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By Scott Malone
BOSTON, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Boston's longest-serving mayor,
Thomas Menino, was transferred on Monday from the hospital where
he has been receiving treatment for a virus and back pain over
the past month to another facility where he will continue his
The prolonged illness, and a new diagnosis of diabetes, come
a few months before the 69-year-old Democrat must decide whether
to seek a sixth term in the office he has held since 1993. He is
up for re-election in November 2013.
Officials gave no immediate timetable for the 69-year-old
Democrat's eventual release from Spaulding Rehabilitation
hospital, where he will undergo physical therapy and continue to
run the city from his hospital room.
"Now it's a matter of getting him stronger so that he can do
all the things he typically does at this time of year," said Dot
Joyce, Menino's spokeswoman. "He's able to engage fully. He
meets with staff at least once a week and also takes calls as
necessary, but right now he is focused on his care."
A prolonged hospitalization could increase the odds of a
challenger seeking to unseat the incumbent, though he remains
popular with Boston voters after almost two decades in office,
observers said.
"In Boston, usually once you're in as mayor, most mayors
tend to last a long time," said John Berg, a professor of
government at Suffolk University in Boston. Menino's
predecessor, Raymond Flynn, stepped down when President Bill
Clinton named him ambassador to the Vatican.
Berg noted that Menino's campaign organization played a
major role in supporting Senator-elect Elizabeth Warren's
successful campaign to unseat Republican Sen. Scott Brown, a
clear show of Menino's continued power even while he was in the
Joyce said it was "too soon" to comment on Menino's plans
for the next election.
Menino was admitted to Brigham and Women's Hospital in
Boston on Oct. 26, after cutting short a vacation to Italy due
to a virus. During his time in the hospital doctors also
discovered and treated an infection in his back and diagnosed
him with Type II diabetes.
On the national stage, Menino has stood out as an advocate
for gun control and gay marriage, issues on which he has often
worked alongside New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. In July,
he publicly urged fast food chain Chick-fil-A to stay out of
Boston due to its president's "prejudiced statements" on
same-sex marriage.
(Reporting by Scott Malone; Editing by Dan Grebler)


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PMPA's National Technical Conference: Developing Today's Talent for Tomorrow's Success
This year's National Technical Conference is a machinist's apprenticeship packed into 2 1/2 days of programming. The content of this conference addresses the cross-section of talent and the various machining capabilities utilized by precision machining shops. This year there will be three extended training programs calls "certification workshops" that will include a certificate of completion for attendees who complete each session within the workshop. Learn from a combination of professional speakers and leaders in the machining industry on topics and issues we face every day. Here is what is in store for you:
Certification Workshops:
Featured Content
1. Metallurgy for Machinists
This extended training workshop will give your machinists a better understanding of materials and their impacts on your processes.
2. Gaining Confidence with GD&T
Gary Griffith of Griffith Training will teach the GD&T symbols, interpretation and inspection methods using actual parts in this three part workshop.
3. CNC Programming Workshop
This three part workshop will start with the explanation of macro programming by teaching variables, system variables, math functions, logic statements and conditional branching, followed by further examples and techniques.
Keynote Speaker:
David Rutherford of Froglogic Concepts LLC is a former Navy SEAL who served honorably for 8 years in the Naval Special Warfare Community. He was a combat paramedic, operator and instructor during his time with the Navy SEAL Teams, participating in thousands of high risk training missions. David's message has reached over a million people, guiding them to forge their self-confidence and commit to living the Team Life.
Track Programming:
Sessions are targeted to three groups of personnel: Technical, Quality and Management. Examples of these programs include:
• Achieving Lean
• Additive Manufacturing – Printing Metal Parts
• Benefits of 3D Modeling
• Common Pitfalls in Interpreting Quality Indexes
• Cost of Quality – Real Shop Examples
• Finding Skilled Talent – An Alternative Approach
• IT Disaster Recovery Solutions
• Machining Center – How Do You Fixture That?
• Machining Technologies Showcase
• Managing Maintenance
• Maximizing Tool Performance
• Self-Confidence
• The Lost Art and Beauty of the Automatic Bar Machine
Website: pmpa.org/techconf/
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Demarcus Hughes on 20 Mar 14This article is about the sustainability need in the food waste area. This article explain that we should recycle our food by composting and also explain two types of ways to compost.
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Norma Sanchez on 21 Mar 14I really enjoyed reading this article because it ties in with food waste what we have been taking about. For an instance I thought they were the same back to going "green" it is good to learn the difference to comprehend both. This is also very helpful for those of us who would like to help but do not know how.
patricia kelly on 22 Mar 14To achieve a sustainable society then food waste must be recycled as opposed to being sent to landfill sites around the country. We all know the problems that our planet is suffering through global warming that is partly aided by the greenhouse gasses that are produced when food waste is sent to landfill and the ensuing fluctuations in temperature that is suffered around the globe.
patricia kelly on 22 Mar 14I really like your comment Norma i Read the same thing but saw it in a different light. But then after reading about your going green comment i thought about how ironic it is that color is being considered a sustainability method. It is great when you can see something from someone else point of view and get more from something you already agreed with.


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The France Under-21 international is expected to complete a move to the Emirates this summer after rejecting a new deal at Auxerre.
And Sanogo says a meeting with the Gunners boss convinced him that north London is the best place for him to develop as a player, despite having reservations.
|Arsenal are 10/1 with BetVictor to win the title
"He [Gilles Grimandi] had been to see me many times at Auxerre. And then, one day, we met in Paris at a hotel.
"I was very impressed. Monsieur Wenger had come to see me directly in Paris. He told me that I would have my chance and reassured me about my injury.
"He said he had followed me for many seasons. It was this trip that was decisive in my decision. I opted for Arsenal."
Sanogo, who has spent 18 months on the sidelines, says he was also swayed by the advice of the French contingent at Arsenal.
He continued: "I was told it was a very good club for me [by Diaby, Coquelin and Sagna] . Many of the guys said I was too young. But I left them to speak.
"I am 20, I had not played for a year and a half, I had scored some goals and Arsenal had contacted me. Could I really say no? I don't believe so. It will be a magnificent adventure."
Sanogo only has a brief experience of English football on a visit to Wembley as a child, but insists he is ready to take on the physical challenge of the Premier League.
"When I was small, I went to see Chelsea-Manchester [United] in a Community Shield match. But that's all. I don't know the city," he added.
"The defenders are fierce but I'm not going with any apprehension. The more time passes and the less I worry [about my knee]. I am just impatient to start in one of the best leagues in the world.
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One of the widest range of solutions to combine Wellbeing, Sustainability and Profitability...
Energy Efficiency, Safety, Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ) and Emission Control are the four cornerstones of a Halton High Performance Kitchen.
Simultaneously combining them in harmony and in such varying spaces as professional kitchens is a daily challenge. However, it's one which is easily met thanks to the widest range of professional kitchen ventilation solutions on the market.
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At 800 kWh/m² (1), the catering business is the most energy-consuming out of all commercial and residential buildings in the United States, even surpassing the hospital sector (at 600 kWh/m²). This ratio is mirrored across Europe and most other developed countries. As such, energy performance is the most important aspect of Halton's High Performance Kitchen.
M.A.R.V.E.L. and the Capture Jet™ technologies are undoubtedly at the forefront of this energy efficiency quest in professional kitchens.
(1) Energy Efficiency in Buildings, Transforming the Market (WBCSD World Business Council for Sustainable Development)
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Many restaurants today do not re-open after a major safety incident. Operators or owners not only have to deal with the interruption of business, but also face up to their responsibilities to the building's other tenants, customers, third parties, or cope with bad press. Safety is de facto a major concern in professional kitchens.
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Lack of staff is one of the major challenges faced by commercial catering. The comparatively low uptake of cheffing jobs may be attributed to uncomfortable working conditions – potential candidates are deterred by thermal discomfort. These conditions are related to air temperature and speed, the heat radiated by cooking appliances and humidity. The Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ) is a wider notion that also encompasses lighting quality, sound pressure levels and visual comfort.
However, reducing exhaust airflow rates alone constitutes a superb starting point on the road to a good and sustainable IEQ. Simply put, the reduction of exhaust airflow rates minimises drafts, whilst improving sound pressure levels. For the most part, when the energy efficiency of a kitchen is improved, so too is the IEQ.
Making further improvements to the IEQ in your workplace is thus a combination of factors, which are not solely related to the product and technologies chosen.
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Any professional kitchen generates a lot of pollutants, among which grease - in every shape and form - and odours generate the highest concerns in terms of safety and consideration for the surrounding neighbourhood. Especially in dense urban sites or for large catering establishments such as foodcourts or central production kitchens.
It is highly likely that future legislation may well stipulate that "fresh" air used for any commercial catering must be discharged back into the atmosphere at the same quality at which it was taken. With energy efficiency, emission control is the second biggest trend in the field of professional kitchens.
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For wealthy New Yorkers accustomed to $10+ million urban homes, buying a Bahamas condo for $3 million doesn't seem so bad.
At least, that's what Danish architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and real estate company Douglas Elliman are hoping.
They have teamed up on a gorgeous new project called the Honeycomb on the south coast of New Providence, named for its geometric and organic façade. The midrise condominium will face a marina and the ocean, and feature apartments ranging from two bedrooms to seven-bedroom penthouses.
The 34-unit complex is a part of a larger resort known as The Albany, a project developed by the Tavistock Group with investors such as Tiger Woods and Ernie Els, and would be the tallest building in the area, according to the press release.
"The idea with having Douglas Elliman on board is that the New York buyer hasn't been addressed," Horacio LeDon, a senior managing director at Douglas Elliman Development Marketing, told The New York Times. "Wealthy New Yorkers have been going down to the Bahamas for quite some time, and all without any proper marketing. We aim to change that."
Compared to some Manhattan real estate, the condos are relatively cheap, costing roughly $1,600 to $1,700 per square foot after closing costs and other expenditures, according to The Times (that's a range of $3 million to $12.5 million). In Manhattan, square footage can go for many times that price.
Each apartment comes with an outdoor private terrace, as well as a pool. Honeycomb will break ground this summer, and opens in the first half of 2016.
A new midrise condominium in the Bahamas, the Honeycomb has 34 apartments with their own private terraces and pools.
Source: Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
The building will look out into the marina filled with yachts and towards the ocean.
Source: Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
During the night, Honeycomb will be clearly visible from the water with the pools and windows all lit up.
Source: Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
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April 29th-May 2nd, 2011
Theme: It's Dangerous to go Alone! Take this!
More Info: Ludum Dare 20 Has Begun! (Keynote), Theme Voting Results.
Take It Take It Take Thisby Rikkard - Competition Entry
Wise Man's Wisdom Emporium and Item Dispensary: Take It Take It Take This!
One man's journey to give everyone what they want, or at the very least, something they wouldn't mind.
Game is pretty simple. Press space to spawn an adventurer (much like the title character of the theme's game) who will tell you their plight (or tell you something, in most cases) and you are free/forced with your infinite wisdom to give them an item from your cave. There are several "good" options and occasionally some special "bad" options. Experiment!
Also, you'll notice from the screenshots that there is a hidden space shooter game. Try to find it!
I used FlashPunk as the engine, did the sounds with SFXR and the background music on my keyboard. All of these were new things for me, so horray for finishing.
Downloads and Links
This game is the greetest! Now I am leaving this website for no raison!
I laughed!
There is a bug where, I think it's after talking to the guy who says "spaaaaaace", everybody who comes in no longer has line breaks, so you can't really read what they are saying. That made me start over. I tried a bunch of times, but I'd always eventually hit that point and be stuck because I couldn't tell what they were saying. Not that I really knew what they wanted when I could read it!
Yeah, I'm aware of that bug. Quick solution would be to just remake the text box every time a new dialogue starts. It's weird how that one breaks it but "weeeeeeeeee" doesn't seem to (I mean, it clearly goes out but it is supposed to).
I switched over to a different version of FlashPunk's Text.as pretty late yesterday to make the text wrapping work.
Oh well, it's not like score matters.
Very funny. Sometimes agitating. I think some people couldn't be pleased? When I got the ones I could figure out, often I didn't have what they needed. I guess that's the life of an old wise man who gives people things. I loved the changing store name.
Good idea! Maybe instead of just being good or bad there could be more of gradient, like choices range from best to worst. Also it felt wrong to press space to send in an adventurer since otherwise it's fully mouse driven. Instead maybe the item box at the bottom could just say "Send in the next adventurer." and you click on it to send them in.
Pretty good game!
i played with this for way longer than is probably reasonable. hilarious and i only stopped because i got the line break bug after some spaaaaace screaming.
Loved it. Just. Loved it.
The real chink to me was that it was very difficult to figure out what the characters actually needed. Even then I kept on giving them whatever came to mind and had a great giggle over the changing shop name :)
Anyone find the space minigame yet? I hastily included it with like 80 minutes to spare :)
Enjoyed this, was a bit tricky trying to work out the best things to give, and it ended up breaking and text not wrapping - meaning I couldn't read everything they said. Great concept though!
I went to spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace
Nice take on the theme.
Hey Rikkard, you commented on my entry that you experienced the little bug. Would be nice to know if you have forced antialiasing on from the drivers and if so, does the bug disappear if you take the forced setting away. :)
I didn't change any anti-aliasing settings. I took a quick look in the modified Text class I used too, but that didn't seem to change any settings either.
If I get some more spare time I'll update it with the fix (and maybe some more dialogue).
Ooooh, I get what you are saying now. Control Panel says it overrides applications with 4x.
I like that bad things happen to them all no matter what... hah. Sometimes I didn't seem to have the item I needed to give away in my inventory.
This game was real fun ! I enjoyed the name changing too. Couldn't get past 1 point...
I got the inside minigame, but failed terribly at it x)
Yay, another NPC game!!! Good work!
Nice mini-game (though not very hidden).
Now we just need a game that lets you play as the narrator who insults all your customers behind their back.
At some point the text started to go offscreen rather than wrapping round. Quite annoying, up until then I was really enjoying the varied dialogue.
Other than that, this is really nice! Despite the amount of repetition.
It was addictive like one of those "launch games" where you don't really do much but somehow you want to keep doing it.
I looked at the source for some hints.. :)
Oh yeah, I played the space game.. great 3d graphics.. too bad my old computer could hardly handle it. ;)
I get 500s on both links :(
Hehe, very nice - well done!
Agree with the comment that the SPACE key feels wrong... should've been all-mouse.
Try http://prerecorded.net/TakeItTakeItTakeThis.swf ?
Maybe Dropbox was down when you tried, Endurion.
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The majority of large technology projects don't meet user expectations, and they cost more and take longer than expected. In fact, one-third of large projects go significantly over budget or are cancelled outright. In general, the larger the project, the greater the risk. And the risks are significant: The potential loss from a major project delay can range from 100-170% of investment cost.
By investing in quality assurance, large projects have a much greater chance of success. Investing just 3% of the program budget on de-risking can bring a return of 30-60 times the cost.
De-risking a large program requires addressing the typical causes of failure, including:
BCG's phased approach de-risks delivery by offering early intervention. The initial phase is a comprehensive program review using a five-lens framework. This framework is used over two phases: program review and setup, and ongoing independent quality assurance monitoring.


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Start your trip with Bangkok's popular destinations. Ride the Skytrain to the historic Grand Palace. Its sophisticated design alone will make your jaw drop. Here, you'll also find Thailand's most important Buddhist temple – the Wat Phra Kaew and its Emerald Buddha.
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Tucked in-between the English Channel and Bristol Channel, the South West of England is a beautiful place to go on a caravan or camping holiday. The picturesque views, rolling hills, colourful scenery and the fact that it has the longest coastline of England's regions helps to make the South West a favourite among caravanners and home to some of the most popular caravan sites in the whole of the UK. Those in Cornwall are often particularly popular.
Comprising of Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, the South West is best known for its production of Cheddar cheese, which originated in the Somerset village of Cheddar, for Devon cream teas, crabs, Cornish pasties, and for cider. Durdle Door in Dorset is also part of the Jurassic Coast, England's only natural World Heritage Site, where as Wiltshire houses Salisbury Cathedral the tallest in the UK at 123 metres.
Welcome to the home of Stonehenge, magnificent Bath Spa and quaint honey coloured Cotswold's villages. Beautiful Cornish beaches, gently rolling Devonshire hills and miles of lush English countryside make our landscape heaven for anyone who loves the great outdoors, to set up base in the caravan or even go on long country walks, hikes and cycle rides. Gloucestershire is famed for its Cathedral, where many of the scenes from Harry Potter's Hogwarts were filmed, Chedworth Roman Villa and Prinknash Abbey Bird and Deer park which combines wildlife with a monastic estate between the new Abbey and the old Abbey, once the hunting lodge of the Abbots of Gloucester and King Henry VIII.
The South West is also well known as being the home of the Eden Project, Aardman Animations, the Glastonbury Festival, the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta, trip hop music and also Cornwall's surfing beaches.


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Backstory: I've long been impressed with Jon Smith's exploration of student publishing. Recently I saw his post at the Ohio Resource Center and asked Jon if he would cross post on my blog. This is his second post on Copy/Paste. Here's his first guest post which features a video reflection by his students.
Jon Smith is a technology integration specialist for Alliance City Schools. He was a special education teacher for 12 years and continues to have a desire to allow special education students to create wonderful content to enhance their learning. Jon's daily duties include teaching students about technology tools, helping them with projects, and giving professional development to teachers and district staff. He is also an instructor for the Communicate Institute. Jon teaches a graduate-level course to teachers on engaging the twenty-first-century learner with technology. You can contact Jon at his website. His student iBooks are available here ~ Peter Pappas
The Beginnings
I was teaching special education students in grades 5 and 6 in an inner-city school in Canton. Time was going by, and students continued to struggle with writing. I was determined to make a difference and change these students for the better. They were going to become great writers if it killed me. While my goals were commendable, they weren't being achieved to the degree I wanted. Then, two years ago, Apple introduced a software product called iBooks Author, and things would change for me forever.
For the first time, people were given the opportunity to self-publish in an easy manner. I saw this software as an opportunity for students to have a global audience for their writing. Blogs and other means of attracting a global audience have been around for a while, but this was something truly different, and I ran with it. Students were excited to be writing for someone other than their teacher. Engagement increased. Time on task increased, and the energy in the classroom changed to something you can normally only dream of.
Within three months we had written and published three iBooks in Apple's iBookstore. We were graphing the downloads in the hall on chart paper, estimating how many downloads we would have by the end of the year, and planning our next books. Comments from all over the globe came pouring in, and it meant a great deal to the students. For the first time in their lives, they had a real, authentic audience for their work.
I soon changed jobs and moved to Alliance City Schools. The iBook ideas continued, and my Alliance students soon published two iBooks using iBooks Author. Again, things were going smoothly until one day when I met Pam, a speech and language pathologist for one of the elementary schools in Alliance. This begins the journey of my use with the Book Creator app.
Working with Autistic Students
Pam was referred to me by our district network manager. She was in need of instruction on using iMovie on her iPad. I knew I could help her, and so we met to discuss using the iMovie app. She explained to me that she had a group of fourth grade autistic boys who needed some serious motivation and help. They weren't interested in doing any kind of work at all, and she thought iMovie would help. I asked her what they were struggling with, and she mentioned social skills. Immediately my mind went from iMovie mode into something else, something more powerful.
I explained to Pam that I had another idea. It was an app I recently learned about. I was looking for a group of guinea pigs, and this was the perfect opportunity for me to try Book Creator out with a group of students. Pam explained to me that this was a tough group of kids. She eyed me cautiously when I explained that we were going to write a book using the Book Creator app. And she looked at me like I was on drugs when I told her that we weren't only going to write a book but that we were also going to publish this book for the entire world to download.
I began meeting with her and her students once a week. I explained to the students that they would soon be globally published authors. They were so excited about their book, it was contagious. We began using the Book Creator app to make videos of inappropriate social skills interactions (this wasn't difficult because this is what they did on a daily basis). We also made videos of appropriate interactions (great learning opportunity for the kids). Students started using Pam's iPad to write down information and create their stories and author bios. The students also realized they could record their voices using the app, and they did. They believed this would help them be better readers. Adding their own pictures was icing on the cake. After a month of work, the book was ready, and we published it in the iBookstore. The downloads started flying in, and this is where the real transformation occurred.
The students in Pam's group were thrilled about the downloads. They put a map in the hall and began to chart which countries had downloaded their book. This seems like such a small thing, but to these students it was spectacular. These students who were afraid of talking to others, had few friends, and were thought of as outcasts soon became the stars of the school. The students were talking to kids in the hall, explaining why there was a red pin in Japan and Norway and Canada. One student's parent, who never came to any IEP meetings, showed up for the first time. She was so excited to see what her son had done, that she came to the first meeting at the school in four years. The students couldn't stop writing and wanted to make more and more books. They had so much fun and learned so much while using this app, that they have started a series of social skills books. As of today, they have written and published three iBooks in the social skills series.
I plan on using the Book Creator app with more and more schools as the year goes on. I have teamed with other teachers in the district, and we have written and published iBooks using the Book Creator app with kindergarten students, first graders, and of course our fourth and fifth graders. The ideas are endless, and the Book Creator app is the simplest and most robust app for writing books hands down. I would also like to expand the use of the app to the high school, where I spend most of my days. We have a one-to-one iPad program with the freshman class, and this app is ideal for having kids demonstrate their knowledge in a variety of subjects. I would also like to see students become their own self-publishers by using the app.
What I've Learned
Throughout the process of writing and publishing books, I've learned a few things. I would like to share those with you now, because this is such a powerful app and because publishing student work is such a powerful idea that I want every teacher and student to have this opportunity.
- Apple is picky. But using the Book Creator app is so easy, it's nearly impossible not to pass Apple's strict publishing standards.
- Writing and publishing books has enormous potential to change the lives of students and the way they interact with the world around them.
- Marketing your book makes a huge difference. I am very active on Twitter, and if it weren't for all my followers, retweets, and mentions, we would not have had the successes we did. Twitter is a great place for free publicity.
- I've learned that people like to read what students create. We have had nearly 32,000 downloads of our class-written iBooks. This number keeps climbing daily, and it is very exciting to watch.
- I've also learned that writing and publishing books with your students is addicting. Currently we have 44 iBooks available in the iBookstore, and this number will continue to grow.
I would like to close this article with a few thoughts and a quote. I think students need to contribute more in the classroom. They need to be creating content as part of the learning experience. They need to show us what they know, and they need to be able to explain it. Using Book Creator has the potential to transform learning for you and your students. Students and teachers need to share what they do. This really makes a difference in the authenticity of the learning. I truly believe that students want to share what they do, and when they have a bigger audience, the work gets better.
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White Lightning, a route bolted by local Josh Gross with Dave's support, is an excellent 5.13b that ends two-thirds of the way up a 40-meter cliff, yet above the anchors lies a deceptively blank shield of bone-white limestone with curious pockets and razor-blade edges. Dan wanted to carry this route to the top of the cliff, as Dave had envisioned, but he needed my help to teach him how to bolt.
I, by no means, am an expert route developer, but I have done some of the good lord's work, as we call route-setting out here in Western Colorado. Much of that knowledge came from my time spent with Dave. It felt good to spend a day out in the mountains with my friend Dan, passing on some of the information that Dave had given to me.
After Dan placed some new bolts, sunk an anchor and cleaned the line, he set to work figuring out the V10 boulder sequence. Two redpoint burns later, Dan was falling off the very last moves of the boulder problem. He didn't quite manage the send on this trip, but plans to finish the route up in May.
They say the best climber in the world is the one who is having the most fun. But what's even better is finding ways to give back and build up the individuals and community around you, while at the same time having fun and pushing yourself to be the best. Dave's death was a reminder to all of us to pursue a wider life because, at the end of it all, a bunch of hard redpoints amassed don't mean shit if those achievements are pursued to the exclusion of all the good in life.
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Reversing a recent trend of early fall lulls, sales of existing homes and condos jumped in Southwest Florida in October.
The number of pending sales also climbed last month, a sign of healthier future sales and more momentum for the region's recovering residential real estate market.
Prices for single-family homes continue to increase when compared with last year's levels, spurred in part by the steady shrinking inventory of properties for sale that has renewed competition among buyers.
"We are getting into bidding wars on stuff under the $120,000 range," said Roger Piro of Town and Country Real Estate. "There are a lot of people competing for the more affordable properties."
Piro fielded six offers for a small, 67-year-old house off Ashton Road in Sarasota that needs work. It just sold in a short sale for $68,200, more than the asking price.
Realtors in Sarasota and Manatee counties sold 1,072 homes and condos last month, up 15.5 percent from September and a robust 30 percent over October 2011.
"It appears from all signs that the Sarasota real estate market is in full recovery mode," said Laura Benson, president of the Sarasota Association of Realtors.
Sales slowed during September and October the last several years, but real estate agents say fall has been busy so far this year after an unusually active summer. The lower inventory is getting buyers off the fence, Piro said, and some seasonal residents are back and responding to values in the market.
"Any time inventory falls below six months, there is a sense of urgency among some buyers," he said.
Pending sales -- properties that went under contract during the month but have not yet closed -- increased in Sarasota to 954 in October, up from 844 in September and 772 one year earlier. In Manatee, pending sales totaled 393 homes and condos in October, up from 361 last month and from 260 a year ago.
Sales prices of single-family homes rose sharply when compared with last year at this time, but condo prices were mixed in the two counties.
In the territory covered by the Sarasota Realtors, the median sales price for a single-family home was $176,000 in October, 3.5 percent ahead of the $169,950 the previous month but up 17.5 percent when compared with the $149,838 median one year earlier.
Manatee Realtors reported a median price of $185,000 for a single-family home, 10.6 percent ahead of the $167,250 recorded the previous month and 32 percent over the $140,000 last year.
Condo prices slipped to $160,000 in Sarasota from $175,400 the previous month but were up nearly 12 percent from $143,000 the year before.
Condos in Manatee sold for a median $76,000 in October, down from $77,500 in September and from $83,750 one year earlier.
The dwindling inventory of homes for sale has boosted traffic at open houses and generated multiple offers from buyers, agents say.
"We are now well past the low point of the market downturn, and while the future is never certain, the coming season appears to be headed in the right direction," said Benson, who is an agent with regional brokerage Michael Saunders & Co.
But decade-low inventory levels are also a concern because fewer properties are on the market. Sarasota has a 4.4-month supply of single-family homes, while Manatee has 4.3 months' worth.
The inventory in Sarasota actually rose slightly to 3,517 from the prior month's 3,460, which was the lowest mark since 1998. But the numbers of homes for sale remains 22 percent less than last year.
Inventory in Manatee is down to 1,713 homes and condos, down 5 percent for the month and off 28 percent, or 665 units, from last year.
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The statewide housing market looked much the same in October, as closed sales, median prices and pending sales all rose while the inventory of homes and condos for sale dropped, according to data from Florida Realtors.
Sales of existing single-family homes totaled 17,779 in October, up 25.3 percent compared to the year-ago figure. Sales of town homes-condos came to 8,252 units, up 16.4 percent over October 2011.
The statewide median sales price for single-family existing homes in October was $145,000, up 9 percent from a year ago. Town home-condo properties sold for $107,000, up 20.2 percent.
The inventory for both single-family homes and condos stood at a 5.2-months' supply.
"Once again, everything that should be going up in the market is going up, and everything that should be going down is going down," said Florida Realtors chief economist John Tuccillo.
Nationally, sales of previously occupied homes rose solidly in October, helped by improvement in the job market and record-low mortgage rates.
The increase, along with a jump in home builder confidence this month, suggests the housing market continues to recover.
The National Association of Realtors said sales rose 2.1 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.79 million. That was up from 4.69 million in September, which was revised lower.
The sales pace is roughly 11 percent higher than a year ago. But it remains below the more than 5.5 million that economists consider consistent with a healthy market.
The median price for previously occupied homes increased 11.1 percent from a year ago to $178,600.
A decline in the number of homes available for sale is helping push prices higher across the U.S.
There were only 2.14 million homes available for sale, the lowest supply in 10 years.
It would take only 5.4 months to exhaust that supply at the current sales pace, the lowest sales-to-inventory ratio since February 2006.
The new homes market is also looking stronger, with confidence among U.S. home builders rising in November to its highest level in six and a half years, according to an index reading released on Monday.
The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index increased to 46, up from 41 in October. That is the highest reading since May 2006, just before the housing bubble burst.
Readings below 50 suggest negative sentiment about the housing market. The index last reached that level in April 2006. Still it has been trending higher since October 2011, when it stood at 17.
OCTOBER: Region's sales up 30 percent from last year, 15 percent from month ago
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Scott Harris loved to talk about news.
And not just on the air. Everywhere.
Years ago, when Central Florida News 13 used to be located across the street from the Sentinel, the cable station's founding anchor often would come wandering through the Sentinel's newsroom.
He simply wanted to talk about the issues of the day. Who made them happen? What were the consequences? Who should be held accountable if things went wrong?
Sometimes he'd call up just to ask if I'd heard anything he hadn't.
And the guy seemed to know as much about the space program as some who have gone up in the shuttle.
Scott Harris was a newsman's newsman.
And Central Florida was better for it.
That's one reason so many people are lamenting the passing of this humble, knowledgeable and even-handed journalist who lost a battle with cancer Monday at the age of 64.
But his passing also symbolizes the end of an era, as today's TV "news" is often anything but.
Today's 11 o'clock news often kicks off with reports of car crashes and routine crimes, breathlessly reported "LIVE" and "on the scene" hours after anything live actually happened. They are followed by "team coverage" of legal minutiae in the now-concluded Casey Anthony case. And don't forget the latest sexy-teacher-seduces-student scandal … even if it's out of Sarasota.
"BODY FOUND IN PARKING LOT" screamed the lead story on one station Monday night.
Such stories may shock. But rarely do they have any meaningful effect on anyone other than those directly involved.
Unless …
Unless you also talk about the big-picture challenges facing law-enforcement.
Unless you talk about the value of community policing — and its costs.
Unless you also talk about the elected officials who decide how to spend money on law enforcement — and unless you highlight those decisions during election campaigns.
Sure, TV will cover the pants off a flooded subdivision when neighbors in undershirts and nightgowns are lamenting the loss of wedding albums and missing pets. But where were the cameras when the new development that caused the flooding was first pitched and local watchdogs were objecting?
Scott loved to talk about those issues.
Unfortunately, there's not as much of a place for a Scott Harris in today's local TV news. As it turned out, there wasn't even a permanent place for him at CFN-13. He left the station in March before he was very sick but also before he was ready.
I don't blame just the news bosses for so often choosing titillation over substance. Data show viewers are more prone to watch the former than the latter. The Sentinel's own website often reflects similar reader trends.
It's why you get fewer stories about schools, social justice and wrongful convictions, and more video from the latest tutu-wearing dog on YouTube.
There are still quality pieces of journalism on local TV — places where thinking and conscientious viewers can get more than 30 seconds worth of information about how the Legislature's latest vote will affect their freedom or their wallets.
But there aren't as many as there should be. And that's a shame.
Because there will always be pretty faces to read scripts. But there aren't as many guys like Harris, who like talking about problems so we can fix them … and not just spotlighting them for entertainment's sake.
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HARTFORD, Conn., July 7 (UPI) -- A Connecticut man who claims he was shot by then-New England Patriots receiver Aaron Hernandez was ordered by a judge to appear before a grand jury.
Alexander Bradley of East Hartford was told to testify before the Fall River, Mass., grand jury that is looking into the slaying of Odin Lloyd last month.
Bradley has a civil lawsuit pending against Hernandez which alleges the football star shot him in the eye outside a Florida nightclub in February.
Investigators want to hear about the Bradley case and potential similarities between the Florida incident and shooting death of Lloyd in Massachusetts.
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Police seek 2 in Bourbon Street robbery
New Orleans police are looking for two men in connection with a robbery that happened on Tuesday in the French Quarter.
The robbery happened about 8:30 p.m. in the 1100 block of Bourbon Street.
Police said a man was walking toward Canal Street when two men approached him. One of the men pretended to trip, police said, then grabbed the victim and wrestled him to the ground. The second man went through the victim's pockets and took his wallet, iPod touch and cell phone.
The two robbers fled on Bourbon Street toward Esplanade Avenue.
Police describe the robbers as African-American men in their 20s.
One of the men was 6 feet 5 inches tall with a stocky build and short hair. He was last seen wearing a chef's hat, dark T-shirt with writing on the back and dark pants.
The other man was described as standing 5 feet 10 inches tall with a slim build and dark complexion. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, khaki shorts, white ankle socks and dark shoes that had small designs on top.
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Our transition from more-or-less free country to police state is accelerating. The NSA's Utah data mining facility, ever-tighter restrictions on offshore accounts, the Internet "kill switch", the Patriot Act's many assaults on the Bill of Rights, the militarization of local police, the spread of drones for domestic surveillance; each has a role in the high-tech updating of a very old idea: that the state is paramount and the individual a slave to public order and national power.
But why is this happening now, rather than in 1950 or 2050? The answer is that we're reaping the whirlwind that always accompanies fiat currency. We created a central bank in 1913 and freed it from the constraint of gold in 1971. Give the government or the big banks the power to create money out of thin air and you eventually get a dictatorship. "Eventually" just happens to be now.
Laissez Faire Books' Wendy McElroy covers some of the theory behind this idea in a recent review:
Paper Money = Despotism
"Fiat" is money with no intrinsic value beyond whatever an issuing government is able to enforce. When it enjoys a monopoly as currency, fiat inevitably turns the free market functions of money inside out. Instead of being a store of value, the currency becomes a point of plunder through monetary policies such as quantitative easing. Instead of greasing society as a medium of exchange, the currency acts as a powerful tool of social control. The second harm is far less frequently discussed than inflation, but it is devastating. The personal freedoms that we know as "civil liberties" rest upon sound money.
In his classic book The Theory of Money and Credit (1912), the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises argues, "It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments. Ideologically, it belongs in the same class with political constitutions and bills of rights."
A key reason Mises viewed sound money as a necessary protection of civil liberties is that it reins in the growth of government. When a government prints money without the restraint of competing currencies — even if the restraining "competition" is a gold standard — runaway bureaucracy results. Wars are financed; indeed, it is difficult to imagine the extended horrors of World War II without governments' monopoly on currency. A white-hot printing press can finance the soaring numbers of prisons and law enforcement officers required to impose a police state.
Floods of currency can prop up unpopular policies like Obamacare or the War on Drugs. That is why government holds onto its monopoly with a death grip. In The Theory of Money and Credit, Mises observes, "The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard."
Another way a currency monopoly threatens civil liberties is by permitting government to monitor virtually all transactions through the financial institutions with whom it maintains an intimate partnership. Total surveillance is a prerequisite to total control, which is what the government wants to establish as quickly as possible. For example, prior to establishing the Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) in 1996 — a form that financial institutions submit to the U.S. Treasury — banks were required to automatically report any transaction over $10,000. Now any activity deemed "suspicious" is vulnerable.
The monopoly facilitates a vicious attack on privacy and has become a main building block of the American surveillance state. As libertarian Mark Hubbard stated, "Civilization is a movement toward privacy, a police state the opposite, and tax legislation has become the legislation of our new Big Brother states."
Much of the tracking is a pure money grab, but it is also an attempt to ferret out and punish "unacceptable" behavior, like dealing in drugs or politically dissenting. Indeed, it is criminally naive to believe the government will not use these massive and valuable data to target its critics. Thus, people can be discouraged from speaking out. Controlling the information, however, means controlling the currency. Otherwise, anyone could mint gold coins in the middle of the night and release them covertly into the wild.
Some thoughts
I was going to start this article with a sentence like "Every time you turn on the news there's another story about the growing intrusiveness of the US surveillance state." But that's not actually true. When you "turn on" the news, which is to say watch it on TV, you see little or nothing about this. It seems that all those "corporate media" complaints are accurate. America's evolving police state infrastructure is one of the biggest stories of this lifetime, yet the mainstream news organizations seem to be ignoring it.
Now that we've created the infrastructure, all that remains is for some desperate/corrupt future leader to flip the switch. From that moment on, every communication in and out of the US will be captured, logged and mined, and each citizen will have a growing file that details their social, professional and financial activities. The state will set about silencing all emerging threats through intimidation, financial pressure (our hyper-complex tax code will be weaponized and turned on anyone who speaks out), and, when all else fails, the designation of dissenters as terrorists and their imprisonment without trial. All the tools are there, just waiting to be used.
In this scenario, social media will be useless as a counterweight to Big Brother. When every communication is monitored, an attempt to organize a protest via Facebook will just create a list of people to be rounded up.
Can dystopia be avoided? Short of electing Ron Paul on a platform of tearing it out by the roots, it's hard to see how. But McElroy does have one suggestion that's aimed at the heart of the fiat currency dictatorship: end the state money monopoly and let other currencies circulate:
Yet the best solution to the harms caused by fiat is often dismissed even by staunch free market advocates; namely, allow the private issuance of money that freely competes with fiat as currency. This would involve removing all prohibitions, other than fraud, abandoning monetary controls such as legal tender laws and all reporting requirements. In turn, this might well eliminate the Federal Reserve, although people would be free to accept whatever money they wished.
The currency monopoly is vital to both the rise of a police state and the targeting of individual civil liberties. In arguing for a free market in currencies, it is important to claim the moral high ground by stating and restating what should be obvious: Civil liberties require sound money. And nothing ensures the quality of a commodity as surely as competition.


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The Obama administration has reached an agreement with a group of technology companies on disclosing requests for customer data in the cloud. But the agreement severely limits what the companies are able to disclose, and it fails to provide assurances that there won't be further broad requests for data.
The companies—including Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo—will now be allowed to publish information about the number of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court orders they receive for customer data. They will also be able to reveal more about National Security Letters (NSLs), the secrecy of which was weakened by the USA Patriot Improvement and Reauthorization Act in 2006. Unlike Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants, NSLs can only request metadata such as phone numbers dialed or e-mail addresses communicated with.
Since NSA leaker Edward Snowden revealed the PRISM program, which gives the NSA and the FBI access to the data of cloud providers' customers under a sweeping FISA warrant, technology companies have pressed the government for permission to share more information about disclosures in an attempt to reassure customers about their privacy. But the new agreement may not do much to soothe customers' concerns, as it will still not allow the companies to reveal information about requests about specific customers. They'll only be able to vaguely disclose government requests in increments of 250 or provide more specific information about the types of requests in increments of 1,000.
In other words, in theory, if Google got 150 FISA orders and 200 National Security Letters, the company could reveal that it had received "over 250" requests from the government. Or the company could optionally say it had received "under 1,000" FISA orders and "under 1,000" NSLs.
The agreement led Microsoft, Google, LinkedIn, Facebook and Yahoo to drop their lawsuits against the government over disclosure rights. "We filed our lawsuits because we believe that the public has a right to know about the volume and types of national security requests we receive," the companies said in a joint statement. "We're pleased the Department of Justice has agreed that we and other providers can disclose this information. While this is a very positive step, we'll continue to encourage Congress to take additional steps to address all of the reforms we believe are needed."


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|Xuyh, Roots. Told by Edna Deacon at the home of Alta Jerue, Shageluk, AK, October 2002.
|Recorded by Alice Taff and Donna Miller MacAlpine. Transcribed and translated by Donna Miller MacAlpine, Edna Deacon, and Alice Taff. (words added for clarification), {false start}, [note], (DM = Donna Miller MacAlpine)
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|Si'ezre' Edna.
|My name is Edna.
|{xedh xedh} Xidhitlandi Łegg Jitno'.
|The place where I was born (was) Shageluk.
|Singonh vi'ezre' Anna Wilson.
|My mother was called Anna Wilson.
|Sito' vi'ezre' Peter Matthews.
|My father was called Peter Matthews.
|Soda vi'ezre' Isabelle.
|My older sister was called Isabelle.
|And sighaye, Edward, Riley, Morris,
|And my older brothers, Edward, Riley, Morris,
|and sichidlqay yi McMohan, John, and there were
|and my younger brothers McMohan, John, and there were
|other two, tr'ixineganh ye chilqay xun ezre' qul.
|other two, babies, boys with no names.
|And my half sister is Lucy.
|(DM) Is there a word in deg xiq'i for half-sister?
|Up there (pointing from Anvik towards Shageluk),
|sixinitlyonh, singonh and sito'.
|they raised me, my mother and my father.
|Sito' getiy, a,
|My father really,
|dinanoł di'ne tux,
|when he tells us,
|yuxudz nitr'iho'oł ts'i xiyan'.
|everything we have to obey.
|Dina ts'i viyi xitaldhiyh, dixo'in,
|At us he gets mad, therefore,
|we are scared of him.
|Nixsiyał xingo,
|While I was growing up,
|"Yuxudz ingit'anh," siłne tux.
|"You have things to do," he tells me.
|"Yuxudz ist'anh ts'i xiyan'.
|"Always be making something.
|Digił'anh iłt'e," siłne.
|Make something always," he always tells me.
|Idał digitatl'an',
|The first time I start making things,
|xuyh xuxithdatl, singonh and sito'.
|roots they're going for, my mother and father.
|Me too,
|gidenist'ith xuyh,
|I cut down roots,
|ghitseg gguy.
|willow roots.
|Sito', "Gidił'anh," siłne {ngo xa} {xan xen}
|My father, "Make something," he tells me.
|"Go dadz ingit'a iy,
|"Do this way,
|dingił'anh ts'i, ngo xiq'at," siłne.
|work at it, is what I want," he tells me.
|"Xuyh tingił
|"Root basket (like a pail with a handle and a lid)
|ithe dingił'anh ts'i xixindli'anh ts'i a," siłne q'idughitux.
|why don't you learn to make it," he says to me sometimes.
|Ts'i yitots'i, xuyh,
|So, roots,
|we gathered some.
|Dina yix xutthegh xiłdik niggontr'ididatl ts'i.
|Our house, down the bank from it, we came there (landed).
|Diq'on tr'idliyo.
|Up the bank we carried them (the roots).
|Yitdi venhdidi xiłdik,
|Right then the next day,
|singonh, "Viq'angitr'itiłch'ił," yiłne.
|my mother, "We are going to start peeling," she says.
|Vits'e isne.
|I'm helping her.
|"Go dadz dingił'anh iy," siłne.
|"Like this do it," she tells me.
|Tr'ixeneg ts'i,
|niya'," siłne.
|scrape it," she says to me.
|Yuxudz itl'anh.
|All this I'm doing.
|"Sriłt'ingiłch'ił iy," siłne.
|"Split it in half," he tells me.
|Gee, ndadz go {dil} digili'anh ts'in'?
|Gee, how I'm going to do this?
|"Go dadz iy?" vidisne.
|"Like this?" I ask him.
|"E," siłne.
|"Yes," he tells me.
|"Gil ngenatl'eł yuxudz gidelax," vidisne.
|"I'll watch you while you're doing it," I tell him.
|Yitots'i giłiggi {srił tiy, a srił}
|And so one (root)
|he split it in half.
|"Dadz in a," siłne.
|"Like this," he says to me (holding the 2 split pieces).
|Sidedig yuxudz digitatluq.
|Me too I start to copy him.
|yiggiy sriłtixinedr xiyił,
|that one, right at the middle,
|"Xuyh, sriłts'ingiłch'ił iy," siłne.
|"The root, you split it in half," he says to me.
|Yuxudz ditatl'andi
|When I start to copy him,
|siye' yuxudz xiq'ay xits'i,
|mine not even half way,
|It just didn't split all the way, so
|vits'i siye xidolningh,
|I got so mad at mine,
|itlyił ts'i yuxudz ngiyixi ngin nighitldatl.
|I just grabbed it and threw it on the floor.
|Viq'idz yigitlik.
|On it I jump up and down.
|"Dodo dadz ingit'a ditl'anh ts'i," disne.
|"No more I work at this kind," I tell him.
|Ngi'egh yitots'i tinigitsit ts'in'.
|Outdoors I stormed.
|Yi xo'ot, ngi'egh getiy nedhodz ghisdo'.
|Outside there, a long time I sat.
|Xidigał xidonisiyo.
|Finally I walk back inside.
|"Xiday iy ngigixuyh?" siłne a sito'.
|"Where are your roots?" he asked me my father.
|Yixoyix dhidlo. Dred ni'itlcheth.
|Right there they are. Slowly I pick them up.
|"Gogidet iy," vidisne.
|"Here they are," I tell him.
|"Dadz an a dili'anh," siłne, "tr'ixeneg ts'in'."
|"This is the way to do it," he tells me, "carefully."
|{dr} "Dadz an a xiyitiłch'ił," siłne. {yi}
|"This is the way they split it," he tells me.
|"Dałts'in', getiy
|"One side, (if it gets) too
|xi'ughitux gits'an tr'idilay," yiłne.
|thin, you turn it around," he says.
|{Tse} "Che {varne} varzne nditux," siłne'.
|Try it again," he tells me.
|Yuxudz itluq yitots'i.
|So I did that.
|Ixiłdik sriłtth'ighitlch'ił tr'ixeneg ts'in'.
|So then I start splitting it carefully.
|"Che yuxudz dengilax iy ngo getiy
|Do that way again (if it is getting) too
|diyiq iy," siłne.
|wide," he tells me.
|Yuxudz itl'anh ts'i xidigał,
|I'm doing all these little things to it (and) finally,
|I start doing it.
|I was about 3 years old when I started that.
|Sit'o taught me when I was about 3 years old.
|How to split roots.
|And a lot of those old people tell me,
|I learn fast from my father cause my father was an expert.
|I didn't know it that time.
|Because he had to split his own roots for fish traps, too.
|I make baskets, he show me how to start it.
|But I get so mad with it. I just stomp on the floor. I grab my poor little basket where I started,
|try to make the round one on the middle, and I,
|that inside roots just come right off and I'll just drop it to the floor and just stomp on it.
|I'm not gonna, gonna make no basket I say.
|But as the days go by I'll go and pick it up again and my father would tell me, "I'll help you."
|So he would help me and I watch him,
|in how to cut the roots down. He'll show me.
|He'll hold my little hands with... "I'll hold the knife he said. You put your roots right, right here on your hand like this and..."
|He'll cut it a little bit, yeah. "You gotta hold just right so you don't cut your thumb," he tell me.
|That's how I learned. But it took lots of patience.
|But I had hard time.
|I get mad at it and I'll throw it on the floor and stomp all over it and I wouldn't, I'd say I wouldn't try to make baskets.
|But I did learn.
|(DM) Maybe you could tell us now, like now how you go and get the roots and everything.
|When and how and where and the what!
|Deg xiq'i.
|The local language.
|(ED) Deg xiq'i?
|(In our) local language?
|Go idał xuyh xitr'ididał tux,
|Right now, roots, when we are going for them,
|yiq'i yeg ne q'idz,
|around there on the islands,
|ne q'idz niq'itr'idił.
|on the island we land.
|"Go deg an a xuyh dil'anh," xividisne.
|"Around here roots are collected," I say to them.
|Sraqaye dinayił dixit'anh,
|The children (who) with us come along,
|"Ndagh a xuyh dili'anh ts'i. Ngo xuyh qul a ts'i," xi'ne.
|"Where are the roots? Here (there are) no roots," they say.
|Yiggiy yeg yuxudz q'ugixinditoyh.
|Those things (roots) they're looking all around for them.
|"Ndagh a xuyh? Ngo xuyh qul a," sixi'ne.
|Where are the roots? There's no roots", they tell me.
|"On," xividisne. Come and
|"Come," I tell them.
|Xivinotthi yitots'i.
|I'm leading them.
|Tritl tux isoyh.
|Among the willows I walk.
|"Deg 'n at xuyh ditl'anh," xividisne.
|"Right around here the roots I get," I tell them.
|"Ngo xuyh qul a," sixi'ne yitongo.
|"Well, (there are) no roots," they tell me meanwhile.
|Deg xiq'i yitots'i xivixo xinisayh,
|In my language then I'm talking about them,
|"Sraqay tlagg ye," xividisne.
|"No-good kids," I'm saying about them.
|Sixidhiłtth'onh qul.
|They don't understand me.
|"You don't know a thing.
|Dughiyix xuyh xelanh dan go," xividisne.
|Down here there's roots right here," I say.
|They're looking at me.
|Ghisoł xingo dadz disneyh.
|While I'm walking, I bend down.
|Dadz disneyh ts'i.
|Like this I bend down.
|"Gogidet iy.
|"Here they are.
|Gon yiłtuxneyh," xividisne.
|This one (root) pull on it," I tell them.
|They're looking at me hard!
|Tr'ixighonitldix itl'e.
|I guess I surprise them.
|"Go deg, a,
|"Around here,
|{xenon didligho} xinondidliyoy, gho xiyił xuyh xelanh," xividisne.
|the willows that stand up, attached to them there are roots," I tell them.
|"Axa xinuxł'anh," xividisne.
|"Look around there," I tell them.
|"Vizro dadz ingit'a
|It looks like this (showing them roots before I pull them).
|tritl ghun'," xughi disne.
|willows, near them," about it I tell them.
|"Iy dinuxłqoyh ts'i.
|"Chop it off.
|Yadz tuxla," xividisne,
|Pull it out," I told them.
|"viyił uxłiggok angthe ts'i łats q'idz."
|"with it run out there on top of the mud. [The kids are pulling up the long roots and following them down towards the river.]
|Yadz ingdizrusr uxixitux.
|So (the roots) are pulled up that way. [The roots are so shallow that they pull up with no struggle.]
|Ne q'idz getiy, a, q'idughitux xezrenh.
|On the islands really, ah, sometimes they (the roots) are (really) good.
|Xezrenh tux xełedz łats viq'idz qul.
|When it's good, it's nice (because) there's no mud on top.
|Ixitux ghizro vixidughit'an'.
|When it's like that you could easily see them.
|Vith togh xiyił, {and a}
|Under the bank,
|xuyh ditr'ił'anh, giyanditelay,
|roots we get, inside roots, [Warp roots that the split weft roots are woven over.]
|xuyh tth'oq xonet, xuyh tingił {yo}.
|(for) root trays, root baskets.
|Xonet giyanditel ditr'iłt'anh,
|Inside roots we gather,
|xuyh a, vith t'ogh xit'o inathchit iy.
|roots under the bank that are hanging down.
|Oh, the roots what I get is from on the sandbar. We get it even in the spring, summer or fall.
|And you just can see it on the sandbar. One time I brought school kids out on the sandbar. And I tell them, "Come, there's roots back there."
|"Where? There's no roots here," they told me. I tell them, "Sure. There's roots right here." I dug in the mud like this and I tell them, "Here. Pull this." And it just start coming off, long roots. And it just was to the one tree over there.
|Gee, they were so surprised. That's how I got roots from the sandbar. Some years the gravel on the sandbar is just ah maybe about 2 or 3 inches. That's very good to get, to find that kind of place so you wouldn't have to work hard to pull roots out.
|But this last few years it was so lots of water we had to shovel and shovel. We had to take shovel along. We get big bundles, big round bundles and they're just long. I'll, I'll take about maybe 3 bundles home and then when I get home I start cutting them in pieces. I separate them, from the fat and the skinny ones. I pile it up and then I put it up in my cache.
|And from there I start cleaning them. I start scraping them, and splitting it and cutting it down into shape for ah, making, ah, trays and baskets with lids.
|And the skinny ones I {y} save it for weaving, for birch bark baskets, edges.
|But it's lots of work.
|I take my grandchildren out and show them how to get roots but I never show them how to split it yet.
|I show, I teach 3 of my grand boys how to make birch bark basket.
|And they make it. They sell it for you know their own, to buy clothes for their own self.


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