requirement for additional retail and 2)actually make an impact in the housing need of the city.
a resident of University South
on Mar 30, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Help me out here.
My understanding of the way we get BMR units in this kind of development is from the developer in exchange for more market rate units. So all BMR units isn't in the cards except when there is external subsidy and the land is owned/bought by a public or non-profit entity. So more BMR units on this site means more market rate units.
Has any primarily retail development on this site ever been turned down by the City? Perhaps the kind of retail the neighbors want is a wish, not a real prospect. This certainly seemed true at Edgewood Plaza.
Next, the BMR units are precisely the kind of units affluent cities tell ABAG they can't meet the allocation goal for and usually the kind of units that drive neighbors nits. This was true in the public meetings on Edgewood Plaza that I attended.
Without any emotion attached to the word, yes, I think the neighbors protesting against the housing compoment at Alma Plaza are nimbys. They clearly, right or wrong, do not want to meet a small part of Palo Alto's housing goal (39 units out of 3,716) in their neighborhood.
The reason that there are fair share allocations is that getting enough housing and affordable housing is difficult.
The rights of neighbors have to balanced against broader goals. In Southern California airport expansion to meet the growth in travel and trade has been stymied becasue no one wants a new or bigger airport in their backyard.
When we moved to our new home downtown the City was exploring putting the new police station right across the street. If Palo Alto needs a new police station and our neighborhood was selected, I didn't think we had the right to protest because there would be extra noise and traffic in our neighborhood and I wrote an op-ed in the Weekly to that effect.
Yes, we all have to step up and participate in siting "difficult" projects like police stations, airports, prisons and higher density housing.
I am just sad that higher density housing is seen as an undesireable nieghbor even in sites like 800 High, Edgewood and Alma Plaza which seem about as good as we can imagine in Palo Alto.


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"We can have that discussion down the road," Walden said. "It doesn't have to be part of this bill. We don't preclude that from happening in the future with this bill, but we solve all of these other problems in this bill -- this is what we can actually get done. "
With Crook County hit hard by the recession, Walden says his bill will create jobs and bring more business to the area.
A small hydropower plant would be built at the base of Bowman Dam and serve two purposes: help reduce nitrogen in the water for fish and generate power for homes.
"That's what we need in Central Oregon -- more jobs," Walden said. "The good thing about this is, it doesn't cost the federal government a thing."
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She's not overweight, which you may have meant, but she did up her exercise regimen which indubitably increased muscle diameter ("bigger") and muscle strength.But, essentially, [Virtue] upped the ante in off-ice workouts from her already-rigorous regimen and altered some basic mechanics of her skating stroke which few skaters in their 15th year of competition ever do.
We tried to focus on taking the load off my calves, activating and recruiting different muscles, Virtue told The Spectator.
Is she fat? Heck no.
Heavy has a lot of different connotations, but this time, it wasn't used in a "fat" context. It was used more in a "she's stronger" context.
("Heavy" doesn't necessarily translate to "overweight". I mean, you wouldn't call a UFC fighter with tons of muscle overweight without hesistation, would you? BMI is just a little obscure in that way.)
Besides, muscle hypertrophy is less pronounced in women than in men. She really doesn't look that much more buff and it's nice to see that the changes in her strength training allowed her to forgo surgery in her legs.
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Yes, once again i'm asking for blueprints,. so has anyone got the full FAL prints? i've got the reciever already. thanks
If you find FACTORY OEM blue prints in any language please share with your friends here on Gunco.
There aren't any. I have "the set" on my site. Reverse engineering and fitting parts are still the best way.
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I'll continue searching. maybe i'll get lucky like i did with the AK and find arabic prints.
you would think factory prints would be highly protected and if you could locate them,you would probably be charged a pretty penny.
Did some googling and found that someone in AL sells all kinds of gun prints. I don't know anything else about them or what the coverage/quality is. The below link shows a big list of all the ones he has available.
80% Receiver Sources
(Scroll down until you see "Southern Trading" )
Oh, and I also found a FAL receiver drawing, but by the look of it it is most likely a hobbyist who reverse engineered an Imbel or FN, as the drawing doesn't look like it was professionally done.
I tried to post them in the Library forum, but I don't seem to have permission to do so. Maybe a moderator can help out...
Bet they are the same prints drawn by W.E.S. on 7-19-90 I used twenty years ago on my 4340 billet receivers. You would think factory prints would have leaked being made in several countries as far back as the 50's. Seems like DSA use to advertise they used factory prints in receiver manufacturing. Down in Aussie land is there the "Freedom of Information Act"? If the FAL was made in a Aussie Gov't Arsenal Plant might be a possibility.
Hey, wow...you are right on with the date on the prints I found. In the drawn by section it is crossed out, but it sorta looks a bit like it could be WES.
I found one other possible lead from a FALFILES post in Dec 2008:
- Google FOIA
- Google U. S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey
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Shannon Sharpe Says He's Not A Jay Cutler Fan
Former Denver Broncos Quarterback Jay Cutler didn't have many friends among Chargers fans. You could even say Cutler was strongly disliked in San Diego. But the Charger faithful weren't the only ones with an aversion towards the supercilious QB from Vanderbilt. Count Hall of Fame Tight End and former Broncos great Shannon Sharpe among those who disliked Cutlers attitude and posture, both on and off the football field.
"I'm not the biggest Jay Cutler fan. I don't like the way he carries himself or conducts himself from time to time. But there's no denying the talent. And people say, well he's only 17-20 (record as a starter). But look at his record when the defense gave up 20 points or less."
Asked to elaborate on his feelings towards Cutler's disposition, Sharpe pointed to the Jay Cutler - Philip Rivers "rivalry":
"The bickering back and forth between Philip Rivers; That's something you don't normally see between quarterbacks. Quarterbacks are always best buds. They go to each other's golf tournaments, they call each other, they go out and have a beer together. You don't' really ever see quarterbacks bickering and carrying on. I didn't really like that. I don't like the way he stands on the sidelines. And this is just me - he might be the greatest guy ever. I don't really know Jay Cutler, so I'm not one to sit here and pass judgment on him. But the way he stands and carries himself...I guess, and this is so unfair, I guess it's because I played nine years with number 7 (John Elway), and I just saw the way he (Elway) conducted himself. And I just automatically think all quarterbacks, especially if you play in Denver, that's the way you should do things. And that might be an unfair assessment of Jay Cutler and his character. But there are just some things I saw from the way he stood on the sideline, when things went wrong, the way he conducted himself, that I wasn't totally in love with."
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April 2, 2009at 9:15 PM Posted by Rob Zepeda
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Yeah you so just didn't pass any judgement there shannon. I am the happiest man on the planet good bye Jay. You can basically punch the Chargers ticket for the playoffs because no one in the AFC West is going to touch us. And the Bears gave up a lot and I HATE Jay Culter but I'd take him over Kyle or Rex anyday. So Shannon please just shut up. Anyone who says this was a bad trade is just stupid you never know what your getting in the draft just ask the lions charles roger, joey harrington, mike williams, etc. etc. They (bears) got a great QB and I'm happy he is gone from the AFC West. The broncos were the only thing in our way. Without Culter the broncos are easily set back 2 maybe even 4 years. This is a great day if your a Chargers fan Like me. HAPPY DAYS!!!!!
You are nuts man! The Bears got screwed in that deal. The Broncos get 2 1st rounders, a 3rd rounder, and Kyle Orton who lead the Bears to a 9-7 record with a sorry receiving corps and offensive line. Cuntler had 2 great wideouts, an excellent offensive line, and a pretty good tight-end too. Despite that, he still needed a blown call by Hochuli and a missed field goal by the Saints to win 8 games. OVERRATED. I wish he was still in the AFC west so we could kick his ass twice a year.
Don't know why this should be a happy day for us Chargers fans. He ment nothing and we all know why he has a W against SD last year.
I which he'd stay and got beaten some more.
That whole "Look at his record when the defense gives up under 20" stat is pretty worthless. QBs are supposed to win when their defenses play well! Cutler is 13-1 in such situations. Great. Rivers is 28-2!
He wasn't nothing...he's damn good QB even though I hate the donkeys. They lost lot of games because of their poor D, not Cutler (well he did lose a few). Before this trade, Donkeys looked better on paper with free agents and their favorable draft spots. We were in toe to toe with these guys on both games (even with the blown call). I don't think our D's that much better do you?
toe to toe in both games? As i recall.. the last game of the season.. to get into the playoffs.. we blow them out.. i mean common.. it was freaken 24-6 by half time.. then 52-21 final score?... toe to toe right? hahaha not even close.. plus the way our team was playin at the begining of the season.. game one shouldnt even count
Bottom line Cutler was a very productive QB who through too many picks. Whether or not he will clutch up is to be seen. Obviously McDaniel's thought that he was missing it north of the shoulder pads. In the short run this will benefit the Chargers but in the long run it is hard to tell. It all comes down to the draft...the same thing that made the Chargers a terrible team years ago and the same thing that has made them the perrenial favorite in the AFC West recently.
Go Bolts!!!!
Cutler couldn't hold Philip Rivers' jock strap. Philip is gonna take over the reigns in the NFL as an elite QB now that Peyton Manning and Tom Brady are getting up there in age. Philip represents the new wave of Future Hall of Fame QB's in the NFL and I will be glad to see his bust next to Dan Fouts one day as 2 of the greatest Charger QB's. In Philip we trust.
I agree that it's a stretch to say look how good he was when the defense held opponents under 20. Most every QB has a strong record when that happens. Also, what they DON'T reveal, is how many of those points given up by the "defense" are attributable to Jay Cutler throwing picks. Someone with time please look this up.
I'm surprised Shannon didn't mention anything about how Philip Rivers carries himself. It takes two to talk s*it. Being a Chargers fan, I can even see it. Rivers has a lot of growing up to do too. But at least Rivers didn't say something stupid like, he's got a stronger arm than Dan fouts!
You may not like how Rivers conducted himself on the field in some of the more publicized outtakes but he has always been very professional when talking to media. He always stayed away from the Cutler feud and took the high road by focusing on the team and not himself. Cutler allowed the media to engage him in the war of words over and over. I think that shows a huge difference in not only their levels of professionalism but their maturity as well. Rivers gets it and Cutler does not.
- Joe Fiorentino said... Apr 8, 2009, 6:52:00 AM
lol, why would Shannon Sharpe call out a fellow shit talker? Pot, kettle, black.
Rivers handles himself perfectly well. He's a competitor...
- Jordan Xavier B said... Apr 8, 2009, 2:10:00 PM
I agree with the 3rd or 4th comment. Bring him back so we can kick is twice a year.
Also, rivers may talk crap, but the guy doesnt even cuss. You could read his lips when he was talkin crap to cutler. All he said was baby. I personally love all the talkin he does. In the end he's still a good guy.... Plus it helps that he was the number 1 rated QB last year.... and that he's a charger... and that he is able to perform when our line cant run the ball
I just don't get Chargers fans who don't like Rivers. Don't get me wrong, Drew Brees is a good QB (and AJ blew that by only getting a 3rd round pick the following year--see Cassel trade for 2nd rounder or Cutler trade for 2 1st's and a 3rd). But back to my point...I can remember many Rivers comebacks and not one Brees comeback. Some of the biggest were against the Bengals in Cincinati in 06, against the Broncos at Mile High in 07, and against the Chiefs at Arrowhead this year. He has proven to be way more clutch than Brees.
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But alas, I fear I ask too much of Bleach at this point. Ryuuken would be a satisfactory twist too.
Also, Chiisai Kuma that is one sick zombie pic. Props to you man!
|2012-09-28, 16:14
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Zombie killing is awesome.
Kubo probably will got with the *uryu is a spy* theory, it seems to follow kubo's train of scrambled thoughts.
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how many more antagonists are there? and how many characters left for us to see fight? damn. i'm still sticking to my crackpot theory that zero squad are the main antagonists of this arc
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Uryuu seems a weird choice, he may seem a bit less vocal or apathetic but I don't think he's quite on the super bad guy level. Maybe his family is a line that's been foes with the Sterns? Or have some intel for SS.
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I could even buy it if the development was there. Maybe something like "I was watching your development this whole time and decided now was the perfect chance." I mean that's just a random sentence I typed up but yeah.
|2012-09-30, 21:33
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It'd take a lot of explaining to make Uryuu the big bad...so much that I wouldn't even know where to begin to make it all work. Because even if Kubo was somehow able to plausibly explain his motivation for faking friendship all this time, he'd need a plausible way to obtain the power worthy of a main antagonist since the Uryuu we know of presently isn't all that strong. And it would be extremely hard to believe he was just intentionally faking his skills and strength this entire time. I'd honestly have an easier time believing Ryuuken could become the main bad guy.
Instead, I'm sure the Ishida's will remain good guys in the end. Afterall, someone's going to need to teach Ichigo how to wield those latent Quincy powers of his.
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Ishida turning out to be a spy, while cool, would just be forced at this point. To say all the 'friendship' was just a lie seems dumb IMO. He showed legit concern for Orihime, enough to break his promise with his father (who knew he could anyways) and go to Hueco with Ichigo anyways and eve about Ichigo in the Fullbringer arc when he believed Ukitake lied to them/was hiding something.
I would be more inclined to believe that his father was up to something, but even then, that seems a bit forced too. What I really would have liked to see was his father intervening during the Aizen fight...I mean, if Keigo and the others could wake up, he sure as hell could. And while working with Shinigami isn't something he'd do, I'd think stopping one bent on destruction of his home would be enough...
All in all, the Ishida family is hinted to be something big from Kirge's words, so hoping for some Ryuuken flashbacks from when he was younger, maybe filling in the gap of his knowledge that other Quincies could be out there and the power his family could have but he never acted on it in fear of something.
What I really liked about this chapter? Well, the ending was, while annoying, a good sign. This cliffhanger will keep us waiting for something, which means it's about time Kubo will shift to Hueco Mundo again and we'll see who is pointing their sword at Ukitake. That or we'll see what's up with Ichigo, but SS might be shafted for a week or two at this rate
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But it also means fake Buha was strong enough that he wouldn't have been able to win easily with Shikai. Wonder how strong the real Buha would be.
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Either way, after all of that, whatever explanation he'd give on really being a bad guy wouldn't fit wellimo. If they were watching Ichigo to see his growth, it's just Aizen all over again (same if they were settting him up to do something specific so that they could achieve their goals). If they were just scoping him out to kill him later, it's pretty pointless since Uryu could have killed him in his sleep or something, considering how easy it is for everyone to get into Ichigo's room these days
Anyways, I dunno, but if Kubo does go that route, it'll be pretty random. He never really dropped any hints here and there to make a reveal like that believable. Remember Grimmjow's words to Ichigo about Orihime changing on the 'inside'? Now, if there was something like that, at one point, that implied Uryu was dealing with burdens outside of the main story--perhaps it'd work, but as of now, he's just Ichigo's 'rival' that lost his powers, gained them back and remained comic relief with concern.
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Characters with a really strong sense of obligation can turn against people they have close bonds with because they put duty first. Uryuu seems like he could possibly be that type. If he directly had to choose sides between the shinigami and the Quincy, he might feel he has to go with the Quincy. We know he feels he can't be involved with the current battle as it is, so there already seems like some conflict.
As for power, if it were explained he is reincarnation/direct descendent/avatar of Juha Bach, his full power could be dormant. It'd be interesting if the reason Ryuuken didn't want him associating with shinigami in the first place is because he feared they'd figure out he was special and would want to destroy him. But...it seems way too cool to happen
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If he used his bankai for too long, then all of SS would be destroyed.
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- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1-1/2 quarts water
- 2 cups ketchup
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed
- 3 medium carrots, cut into 1/2-in slices
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- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
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- In a Dutch oven or soup kettle, brown pork in oil. Add the next 10 ingredients. Cover and simmer for 1-1/2 hours. Stir in gingersnap crumbs; simmer, uncovered, for 30 minutes or until stew is thickened and pork is tender. Yield: 12-14 servings (3-1/2 quarts).
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"How and where is this Sauerbraten. Where did you sour anything? Sauerbraten is typically made with a tough cut of beef or in the Ruhr with horse meat and then soured in a wine vinegar and red wine brine for about 3 days! Using gingersnaps does not a Sauerbraten make!"


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Tigers defeat Bears, Huskies and Panthers
The Pine River-Backus Tigers girls' basketball team handed the visiting Clearbrook-Gonvic Bears their first loss by a 53-37 score in Northwoods Conference action on Monday, Jan. 14.
The Tigers, 7-0 in the conference and 10-2 overall, are scheduled to play Nevis in a Northwoods Conference game on Friday, Jan. 18.
The Bears were undefeated going into the game, and the Tigers were undefeated in the conference play to set up an admirable matchup. PR-B won the tip and was the first to score as Tatum Sheley drained a 3-pointer with 1:15 off the clock. The Bears answered with two points, but Brittany Kelley put in two points for the Tigers and Sheley added two free throws to give the Tigers the lead 7-2.
The Bears got a 3-pointer and the Tigers answered with four points, two from Sheley and two from Autumn Ackerman. The Bears responded with four quick points, but the Tigers also managed four points to make it 15-9. Clearbrook had managed to narrow the Tigers' lead to 28-22 at the half.
In the second half the Bears started with the ball, but the Tigers were the first to score as Felthous put in two points with only 30 seconds off the clock. The Bears got two points, and PR-B answered with four points from Sheley to make it 34-24. The Bears netted another two points, Ackerman answered for the Tigers with a layup off an assist by Kendra Brasel, and the Bears hit a 3-pointer with 13:43 left in the game.
Kelley scored five points before the Bears could score again to extend PR-B's lead 41-29. The Bears put in one free throw, and the Tigers answered with three points by Felthous. PR-B kept lengthening their lead and was ahead by 16 points at the end. Felthous led the Tigers with 14 points and five rebounds while Kelley had a double-double with 11 points, 10 rebounds, four blocks, two steals, and two assists.
Sheley finished with 11 points, five assists and three steals. Journee Howard had four points and four rebounds. Brasel had two points, three assists, three rebounds and two steals, and Megan Porta added two points.
"That was a super win," said PR-B coach Randy Schwegel. "We played very well defensively, and this puts us alone at the top of our conference."
Tigers 58, Isle 44
The Tigers handed the Isle Huskies a loss in a matchup of section opponents on Thursday, Jan. 10, in Pine River. PR-B won the tip and scored as Felthous put up a layup off a steal off an assist by Sheley. A half minute later Sheley put in another layup off her own steal to give the Tigers a 4-0 lead. Felthous followed with two more points before Isle managed to finally get on the board with a 3-pointer with 14 minutes left in the half. Isle made it 6-5 by scoring two more points, but the Tigers answered with their own two points as Brasel put in two free throws to lengthen their lead again.
Sheley added three points for the Tigers on a layup plus a free throw, Isle hit another 3-pointer, and Sheley put in another two points to make the score 13-8. Isle scored two points with 10 minutes left in the half, Howard answered for the Tigers a few seconds later, and Isle scored two more points. Tigers were up 29-14 by the half.
The second half was slightly closer as Isle actually outscored the Tigers 30-29, but the Tigers had enough of a lead for a convincing win. Ackerman led the Tigers with 17 points, nine rebounds, four blocks, three steals and one assist. Sheley had 13 points, eight rebounds, six assists and six steals. Felthous finished with 10 points, five rebounds and four steals. Kelley had eight points, four rebounds, three steals, two assists and one block. Howard put in six points for the Tigers, and Brasel added four points, five assists, one rebound, and one steal.
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The Tigers crushed the Cass Lake-Bena Panthers 86-18 for the second time in a conference home game on Tuesday, Jan. 8. The Tigers dominated from the tip all the way through. CL-B wasn't able to score until there was only 5:47 left in the first half, while the Tigers had already scored 49 points. With 8:52 on the clock, Sheley was passed the ball and put it in to score her 2,000th career point. She went on to score 14 more points before the game was over to lead the Tigers with 23 points, five rebounds, three steals, and three assists.
Felthous had a double-double with 16 points and 15 rebounds. Ackerman had a double-double with 15 points and 15 rebounds. Kelley finished with 13 points, five rebounds, three steals, one assist, and one block. Megan Porta had seven points, three rebounds, and one steal.
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BlackBerry 10 Launch: RIM's Final Shot At A Comeback Has Arrived
After years of frustrating delays, scary earnings reports and multiple rounds of layoffs, Research In Motion's shot at redemption has arrived.
Except it's not Research In Motion anymore — the company announced Tuesday it is rebranding itself BlackBerry, after its flagship smartphone product.
The announcement came at BlackBerry 10 launch events around the world, where the company announced a Feb. 5 release date for the first BB10 phone in Canada.
The company also stunned some observers by announcing renowned singer Alicia Keys would be coming on board as global creative director, focused on developing media content for the phone. (The BlackBerry was long criticized for lacking many of the media and entertainment options that other smartphones offer, and this should go some way towards dispelling that image.)
But the company saw its stock drop sharply during the several hours its launch event was taking place, likely the result of profit-taking by investors who have seen RIM shares soar over the past few months, in anticipation of the BB10 release.
RIM (TSX:RIM) had been up as much as four per cent prior before chief executive Thorsten Heins unveiled the BB10 and announced the company's corporate name would be changed to BlackBerry at a widely covered event in New York City.
By late morning, RIM stock was down 55 cents or 3.5 per cent to $15.16, adding to declines over the past two sessions — 3.4 per cent Tuesday and a 7.6 per cent drop on Monday. The stock had staged a huge comeback since hitting a fresh 52-week low of $6.10 last September.
The new phone launch is BlackBerry's attempt to regain its position in the highly competitive North American and European smartphone markets, which are now dominated by iPhone and Android devices.
While the first hurdles to overcome are the opinions of tech analysts and investor reaction, the true measure of success — actual sales of the phones — is still weeks away.
Among the features being touted at Wednesday's event:
— As you type, the operating system predicts what word you want and you can swipe to have it auto-completed.
— BlackBerry Hub acts as one place for all incoming messages, email, BBM, social media.
— BlackBerry Balance then allows one phone to operate as both a business and personal device entirely separate from each other.
— Apps have been divided into two sections by tabs at the top of the screen, labelled Personal and Work.
— The new BlackBerry will also let users seamlessly shift between the phone's applications like they're flipping between pages on a desk.
— With files from The Canadian Press
It's hard to know what she'll bring to the boardroom table beyond her own fame — aside from saying sayonara to her slutty iPhone, Keys says she's use the BlackBerry Z10 to shoot music videos during tour stops that "capture sights, sounds, and fans of every city that I visit."
|@ SunnyFreeman : #RIM er #BlackBerry shares down nearly 5% on TSX despite seemingly successful launch. Investors unhappy about something? Just profit taking?
Read more on release dates and pricing here (will be updated through the day)
The long-awaited BlackBerry Z10 will hit Canadian stores on Feb. 5, and will be available for 9 with a three-year contract, the company formerly known as RIM announced Tuesday.
The event has formally wrapped and MacLeod and Bidulka take the stage to a standing ovation to close the Toronto launch.
Apple can keep Feist. BlackBerry is upping its cool ante.
Grammy winner Alicia Keys is not only BlackBerry's new creative director but commercial star, and is launching the "Keep Moving Project" which she'll use to create films using BlackBerry 10 at the Super Bowl and her new world tour. The commercial also features Robert Rodriguez and author Neil Gaiman.
Screengrab from 'Keep Moving' project video featuring Alicia Keys, Neil Gaiman, Robert Rodriguez
Screengrab from 'Keep Moving' project video featuring Alicia Keys, Neil Gaiman, Robert Rodriguez
|@ SunnyFreeman : Alicia Keys to work closely with app designers, content creators, developers and ppl in music and entertainment. #BlackBerrry10
|@ SunnyFreeman : Alicia Keys ups cool factor "I was in a long term relationship with #BlackBerry ...kind of broke up with you for something with more bling."
|@ SunnyFreeman : #BlackBerrry10 has big music store, "there's no need to reboot your device," after you've loaded songs, Mallick says--- a swipe at Apple?
|@ SunnyFreeman : #Blackberry to create new position, global creative director appoints actor, philanthropist, Tweeter Alicia Keys!!!!
|@ SunnyFreeman : #BlackBerry #Z10 available in Canada next week! Feb. 5 at 9 on a 3-year contract.
As a replacement for older versions of BlackBerry OS, BB 10 is a huge step out of the dark ages of mobile OS design. It's something that finally feels intended for a modern, full-touch device, yet still offers the core productivity focus we think BBID-holders will like. Does it have mainstream appeal? Yes, it does, but we're not sure a great stock keyboard and some trick gestures are enough to unseat the current kings of mobile devices.
Martyn Mallick, vice-president of global alliances and business development, takes to the stage to introduce some apps. He says the deliberate decision to launch a phone with more apps and social use has already paid off — it already has more than 70,000 applications available.
"With the momentum that we've built we will continue to see thousands of apps added every week," he says.
Key apps include Skype, Kindle, What'sApp, Facebook, AND Angry Birds.
A lack of apps for BlackBerry compared to Android and Apple devices had been a huge setback for the company and a big incentive for users to switch to competitors. (via Sunny Freeman)
"Yes, we have Skype committed to BlackBerry 10 ... And yes we have Angry Birds committed to Blackberry 10."
There are some pretty cool new media features on the BlackBerry 10 devices. The timeshift camera we already knew about but the BlackBerry story maker is a pretty awesome video editor.
A slight problem for RIM, errr BlackBerry, however, is that their share prices has fallen about four per cent since the event started, perhaps on news the new phones won't be available until March!
|@ SunnyFreeman : Loyal CrackBerry users... Are you ok with waiting for the #Z10 until March? And the keyboard device #Q10 in April? #BlackBerrry10
|@ SunnyFreeman : #BlackBerry showing off another leaked feature... the timeshift camera... there's also a built in photo editor http://t.co/w9ZgbytE
BBM video chat
|@ SunnyFreeman : Leaks were right about many #BlackBerry10 details like BlackBerry Balance, name #Z10 but #RIMnamechange a shocker!
BBM Video -- chat moves into video seamlessly
New BlackBerry (hard not to call them RIM any more) showcases the Blackberry hub on their new devices. It is pretty innovative, lets you manage all your social profiles on one screen. It also pulls up profiles of your contacts and shows you what they've been saying on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter.
They've moved on to an intuitive keyboard that has words flick up on screen as you type to save time and reduce mistakes. It's supposed to make it easier to delete, add hashtags, numbers, etc. AND recognizes various languages. Thorsten himself looks pretty impressed.
The tech company behind the BlackBerry smartphone brand announced it would rename itself after its flagship product at the launch of its new BlackBerry 10 platform on Tuesday.
"It is one brand, it is one promise … From today on, we are BlackBerry everywhere in the world," CEO Thorsten Heins told a New York audience.
|@ Ihnatko : Demo of Blackberry Flow, the mechanism for moving around. This is what I saw: it's VERY easy to work BB10 with one hand.


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It's time for a new, conservation-minded view of the microbial communities that live on and in us
Robert L. Dorit
Why did it take so long to acknowledge our inner microbe? The answer stems, in part, from the fact that most bacteria cannot be grown in the laboratory. Consequently, until recently, microbiologists could not identify—let alone understand—microbes that refused to live in the world of Petri dishes and culture flasks. Until recently, if we had been interested in describing microbial diversity, we would have collected a sample from some well-defined habitat—a hot spring or a water-treatment plant, for instance—then spread that sample on a variety of culture media and waited to see what grew. Yet for a long time, microbiology has known that only a tiny, biased sliver of microbial diversity could be cultured in the lab. As a result, we could guess, but we could never really know, what was out there.
Today the procedure is different. Over the past decade the constraints of the laboratory have been lifted. New methods in molecular biology now make it possible to identify microorganisms without having to grow them in the lab. These new methods rely on our ability to read the DNA sequence from certain deeply informative stretches of the genome, stretches that are unique to every microorganism. We now collect samples and identify the resident microbial species without having to grow them in the lab. Instead, we disrupt their outer membranes and so release their DNA. The resulting mix of DNA contains the genomes of every microbe in the sample. We then amplify short, distinctive, species-specific fragments from this DNA mixture, revealing the identity of virtually every microbe in that sample. Imagine the heavens first seen through a telescope—such is the impact of these new approaches on our conception of the diversity and complexity of microbial communities. We no longer glimpse stars; now we can comprehend galaxies.
Equipped with these new molecular tools, we have refocused our attention on the microorganisms living on and in us. From the outset, these studies suggest that human microbiota are more diverse, more complex, more structured and more fascinating than we could have imagined. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of different species make us their home. But is this diversity just the result of living in a world dense with microbes? Do our surface cracks and crevices simply collect microbial dust? Far from it. Each location in the human body appears to harbor its own structured, organized and site-specific community. These communities reflect the characteristics of the specific environments: the crook of your elbow is not, in fact, the same environment as your nearby forearm.
And microbes are everywhere within the digestive tract. A 2006 study by Elizabeth M. Bik of Stanford University and her colleagues demonstrates, for example, that the microbiota of the human stomach are both far more diverse and far more distinctive than previously imagined. The aggressive environment of the human stomach was considered until recently an inhospitable environment. All but the heartiest extremophiles would surely die in this acid vat of protein-degrading enzymes. But an analysis of telltale molecular signatures reveals 128 different species of stomach microorganisms. Fully half of these bacteria had never been cultured and had thus gone unnoticed. And these 128 resident species are not simply the descendants of an original colonist: They span eight phyla and reflect a broad cross-section of bacterial diversity. (One stomach even included Deinococcus, a genus previously found only in the effluent of nuclear-power plants and in arsenic-laden waste.) Not just the stomach, but the entire human gut turns out to be a patchwork of complex, dynamic, microbial ecosystems engaged in intimate conversations with their host. This new appreciation is based on the work of David A. Relman of Stanford University, Jeffery I. Gordon of Washington University, Claire M. Fraser-Liggett of the University of Maryland and others.
Many studies have underscored the distinct character of our microbial communities. The skin on our right forearm, for example, harbors a different microbial community than that of our left forearm. Both of these communities change over time. Even single regions of the body, such as the vagina, consist of multiple defined subenvironments, each with its own subset of tenants. The presence of such distinct communities is even more surprising when one thinks of the human body, as topologists do, as a cylinder with a hollow core. Given this kind of a picture, why exactly do distinct microbial communities persist on the inside and the outside of our bodies?
Part of the answer, as I suggested earlier, lies in the specialized environments that characterize the different sections of this hollow cylinder. As microbes colonize these specialized habitats, they further enhance the differences between environments. Bacterial guilds, in which one species's waste is another's food, begin to emerge. As these guilds expand, each new member contributes to the location-specific identity of the overall assemblage. Furthermore, these environments are all interconnected, and members of each community can and do travel far from home. We are now finding that certain groups of bacteria succeed in many different locations, whereas others seem tethered to single environments. We know there is movement, but the details of the microbial traffic patterns within our bodies are mostly unknown.
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2 guys I know each have over 500. That seems to be the magic number. One had 550 right now and another has 800 Plus.
Good luck!
"I have a full box of popcycle sticks, will sell them to ya for $3,500.00 "
Tha't just way too much for Breyers sticks, I would consider it if they were hagen daz ! If you could hold them though I should be able to save that much in about 2 years! Do you take credit cards or postdated checks.
Thanks for all of your comments. I have gotten a lot of good information and been given a lot to think about.
"The UNKNOWN, huh? That would be SNORBERT ZANGOX over in Waycross."
Gene, you are blessed with a great beekeeping family!
I hope that they all stay tuned in to the business. You should do well!
As to the debt part; I have never borrowed a penny to build my operation.
As a former director in a local manufacturing corp, I always scoffed when I heard the term, "bootstrap business".
But the entire time, that was what I was building.
For folks that have a good job and kids at home, they can slowly increase and get set up with equipment by reinvesting their income annually into expansion.
It is different for someone that wants to make a sudden change in employment and does not mind debt.
But if you can grow your operation along with your skills slowly and keep your day job until the kids are on their own two feet, and do so with NO DEBT, then you have a good start.
Don't quit your job one second earlier than you need to.
But above all, remember that in beekeeping, "The bees come first".
If you are in the beekeeping business and you take the best care of your bees, every thing else will follow.
It's like dairy farming; the cows need milked in the AM and PM.
Everything else in life must revolve around that.
If you start cutting corners or get lax with your bees, your operation may crumble.
The bees come first, or sell them and punch a time card somewhere.
My $.02
I have exactly ONE hive more than than you.
That makes my opinion beyond dispute!
I'm glad I found this thread. I am thinking along the same lines. I am a very beginner beekeeper but really enjoy it. Am just now thinking where I'd like to be in 4-5 years.
[QUOTE]I think there is something to be said of "sidelining". Build to 100 hives and see what money can be made. Then ask yourself if you can do he same with 500.
This makes alot more sense to me. At least in the short term. I do the same type of thing with IT consulting. Desktops, servers, networks, and general support for 10 or so small businesses in the area. I always have a regular nite gig doing IT support that pays all the bills, insurance, retirement etc. My thought process is more along hte lines of...."If i could have 100 hives and make some $ doing nucs, pollinating, and retail or wholesale honey sales"....that might be more rewarding personally. I have one bee yard that is family land, a tractor that I could put a fork lift attachement on for carrying the girls around on pallets, etc. All I'd need is a flatbed truck and some higher capacity uncapping/extracting equipment right?
Anyway, I'm going to keep reading...thanks!
as gene's snip of harry comments suggest perhaps the most highly repeated personal characteristic of almost (I am trying to think of one exception here while I type this) every commercial bee keeper that I have know is they were blessed with a definite 'loner' type personality. to go down that road you certainly had better enjoy your own company.
for myself in regards to wishing to go commercial... been there, done that. the reality is a bit more difficult than the dream and I quite like myself where I is, how I is.... and yes I most definitely qualify in the above mentioned profile.
Some things to also consider is
Toilet paper in the truck for when nature calls and you are way out in a beeyard.
keeping frozen water bottles for when you are overheating in a beesuit
knowing how to run a bobcat and staight transmission on a truck so you do not dump a load of full honey supers.
How to properly tie down a load so you do not lose it on the first stop sign on a hill.
Know when to quit working a bee yard because it is going to rain in a hour and the bees are all over you. No amount of smoke fixes this.....
there are so many things on the commercial side that most hobby or sideliners just do not know.
>>Know when to quit working a bee yard because it is going to rain in a hour and the bees are all over you. No amount of smoke fixes this.....
no, you dont ever learn that one,
Well around these parts you'd better learn how to work bees in the rain or you won't get much work done. It rains a lot here and when it's not we might have a drizzle or some showers, hail ,snow, fog is kinda common too. We've been working bees since the middle of february and we've had less than 10 sunny days. Most of those were freezing cold to start with. It's not the best condition to be working bees but because of these efforts some colonies are looking mighty fine now. I think it's real important to be flexible in beekeeping so you can capitalize on opportunities. I think that's been my greatest strenght. I've tried lot's of different things that I may not repeat year to year. For instance this year honey prices are good so I'm going to sell bees. Normally those bees would be used for blueberry pollination but berry prices are down. Consequently growers are renting less bees. No use arguing, it's the way it is. Honey prices are good so I'll sell more bees this year than usual. It's an opportunity this year so I'll take advantage of it. Some years I've made Ross Rounds . I get a premium price pound for pound but it's a lot of fooling around. I won't make any this season, bulk honey prices are too good. To sum it all up, every season is different. It's important to have some flexibility and take advantage of opportunites as they arise.
You operate a well run diversified beekeeping operation Jean Marc. By doing so it allows you to adjust and capitalize on changing markets.
My operation runs a bit different. I am soley a honey producer. I am diversified well into other sectors of agriculture.
My beekeeping focus is strictly on honey production. I take the good years and profit, I take the poor years and regroup. My main and only focus is to manage my hive in the best way to produce a big honey crop. Its the only way I can manage my honey farm while taking enough time to devote to my other areas of business interests.
Time management is probably our biggest obsticle
I was once a fair weather beekeeper...until I started working for Jean-marc. Prior to to that I had worked with a beek that that ran 250 colonies while my father and I ran our 200. the I use to work for never worked the hives in the rain and wouldn't even crack a lid until mid march and since we were learning from him our practices were much the same. In early 2002, my mother passed away and my fathers heart wasn't in the bees anymore than what mine was at the time and we sold the bees (Jean-marc and other beek) but I kept back 12 hives. the beek I was working for lossed his wife and sold the bees too. So I was in limbo on what I wanted to do, maybe keep bees as a hobby and get a full time job.
Then I met my wife to be in 2003 and she would have none of that and has been one of my biggest supporters on getting our bee operation off the ground. In February 16, 2004 was the first day of working bees for Jean-marc. I remember that day well as it was raining none stop as we digged through the hives giving frames of pollen, the next day was fairly the same and so on and so forth. through the course of my employment with JM I learnt to get use to being wet and cold, you could expect that from mid feb to the end of march you might have a total 10-15 days where it wouldn't rain. This was the difference among other things from running 200 hives to running 2000 hives.
for anyone starting a operation from side line to wanting to go commercial, it helps to learn from those that have done this by working for those people and if your lucky they will share with you their beginnings and how they got to where they are today, Jean-marcs story is still quite inspiring to me to this day.
Will Gruenwald Chilliwack BC
Time management, yup that's a big one. The weather man is predicting 5 days of sunshine starting today. So it would sure be nice to have an extra 3-4 guys around here for the next 6 weeks. You know to make up nucs, requeen, move bees to pollination. Then we could scale backe the crew. Unfortunately the business can't afford it and good labour is hard to find.
Ian, we need to diversify here and for sure on the prairies honey production is the only game in town, except perhaps pollination in southern Alta. Wishing you and others the big crop with these good honey prices.
boy this spring is getting off to a slow start!
bees are still inside!
With beekeeping set to explode and honey already in short supply, the real question is, "How much will the honey be worth when produced?"
My tip is that there never has been a better time to hop into commercial honey production.
The Honey Revolution is happening. Two hives on the White House lawn have just put up the flag!
>>My tip is that there never has been a better time to hop into commercial honey production.
I hear you John! Take when the taking is hot!
When there is up side, there also comes down side.
Getting in on the upside makes the down side hit harder.
Best plan operations on below average prices and yeilds. Because the downside looms, and if it cant be managed accordingly, they your out of business!


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Jacksonville pair accused of making, selling meth
JACKSONVILLE, ONSLOW COUNTY - Deputies have charged two suspects for allegedly making and selling meth in Onslow County.
Samantha Gilbert and Domenique Dwyer, both of Jacksonville, have been charged with meth possession and trafficking offenses, as well as maintaining a property used to make meth, according to the Onslow County Sheriff's Office.
On Aug. 16, deputies received a report of suspicious items in a mobile home park on Old Maplehurst Road in Jacksonville, investigators said. When deputies arrived, they noticed items used to make meth and arrested Gilbert and Dwyer, the Sheriff's Office stated.
Both suspects are accused of making more than 400 grams of methamphetamine.
They were being held under a combined $280,000 secure bond.


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Three months ago, the ice cover in the Arctic Ocean reached its lowest point of the year, and also the lowest since satellites began measuring the amount of ice in 1979.
There is still a fair amount of ice left in the Arctic, about 1.3 million square miles, give or take a few square miles. But it's melting much faster than predicted and what is left is also getting thinner, so it will melt faster in the future. Is there a problem with this, or might this be a good thing?
Well, it depends. If you are an oil company, the melting of more ice is gradually opening up the Arctic for oil exploration.
There have been concerns with oil and the Arctic from the time petroleum was first discovered on the North Slope of Alaska in 1968 and a pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez was proposed. Oil that had to be kept warm enough to flow the 800 miles through the pipeline presented some major engineering problems as the route traversed hundreds of miles of frozen ground.
There was a long list of concerns that emerged as soon as the pipeline proposal surfaced although most of these were addressed during construction. On balance, because of the visibility of the project, the essentially untouched Alaska wilderness and the potential environmental impacts of oil on wildlife and permafrost, the pipeline was engineered and constructed to deal with the expected problems of transporting hot oil.
There were clearly immense impacts of the pipeline construction, including important economic benefits but also significant environmental impacts and social repercussions.
Since completed in 1977, the pipeline has transported about 17 billion barrels of oil. This amounts to 28 months of the United States total oil consumption. The pipeline has also experienced several notable incidents of oil leakage, including those caused by maintenance failures, sabotage and even gunshot holes.
Due to declining North Slope oil well production, however, it is expected by 2015 that the flow rate in the pipeline will drop to about 500,000 barrels per day, a quarter of its original design.
The British Petroleum blowout in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 raised serious doubts about the environmental commitment of the oil industry. Then on July 14, a 570-foot Shell Oil drill ship, part of a fleet heading north for exploratory drilling in a portion of the now ice-free Arctic, slipped its anchor and nearly ended up on the rocks in Alaska's Dutch Harbor.
This raised additional concerns in the minds of Alaskans and others about the safety of drilling in the extreme conditions found in the Arctic.
The larger question, however, has to do with the overall global effects of a rapidly shrinking Arctic ice cover. The extent of sea ice in the Arctic grows during the cold dark Arctic winters and retreats when the sun re-appears in the spring and summer.
But the sea ice minimum summertime extent, which is normally reached in September, has been decreasing over the last three decades as Arctic Ocean and air temperatures have increased. This year's minimum extent is approximately half the size of the average extent from 1979 to 2000.
The coverage in September was 300,000 fewer square miles than the previous minimum in 2007. For some comparison, the state of Texas is about 269,000 square miles. And some would argue that Texas is really big.
Sea ice helps keep our planet cool by reflecting most of the sun's energy. Just like you get sunburned when skiing on a clear day due to sunlight reflecting off the snow, the Arctic ice cover also reflects sunlight back into the atmosphere.
But as the amount of ice cover is reduced each summer, and the underlying ocean is exposed, that darker water absorbs an increasing amount of heat. This warms the ocean, which then leads to the melting of additional ice. This is known as a positive feedback mechanism.
It's not just the sea ice that's disappearing. The thawing of the permafrost is another problem. Permafrost is soil that is more or less permanently frozen.
Nearly one-quarter of the land area in the Northern Hemisphere is underlain by permafrost, including most of Siberia, much of northern Canada and large parts of Alaska.
As the air in the Arctic warms, the permafrost is also beginning to thaw at a faster rate, allowing emissions from the organically rich subsurface sediments to increase. Think of broccoli that you've got in the freezer. As long as it's frozen, it will remain stable for years. But as soon as you pull it out, it gets mushy and soon begins to release the stench of decay. This is exactly what happens when the roots, leaves and other organic matter frozen into the permafrost of the arctic tundra and forests since the last Ice Age begin to thaw.
As the climate warms, the permafrost is thawing, releasing increasing amounts of carbon and methane.
The nearly 25 percent of the Northern Hemisphere underlain by permafrost could potentially release twice as much carbon dioxide as is currently stored in the Earth's atmosphere. And methane traps about 21 times more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making methane a potentially greater concern. Of some minor consolation, the life of a typical methane molecule in the atmosphere is only about 12 years, compared to 50 to 200 years for carbon dioxide.
All of the signs are going in the wrong direction, and to be quite honest, we have wasted enough time debating. Global climate change is about physical science, not political science, and the science is becoming increasingly clear.
Gary Griggs is director of the Institute of Marine Sciences and Long Marine Laboratory at UC Santa Cruz. He can be reached at email@example.com. Visit the Marine Discovery Center at Long Marine Lab website at http://seymourcenter.ucsc.edu/. For past Ocean Backyard columns visit http://www2.ucsc.edu/seymourcenter/