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Recent Publications and Presentations
2015 and forthcoming
Lillesand, T., R. Kiefer, and J. Chipman. 2015. Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation, 7th edition. John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ.
Heindel, R., R. Virginia, and J. Chipman. In review. The spatial distribution and ecological impacts of aeolian soil erosion in Kangerlussuaq, West Greenland. Complete publication data to be added when article is in press.
Chipman, J., X. Shi, F. Magilligan, Y. Chen, and B. Li. In review. Quantifying impacts of land use change, climate variability, and water management practices on the Tarim and Konqi river systems, Xinjiang, China. Complete publication data to be added when article is in press.
Shi, X., Ayotte, J.D., Onda, A., Miller, S., Rees, J., Gilbert-Diamond, D., Onega, T., Gui, J., Karagas, M., and Moeschler, J., Geospatial association between adverse birth outcomes and arsenic in groundwater in New Hampshire, USA, Environmental geochemistry and health, in press; DOI: 10.1007/s10653-014-9651-2
Liang, J., Liu, X., Huang, K., Li, X., Shi, X., Chen, Y., and Li, J., 2015, Improved snow depth retrieval by integrating microwave brightness temperature and visible/infrared reflectance, Remote Sensing of Environment, 156: 500 509.
Wallace, D., B. Southworth, X. Shi, J. Chipman, and A. Githeko. 2014. A comparison of five malaria transmission models: benchmark tests and implications for disease control. Malaria Journal, 13:268. doi:10.1186/1475-2875-13-268.
Chipman, J., X. Shi, F. Magilligan, Y. Chen, C. Sneddon, and D. Lawson. 2014. Multisensor spaceborne monitoring of landscape change in the Tarim River watershed, Xinjiang, China. Annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 2014, Tampa, FL.
Chipman, J. 2014. High-resolution earth observation satellites in the optical spectrum. Digital Domains: A Conference on Remote Sensing of Past Human Landscapes, 20-22 March 2014, Hanover, NH.
Onega, T., Alford-Teaster, J., Andrews, S., Ganoe, C., Perez, M., King, D., and Shi, X., 2014, Why Health Services Research Needs Geoinformatics: Rationale and Case Example, Journal of Health and Medical Informatics, 2014, 5:6, http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2157-7420.1000176.
Chen, Y., Li, B., Li, Z., Shi, X., 2014, Quantitatively evaluating the effects of CO2 emission on temperature rise, Quaternary International, 336: 171175, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2013.11.031.
Deng, H., Chen, Y., Shi, X., Li, W., Wang, H., Zhang, S., Fang, G., 2014, Dynamics of temperature and precipitation extremes and their spatial variation in the arid region of northwest China, Atmospheric Research, 138: 346 355.
Morriss, B., R. Hawley, J. Chipman, L. Andrews, G. Catania, M. Hoffman, P. Lüthi, and T. Neumann. 2013. A ten-year record of supraglacial lake evolution and rapid drainage in West Greenland using an automated processing algorithm for multispectral imagery. The Cryosphere, 7: 1869-1877. doi: 10.5194/tc-7-1869-2013.
Caller T., J. Chipman, N. Field, and E. Stommel. 2013. A spatial analysis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in northern New England, USA, 1997-2009. Muscle and Nerve, 48(2):235-41. doi: 10.1002/mus.23761.
Shi, X., Miller, S.D., Mwenda, K.M., Onda, A., Rees, J.R., Onega, T.L., Gui, J., Karagas, M.R., Demidenko, E., and Moeschler, J.B., 2013, Mapping Disease at an Approximated Individual Level Using Aggregate Data: A Case Study of Mapping New Hampshire Birth Defects, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 10: 4161-4174. DOI:10.3390/ijerph10094161.
Li, B., Chen, Y., Shi, X., Chen, Z., and Li, W., 2013, Temperature and precipitation changes in different environments in the arid region of northwest China. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 112(3-4): 589-596. DOI:10.1007/s00704-012-0753-4.
Wang, H., Chen, Y, Shi, X., Lai, D., Fan, Y., and Li, Z., Changes in daily climate extremes in the arid area of northwestern China. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 112(1-2): 15-28. DOI:10.1007/s00704-012-0698-7.
Moore, J., H. Hallock, J. Chipman, and M. Sharma. 2013. Iridium and osmium fluences across the K-Pg boundary indicate a small impactor. Annual conference on Lunar and Planetary Science, 22 March 2013, The Woodlands, TX.
Wright, R.; Ellis, M.; Holloway, S.; Wong, S. (2013), Patterns of Racial Diversity and Segregation in the United States: 1990-2010, The Professional Geographer. Published online Jan. 2013. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2012.735924.
Wright, R.; Holloway, S.; Ellis, M. (2013), Gender and the Neighborhood Location of Mixed-Race Couples, Demography, 50(2): 393-420. DOI: 10.1007/s13524-012-0158-0.
Chipman, J., R. Wright, M. Ellis, and S. Holloway. 2012. Mapping the evolution of racially mixed and segregated neighborhoods in Chicago. Journal of Maps, 15 Nov 2012 special issue on Innovative Mapping in Spatial Demography, DOI: 10.1080/17445647.2012.740431.
Caller T., N. Field, J. Chipman, X. Shi, B. Harris, and E. Stommel. 2012. Spatial Clustering of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and the Potential Role of BMAA. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, 13(1): 25-32.
Li, B., Chen, Y., and Shi, X., 2012, Why does the temperature rise faster in the arid region of northwest China? Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, D16115. DOI:10.1029/2012JD017953.
Sunderland, E.M., Amirbahman, A., Burgess, N.M., Dalziel, J., Harding, G., Jones, S.H., Kamai, E., Karagas, M.R., Shi, X., and Chen, C.Y., 2012, Mercury sources and fate in the Gulf of Maine. Environmental Research, 119: 27-41.
Sloan, C.D., Andrew, A.S., Gruber, J.F., Mwenda, K.M., Moore, J.H., Onega, T., Karagas, M.R., Shi, X., Duell, E.J., 2012, Indoor and outdoor air pollution and lung cancer in New Hampshire and Vermont. Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry. 94(3):605-615.
Liu, X., Li, X., Shi, X., Huang, K., Liu, Y., 2012, A multi-type ant colony optimization (MACO) method for optimal land use allocation in large areas. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 26(7): 1325-1343.
Shi, X., Alford-Teaster, J., Onega, T., and Wang, D., 2012, Spatial Access and Local Demand for Major Cancer Care Facilities in the U.S. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(5): 1125-1134.
Hester, L., Shi, X., and Morden, N., 2012, Characterizing the geographic variation and risk factors of fatal prescription opioid poisoning in New Hampshire, 2003-2007, Annals of Geographic Information Science, 18(2): 99-108.
Shi, X., Girod, L, Long, R., Dekett, R., Philippe, J., and Burke, T., 2012, A Comparison of LiDAR-based DEMs and USGS DEMs in Terrain Analysis for Digital Soil Mapping. Geoderma, 170: 217-226.
Holloway, S.; Wright, R.; Ellis, M. 2012. Constructing Multiraciality in U.S. Families and Neighborhoods, in Suki Ali, Chamion Caballero, Rosalind Edwards and Miri Song, (eds), International Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Mixedness and Mixing, Routledge.
Ellis, M.; Holloway, S.; Wright, R.; Fowler, C. 2012, Agents of Change: Mixed-Race Households and the Dynamics of Neighborhood Segregation in the United States, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 102(3): 549-570. DOI:10.1080/00045608.2011.627057.
Holloway, S.; Wright, R.; Ellis, M. 2012, The Racially Fragmented City? Neighborhood Racial Segregation and Diversity Jointly Considered, The Professional Geographer 63(4): 1-20. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2011.585080.
Chipman, J. W. 2011. Land cover variability across spatial and temporal scales: implications for wild ungulate populations in Tanzania. Annual conference, American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), 4 May 2011, Milwaukee, WI.
Holloway, S. R. Wright, and M. Ellis. 2011.
The Racially Fragmented City? Neighborhood Racial Segregation and Diversity Jointly Considered
. Forthcoming in Professional Geographer.
Li, X., Shi, X., He, J., Liu, X., Li, D., 2011, Coupling Simulation and Optimization to Solve Planning Problems in a Fast Developing Area, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 101(5): 1032-1048.
Wright, R.; Ellis, M.; Holloway, S. 2011, Where Black-White Couples Live, Urban Geography 32(1): 1-22. DOI: 10.2747/0272-3622.214.171.124.
Wright, R.; Holloway, S.; Ellis, M. 2011, Reconsidering both Diversity and Segregation: A Reply to Poulsen, Johnston and Forrest, and to Peach, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 37(1): 176-176. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2011.523865.
Hostert, P., F. Swayne, W. Cohen, and J. Chipman. 2010. The Role of Remote Sensing in Long-Term Ecological Research Projects. In F. Müller, C. Baessler, H. Schubert, and S. Klotz (editors), Long-Term Ecological Research: Between Theory and Application, Springer, New York.
Berke, E.M, Tanski, S.E., Demidenko, E., Alford-Teaster, J., Shi, X., and Sargent, J.D., 2010, Retail Alcohol Density and Poverty in Urban U.S. Census Tracts: A Geographic Analysis. American Journal of Public Health. 100(10): 1967-1971.
Carlos, H.A., Shi, X., Sargent, J., Tanski, S., Berke, E.M., 2010, Density estimation and adaptive bandwidths: A primer for public health practitioners, International Journal of Health Geographics, 9:39 (http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/9/1/39).
Chipman, J. W. and M. Durand. 2010. Remote sensing of the Great Lakes. Workshop on NASAs Role in Great Lakes Research, sponsored by NASA Physical Oceanography Program, 12 April 2010, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, OH.
Hostert, P., F. Swayne, W. Cohen, and J. Chipman. 2010. The Role of Remote Sensing in Long-Term Ecological Research Projects. In In F. Müller, C. Baessler, H. Schubert, and S. Klotz (editors), Long-Term Ecological Research: Between Theory and Application, Springer, New York.
Onega, T., Duell, E.J., Shi, X., Demidenko, E., Goodman, D.C., 2010, Race versus place of service in mortality among Medicare beneficiaries with cancer. Cancer. 116(11): 2698-2706.
Onega, T., Duell, E.J., Shi, X., Demidenko, E., Goodman, D.C., 2010, Influence of Place of Residence in Access to Specialized Cancer Care for African Americans, The Journal of Rural Health. 26(1):1219.
Liu, X., Li, X., Shi, X., Zhang, X., and Chen, Y., 2010, Simulating land use dynamics under planning policies by integrating artificial immune systems with cellular automata. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 24(5):783802.
Shi, X., 2010, Selection of Bandwidth Type and Adjustment Side in Kernel Density Estimation over Inhomogeneous Backgrounds, International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 24(5): 643660.
Chipman, J., L.Olmanson, and A.Gitelson. 2009. Remote sensing methods for lake management. North American Lake Management Society, Madison, WI.
Chipman, J. W. 2009. Remote sensing for lake management: fundamental concepts. Annual symposium, North American Lake Management Society (NALMS), workshop on Remote Sensing Methods for Lake Assessment, 27 October 2009, Hartford CT.
Chipman, J. W. 2009. Satellite remote sensing III: regional- to global-scale systems. Annual symposium, North American Lake Management Society (NALMS), workshop on Remote Sensing Methods for Lake Assessment, 27 October 2009, Hartford CT.
Greb, S. R., Martin, A. A., and Chipman, J. W. 2009. Water clarity monitoring of Wisconsin lakes (USA) using Landsat satellites. 33rd International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment: Sustaining Millennium Development Goals, 4-8 May 2009, Stresa-Lago Maggiore, Italy.
Muldoon, K. M., L. R. Godfrey, W. L. Jungers, and J. W. Chipman. 2009. Geographic patterning in subfossil primate community dynamics in Madagascar. Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 31 March 4 April 2009, Chicago.
Onega, T, Duell, E. J. Shi, X. Demidenko, E., Gottlieb, D., and Goodman, D., 2009, Influence of NCI-Cancer Center Attendance on Mortality in Lung, Breast, Colorectal, and Prostate Cancer Patients, Medical Care Research and Review. 66(5):542-560.
Shi, X., Long, R., Dekett, R., and McKay, J., 2009, Integrating Different Types of Knowledge for Digital Soil Mapping, Soil Science Society of America Journal. 73:16821692.
Qin, C-Z, Zhu, A-X, Shi, X., Li, B-L., Pei, T. and Zhou, C-H., 2009, Quantification of spatial gradation of slope positions, Geomorphology, 110:152161.
Sloan, C.D., Duell, E.J., Shi, X., Irwin, R., Andrew, A.S., Williams, S.M., Moore, J.H., 2009, Ecogeographic Genetic Epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology. 33:281289.
Shi, X., 2009, A GeoComputational Process for Characterizing the Spatial Pattern of Lung Cancer Incidence in New Hampshire, Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 99(3): 521-533.
Berke, E. and Shi, X., 2009, Computing travel time when the exact address is unknown: a comparison of point and polygon ZIP code approximation methods, International Journal of Health Geographics, 2009, 8:23.
Onega, T, Duell, E. J. Shi, X. Demidenko, E., and Goodman, D., 2009, Determinants of NCI Cancer Center Attendance in Medicare Patients with Lung, Breast, Colorectal, or Prostate Cancer, Journal of General Internal Medicine. 24(2): 205-210.
Chipman, J. W., Herron, M. C., and Lewis, J. B. 2008. Residual Votes in the 2008 Minnesota Senate Race. Working paper (version 15 November 2008) online at
Chipman, J. W. 2008. Satellite monitoring of lake ecosystems. Annual Meeting, New England Region American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 6 October 2008, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Chipman, J. W. 2008. Mapping invasive reed canarygrass at the landscape scale with remote sensing. US-International Association for Landscape Ecology, 23rd annual Landscape Ecology Symposium, Madison, April 6-10.
Elmore, A.J., Shi, X., Gorence, N.J., Li, X., Jin H., Wang, F., Zhang, X., 2008, Spatial Distribution of Agricultural Residue from Rice for Potential Biofuel Production in China, Biomass and Bioenergy, 32: 22-27.
Lillesand, T., R. Kiefer, and J. Chipman. 2008. Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation, 6th edition. John Wiley & Sons, NY.
Liu, K., Li, X., Shi, X., and Wang S., 2008, Monitoring Mangrove Forest Changes Using Remote Sensing and GIS Data with Decision-Tree Learning, Wetlands, 28(2): 336346.
Yang, Q., Li, X., and Shi, X., 2008, Cellular Automata for Simulating Land Use Changes Based on Support Vector Machines, Computer and Geoscience, 34: 592-602.
Onega, T., Duell, E., Shi, X., Wang, D., Demidenko, E., and Goodman, D., 2008, Geographic Access to Cancer Care in The United States, Cancer, 112(4): 909-918.
Liu, X., Li, X., and Shi, X., Wu, S., and Liu, T., 2008, Simulating Complex Urban Development Using Kernel-Based Nonlinear Cellular Automata, Ecological Modelling, 211: 169-181.
Shi, X., Elmore, A.J., Li, X., Gorence, N.J., Jin, H., Zhang, X., and Wang, F., 2008, Using Spatial Information Technologies to Select Sites for Biomass Power Plants: A Case Study in Guangdong, China, Biomass and Bioenergy, 32: 35-43.
Carpenter, S., B. Benson, R. Biggs, J. Chipman, J. Foley, S. Golding, R. Hammer, P. Hanson, P. Johnson, A. Kamarainen, T. Kratz, R. Lathrop, K. McMahon, B. Provencher, J. Rusak, C. Solomon, E. Stanley, M. Turner, J. Vander Zanden, C. Wu, and H. Yuan. 2007. Understanding regional change: a comparison of two lake districts. BioScience, 57(4): 323-335 (
Chipman, J. and T. Lillesand. 2007. Satellite-based assessment of the dynamics of new lakes in southern Egypt. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28(19): 4365-4379 (
Chipman, J. W. 2007. Satellite monitoring of hydrologic transformations in southern Egypt. Proceedings of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), 7-11 May 2007, Tampa, Florida.
Chipman, J. W. 2007. Remote sensing for lake management: fundamental concepts. 20th Annual National Conference on Enhancing the States Lake Management Programs, workshop on Satellite-Based Remote Sensing Methods for Lake Assessment, 24 April 2007, Chicago.
Chipman, J. W. 2007. Satellite remote sensing III: regional- to global-scale systems. 20th Annual National Conference on Enhancing the States Lake Management Programs, workshop on Satellite-Based Remote Sensing Methods for Lake Assessment, 24 April 2007, Chicago.
Chipman, J. W. 2006. Monitoring large lakes using regional-scale satellite imagery from MODIS, MERIS, and other sensors. Annual symposium, North American Lake Management Society (NALMS), 8-10 Nov. 2006, Indianapolis. Indiana.
Dash, J., A. Mathur, G. Foody, P. Curran, J. Chipman, and T. Lillesand. 2007. Land cover classification using multi-temporal MERIS vegetation indices. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28(6): 1137-1159 (
Elmore, A.J., X. Shi, N.J. Gorence, X. Li, H. Jin, F. Wang, and X. Zhang. 2007. Spatial distribution of agricultural residue from rice for potential biofuel production in China. Biomass and Bioenergy, doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2007.06.005.
Liu, X., X. Li, X. Shi, S. Wu, and T. Liu. 2007. Simulating complex urban development using kernel-based nonlinear cellular automata. Ecological Modelling, doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.08.024.
Shi, X., A.J. Elmore, X. Li, N.J.Gorence, H. Jin, X. Zhang, and F. Wang. 2007. Using spatial information technologies to select sites for biomass power plants: a case study in Guangdong, China. Biomass and Bioenergy, doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2007.06.008.
Shi, X., E. Duell, E. Demidenko, T. Onega, B. Wilson, and D. Hoftiezer. 2007. A polygon-based locally weighted average method for smoothing disease rates of small units. Epidemiology, 18(5): 523-528.
Shi, X. 2007. Evaluating the uncertainty caused by P.O. box addresses in environmental health studies: a restricted Monte Carlo approach. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 21(3): 325-340.
Shi, X., A.-X. Zhu,J. Burt, W. Choi, R.-X. Wang, T. Pei, and B.-L. Li. 2007. An experiment with circular neighborhood in the calculation of slope gradient from DEM. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 73(2): 143-154.
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Six new fuel-efficient buses join the Rosso fleet
Rosso has taken delivery of six new 10.8m StreetLite buses, with improved fuel efficiency for their busy routes.
The StreetLites have recently entered service and are working on the 467 & 468 routes between Bury and Rochdale, which also serve the important Fairfield Hospital site. This is the first time Rosso has ordered this type of single deck vehicle from Wrightbus. Each bus has a passenger capacity of 41 seated and 30 standing and features Wrightbus' exclusive "Micro Hybrid" system which provides energy saving benefits, as well as the latest safety features.
Phil Smith, Managing Director of Rosso, welcomed the new fleet saying: "As well as the look and specification of the StreetLite, we selected the vehicle due its suitability for use on a busy, regular bus route and in particular, the excellent fuel consumption if offers us. In addition, the latest safety and convenience features are important for our drivers and passengers alike and we look forward to our new vehicles entering service this month."
Ian Downie, MD of Sales for Wrightbus said: "Rosso is a long established customer of Wrightbus, having taken delivery of a range of our vehicles over the years including the B7RLE, and we're pleased that they have now added these first StreetLites to their fleet. The StreetLite has gained an excellent reputation for its styling and operational performance and has become a firm favourite with operators the length and breadth of the UK."
Wrightbus' Micro Hybrid system was developed by the company to capture the energy generated from the bus's braking system. This is then redistributed to power pneumatics, hydraulic and electrical systems which would otherwise draw additional power from the engine. The result is a reduction in fuel consumption of up to 10%, leading to substantial savings over a bus's typical 15-year operational service life.

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NZ Whitewater Guide - Edition 5
Graham Charles has done it again!
Long time NZOIA instructor/assessor Graham Charles has rewritten the New Zealand whitewater guidebook for its fifth edition. Completely over-hauled once again, Charles says it is even bigger and better. Boasting some 50 new runs and plenty of sub levels of information it enables people to access nearly 200 whitewater sections of river. New photographs and cartoons reflect the new things being done which reflect the culture of going higher and bigger while being inclusive of the lower end needs of emerging kayakers and lifetime recreationalists.
From easy float trips to full-on hairball unscoutable gorge waterfall runs, information is provided about what to expect on the river, including grades, flow information, gradients, times, access details and shuttle distances without taking away that most important element: adventure! His river descriptions are spiced with dry humour, cautionary tips and tales, anecdotes and kayaking history along with a strong message on river conservation. New Zealand Whitewater Edition 5 is an essential part of any kayaker's kit and will open a door to the extraordinary range of kayaking and river recreation opportunities available in New Zealand.
Graham Charles is working with NZOIA to provide members with an opportunity to buy a guidebook at a professional rate.
The guide has an RRP of $34.95, but NZOIA members can get their copy for $27.95 INCLUDING postage and handling!
To get your copy: Log into your NZOIA profile (top right of page), then hover over the 'Payments' tab on the red horizontal menu, look for the 'Member Only' option.


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The Ultimate Direction Women's Ultra Vesta Running Hydration Vest offers increased hydration capacity and roomier front storage, all while weighing less than its predecessor. This hydration vest fulfills the needs of athletes crushing distance runs, ice climbs, and demanding hikes in the backcountry. Two fully collapsible Body Bottle 500s (17-ounces each) keep you hydrated during intense efforts. Plus, it easily accommodates a two-liter reservoir within its large front compartment for extra hydration capacity on the hottest days of the year. There's also a mesh pouch for partitioning wet gear and clothing from the rest of the pack.
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So comfy! Super light! Plenty of room, for a layer or two, extra water, camera, snacks. Sits perfectly in the upper part of the back, not too many features or too few. Nailed it UD!
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Gave as a gift to a runner in my life, and so far this pack seems pretty sweet. It is perfect for those who hate doing the whole water bladder ritual at every aid station during a race. While this pack still works with a bladder, It comes with two bottles that are super easy to access and refill.
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I have the Adventure Vesta and I absolutely love it but most days I don't need that much space so I added the Ultra Vesta to my running arsenal. It is the perfect amount of space and just enough water. I love all the little pockets and awesome features. Ultimate Direction does an amazing job planning where pockets and zippers should be placed with runners in mind. My only complaint is that the bottles are located higher on this vest than the Adventure Vesta. I actually put the soft bottles in the back because I don't like them bouncing around and the placement. I have an Osprey 1.5L Hydraulic bladder and it fits perfectly in there. I haven't had any chaffing issues and I love how easy it is to adjust and customize to your chest.
A great hydration pack!
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I love this hydration pack so far! I used to carry a handheld water bottle and I just wasn't able to carry all the water I wanted, especially when I was on the trail for long periods of time. Plus, having my hands free on technical trails is super nice. I tried on a bunch of different packs before I bought this one, and what I love about this pack is how low profile it feels while you're wearing it, despite the fact that it can hold just as much water as any of the others. The flasks it comes with work well with it, and it's nice that when you've finished your water they fold up super small. I like how versatile this pack is-- you can tailor it to short or long distance needs by the amount of calories and water you bring.
Best Pack!
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this is so great to run with. stays in place, lightweight.
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love the collapsible water bottles, they are a comfortable fit, stay in place when active, easy to hydrate from bite valve while moving. Love this Pack!! A must that i wouldn't be without.
Great Pack!
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I used this hydration vest to train for my first trail marathon. It fit very comfortably during long runs (with minimal bouncing) and could be easily adjusted as the reservoir was depleted. The front pockets were great for storing a cellphone and gels. The front hydration bottles are also great for no-cup races. I highly recommend this pack!


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Shoker wins subzonal 4.2…Emojong stars
May 21st, 2013 by Daaim Shabazz
When is it possible to get +6 (7.5/9) in a tournament and not win? When you are playing in the African Zone 4.2 and playing in the same field as Samy "The Shocker" Shoker. That's exactly what happened in Egypt when the French-Egyptian overcame an early loss to IM Ibrahim Labib to win seven in a row and the tournament with 8/9(!). Uganda's Elijah Emojong set a brisk pace with a stunning 7/7 and after being held to a draw by FM Salah Yousry, he was set for a showdown with Shoker.
The game drifted into a Modern Benoni and was a tense battle heading for a draw when Emojong committed a tactical oversight and his king ended up getting caught in a mating net. The Ugandan jettisoned a piece to stave off mate, but Shoker simplified, collected material and secured the full point. What a thrilling ending! To have someone start with seven straight wins and another player end with seven straight wins is rarely seen. Unfortunately neither is competing in the 2013 African Championships.
Elijah Emojong is awaiting conferral of his IM title.
Standings: http://chess-results.com/tnr99678.aspx?art=1&lan=1&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=984
Table: http://chess-results.com/tnr99678.aspx?art=2&lan=1&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=984
PGN Games: http://www.thechessdrum.net/palview6/2013africanzonal42.pgn
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Tonight, Onward State mistakenly reported that JoePa had lost his battle with lung cancer. The story was picked up by media outlets from Huffington Post to People magazine to CBSSports. Everyone was reporting that he had passed. Facebook exploded with tributes to JoePa as his Penn State family began mourning this extraordinary loss. Within about twenty minutes, people started disputing the "fact" that he had died. It wasn't until I switched to a 2nd social media site, Twitter, that I saw a confirmed report, from a reliable source, that JoePa had not died. His son Jay tweeted that his dad was continuing his fight. WHAT? How could a "confirmed" story be false? Oh, maybe it wasn't confirmed! Onward State claimed to have documents to confirm the report that JoePa had passed. Onward State was cited as the confirmed source for People, Huffington Post and CBSSports.
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Title: A Viscount's Proposal (The Regency Spies of London #2)
Author: Melanie Dickerson
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Edward, Viscount Withinghall has tried all his life to avoid scandal and life a pious life to try to redeem his family's good name. His father did his best to desecrate the family name and plagued the family with his wild ways. Edward has vowed to be just the opposite. He has his eye set on becoming the youngest Prime Minister of England. He needs a proper, gentle, staid wife for her role in his career and life. Leorah Langdon is definitely not the kind of wife he would ever consider!
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While this was a good romance story, I wasn't too sure what it had to do with spying. There were attempts on one of the main character's lives, but he wasn't a spy nor was the mastermind behind the crimes a spy. Other than that, I enjoyed the verbal sparring between Edward and Leorah. The old saying of opposites attract is certainly evident in this story. Two people could not be more different, but after spending some time together they both realize they have more in common than they originally thought. Edward learns not to be so concerned with what people think and Leorah learns that not everything is black and white or that what resides on the inside what is revealed on the outside. I am certainly looking forward to another book in this series!


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5th Annual Get Healthy Utah Stakeholder Retreat
On April 17, 2019 Get Healthy Utah held its 5th Annual Stakeholder Retreat. Over 120 stakeholders from a variety of sectors, including healthcare, business, public health, transportation, and education came together to discuss ways to improve the health of Utahns. The focus of the day was on how we can better address social determinants of […]READ MORE >>
Get Healthy Utah Supports the Updated Core Standards for Health Education
Health education in schools is essential to improving healthy behaviors in children. In July of 2017, the Utah State Board of Education voted to update the Core Standards for Health Education for the first time since 1997. The new standards have added lessons for kindergarten through second grade and address the following six strands: Health […]READ MORE >>
It's Time to Move Your Way
The new Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans state that, "being physically active is one of the most important actions that people of all ages can take to improve their health." There are many benefits that start immediately after being physically active, as well as the long-term health benefits. Benefits of physical activity: growth and development […]READ MORE >>
Happy, Healthy Holidays!
In this lovely holiday season, we celebrate with our family and friends the gifts and the traditions which mean so much to us. An important part of holidays is the festive food and drink. It wouldn't be Christmas without hot chocolate, frosted cookies, roasted meats, and pies. As we enjoy these delicacies moderately, they add joy […]READ MORE >>
Move Utah Summit: Active, Healthy, Connected Communities
In September, Get Healthy Utah partnered with the Utah Department of Transportation, UTA, the Utah Department of Health, and others to hold the first annual Move Utah Summit. The purpose of the summit was to bring together key members of the transportation, planning, and health sectors to focus on building active, healthy, and connected communities. There […]READ MORE >>
Utah Kids Need Recess
While more than 90% of elementary schools participate in regularly scheduled recess during the school day, since the mid-2000s, up to 40% of school districts nationwide have reduced or cut recess. As the nation moves to put more emphasis on the importance of standardized test scores and insisting that students need more time during the […]READ MORE >>
SNAC Marketing Competition
The SNAC marketing competition will be held in conjunction with the 2018 Higher Education Food Summit. Students will develop a marketing campaign that utilizes the results of the Utah Health Values Study and emphasizes the importance of fruit and vegetable consumption in maintaining and improving health. The Utah Health Values Study found that Utahns are […]READ MORE >>
Eating Well Makes You Feel Good
Mental well-being is not just the absence of disease or mental illness. It is feeling good and functioning properly. It is being happy, feeling optimism, and having self-esteem. Good mental health also plays a role in our physical, social, and our economic well-being. In Utah in 2015, only 29.8% of adults reported eating fruit two […]READ MORE >>
Better Social Connections = Better Health
In the December 2016 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, David Asch and Roy Rosin make a compelling argument for the role of friends and family in healthcare and behavior change. They discuss 5 levels of social engagement strategies. "This model reveals opportunities to advance health by taking advantage of naturally occurring social […]READ MORE >>
Avoid Winter Weight Gain
Americans gain an average of 5-7 pounds in the winter. This is due, in part, to a decrease in physical activity. But don't let cold weather stop you from being active! In Utah there are lots of great outdoor opportunities to get physical activity and avoid winter weight gain. As an added bonus, research shows […]READ MORE >>
Younger Next Year
A few year ago, my brother gave me a copy of Younger Next Year, by Chris Crowley, a retired New York trial lawyer and Dr. Harry Lodge of Columbia University Medical Center. The book has become a cult classic among Baby Boomers. Dr. Lodge became concerned about the many unhealthy patients he was seeing in […]READ MORE >>
7th and 8th Grade Utah Students Need Art, PE, and Health
Get Healthy Utah is concerned over the Utah School Board of Education 2017 decision to eliminate the requirement for health, PE, and art in 7th and 8th grades. The research is clear. Health, physical education, and physical activity benefit students. In fact, research has shown positive relationships between physical activity and academic achievement, test scores, […]READ MORE >>
Get Healthy Utah Values Study: Utahns are not as healthy as they think
Utahns are in denial. In the first ever Utah Health Values Study (2017), Utahns underestimated the level of overweight and obesity in Utah. On average, Utahns think only 45% of people in Utah are overweight or obese. In reality the rate in 2016 was closer to 60%. Utahns incorrectly categorized their own weight. For […]READ MORE >>
Results of the First Ever Get Healthy Utah Values Study
In 2016 Get Healthy Utah contracted with Envision Utah and Heart+Mind Strategies to conduct the Get Healthy Utah Values Study. This study is the first of its kind to look at values related to healthy behaviors. The values research process began with in-depth in interviewing in December 2016. These interviews explored thought patterns and associations […]READ MORE >>
Make Now the Time to Get Healthy
By, Greg Bell (Originally Published 2/17/17 in the Deseret News) "If you have your health you have everything." Or so we've always heard. Good health is foundational to many important things in life — work, maintaining your home and yard, playing with your kids and grandchildren, active leisure, traveling and touring, serving others and myriad […]READ MORE >>
Make the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice on the Job
by, Monica Whalen, Utah President, Mountain States Employers Council It's been one month since New Year's Day. How are you doing on keeping your resolutions for a healthier lifestyle? Are you still getting up an hour earlier to fit in that workout? Are you still planning ahead to prepare healthy home-cooked meals? It can be a […]READ MORE >>
People Powered: 2017 Utah Bike Summit
Active transportation (human powered forms of travel such as walking, cycling, skating, etc.) provides a number of benefits to individuals and communities. Study show that cities with more active transportation infrastructure have lower rates of obesity than cities with no active transit.1 Regular biking has been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease and […]READ MORE >>
Get Healthy Utah: A Personal Perspective
Get Healthy Utah – just another cattle prod to get us to eat better, right. . . NO! From inside Get Healthy Utah I can say without reservation that the intent is pure, worthy, and should be considered: it is what it suggests–educational. Utahns clearly need to become healthier or pay the price, a huge […]READ MORE >>
There are small things we can all do improve air quality, optimize mobility, and conserve energy. TravelWise, an initiative of the Utah Department of Transportation, invites Utahns to rethink their trip by driving less and driving smarter. There are many benefits including improved energy use, mobility, air quality, and health. Over the last two decades, […]READ MORE >>
2016 Pedestrian Safety Summit: Walking Together
This October, over 150 participants attended the first annual Pedestrian Safety Summit: Walking Together. The summit was an opportunity for design, health, and safety professionals to come together and share understanding, opportunities, and successes in improving pedestrian safety and experience in Utah. Topics included the state's Pedestrian Safety Action Plan, Student Neighborhood Access Program, safety […]READ MORE >>
Do-It-Yourself Tips to Boost Your Recovery from Depression
By, Lynn Johnson, PhD Depression is an epidemic and costs our society around $210 billion each year.[1] We have more counselors than ever, and primary care physicians have become skilled at medicating these depressed, suffering individuals. Yet, the majority of depressed persons are not being effectively treated.[2] There are lots of possible reasons. Younger people […]READ MORE >>
Walking School Buses Can Improve Physical Activity and Safety
Walking and biking to school can help improve physical activity of children and parents. Parents are often concerned with the safety of children getting to and from school. Providing adult supervision can help ease those worries for families who are within walking or biking distance to school. A Walking School Bus is a great way to […]READ MORE >>
Eat More Fruits and Vegetables This Summer
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in addition to providing essential nutrients, fruits and vegetables help with weight management and lower the risk of developing many chronic conditions. In Utah, only 34% of adults get two or more servings of fruit each day and even fewer (17.5%) get three or more servings […]READ MORE >>
May Stakeholder Retreat a Success
On May 26, 2016 Get Healthy Utah held a Stakeholder Retreat. We were pleased to have 85 people from over 50 organizations participate, including representatives from healthcare systems, public health, workplaces, government entities, school groups, and many others. Lt. Governor Spencer Cox gave a keynote address about the challenges and benefits of living a healthy […]READ MORE >>
Intermountain Healthcare Presents Gift to Get Healthy Utah: Utah Leaders for Health
Get Healthy Utah: Utah Leaders for Health recently received a $50,000 contribution from Intermountain Healthcare to aid in the development of the Get Healthy Utah website and additional educational efforts. The website offers healthy lifestyle resources and promotes physical activity as a way to help prevent and manage chronic diseases in Utah. These resources target […]READ MORE >>
ITSMeals at Provo School District
A watermelon Cheshire Cat and a cantaloupe fish are just two of the creative photos you will see on ITSMeals, Provo City School District's Facebook page. The Provo City School District Child Nutrition Program has received the Best of State Award for six consecutive years. It consistently goes above and beyond to promote nutrition and […]READ MORE >>
Davis School District's Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds
Imagine a vocabulary lesson that gets kids to shake, twist, and jog. Topsy Turvy instructs teachers to write astronomical vocabulary words and corresponding physical activities on the board (Constellation = shake; Sun = twist; Galaxy = jog in place). When the teacher reads a definition, students perform the activity associated with the correct word. This […]READ MORE >>


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June 2, 2002
A large percentage of Americans think our federal government can (and should) provide the citizenry with everything we need. They think the government should be a combination of Big Brother and Superman. They think the government can protect us from terrorism. I do not.
It is impossible for the US government to protect us from all terrorist attacks. President Bush has told us that. Vice President Cheney has stated that there will be more terrorist attacks; it is only a question of whether it will be tomorrow, next month, or sometime further into the future. FBI Director Mueller has made it clear that the FBI, no matter how much reorganization takes place, cannot prevent terrorists from attacking us. We haven't heard from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on this subject, because he knows better than anyone that the military cannot defend us from terrorism.
What is the answer? If we can't defend ourselves, if we know that whatever steps we take, some terrorists will slip through our defenses, should we give up? No way. We must continue to use whatever resources we have to detect and prevent terrorist attacks, even knowing that our best efforts will sometimes fail. However, we also need to understand that our best defense is a strong offense.
I served in the Marine Corps during the Viet Nam era. I spent my entire tour stateside training Marines for service in Viet Nam, so I never experienced combat. But I talked with hundreds of returning Marines who told me horror stories about guerrilla warfare. Try to imagine the terror you would feel if you had to go on a patrol through a jungle infested with booby traps and land mines, with invisible snipers high in the surrounding trees. At any moment the ground could give way beneath you, and you could find yourself impaled on a poisoned bamboo stake. The lower part of your body could be blown off with a misplaced step. You might see your closest friend's head disappear in a cloud of blood and bone fragments as he walked beside you.
That's what we face with the terrorists. The press doesn't call it guerrilla warfare, but that doesn't change the fact that Islamic extremists today engage in the dirtiest kind of guerrilla warfare, terror directed at civilians. Just as the Viet Cong blended in with the civilian population, today's terrorists try to look as much as possible like the populations they have vowed to destroy. The Viet Cong terrorized our troops, who were trained for conventional warfare, by coming at them from all sides unexpectedly. Similarly, today we have only hints of where terrorists may strike next.
The mistake we made in Viet Nam was that we never really took the battle to the enemy. We had dozens of opportunities to utterly crush the North Vietnamese by aggressively bombing Hanoi. Instead, we fought a polite, defensive war.
I talked with Marines who did sentry duty guarding camps where hundreds of their comrades were sleeping. When they came under fire from guerrillas, they had to radio for permission to return fire. Meanwhile, dozens of our men were killed. Fighter pilots told me stories of sighting supply convoys of Viet Cong carrying ammunition destined to kill our troops. They were forced to wait for permission to attack from some desk jockey while the enemy convoys disappeared into the cover of thick jungle canopy.
We're making the same mistakes today. Domestically we are so terrified of being accused of "racial profiling" that young Arab men are waved through airport security points while children and grandmothers are searched. One of the reasons the FBI has been ineffective in dealing with terrorist threats is that their hands have been tied with ridiculous mandates that prevent them from using common sense. For instance, the FBI has long known that mosques in the United States have been used to organize terror attacks and hide terrorists and weapons. Yet it is next to impossible to get a search warrant or wiretap authorized when it comes to terrorists hiding behind religious fronts.
Even some liberals are finally realizing that racial profiling is necessary. NY TIMES columnist Nicholas Kristof, in an article called "Liberals Need Reality Check on FBI" writes, "So it's time for civil libertarians to examine themselves with the same rigor with which we are prone to examine others. The bottom line is that Moussaoui was thrown into jail - thank God - not because there was evidence he had committed a crime, but because he was a young Arab man who behaved suspiciously and fit our stereotypes about terrorists... As risks change, we who care about civil liberties need to realign balances between security and freedom. It is a wrenching and odious task, but we liberals need to learn from 9/11 just as much as the FBI does."
Internationally, we are still huffing and puffing about the axis of evil, but we aren't doing anything. Saddam Hussein is frantically building up his military and rushing his scientists to complete their work on nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. Meanwhile, we politely try to organize a "coalition" of Arab nations so that we won't upset anyone when we finally go after Iraq. Excuse me. The very nations with which we are trying to build this coalition are financing terrorists worldwide at this very moment. Saudi Arabia, our "closest Arab ally", recently held a telethon to raise money for suicide bombers. Citizens of every Arab nation danced in the streets and cheered as the World Trade Towers came down. They will not support us. More importantly, we don't need their support. We need to attack Iraq yesterday.
If your house were infested with rats and cockroaches, would you wait for them to come out of their holes and try to pick them off one at a time in a defensive manner? No. You would call for the exterminator, who would go on the offensive. He would find them wherever they hid, and destroy them in their breeding grounds. We need to let the exterminators do their jobs. They're called the Air Force, the Navy, the Army, and the Marines. They're the best-trained, best-motivated and best-equipped exterminators on the planet.
Historically our nation has protected itself by never allowing the battle to come to our shores. We have taken the battle to the enemy and smashed his ability to attack us. Our politicians seem to have lost the will to do anything but fight a weak defensive battle, with the exception of the action in Afghanistan. Americans are fast forgetting 9/11 and desperately trying to convince themselves that terrorism is over, that a few metal detectors and federalization of airport security have won the battle.
But very soon this nation will experience what Israel has lived with for years. Muslim teenagers now living in the United States are being trained to hide explosives on their bodies and sneak into our churches, restaurants and shopping malls. When their blood mingles with that of our children in the aftermath of US suicide bombings, Americans will finally rise up. They will demand that our leaders destroy terrorism where it breeds, or they will replace them with leaders who have the guts to do what needs to be done.
The United States is trying to deal with uncivilized Muslim fanatics in a civilized manner. We're like a boxer trained in the tradition of formal boxing mixing it up with a street-wise punk from the Bronx. The boxer gamely follows the Marquis of Queensberry rules while the savage street fighter sucker-punches him and kicks him in the groin. We're not going to defeat these animals by being polite. We have to find them wherever they are and crush them with superior force. If we don't do that very soon, we may find that they have the superior force.
FROM ONE OF OUR EDITORS: Tom- Very true. I was in Viet Nam and Thailand for two tours. I know full well the horror, consequences and terror of war, especially guerrilla and terrorist war. That is probably why I have a hard attitude against evil. I believe all of the current terrorist activity is Islam based or influenced. Even the Basque separatists of Spain and France and the IRA terrorism in Ireland and England is financed and supported by Muslims. Remember it is not just the Arabs. There are only 300 million Arabs. There are hundreds of millions of Muslims in Pakistan, Indonesia, Nepal, Columbia, the Philippines and dozens of other nations. Their religion teaches them that all infidels - US - must be destroyed. We must take the war to the Islamic extremists and destroy their networks, without giving them a chance to regroup. That is what we did with Germany and Japan. This is not un-Biblical or cruel. In fact, it is based upon the Bible, where God says the governments are required to protect their people. If we don't destroy them they will destroy us - it's that simple. We must remember that this is a spiritual battle. - Pastor John (Dr. John L. Markley)
ONE YEAR IN CAPTIVITY. May 27 marked the one-year anniversary of Martin and Gracia Burnham's kidnapping by members of Abu Sayyaf, a Muslim militant group that reportedly has ties to Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terror network. Ironically, it was also their nineteenth wedding anniversary.
The Burnhams have been missionaries in the Philippines for seventeen years. Their grandparents, who have served as missionaries to the Philippines for thirty-two years, are caring for their three children.
On May 27, 2001, the couple was taking a rare day off from their duties to celebrate their eighteenth wedding anniversary. Along with sixteen others, they were taken captive by the Muslim group and held for ransom. The sixteen others have all been killed or released. Recently the Philippine government told the US that it would be "illegal" for US troops to effect a rescue of the couple, who are both ill.
Martin's father, Paul, said recently, "We feel like the Lord is really in control, and we just want to praise him for keeping Martin and Gracia together, and for keeping them alive." We would like to ask Conservative Truth readers worldwide to pray for the Burnhams' health and safety, and for their immediate release.
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Music video by Troy Ave ft. Rick Ross performing All About The Money (Remix). Troy Ave brings out the luxury whips, bags of cash and bottles of Belaire Rose in the remix video for "All About the Money." The very magenta colored visual features MMG's biggest boss Rick Ross, along with cameos from DJ Khaled and Red Cafe. Stream the remix which also features Jeezy here, as Troy Ave's Major Without A Deal LP is due in March.
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The Duke of Westminster, who as a two star major general quit as the army reserve's commander earlier this month, said that foreign firms were much more likely to release staff to serve with the Army Reserve than "English companies".
In his first interview since leaving the TA after 42 years' service, the Duke also suggested there should be new National Insurance tax breaks for companies which employ reservists.
He also shed light on his plans for a £300million rehabilitation centre for wounded soldiers in the Midlands, disclosing that it could also include a new Government centre to research how to private sector back to work more quickly after illness.
The army is facing its biggest overhaul for decades, with 20,000 regular servicemen losing their jobs by 2020 and the loss being in part made up by a big boost in the number of TA battle ready soldiers, up to 30,000 from 20,000 today.
However, attempts to recruit are being hampered by employers which are discriminating against new recruits because of concerns about time off to train or to be deployed overseas in Afghanistan for months at a time.
The Duke told The Daily Telegraph in an interview on Monday: "There is undoubtedly positive discrimination against someone who at interview says he is in the Territorial Army."
Application forms routine asked "Are you in the Territorial Army", when employers were not allowed by law to ask if an applicant was pregnant, black, white or a Muslim.
He said: "Why is it there? It is the most outrageous form of discrimination. It is like asking – 'do you play golf at weekends?' It has been mentioned to me by my soldiers on more than 100 occasions."
Foreign companies were far more willing to make staff available to serve in the TA than "English employers", he said, suggesting existing rules about discrimination should be tightened up.
The Duke, Britain's seventh richest man with a property empire worth £7.35billion, suggested cutting National Insurance bills which take reservists onto their payroll. He said: "It will cost hardly anything."
The Duke's ideas – including renaming the TA as the Army Reserve - are likely to be considered in an MoD review into the future of the Territorial Army next month.
His focus now is to raise funds for a new £300million Defence National Rehabilitation Centre in the east Midlands, to replace an existing armed forces rehabilitation centre in Surrey.
The Duke bought the 145 hectare site, including Stanford Hall, for "rather more than" a reported £6million and is actively fund-raising from private donors.
He said: "I want to create a feeling that when a wounded solider goes there [he thinks] 'Wow, someone is going to look after me'."
The Duke added he had no regrets about quitting the TA, which he commanded between February 2011 and the beginning of this month.
He said: "I am not one to hang on to be a general for the sake of being a general. There are more generals than there are dukes anyway."


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The most significant deformation of the earth's crust is accommodated by major fault systems, which extend into shear zones at depth. The central focus of my research is to understand how such brittle-to-ductile systems evolve in both space and time. An accurate reading of the structural record is necessary to understand processes such as strain localization and fluid-fault interactions. I use various combinations of the following tools to accomplish this goal: • detailed mapping and structural analysis • structural petrography • image analysis (to quantify structural patterns) • permeability analysis • analysis of crystallographic preferred orientations of minerals in rocks • electron microscopy (both SEM and TEM). In general, I link observations made at different scales in order to solve specific problems. These problems range from material controls on near-surface fault-zone deformation processes to the structural record of rheology of lower crustal rocks. I am particularly interested in how macroscopic structures reflect the underlying deformation mechanisms. Another area of specific interest is fault-zone deformation of granular porous material (such as poorly lithified sediments and nonwelded tuffs), and the influence of resulting structures on multi-phase fluid flow and transport.
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Just as every dawn, every sunrise, and every coming spring signifies a new beginning and hope, so does every new year, new century and every new millennium. In this respect, within the wheels of time, over which we have no control, humanity has always sought a new spark of life, a breath as fresh as the wind of dawn, and has hoped and desired to step into the light, leaving behind the darkness, as if one were crossing a threshold.
We believe and hope that the new year will rise on the foundations of love, compassion, mercy, dialogue, acceptance of others, mutual respect, justice, and rights. It will be a time in which humanity will discover its real essence. Goodness and kindness, righteousness and virtue will form the basic essence of the world. No matter what happens, the world will come to this path sooner or later. Nobody can prevent this.
Travelers on the way to goodness, those devotees of love who have no time for hostility, will carry the inspirations within their spirits to other worlds.We pray and beg that the Infinitely Compassionate One will not let our hopes and expectations come to nothing in this new year.
May this new year bring peace, love and prosperity to you, South Africa, and the whole of humanity!


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Monday, September 20, 2010
2010 OFA Field Meet
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Oct. 22-24 2010
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I'm not off to the season opener that I hoped I would have this year. Mostly due to work commitments that have popped up. I have gotten my hybrid kiting and going easily up past the 1000' mark to the kite, but not daily because lately I've had work early in the mornings and we are still pulling temps in the 90's by afternoon. So I will not be able to get serious until mid October now due to the fact that we have gotten contracted to fly Bald Eagles for a BBC documentary about migration in front of United States landmarks. So I will be spending time on the road in the coming weeks doing that. Good opportunity but bad timing for a falconry. Below is a video of a training session with my assistant calling, BENSAR, one of the eagles flying on creance. He's ready to fly free and will be doing so in the coming days.
On another note my apprentice and I trapped his second Red-tail of his apprenticeship. She's an average sized female, with sharp talons, and a nasty disposition. Should be killing squirrels, bunnies and who knows what else knowing Daniel in the coming weeks. His last Redtail was a well trained hunting machine and I wouldnt expect anything less with this bird. You can follow his progress by clicking here:
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Oh, I almost forgot, my family picked up another companion the other day. A 2 year old Hungarian Vizsla, named Bella. She was bought by a guy for his son to train on birds. His son being a teenager didn't teach the dog a darn thing. Nothing. Not even the most basic 'come" command. So she was a blank slate when we got her. Mostly she was great with the kids and that is why she came home with us. Turns out though that she is really birdy and honors points well. She now comes when called and we're progressing with her other training quickly. She's definitely become one of the family and it looks like I got another hunting partner too.
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Brief: Make a game in 24 hours... Without a developer(s).
Solution: 'Munch Munch Boom' is a tower defense type game where the user has to prevent junk food from entering a human couch potato. The more the protagonist eats, the larger he gets. His enlargement is also slowed down by towers that attempt to destroy everything on the feeding path. The game ends if the protagonist eats too much.
* All that was made of this game was the concept art which was then animated to make this trailer. I made this while studying in the Masters Program at the Centre for Digital Media.
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*Music "Datagroove" by Goto80
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I just turned seventy which is hard for me to fathom, probably because people constantly told my generation, grow up and leave your values behind. Maybe rebelliousness prevented our following that advice. Maybe it was sex, drugs, and rock and roll. In any case, we became forever young. Each new year we identified less with people our age and more with people much younger. I am forty years older than Chomsky was when I first became friends with him, and I remember then thinking he was an old guy. So by my own reckoning, I am old plus 40. Nonetheless, I don't see the aged as peers.
Another reason my generation resists that we are seventy and that those we worked with are seventy, and that many of us are even dead, is that we haven't achieved what we sought and we don't want to face that. The further left we are, the more I think this factor operates.
When I was becoming revolutionary, fifty years ago, my agenda was to help create a new world. For me, back then, and ever since, winning a new world didn't mean winning a little better this and a little better that, though winning a bit of this and that along the way would certainly be part of a larger process. My agenda was winning no more racial, geographic, cultural, gender, sexual, property, or job related demarcation of people into some who ride, and others who are ridden.
My generation often chanted "We want the world and we want it now." We did not get what we wanted. We did not win what we sought. Taking stock starts with admitting that.
In judging myself, and I suppose by extension my allies in our pursuit of winning a better world, it wouldn't be fair for me to complain that in 1969 or 1970 we didn't fully topple injustice and replace society's horrific institutions with liberating ones. No one could have achieved that in 1969 or 1970. No different choice on our part could have achieved that much, that soon. To not do what we couldn't have done was not failing.
But for people like me it has been fifty years. Some might argue that nothing we or anyone could have done differently even over the full fifty years could have left us with a new world now. That may or may not be true, though I admit that unlike many of my peers, I think that when a new world is won, the duration of going from the project's initial stages to revolutionary movements being fully in command of developing new relations will take considerably less than fifty years.
But even stepping back from that, I think there is simply no way to justifiably claim there was nothing that people with views like mine could have done differently to give people today a much better, albeit perhaps not yet fully revolutionized world. There is no way to claim, for example, that we could not have generated insights and activities and spread each widely enough to ensure that the current population of the U.S. would now be overwhelmingly progressive, informed, and for a great many even active, and at least not subject to such confusion or downright vulgarity about so many matters as to be able to be deceived into, or herded into, or running rapidly toward climate catastrophe, racial reversion, sexual surrender, economic dissolution, and war, war, war.
For example, after fifty years of my generation's efforts to contribute to change, why did so many white working men and women who we were supposedly trying to relate to all that time, vote for Trump? Why did so many Blacks, for that matter, support Clinton not just against Trump – rightly – but against Sanders? I am not asking for a proximate explanation emphasizing media manipulation, vapid democratic party policy, and so on. I am asking how could people like me have known what we knew about society's structure, about social possibilities, and even about activism, for fifty years, and not have conveyed it more effectively?
Answering that question may be painful for many people. It is for me. But it doesn't mean pointing fingers of blame. It doesn't mean rejecting everything past generations did based on the logic that if we dump everything we will have dumped whatever in the mix wasn't effective, because we will have also dumped everything that was effective. It doesn't mean now adding new content to our approach just because it is new. If stuff we did for the past fifty years didn't succeed, certainly something new is needed, but adding something new that is again flawed won't help.
To take stock means asking what we have done these past fifty years, that has caused our views to have so much less impact than needed.
It wasn't our understanding of what was wrong with society at fault. That much is virtually certain. But if over the years we had gotten 50% of the population, much less more than that, to have the same understanding we had fifty years ago, and the same willingness to fight that we had back then, we would now have a vastly different society.
So the question becomes, what was it about what we chose to talk about, how we spoke, our actions to reach out, and what we didn't address or didn't do but should have done, that was either wrong or deficient?
If we can answer, we will know how to alter our past approaches to activism to do better now. But if we don't even ask the question, if we don't take stock, it would be pure luck to do better and we will more likely repeat the same dismal pattern of courageously and wisely struggling but not winning.
From where I sit, people seem to feel that to have strong opinions about anything is fine, but to voice strong opinions is not fine. It may upset someone. Someone may feel insulted. But I wonder why do people feel insulted?
If someone says to me your agenda is unmet, you failed, you made poor choices, we need to find what they were – then no matter how forcefully, they say it, I am not insulted. I agree. In fact, it better be true, because if my generation did the best that could have been done, well, then there would be little hope and very little motivation for a sensible person to become active now, I suspect. We need to find correctable flaws so we can see real reasons why we did not succeed, and confidently make needed corrections.
I have my own ideas about our flaws. Lack of answers when asked what we want in place of current society. Lack of belief in our own capacities. Lack of organization that could sustain unity and mutual aid, while planting seeds of the future. Lack of attention to the non property factors generating class division and their interpersonal and social effects. You probably have your different list. Openly addressing what has been wrong, writ large, and posing corrections, would be taking stock – and taking stock is exactly what we need to do.


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It was a day like any other in the year 1211. Jeanette with her baby, Tiennet, was on her way to the monastery perched on the hillside above the bottomless pond of turquoise water. She wasn't happy that she was the laundress for the order of strange nuns who lived in their secluded and remote monastery, but a job was a job. She needed the few coins they paid her. She wasn't happy that she had to bring Tiennet with her either, but there was no one to care for him while she washed and pounded and rinsed the nuns' heavy woolen habits. She crossed herself as she passed the unholy-looking water
and mumbled a quick prayer for protection. At the monastery gate, she handed her baby to the abbess, a stern and unpleasant woman, who would watch Tiennet while Jeanette performed her duties. The work was hard, the day was hot and Jeanette was happy to accept the nuns' offer of lunch. Her full stomach and strenuous morning lulled her into a long nap, and it was late afternoon when she went to fetch her baby. He lay there in the sun and a mother's love welled up in Jeanette. She reached out to stroke his sweet head. His forehead was icy cold! Concerned that he was ill, she threw back the blanket covering him and there to her horror, she saw only his severed head. His body had been cut away, sacrificed by the nuns for their Black Mass, and then eaten. Jeanette remembered her delicious lunch with a nauseating shudder.
In her anguish and horror she screamed curses on the nuns begging God to punish the wicked and evil women. "May the highest stone of this monastery become the lowest!" she cried. With that the walls of the monastery began to crumble and the bottom of the strange turquoise pond opened up to swallow the monastery...its highest stones sinking into the bottomless pit.
It's said that if you come to the Gouffre de Lantouy on the night of St Jean, you can hear the monastery bells ringing far below in the bowels of the earth. The sorrowful ghost of Jeanette roams the valley, wailing and searching for her son. And an odd black hare, thought to be the ghost of the wicked abbess, frightens dogs away from what is left of the ancient monastery walls.


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SAFETY inspectors will blitz Yorkshire building sites in a bid to stop accidents.
Their month-long drive follows a barrage of checks in June.
The inspections are part of a Europe-wide campaign aimed at reducing falls from height.
Geoff Cox, the Health and Safety Executive's regional head of construction operations, said inspectors would be looking to see an improvement in safety measures.
Falling from height is the biggest killer in the industry.
During the blitz in June, inspectors had to serve enforcement notices at a third of the 181 construction sites visited.
Mr Cox said: "Clearly, the message of how to reduce falls from height is not yet understood or being put into practice by everybody working in this industry.
"Given that most fall from height accidents are preventable, there is no excuse for not ensuring that all work being carried out at height is done safely."
A new video has been produced by the Health and Safety Executive to explain the risks and how they can be managed.


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With special guests like the Burlesque Hall of Fame star and costume designer Catherine D'Lish, Marsha who worked at Frederick's of Hollywood back in the 70ies, Nico who is a seller at a top luxury lingerie brand and last but not least Satan's Angel!
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Steelers' Bell, Scott Miss 2nd Practice
The Pittsburgh Steelers may be without defensive starters Kendrell Bell and Chad Scott for Sunday's wild-card playoff game against Cleveland.
Bell, a linebacker who had four sacks in the Steelers' final six games, was held out of practice for a second straight day Thursday with a sprained left ankle. He sprained the same ankle twice previously this season, causing him to miss most of five games.
Scott, a cornerback, has been out since breaking his right thumb Dec. 23 against Tampa Bay.
Bell would be replaced by rookie Larry Foote, who started when Bell was hurt earlier in the season. Scott would be replaced by Deshea Townsend, who made an interception Sunday against Baltimore.