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Friday Mug Contest — Heroes Of Backcountry Skiing
We have a winner: Stuart correctly identified the photo as Bill Briggs, first man to ski the Grand Teton and longtime backcountry skiing pioneer. The contest shot (and bonus one below) were taken during the famed Bugaboos high ski traverse he did with Barry Corbet, Roberts French and Sterling Neal in 1959.
In honor of Bill, how about I publish the classic hero shot of him you've all probably seen before?
|Bill Briggs, Canada, 1959. Roberts French photo
Hint's in the title boys and girls. Prize is a Backcountry Access backpack shipped to your door. Name the person. First comment with correct answer wins. If we have no correct answer after a few hours, I'll post hints. I've also got more obvious shots of this guy so we can get those up as well if necessary. Get on it!
|Guess his name and win. Roberts French photo
27 Responses to "Friday Mug Contest — Heroes Of Backcountry Skiing"
August 15th, 2008 9:05 am
Lou Dawson 😉
August 15th, 2008 9:08 am
LOL. Nope.
C. Lowe
August 15th, 2008 9:11 am
Michael Kennedy?
August 15th, 2008 9:11 am
Knut Haukelid?
August 15th, 2008 9:14 am
chic scott?
August 15th, 2008 9:18 am
Stuart is the closest so far, in a sort of roundabout way…
August 15th, 2008 9:37 am
Close doesn't cut it, how about Bill Briggs?
August 15th, 2008 9:39 am
Stuart, you've got it! Congratulations! I'll email you.
August 15th, 2008 9:48 am
Thanks so much Lou.
I knew all the time I've spent on your site wasn't a waste. 😉
August 15th, 2008 9:48 am
Too fast, do another! This is better than work.
August 15th, 2008 10:01 am
So many people hit this blogpost this morning it crashed my super duper expnso server! So thanks everyone for the load test!!! Good prep for winter.
Steve, yeah, was that too easy?
I'll pick one I think is a bit tougher next Friday.
Thanks everyone, and if you've got anything to say about Brigger, leave some more comments. Might as well keep load testing this thing.
August 15th, 2008 10:18 am
Easy, don't diminish my moment of glory!
The hint did help, since both guys did big traverses in Canada.
August 15th, 2008 10:19 am
It wasn't too easy but the really hard part was trying to get an answer up during the server crash.
My comment: I finally saw the movie "Steep" and it was awesome. Great section on Briggs. Good Dawson interview as well!
August 15th, 2008 10:26 am
I hope it was clear my statement was in jest. I forgot the 😉
And luck helps too.. 🙂
scott nelson
August 15th, 2008 10:28 am
Can anyone comment on his binding setup in the pic? Looks like a "typical" older tele rig, but what is that in front of the toepiece? Or am I just looking at it wrong?
August 15th, 2008 10:31 am
Stuart, your humor was obvious so no problem.
Regarding the server crash. Apologies to everyone for that — luckily it was only for about 5 minutes. The folks I bought hosting from provide super support, so they're already working on this issue. That said, if necessary I'll change once again. Sigh. Amazing how you get punished for tiny bit of success with getting a few people to actually read a blog.
August 15th, 2008 10:36 am
Scott, I spoke with Briggs about the bindings and vividly remember the conversation.
They used a bit older cable binding on the latest Head skis, so they had a free-heel setup that was super reliable. They basically were doing free-heel parallel but also had long thongs and side lugs if they wanted to lash down their heels. The system had little to no safety release.
The Bugs traverse took them 10 days.
scott nelson
August 15th, 2008 11:17 am
I kinda feel like a "wimp" when I look at my modern BD and G3 gear and how easy it makes skiing, well sorta easy anyways…… Hats off to those guys! I'm sending you a PM regarding some jeep stuff.
August 15th, 2008 11:24 am
Scott, my feeling exactly. Things have really changed. I love that the sport is so much more accessible, but one can't help but enjoy thinking how elite the early pioneers were. It's kind of like rock climbing in that way.
August 15th, 2008 11:35 am
All, I heard back from RealWebHost about the crash this morning. They said it was simply too much traffic for the server. Amazing. And I have to thank everyone for your continued faith and participation in WildSnow.
We'll continue to progress. Problem now is that my level of advertising payment is somewhat predicated on older stats and thus grandfathered rates that don't support the expense of technology we now need. Raising rates is tough, as people get locked into the past and have a hard time understanding how big we're getting, even though they'll get what they pay for in terms of advertising impressions.
So if you all can put in a good word to our advertisers that would be appreciated. Just tell 'em you can vouch for how much traffic we're getting, and to PLEASE support us!
August 15th, 2008 1:56 pm
Hey lou have you tried a dedicated server yet?
August 15th, 2008 2:31 pm
Is this the same Bill Briggs who co-authored the book "A Multigrid Tutorial" with Henson & McCormick? I know that *that* Bill Briggs is a bit of an alpinist, but–if it's the same one–I never realized he had some first descents!
August 15th, 2008 3:13 pm
There is another Bill Briggs who's a climber and such, I think the one you speak of is him. There is also Roger Briggs, who used to do some crazy stuff in Colorado on things such as Longs Peak. No relation to Bill.
August 16th, 2008 10:13 am
Roger and Bill are brothers (the non-teton sking Bill Briggs, that is). Roger is the one who's name is more recognizable, but Bill is an awesome climber himself. I've climbed with both of them and they each tend to seek out sparsely protected, really hard trad routes — there is never a dull day when climbing with a Briggs. The two of them have done many first ascents in CO together, including on Longs. Bill is a mathematician and has authored at least one teaching book on the subject. Roger was a teacher at Fairview High School in Boulder.
Ski Freak
August 17th, 2008 12:30 pm
That is old skool!
September 5th, 2008 4:10 pm
Speaking of Bill Briggs, does anyone know where/when the article describing his Grand Teton descent ("Take Some Good Turns") was published? Not sure he even wrote the piece.
September 5th, 2008 5:42 pm
Adam, I've got a couple of articles clipped, but don't recall that one…
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Angela Maiers discusses classroom habitudes as a way to model and impact the mindset of your classroom. Students need to be able to be fearless about learning and failure, which is a significant part of learning. Angela talks about how a 5 year old's imagination needs to not just be for playtime, but needs to be taken with them as they grow and learn to learn. Angela adds, "You can't teach a mindset or habitude, but you can create the conditions where success if eminent because the habitudes are demanded."
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But the image of Canadian diver Alexandre Despatie, posted on the Facebook page of his Spanish training partner, is revealing in at least one respect: he's smiling broadly.
"His voice sounded much better when I spoke to him [Thursday] morning," Despatie's mother, Christiane, said.
The 27-year-old double Olympic silver medalist was showing no ill effects from hitting his head on a springboard in Madrid on Tuesday – other than the 10-centimetre scar along his hairline.
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The laser beam would be transmitted with one modulation and retroreflected with another modulation.
A proposed free-space optical communication system would operate in a full-duplex mode, using a single constant-power laser beam for transmission and reception of binary signals at both ends of the free-space optical path. The system was conceived for two-way data communication between a ground station and a spacecraft in a low orbit around the Earth. It has been estimated that in this application, a data rate of 10 kb/s could be achieved at a ground-station- to-spacecraft distance of 320 km, using a laser power of only 100 mW. The basic system concept is also applicable to terrestrial free-space optical communications.
The system (see figure) would include a diode laser at one end of the link (originally, the ground station) and a liquid-crystal-based retroreflecting modulator at the other end of the link (originally, the spacecraft). At the laser end, the beam to be transmitted would be made to pass through a quarter-wave plate, which would convert its linear polarization to right circular polarization. For transmission of data from the laser end to the retroreflector end, the laser beam would be modulated with subcarrier phase-shift keying (SC-PSK). The transmitted beam would then pass through an aperture-sharing element (ASE) — basically, a mirror with a hole in it, used to separate the paths of the transmitted and received light beams. The transmitted beam would continue outward through a telescope (which, in the original application, would be equipped with a spacecraft-tracking system) that would launch the transmitted beam along the free-space optical path to the retroreflector end.
At the retroreflector end, a portion of the received laser beam would be sent to a demodulator for detection of the SC-PSK signal. For transmitting data to the laser end, the retroreflected portion of the received laser beam would be modulated with circular-polarization keying (CPK), in which left circular polarization signifies a binary level ("1" in this case) and right circular polarization signifies the other binary level ("0" in this case). Hence, to transmit "0," the retroreflecting modulator would leave the right circular polarization of the retroreflected beam unchanged; to transmit "1," the retroreflecting modulator would flip the polarization of the reflected beam to left circular. Full-duplex operation would be possible because the CPK and the SC-PSK would be transparent to each other.
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How big is This Big? Billboard magazine estimates first-week downloads of American Idol winner Scotty McCreery's debut single, I Love You This Big, to be in the range of 180,000. That would give Scotty the best debut-week sales tally of any Idol winner since David Cook sold 236,000 copies of Time of My Life in 2008.
Sales of Lauren Alaina's Like My Mother Does are expected to run around 140,000. Last year, Lee DeWyze sold 95,000 copies of his cover of U2's Beautiful Day his first week, while Kris Allen debuted with 134,000 sales of No Boundaries in 2009.
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WASHINGTON Legendary diplomat Richard Holbrooke's final assignment — running the civilian effort to bring peace and security to Afghanistan and Pakistan — may have been the most daunting of his career. His death Monday before he had a chance to finish that work leaves his legacy incomplete and creates a gap in the Obama administration's ongoing effort to lay the groundwork for peace.
As the major focus remains on military operations, Holbrooke "probably died before his moment in this war arrived," said Robert Lamb, an expert on Afghanistan at the non-partisan Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Holbrooke apparently worried that his work wasn't done, even to the end. As doctors prepared for a 21-hour surgery over the weekend to repair his torn aorta, they had trouble getting him to relax, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said Tuesday.
"At one point, the medical team said, 'You've got to relax,' " Crowley reported after consulting with several people who were in the room. "And Richard said, 'I can't relax. I'm worried about Afghanistan and Pakistan.' And then after some additional exchanges, the medical team finally said, 'Well, tell you what. We'll try to fix this challenge while you're undergoing surgery.' And he said, 'Yeah, see if you can take care of that, including ending the war.' "
THE OVAL: Obama reacts to Holbrooke's death
As Crowley recounted some of Holbrooke's final lucid moments, President Obama and his senior national security aides were meeting at the White House to prepare for Thursday's release of a status report on progress in the war in Afghanistan.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Holbrooke, who was Obama's special envoy to the troubled region, was "irreplaceable." He said Holbrooke's input will be "sorely missed" as the administration moves toward a 2014 deadline to return security of the country to Afghan forces.
Yet even under Holbrooke's guidance, progress in the region on security, good governance and the economy was slow. Development projects in Pakistan have lagged, along with efforts to expel insurgents using the country as a base.
The often prickly, always determined Holbrooke had clashed with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and struggled to persuade regional leaders to reject the corruption that plagues their government.
A longtime ally of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Holbrooke also failed to click with Obama, according to journalist Bob Woodward's book, Obama's Wars. Woodward reported that Holbrooke, who opposed the president's decision last year to add 30,000 troops in Afghanistan, said Obama's war plan "can't work."
Without Holbrooke, Gibbs said Tuesday, the groundwork for peace will continue: "Richard had a very talented team that continues today to do the work that President Obama and Secretary Clinton asked them to do many months ago."
Analysts say that work has had mixed results so far.
"I'm very skeptical that there is anyone who could replace him who would have more influence," says Caroline Wadhams of the Center for American Progress, a think tank run by former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta.
That said, Holbrooke's push for civilian changes never got nearly as much traction or attention as the military efforts. "His office has been important, but it's never been clear how effective it's been," Wadhams said.
Gibbs said he doesn't know whether discussions about a replacement for Holbrooke have begun at the State Department but he hasn't heard anything at the White House. "I don't think anyone would disagree," Gibbs said, "you've got big shoes to fill."
At the State Department, Crowley said, "it's too early to tell what changes will be made" as a result of Holbrooke's death. "Obviously there will be a change in personal approach. And that is inevitable."
Crowley said Frank Ruggiero, a career foreign service officer, is filling in as acting special representative.
Andrew Wilder of the U.S. Institute of Peace said Holbrooke was one of few people who could get any attention for civilian efforts in Afghanistan, given that "the military has had the lion's share of the resources there."
The pinnacle of Holbrooke's career — the 1995 Dayton peace accords that ended the war in Bosnia — came after the "conditions were set" for diplomacy, said Max Boot, a military historian at the Council on Foreign Relations. In Afghanistan, the conditions aren't right yet, so Holbrooke's exit is "a sort of anti-climactic end to a very distinguished career."
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Many area churches have spent the past couple of weeks preparing and distributing food baskets for needy families and at least one church will host a Thanksgiving Day meal for those in need on Thursday.
First United Methodist Church in Beebe will host a noon lunch on Thursday for anyone in need. There are no eligibility requirements for the free meal, which last year drew a crowd of 375 hungry diners.
One year we had someone just passing through town who saw our sign and just came in and ate, said Bill Palmisano, coordinator of the event.
The VFW post in Jacksonville hosted a Thanksgiving dinner for 238 guests on Saturday.
It went very well, said Paula Jahoda, assistant manager at the VFW. The size of crowd we had was just about average.
First Baptist Church in Jacksonville was one of many churches in the area which prepared food baskets.
We just delivered our final one just a little bit ago, the church secretary said Tuesday afternoon.
The Cabot Rotary Club held their annual Thanksgiving food drive and used money earned from a four-wheeler give-away to buy food at a discounted price from Kroger in Cabot.
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The leadership personnel at Little Rock Air Force Base will serve airmen Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, according to 1st Lt. Jon Quinlan.
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AUSTRALIAN tennis flagbearer Lleyton Hewitt has vowed to play a full schedule of tournaments next year.
Hewitt was even looking ahead to the 2014 Australian Open today as he confirmed he will again use Kooyong to tune up for Melbourne Park in January.
"I'm definitely playing all next year. And I can't see myself stopping at the Paris indoors (next November) with the Australian Open only a couple of months later," Hewitt said at an AAMI Classic lunch at Kooyong.
"Unless there was a major injury, and that could be anyone. But right at the moment this (2013) won't be my last.
"I guess when you bounce back from five surgeries in the last four years, mentally, I feel fresh and ready to go out there and compete."
Hewitt has already started training for the Australian Open where he lost this year to eventual champion Novak Djokovic in a tight fourth-round match.
The 31-year-old struggled through a Davis Cup tie against China in Geelong two weeks later before succumbing to delicate foot surgery that left his career in the balance.
"I didn't know how I would bounce back from the surgery. It was such major surgery that no other athlete has tried to come back and play competitive sport after it. So there were a lot of unknowns for me," Hewitt said.
"I feel like after Wimbledon and around the Olympics, I started to get more confident in my movement which is such a big part of my game.
"Towards the end of the year, I played some really good tennis and obviously knocked off a couple of top 30 players and it was good to beat Juan Monaco (world No.12) three weeks ago on a slow, indoor court that doesn't really suit me game.
"It gives me a lot of confidence that I can go out there and still match it with the best players in the world."
Hewitt said he felt mentally fresh after being forced to sit out such large slabs of the tour over the past couple of years.
"Fitness-wise last year (summer), I couldn't do a proper pre-season. I was having injections every second week just to try and get through any kind of training. There were a lot of unknowns how I was going to bounce back from that," he said.
"At the moment, I absolutely pain-free in the foot and I have got all the confidence back in my movement.
"I've already started off-court training and haven't felt a thing. Which is huge, because everyone knows how hard I like to train and push myself. I should be in pretty good shape.
"It's nice to get into the Australian Open off my own ranking because that frees up another wildcard for an up and coming Australian.
"Davis Cup and the Grand Slams are still the priority for me. The Australian Open and Wimbledon are the ones I love playing and mean the most to me. When I do finally stop, they're the two I would miss, for sure.
"But right at the moment I'm still hungry to go out there and do the hard work and I enjoy the training, I enjoy pushing myself."
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When Obamacare was passed we were told insurance premiums would decrease, you could keep your present plan and doctor.
Premiums are skyrocketing and people will lose their present insurance and doctor.
Small businesses are cutting back to below 50 employees and offering part-time jobs only to avoid the crushing economic burden of Obamacare.
This bill was jammed down the throats of Americans. Nobody ever read it. Nancy Pelosi famously said, "We have to pass it to see what is in it."
No legitimate business I can think of would sign contracts they never read. Only our corrupt Congress.
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What is he campaigning on? Mitt Romney's tax returns. What's his major rhetorical thrust? Businessmen shouldn't claim credit for their success.
He can blame George Bush. He can whine that he was handed a terrible economy. (Ronald Reagan inherited worse.) But there's no spin that will make 1.5 percent growth in GDP anything but dismal. It is not a recovery we are in; this is what we need to recover from — anemic growth, endemically high unemployment and record poverty.
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Sister Enrica Rosanna is number three in the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life and the most senior woman in the Catholic church. She is the first woman to hold a top job in a congregation, in effect one of the Roman curia's governmental departments.
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"I met the Holy Father many times and was impressed by three things. First, his capacity to enter into direct contact with God. When the Holy Father prayed, you could feel that he entered another world. Second, his ability to get close to people.
"Third, his intelligence: I felt this at meetings, when each of us expressed our opinion and at the end the Pope would say something even deeper.
"Writing about him after the synod of bishops, I said that he was a man of silence and of goodness - two values that contemporary society does not set much store by. He demonstrated how to live as a young person and as an old person, as a well person and as a sick person."
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"I worked closely with the Pope for two decades. He was a very strong person. He is not the longest-reigning Pope, but it was an exceptionally long reign. He opened a lot of doors - the first Pope to visit a mosque, the first to enter a synagogue (after St Peter of course). Everybody understands today that our faith, our Christianity, has a social dimension and we would not be faithful to the gospel if the church did not do its job in this area. He always had something to say about the situation in the world.
"Was he too conservative? He was elected to be very clear: what do we believe and what do we not believe? Where is Christ and where is not Christ? I think it is much more about clarity than about being conservative or not conservative. I don't think his meeting in the spring with young people in Switzerland was very conservative. There was beat music and everything you can imagine. And look at the way he spoke - he always told everyone exactly how he felt."
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Giorgio Muti, in St Peter's Square
"I am 70 now and have been selling souvenirs in St Peter's Square since I was 15. I have sold them under six Popes! Business has been bad for the past couple of years, since the introduction of the euro really. Prices have doubled. The euro has ruined everything. There are a lot of tourists, but they come on cheap trips and don't buy very much.
"I was one of six children. During the war everyone was poor. My brothers and sisters went to school. I was the devil in the family so I did this instead. The Vatican tolerated us years ago because we're all very poor. They have given us verbal permission to sell in the square. Nothing is written down. Only nine of us have that permission, and when one of us dies no one replaces him. The day will come when none of us is left. They don't elect new ones like the Pope.
"For me the best Pope was John XXIII - he was the first to visit hospitals and prisons. But John Paul II was a really good Pope, too. The fact he didn't want to quit, didn't want to retire. He was really unwell but he wanted to remain as Pope for as long as he drew breath. This was a great Pope ... bravo!"


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ST. CLOUD – The Stearns County Sheriff's Department has released the name of the man who's body was found in the Mississippi River.
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STEPH Cook, Kate Allenby, Georgina Harland and Heather Fell – these might not be names that strike too many chords with the British public but they were etched firmly into Samantha Murray's mind heading into the capital.
Ever since women were allowed to compete in modern pentathlon at the 2000 Games in Sydney, the Union Jack has been hoisted above the Olympic podium.
Cook and Allenby got the ball rolling in style with gold Down Under and ever since Harland and Fell have lived up to the billing, although none being able to reclaim the top step for Great Britain.
And as if there wasn't already enough pressure heading into the capital, add the fact that Clitheroe girl Murray was just one of two alongside Mhairi Spence to get selected when five Brit girls had achieved the qualifying standard, then you could have excused the youngest member of Team GB's modern pentathlon squad from suffering from jitters after having to wait until the final day of the Olympics to get going.
But with the unlucky three of Beijing bronze medallist Fell, Freyja Prentice and Katy Burke watching on Murray didn't disappoint, stamping her own mark on an already well-trodden path, breathing a huge sigh of relief every step of the way.
"The biggest thing going into these Games was the huge pressure I felt on what had gone before me with the fantastic success British women have had in this event and it was definitely on my mind," Murray said.
"You have to have a tough brain and a tough mind and you have to really be prepared for anything and just get on with it and I am delighted I managed to do that.
"I am just so happy to add my name to that list, the guys I watched growing up and hopefully I have done my part to inspire young people.
"I like to think I have played my part in securing the longevity of this sport and that is just as wonderful as winning the medal itself."
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The EU will carry out a second round of tests to see if horsemeat is being passed off as beef, after a scandal last year rocked public confidence in food safety standards.
The European Commission said Friday that experts had approved more DNA tests after last year's found that 4.6 percent of examined products contained horsemeat without being labelled as such.
The Commission treated the issue as one of fraud rather than public health, but the scandal attracted huge attention across Europe as it highlighted the extent of industrialisation in food production and how difficult it is to enforce standards.
"Although there have not been any public health implications in connection with this food fraud, there has been a very clear reaction from consumers following this scandal that controls need to be stepped up," the Commission said in a statement.
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Entergy is going back to federal court asking for assurance that the state will not shutter the plant March 21, when its current license expires.
Despite a victory in federal court finding two Vermont laws unconstitutional, attorneys for Entergy expressed concerns that the board would not allow Vermont Yankee to continue operating.
The Public Service Board held a status conference March 9, and briefs are due Friday.
Entergy already asked Judge J. Garvan Murtha for assurance that the plant could continue operating during the proceeding. The Public Service Board at the conference would not guarantee that the plant would keep operating.
With the clock ticking, Entergy's motion in federal court asks Judge Murtha to preserve the status quo.
The filing states: "A statement from the PSB — in direct conflict with this Court's Decision — that Plaintiffs may not operate during the interim period stands irreparably to damage Plaintiffs' ability to keep VY open and to retain critical employees."
In February, the board issued questions to Entergy and other parties in the docket asking if the plant could continue to operate after March 21. A state law that prevents the plant from storing spent fuel at Vermont Yankee after that date without approval from the Public Service Board.
The Vermont attorney general and Department of Public Service agree that the plant can continue operating while the Public Service Board determines whether to grant a new license. But the board last week questioned whether it had the ability to let Vermont Yankee keep producing spent fuel and pushed Entergy attorneys on why they hadn't addressed the impending issue earlier.
Entergy's filing says the delay is not the company's fault, and the board would have made a decision earlier if it hadn't been for the Vermont laws that spawned litigation and put the licensing hearing on hold.
Two Vermont laws required legislative approval for storage of spent nuclear fuel at Vermont Yankee after March 21 and for continued operation after that date. In 2010, the Vermont Senate voted against relicensing the plant, and the litigation in federal court ensued.
Federal district court Judge J. Garvan Murtha ruled the Atomic Energy Act pre-empted the two state laws, but his decision left the Public Service Board's discretion intact.
When the board reopened the proceeding and asked whether the plant could continue to operate, Entergy fired off an immediate request to the court asking it to let the plant operate after March 21.
The status conference apparently did not instill confidence.
Wednesday's request for a ruling states: "The very real prospect that the PSB will answer its own questions adversely to Plaintiffs, and thus order that VY must cease operation or storage of SNF from operation after March 21, 2012, stands irreparably to harm Plaintiffs."
The company's filing implies it might continue operating even if the board says it should not.
The motion goes on: "On March 9, 2012, the PSB made clear that it does not necessarily agree with the AG's and the DPS's view. In the event that the PSB ultimately disagrees, Plaintiffs will be forced either to cease operating or, if they defy the PSB by continuing to operate, to face the prospect of a diminished credit rating, a loss of crucial employees, and a demerit in the PSB's consideration of Plaintiffs' petition for a new CPG."
Environmental groups have pushed for the plant to shut down March 21.
Sandra Levine, senior attorney with the Conservation Law Foundation in Vermont, said continuing to operate after March 21 would violate Vermont law and a memorandum of understanding signed by Entergy in 2002 agreeing that the plant could only operate up to March 21 without additional approval from the board.
"Entergy continues to seek approval to violate Vermont law," Levine said. "They remain bound by the Public Service Board's orders. They will need the board's approval for continued operation. The district court's order was clear that only legislative action is pre-empted."
Sarah Hofmann, deputy commissioner of the Department of Public Service, said the department agrees the plant can continue to operate under state law but that Entergy has not lived up to its commitments.
"If they are going to be allowed to run on expired CPGs (certificates of public good), then they have to live up to all the commitments in those CPGs," she said.
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YOU know it's nearly Christmas when the iconic Coca Cola truck appears in a snowy and glittering scene on a television advert.
And although holidays may not actually be coming for another six weeks, Christmas will arrive in the News Shopper before the end of the month.
The much-loved Coca Cola lorry is set to make special guest appearances in Gravesend and Thamesmead.
On November 21, the truck will stop by at the Asda store in Gravesend from 1pm.
The following day, it will brighten the afternoon for shoppers at the Morrison's store in Twin Tumps Way, Thamesmead.
Festive shoppers will have the opportunity to grab that ultimate Facebook profile picture to use throughout December by posing alongside the giant red truck.
But for those who refuse to get into that Christmas spirit until December, the truck will be back in our area in then.
On December 8 and 9 the truck will be at the O2 Arena in North Greenwich and two days later on December 11, it will be at Bluewater Shopping Centre.
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Arrive at the field early to get oriented and find a warm-up area.
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Make sure the nets are secured and corner flags are out (enlist parent help if there is work to be done.)
Have referee's pay card (filled out and handy)
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All games (home or away)
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Do your starting line-up and position assignment ahead of time (you should make sure all players have equal opportunity to start)
Note who your captains will be and instruct them as to what goal to take, etc. when the coin is tossed.
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Teach your team their warm-up routine (suggestions: stretch before you can get on the field - don't use you limited field time before the game to jog or stretch; have two or three basic pre-game keep away, shooting and dribbling drills that the players know and recognize - don't use pre-game time to introduce new material; pay special attention to your keepers - assign a parent or assistant to be in charge of warming up the keeper)
Prepare the players for check-in by the ref. They should know to: line up on the touch line or 18; have all jewelry, watches, etc. off; equipment & uniform complete with shirts tucked in; be quiet and respectful of the referee.
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Re: random matrix from row and column sums
I am the original poster, and as Valeri has implied, I've had to do a
lot of thinking about what I mean by random. The problem that I am
working with is generating composite genotypes where total numbers are
specified for separate parts of the genotype. The column totals
represent genotype totals for a subset of genes, and the row totals are
genotype totals for another subset of genes. The resulting matrix is
totals for possible combined genotypes. The method that I have been
working with is shown in the following function definition. (I
appologise for its procedural style and for the sparse form of the
output (the next function translates the sparse form back into an
ordinary table form)). It starts with row 1 and column 1 and treats it
as a problem of selection without replacement. It then goes to column
2 and chooses from what is left. The ends of the rows and columns just
get whatever is left over. This method sometimes makes impossible
choices, in which case I have it try again. Some solutions are found
much more often than others, but it is now clear to me that for my
problem, some of them are, in fact, much more probable than others.
For my original example of {7,3,2} and {2,9,1}, in 10000 tries all 17
possibilities occurred but I got {{0, 7, 0}, {0, 2, 1}, {2, 0, 0}} 47
times and {{1, 5, 1}, {1, 2, 0}, {0, 2, 0}} 1897 times. I'd like to
thank all of the posters for the light that they have shed on the
problem. It has been very educational for me. Of course I'd
appreciate any further tips on how to make things more efficient or
correct now that I've expressed my problem more thoroughly.
<< Statistics`DiscreteDistributions`;
distributeRowAndColumnSums[rowSums_, columnSums_] := Module[
{totalCount = Plus @@ rowSums,
matrix = {},
numberOfRows = Length[rowSums],
numberOfColumns = Length[columnSums],
remainingInColumns = columnSums,
totalRemaining, remainingInRow, toChooseFrom, selected},
totalRemaining = totalCount;
remainingInRow = rowSums[[r]];
toChooseFrom = totalRemaining;
Do[selected = Random[HypergeometricDistribution[remainingInRow,
remainingInColumns[[c]], toChooseFrom]];
toChooseFrom -= remainingInColumns[[c]];
If[selected > 0,
AppendTo[matrix, {selected, {r, c}}];
totalRemaining -= selected;
remainingInRow -= selected;
remainingInColumns[[c]] -= selected,
{c, numberOfColumns - 1}];
remainingInRow > 0,
AppendTo[matrix, {remainingInRow, {r, numberOfColumns}}];
totalRemaining -= remainingInRow,
{r, numberOfRows - 1}];
If[remainingInColumns[[c]] > 0,
AppendTo[matrix, {remainingInColumns[[c]], {numberOfRows, c}}];
totalRemaining -= remainingInColumns[[c]],
{c, numberOfColumns - 1}];
totalRemaining > 0,
AppendTo[matrix, {totalRemaining, {numberOfRows,
totalRemaining == 0,
totalRemaining < 0,
Print["row and column distribution failure"];
distributeRowAndColumnSums[rowSums, columnSums, totalCount]]
matrixFromSparse[numberOfRows_Integer, numberOfColumns_Integer,
sparseMatrix_] := Module[{matrix = Table[0, {numberOfRows},
Do[matrix[[sparseMatrix[[i, 2, 1]], sparseMatrix[[i, 2, 2]]]] =
sparseMatrix[[i, 1]],
{i, Length[sparseMatrix]}];


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Alley Cat Lounge to reopen above Five O'Clock Steakhouse
The Alley Cat Lounge, located on the second floor of the Five O'Clock Steakhouse, formerly named Coerper's Five O'Clock Club, 2416 W. State St., opened in the late '40s as a VIP lounge.
Back then, customers could enter the lounge through the restaurant or by a private alley entrance complete with an unmarked door and a buzzer.
"Customers who didn't want to be seen came up this way," says manager Stelio Kalkounos whose family owns the restaurant.
This Friday, Nov. 1, after months of renovations, the Alley Cat Lounge will reopen – sans the private entrance and the buzzer.
Five O'Clock Steakhouse – which turned 65 this year – will celebrate the grand re-opening of the new Alley Cat Lounge with a night of classic cocktails, complimentary appetizers and live music by local jazz artists the Kevin Hayden Organ Trio featuring special guest "Miss Kitty."
The show starts at 8:30 p.m. and is free.
"Guests are invited to enjoy dinner in the dining room and then join the festivities in the lounge," says Kalkounos.
The plan is to have live music in the lounge every Friday and, if all goes well, to offer music on Saturday nights, too. The lounge will be available other nights of the week for corporate or private rentals.
The second floor space had been vacant for 30 years, but renovations started this past February. The vision was to create a new space that reflects the past.
Back in the day, Alley Cat servers wore bustiers, fishnet stockings and cat tails – think feline versions of the Playboy bunnies – but Kalkounos says the current servers will not sport such attire.
The walls feature framed vintage Miller beer ads along with a recreated original ad of the lounge that ran in local publications in the late '50s. There are also red velvet curtains at the windows and chandeliers.
Although remodeled, the new second floor space has many nods to the old days, including the original bar – complete with a padded, boomerang-patterned bar top – along with a vintage refrigerator, light fixtures and a 1952 Bob Kames organ.
This is particularly exciting for Kalkounos who is a longtime musician.
"Bob Kames (from Milwaukee) was one of the biggest Hammond organ dealers in the country. Paul Schafer, the Grateful Dead, Ray Manzarek from The Doors all bought his organs," he says.
Kalkounos was also thrilled to find a Leslie speaker cabinet in the space. The Leslie speaker is a combo amplifier and loudspeaker that modifies the sound of an instrument – typically an electric organ – as well as amplifying it by rotating sound waves.
"It's extremely rare and it was just sitting up here all these years," he says.
The Alley Cat – like Five O'Clock – will specialize in old school cocktails including side cars, sloe gin fizzes, stingers, Harvey Wallbangers, martinis, wine and Old Fashioneds made from Scotch, bourbon, whiskey or brandy.
The Five O'Clock building, built in 1906, became Coerper's in 1948. Kalkounos' family bought the business nine years ago.
"We're trying to keep everything the same, but also adding a few touches here and there," he says.
The wine list was expanded and online reservations became available earlier this week.
The restaurant has undergone changes, too. Four years ago it welcomed George Tourloukis, who is Kalkounos' uncle, as executive chef.
"He makes everything from scratch, from the desserts to the sauce for the calamari," says Kalkounos.
The Five O'Clock Steakhouse, which still boasts a '50s look and feel, has been named one of the "Best Steakhouses in the U.S." by Travel and Leisure, one of America's Best Steakhouses by Rachael Ray, A Classic Steakhouse Experience by Zagat and one of the Top 10 Steakhouses in the U.S. by CNN.
Five O'Clock Steakhouse appeared on the Travel Channel's "Steak Paradise" last March.
"We are thrilled to finally show off the all new, completely renovated Alley Cat Lounge," says Kalkounos.
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I'm sure Begel is happy to hear this since He was at the original opening of the 5 o'clock club.
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Advice to My Thirteen-Year-Old Self
I was inspired to start Advice to My Thirteen-Year-Old Self, an anthology of advice letters written by fifty women to their teenage selves, because next year, my daughter will be turning thirteen. I want to give my girl, and other young women just like her from around the world, a "guidebook" into adulthood that doesn't skirt around important issues such as sex, suicide, her body, cutting and depression … a book that also glorifies empowerment, freedom and self-love.
I'm working tirelessly to finish the anthology. Because I can only publish fifty letters in the book, but because over 1000 letters have been submitted from women and teen girls from countries such as Cambodia, Uganda, Peru and India, I've also started a website – an online community where women and …


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Last year, you lot were all about Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem and Amy Winehouse. But so much has changed since the Readers' Poll 2007.
For example, we swapped the name Guardian Unlimited for guardian.co.uk/music, and there have been exactly 978 new bands and 769 new albums* for you to rate. So this year, we want to know which of these has stood out for you, the readers, in 2008. Has it been critical darlings TV On the Radio? Hipster icon Santogold? Or could it be the more mainstream charms of Coldplay (we're guessing probably not, but someone's buying their records)?
There are five categories this year: album of the year; song of the year; artist of the year; band of the year and - perhaps most importantly - artist most deserving of a government bailout. You have until midday on December 21 to vote, the results will be announced on December 23 and three winners will be picked at random to receive the top ten albums as a prize.
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Mathematics x O.D.B – Early Grave [Music]
Fans from across the Hip-Hop world will never get bored of the Wu Tang Clan, and one member in particular O.D.B. With the release of the new album "Return Of The Wu" Mathematics is credited as mixing the unreleased and unheard features from the several Wu Tang artists. I have a leak from Mathematics and O.D.B which is appropriately titled Early Grave, which is something many fans felt of O.D.B's death. You can listen to Mathematics and O.D.B – Early Grave on the player below.
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Irillium is an element which may occur as an impurity in ryetalyn. The presence of irillium in ryetalyn renders it pharmacologically inert, and useless as a treatment for Rigelian fever. (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah")
According to the Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual, (p. 18) irillium, symbol Im, had the atomic weight 305 and atomic number 116. It was first discovered by Humans in the asteroid belt in 2029.
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DALE EARNHARDT, JR., NO. 88 DIET MOUNTAIN DEW/NATIONAL GUARD CHEVROLET, POLE WINNER: ON HIS LAP: "It feels good. Iâve not really been the best of qualifiers the last couple of years. We have a lot of improvements weâve made this year. It feels good to get a pole."
HOW IMPORTANT IS A WIN HERE TOMORROW NIGHT? "I think everybody wants to get the win to kick the Chase off, and go into the Chase with a lot of confidence. Itâs a fun race track; we love running here. I think weâll have a good car tomorrow."
JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 DRIVE TO END HUNGER CHEVROLET - QUALIFIED 2ND: DID YOU GET EVERYTHING OUT OF YOUR LAP AND THEN SOME? "I did in (turns) three and four. I got (turns) three and four great coming to the green (flag) and coming back to the white (flag). I just didnât quite get through (turns) one and two the way I would have liked to. I actually got down to the yellow line a little bit earlier than I wanted to. I could have carried a little bit more speed in there. There is some speed left out there, but still a solid day for this Drive To End Hunger Chevrolet. I love having Chase credit card services on board and all the support of this Drive To End Hunger program. We will just see where we end up. It has been a solid day, we have a good race car, from here on out we are guaranteed a top 10 spot and we will see where we end up."
REGAN SMITH, NO. 78 FURNITURE ROW/FARM AMERICAN CHEVROLET - QUALIFIED 3RD: YOU SAID THE SUN GOING INTO (TURN) THREE IS MAYBE THE BIGGEST ISSUE FOR GUYS RIGHT NOW? "Yeah, every time we come here and qualify it is that perfect time of the day where the sun is right in your eye. If anything I think that is going to be the biggest issue, but good lap for the Furniture Row Chevy. I was real happy with it. I didnât quite get what I wanted that second lap, but the first lap was enough. We are proud of that. Hopefully it stays up in the top five somewhere. Nonetheless, these guys have been working really hard. The guys in the shop have been working really hard. Todd Barrier came on board a few weeks back with us and that has been a good change, a lot of excitement out of this team."
JIMMIE JOHNSON, NO. 48 LOWEâS CHEVROLET- QUALIFIED 5TH: WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE THERE ON YOUR LAP? YOU NARROWLY MISSED THE POLE: "I can promise you it wasnât from a lack of effort. I didnât make my second lap because I was pinned on effort level there (laughs). Great lap, itâs hard to think that itâs going to stay up there in the top three being as early as it is. For the time of day good lap, picked up right around a second I guess from practice. Things feel good so we will get this Loweâs Chevy dusted off and ready to go for tomorrow night."
KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 29 BUDWEISER CHEVROLET, QUALIFIED 13TH: ON HIS QUALIFYING: "It was ok. The car was just too loose off the corner; couldnât put the power down like I needed to. It is still not going to be a bad starting spot for us tomorrow night. Weâll take that and move on to the race."
RYAN NEWMAN, NO. 39 QUICKEN LOANS CHEVROLET, QUALIFIED 14TH: ON HIS QUALIFYING: "It was a decent lap for the Quicken Loans Chevrolet. I under-drove the first laps, and just didnât get myself calibrated with what the grip level pickup was. That is my fault. But the car feels pretty good. Hopefully it stays top-10ish. A good team effort today."
ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SPRING RACE AND THE FALL RACE: "The weather is the bigger difference. Depending on what you have; you can have a hot and humid day that rains in the spring. You could have the same thing today. The weather is probably the biggest question mark on what you expect grip wise out of the race track."
JUAN PABLO MONTOYA, NO. 42 TARGET CHEVROLET, QUALIFIED 24TH: "It was ok. I made a little mistake in one and two on that second lap. Got in a little too fast and lost a little bit of time. Our Target Chevy felt pretty good. Iâm pretty happy. I think we have a pretty good race car."
TONY STEWART, NO. 14 OFFICE DEPOT/MOBIL 1 CHEVROLET, QUALIFIED 28TH: ITâS BEEN A FRUSTRATING DAY ON A VARIETY OF LEVELS. HOW DO YOU SUMMARIZE THE KIND OF DAY THAT YOU HAVE HAD TODAY AND THE IMPORTANCE OF IT AS YOU LOOK AHEAD TO TOMORROW? "The most political correct way is to say it has been frustrating. I donât think weâve got a bad race car when it comes to 15 laps into a run weâve just got to get to that point. Itâs not been a good day for putting up a big lap by any means. It is what got us in this position here. We will just keep battling with it and see what we can get."
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Farmers, Workers, and Consumers Strive to Change an Industry
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A sophisticated analysis of what is happening with fair trade in bananas.
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The book has much to say that is of significance as fair trade emerges as a possible alternative to existing patterns of world trade.
—Mark Moberg, author of Myths of Ethnicity and Nation: Immigration, Work, and Identity in the Belize Banana Industry
trade is nearly five billion dollars annually, with 80 percent of all exported bananas originating in Latin America. There are as many as ten million people involved in growing, packing, and shipping bananas, but American consumers have only recently begun to think about them and about their working conditions. Although European nations have helped create a "fair trade" system for bananas grown in Mediterranean and Caribbean regions, the United States as a country has not developed a similar system for bananas grown in Latin America, where large corporations have dominated trade for more than a century.
Fair Bananas! is one of the first books to examine the issue of "fair-trade bananas." Specifically, Henry Frundt analyzes whether a farmer-worker-consumer alliance can collaborate to promote a fair-trade label for bananas—much like those for fair-trade coffee and chocolate—that will appeal to North American shoppers. Researching the issue for more than ten years, Henry Frundt has elicited surprising and nuanced insights from banana workers, Latin American labor officials, company representatives, and fair-trade advocates.
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Tom Barrow, a primary election mayoral candidate, filed the complaint claiming the Detroit-based retail mortgage lender violated the state's Gaming Control Act, which prohibits owners and investors of casinos from making such contributions. Quicken Loans Founder and Chairman Dan Gilbert is a managing member of Athens Acquisitions LLC, which owns Greektown Casino-Hotel.
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