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2-year prison term in bear poaching
Published 4:00 am, Sunday, February 20, 2011
A chance meeting by a state game warden with a Bay Area man in remote Mendocino National Forest ended with a landmark prison sentence this month for bear poaching, wasting game and firearms violations, according to the Department of Fish and Game.
Wayne Barsch, 49, of Novato, a two-strike felon, was sentenced to two years in state prison, saw his hunting and fishing privileges revoked for life and faces a fine to be determined, said Patrick Foy, department game warden. The sentence is one of the most severe ever handed down to a poacher in Northern California, according to game wardens.
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Foy provided the following details of the arrest:
In December, game warden Mike Beals, nationally famous for his role in the TV series "Wild Justice," was on routine patrol in remote Glenn County when he drove up on a kill scene in what he called extremely rugged terrain. According to his report, Beals encountered Barsch and two others cutting up a bear.
Beals stopped the men and ran a check on their IDs, Foy said.
The check "revealed Barsch was a convicted felon and had a restraining order against him, either of which would prevent him from being in possession of any firearm, and was on searchable probation," Foy said.
The search that followed found that Barsch had a .45-caliber handgun, a bear head, four bear paws, a bear gall bladder and only 15 pounds of bear meat from a carcass that weighed more than 200 pounds, according to Beals' report. Beals wrote that he also discovered that the bear was not tagged.
Alarmed by what Beals had discovered, the department sent a team of seven game wardens to Barsch's residence in Novato.
"In his freezer, the game wardens found another bear gall bladder, five bear paws, a bear head and a bear penis, as well as meat from a female deer that was possibly taken unlawfully," Foy said.
Barsch must serve at least 85 percent of his prison sentence, roughly 20 months and two weeks, and because he is a two-strike felon, the courts can choose to add to his sentence, Foy said.
"He's a two-striker, had a restraining order against him, and the felony convictions for firearms violations are a big part of his sentence," Foy said.
Superior Court Judge John Tiernan sentenced Barsch in Glenn County, Foy said.
Bear cubs to wild
You may have seen the story last week about the two starving, orphaned bear cubs that were rehabilitated at Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care and released to the wild near Truckee north of Tahoe.
The rest of the story is that another rehabbed bear cub-turned-yearling was also returned to the wild last week in remote Lassen National Forest. In September, a logger found the emaciated cub near death, weighing only 18 pounds (instead of the normal 30 for a cub of that age), with severe loss of hair. Shortly later, a game warden captured it. It too was taken to Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care and rehabilitated.
As a yearling when released, it weighed 90 pounds. The cubs are fed and housed so they do not become habituated to people, so that when they are released into the wild as yearlings, they can care for themselves.
Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care (ltwc.org) is a non-profit funded by donations.
Yosemite winter
In the backcountry of Yosemite National Park, wilderness ranger Kathi Younger provided a verbal snapshot view of the latest storm at 8,600-foot Tuolumne Meadows.
"Power and phones are out of service indefinitely," she wrote Thursday. "It's snowing heavily with gusty winds creating white-out conditions. Expect tough trail breaking if you come in. Snow coverage is great, and you can ski just about anywhere you desire."
Recent tracks sighted: pine marten, weasel, jackrabbit, chickaree and coyote. For avalanche info: www.esavalanche.org.
Outdoor notes
Brain drain: Because so many Department of Fish and Game wardens have taken retirement, when the academy class of 45 cadets become wardens a game warden of four years will have a higher badge number than half the force. The result of the retirements is a huge loss of experience, turf know-how and institutional knowledge.
Frozen lakes: The TV show "Mythbusters" checked in the other day, having looked for frozen lakes in the mountains and having instead found thin ice, like at Castle Lake west of Mount Shasta (a guy fell through last week). The answer, such as for ice fishing, is to venture as high as possible, like near Carson Pass on Highway 88 where Caples Lake (7,950 feet), Woods Lake (8,200), Kirkwood Lake (7,650) and a few others are within Eldorado National Forest.
Beavers, cont.: It's always a surprise to see beavers, but Pete Shurtleff spotted one at Lake Herman near Benicia.
Top water purifier: The SteriPEN won a 2011 Backpacker magazine Editor's Choice Award, given to the most innovative products in the outdoors market. The SteriPEN uses an optical LED water sensor and ultraviolet light to destroy bacteria, viruses and protozoa (such as giardia and cryptosporidium) in about a minute in the typical Nalgene water bottle. I've used SteriPENs for my last three wilderness expeditions and found them light, fast and effective.
New park on horizon: The Army Corps of Engineers has begun removing hazardous materials from buildings at the former Almaden Air Force Station atop Mount Umunhum, one of the highest peaks in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Los Gatos. It's a major step toward eventually opening the site to the public as part of the Midpeninsula Open Space District.
Lakehead tent cabins: In the continuing mission to offer people ways to get off the ground (though many like the ground), Lakehead Campground and RV Park at the upper end of Shasta Lake will offer a few new tent cabins this year. For information, contact Lakeheadcampgroundandrv.com.
Lassen cabins: The new cabins at Manzanita Lake at Lassen Volcanic National Park will become available in June, with reservations now available at Lassenrecreation.com.
E-mail watch: In the past few weeks, I've received hundreds of comments. Among them were three requests from folks asking for "reservations at my campground." I love to camp and write about camping, of course, but I don't have a campground.


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lost CD burning ability after Win 7 HP recovery
I bought Windows 7 Home Premium online and downloaded it when my Vista crashed and wouldn't reboot. They asked if I wished to purchase a hard disk back-up to the download and I opted to pay for them to send me the disk. I had no reason to try out the hard disk (which reads Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit)until I had to do a recovery in February of this year. When I started the recovery by booting from the disk MS had sent me, I got a message indicating that I had an invalid product key. I got a new product key generated by MS tech support and it allowed me to do the system recovery. However, when I finished, I had lost the ability to burn a CD. I'm a songwriter and it's not at all unusual for me to be burning a CD or 3 every day. I usually relied on my D.A.W. software (Adobe Audition ver. 1.5) to burn CD's. When Audition began to give me an error message after every attempt failed saying I should check my CD burning device settings or contact the manufacturer, I tried some software I had gotten with Vista - Roxio Creator 9 and it failed. That's when I turned to Windows Media PLayer version 12.0.7601.17514 and it began giving me an error message saying "Windows Media PLayer cannot burn the files. If the burner is busy, wait for the current task to finish. If necessary, verify that the burner is connected properly and you have installed the latest device driver." I have Windows Update on automatic and any user can install the updates so I don't think the drivers are an issue. I guess I also right-clicked the sound, video, and game controllers in Device Manager and verified the up-to-date status of the drivers. I have been a chronic caller to the Answer Desk since February being assigned at least 5 different case numbers. The last 2 times I called, the tech acted as though they were going to help me by staying with the problem until it was solved only to leave me 6-8 hours later groggy and ready to agree to anything just to end their ineffective help which was wearing me out. I wasn't given a case number for these last 2 marathon sessions and I began to wonder exactly what was going on but decided to devote my efforts here instead. I've installed Service Pack 1 and my HP/Compaq C700 laptop with an Intel Pentium Dual Core CPU T2370 @ 1.73GHz and I have 2GB of RAM and an internal HD of aprx 150 GB incl. the Partition; a Maxtor w. 149 GB external HD; an Iomegga external HD w 330 GB; and a Toshiba external HD w. 1.5 TB. That's about all I can think of, except I did try to use the troubleshooters - both in Control Panel and others that the Answer Desk people downloaded when they had remote control of my laptop. Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to give me. DL
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Hi slo
Are you able to play discs ?
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Response to VistaKing
Thank you for taking an interest in my problem. Yes, I am able to play/read disks. I've included an error message detail that I'd forgotten I had. Again, this is crippling for anyone wanting to avail themselves of the capabilities their machine affords them. For a songwriter trying to interest publishers/producers in his original material, it takes it to an exponential level of frustration. DL/slo
The following entries are in the details of an error message
that displays whenever I try to burn a CD using Win Media Player
Sense:04 ASC: 03 (Command 2A)
Px.dll: 220.127.116.110
Px AFS.DLL:184.108.40.2060
Px Mas.dll:126.96.36.1990
Px SFS.dll:220.127.116.110
Px Wave.dll:188.8.131.520
px wma.dll:188.8.131.52
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|16 Apr 2013
Windows 10 64 bit
I have a recording studio (using Sonar X2).
When you reinstalled, did you install the motherboard chipset drivers? They are key to a successful install and optical drives can be a problem without the chipset drivers. There are no 3rd party drivers for CD/DVD drives, just the default built in Windows drivers. Check HP for chipset drivers. Vista drivers will work with Win 7 (and in some cases even XP drivers if installed in compatibility mode).
In reference to the Roxio buring software. I do part-time PC support and have found Roxio to be buggy and the Roxio "Drag to Disc" (also called Direct CD) to cause conflict and read/burning problems. If you still have Roxio installed, I would suggest uninstalling it.
Do you show any error code for the drive in the Device Manager? or does it show working OK? In either case, RIGHT click on the entry for the drive and then LEFT click "uninstall". Restart the PC and when Windows starts it will detect and reinstall it. If there were some type of corruption in Windows for the drive this will fix it.
On the other hand, the drive may have developed a hardware problem and if that is the case it will have to be replaced.
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|16 Apr 2013
I tried to make the Message above read "Wish You Were Here" and we're not making oblique refs to Pink Floyd. I looked any for any trace of Roxio and, finding none, I uninstalled the CD drive in Device Manager. I re-started the machine and went to HP to find the Intel Chipset driver, found it and downloaded and installed it. I think it auto-re-started at that point. I went to windows first and tried some of mine from the Library. It said it found errors in the files and no indication of rights to record. Gave myself CPR and tried burning the same files in Audition and got the same error message telling me to check the Device Settings and then check with the mfgr if all else failed - wait a minute, this may have all been worth it - we'll call the new band "If All Else Fails". I think it's worth trying some pre-recorded, approved by God and Bill Gates and the author (not me) classic rock single cuts that I have on a Hard Drive. Anyway, thanks a lot and I'll keep posting any progress on the thread. Until then ............
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|16 Apr 2013
Windows 7 Ultimate Retail Box (64-bit installed) + Service Pack 1
slo, no offense, but please hit your ENTER key once in a while to avoid having long run on sentences and/or paragraphs, it is very hard to read.
I think you still have issues with that drive?
Here are Sense code explanations to ponder:
Error Codes / Sense Codes
This is not a new always failing brand of blank, right?
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|17 Apr 2013
Thanks for Error Codes to ponder
I don't understand your last sentence about "a new, always failing brand of blank". It must refer to something unstated that I'm unaware of. You're welcome to use whatever length sentence you're comfortable with and thanks for your help. slo
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Culture Club have confirmed that they will head out on their first UK tour in 15 years.
Original members Boy George, Mikey Craig, Roy Hay and Jon Moss will play eleven UK arena shows in December, before they release new material in early 2015.
Alison Moyet will appear as a special guest on the tour, which kicks off in Glasgow on December 1.
Culture Club are heading into the studio in the coming months, with producer Youth, to work on their new material.
The much-loved band released their last album, Don't Mind If I Do, in 1999 and have notched up nine top ten hits on the UK's Official Singles Chart over the years, including Karma Chameleon, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? and I Just Wanna Be Loved.
Tickets for their UK tour go on sale on Friday (May 23), priced between £37.50 and £55. Check out the tour dates in full below:
December 1 – Glasgow SSE Hydro
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A Missouri man finally has the ashes of his son, a murder victim whose ashes got lost the in mail.
KFVS-TV reports that the package containing the ashes of 23-year-old Joshua Lindsay were delivered to his father, Randy, on Wednesday.
The delivery was made to the home of Lindsay's sister in Forney, where he is temporarily staying.
Randy Lindsay lives in Jackson, Mo.
Joshua Lindsay was shot to death in February in North Carolina. Randy Lindsay asked his sister to mail the remains from Cape Girardeau, Mo., to Texas in July, with plans to scatter them there. The family once lived in Texas and Randy says Joshua loved it there.
The package containing the ashes was lost for several weeks before turning up.
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Justin Hamlin, DO
Eugene Robinson is an extreme left wing shill who guzzles Kool Aid by the barrel. He doesn't have an education in anything real, and he'll repeat anything the Democrat party tells him to. The House Republicans are doing the right thing for healthcare and for America by opposing Oblamercare. It can't be fixed or improved. It's fundamentally based on economic, medical, and scientific myths and urban legends..
Ahimsa Porter Sumchai MD NSCA CPT
Can you please stop using the image of the doctor eating an unhealthy pastry! This is very insensitive, unprofessional and politically incorrect an image to perpetually promote..
Connie Boyd
Eugene Robinson, a Pulitzer prizewinner, has had a long and distinguished career in journalism. He is the former assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, has authored three books and is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he edited The Michigan Daily. Whether he was educated "in anything real" is a matter of perspective. Many MDs don't consider a DO a real degree..
Roy Clark MD
To balance the opinions of Mr. Robinson, click on the following: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-story-of- the-year/2013/12/19/1d862c98-68f9-11e3-ae56-22de072140a2_story.html While many journalists are Pulitzer prizewinners (including a neighbor whose working knowledge of U.S. and world history would not have sufficed in my 1950's eighth-grade class), I had no classmates in pre-med or medical school who had flunked out of J-school, and switched. That is a matter of fact; not of perspective. Many journalists have later completed medical training. My favorite remains Donald W. Goodwin, M.D. [http://www.trussel.com/maig/goodwin2.htm] Many physicians have become journalists, as has Dr. Krauthammer, who would had whizzed through that 1950's eighth grade class..


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The Nike Dunk High came through in a bunch of autoclaved canvas colorways as part of the buildup for this year's World Cup, and with a bunch of pairs released in between, we saw another Dunk High drop as part of the microperforated Black Pack. Somewhere in the middle of those, then, is this new Dunk High Premium, which uses a tonal leather for its Swoosh, one that's completely lacking perfs. These get their texture from the rich textile uppers and gain some depth thanks to the tones cast by metal eyelets and a black on black sole. Check out more shots after the jump and look for these at Nike Sportswear retailers like Canada's Livestock.
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i don't know where to turn
:confused: i don't know where to look for help. i have been to 7 dr.s and no one is helping me, i know something is wrong. please if anything sounds familiar, let me know.
it all started in AUGUST 8 months ago:
-i developed these red pimple sized bumps on uvula and soft palate. they were followed with smalled bumps all over the palate.
-low grade fevers started
-weight loss
-very sore throat and mouth. i was DX phanyngitis 2 times, the pain never went away with antibiotics.
-it all continued and got worse
-back to DR, more antibiotics, pain never went away, not did the growths.
-glands started to swell
-decided to get a new DR, because this guy was just telling me these viral things tend to hang on.
-saw ENT, in our tiny little backwoods town-he said HIV can do this to your mouth.
-tested negative at 3 months since last unprotected experience.
-glands still
-he also said he thought it was STD
-went to gynecologist, tested neg. for all STD's. she sent me to big city hospital.
-my face, breasts and arms turned beat red for weeks.
-low grade fevers continued.
-night sweats
-fevers still
-strep throat
-aches and pain
-i felt like there was poison coarsing through my veins, it was an effort just to walk my kids in school
-new ENT biopsied my mouth, and it came back as hyperplastic squamous mucosa-he had no idea what caused it, but that it was benign, for now.
-burning on tongue
-night sweats
-more fevers.
-swollen glands still
- hit a 39lb weight loss in 3 months.
-started to inprove a little
-mouth problems never improved
-again neg for HIV, ENT said that is not the problem
-tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy
-oral thrush
-started to gain weight back
-everything listed above, no changes
- again conclusively HIV negative-ID confirmed this with viral load testing. 8 months. she said definitey not.
-back to square one. i do not feel right, i have had low(just barely) RBC, HIgh, then low WBC. HIC MPV? what ever that is?
-8 months lkater still swollen glands
-my chest is still red w/ raised bumps.
-still having fevers?
i also tested neg. for auto-immune, butstill have appt. w.rhumatologist and dermatologist
also 4 yrs ago i had granuloma annulare on legs
someone please help
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You need to see an infectious disease Doctor, they can figure out just about anything. My son was deathly ill in the hospital, after about a week, he was getting worse and was put into ICU. They called an iinfectious disease Doctor in because they were unsure what his illness was, three days later, we found out he had endocarditis, which was an infection in his heart, if it would have gone untreated he would have died. The infectious disease doctor figured all that out, they are good, he saved my son's life. I would see one real soon.
Keep us posted, Karen W.
Re: i don't know where to turn
I did see one about a month ago. she did more "in-depth" HIV testing-viral load which was <50ml-she says that that is as low as the test can show(it doesn't go to zero) and there is no HIV virus in my blood.
She sais she also felt that my problems were not caused by an infection-due to those results, and blood work in general, nothing was really out of the ordinary. she said the auto-immune tests looked OK, but that may still be a concern, i am waiting, impatiently, for the rhuematology appointment.
So, she tells me i am not seeing the right type of specialist. this has been going on almost 9 months now-----WHY HASN'T ANY DOCTOR BEEN SEEING ANYTHING???? I AM SO SCARED.
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The Stock TransForce Inc.
Recent price $7.46
Trend Transportation stocks, often a barometer of economic vitality, are setting the stage for a promising autumn in the stock market. The Dow Jones transport index has been categorized as Stock Trends Bullish for two months now, driving ahead a leading 6 per cent last week on the strength of a positive outlook from bellwether FedEx Corp. Impressive jumps last week by transport logistics stocks like Ryder System Inc. and J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. were fuelled by this flourish of optimism.
It delivered some bullish moves by Canadian concerns, as well. Logistics software supplier Descartes Systems Group, profiled by this column in early June, rallied 20 per cent off its 13-week moving average trend line last week. Canadian transports, in general, should reflect the prospects for the economy, but despite building optimism about the door closing on a nasty recession, their stock prices have floundered this summer. But now could be a time to hop on these truckers.
The Trade TransForce is a leading Canadian logistics and trucking company that had a busy summer with an equity financing and a recently announced courier acquisition. Technically, the company's stock broke out of its bear trend in the spring, turning Stock Trends Bullish in mid-June after the shares had rallied to $6.19 from a bear market low of $2.78.
TransForce shares have fallen off this month from the August peak of $7.97, and last week's added vigour in the sector south of the border did not translate positively for the company's stock. It finished a second successive week in the red. Investors can now look to the bullish trend line for guidance. TransForce's retreat off of its summer high is an opportunity to buy on price weakness. Support at the 13-week moving average trend line is 9 per cent below the current price, but investors can buy in anticipation of a rally back to the $8 level.
The Upside This trade is dependent upon a revival in the energy and industrial sectors of the economy to sustain a long-term upward trend in stock prices, but short-term expectations could also give investors a profitable turn at this trucker.
A move ahead by TransForce's share price above the $8 resistance level would open the way for an advance to the next obstacle at $9.15, a 2008 summer rally lid that coincided with the market collapse that sent TransForce back on its bearish path last year. Positive signals that truck tonnage is on the upswing could make $8 a pit stop as the stock's valuation improves. Still, a 20-per-cent rally off trend-line support to this technical roadblock is an enticing short-term potential.
The Downside The stark reality of every trade is that you may be wrong - wrong about the market, wrong about the sector, wrong about the stock. This trade will let you know soon. Failure to rally off the trend line will change TransForce's Stock Trends indicator to Weak Bullish at $6.50, a signal that the trade should be exited. Readers can follow TransForce's Stock Trends indicator in the Saturday TSX listings of The Globe and Mail.
Skot Kortje has been analyzing stock market trends for 15-years using trend analysis. His Stock Trends indicators have been published by The Globe and Mail since 1995. For more go to Stocktrends.ca .


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The officials who carry out the Agency's work in Wales are the Director Wales (Steve Wearne), two assistant directors and some 38 members of staff with a range of policy and professional expertise.
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A personalized 'dashboard' can helpwith work-life management
Teresa Beck prefers the term work-life management to work-life balance. The word "balance," says the partner at Lincoln, Gustafson and Cercos LLP in San Diego, suggests something precarious to her — "a set of scales where adding weight to one side causes weight to shift on the other, where having more of one thing means having less of another."
Management, on the other hand, suggests direction, intention, organization, administration, the act of handling something successfully. It's what both men and women, with and without kids, "in countless shapes and forms are doing all over the country," Beck said. "And that's what you can do, too."
In a recent Sound Advice podcast from the ABA Section of Litigation, Beck shared her work-life management "dashboard" system, a way to envision what's working and where you need to focus your efforts.
"I'd like you to picture a dashboard with several gauges," she said. "Note that everyone's dashboard will look different because we all have different things we think are important and different ways of assessing how we're doing. You can design your dashboard any way you want to, and your dashboard may change from year to year, from month to month even."
Beck's dashboard has gauges for family, work, soul/spirit, volunteering and fitness. "Let's imagine that each gauge has a green zone in the areas of about 11 o'clock to 1 o'clock, signifying optimal conditions," she said. "Each side of the gauge goes to yellow to signify needs attention and red to signify critical."
Here is a rendering of Beck's dashboard.
On her dashboard, she is attempting to get the arrows on each of the gauges to stand straight up a 12 o'clock.
A note on the size of the gauges: Just like on your car's dashboard, not all of the gauges need to be the same size. For example, Beck's soul/spirit gauge is bigger than the others. "For me, being regularly active in my church, having daily prayer or meditation time and regularly studying books relating to my faith are all activities that have served as a strong foundation for me in managing my life by giving me standards to make decisions by, strength in difficult times and a huge sense of gratitude, among other things," Beck said.
You might find that the size of the gauges change over time. "For example, if you're having health problems, your fitness/health gauge might be so large that it's bigger than anything else because you need to focus on that until you recover," Beck said.
"One important thing I've learned over the years is that successfully managing a busy life requires flexibility, so be flexible and understand that as your career develops, your children grow, your parents age, everything is in flux," she added. "If you've found that one of the gauges has come to be more important, you can make that adjustment. You may even add new gauges and discard old ones."
The last gauge on Beck's dashboard is the overall satisfaction gauge. This has a green zone for "very satisfied," yellow for "manageable" and red for "unacceptable." The intent behind the gauge is to assess your feelings about how you're managing overall, Beck said. "It's important when we might have a few gauges that need work, yet other gauges are going well, to understand that we might still be happy with our lives," she said. "On the other hand, if we're unhappy, perhaps looking at where we are with the individual gauges can help us determine where we can make changes."
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It is an aphid. I was just wondering if a specimen like this was moving at all, because it rather looks like a 'mummy', an aphid parasitised by a braconid wasp.
Thank you for looking at this for me. None of them seem to move - there are quite a few on each carrot leaf and they just sit there. I photographed one a few days later and it appeared to have a hole in it as did quite a few others. I wasn't sure if it had been attacked by something but presumably the hole could have been caused by something getting out.
They seem to appear quite suddenly - I'd been watching the carrots for signs of pests as we've had these before. We seemed to go from clean leaves to lots of these pests in a very short time.
The holes are the way out for the adult parasitoids. Or even for hyperparasitoids, that actually parasitised the parasitoids.


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Alex Cross, 18, voted for the first time in his life on Tuesday.
His mother picked him up at Old Dominion University to take him to Hampton to vote. Cross said he voted for Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Robert Sarvis. "I had to do a project for my English class, and found myself agreeing with him," Cross said.


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DUBAI: Bahraini authorities have revoked the citizenship of 31 Shia activists, among them two former members of parliament, for having "undermined state security," state news agency BNA reported Wednesday.
The names of the 31 activists, including brothers Jawad and Jalal Fairuz, both ex-MPs who represented the major Shia al Wefaq bloc, were listed in the report, which quoted an interior ministry statement.
Also named was Ali Mashaima, son of prominent activist Hassan Mashaima who is head of the Shia opposition movement Haq and who is serving a life sentence for allegedly plotting against the monarchy.
The government move comes after Bahrain late last month banned all protests and gatherings to ensure "security is maintained," after clashes between Shia-led demonstrators and security forces in the Sunni-ruled country.
The Gulf state has experienced unrest since March last year when the authorities crushed protests led by the Shia Muslim majority.
According to the International Federation for Human Rights, 80 people have died in Bahrain since the violence erupted on February 14 last year.
Hundreds of people were arrested when the security forces, aided by troops from neighbouring Saudi Arabia, crushed the uprising within a month, while many activists, including some whose names appear on Wednesday's list, were tried in special military courts set up at the time.
Another former MP and leading al Wefaq member, Matar Matar, told AFP that "many named (on the list) were acquitted by a military court" after being charged with harming state security.
Others named on the list are currently living abroad, according to opposition sources.
Tension has been running high in the kingdom following a spate of bombings on Monday in the capital Manama which killed two Asian expatriates. Four people have been arrested in connection with the bombings.
King Hamad ordered Tuesday "the swift arrest of the terrorists who carried out the recent terrorist acts in Bahrain" and urged citizens to help "bring them to justice so they receive their punishment over this appalling act."


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Doc Jeyakumar makes some stinging comments about IMR's anti-dengue programme.
SUNGAI SIPUT: The use of laboratory mosquitoes to fight dengue may turn out to be a catastrophic mistake, according to Sungai Siput MP Dr D Jeyakumar, who is a respiratory physician.
The biggest danger, he said, was that the release of large numbers of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes into the environment could cause the transformation of the mosquitoes themselves or some other insect in some unanticipated manner that might be difficult to control.
Last Dec 21, the Institute of Medical Research (IMR) secretly released about 6,000 GM male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at a forest near Bentong to test their flight range and ability to survive in the wild. The field test was announced only late last month.
"The experiment was successfully concluded on Jan 5," IMR Director Dr Shahnaz Murad said in a press statement. "Fogging with insecticide was conducted on Jan 6 to eliminate all mosquitoes but monitoring will continue for up to two months."
Jeyakumar said he could punch holes into this attempt to cast a safety net around the GM mosquito programme.
"The catch is that the two modalities of fogging and transgenic mosquito release are at loggerheads and cannot be used together."
According to Oxitec, the British company that developed the GM mosquitoes, the offspring of the transgenic male and the wild female Aedes mosquito will die in the late larval stage if the environment is free of tetracycline, an antibiotic.
Fogging is used to suppress a dengue outbreak to ensure that all adult mosquitoes are killed.
Jeyakumar questioned the rationale of buying millions of transgenic mosquitoes at exorbitant prices only to kill them through fogging.
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He claimed that the process of producing the male GM mosquitoes was not foolproof. He said 3% to 4% of them would be female and could copy the role of the wild female Aedes to spread dengue.
He said such biological suppression could not completely eliminate the species from the environment and the government would have to go on purchasing, releasing and killing the GM mosquitoes.
"We would need billions of these transgenic mosquitoes for an average sized city," he said.
"Wouldn't it be more logical and productive if that same sum were spent in improving the drains and sewerage systems in our urban areas?"
He asked whether the Health Ministry would purchase the transgenic mosquitoes directly from Oxitec or whether there was a crony local company to act as middleman.


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a new partnership with a popular television show that may be a sign of things to come. Last Wednesday, Birchbox announced it would offer subscribers a "Gossip Girl"-themed promotional package of products timed with the show's season finale in May. The partnership puts a different spin on how brands get marketed to consumers by pairing items with the characters and drama on screen. The agreement is somewhat reminiscent of House Party working with cable channel AMC to offer products tied to the season premiere of "Mad Men." Such matchups aim to create real-world reminders for fans long after watching shows. "It's a way to engage a customer on a deeper level," Beauchamp says. "You will be seeing more partnerships from us."
Though businesses such as Birchbox help introduce brands to new potential customers, not every player in this sector is gaining traction. His Black Box, launched last year ostensibly to be the male-themed rival to Birchbox, was acquired in February by MenScience Androceuticals in Miami. MenScience distributes skin care products for men, and through the deal it picked up customers, inventory, and product contracts from His Black Box. However, MenScience said via e-mail that it does not currently plan to continue the monthly service that His Black Box once provided.
New York-based GuyHaus emerged last August to also take a stab at this sector, offering shaving products and other items for men but has since gone on hiatus and stopped taking orders. GuyHaus had no comment on its status.
Birchbox plans to stay competitive, Beauchamp says, by helping generate more demand for the products it sends to subscribers, which pleases the brands it works with. "You go from being something anonymous to being a real product [in the customer's] life," she says. The company is working quickly to tailor its offerings for men with a balance between grooming and lifestyle, to keep them talking about the products. "There might be a hesitance to talk about an amazing pomade," Beauchamp says, "but we could imagine them saying, 'Aren't these cool headphones?' or, 'Check out this great pocket square.'"
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Reading abilities in a first-grade classroom range from students who read with near fluency to those who don't know which letter makes the sound at the beginning of "he."
In a group with such variety, and with an increasing emphasis from state officials on ensuring all students can read by third grade, elementary teachers must use a whole host of strategies as they try to reach every student.
"It is a lot of different things going on, and it's whatever will work," said Jami Jacobson, the executive director of curriculum and instruction at Albuquerque Public Schools. "And every classroom is different, the needs of the kids in a classroom are going to vary … those days where we all sat at our desks and worked on one thing together, those days are gone."
In Yvonne Sanchez's first-grade class at 7 Bar Elementary, students spend part of their morning on separate reading and writing activities, giving Sanchez time to work with individual students. Sanchez assigns students to different activities, so they don't do the same one every time.
Some students went straight for the classroom computers — perhaps not intuitive to adults, but computers are part of reading instruction in 2012. Since there aren't enough adults in a classroom to read to each student, the computer "reads" while students listen through headphones and see the book's words and illustrations on the screen. Some of the illustrations even come to life.
Several pairs of students were assigned to read together. Sofia Gonzalez, 6, is a strong reader, so she helped her partner with words he didn't know. She said she likes reading in pairs.
Other students did "word work," with activities based on several assigned words to improve their understanding. They were practicing words with "short i" sounds, like hit and win. They had to write the word five times, draw a picture showing its meaning and use it in a sentence.
Lucia Garrett, 6, was working with the word "win," last week, and she used it in the sentence "I can win games every time." She said she enjoys reading, and immediately started talking about her favorite moment in the children's classic "The Polar Express."
"Some words I have to sound out, but some I don't, because I know them," she said.
The value of sounding out words, versus figuring them out from context, is an ongoing conversation in the world of reading instruction. Through the years, the pendulum has swung from strictly phonics-based methods that focus on sounding out letters to methods that emphasize "whole language" by encouraging students to figure out words from context.
Jacobson said the best way to teach reading is with a combination of both — teaching students how to decode their language, but also how to understand what they're reading.
"You need to have a balance," she said. "You need children to have phonemic awareness. They need to understand how their language works, the mechanics of it and how to sort it out when they get stuck."
But she said if that's all students learn, they won't be strong readers.
"What we find is we have kids who can decode until the cows come home, but they don't know what they're reading," she said. "They can sound out a 17-letter word, but they may not ever understand what it is, how to use it or to use it in context with anything else."
Rep. Jimmie Hall, R-Albuquerque, is passionate about making sure phonics are included in any reading program used in New Mexico. He unsuccessfully pushed a bill in 2011 that proposed defunding any college of education that doesn't teach reading instruction in line with "scientifically based reading research and the science of reading."
Hall said the bill meant to ensure that phonics are included in any reading program.


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The 2007 Catalunya Costa Brava PWA World Cup Slalom – Event Summary
The picturesque Bay of Roses, on Spain's Costa Brava, gave its annual Catalonian welcome to the PWA World Tour from June 12th through 17th
The Ballena Alegre Camping resort - the site of many famous Freestyle and Super-X face-offs in the past, hosted the elite talent of the PWA's electrifying Slalom racing format.
A favorite on tour, the entrants all stay on-site in bungalows surrounding the Race HQ, and enjoy numerous evening functions and no-wind activities in the beautiful landscape at the foot of the Pyrenean Mountains.
A Tricky Business
Race 1
This, the second racing event of 2007, spluttered into action over the first two days as fluky, conditions challenged both patience and skills of the 48-man fleet.
Sketchy light wind prevented race 1 from being completed on the first day, but day 2 and the completion of the second race set the tone for what was to come.
Initially the big story was undoubtedly how Kevin Pritchard (Starboard / MauiSails), who rocked up in Catalunya as tour leader, failed to get out of the blocks. His hopes of building on the critical event win in Korea, snapped with his mast in race 1.
Micah Buzianis, (JP / NeilPryde), who placed second in Ulsan, capitalized to win the first race, and so established a slender lead over the 2007 World Champ Antoine Albeau (Starboard / NeilPryde). PWA Chairman Jimmy Diaz made an opening bid himself with a respectable third.
Race 2 – Half Fleet
Around 20 knots of wind allowed Bjorn Dunkerbeck (T1 / North) to ruthlessly hammer home a decisive win. He headed a magnificent 24-man final of the half-fleet format, which, in good wind conditions, dazzled the crowds on the beach.
The fabled star stated he was 'Only operating at around 90% capacity' during the spectacular race. Pritchard slipped-up once more, this time registering a mere 7th…
Dunkerbeck's result wasn't enough to see him into the podium positions just yet as he'd also crashed-out in race 1. Antoine Albeau however stayed in contention after a cool and collected second.
Buzianis' 3rd kept him in pole before an excruciating 3-day wait for wind, after Race 3 was left incomplete.
Last Chance Sunday.
Eventually adequate breeze permitted a classic final-day face-off to settle the event title. The much-welcomed wind offered a huge number of riders the chance to throw away their worst result as soon as a fourth race could be completed.
The pending 3rd race was left on hold until much stronger wind later in the day allowed clean enough air for the larger half-fleet starts.
Race 4
Albeau, celebrating his 35th birthday, immediately muscled his way into the lead with a crucial Race 4 win. The phenomenon from the Isle de Re boldly chose a massive 9.0sqm sail whilst others struggled on 7.8's. This tenacity out-shadowed even Dunkerbeck, who opted for the same tactic, although he merely used an 8.3 to obliterate all behind him!
Gonzalo Costa Hoevel (F2 / NeilPryde) at last got some points for securing third. Earlier in the week the Argentinean had grafted through several re-starts and cancellations, which conspired to spoil any momentum he'd tried to build.
Buzianis was now on a downward spiral. Perhaps feeling too relaxed, the American rolled in 9th in Race 4, before his attention wandered and he went over early on Race 5.
Race 5
That 5th race was comprehensively taken by the vastly experienced German, Bernd Flessner (F2 / NeilPryde). Flessner, a veteran of countless Grand Slam contests, has shown he can easily compete with the younger generation of racers as Slalom's comeback continues to grow in popularity.
Needless to say, in the absence of Buzianis through disqualification, it was Albeau who followed the German to register second, and maintain the event lead as the fourth race discard came into effect.
Dutch powerhouse Ben Van Der Steen (Exocet / Naish) clocked-in third to illustrate how improved concentration and consistency could help fulfill his vast potential this season.
Race 6
The mixed bag of results continued. Finally Pritchard restored pride and seized a vital victory in race 6. He was pursued by Frenchman Cyril Moussilmani (Fanatic / North), who was displaying a late showing of form, and there were no prizes for guessing who was in third. Yep, you guessed it. Albeau was hell-bent on maintaining his grip on the title, edging out Buzianis who could only finish in fourth.
Race 3 – Half Fleet
Gusts of nearly 30 knots really turned the heat up for the final race, the deferred half-fleet third race that was run over an elongated long-distance course.
Smoothly slipping into top gear, Cyril Moussilmani took the opposite tactic of the giants of racing, by cunningly picking the more comfortable set-up of a smaller rig to gain control in the choppy water.
He was pursued by teammate Patrik Diethelm (F2 / North) and Pritchard, who by posting this third place, edged back up to a respectable top 10 positions for the event.
Event Results
1. Antoine Albeau
2. Micah Buzianis
3. Bjorn Dunkerbeck
Albeau's 13th place finish thankfully didn't affect his event lead and the multiple world Champion deservedly topped the podium.
The next event in Lanzarote is bound to be intriguing. Buzianis is in the perfect position to apply pressure on Albeau. Pritchard, despite his hiccup, is still well in the frame in third after surrendering his lead here in Catalunya.
Dunkerbeck, who missed the first event in Korea, will rely on an event discard come the season's end if he performs well during the up-coming Canarian leg. For now he must settle for 17th overall.
Overall Slalom rankings to date
1. Antoine Albeau
2. Micah Buzianis
3. Kevin Pritchard
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Toyota's pickup trucks have a worldwide reputation for quality and toughness. Forget the high school boys bouncing around in Tacomas over here, the Toyota Hi-Lux is the third world's favorite beast of burden. In parts of the globe so remote they barely qualify as being on the globe, Toyota trucks cross rugged trails overloaded with farm equipment, goods, soldiers, mining gear anything and everything. There probably isn't a vehicle on Earth more abused than the Toyota pickup.
Toyota began building its first truck, the G1, back in 1935 just three months after the company made its first car, the A1. The G1 was basically a one-and-a-half-ton stake bed truck powered by the same Type A engine used in the A1 and production AA cars. It was intended, as virtually all trucks were back then, as a commercial vehicle. Toyota would make just 379 of the G1s. But that was enough for Toyota Motor Corporation's founder Kiichiro Toyoda to earn a certification for his nascent enterprise as a company under Japan's Automotive Manufacturing Industries Law.
The first pickup in Toyota's compact line would come after World War II in 1947 with the introduction of the Toyopet Model SB powered by a 995cc four making a scant 27 hp. With Japan still recovering from the war, the tiny SB was a perfect implement for farmers and newly established businesses. But it would have been a joke in a prosperous post-war America.
The SB would be refined and developed through the 1950s and even sold as a taxicab with a unique four-door body placed over the truck chassis. But none of these vehicles were anywhere near ready for U.S. consumption.
The Stout changed that in 1964.
While the 1964 Stout was the first Toyota pickup sold in America, the dent it made in the market was almost imperceptible. Close to the size of the current Dodge Dakota, the Stout was a pretty homely beast with a windshield that looked like it was off a 1960 Chevy pickup, a cab that looked like it was swiped from International Harvester and a nose that put the turn signals high on the fenders where they could do the most aesthetic damage.
But the big problem for the Stout was that it only had Toyota's 1.9-liter, OHV four making somewhere around 85 hp. So not only was it ugly, but it was slow, too. Beyond that, the cab could only have been more spartan if it was without seats. Through the four years it was sold in the U.S., changes were virtually nonexistent.
Despite the Stout's obvious inadequacies, it earned a reputation for reliability in the U.S. And that would carry over to the truck that would truly establish Toyota in America's pickup market.
Though the 1969 Hi-Lux was initially powered by the same "3RC" 1.9-liter engine as the old Stout, it had the advantage of being a smaller truck with a more supple chassis and more comfortable cabin. That was enough to establish it in the market. And it was available in any form you liked as long as that was a two-wheel-drive machine with a standard cab and a short bed.
There was nothing revolutionary about the Hi-Lux's engineering. The front suspension consisted of A-arms and coil springs, while the solid rear axle rode on a pair of semi-elliptical leaf springs. Not only was that typical of all truck engineering back then, it's still how virtually all trucks are made today.
By 21st-century standards, the Hi-Lux's interior was sparse with a bench seat covered in the toughest plastic imaginable spreading out from door to door. Compared to the Stout, though — and to a lot of full-size American trucks back then — it was neatly detailed with easily read instrumentation and easily reached ventilation and audio controls. And the four-speed manual transmission shifted with elegance and ease compared to the brutal transmissions used in domestic trucks.
It still wasn't a pretty truck, though. The styling was more contemporary, but the turn signals were now bolted to the top of the fenders as if they were an afterthought, and the bottom edge of the bed didn't even come close to aligning with the bottom edge of the cab. It wasn't ugly like the Stout, but it sure was boring.
The 1970 Hi-Lux got a new 1.8-liter, SOHC engine ("8RC" within Toyota) that was both more powerful (about 97 hp) and much more refined than the previous year's engine, but the rest of the truck was very much a carryover. Sales were growing, so Toyota didn't bother changing the truck for 1971.
At the start of the 1972 model year the Hi-Lux was blessed with yet another new engine as the 2.0-liter, SOHC, 18RC found a home in the truck. Its 108 hp was the most yet in a Toyota pickup. But the pickup around it would change at midyear.
A straightforward update of the Hi-Lux came on line midway through the 1972 model year (but marketed as a 1973) with revised styling that finally put the turn signals inside the front grille where they always belonged. The interior was updated as well with many elements seemingly lifted straight from the car lines to produce a more comfortable environment.
The big news for 1973 was literally big as a new "Long Bed" model appeared with a 7.5-foot bed that could haul many items that only a full-size truck could swallow before. It was so successful that Toyota did virtually nothing to update the truck for 1974.
With emissions requirements threatening to strangle down the 18RC, that engine grew to 2.2 liters to create the "20R" for 1975. The 20R (and its successor, the 22R) was the bedrock upon which the Toyota truck legend has been built. There are Toyota trucks out there with 20Rs under their hoods that have gone hundreds of thousands of miles with oil the consistency of oatmeal in their crankcases. These are the engines that would keep running even when their maintenance was entrusted to teenagers. The only way the 20R and 22R could have been more reliable is if they had no moving parts.
But the 20R wasn't the only change for '75, however. The cab was now larger in virtually every important internal dimension, and the styling and comfort became even more carlike. And for the first time a five-speed manual transmission was offered, which let the engine run slower at high cruising speeds, making it much better at commuting on American freeways. The basic chassis setup, however, carried forward pretty much unchanged.
The major change for 1976 was the deletion of the Hi-Lux name from the American version of the compact truck. The rest of the world could still get a Hi-Lux, but over here it was simply known as the "truck" or the "compact truck."
There were practically no significant changes to the truck-with-no-name for either 1977 or 1978.
Fourth-Generation Truck: 1979-1983
The 1979 Toyota truck was all new and again more carlike. But it was a more significant leap forward than ever before with four-wheel drive becoming available for the first time and the debut of a sport truck version known as the SR5.
"The Toyota SR5 is a quantum jump improvement over anything in the [Toyota truck's] past, for several excellent reasons," the Motor Trend editors wrote. "The most obvious is the SR5's new ride and handling feel which can be traced directly to the new torsion bar front suspension. It lends a much smoother ride than conventional coils did and helps the Toyota corner better than it ever could have with the old suspension. The torsion bar rates are softer than those of the old coil springs, and the original equipment Dunlop SP4 radials tend to accentuate the softness even more." Considering how brutal small truck suspensions had been until then, the new Toyota was a revolution.
Still, despite its bucket seats, tape stripes, chrome-ringed steel wheels and five-speed manual (or optional three-speed automatic) transmission, the SR5 wasn't particularly fast. After all, the 20R engine used in all Toyota compact trucks still made a slight 90 hp and a four-speed manual was standard in other Toyota trucks. Motor Trend measured its SR5 test truck accelerating from zero to 60 mph in a leisurely 12.4 seconds and completing the quarter-mile in 18.8 seconds at just 70.8 mph. Scarier was the 17 feet it took it to stop from 60 mph with the rear end sloshing ignobly from side to side.
With a solid front axle on leaf springs (much like the rear suspension) and a high-in-the-air stance, the new Toyota 4x4 pickup was an instant status symbol in high school parking lots across the country. "Toyota's new 4x4 is visually the most impressive," wrote the Popular Science editors in a comparison test with the barely remembered Subaru Brat and Chevy LUV four-wheel-drive pickups. "Its body stands high off the ground and it towers over the others on massive tires that give it the appearance of a swamp buggy ". Of prime importance are two protective skid plates (one under the transfer case and the other under the fuel tank) that were specially designed to let this truck shine in off-road driving.
"For all of its ruggedness, the Toyota (like LUV and Brat) is highly civilized inside the cab. The seat is a bench type that will hold three adults in an emergency, but furnishes comfortable space for two. The seat back folds forward with the release of a lever on either side, revealing a small, handy storage area hidden from outside view. An AM/FM stereo radio, plush carpeting and a sliding rear window add to the passenger-carlike comfort...
"Not everything about these vehicles is outstanding. Their acceleration is adequate, but no more. Toyota's 0-to-60-mph time averaged only 17.4 seconds, well over the 15-second benchmark we consider excellent on our test track. LUV and Brat were slower still at 19.0 and 19.6 seconds, respectively."
Still, the Toyota 4x4 had significant advantages over its competition, the Motor Trend editors concluded in their test. "The Chevy 4x4 LUV is an excellent road truck with above average off-road capability. The Toyota is basically a rugged off-road machine with adequate highway performance plus a choice of cargo bed and wheelbase lengths and several options — including power steering, tilt steering wheel and an instrument package — not available on the LUV."
Both the SR5 and 4x4 trucks were big hits, so Toyota didn't mess with the compact truck lineup for 1980.
Engines were the big news for 1981 as the 20R grew to 2.4 liters to become the 22R and a diesel engine was offered for the first time — and then only on an SR5 with the long bed.
Car and Driver found the diesel to have some virtues. "The 2.2-liter, L-series diesel utilizes an overhead camshaft and a Bosch-Nippondenso fuel-injection system," the magazine reported. "It operates at a 21.5-to-1 compression ratio, developing a reasonable 62 hp at 4,200 rpm and 93 pound-feet of torque at 2,400 rpm. The five-speed overdrive manual transmission is geared short on the low end to obtain maximum pull from the torquey diesel engine. A governor limits revs to 4,900 per minute. Basically you shift like crazy to 30 mph, then cruise in relative peace.
"Toyota's advances in diesel technology have eliminated, or at least minimized, many of the objections most of us have against diesels. For one thing, the harsh clacketing sound of most diesel engines has been virtually eliminated in the SR5 by a fabric-reinforced-rubber timing belt and increased sound insulation .
"One of the high points of the diesel is, of course, its 31 mpg (EPA city) rating which is lower than both VW's and Datsun's diesel trucks' rating but still better than the SR5 gas engine by 7 mpg. But before the diesel option will pay for itself, you have to put on at least 40,000 miles."
The fourth-generation Toyota pickup would play itself out through 1982 and 1983 essentially unchanged while selling exceedingly well.
For the first time the Toyota pickup was available as an extended cab truck in the form of the new Xtracab for 1984 (regular cab trucks continued through the fifth generation as well). The Xtracab's additional length produced a more spacious environment, while the revamped interior was, once again, even more carlike than before. In fact, the whole truck was tuned more for comfort than ever before with some road tests actually commenting that the ride was too cushy. The 2.4-liter 22R four-cylinder, the transmissions and most of the suspension bits carried over intact to the new trucks that were covered in new, more angular sheet metal.
But not everyone was thrilled with the fifth-generation truck. "The Toyota has the best acceleration and fuel economy in the group," Consumer Reports wrote in a comparison of 1985 base model compact pickups. "But its ride and handling were abominable, even by small truck standards. And the design of its front bumper invites major frame damage in a low-speed crash." With a base price of just $5,998 (and an as-tested price of $6,838 for CR) however, Toyota's truck sure was inexpensive.
But the base truck wasn't really the news for '85, as electronic fuel injection was now an option on the 22R (to create the "22RE"), bringing with it a power boost and an available four-speed automatic transmission. Beyond that, there were new turbocharged versions of both the 22R and the diesel.
Known inside Toyota as the "22RTE," the turbocharged version of 22R was impressive in its day. "The boosted engine is currently offered on only one model," reported Car and Driver, "the long-cockpit Xtracab with two-wheel drive and only with an automatic transmission. Whether application will be broadened later is uncertain, as Toyota's future appears to lie in the more-cylinders, more-valves path." But 135 hp was a generous amount of power for a mid-'80s small pickup and the magazine found it gratifying. "The result is enough fresh power to revise your notions of mini-truck performance completely. Really, it's a new world. Sixty mph comes up from zero in just over 10 seconds," the publication wrote. "On a two-lane road, you can now safely pass in places that are out of the question for a normal mini. Eighty and even 90 mph appear very easily. The turbo truck will even hold 80 mph going uphill on part throttle. And it's real: if traffic drops the needle to, say, 45, a bootful of gas once you're by will soon show you 80 mph again — still going uphill. And in this case the siren sounds are more often than not from under the hood."
The turbocharged engine proved a relatively popular option, but the early-'80s heyday of the diesel was already fading as economic recovery and less expensive gasoline made it less attractive.
In fact, 1986 would be the last year for the diesel Toyota pickup in the United States. But it was the fans of the 4x4 pickup who went through the most wrenching change that year, as Toyota abandoned the solid front axle of previous models and adopted a new torsion bar independent front suspension. In compensation to the hard-core 4x4 nuts out there, Toyota now offered automatic locking front hubs and an electronically controlled transfer case integrated into the four-speed automatic transmission. Still, some enthusiasts have never forgiven Toyota for abandoning the solid front axle.
Virtually nothing changed about the 1987 Toyota pickups. But the turbo truck was gone from the 1988 lineup as Toyota replaced it with the new "3VZE" 3.0-liter SOHC V6 engine rated at 150 horsepower. It was not only a more powerful, easier-going engine than the old turbo four, but it also indicated where the future of Toyota trucks lay. And that future came up the very next year.
With more rounded sheet metal than before and, yet again, even more carlike ride and handling, the sixth-generation Toyota pickup logically followed the same well-established line of evolution as its predecessors. While short-bed trucks kept the 103-inch wheelbase of previous Toyota pickups, the long-bed versions now put a vast 122 inches between their front and rear axles. The 22RE 2.4-liter four's intake was modified slightly for the base trucks but was otherwise familiar and the optional engine remained the 3.0-liter, SOHC, 150-hp V6 introduced for 1988.
In naming the Toyota Xtracab SR5 V6 its 1989 Truck of the Year, Motor Trend wrote that " without the extra burden of the hardware necessary to drive the front wheels, the 2WD truck kicks up its heels with the unbound abandon of a ballet dancer. A liquid clutch and five-speed manual shifter changed the gears with delightful precision. To support the fury available under your right foot is a complete rack of readable analog instruments nestled in an instrument binnacle whose view is unimpeded." So maybe MT's writing was hyperbolic, but the '89 Toyota pickup was a definite improvement.
There were essentially no changes to the 1990 pickup. While the 1991 version was virtually identical to it, production began to shift from Japan to the shared GM-Toyota NUMMI plant in Fremont, Calif. By 1992, more than half the production for the U.S. was coming from NUMMI and virtually all of the U.S.-sold trucks came from that plant during the 1993 model year (even though the year was fruitless product development-wise). All the Toyota pickups sold in the U.S. during the 1994 model year were made in California, but the year was not without at least one product change — the addition of a third brake light atop the trailing edge of the cab.
By the middle of the 1995 model year, it was obviously time for a change in the Toyota truck world. And Toyota couldn't even wait until the next model year to make that change.
With production of its trucks for America now firmly planted in America, Toyota decided that its seventh-generation pickup could be tweaked to the specific demands of this specific market. And while it was at it, it could give it an American name, too: Tacoma.
By the way, the Hi-Lux name was (and is) still being used on Toyota pickups sold in the rest of the world.
While previous Toyota pickups had evolved slowly and methodically, the Tacoma not only featured new sheet metal, but a new frame, a fresh suspension and the choice of three new, more powerful engines. The Tacoma was truly all new.
The Tacoma still rode on a full frame and a solid rear axle supported by leaf springs, but the front suspension was redesigned with Toyota ditching the previously used torsion bars on 4x4s in favor of coil springs on both 4x2s and 4x4s. Naturally, the result was an even smoother ride, while suspension travel on the 4x4s grew from 5.9 to 7.7 inches. Of course, the cabs (regular and Xtracab) were roomier and better trimmed, and both bed lengths returned.
The old 22RE was finally dead, as base Tacoma regular cab and Xtracab 4x2s now came with a new 2.4-liter, DOHC, 16-valve four making 142 hp standard, while the 4x4s now came with a 2.7-liter version of the same engine knocking out 150 hp under their hoods. The optional V6 was a new 3.4-liter, DOHC, 24-valve unit making an impressive 190 hp. Combine that with even better five-speed manual and four-speed automatic transmissions, and these weren't just the most powerful Toyota pickups ever, but the quietest and most refined. They were an immediate hit.
Since there was only a half-year of sales behind the new Tacoma, it's no surprise that the 1996 Tacoma was very much a carryover. But a slightly revised grille with better integrated headlights came on board for 1997.
A passenger-side front airbag to go with the one already in the steering wheel was added for 1998 (a year ahead of the federally mandated time). At midyear, however, Toyota joined the growing market for 4x2 trucks that look like 4x4s with the introduction of the PreRunner Xtracab. Insurance rates, maintenance and fuel consumption costs for four-wheel-drive trucks can be prohibitive (particularly for younger drivers), so offering a 4x2 with the 4x4's suspension and oversize tires makes a good compromise for those more interested in looking good rather than actually bounding across sand dunes.
The PreRunner option spread to regular cab models for 1999, and all Tacomas equipped with antilock brakes were also equipped with daytime running lights. With the PreRunner package a certified hit, Toyota pushed the style envelope even further during 2000 with the introduction of a Tacoma StepSide model incorporating a bed with distinct fender blisters.
With the Tacoma now more than five years old, it underwent a mild restyling and a major increase in model count for 2001. All Tacomas now used a new trapezoidal grille somewhat reminiscent of that on a 1953 Buick with a wide mouth containing thick bars. The interior was also redesigned with a new dash that included rotary ventilation controls in place of the archaic sliders that had been used previously, new door trim and upholstery and a new four-spoke steering wheel. Beyond that, the mainstream SR5 and upmarket Limited models now had white-faced gauges with orange illumination.
But for that year it was the introduction of two new models that garnered the most attention: the Double Cab and S-Runner. The Double Cab was a four-door (crew cab) version similar to those Toyota had been selling in other markets around the world for decades, but never before in America. Appearing after Nissan's Frontier and Dodge's Dakota four-doors and at just about the same time that GM was introducing four-door versions of the GMC Sonoma and Chevy S-10, the Double Cab was hardly innovative. But it was a very versatile truck.
Riding on the same 121.9-inch wheelbase as the Tacoma Xtracab, the Double Cab's lengthier cab required that the bed length shrink 13.0 inches to 61.5 inches. And in every major interior dimension it clearly beat the Nissan competition, even though it was behind the larger Dodge. The Double Cab came as a two-wheel drive with either the 2.7-liter four or 3.4-liter V6 in its nose, or as a four-wheel drive powered by the V6 in SR5 or Limited trim levels.
The S-Runner was a sport truck geared for those more interested in street-bound handling than bounding over rocks — or just looking like they were. Available as a 4x2 Xtracab with either the regular or StepSide bed and with the V6 for power, the S-Runner hunkered down on a one-inch-lower suspension on Bridgestone Potenza P235/55R16 all-season radials on 16-inch alloy wheels. Monochromatically finished in either Black Sand Pearl or Radiant Red paint, it also got a tuned exhaust with a flashy chrome tip.
The 2001 Tacoma Double Cab was impressive enough to finish second in Edmunds.com's comparison of compact crew cabs, just behind the Dakota. "Perhaps the Tacoma's most endearing trait was its nimble nature," we wrote then. "On-road and off, the Toyota was never caught flat-footed. The V6's broad power band and the alert automatic gearbox were always ready to squirt the Tacoma away from a light or briskly down a fire road."
The Tacoma made it into 2002 unchanged, but that was enough for it for us to name it as the "Most Wanted" small pickup that year. It finished out its life in 2003 and 2004 virtually unchanged and fully successful — but never really stylish. That would come next.
As this is written, the new Tacoma is still a few months away. But we already know that it's bigger than ever, more powerful than ever and, Toyota promises, better handling and more capable than ever.
The 2005 Tacoma will be available in 18 different flavors; from a regular cab 4x2 stripper with a short bed and the 2.7-liter four to a Double Cab 4x4 with a new long bed and Toyota's latest 4.0-liter, DOHC, 24-valve, VVT-i V6 knocking out 245 hp. Wheelbases range from a relatively long 109.4 to a very, very long 140.9 inches, with both the front and rear tracks almost four inches wider than before. In fact, at 221.3 inches, the longest new Tacoma is three inches longer than an Access Cab version of the company's "full-size" Tundra pickup.
All three body styles return with the Xtracab morphing into an Access Cab with a set of rear-hinged smaller doors providing better access to the rear compartment. The S-Runner is gone, having been superseded by a new X-Runner model that features a six-speed manual transmission behind the 4.0-liter V6, a lowered suspension and massive 255/45R18 Bridgestone Potenza tires on, naturally, 18-inch diameter wheels. Other Tacomas can be had with a five-speed automatic, but the X-Runner is six-speed only.
The new Tacoma is aggressive in its styling in a way no previous Toyota truck has been, and with newfound power under the hood and Toyota's long-standing reputation for steadfast reliability, it should continue to be a popular truck choice for years to come.
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