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Hill Lists - Key Facts
The Munros, Corbetts, Grahams, Donalds & Furths
The Munros
list of separate mountains, as drawn up by Sir H.T. Munro in the
Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal in 1891, was an unfinished
one at the time of his death. His intention was to list the Scottish
mountains of 3000ft and over which were of 'sufficient separation'
from neighbouring tops to merit a listing. He did not write down
a precise definition of what he meant by separation, though the
character of a mountain did enter into it. Through regular use they
have become known as the Munros. The current list of 282 Munros
and 509 tops is from the 2012 revision. Under the metric system,
a Munro has to be 914.4m or higher.
were some anomalies in the original list, obvious to anyone who
regularly hillwalks in Scotland. I remember doing the Beinn Eighe
ridge ages ago, with no knowledge of its precise stature in the
hallowed Munros Tables. I was convinced that it was a three-Munro
ridge, and was very surprised indeed to find later that it was down
as only one. Since then of course, the list has been revised. In essence, there were eight new Munros and one demotion!
And I'm pleased to see that Beinn Eighe is now two Munros.With
further research, and perhaps a firming up of whatever rules went
through Munro's head at the time, it is fairly sure that obvious
errors such as this one would have been corrected. Publishing the
List, and maintaining a benign eye over it through the years, the
SMC took the hard line, and other than promoting/demoting a few
hills due to more accurately surveyed heights by the Ordnance Survey
(themselves not perfect either), they have not strayed from the
Munro line.
Munro Beinn a' Bheithir (Photo: Ken Crocket)
Bonsall also made attempts to arrive at a definition of what is
a separate mountain, in two articles in the SMC Journal (1973, 1974).
A mathematician, Bonsall looked at the separation of a top from
all higher ground, rather than just the separation from higher
tops. He also used as a basis Naismith's Rule, a simple rule which
allows an easy calculation of the time taken to walk from one hill
point to another, for a reasonably fit and steady walker. Naismith's
Rule, in the old Imperial system, goes: 20 minutes for every mile
of horizontal distance, and 3 minutes for every 100 feet of ascent.
In metric this approximates as: 4.5km/hr plus one minute per 10m
ascent. Bonsall then took as a starting point a separation of 30
minutes, and found that using these arguments, there was very good
agreement with Munro's original list.
fact, Munro probably deserves a pat on the head, as, according to
Bonsall, seven Munros should be demoted, and twelve tops promoted.
Not too bad a piece of work by Munro in 1891, using existing maps
and aneroid barometer! As of summer 2003, over 3000 walkers have
admitted their compleations to the SMC, and have been given
a compleation number in the SMC Journal. Many others have probably
finished, but have decided to remain anonymous. The SMC will also
pass out Compleation Certificates to those reporting in, suitable
for framing. See the current SMC Journal for details.(The archaic
spelling of compleation here is fast becoming a convention
with regards to Munroists.)
Rooke Corbett was a district valuer based in Bristol and a keen
member of the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) in the years between
the two World Wars. He was a distinguished student at Cambridge
University and an original member of the Rucksack Club. Corbett
was a regular attendee at SMC meets, a committee member and joint
editor of the second edition of the Northern Highlands guidebook.
He completed the Munros and Tops in 1930, only the second person
to do so and, more remarkably, he climbed all Scotland's 2000ft
Out of this extensive experience and knowledge came Corbett's eponymous
tables in which he listed all those hills of height between 2500ft
(762m) and 3000ft (914.4m) with a drop of at least 500ft (152.4m)
between each listed hill and any adjacent higher one. In this way
the separation between the Corbetts is more clearly defined than
is the case with the Munros. The fairly large height drop between
Corbetts ensures that they are quite distinct hills, unlike the
Munros where the criterion for separation does not involve a rigidly
fixed drop between adjacent summits. When Corbett died, his list
was passed to the SMC by his sister. As has been the case with the
Munros, the list of Corbetts has changed over the years as a result
of changes in hill and bealach heights measured by the Ordnance
Survey (OS). The present (September 2016) list contains 222 Corbetts.
Corbett Stob Dubh, Glen Etive. (Photo: Ken Crocket)
Corbett's list, along with Percy Donald's list of 2000ft hills in
Southern Scotland, has been added to Munro's tables to create the
book Munros Tables of which the most recent edition came out in 1997. One additional
section has been introduced for the Corbetts, namely Section 0 -
Galloway and the Borders - which does not feature in the list of
the Munros. In addition, a new sub-section has been introduced:
Section 10a for Morvern, Sunart, Ardgour and Moidart, an area of
the Western Highlands which has no Munros and which, if added to
the existing Section 10, would cover a disproportionately large
area of the Highlands. The area of Section 10 of the Munros becomes
Section 10b in the Corbetts book and CD-ROM.
The geographical division between Sections 5 and 6 goes through
the Gaick Pass between the neighbouring hills of An Dun and A
Chaoirnich, which can be climbed most logically together. These
two hills are described together in Section 6.
Corbetts's list includes so many fine and favourite hills that any
hillwalker with much experience of the Highlands and Islands is
certain to have climbed many of them, even if they have not set
out systematically to climb all the Corbetts. The Munros may well
form the mountain heartland of most of the Highlands, but the Corbetts
have their place in the geography of our hills. In some areas, for
example the Cairngorms, they are the outliers of the main mountains;
in others they fill the gaps between them; thirdly (and most impressively)
they are the principal peaks in those parts of the Highlands where
there are few if any Munros.
Hillwalkers who concentrate their efforts entirely on the Munros
will be in danger of missing many of the best of Scottish mountains.
Height alone is no criterion and there are in the ranks of the Corbetts
many peaks of great character, interest and beauty that are the
equal of all but a few Munros. Dedicated Munroists in their travels
will acquire a detailed knowledge of many parts of the Highlands,
but not all. There will be gaps in their knowledge which an exploration
of the Corbetts will fill, and this provides another very good reason
for climbing these hills. Many a remote and unfrequented Corbett
commands summit views of great quality. Exploration can and should
be extended still further by climbing some other lower hills which
are included in the book and CD-ROM, hills chosen for inclusion
by reason of their character and interest.
It would be wrong to think of the Corbetts as lesser
hills, giving shorter and easier expeditions than the Munros. Many
of them, particularly those which rise from near sea-level in the
Western and Northern Highlands and the islands and some of the remote
hills of the Grampians, give climbs that are long and demanding.
Baosbheinn, Beinn Dearg Mhor and Foinaven are just three examples
of Corbetts whose traverses are major hillwalking days. The separateness
of the Corbetts resulting from the 500ft drop criterion means that
there are few instances where three or four or more can be combined
in long traverses such as are possible with the Munros. There is
only one example in the book and CD-ROM where a traverse of more
than three Corbetts is described.
In no part of the mainland do the Corbetts contribute more to the
mountainous character of the land than in the Western and Northern
Highlands. In Ardgour and Moidart, for example, where there are
no Munros, peaks such as Garbh Bheinn, Sgurr Dhomhnuill, Sgurr Ghiubhsachain
and Rois-Bheinn dominate the wild landscape. Just to their north,
Streap, Bidean a Chabhair and Ben Aden yield nothing except
a few metres of height to the big peaks of western Lochaber and
In Applecross, Coulin and Torridon the Corbetts may be rather overshadowed
by the three great mountains - Beinn Alligin, Liathach and Beinn
Eighe, but Beinn Bhan, Fuar Tholl, Beinn Dearg and Baosbheinn are
splendid peaks which equally exhibit the classic features of Torridonian
The Grahams
The Grahams is a collective name given to all the distinct mountains in Scotland which are between 2,000 and 2,499 feet (610 and 761 metres), and which have at least a 150 metre drop between them.
Scottish hills within this height range were previously called Elsies (short for Lesser Corbetts - LCs). They have since been renamed Grahams in memory of Fiona Torbet (neé Graham), who published her own list of these hills in 1992. The original list of Elsies, and the new list of Grahams, were rationalised and combined into a single list, known today as the Grahams.
Ben Suidhe
(Photo: Ken Crocket)
There are 224 separate Grahams, spead over the whole of Scotland - even seven of the Islands contain Grahams.
Note that many of the Grahams are also Donalds.
The Donalds
Hills in Central or Southern Scotland at least 2000 feet high (610m) with a drop of at least 30 metres (98 feet) all round.
Devised by Percy Donald, a listing may be found (along with the Munros and Corbetts, in the SMC Publication 'Munros Tables'. Basically, Tops are elevations with a drop of 100 feet (30.48m) on all sides and elevations of sufficient topographical merit with a drop of between 100 feet and 50 feet (15.24m) on all sides.
Ben Cleuch (Photo: Ken Crocket)
Tops are not more than 17 units from the main top of the 'hill' to which they belong, where a unit is either one twelfth of a mile measured along the connecting ridge, or one 50-foot contour between the lower 'top' and its connecting col.
If this is beginning to give you a headache, the basic result is that with few exceptions, an 80-feet (24.38m) drop determines a 'top', and the 17-unit rule a 'hill'.
The Furths
What are Tops and Furths ?
The Munroist's bible, "MUNRO'S TABLES AND OTHER TABLES OF LOWER HILLS" Revised and Edited by Derek A. Bearhop (Scottish Mountaineering Trust, 1997) lists all the Scottish Mountains of 3000 feet height and above. The 282 Munros plus 227 Tops give a total of 509 summits.
The Furths comprise those summits which are generally recognised as being the 3000 ft peaks of the British Isles furth of Scotland as follows :-
A complete ascent of the Tops or the Furths is an achievement recognised by the Clerk of the List, who looks forward to being notified in writing and recording the details as Amendments.


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'Muslim Rage' Has Little To Do With Dumb VideoJeffrey Goldberg
Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Last week, Barack Obama's administration bought $70,000 worth of airtime on seven Pakistani television networks to broadcast a commercial denouncing the now-infamous YouTube video that portrayed the Prophet Muhammad as a pedophile and as a lover of goats.
The video, which set off deadly riots across the Islamic world, is an absurdity -- a risible script, bad lighting and pornography-quality acting. But U.S. officials think that the film, apparently produced by a Coptic Christian in California, is at the root of the latest eruption of what has come to be known as "Muslim rage," and so they thought it necessary to produce a response video.
The administration's video featured a well-lit president and secretary of state using many judgmental adjectives to denounce the YouTube film and to deny strenuously that the U.S. government had anything to do with its making.
Last week, thousands of Pakistanis, either the sort who fast-forward through commercials or the sort who are unmoved by U.S. propaganda efforts, laid siege to American diplomatic outposts as a way of displaying their religious feeling. At least 15 Pakistanis died in the mayhem.
In retrospect, that $70,000 didn't represent a wise allocation of American taxpayer resources. It also showed that the administration has misdiagnosed the problems it faces in the Muslim world -- and has missed a crucial chance to take more substantive steps to redress them.
Different Motivations
In assessing the U.S. response, it's important to remember that these outbreaks of rage aren't actually about the YouTube video. Yes, some Muslims -- members of the "If-you-don't-call-Islam-a-religion-of-peace-we'll-slaughter-you" school of interreligious understanding -- react in brittle and aggressive ways to insults directed against their faith, and in so doing humiliate their prophet in ways anti-Islam polemicists could never hope to achieve. But they represent a small minority of Muslims.
Motivation for rioting differed from country to country, but there are common threads. Many of the riots took place in countries with poor economies and venal, incompetent governments with mythomaniacal worldviews. (Recall that the president of Egypt is a Sept. 11 Truther.)
More to the point, much of the rioting could be attributed to the exploitation of religious sentiment by radicals affiliated with Salafism, the extreme, puritanical, anti-Western and anti-Semitic strain of political Islam from which al-Qaeda draws much of its ideology. Salafists are competing with secularists and more moderate Islamists for power (only Salafists could make the Muslim Brotherhood appear moderate), and so they look for any opportunity to highlight their anti-American bona fides. This video, like the Danish cartoons mocking Muhammad that set off protests in 2005, was merely an excuse.
So why won't the administration acknowledge this fact? Because that would mean acknowledging that the killing of Osama bin Laden and the withdrawal of troops from Iraq didn't bring to an end the unhappy U.S. entanglements in the Middle East. It would mean acknowledging that Obama hasn't charmed radical Islam into submission, and that American counterterrorism policies, especially drone strikes, sometimes cause as many problems as they solve. It would mean acknowledging that the aftermath of the Arab Spring is messy and ambiguous, and that anti-American resentment in the Muslim world is often a byproduct of deeper dysfunctions of culture, religion and politics. We are sometimes vain enough to believe that hatred of the sort we see on the streets of Cairo, Karachi and Tunis is wholly about us.
Squandered Opportunity
Given the obvious truth that this latest spasm of (ostensibly) blasphemy-induced rioting won't be the last, I think that Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton squandered an opportunity to treat Muslims like thinking adults and to advance a core American interest: the spread of freedom.
Blasphemy, we have come to learn, is taken quite seriously by Muslims. Free speech, however, is taken quite seriously by Americans. It would have been bracing for the president to go on Pakistani television, and to sit for interviews with Egyptian and Tunisian journalists, and stand up for a core American principle. Imagine a speech in which Obama described the mechanics of free speech and the undergirding philosophy that protects it. He could have spoken about the great gifts free speech bestows on a society. He could have spoken about how he himself is attacked mercilessly by a free press, yet he still values the principles that allow him to be attacked. He could have described how Christianity is often the target of attack, yet survives and thrives in the U.S.
This wouldn't have been an easy message to deliver. As Hussein Ibish of the American Task Force on Palestine told me, many of these protesters simply can't fathom the existence of a political system in which the government has no control over the news media, or over what gets posted on the Internet.
Would it work? It wouldn't change the minds of Salafists, and al-Qaeda would continue to seek to kill Americans, whether or not some among us continue making idiotic anti-Muhammad videos. But a bold, uncompromising and guilt-free defense of free speech might have given comfort to the many Muslims, religious and secular alike, who want to lead their lives free of the fear of fundamentalist tyranny, and who would prefer the U.S. not attempt to reason with the mob.
(Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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Deciphering the Glial Code
Physicist/Neuroscientist Axel Nimmerjahn to join Salk's Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center
A group of cells living in the same "neighborhood" do not necessarily speak the same "language." Such is the case in our brains, between neurons, the cells that electrically transmit information, and their supportive neighbors, glial cells. Yet, glia intricately communicate with neurons to somehow ensure that our nervous system functions properly. So just how do glia function?
Physicist-turned-neuroscientist Axel Nimmerjahn has been intrigued by this scientific problem since first encountering glial cells during his graduate studies at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany. Deciphering glial cells' enigmatic language, and their role in contributing to a functioning brain, both in its healthy and diseased states, will be his lab's aim when he joins the Salk Institute as assistant professor in the Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center, funded by a $20 million grant from the Waitt Foundation, on Nov. 1.
Nimmerjahn will use the latest in light microscopic tools, some of which he developed during his postdoctoral studies at Stanford, to dive deep into tissue of lab models to visualize glia and other cells in action. The results of his research could have implications in developing possible treatments for many diseases, he says.
"We know that glial cells are critically involved in many injuries and diseases, but it's unclear at this point what their specific contribution is to each one of them, Nimmerjahn says. "In some cases like glioma (tumors in the nervous system), they appear causal, yet in others they undergo reactive changes. But even if they are not the source of the actual disease, given their essential supportive role and potential to undergo reactive changes, glia can profoundly influence disease progression and regeneration.
"So this is why it is critically important to define the role of glial cells in health and disease. If we better understand these cells, then hopefully we can come up with a treatment that targets and tweaks them," he says. "In a number of diseases, protecting or restoring glial cells' supportive function may turn out to be a more effective neuroprotective strategy than targeting neurons itself."
Among the important discoveries his group made was demonstrating that microglia, a type of glial cell that protects our brains from foreign material, don't stand idly by, as was once thought. They found that in healthy brains the cells are in fact continually on patrol to remove potentially harmful substances and react instantly to disruptions of the blood-brain barrier.
With a multidisciplinary team at Stanford he developed miniature epifluorescence microscopes, measuring about 1 cubic centimeter in size and weighing less than 2 grams, that enabled him to take the first-ever optical recordings from glia and neurons in freely behaving mice. Using his novel techniques, he also provided evidence that glial cells might be more than just support cells.
Nimmerjahn's work will lend itself to collaborations with a wide range of scientists at the Salk Institute. "Salk is a highly collaborative place, which makes for a perfect scientific environment, and, of course, the support of the new Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center is just amazing," Nimmerjahn says. "This is a great opportunity to add a new level to the biological projects that are really excellent at the Salk."


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A New York City veterinarian has been accused of dumping 35 euthanized pets along a suburban highway instead of cremating them as their owners had paid him to do, the Journal News of Westchester reports.
Andrew Manesis, who lives in New Canaan, Conn., was arrested Friday on two misdemeanor counts of petit larceny, scheming to defraud and a violation of environmental code. He's due in court June 5.
"Dr. Manesis was entrusted by his clients to dispose of their pets' remains in a proper and dignified manner," Westchester County Public Safety Commissioner George Longworth said. "Instead, it appears he simply pulled off to the side of a local highway and tossed the animal carcasses into the woods."
Police and the SPCA say a highway worker found 26 cats, eight dogs and a South African lizard April 5 near an entrance to the Hutchinson River Parkway in Harrison, N.Y. All were in garbage bags; several appeared to have been there for months, but one had been discarded days before.
They were traced to Manesis' Animal Clinic & Surgery Of Throggs Neck in the Bronx after officials publicized a picture of a white cat found in a blue shoe box and the owner came forward. At least one other owner has claimed Manesis had been entrusted with disposing of a pet that had been euthanized.
Authorities said all appeared to have been well cared for during their lives, and none showed any signs of abuse.
The alleged fraud may have begun a year ago, when Manesis stopped contracting with an unidentified pet-disposal firm to handle group cremations, said Ernie Lungaro, chief of the SPCA of Westchester.
It's not known how many animals may have been disposed of improperly since then.
Doug is an unrepentant news junkie who loves breaking news and has been known to watch C-SPAN even on vacation. He has covered a wide range of domestic and international news stories, from prison riots in Oklahoma to the Moscow coup against Mikhail Gorbachev. Doug previously served as foreign editor at USA TODAY. More about Doug
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The Stuff Of Legend: The Toy Collector #1
- Story by
- Brian Smith and Mike Raicht
- Art by
- Charles Paul Wilson III
- Colors by
- Jon Conkling and Michael DeVito
- Cover by
- Charles Paul Wilson III
- Publisher
- Th3rd World Studios
The fourth volume of "The Stuff of Legend" brand subtitled "The Toy Collector," checks in with a number of the toys, the Boogeyman and the boy whose toys this series centers around. Set in an otherworldly realm where lost toys go (and in some cases are taken to) the first issue of this volume is as strong and wonderful as every single one of the previous issues.
Like the entirety of the series to this point, "The Stuff of Legend" is square in format, like "Mouse Guard." This gives "The Toy Collector" a cozy, intimate feeling. Captured on pages roughly the size of a kids' book, the imagery drawn by Charles Paul Wilson III, with coloring a production assists from Jon Conkling and Michael DeVito, ranges from cave paintings intended to be rendered by a toy monkey to expressively, intricate detail of a collection of animals in a forest setting with a bed of leaves on the forest floor as more leaves plummet or float to join the padding. The issue is rendered in augmented sepia tones, helping establish the timing of the tale as long, long ago. Wilson relies heavily upon shadow and detail to elevate and animate the characters of this adventure.
Mike Raicht and Brian Smith work well weaving the stories of the lost boy, his searching toys and the Boogeyman together. Clearly, the Boogeyman is the villain of the piece (which is dynamically evident in his appearance in this issue for readers that jump in now). His personality sits somewhere between the unbalanced unpredictability of the Joker and the determined measured extremes of the Queen from Walt Disney's classic interpretation of "Snow White." At no point in this issue can the Boogeyman's actions be predicted. Joined by reluctant servants Cappy and the Toy Collector, the Boogeyman splits his time between antagonizing the young boy at the core of this adventure and tracking down the boy's playthings to prevent his rescue.
This series began in 2009 and like a number of other franchises it is published as a series of miniseries. Leveraging that model to the best intentions, Raicht, Smith, Wilson, Conkling and DeVito fill this book with a concise installment of excitement and adventure that is neatly plugged into a grander ongoing narrative. The creative team has been in place since the first adventure and continues to surprise me as a reader and please me as a reviewer. A collection of previous adventures exists, making "The Toy Collector" #1 a good spot for new fans to join in the journey.


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I was over the moon when Expressions Vinyl selected me as a regular contributor to their blog! When I first discovered their website, I was completely blown away by all the vinyl options. Metallic vinyl, heat transfer vinyl, chalkboard vinyl and so many pretty colors of adhesive vinyl. My mind was racing with project possibilities!
For my first contributor post, I decided to focus on spring! I started with a clear vase from Dollar Tree and came up with two ways to make cute flowers to dress it up. You can see the Silhouette how-to AND free cut file on the Expressions Vinyl blog. If you don't have a vinyl cutter, I've got a tutorial for you here!
I started with a sheet of Maize Indoor Vinyl – the perfect spring yellow. To make petals, I traced a guitar pick! You'll need 8 guitar pick petals for one flower.
Once everything was traced, I cut all the petals out with scissors. I also cut a circle out of a coordinating vinyl (I picked Mint). I used a circle punch, but you could also trace a small lid.
I took the backing off the circle first, then starting attaching the petals one by one. I put the first four petals in a + pattern, then filled in the gaps with the other four petals. You'll want something to hold your in progress flower so you have both hands free to peel the backing off the petals as you go.
Once all eight petals were attached to the center circle, I had a complete flower for my vase!
Isn't it pretty? Make sure you check out my post on the Expressions Vinyl blog to see the full vase, including the tutorial on making custom flowers using Silhouette Studio. If you don't want to make your own, I also included a link to the cut file!
Did I mention this entire vase only cost $7? $1 for the vase & $6 for three sheets of vinyl. Really, I only used a small portion of each vinyl color so I have plenty left for more projects. Considering that, it was probably about a $3 project. Pretty awesome for a custom vase!
Disclosure: In addition to being a contributor to the Expressions Vinyl blog, I am an affiliate for them. That means if you click on the links in this post and make a purchase, I may receive a small commission to help with the expenses of running A Prudent Life. You still pay the same amount, and all opinions & ideas are 100% my own.
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162 players were selected to join the premiere annual Nike summer event The Opening and Elite 11 Finals in Beaverton,Oregon. The event is hosted at the Nike World Headquarters, and a few South Carolina prospects were on that list.
Elite 11 Finalist-Brandon Wimbush, QB, St. Peter's Prep (Jersey City), NJ
Team Landsharks-Austin Bryant, DL, Thomas County Central (Thomasville), GA
-Jackson Harris, TE, Central (Columbia), TN
-John Burt, WR, Lincoln (Tallahassee), FL
-Jordan Scarlett: RB, St. Thomas Aquinas, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
-Justin Hilliard, LB, St. Xavier (Cincinnati), OH
-Kevin Toliver, CB, Trinity Christian (Jacksonville), FL
-K.J. Hill, WR, North Little Rock, AR
-Sherrod Pittman, LB, First Coast (Jacksonville), FL
Team Flyrush-Bryce Love, RB, Wake Forest-Rolesville (Wake Forest), NC
-Byron Cowart, DL, Armwood (Seffner), FL
-Chris Clark, TE, Avon Old Farms (Avon), CT
-Chuma Edoga, OL, McEachern (Powder Springs), GA
-Dallas Warmack, OL, Mays (Atlanta), GA
-Dexter Williams, RB, West Orange (Winter Garden), FL
-Roquan Smith, LB, Macon County (Montezuma), GA
-Terry Godwin, ATH, Callaway (Hogansville), GA
-Tommy Hatton, OL, St. Joseph Regional (Metuchan), NJ
-Tyrek Cole, CB, Miramar, FL
-Van Jefferson, WR, Ravenwood (Brentwood), TN ?
Team AlphaPro-A.J. Turner, ATH, Centreville (Clifton), VA
-Adam McLean, DL, Quince Orchard, MD
-Cecil Cherry, LB, Victory Christian Academy (Lakeland), FL
-Darius Slayton, CB, Greater Atlanta Christian (Norcross), GA
-George Campbell, WR, East Lake (Tarpon Springs), FL
-Jaquan Johnson, S, Killian (Miami), FL
-Josh Sweat, DL, Oscar Smith (Chesapeake), VA
-Noah Green, OL, Boiling Springs (Spartanburg), SC
-Rico McGraw, CB, Ensworth (Nashville), TN
-Taj Griffin, RB, McEachern (Powder Springs), GA
-Tarvarus McFadden, CB, American Heritage (Plantation), FL
Team Apocalypse
-Damien Harris, RB, Madison Southern (Berea), KY
-Daron Payne, DL, Shades Valley (Irondale), AL
-Jacques Patrick, RB, Timber Creek (Orlando), FL
-Mark Fields, CB, Hough (Cornelius), NC
-Matthew Burrell, OL, Hylton (Woodbridge), VA
-Michael Barnett, DL, Woodland (Dorchester), SC
Team VaporCarbon
-Chauncey Rivers, DL, Stephenson (Stone Mountain), GA
-Jordan Cronkrite, ATH, Westminster Christian (Miami), FL
-Juwan Johnson, WR, Glassboro, NJ
-Martez Ivey, OL, Apopka, FL
-Rashan Gary ('16), DL, Scotch Plains-Fanwood (Scotch Plains), NJ
-Tim Settle, DL, Stonewall Jackson (Manassas), VA
Team MachSpeed
-Adonis Thomas, LB, Central Gwinnett (Lawrenceville), GA
-Auden Tate, TE, Wharton (Tampa), FL
-Minkah Fitzpatrick, CB, St. Peter's Prep (Jersey City), NJ
-Mitch Hyatt, OL, North Gwinnett (Suwanee), GA
-Natrez Patrick, DL, Mays (Atlanta), GA
-Preston Williams, WR, Lovejoy (Hampton), GA
-Ray McCloud, ATH, Sickles (Tampa), FL


text: LAHORE: Hearing a suo moto case against encroachments in the Murree Forest Division, the Lahore High Court on Tuesday ordered the Punjab Forest Department to take legal action against all encroachers.A division bench comprising Justice Mansoor Ali shah and Justice Atir Mahmood was hearing the case. The bench appreciated the mapping conducted by WWF-Pakistan in collaboration with the Punjab Revenue Department, Punjab Forest Department and Survy of Pakistan that identified 2,325 encroachers in and along the boundary of the forest occupying 1,576 acres of state forest land in Murree Forest Division. Former Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif took a suo moto in 2010 after the issue was highlighted as a result of drastically increased forest degradation and encroachment. WWF-Pakistan became a party in February 2010 and was ordered to provide help to the court in protecting rapidly degrading forest resources. –Staff ReporterThis news was published in The Nation newspaper. Read complete newspaper of 09-Apr-2014 here.


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January 12th, 2013 (2:38 PM).
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Somewhere over the rainbow...
James "Jay" Rybak
Orange spoke up,
Well, there's no way we can replace your childhood friends, but we're here for you. I mean, I've already known you for a few hours, and I feel like you're a really great friend. I mean, just, arrgh... Well, anyway, I'm here for you Jay."
I felt a slight smile forming on my face after hearing what Orange had to say. Even though Orange tried to reassure me, I still felt that pain within my chest. The pain of losing my dear friends, and the pain of a heart-broken heart knowing that I will never bring them back again was overwhelming. I felt like as if I was rotting on the inside. My head dropped a bit. Tears were still dripping from my eyelids. I can't help, but to let my tears flow with my barely audible sniffles with some of the salty tears running over my mouth.
The voice of Evie flowed towards me,
"You're brave. You know that right. So much more than I. Really. Your friends knew how to pick their company well."
I shifted my head to see Evie with a quaint smile. I silently chuckled at myself within my mind, somewhat amused at the thought that I was brave. I'm just a coward, a stupid coward who is afraid of "his own shadow". A coward who can't even save his friends. An idiot who is a crybaby. Heck, I can't even get over the deaths of them. I'm a failure who doesn't have a future and has barely any courage.
I was once again fetched from getting too deep into my thoughts by Evie as she handed a worn tissue, splattered with small blotches of paint, to me,
So you mustn't cry, I am sure they wouldn't want that."
I took the tissue to wipe the water from my softened face. My eyes scanned the other two adolescents to see worry within their eyes. I felt an aura of trust around them. I no longer felt too shy around them. With my gentle voice, nearly a whisper, I spoke,"T-thank you Orange and Evie. I'm so glad…that you two understand me. T-thank for helping me. I haven't felt so much joy…after that incident."
Tears were still rolling off my eyes, but they were no longer tears of depression and misery. The tears became tears of joy and bliss. This was my first time after that incident two years when I used to be twelve, that I was unlocked from the cage of depression without my anti-depressant medicine. I wanted to shout and holler in happiness and hug Orange and Evie. However
I tried to prevent that temptation to hug and cheer, as to me, it felt too awkward to perform those actions. I haven't hugged someone in a while ever since that incident.
My eyes scanned to the scenery before me. The ocean's tide was nearing the cove, perhaps gradually rising to high tide. The sun was slowly setting as if it were the yolk of an egg slipping down a colorful palette on a dish. The pinkish-purple clouds were spread about trough the sky. The stars were shimmering high above the sunset. I was marveled by the beautiful scene. As much as I would love to paint the sunset onto my sketchbook, I could not since I left my bag somewhere further up the beach.
I felt the memories of me and my friends watching the sunset with me flow. "Hey, let's all live together someday. We'll be together forever." That was what Mei told me while watching the sunset with a younger me. "Jay, we should see the sunset more often." It was another phrase from David who smiled an actual smile that was not a mischievous grin. André was the one who suggested we should watch the sunsets. I never knew the precious gems of the sky before. I never really bothered to stay long at watching sunsets. I do love to draw or paint sunsets, but I never stayed long as I often try to push myself to excel in art, biology, and track before I met André. I shouldn't cry at their death. Perhaps they had gone up to a better place and became the three, brightest stars closest to each other in the sky, watching over me. Maybe they are a thousand winds passing by. Maybe they were the dancing, flower petals that floated through the air. Maybe they were the wild grass swaying with the wind.
As the memories swayed away, I carefully climbed down the boulder that I once occupied. I whistled for my birds to follow me.
Emil flew down from a rock where Evie's Umbreon was on, and Emil perched on my right shoulder like a butterfly. Out of the blue, Nalafari flew to the top of my head, nestling in clumps of my hair, making himself comfortable. Oddly, Samuel was nowhere to be scene. My eyes moved about in the cove, searching for where Samuel might be, but there was no sign of him. I looked towards the entrance of the cove. I could see Wyatt with my bag on the sand next to him. I wondered if he heard the whole thing about me. I felt unsteady around him since I don't trust him enough yet about my past. I assumed that he brought my bag to the cove. I left my bag on the coast of the beach further down before I fled to the cove.
I meekly walked towards Wyatt until I was about seven feet away from him, "T-thank you for bringing my bag b-back. I-I really appreciate it. I-I apologize for forgetting to bring my bag with me."
I slowly approached my bag, and swiftly grabbed my bag with grains of sand sprinkling down to the ground from my bag. I hustled back to near Orange and Evie. I unzipped my bag to take out a bottle of water and a container containing tablets of Prozac. I took two of the tablets, and unwound the cap from the bottle of the water. I opened my mouth to swallow the two tablets, and chugged down some water.
I could hear the sound of flapping wings. My eyes wandered to the entrance to see Samuel flying downwards from the sky like a dropping berry. Samuel perched on my left shoulder, and fluffed up and ruffled in content.
It was getting late since the sun was setting. The Thanksgiving Dinner was about to happen at any moment. The beach could become a dangerous place with nocturnal, wild Pokémon creeping around. The tide was also rising, and the cove would become filled with water sometime soon. I asked Wyatt, Evie, and Orange, "Should we head back to the academy grounds. It would become dangerous if we stayed here with the rising tide and the nocturnal, wild Pokémon scurrying about."
Leka appeared to be deep in thought until he spoke to me,
"It is a hard thing to watch someone so close to you, like a trainer, to suffer. The heart will carry many scars. But perhaps, one day, the scars will heal",
Leka took a look at the humans before continuing onto,
"But it is good to see that you and others stand by him. He needs friends like you."
I bowed down to Leka to say, "
It makes me feel pain when I see my trainer suffering. I want to be the one suffering instead of my trainer, but it might make others worry about me. I want to see the day where my trainer is free from the chains of depression. Thank you Leka, for the wise and kind words you've given to me."
I heard a whistle. It wasn't any whistle. It was a whistle from my trainer, Jay. Jay looked much healthier and of course, much more contented. I flew to Jay's right shoulder to make a soft landing. Nalafari zoomed out of nowhere and perched on Jay's head. As Jay approached the entrance of the cave, I saw a colorful sunset with stars high in the sky gazing at me. I was mesmerized by the scene before me. Once the gang gets back to the academy, I can't wait to use watercolor berry paint to create that memory of the sky before me.
As the human and her Pidgeotto left towards the academy, I left for the wind currents to sail in the air. That human and her Pidgeotto were certainly interesting. The human appeared to have a high knowledge of technology as she held a board previously while I was observing the human and the Pokémon. Perhaps that was how the Pidgeotto gained her or his pearly white wings. I have a feeling that we shall meet directly face to face in the future.
Oh well, chop, chop. I have to return to the cove to check on James. As I flew through the evening sky, the wind currents were starting to become a bitter coldness. The sky was becoming a spectrum of dancing sunset colors and the stars were starting to appear. As I flew closer to the cove at the beach, I noticed that the tide was rising. I have to get there before the tide rises too high.
As I flew into the cove, I was relieved that James, Nalafari, and Emil were not harmed. I perched on James's left shoulder as James's head was occupied with Nalafari, and Emil was on James's right shoulder. I looked towards the sky to wonder the fate of our group.
I felt extremely giddy when the human boy entered the cove with Jay's bag. Jay, Emil, and Jay's friends were within the cove. I was in so much joy that I flew to my highest speed without using Tailwind and perched on Jay's head. Oh gosh, his hair is so freaking soft. I cuddled in Jay's hair since the wind is getting colder, and fluffed up to only ruffle my feathers later. I closed my eyes to take a short nap. In less than a minute, I fell asleep, letting the warm darkness cover me.
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