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Stoelting debuts as author with 'Sam Learns to Share'
Family surprises retired kindergarten teacher with her first published book
By LARRY DEVINE
, News Editor
Betsy Stoelting signs copies of her first-ever book, "Sam Learns to Share," Saturday at SunnyBrook Assisted Living, where she's resided for about four years.
May 30, 2013
Over the years, Betty "Betsy" Stoelting has written numerous children's stories, many featuring a life lesson.
But Stoelting's experience itself now offers a lesson: Age is no barrier to becoming a first-time published author.
The 85-year-old Stoelting learned that recently when her sister Carol Nicholson, from Ashland, Kan., and Carol's daughter Tara Nicholson, of Hutchinson, Kan., visited her and took her out to dinner in Carroll.
Before dinner arrived, Carol and Tara served Betsy a Stoelting a big surprise.
They handed her a book copy of "Sam Learns to Share." That was possibly the first story Stoelting, who taught kindergarten nearly 40 years before retiring in 1989, ever wrote. The book version of "Sam Learns to Share" culminated nearly a year's effort to find a publisher for the story. Publication Consultants of Anchorage, Alaska, which primarily publishes family-oriented books, liked the story.
When Stoelting saw her first-ever published work, her eyes lit up.
Tara recalls the reaction: "It was really great. She just said, 'Oh, my goodness.' She was overwhelmed."
For her part, Stoelting recalls, "I was shellshocked. They (Carol and Tara) had been working on it for a year and didn't tell me a word about it. I didn't believe it was going to happen."
Carol and Tara took the surprise another step when they organized a public book-signing party for Stoelting at SunnyBrook Assisted Living, where she's lived about four years, for Saturday, May 25. With drop-in visitors and support of family, sales were brisk, which kept Stoelting busy signing copies.
"Sam Learns to Share" is a 16-page, soft-cover, illustrated book costing $8.95. Those who would like a personalized copy of the book may contact Stoelting at 792-4182 or Publications Consultants. Tara Nicholson says the book will be available in the future on Amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com and on Kindle, and some local outlets may be added as well.
Tara Nicholson, who's an English department teacher at Hutchinson Community College, says of course she's biased but she understands why Publication Consultants likes Stoelting's writing.
"She's very skilled verbally, she has a very high vocabulary, and she wrote the story in rhyme," Nicholson says.
In "Sam Learns to Share," Sam is a spider who lives in an empty home, happy in his web. However, a family of people moves into the home, and he's angry at first, but then realizes all these people are trying to do is provide a home for their children, just as Sam's mother did for him when he was a baby. So Sam happily moves out to the barn and shares space with the family."
Stoelting writes in "Sam Learns to Share":
"And if, like Wonderland's Duchess, you like a moral,
Here's one with which you cannot quarrel:
Sam SEEMS to prove, at least to me,
That it pays to give in gracefully!"
Stoelting says she's written lots of stories. They usually just come to her. For "Sam," and others, she says, "I just wrote them down as they occurred to me. I just scribbled them off."
And Tara Nicholson notes, "They all have lessons for children, usually moral lessons."
Although she's been retired from teaching more than 20 years, Stoelting's creativity continues. She's written more stories since she moved into SunnyBrook, one titled "The Finicky Eater" and others that are untitled.
Tara Nicholson says "Sam Learns to Share" was written on yellow paper with an old manual typewriter and she retyped it before sending the story to prospective publishing companies.
Tara Nicholson wrote in the foreword of the book, "My aunt Betsy Stoelting is one of the most important persons in my life. Never having children of her own, she treated her nieces and nephews, and now her great-nieces and -nephews, as if they were her own children, and we all love her dearly for it. Her positive influence on all of us and all of the children she taught over her long career teaching kindergarten is immeasurable. Of the many values I learned from her, her love of books and reading taught me the wonder of losing myself in a book and encouraged my love of literature. Everyone who meets her is never the same."
In her classroom career, Stoelting taught at Wapello and Fort Dodge, Iowa, before moving to the St. Louis, Chicago and Denver areas. She spent about the last 20 years of her career teaching in a suburb of San Francisco, in Marin County, Calif.
Stoelting says she loved teaching kindergartners because of their enthusiasm for learning.
"You can see it happen," she says. "Their eyes open. They love it, so I love it."
In California, she taught many multi-cultural children - Asian and Latino - for whom English was a second language and they took a special class to learn English in addition to attending kindergarten.
"It's interesting teaching children from other countries, even though it's harder," Stoelting says.
Like any of her students, she says, "They really absorb and learn so fast. That's the beautiful part."
Stoelting's education career began after she graduated from Sac City High School in 1945 and then earned a teaching certificate after two years at Iowa State Teachers College (now University of Northern Iowa). Taking night-school classes she eventually earned a bachelor's degree from Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., and she received a master's degree from the University of San Francisco.
The second-oldest of five children of Edwin and Rose Stoelting, Betsy was born on a farm near Bristol, S.D. Her dad lost their farm in northeast South Dakota due to drought, and when she was 6 the family moved to the Schaller area in Sac County, Iowa, before later arriving in Sac City. Her parents worked a variety of jobs. Edwin Stoelting was a farmhand, furniture mover, honey and sorghum salesman, while Rose Stoelting was a homemaker, longtime school cook and made embroidery items.
Betsy is thankful to her parents for providing a loving family and instilling a love for reading. When Betsy was attending Iowa State Teachers College, she received weekly postcards from her Dad that began "Dear Daughter," in which he wrote news from home or shared some life thoughts.
"The kids in my dorm were jealous," Stoelting says of her Dad's frequent postcards.
Stoelting says she's been a voracious reader - reading herself to sleep and often keeping up a book-a-day pace. She particularly enjoys mysteries and English humor.
"I like all the Victorian English writers," she says.
She also enjoys jigsaw puzzles and crossword puzzles, including British ones, which she says can be tricky.
After she retired from teaching, Stoelting moved back to Iowa from California. She and her parents lived in Lake City for awhile, and after her Dad passed away, Betsy and her mom lived in Carroll. Rose Stoelting lived to age 102. Betsy is a sister of Phyllis (Mrs. Lyle) Skinner of Lake City, and her late brother, Kenneth Stoelting, worked at Chief Clothing Store in Sac City many years.
Will more of Stoelting's stories be published in the future?
"We'll see how this one does," Tara Nicholson says.
Meanwhile, Stoelting will continue reading and writing.
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YATAKALA, Niger -- On a dusty orange plain in the extreme western corner of Niger, a small group of Manitobans marvels at what the local Djerma-Songhay people consider soil.
It's the middle of May, toward the end of the long dry season in this part of the Sahel, a wide band of semi-arid land that stretches across the centre of Africa. In a couple of weeks, rains are expected to come, allowing subsistence farmers to plant millet, cowpeas and other crops adapted to what may be the most marginal agricultural land on the planet.
The surface of the Sahel is baked by furnace-like heat, enjoys minimal moisture and has earth so brittle, it resembles what most Canadians would call sand. When you cup two hands full of dry Sahelian soil, it slides out of your fingers like the fine silica of Grand Beach.
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"I'd love to take a vial of this stuff to an agronomist," says Jim Cornelius, executive director of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, a humanitarian organization based in Winnipeg, standing in the blazing sun.
His non-profit organization raises money in Canada to spend on food security and sustainable-development projects in Niger and 34 other countries around the world. Much of the cash comes from Canadian farmers, who for decades have sensed a kinship with their subsistence counterparts in the developing world.
On the surface, there doesn't seem to be much in common between farming in Niger and farming on the Canadian Prairies, where the fertile, black soil is moistened by winter snows and summer rains.
In Niger, the average subsistence plot is a mere six acres, or the size of a downtown Winnipeg surface parking lot. As the rainy season arrives, rural families -- who make up 80 per cent of Nigeriens -- swing long hoes into the dusty soil to create shallow indentations for millet or sorghum seeds, which are scattered by hand and then covered up with a scrape of the foot.
Locusts may consume entire harvests. Goats and sheep run free, consuming any and all forage they find. The families who work the land consume whatever comes off it, while any surplus tends to be stored for the long dry season.
In Niger, hunger is a constant presence, even during years when there is enough rain to sustain the crops that grow during the ephemeral growing season.
In Manitoba, the average farm is an astounding 1,135 acres, or about the same size as Assiniboine Park. Only six per cent of the provincial population farms for a living. Large machines are used for tilling, planting, watering, applying fertilizers and pesticides and eventually harvesting the crops -- mostly wheat, canola and barley.
Wheat-stem sawflies and diamondback moths can damage wheat and canola, respectively. Cattle pasture is kept entirely separate and carefully fenced off. Almost the entire crop is sold on the market. The phrase "Canola: It's what's for dinner" has never been uttered in a rural Manitoba household.
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Yet relatively affluent southern Manitoba farmers and their subsistence counterparts in Niger both struggle with the same phenomenon: an extremely variable climate that appears to becoming less predictable than ever.
In every mid-continental region of the planet, far from the moderating influence of oceans, human beings have learned to adapt to a wide range of weather conditions.
On the Canadian Prairies, that means some of the greatest seasonal variations in temperature on the planet -- average January lows of -23 C and average July highs of 26 C in Winnipeg, for example. The Canadian Prairies also experience tremendous year-to-year variations in precipitation, which can lead to a drought one year and a flood the next.
The landlocked central Sahel, which includes large sections of Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad as well as Niger, experiences an equally dramatic form of seasonal variability. Traditionally, an eight-month, precipitation-free dry season, with highs of about 43 C, is followed by a slightly cooler four-month rainy season. Year-to-year variations also lead to cycles of drought and flood in communities located along the Niger River.
Over the decades, farmers living on the Prairies and in the Sahel have adapted to the seasonal variability of their respective climates as well as to the year-to-year variations.
Today, Manitoba's large-scale farmers have crop insurance to cover losses incurred during unproductive seasons, while Niger's subsistence-farming families can get through lean seasons by eating or selling some livestock -- essentially, their living bank accounts -- or dipping into surplus stores of grain.
Both the Prairie and Sahelian survival strategies are predicated on the notion there will be enough good years, on average, to balance out the bad ones. Farmers on both continents also make the assumption that climate will be more or less consistent, even if the weather is always changing and completely unpredictable.
What's becoming clear in recent decades in both the Sahel and on the Prairies is this assumption now likely amounts to a leap of faith. In both regions, the climate appears to be changing, making the already variable weather even more unpredictable.
Over the past 15 years, southern Manitoba experienced no fewer than five major flood events -- spring floods in 1997, 2006, 2009 and 2011 and summer flooding in 2005. The 1997 Red River flood and 2011 Assiniboine River basin flood were among the most severe recorded in post-colonial history, in terms of the magnitude of flooded areas and river flows.
Also unprecedented were the damage sustained to property and the expenses associated in recovering from that damage and mitigating it in the future. The Red River flood of 1997 cost the province $500 million, while the tab for the 2011 Assiniboine flood is $936 million and counting.
During the same period, it's easy to forget Manitoba also experienced a significant although far less catastrophic drought in 2000 and 2001. The net effect of the environmental hardship on the agricultural community has been the intensification of a very long-term trend: the concentration of farmland in the hands of fewer owners and reduction in the number of people operating family farms.
While number of deaths directly attributable to these events in Manitoba has been small -- two each in 1997 and 2011 -- the long-term prospect of continually fighting a cycle of flood and drought represents the single greatest threat to the economic well-being of this province.
That's because the events we are experiencing are in line with the International Panel on Climate Change's predictions for mid-continental North America.
For the past two decades, climatologists have been concerned modest increases in atmospheric and ocean temperature will lead to greater volatility in mid-continental regions such as the Canadian Prairies and the U.S. Great Plains. Contrary to popular belief, the overall warming trend that sets this chain in motion has already arrived.
According to data collected from hundreds of Environment Canada monitoring stations, Canadian summers are not getting appreciably warmer. But when your grandfather claims winters were a lot colder when he was a kid, he's absolutely right.
Across Canada, the average temperature during December, January and February has increased a remarkable 2.8 C over the past 40 years, said University of Winnipeg climatologist Danny Blair.
"The mild weather we had this winter may very well become the norm," said Blair, who's also the university's acting dean of science and principal of the Richardson College for the Environment.
"We're already seeing a tremendous amount of abrupt climate change."
While warmer winters may be welcome to many Winnipeggers, the potential consequences are not. More winter rain as opposed to snow, coupled with earlier snowmelts, would create the potential for more summer drought, even though climate-change models for this part of the world point to more precipitation overall.
"There's the expectation the Prairies will get wetter, especially in the early part of the year," said Blair, adding this will likely be accompanied by more of the volatility that's already being observed to the south, in the U.S.
For Manitoban farmers, a warmer climate increases the likelihood of a double whammy of a year with too much water to allow planting in April and May and not enough for crops to reach maturity in July and August.
Manitoba's resilient agricultural community can survive such a year. The question is what happens to the agricultural sector when difficult year follows difficult year, not just in succession, but on a more or less permanent basis. And how will the entire province afford the social and financial consequences of "the new normal" when it comes to the Prairie climate?
The answer may be found in Niger, where an estimated six million of the nation's 16 million people are at risk of malnutrition and starvation this summer because of the compound effect of a decade of climate disruption across the Sahel.
Historically, Niger has always been prone to drought. Roughly 80 per cent of the country is covered by the Sahara Desert, while the southern fringe lies in the Sahel, where the rains typically fall from late May to mid-August.
What's different as of late is the frequency of seasons when farmers have been unable to grow sufficient crops. A poor rainy season in 2004 led to a nationwide food crisis in 2005 and 2006. A localized flood in 2009 was followed by widespread drought in 2010 and some of the highest temperatures ever recorded in the already hot country.
Then a combination of drought, locusts and weevil infestations in 2011 led to poor or non-existent harvests across the country, setting the stage for this year's food crisis.
The compound effect is a population in a malnourished and weakened state, more prone to disease and less able to work their fields when and if the time does come to get their harvest off the land.
"Families are unable to create the cushion they need to survive from one year to another," says Nicolas Moyer, executive director of the Humanitarian Coalition, an umbrella organization for five Canadian organizations working on the ground in Niger -- Care, Save the Children, Plan Canada, Oxfam Canada and Oxfam Quebec.
Moyer recently returned from Niger, where the Nigerien government and international aid organizations are trying to prevent the food crisis from turning into an actual famine. As of the first week of July, 342,000 Nigeriens had been treated for malnutrition by Nigerien or non-governmental aid workers, he said. The goal is to treat people in their own villages to prevent the mass migrations that exacerbate the food crisis because no one is around to get the crops off the ground.
Once entire villages are on the move, an outright famine is harder to avoid. It's both less expensive and more effective to attempt to prevent a famine -- but also harder to raise money from individuals and donor nations in developed countries, such as Canada.
What the international aid community would rather do in Niger is get farmers to adapt to climate change.
From 1969 to 2009, average temperatures in the central Sahel -- Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan -- increased 1 C, the U.S. Geological Survey reported late in 2011. The effect is believed to be the result of a warming Indian Ocean, which also appears to be drying out large swaths of Africa.
The increasing heat leads to more of what hydrologists call "evapotranspiration," the combined loss of moisture from evaporation off the land plus transpiration from trees, grasses and other plants. This warming trend has led to a loss of vegetative cover in the region and advancement of Sahara Desert sand dunes into the Sahel and towards subtropical West Africa.
The disappearance of the vegetation has been quantified. One in six trees across the entire Sahel region died during a 50-year period, based on aerial photographs dating from 1954 to 1989, field surveys of the same areas from 2000 to 2002 and high-definition satellite images taken in 2002.
The same study, led by climate-change scientist Patrick Gonzalez, also found one in five of the Sahel's tree species was extirpated from the region during the same time frame.
What this means is fewer trees and shrubs to shade millet crops during the rainy season, provide fodder for sheep and goats and organic matter to add nutrients to the brittle, sandy soil. The sheer absence of biomass in the Nigerien countryside is something Manitobans may have difficult comprehending: Somebody covets every leaf and twig and blade of grass -- even the first grasses that emerge in the rainy season may serve as an emergency meal for the hungriest of Nigeriens.
That is just one of the survival strategies that came to light in early May, when the nation was anticipating the first of this year's rains. In village after tiny village -- from Yatakala near the border with Mali to Niakatire near Burkina Faso to Dogon Dawa above the border with Nigeria -- rural Nigeriens described a litany of ways they've tried to adapt to season after season of crop failures.
Some say they borrow food from neighbours, if they can find neighbours with any to lend. Some men work as middlemen in the livestock trade and use the marginal profits to buy food. Some women take in similar marginal profits by buying millet at the market and selling masa, a form of breakfast pancakes cooked on an open griddle.
Those are the least desperate measures. More desperate men migrate to neighbouring Nigeria or Benin in the faint hope of finding work and sending money back home. Some are never heard from again.
Desperate landowners sell parts of their farms. Desperate farmers cut down precious trees and sell the wood, even though they know this is counterproductive in the long term.
Even more desperate families water down their remaining stores of millet into a calorie-poor emergency porridge that may allow dwindling supplies to last for weeks. Even more desperate souls gather bitter leaves from nearby trees and boil them until they're tender -- or talk enthusiastically about gathering up the first grasses that emerge when the rainy season starts.
None openly admits to selling or prostituting their children, but non-governmental agencies insist the practice is widespread.
What all Nigeriens speak openly about is the dramatic change they've witnessed during their lifetimes.
"We used to have more rains and the land was better," says Lawali Abdou, speaking in Hausa through an interpreter in the village of Dogon Dawa. "In the past, the rains were regular. Now the rains can stay for only 20 days."
In 2011, what should have been four months of rain in Niger wound up being only 21/2 months in many regions. Farmers responded by replanting their fields, sometimes up to 15 times, a desperate strategy that further depleted their reserves of millet and sorghum.
Development organizations are instead trying to teach farmers more sustainable adaptation strategies. In the relatively affluent Maradi region, the systematic pruning of weaker trees in favour of stronger stalks over the course of 20 years has led to a net increase in vegetation.
Across Niger, food-for-work programs have led to hillsides covered with "crescent moons," semi-circular depressions that capture summer rains. And farmers are being encouraged to nurture the growth of drought-resistant Australian acacias that produce edible, nutritious seeds.
Some villages also have been taught to grow vegetables in dry-season gardens, using water drawn from wells. Others have been shown how to manage small savings accounts that serve as seed money for modest business ventures, such as mending clothing with a sewing machine.
Both Western and Nigerien aid workers believe these modest efforts can and will increase the standard of living in this country, which ranks third-lowest on the UN's human development index.
With an average annual income of less than $250, Nigeriens are among the world's poorest people. They are also among the least educated, the least healthy and prone to the highest birth rates on the planet.
The average woman in Niger has 7.5 children. For every 1,000 people in this African nation, there will be 50 live births this year, say Nigerien estimates. Though offset somewhat by high child mortality, the Nigerien population is nonetheless growing at a rate of roughly 3.5 per cent per year.
The UN expects Niger's population to swell from 16 million this year to 22 million by 2025. As a result, the central government promotes condom use -- with the blessing of many Muslim leaders -- but aid workers believe only the education of young girls will bring down birth rates.
Generally speaking, rising affluence and education tend to accompany a drop in birth rates. But some rural Nigerien families are afraid of sending girls off to secondary school, fearing a lack of adequate supervision will lead to pregnancy out of wedlock.
More ominously, regional strife threatens Niger's economic aspirations. After the revolution in neighbouring Libya, mercenaries formerly under the employ of the Gadhafi regime returned home or smuggled arms through the Sahara into Mali, currently devastated by civil war.
Refugees from the Mali conflict -- a complex struggle involving Islamist insurgents, Tuareg separatists and the faltering national government -- are camped outside the western town of Ayorou, complicating the food-crisis response.
And the lawlessness in both Libya and Mali have sparked fears of another locust infestation this summer, as insect-control programs along Niger's borders have been credited with keeping pest numbers down in the past.
Adding to this litany of short-term headaches -- the chronic food crisis, a refugee influx and now potential locust swarms -- a cholera epidemic has emerged in the western Tillaberi region, with about 2,000 cases diagnosed so far, said Moyer of the Humanitarian Coalition.
Dealing with the long-term problems -- environmental degradation, reforestation and overhauling the agricultural practices -- seems like an insurmountable goal for one of the world's poorest nations.
What's interesting is Niger is not counting on the developed world to solve its environmental problems, even as it opens its arms to developmental and humanitarian aid. The assumption on the ground is the world has failed to avert climate change, so there's nothing to do but adapt to the new normal, using whatever low-tech means are at hand, such as the tree-pruning efforts and the digging of crescent moons.
This form of pragmatism is instructive in southern Manitoba, where adaptive strategies to environmental disaster tend to come in the form of multimillion-dollar megaprojects such as the construction of the Red River Floodway, Shellmouth Dam, Portage Diversion and just last year, an emergency channel to relieve flooding on Lake Manitoba.
In Nigerien agro-pastoral villages, the collective structure means entire communities take part in the decision-making process when the time comes to make tough choices that involve survival. For example, in the run-up to a potential famine, entire villages sat down and collectively decided who was the most vulnerable and thus deserved to be first in line to receive food aid.
The orderly manner in which the distributions took place -- in village after village, representatives from extended farm families lined up patiently in the 43 C heat, waiting for their names to be called -- is a testament to the cultural civility of ordinary Nigeriens.
In Manitoba, where scarcity is all but unknown, order likely would not rule the day. This is, after all, a culture where people freak out during the Christmas shopping season if there's a shortage of iPhones or children's toys.
Even worse in this individualist society, collective decisions are left up to government, which is expected to somehow respond to major crises with all of our best interests in mind.
This poses the fascinating question of whether we're prepared to deal with the changes that lie ahead. And here's where this story may actually get you down.
As any other reputable climatologist will tell you, the world's atmosphere has not contained more than 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide at any time during the 800,000-year period that ended only this past century, thanks to the CO2 buildup that began with the Industrial Revolution. The last time there was so much CO2 in the air, it took thousands of years to get there, not just over 200.
The atmospheric CO2 level is now at 392 parts per million and is showing no signs of stopping, given the rapid pace of industrialization in China and India, the world's two most populous nations. We're already past the tipping point, regardless.
Even if CO2 emissions magically ceased tomorrow, our oceans would continue to warm for decades and will thus continue to affect weather patterns in unpredictable and undoubtedly unamusing ways. Of course, CO2 emissions are in fact increasing and weather patterns are expected to continue to change.
Amazingly, the warming of the atmosphere and the resulting loss of Arctic ice and eventual rising ocean levels do not pose any immediate danger to humanity; all those nightmares are due to come to fruition in coming decades.
What keeps ecologists up at night is the ongoing acidification of the oceans, as environmental journalist Alanna Mitchell chronicled in her exhaustively researched 2009 book Sea Sick.
In a nutshell, all that carbon dioxide in the air is leaching into the oceans, where it dissolves into carbonic acid, which eventually will prevent the vast majority of the world's marine organisms from forming the calcium-carbonate shells they need to survive. Corals are among those organisms. And since coral reefs -- already threatened by dynamiting and bleaching -- serve as nurseries to many of the few surviving stocks of food fish that remain in the oceans, a world without coral will mean a world with even less fish.
And that will mean a very hungry bunch of human beings, since we not only eat wild ocean fish, but grind them up and pelletize them and feed them to the farmed salmon that's become a staple of our diet.
In other words, there will soon come a time when the Canadian Prairies, as one of the world's most productive agricultural regions, will take on an even greater role in feeding the planet.
At that point, we will need every last remaining farm we have. So the time to begin considering environmental-survival strategies is now.
If a Nigerien subsistence farmer can coax millet from what appears to be sand by learning to prune trees and capture water in hand-dug puddles, a Manitoba farmer with millions of dollars worth of assets on the books can learn to stop draining wetlands, retain shelterbelts and figure out other ways to keep water on the land.
In the aftermath of the dust bowl of the 1930s, farmers across the Canadian Prairies came up with low-tech solutions to the flood and drought cycles that have characterized this corner of the continent. We have a history of surviving variability.
The question is whether we can survive even greater adversity -- at least with the grace of a Nigerien.
A few kilometres from Yatakala, the neighbouring village of Kolmane sits in the shadow of an advancing sand dune a plantation of trees is temporarily stabilizing. Last year, locusts ate the village's entire millet crop, but the locals survived on their goats and dry-season gardens. Times are tough, but the heat and looming Sahara are just part of the deal, said Hussein Youhou, a farmer with a total of nine mouths to feed.
"We're used to our weather and we know it's hot," he said, speaking in Djerma through an interpreter. He then smiles and fixes a sweaty Canadian with a stare. "We also know we have no other option."
If Niger can survive, so can Manitoba. And yes, that is one heck of an if.
How to help
Canadian Foodgrains Bank has committed $9.7 million to provide more than 10,000 tonnes of food to people suffering from drought in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso. You can help people in those countries by donating to the Foodgrains Bank's Sahel Emergency Food Appeal at www.foodgrainsbank.ca, by sending a cheque to Box 767, Winnipeg, Man. R3C 2L4, or by calling 944-1993.


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Highlights from the Archives
Duane's Depraved
A sex romp featuring the protagonist of "The Last Picture Show."March 18, 2007 booksReview
Older, but Keeping Up With the Bridget Joneses
The Chick Lit genre has many mothers. It also has a father: Larry McMurtry, whose ''Terms of Endearment'' anticipated the kind of headstrong, dizzy, happily self-interested heroine who has since become so familiar. To be sure, Aurora Greenway's dating difficulties in that novel were a lot more geriatric than Bridget Jones's, and she had graver matters on her mind. But the freewheeling spirit of Aurora's escapades has cast a long shadow.December 14, 2004 artsReview
Still Dating After All These Years
It is to Larry McMurtry's credit that his new novel, "The Evening Star," manages to provide us with a twist -- a happy unhappy family. No matter what disasters befall his characters -- and these include incarceration in prisons and psychiatric hospitals, as well as senility, just for starters -- not one of them ever loses our sympathy. Our patience, sometimes, but never our sympathy.June 21, 1992 artsReview
The West the Way It Was, or Should Have Been
The disparity between the real West and the mythic West created by dime-store novels, cowboy movies and television shows has been the subject of Larry McMurtry's two most recent excursions into historical fiction. ''Lonesome Dove,'' set in the rough-and-tumble West of the 1870's, debunked the romantic myth of the trail drive, even as it created its own gallery of heroic cowboys and Indians. And ''Anything for Billy'' used the story of Billy the Kid to show the process whereby the sad, grubby facts of life are transformed into the white and shining stuff of legend.October 16, 1990 artsReview
A Texan Who Likes to Deflate The Legends of the Golden West
''I'm a critic of the myth of the cowboy,'' says Larry McMurtry. ''I don't feel that it's a myth that pertains, and since it's a part of my heritage I feel it's a legitimate task to criticize it.''November 1, 1988 artsNews
National Humanities Medal Winners Include Larry McMurtry and Alice Waters
The National Humanities Medal will be bestowed by President Obama at a White House ceremony on Thursday.
September 4, 2015, Friday
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Our quirky, discerning picks for the most interesting things to do around Texas this week.
December 19, 2014, Friday
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Larry McMurtry: By the Book
The author, most recently, of "The Last Kind Words Saloon" says that meth-heads are the worst part of being a bookseller. "Anyone can walk into our bookstore in the age of meth — it's a constant worry."
July 13, 2014, Sunday
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A novel about the unsavory but fascinating friends Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.
June 29, 2014, Sunday
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Senior-Year Blues in 1950s Texas
Peter Bogdanovich's film "The Last Picture Show" comes to the Museum of Modern Art this week.
June 15, 2014, Sunday
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Larry McMurtry on the Power of the Plains
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Lonesome Dove" talks about how the plains have affected him and reflects on the lonely landscapes that surface in his fiction.
May 18, 2014, Sunday
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Larry McMurtry Signs With Liveright
Mr. McMurtry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has left Simon & Schuster after more than 40 years.
August 19, 2013, Monday
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The West
Larry McMurtry's breezy tour, with many artifacts, of Custer and the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
December 2, 2012, Sunday
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A Literary Hero, Keeping the Last Bookshop Alive
Larry McMurtry, arguably Texas's most famous living author, auctioned 300,000 of the 450,000 books he brought to his four bookstores in Archer City.
August 19, 2012, Sunday
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Wanted, Dead or Alive: Used Books
Larry McMurtry auctioned some 300,000 used books from his bookstores in Archer City, Tex.
August 13, 2012, Monday
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Jennifer Love Hewitt's Newest Beau
Serial Dater J.Love is at it again.
-Libby Keatinge
Self-proclaimed love addict Jennifer Love Hewitt is at it again! The actress reportedly has a new beau, an actor/director named Alex Beh. The 27-year-old joins Jennifer's long line of victims including Carson Daly, John Mayer, former fiance Ross McCall, and ex Jamie Kennedy.
The pair were spotted getting cozy at Encino hotspot Katsuya where they were "holding hands the whole night," according to a source. "She's so into him," the source says. Sure, we've heard that before! That J.Love is so predictable! Next she'll be engaged. This is getting boring. (Us Magazine)


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Phishing (fish'ing) n. A method of fraudulently obtaining personal information by sending spoofed emails that look like they come from trusted sources.
Pharming (färm'ing) n. A method of redirecting Internet traffic to a fake web site through domain spoofing.
Whether you're a casual web surfer or immersed in a cyber lifestyle, all Internet users are under assault by phishing emails, pharming sites, and crimeware. Because cyber criminals use botnets—groups of hijacked PCs—to launch untraceable spam-based phishing attacks, the number of phishing and pharming schemes has grown immeasurably. Criminals are using blended or multifaceted attacks—which combine multiple crimeware techniques—to steal identities and hijack systems, often fooling even savvy users.
Financial services are by far the most targeted industry. Indeed, cyber prowlers frequently build fraudulent web sites that closely mimic legitimate banking and Wall Street sites, tricking users to turn over their online account names, passwords, Social Security numbers, and other personal information.
Phishing Tricks
When they set up a fake web site, phishers attract users through spam or targeted emails, hoping to get lucky and find real customers of the hijacked bank, e-retailer, or credit card company. The emails can be extremely convincing, such as a message from eBay saying that your credit card has been declined, or from Citibank saying that they have detected unauthorized activity on your account. The messages frequently feature logos, coloring schemes, and company mottos ("Avis: We Try Harder") that seem legitimate.
One example is a spam email that claimed to be from BBC News. It introduced a news story of interest, with a "Read more…" link to lead users to a fake BBC News site. The fraudulent site looked exactly like the real BBC News site's pages and carried real news stories copied from the BBC site. These fake web pages exploited the unpatched "Create Text Range" vulnerability in order to download and install a keylogger, which monitored users' activity on various financial web sites and sent the captured information back to the hacker.
Pharming Techniques
Pharming uses DNS (Domain Name Service) hijacking to misdirect users to a fake site by altering the DNS for the target web site. Or, the system redirects users to authentic web sites through phisher-controlled proxies that can be used to monitor and intercept keystrokes.
The spoofed sites collect credit card numbers, account names, passwords, and Social Security numbers. They do this by either displaying a popup to steal the information before sending the user to the real site, by using a self-signed certificate to fake authentication and get the user to trust it enough to enter personal data on the spoofed site, or by painting over the address and status bar of the browser to trick the user into thinking they are on the legitimate site so that they enter their information.
Crimeware—Deceptive Downloads
Phishers use tricks to install crimeware on consumers' computers to steal information directly. In most cases, you don't know you are infected, and only see a slight slowdown in computer performance, or notice blips in operation that they attribute to normal software glitches. Computer security software is a necessary tool to prevent crimeware from installing if you get caught in an attack.
In a deceptive download ploy, Trojan keyloggers and other spyware piggyback onto legitimate software, or the hacker can corrupt a legitimate site using bad scripts so that the software downloads secretly in the background when the user visits a site they trust. Phishers also use social engineering to persuade users to download the software from their site directly by convincing them that the software is something that they want, such as a screensaver or music download program.
Once the crimeware is installed, you are in trouble. It can cause the browser to launch spoofed sites, it can hijack the PC's host file to redirect the computer to spoofed sites, and it can use keystroke loggers and screen scrapers to record and send stolen data back to the hacker. Crimeware also installs rootkits that execute under the radar and hide the presence of the spyware, or can turn the PC into a remote-controlled bot ready to launch a massive spam campaign or Denial of Service (DoS) attack.
Phishing Trends
By all accounts, phishing attacks are on a steep rise. Tens of thousands of unique phishing cases surface each year, and these numbers are growing exponentially. New phishing sites are also seeing a similar growth trend, as well as password-stealing malicious code URLs. The United States hosts the most phishing sites, followed by China and the Republic of Korea.
Phishers are narrowing their focus and targeting attacks against large financial and e-commerce firms; for example, out of every hundred brands that are hijacked, approximately five account for 80 percent of all phishing campaigns. Also, as eBay and large financial institutions take more proactive measures to combat phishing, criminals are moving downstream to credit unions and other companies that might not be as technologically savvy. As people become smarter about phishing, attacks will be less like spam and, instead, take more advantage of targeted weaknesses.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo men's and women's swim teams dove back into action entering into the new year, hosting the 2012 Saint Leo Relays at the Bowman Center Pool on Friday morning. The Lions finished first in 17 of 18 events that they participated in, and were runners up in the men's 400-Yard Medley Relay. Both the men and women finished first out of four teams, with the women compiling 156 points and the men pulling in 154.
The Lions came out on top as they hosted Pfeiffer University, Wheeling Jesuit, and Lake Erie College. Behind Saint Leo on the women's side of competition, Pfeiffer finished the morning with 98 points and a second place position, followed by Wheeling Jesuit and Lake Erie with 82 and 38 points, respectively. Pfeiffer pulled in a second place finish behind the Green and Gold on the men's side, earning 84 points. Lake Erie College finished third with 78 points, and was followed closely by Wheeling Jesuit in fourth with 68 points.
The quad meet concluded the Lions' winter training regimen, which included participating in the OB Invitational in Key West, Fla., and will kick off the second half of the Green and Gold's Sunshine State Conference slate. The Lions will take on SSC foes Florida Southern and Rollins in the upcoming weeks, and will then train for the Sunshine State Conference Championships, with hopes of qualifying for the NCAA Championships in March.
For the latest news, updates, and information on the Saint Leo University men's and women's swim teams, visit SaintLeoLions.com.


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I have a redhat linux and I am trying to find the logged in username via python script
Ex: I always login with Bret login ID and then sudo to root
Now - Using python script - I want to find the real login name not the one after sudo.
so, Bret should be the answer of the script.
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IT'S time for tea at a Bromsgrove care home with the opening of a new traditional tea room.
St John's Court care home, in St John Street, had a grand opening of the new rooftop tea room, including a cutting of the ribbon, on Thursday, (June 5).
A quiet room at the top of the care home was chosen and converted into the tea room, as it has views over the building's ornate rooftop, St John's Church and a green.
There was lots of input from the residents and staff with one resident, Betty Cooper, taking a keen interest in the project as her sister ran a tea room on the Isle of Wight.
Betty and Heather, the home's activity organiser, went to look around shops to get some ideas of how they wanted it to look and found the perfect furniture.
The room has been stocked with an array of china cups and saucers, plus vintage and ornamental teapots and ornaments.
Laura Wilkes, from Somerset Redstone Trust that runs the care home, said: "Betty had a particular flare and knew exactly what she was looking for and wanted.
"We were also well supported by relatives and staff who brought in items for the tea room."
"Betty, Heather and other residents had a fabulous time getting the room ready and were very excited and keen to show their purchases to the other residents, families and visitors."
• St John's is taking part in national care home open day, being held on Friday, June 20.
The care home will be holding a coffee morning and quiz.
Visitors are welcome to attend between 7.30am and 12.30pm, refreshments will be available throughout.
The care home is also looking for volunteers.
Everyone is welcome to register an interest - even those only able to spare an hour a week. Anyone interested is asked to pop in for a chat or call 01527 575070.


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Corbett expected to resubmit Pennsylvania lottery deal
HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Corbett plans to ask Attorney General Kathleen Kane's office to reverse its rejection of a contract with a British firm to manage the $3.5 billion Pennsylvania Lottery, a top lawmaker said Tuesday.
Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati said administration officials told him Monday that they are making changes in the contract with London-based Camelot Global Services that Kane rejected last month in preparation to resubmit it for her approval.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Revenue, which oversees the lottery, declined comment, except to say that certain changes to the contract would not trigger the need for a new round of bidding.
The changes described by Scarnati would limit the scope of gambling that would be allowed under the contract. Senate Republicans, including Scarnati, had asked Corbett's administration in January to make it clear that the Pennsylvania Lottery cannot compete with casinos through online gambling.
"They are working on language similar to ours in the contract that would address our concerns," Scarnati, R-Jefferson, said. He said he believes those changes will be part of a contract that the administration will resubmit to Kane.
Kane had said she would not approve Camelot's 20- to 30-year contract because state law does not allow the governor to privatize the management of the lottery nor does it allow the expansion of gambling that the contract would permit. The attorney general's office reviews state contracts for form and legality.
The Revenue Department spokeswoman, Elizabeth Brassell, said the Corbett administration would say more later this week, once it announces its next steps. The administration has a Saturday deadline to respond to Kane's decision and can appeal it in court, as well.
Camelot is the United Kingdom's official lottery operator.
Corbett says he believes Camelot can produce higher and more stable lottery profits for the state. Democratic lawmakers have criticized Corbett as diverting money from programs for the elderly to a foreign firm at a time when the state employees who run the lottery are achieving strong gains in profits and sales and keeping overhead low.
The union that represents lottery employees also protested that employees would lose their jobs under the deal, although Camelot contends that they would expand the number of lottery employees.
Currently, profits from the 41-year-old Pennsylvania Lottery benefit programs for the elderly, including transit, rent and property tax rebates, prescription drug assistance, senior centers and long-term care services. Two other states, Indiana and Illinois, have hired private lottery managers, while New Jersey is moving in that direction.


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The credit for these lil beauties all goes to Chris over at Nibble Me This I saw him do these back in march and knew that I had to do them. This weekend we went down to the ranch and I thought it would be the perfect time to try them out.
Greeted by tons of flowers
Getting the ole smoker lit
Makin' them up
Halfway done
These were a smashing success. I can see me doing these more at BBQ and game day events. I liked them better than ABTs to be honest. The full write up and the recipe can be found Here


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Route 169 (Broadway Extension) Wall Replacement
Route 169 opened on October 31, a full six weeks ahead of schedule.
View the latest AERIAL PHOTOS of construction!
Why is MoDOT doing this project?
A $13.6 million contract was awarded in May 2012 to Pyramid Construction Co. to replace deteriorated sections of a wall that supports Route 169's northbound lanes; fix bridges that support the southbound lanes; repair guard rail and barrier; and replace drainage between the northbound and southbound lanes, which will resolve the highway's problems for the long term.
Nearly 60 years ago, northbound Route 169 along the east bank of the Missouri River was a city road to the Downtown Airport. However, a solid road built on a levee made of dirt and sand presented challenges. The loose material must be kept in place so that the pavement remains solid and does not break apart.
A "bin wall" 12 feet high in some places was built to keep the underlying base in place and support the road. The bin wall is made up of corrugated steel panels. MoDOT took over this road in 1994, and in the last decade, those steel panels have rusted out enough that replacement is now necessary.
Why must Route 169 be closed?
The highway must be closed for this work because there is not room to do the repairs without a total shutdown. Route 169 along the Missouri River is different than most highways. It lies only a few hundred feet from one of the great rivers of North America. A levee keeps the river from flooding the nearby lowlands, including the Wheeler Downtown Airport, the railroad yards to the east, and the highway, which is built upon the levee.
MoDOT and HDR, its engineering consultants, considered several solutions. The Broadway Extension carries 35,000 vehicles per day between the Northland and Downtown Kansas City. Any long-term solution will require extensive construction. Since an active railroad yard is only a few feet away, there is no room off MoDOT's right of way to stage construction equipment. Highway closure is the only feasible method of making repairs, and the closure will be disruptive for months.
In late summer 2011, MoDOT tested a method to repair the 4,000+ feet of bin walls. Subsequent review by MoDOT and HDR engineers determined that building concrete walls would best correct the problems.
Can I still get to Wheeler Downtown Airport?
Yes. Motorists will continue to have access to Wheeler Downtown Airport from Downtown via the Broadway Bridge (Route 169 north), and from Harlem Road to the east.
Detours to the Heart of America (Route 9) and Christopher S. Bond (I-29/35/US 71) bridges are the closest alternate routes.
How can I get to KCI?
Motorists accustomed to using the Broadway Bridge and Route 169 to commute KCI Airport must use other routes/bridges, such as the Heart of America (Route 9) and Bond (I-35, I-29, Route 71), I-435 on both sides of the state line, or I-635.
What is the project time line?
Route 169 was closed July 14 and will remain closed for approximately five months. Expect the highway to re-open by mid-December.
How do I learn more?
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Main Street Deli to award three Thanksgiving dinners
BERLIN – Tomorrow at 4 p.m., Berlin Mayor Gee Williams will name the winners of Main Street Deli's Thanksgiving dinner giveaway after he draws three names out of a hat at Town Hall.
Owner Ruth Koontz and her husband, Dave, have had a ticket box inside their store for more than a week, giving customers the chance of not having to worry about preparing a large traditional meal next week.
"You're always going to have someone who needs something," said Ruth, who said she has always been impressed by her husband's charitable ways.
"Dave is just a good-hearted person," she said, adding that it's not uncommon for him to perform even small charitable act such as giving change to a needy person on the street.
Each meal will be a full course dinner, including a turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, corn and – what no Thanksgiving dinner is complete without – gravy. Also included is the winner's choice of a homemade sweet potato, pumpkin, apple or apple crumb pie.
Though all food will be provided for free, each winner still has to prepare the food, as everything will be given cold. However, Koontz has offered to bake the pie, if requested.
There is no cost to enter the drawing. Anyone can come in and place a name in the basket, even if they don't buy anything in the store. As Koontz has said before, the whole idea behind this raffle is for the sake of charity.
A limit of one entry per person has been instituted, and entrants technically don't r need to enter the store.
"You can put a ticket in even for somebody you know who could use it," Koontz said.
Since the winners will not be selected until tomorrow, the box will be situated inside Main Street Deli until the names are drawn.
Potential winners do not need to be in attendance at the drawing and they will be notified if selected. All three winners must pick up their meal by Tuesday, Nov. 20.
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Elk Mountains > Snowmass Mountain > Climber's Log
Snowmass Mountain Climber's Log
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|Snowmass Creek approach
Date Climbed: May 30, 2010
|The Gladbach Memorial Day 2010 trip. My first 14er snow climb and first 14er of 2010. I was slower than normal this day. Everyone else who would summit was coming down from the summit when I reached the ridge. I was ready to turn around, but Gladbach convinced me to summit by going back with me. Glad he did!
|Posted Aug 7, 2010 1:09 am
|Snowmass lake route
|Can I stress beautiful enough? Great hike! Got off route did some easy 5th class climbing to gain summit added some excitement. Good day in the mountains.
|Posted Jul 4, 2010 9:29 pm
|From Hagerman
Date Climbed: Jun 23, 2010
|Took a wrong turn up Pack Trail Pass and traversed over Snowmass Peak and Hagerman. Long, loose, and exhausting. Trip report
|Posted Jun 23, 2010 9:06 pm
Date Climbed: May 30, 2010
Do it.
|Posted Jun 2, 2010 3:08 am
|90 ft from top!
Date Climbed: May 30, 2010
|Came up from the Snowmass creek trailhead. Hiked to lake on 29th, climbed on 30th. The top 90 feet was a pretty heavy mix of snow/ice and rock. Have to go back and get the summit. Lots of fun with plenty of snow in the snowmass still. Weather was perfect.
|Posted Jun 1, 2010 11:27 am
|The standard route
|Absolutely beautiful area, worse part of the climb is just above Snowmass Lake negotiating all the scree
|Posted Apr 26, 2010 12:23 am
|Eric Holle
|Standard Route from Snowmass Lake
Date Climbed: Aug 1, 2009
|Only ten 14ers left! What a beautiful hike and scenic area around the lake. We got pummeled by a storm the night before the climb, very scary lightning.
|Posted Aug 3, 2009 9:46 am
|Snowmass Mt via Lead King Basin TH
Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2009
|Started up at 5:05AM with very wet trail conditions from hard rains the night before; up the west face reached summit at 10:44AM with building clouds. Did quick scramble back down with graupel and rain in a few places. Back to TH at 2:23pm just as the hard rain & hail started. My 45th 14'er.........sweet!!
|Posted Jul 30, 2009 12:02 pm
|still some snow
|plenty of firm snow above 12500ft made for fun cramponing
|Posted Jul 24, 2009 1:37 am
|A little bit of everything
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2009
|I want to thank Alan and Matt, who also made it to the top this day. You guys were great company, and I probably would have slept longer and hiked out if I didn't see your head lamps shining across the lake. Cheers.
|Posted Jul 6, 2009 10:33 pm
|Snowmass Creek Standard Approach
Date Climbed: Jun 24, 2009
|Enjoyed great weather on the hike in. Logjam crossing wasn't too bad in the morning, chose to catwalk the logs instead of wading across. Had to give up the summit at about 13,000 because of dangerous snow conditions. The previous days hot weather made for very unstable snow conditions...i.e., just at the foot of the ridge the snowing started screaming at my friends and I by whumping and fracturing. I definitely didn't expect this at this time of year. Still plenty of snow throughout the camping areas by snowmass lake, but there are sites that are dry and snow free. Negotiated a very tricky logjam on the return trip at about 7PM....I strongly advise not to do this in the near future...a bit dangerous.
|Posted Jun 25, 2009 12:20 pm
|Panthera uncia
|Snowboarding in May!
Date Climbed: May 31, 2009
|My third trip out to Snowmass Mountain and definitely not my last… This is both a beautiful and remote mountain. Care had to be taken to scale the heavily corniced summit ridge. Views from the snowy summit were incredible! It was no easy task backpacking and climbing up with a snowboard on my back but totally worth the descent down the huge east bowl to Snowmass Lake!
|Posted Jun 5, 2009 11:47 am
|Twice was a charm
Date Climbed: Aug 2, 2001
|Made our original attempt on Thurs.-Aug 01-2000. Made a route finding mistake at Gaines Ridge. While re-checking the route, all of a sudden, lightning ripped on the summit and all up and down the mountain. I thought I was going to die, as Diggler, (read his log), can attest to this wicked lightning storm as he was climbing on the same day. Returned a year later not to be denied, and made the summit on Aug. 2-2001 at 1200 hrs. Got back down to the lake at 1630 hrs. An amazing mountain as it is so remote. Great views from the summit of Captial Peak, North Maroon, and South Maroon. The approach thru the Maroon Bells Snowmass Wilderness Area is beautiful. Great climb! Also, after summit day, we hiked up to Trail Rider Pass on the Hagerman shoulder. Well worth it!
|Posted Apr 18, 2009 10:18 pm
|Snowmass Lake
Date Climbed: Mar 7, 2009
|Initially attempted this mountain twice, both times from the Geneva Lake side.
Snowshoed in with Steve Gladbach March 6th and successfully summited March 7th during a storm. An unbelieveable amount of snow & most of it thigh to knee-deep powder. A very long 3 days.
And my 14er finisher! :o)
|Posted Mar 9, 2009 7:11 am
|Worth the pack in
Date Climbed: Sep 8, 2007
|What an amazing area - this is one of my fav 14ers so far!
|Posted Aug 8, 2008 4:02 pm
|Dayhike of the Standard Route from Snowmass Lake
Date Climbed: Sep 14, 2002
|It was a pretty long day but it was very enjoyable.
|Posted May 14, 2008 1:44 am
|Standard Route from Snowmass Lake
Date Climbed: Aug 10, 1982
|One of my favorite 14'ers. Anything with a snow climb gets additonal points!
|Posted Apr 27, 2008 11:29 am
|S-Ridge / West Face in winter
Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2006
|7/15/06 - Camped at Geneva Lake, climbed the S-Ridge and traversed to Hagerman.
3/13/10 - Reached 13,000 feet on the West Face before bailing due to conditions. Tons of avy terrain to negotiate on this mountain in winter! Hope to make another winter attempt during a better snow year.
1/8/12 - Climbed West Face from camp at Geneva Lake. Two nights out.
|Posted Mar 28, 2008 10:01 pm
|Lead King Basin
Date Climbed: Jun 10, 2000
|This was my second climb of Snowmass. Also from Lead King Basin.
|Posted Feb 26, 2008 10:55 pm
|Grand Slam
Date Climbed: Sep 25, 1994
|With this climb of Snowmass I finished all of the Colorado Fourteeners for the first time. We approached from Lead King Basin.
|Posted Feb 26, 2008 10:53 pm


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Saint Leo University head women's golf coach Erika Brennan has announced the signing of Lauren Shuford and Lauren Petty to National Letters of Intent as they will join the Lions' squad in the fall of 2012.
"I am delighted that Lauren and Lauren both chose Saint Leo to continue their collegiate playing careers," said Brennan. "Both their personalities are a great match for Saint Leo, and I look forward to them making an immediate impact on our program."
Shuford is a local talent courtesy of Hernando County, while Petty comes to the Lions via Baldwinsville, NY.
Shuford is a junior college transfer from Seminole State College in Sanford, Fla. While attending SSC, the incoming Biology major enjoyed a successful pair of seasons including a 2011-12 campaign which saw her average a 78 during the spring. She finished-out her career at Seminole State by guiding her team to a runner-up finish at the 2012 NJCAA National Championships, as well as a ninth-place individual finish (82-77-74-76 –309). Her efforts on the course allowed Shuford to earn All-America Second Team accolades.
Prior too, Shuford dominated the local golf scene at Hernando High School. Voted the school's Athlete of the Year, she was a three-time conference Most Valuable Player selectee and a three-time regional qualifier. Additionally, she was tabbed a Suncoast All-District team member and accumulated a 37-5 overall match record.
Petty, coming to Saint Leo as a business major, compiled numerous accolades during her four-year stint at CW Baker High School in New York, as well as her one year spell at Hofstra University. The incoming sophomore participated in 10 tournaments as a freshman for the Pride including four top-ten finishes (ECAC Championship, Richmond Invitational, Rutgers Invitational, and the Monmouth Invitational). Petty finished the fall and spring seasons with a 79 average and received Colonial Athletic Association Golfers of the Week honors on Oct. 19.
A 2011 graduate of CW Baker High School, Petty was named the NYS High School Girls Golf Champion in 2011, NYS Section 3 Girls Golf Champion in 2011, All-League Girls Golf for three years, and varsity golf team MVP for four consecutive years. Petty was a six-time member of the varsity golf team and was a six-time NYSPHSAA Scholar Athlete.
Shuford, Petty and the Lions will kick-off the fall portion of their season on Monday, September 17 at the NCAA Fall Preview from the LPGA International Golf Club in Daytona, Fla.
For more on the nationally-ranked women's golf team, visit SaintLeoLions.com.


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|America's 100 Largest Yachts - 2004
By Diane M. Byrne
The sun has risen.
To be more accurate, Rising Sun is here.
Arguably the most highly anticipated delivery of the year, Rising Sun has been shrouded in secrecy since being commissioned.
Well, she wasn't a complete secret: As typically happens in the yacht biz, word began getting out that a project at Lürssen known as LE120 was a 120-meter (393-footer) for the CEO of Oracle Corporation, Larry Ellison. Soon word emerged directly from Ellison; he couldn't resist discussing the yacht in Softwar, his 2003 biography, including the fact that the budget was $200 million.
Despite the far-too-few details we've learned about her, we know Ellison got quite a yacht for his money. But we realize $200 million may be a shocking sum to many of you. (Heck, our staff gets a stomachache just thinking about that kind of money.) So we thought you—and, of course, Larry (if we can call you that, Larry)—would find it interesting to see what else $200 million can buy in the megayacht realm:
For the ultimate world-cruise experience, you could purchase the two largest American-owned expedition yachts available for sale, Bart Roberts (no. 5) for $25 million and Big Roi (no. 10) for $21.5 million. And oh, what the heck, round out your collection with yet another expedition yacht, Pangaea (no. 30), for $24.9 million.
Hmm, you'd still have nearly $129 million left over. And Bart Roberts' pirate theme might be too much for you, Larry, given your predilection for Japanese style.
Okay, so try this: Just because you can, purchase the most expensive yacht available worldwide, Pegasus (no. 24). After all, her six guest suites are named after different Greek isles and have different marbles evoking those themes. True, the feeling isn't the same as that of the Land of the Rising Sun, but it's still creative.
On second thought, that won't work, either; she's only $56.9 million. Even if you'd purchased the expedition yachts, too, you'd have about $72 million in your pocket.
Well, there's only one solution: write the check out to us, and we'll do our darndest to spend it.
Without further fantasy spending, here are "America's 100 Largest Yachts."
KEY: L=length; Y=year launched (where two dates are given, the second is a refit date); B=builder; N=naval architect; H=hull material; E=engines
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This article originally appeared in the October 2004 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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The abstract book and conference presentations from the Exploring Mars Habitability Conference held on 13 to 15 June in Lisbon, Portugal are now available. Some of the talks include:
- The Nakhlite Impact Hydrothemal Cell: Mineralogy, Fluid and Habitability / J.C. Bridges, S.P. Schwenzer
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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- Organizers of Ohio's Air Force Marathon say they set a one-day registration record for the event with more than 5,000 people signing up on New Year's Day.
Marathon Director Rob Aguiar also predicts the race will sell out by the end of April, ahead of last year's sell-out in May.
The Dayton Daily News reports Thursday (http://bit.ly/VycHk6 ) that organizers offered a one-day online discount Tuesday to attract runners to sign up early for the marathon or half-marathon on Sept. 21 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and a 5K race on Sept. 20 at Wright State University.
Organizers raised the number of total runners to 15,000 last year because of growing demand.
The event is in its 17th year.
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Barnet have signed Crystal Palace midfielder Connor Dymond on loan until the end of the season.
The 19-year-old, who can also play at centre-back or right-back, captained the Eagles Under-18s several times last season.
Dymond, who has also featured for Palace's development squad, will remain with the Bees should they reach the Skrill Premier play-offs.
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Quality rant by Bradley Wiggins - http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...r07/apr27news2
Thanks for that link - Tour of Britain route announced in the same thing.
'The third stage takes the riders from Worcester to Wolverhampton, and will be one of the shortest stages of the race', that'll be my local stage and i reckon i'll sign up to marshall it again.
Speaking of which, i'm about 85% certain i'll be TdF marshalling in July too.
Was boosted last year by the fact guys like Boonen showed up for it and bothered to win some stages. Year before it was dominated by Nuyens who isn't really high profile.
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Basso leaves Discovery:
Close as possible to an admission of guilt IMO. Respect him for that call.
Huge overhaul of cycling going on.
Hamilton and Jaksche look like they could be on their way out too.
I'm happy for all of this. Always figured this might come back to haunt Disocvery especially with the hunt of a new sponsor. Basso was meant to have a domestique delux in Yaroslav Popovych for the Giro, perhaps he could be a good outsider for the Giro now.
T Mobile have always been my favourite team since i watched the Tour for the first time in 1996. (The year Rijs won iirc.)
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Tuesday night the Cardinals, Fox Sports Midwest, and KMOX put together a broadcast auction to benefit Cardinals Care, where viewers/listeners could call in and bid on a variety of fan experiences.
Most of the auction items involved spending time with a current or former Cardinal in some fashion, like shadowing Jim Edmonds to get a feel for what it's like to be an ex-ballplayer trying to get a feel for what it's like to be a broadcaster, or playing catch on the field with an injured Michael Wacha*.
The full list of experiences was quite impressive. Which gets us wondering, what other ideas were considered? Oh, to be a fly on the wall during those brainstorm sessions with Cardinal brass. Undoubtedly, a host of ideas were floated but not chosen for one reason or another.
Well, wonder no more, because once again, we turned to our extensive network of JSF insider industry sources. They haven't had much to do lately, so together they flexed their well-rested investigative muscles and uncovered a list of proposed auction items that didn't make the cut. Here are just a few notables from that list:
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- Up to six (6) of your children receive fake red soul patches and arm tattoos of his girlfriend, as applied by an intoxicated Spiezio
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- Attendee spends one (1) hour shagging fly balls during pregame batting practice while wearing aforementioned novelty glove and women's pumps
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- Attendee is escorted out of the stadium following the seventh inning for defensive purposes
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A new video shows how you can easily perform a 1000-hit combo in God of War 3. And yeah, this unlocks a trophy.
What a waste of time....Just clear the game once, and use one of the items that unlock like the infinite rage or magic.
imagine this thing failing after 900 hits or so! That would so much time and effort wasted! Lol.
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