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The Hostess Diaries: My Year at a Hot Spot
By COCO HENSON SCALES
Published: July 11, 2004
IT is near midnight and I am standing at the door of the restaurant with Kevin, the bouncer, patiently waiting for customers, so that I can turn them away.
''Who are you here with?'' I ask a man holding a woman's hand.
''Just us,'' he says. Couples are usually passive, pleading. I look them up and down. I look past them and around them, even if there is no one else there. I bite my bottom lip as if I am genuinely worried for them. ''I don't know,'' I say pensively.
If they are meek and I am bored, I will let them in. But if they become agitated, I turn away, or even better -- pick the group behind them. Either way, my ego is going to get a boost.
I have been working at Hue, a Vietnamese restaurant and lounge in the West Village, since shortly after it opened last summer. From the beginning it was a hit with a young, fast crowd because of one of its owners, Karim Amatullah. He has been in the night life business for years, starting as a promoter and most recently as an owner of Halo. So many celebrities have been coming that we have grown selective. Once, Chad Lowe's assistant called and asked if he could have a table in the next hour. ''Sorry,'' I said, ''we're all booked.''
''Really? That's a shame because his wife, Academy-Award-winner-Hilary-Swank, is very hungry.''
''Ah, yes, something just opened up,'' I say.
Celebrities and models are my least favorite customers. They never want to pay and they demand constant attention. The models wear jeans or a jean skirt with heels and a white T-shirt. Drunken skeletons, they stand outside smoking and talking in foreign accents. They don't tip, but if they aren't here, the men who do won't stay, so we cater to models. I don't bother learning their names. I call them all darling.
One night Karim, the owner -- a short, bald man with perfect posture, who has the habit of looking people in the eye a little longer than is comfortable -- waves me over. ''Star Jones is coming tonight,'' he says. ''I want you to take care of her. Where will you put her?''
At Hue there are two floors -- a bar at street level and, one flight down, restaurant seating, a lounge and an inner sanctum known as the suite because it has king-size beds for sitting or lying. I tell Karim I will give Star Jones one of the beds.
''Fine,'' he says, patting my head, which makes me both happy and uncomfortable; I don't want him to feel my tracks of fake hair. I dash upstairs to tell Kevin on the door that Star Jones is coming.
He shrugs. For an hour I run up and down the stairs to the front door, thinking she must have arrived. Then I see Kevin holding her at the door and hear her dressing him down.
''I do not like your attitude,'' she tells Kevin, who is well over 200 pounds and dressed in a black suit -- a good-looking baby giant. Star is in full makeup with a long wavy wig. Short and chubby, she is with a tall man with curly hair, wearing gold MC Hammer-ish glasses. I recognize him as Al Scales Reynolds, a banker who is Star's fiancé (and no relation to me). He is wearing a diamond pinky ring.
''I'm sorry,'' I interrupt. ''Please come inside.''
''No!'' says Star, backing up. ''I don't think I want to. I don't like the way I've been treated.''
Here we go, I think. Now someone else's ego is looking for a boost. ''I'm sorry,'' I say. ''It's his job to stop everyone at the door. Please come in, let me buy you a drink.''
''He has a terrible attitude,'' Star says. ''I am a guest, invited by Karim. I do not have to come here.''
''No, you don't,'' I say. ''But I'm so glad you did.'' I wince, thinking that sounds sarcastic. ''He's sorry,'' I say. She and her fiancé step in cautiously, and I lead them down to the V.I.P. room. She laughs when she sees the beds, and the two of them climb onto one. He orders two Passion Cosmos -- girly drinks, I think. I run to the bar and tell Liza, a server, that Star has just sat down in her section.
Liza sighs. ''Is she paying?'' she asks. I frown at such a silly question.
A few minutes later, I check on the happy couple. Fully clothed, Star is on her hands and knees on the bed, laughing. Her fiancé is behind her, hands around her waist, mimicking a sex act. In front of the other customers in the room, he then flips her over and climbs on top of her. I stare, mortified.
After two rounds of drinks, they are ready to leave. I watch curiously as they ask for the check and Liza tells them politely it is on Karim. ''Oh, wow, thank you,'' Star says. ''I'm sorry, I would tip you but I don't have my wallet,'' she tells Liza.
''Oh, no problem,'' Liza says, clasping her hands in prayer. ''God will provide.''
Star smiles as her eyes look to the ceiling. ''Yes,'' she says. ''He will.'' I NEVER aspired to be a nightclub hostess. I wanted to be a waitress. I had heard of waitresses making nice money, and, really, how hard could it be? After a string of low-level office jobs, I was burnt out working 80 frenzied hours a week or worse, 40 boring hours. Jobs I was hired for because I looked attractive but would later be fired from because I wasn't ''detail oriented'' or punctual. At 26, I felt old.


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Dachshunds and dunkel and dancing, oh my! These and more were on tap at the Oktoberfest at the Highlands Ranch Town Center on Saturday.
The celebration, presented annually by the Highlands Ranch Cultural Affairs Association, debuted with the tapping of the keg at 2 p.m. and concluded with fireworks in the evening (rescheduled after the July 4 cancellation).
The new playground in Columbine Hills Park is more than a neighborhood amenity — it is truly a community project and a source of pride and accomplishment.
About 150 residents of all ages turned out at West Elmhurst Avenue and South Kendall Boulevard on July 14 for the community playground-raising, which lasted from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. A resident DJ provided the motivational sounds, and a local deli provided the lunch for free.
Thirteen years after the tragedy, a father whose son was killed in the Columbine High School shootings on April 20, 1999, has written a book about his struggle to come to terms with grief and rise above the horrible events that shattered his family's life.
"Walking in Daniel's Shoes," by Tom Mauser, is a factual and sometimes emotional account by a parent of what happens to a family when a child is murdered.
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A two-year study in Jeffco has identified 35 rare plants and 11 rare animal species that the county will try to protect in its future conservation efforts and open space plans.
The biodiversity survey, which also identified one rare fungus, was conducted by scientists from the Colorado Natural Heritage Program over the past two growing seasons. County Open Space planners will use the data to help make environmentally conscious choices when planning open space areas, parks and trails.
A dizzying array of dogs leapt and splashed about Sunday during Foothills Park and Recreation's annual Doggy Dip at Deer Creek and Weaver Hollow pools.
At Deer Creek Pool, more than 100 area pooches eagerly pulled their masters through the gates to get their chance to jump into the drink. Some pooches played under water buckets that intermittently doused them, while others did Phelpsian laps to retrieve floating toys from the end of the lap pool.
Children giggled as dogs of all sizes and shapes leapt into the water and shook off on the pool deck.
The Dinosaur Ridge Visitor Center could be moving to a larger, modern facility on 19 acres that were purchased by Jeffco Open Space in 2009.
Under a tentative agreement between the Friends of Dinosaur Ridge and the county, by 2018 the center would move to a new building higher on the Hogback and closer to the famous dinosaur tracks.
Get ready, music fans, because country music legend Charlie Daniels is going to show you how it's done.
Clement Park has gone to the dogs. For one day, anyway.
Foothills Park and Recreation hosted the Total Performance Disc Dogs club during the district's Summer Concert Series on Friday.
Over a chorus of barking dogs and raucous music, Matt DiAno, a member of Total Performance Disc Dogs, shared what goes into the sport. Total Performance Disc Dogs is a group of dog-loving friends who perform all over Colorado. They specialize in Frisbee performances, but also present agility and herding performances as well.
Donald Rosier, chairman of the Jefferson County Board of Commissioners was one of 23 leaders in county government from across the United States who participated in a national leadership institute developed by the National Association of Counties and the Cambridge Leadership Associates.
The four-day institute, held June 3-7 in Washington, D.C., challenged participants to consider innovative approaches to address key issues facing their home county and residents.
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Rachel Hansen and Tucker Schrepel announce their engagement.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Hansen and Mr. and Mrs. Rick Hardesty. She graduated magna cum laude from Metropolitan State College of Denver with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism with an emphasis in photojournalism in 2010. She is self-employed with her own business, Rachel H Photography.
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Bon-Ton Stores Inc. donations to aid Goodwill
Bon-Ton Stores Inc. said Wednesday it collected more than 2.5 million pounds of clothing and textiles during its spring Goodwill Sale last month.
Bon-Ton, which is the parent company of Boston Store, Younkers and other department stores, said the donations have an estimated value of $10 million -- money that will be used to help fund Goodwill Industries International's jobs and career-building programs.
The stores handed out discount coupons for shoppers who donated clothing.
In addition, Bon-Ton said, the stores raised $482,000 in cash donations for Goodwill though an offer in which shoppers could donate at the register to receive additional discount coupons.
The sale took place from March 13 to 30.
Donations will be sold at Goodwill stores, and revenue will fund community services such as financial education, computer classes, and mentoring and career development programs that help people find jobs in industries such as construction, health care, financial services, retail and many others, Bon-Ton said.
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What is a Bulging Disc and What Can I Do About It?
It seems today with all the sophisticated diagnostic testing used for people with back and neck pain, the bulging disc is a common term used to explain patient's pain. What is a bulging disc? What can I do about it? Can a chiropractor help me if I have a bulging disc?
A basic review of anatomy helps to understand what's happening with the disc and the joints and nerves surrounding it. The disc used to be explained as the cushion between the vertebrae or bony parts of the spine. Now, we understand the discs are much stronger than that. The disc is a fibrocartilaginous structure between each of the vertebrae of your spine. You have 24 movable vertebrae or bones in your spine and a disc between each one of them. These discs support the spine and allow and assist with motion in the spine.
The disc is composed of a nucleus at the center, which is surrounded by crisscross fibers that allow for biomechanical alignment. As these fibers are stressed, weakened, and age, they are not able to maintain the spacing between the vertebrae. This results in parts of the disc bulging because of biomechanical weight bearing, gravity, and its compression on the spine.
As these fibers weaken and age they are not able to maintain the spacing between the vertebrae. This results in parts of the disc weakening because of biomechanical and load bearing gravity, and it's compression on the spine. This diagnosis always leads to the question "can you help me if I have a bulging disc?" The answer is "it depends, but likely yes," how do I know this?
This is the beauty of scientific research, and having a 17-year-old daughter with a homework assignment. In guiding her to the necessary resource information for her research paper, she/we came across numerous studies about bulging discs and what that diagnosis means clinically.
Over one third of the population has a bulging disc in their spine with no back pain or neck pain. Wow! That's a lot of people. So what exactly causes people to have the pain? The answer being, no one knows.
Very simplistically, there are so many joints in the spine; researchers explain it makes more sense to look at the joints first as the cause of the pain.
What does this mean? The easiest way to understand it goes back to basic mechanics. One or more of these joints gets out of alignment or subluxated. This subluxation results in inflammation, nerve irritation, localized muscle spasm. Because this subluxation occurs it changes the mechanics or alignment of the joints and structures around it. Think about what would happen if one of the tires on your car were out of alignment. Maybe not a big problem if you drive on it for five miles, but keep driving with that one tire out of sync and over a period of time, you've disrupted all of the mechanics of the car's alignment.
It's the same with your body. By the time the disc has bulged and/or weakened, it's usually because the small joints of the spine have been subluxated for so long and the body has been working at adapting and compensation for these misalignments resulting in damage to the disc. It is the faulty biomechanics of the joints that has led to the stress on the rest of the spinal unit resulting in the disc problems.
Now, that is something that makes sense. The same concept that applies to your misaligned tire applies to your misaligned or subluxated spine. This leads back to our original question, "what about a bulging disc?"
The answer is, get your spine checked for subluxation or misalignment by a chiropractor. The chiropractor is the expert in finding out if these misalignments are the cause of your back pain or neck pain. It is far more likely that these subluxations are the cause of your problem than the bulging disc.
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This module focuses on ultraviolet radiation on Earth and in space and how it affects life. Learners will construct their own "martian" using craft materials and UV beads. They will explore how UV radiation from the Sun can affect living things,... (View More) comparing conditions on Earth and Mars, and then discuss ways in which organisms may protect themselves from UV radiation. They will then take part in a Mars Creature Challenge, where they will change their creature to help it survive harsh UV conditions — like on Mars. They will then test their Mars creatures by subjecting them to different environmental conditions to see how well they "survive" in a martian environment. This investigation will explore shelter and protection as one of life's requirements and how Earth's atmosphere protects life from harmful UV radiation. It also includes specific tips for effectively engaging girls in STEM. This is activity 5 in Explore: Life on Mars? that was developed specifically for use in libraries. (View Less)
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Full house as Cecafa Kagame Cup kicks off
Thirteen teams arrived in the country on Thursday as the 2014 Cecafa Kagame Cup kicks off on Friday with Rayon Sports and Azam locking horns aiming to go far in the elite regional club championship.
Rayon Sports left Nyanza for Kigali on Thursday ahead of their clash against Azam at 5pm at Amahoro stadium on Friday. Kenya's GorMahia faces KCCA of Uganda at 3pm while Atlabara and KMKM will face off in early kick off at 1pm.
GorMahia has been prominent absentees from the annual eastern Africa tourney that brings together league champions of the region's countries.
Making a return after a 19-year absence will no doubt inspire them as they bid to win the title for the fourth time after their conquests in 1980, 1981 and 1985.
Though there is an enormous gulf between the all-conquering squad of the 1980s that brought glory and honour to the country by sweeping all before them including the 1987 African Cup popularly known as Mandela Cup now renamed Confederations Cup and the current average outfit, Gor still habour hopes of going head -to -head with the region's best.
The Kenyan champions have been placed in Pool B alongside Rwanda giants APR, who gave them a 5-1 hiding in 2009 in a Confederation Cup preliminary round tie, Kampala Capital City Authority of Uganda, Atletico of Burundi and Djibouti's Telecom.
In order to navigate past the group stage, K'Ogalo will need to play high speed football laced with tactical discipline.
Erratic first choice goalkeeper and skipper JerimOnyango will also have to forget his schoolboy errors, the defense must be rock solid, midfield dynamic and the attack lethal.
The diminutive Dan Sserunkuma, who has over the past two seasons built a reputation of a lethal goal poacher, will once again be expected to lead K'Ogalo's frontline.
Second striker, youngster Timothy Otieno, who has shown much promise since bursting onto the big stage a month ago, will be reason enough for the Kenyan champions to relish their chances.
The 40th edition of the tourney has attracted 14 teams with Yanga, (Tanzania), Coffee (Ethiopia), Rayon Sports (Rwanda), Atlbara (South Sudan), and KMKM (Zanzibar) set to fight it out in Group A while defending champions Vital'O (Burundi), El Merreikh (Sudan), Police of Rwanda and Benadir (Somalia) are in group C.
The winner will be determined on August 24 at the 30,000-seater Amahoro National Stadium. Vital'Ois the defending champions.
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August 8 (Amahoro Stadium)
Atlabara vs KMKM 1.00 pm
GorMahia vs KCCA 3.00pm
Rayon Sports vs Azam FC 5.00pm
August 9 (Amahoro stadium)
Vital'O vs Benadir 1.00pm
Police FC vs El Merreikh 3.00pm
APR FC vs Atletico5.00pm
August 10 (Amahoro Stadium)
Telecom vs KCCA 1.00pm
KMKM vs Azam FC3.00pm
Adama city vs Rayon Sports 5.00pm
August 11 (Kigali Regional Stadium)
Benadir vs El Merreikh 1.00pm
GorMahia vs Atletico 3.00pm
Vital'O vs Police FC 5.00pm
August 12 (Kigali Regional Stadium)
KMKM vs Adama City 1.00pm
Azam FC vs Atlabara 3.00pm
August 13 (Kigali Regional Stadium)
KCCA vs Atletico 3.00pm
APR FC vs Telecom 5.00pm
August 14 (Kigali Regional Stadium)
Adama city vs Atlabara1.00pm
Police FC vs Benadir 3.00pm
Rayon Sports vs KMKM 5.00pm
August 15 (Kigali Regional Stadium)
Atletico vs Telecom 1.00pm
El Merreikh vs Vital'O 3.00pm
APR FC vs GorMahia 5.00pm
August 16 (Kigali Regional Stadium)
Adama city vs Azam FC 3.00pm
Rayon Sports vs Atlabara 5.00pm
August 17 (Kigali Regional Stadium)
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not sure that this can really be a "build" thread because this rig is pretty well built to start with, but i am making a few changes to it. starting out with a 97 cherokee sport with a 4.0 and AX15, dana 30 front with 4.56 gears and a locker, the rear axle was swapped out with a dana 35 4.56 detroit and a super 35 kit, bumpers, upgraded steering, 7" lift, yadda yadda yadda.
heres how it looked when i picked it up
heres what ive done so far
threw one of my winches on it (i respooled it after the pic)
pulled the interior rear panel and mounted a power inverter
my cheap on board air, picked up a 2 gallon tank and compressor from work for about $7
im going to build a cover for it and run the air chuck out of the cover along with a 3 outlet plug for 110
after riding with kevin at virtue i liked his mesh cargo net he has above his rear seat, well i run around with my rear seat down to much so here is what i came up with using scrap from the shop.
cut a eye bolt to use as a hook and a bungy cord to keep it from moving around
so far i have my first aid kit, folding hand saw, and flashlight mounted up there. im going to make another one for the other side.
i was having some bad vibrations in the front axle, while a small vibe from 45-50 or 55 was normal with the jeep this was worse and anywhere from 30-60. figured the jeep ate another hub assembly since its been known to happen (looking for another axle housing to build), jacked the front up and the hubs were still in good shape but the caliper on the passenger side only had one bolt holding it on, apprently the other one had backed out. ran to town and got 2 new caliper bolts and im back to my 45-50mph vibe.
i also got one of my 4 rock rings cut out, but ill post those when im done since i might be redoing this one.
Thats a nice looking XJ you have there. I like the idea of the compressor in the back. Just make sure you keep it running while you run that compressor. ;)
What exactly is/are the mesh you have in the window? Looks like some metal grate or something.
Yah its a piece of metal rack from an old walk in freezer, I cut it to fit and used screw in clamps to mount it. I wanted to be able to keep stuff secure and easy to get to.
Hhmmm, that xj looks familiar?!?! Did you end up with the roof rack in the deal? And if so are ya gonna mount it? I like the metal rack mesh idea, actually looks pretty good and very useful.
Yah I did get the roof rack with it, I'm back and fourth on mounting it though. Wanna make me an offer? Lol
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"The phrase FREE TO THE PEOPLE is carved in stone over the door of the Carnegie Library's Main Branch in Oakland, but we know it isn't true," writes library customer David Malehorn, PhD.
Both my parents were teachers. My love for books began in covert sessions under the dining room table, where the beautiful illustrations from "Sally, Dick and Jane," an instructional book from my parents' classrooms, beckoned me into the world of reading.
It was inevitable that the library would become part of my life. I passed it twice daily on my walk to and from middle school. In summertime I circled our small Illinois town endlessly on my bicycle, passing the library as I sped down the big hill on Sixth Street. Eventually, I stopped in.
Marble steps led past a carved stone façade into a dark interior, which was a woodworked museum of bookcases, paneling, banisters, vast tables and smooth chairs. All this was lit by hanging lamps designed for the recent invention of electricity. This library had remained virtually unchanged since its construction, which was funded in part by Andrew Carnegie in 1904. We never called it anything but The Carnegie Library.
I received my own library card at so young an age (and so small a stature) that adults could scarcely believe I could write, much less fill out an application and sign my name. There was a Children's section, but it was misnamed: I was not there with any childish intent. I bypassed "Sally, Dick and Jane" for "R is for Rocket," which had an intriguing picture of a gleaming spaceship on its cover. This book propelled me into the orbit of my reading life.
I buried myself in Bradbury, I ate all the Asimov, I swam to the far end of the Science Fiction shelf. Then I studiously assimilated their entire juvenile biography section. Dozens of famous people, in several book bags, would accompany me on long family vacations. Among others, I learned about Andrew Carnegie, who had donated this very building to my very town. Like Carnegie, I wrapped myself in pages and emerged a different person.
Thirty years after this metamorphosis, I took a job in Pittsburgh, in Oakland. On my first day, on my lunch break, I discovered that I was two blocks from the Main Branch of THE primordial Carnegie Library. This thrilled me to literal tears. On my second day, I took an unopened piece of delivered mail to the circulation desk and received a bright yellow library card. Before I had a PA driver's license or local bank account, even before my furniture or family had arrived, I had a library card to the Home Office, my own key to the Mother Ship. I still use it several times a week, and I have resisted all suggestions that I upgrade its fading barcode, and trade in its memorized 14-digit number. I will be proud someday to have physically worn out my library card, and to have contributed my share of wear on the eroded marble stairs.
The phrase FREE TO THE PEOPLE is carved in stone over the door of the Carnegie Library's Main Branch in Oakland, but we know it isn't true. Carnegie, like many philanthropists, was content to build an edifice, but he intended the gift to precipitate a matching commitment from the community for its maintenance and operation. Charleston, Illinois is a small town of limited means, but this village maintained its commitment, and only recently - in 2009 - has their Carnegie Library been renovated, presumably sufficient now for another century of boys on bicycles. The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh has not remained carved in stone for a century, but has evolved and grown and struggled to remain a lighthouse for the very legacy of public libraries. This service to our city has come at a price, currently borne in largest part by the RAD sales tax, but also supported by fitful measures from city and state.
Hard decisions lie ahead for our Carnegie Library. Their roads of community service and infrastructure may diverge, in the yellow wood of financial downturn. We may be sorry they could not travel both. Those who use the wonderful library should enter the discussion. Only this way can our leaders retake the measure of our commitment to remaining a city where people can use a wonderful library. Let's take the road of excellence less traveled by, and that will make all the difference.
I think I read that in a book.
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The 10-year-old Carnegie Library card that David Malehorn sent to author Ray Bradbury in a letter thanking him for his earliest inspiration in reading ("R is for Rocket"): "I hold you personally responsible for my lifelong love affair with an entire public library." The author returned the card "with a big autograph in blue Sharpie merrily obliterating the entire bar code."


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CHICAGO—A quad injury suffered by linebacker Brian Urlacher in last Sunday's game—but unreported by the team until Wednesday—was enough to keep him limited at practice, although it probably won't be enough to sideline him for the game with the Broncos on Sunday.
However, the injury can be a problem for the Bears defense. Although the passing threat from quarterback Tim Tebow is not considered great, Urlacher is expected to be a major part of defending Tebow's option runs.
When Denver is in an empty backfield, coach Lovie Smith said Urlacher will often have the responsibility in a sort of one-on-one matchup, of stopping Tebow.
Considering Tebow is much stronger and larger than most quarterbacks, and moves fast, Urlacher will need complete health.
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Getting Urlacher in such a matchup when he's not completely healthy can't be good, though. It's possible the Bears could revise the scheme to account for Tebow with someone else, like Lance Briggs.
Urlacher covers a lot of ground in pass coverage and the Broncos like to use a lot of play-action, which puts pressure on the linebackers to read and react faster. So the pass coverage could be diminished as well.
With safety Major Wright missing practice due to a shoulder sprain and in jeopardy of missing the game, the Bears could use a backup at strong safety, which would further hurt their ability against the option-run attack the Broncos employ with Tebow and running back Willis McGahee.
Notes: The plan at running back with Matt Forte out could be almost a 50-50 split between Kahlil Bell and Marion Barber. Barber hasn't had a high-carry day in three years, so using him as a 25-carry type of starting back probably wouldn't be wise. The offense is likely to become much more predictable based on who is on the field. The coaching staff isn't keen on Bell's pass blocking, and he was never used much as a receiver in college. He has only one NFL catch. ... One of the toughest personal aspects of Forte's injury, beyond his unfulfilled quest for a new contract, is that he was only 3 yards short of his third 1,000-yard rushing season when injured. Forte was also leading the NFL in all-purpose yards (1,487) at the time of his injury.


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Indie band Akron/Family will perform Tuesday at Muddy Waters in Santa Barbara
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The members of prolific indie rock band Akron/Family will provide a convenient option for some Tuesday night thrills when they play at Muddy Waters in Santa Barbara.
Akron/Family is three guys — Dana Janssen, Seth Olinsky and Miles Seaton. Everyone sings and plays a bunch of instruments — including a glockenspiel — and, according to Olinsky, they're all a bit geographically challenged.
"None of us are from Akron," he said. "Two of us are from Pennsylvania, one guy is from Porterville, Calif., but he moved to Seattle. He's actually in L.A. now. Another guy's in Portland. I'm moving to L.A. with my girlfriend."
One thing many relocated Pennsylvanians and visitors to the East Coast equally miss is Yuengling Beer — the oldest suds from America. Muddy Waters is a funky little coffee shop with beer, but not Yuengling.
"Yeah, yeah — Yuengling's the best," Olinsky said. "I was in New York City when they first got Yuengling. I grew up with that stuff. You could get a case of lager for like $10. Yeah, Yuengling is solid, especially the Porter and the Black and Tan."
Beers you won't be drinking in California aside, the band's last CD was "Akron/Family II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT." The yet-untitled new one will be unveiled at Muddy Waters. According to Olinsky, the group has made 11 albums in 10 years.
"Yeah, we've been busy," he says. "We always have more ideas than we are capable of figuring out, but the older I get I realize that ideas are the easy part. It's actually getting them done that's the hard part."
So, to review, no Yuengling, but a cool band in a fun place on the traditionally deadest night of the week. So who should go, according to Mr. O?
"Those touched by the religiousness of rock 'n' roll, I guess."
Akron/Family will perform at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Muddy Waters, 508 Haley St., Santa Barbara. Admission is $10. Call 966-9328.
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William Orpen
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NASA's orbiting Mars probe has spotted two surprises in the Red Planet's atmosphere: an unexplained dust cloud and a deep ultraviolet aurora.
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Last Sept I found this cool top in the vault that I thought deserved a special finish. I went home to think about it and had this idea for a guitar I was going to call "heritage". The finish I asked for became dragon's breath, which is nice enough but not quite what I wanted for this guitar so the top was released to the ravenous horde at Experience.
My timing was a bit off returning because I got there after the inpired Indiana crew ransacked the place and the the quilt master from the great white north pillaged the remains to fill an entire rack with choice woods. Lucky for me, my tastes are a bit off of the main path so there was a top that would work well for what I had in mind. I took another shot at finding a path to the stain I wanted, but clearly a measure of compromise was going to be in order. We set the top aside, reserving judgement on the finish and picked the rest of the woods. Fingerboard came up quickly as did the back.
The neck was the big score. Somehow, against the odds a beautiful block of cocobolo had survived and was sitting all alone on the top of one of the racks of wood.
Enough babbling, time for some pictures (cheers to Brent for keeping a quality camera handy and sending me the results - most of these photos are his).
Having raised two girls I'm a big believer in that a person's face when they first see something says everything about what the feel about it.
but the guitar is prettier than me, so here is some detail
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nice big chunk of mahogany for the back - and my wife doesn't allow plastic covers
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Saying the time has come to "usher in a new era," President Barack Obama unveiled a sweeping $3.6 trillion budget for fiscal 2010 on Thursday, making a major down payment on his priorities and marking a historic shift toward more government involvement in health care, energy and education while raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans.
The president's 134-page budget blueprint predicts eye-popping deficits for fiscal years 2009 and 2010 that Obama's nascent administration will have to grapple with, even as it seeks to put millions of Americans back to work and stave off a punishing recession marked by staggering job losses and bloodletting on Wall Street. Read the budget.
In a remark indirectly referring to former President George W. Bush, Obama said that the budget "lays out for the American people the extent of the crisis we inherited," as well as "the steps we will take to jump-start our economy to create new jobs and our plans to transform our economy for the 21st century."
'That's just factually wrong. We're not doing that.'
Touching on his campaign themes, Obama's ambitious 10-year spending plan includes a major effort to overhaul the U.S. health-care system and to cut greenhouse gases. It would set up a $630 billion fund to finance what he calls "fundamental reform" of a wide-ranging system of patient care. Obama is seeking to bring down health-care costs and expand coverage and would pay for it by taxing high-income Americans and cutting some government spending. Read commentary on the budget.
U.S. stocks -- especially shares of health-care companies -- fell after Obama released his budget blueprint. See Market Snapshot.
The president's environmental agenda is certain to set off protracted fights in Congress and among business and environmental groups. He is proposing to force companies to buy permits for emissions in an effort to reduce greenhouse gases to 14% below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83% below 2005 levels by 2050.
Republicans struck out against the plan almost immediately after it was released, but Obama -- whose party controls Congress -- is sticking to his guns and pledging to invest heavily in his priorities even as he plans to slash the deficit.
Tax increases for the wealthy -- those individuals making more than $200,000 and families whose incomes are over $250,000 -- wouldn't kick in until 2011, Obama's budget director said Thursday, rejecting charges that the administration is raising taxes during a recession.
"That's just factually wrong," budget director Peter Orszag told reporters. "We're not doing that." The administration sees economic growth declining by 1.2% in 2009 but expanding by 3.2% in 2010 -- higher than the consensus of private and government economists.
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The wide-ranging document and expansion of government's hand into health care and other areas already has touched off a political battle that is certain to intensify as lawmakers comb through the budget.
Sen. Judd Gregg, the New Hampshire Republican who withdrew as Obama's nominee to run the Commerce Department, called the budget a "missed opportunity."
"It raises taxes on all Americans, implements massive new spending and fails to make any tough choices to control the deficit and long-term fiscal crisis posed by the huge entitlement programs," Gregg said Thursday.
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French writer Jerome Ferrari speaks to journalists after he was... News PhotoArts Culture and Entertainment,Author,Award,Book,France,French Culture,Horizontal,Journalist,Jérôme Ferrari,Literature,Paris - France,Prix Goncourt,Restaurant,TalkingPhotographer ERIC FEFERBERGCollection: AFP 2012 AFPFrench writer Jerome Ferrari speaks to journalists after he was awarded with France's top literary prize, the Goncourt, for his novel 'Le Sermon sur la Chute de Rome' (The Sermon of the Fall of Rome), on November 7, 2012 at the Drouant restaurant in Paris. Himself a philosophy teacher, currently at the French lycee in Abu Dhabi, the French novelist previously taught in the Corsican capital Ajaccio. AFP PHOTO ERIC FEFERBERG (Photo credit should read ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/Getty Images)


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The Drexel University chapter of the Society of Physics Students will be hosting the Annual SPS Zone 3 Meeting on April 26-27, 2013 on Drexel Campus.
All are welcome to attend the Zone 3 Meeting at Drexel University. We encourage every undergraduate student that has performed research in physics or related fields to contribute posters or give a talk. This is a great opportunity to present your research in a low-stress setting. All applicants who apply and meet the requirements within the given deadlines will be allowed to present. You are also invited to participate in the exciting sessions and discussions at the AAPT Spring Meeting.
The plenary speakers will be Mr. Ken Fink, President & Founder of Whatergy, Inc. and Dr. Sarah Demers, Assistant Professor Yale University, who works on the ATLAS experiment at CERN.
Online registration is now open. The registration fee is $30.00. All payments should be in the form of a check payable to Drexel University. If you decide to bring your payment to the registration table on the day of the event there will be an additional registration fee. Please send your check to the following address:
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Mailed payments must be received no later than April 22, 2013.
Abstract submissions will be open in February and details will be posted soon.
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|A&H Fair Tractor: Take two
|Thursday, 09 August 2007 20:00
Newland residents may see a new tractor where the Avery County Agriculture & Horticulture Fair tractor sat- and this one is chained to a telephone pole.A tractor is raffled every year and its proceeds benefit the Fair. The original 2007 tractor, hitch and all, was stolen on July 17. Chains aren't the only thing to deter a thief from the second tractor, according to Newland Police Chief Jason Brown.
Officers know it's there, and are going to give the area some extra attention.Anyone with any information on the original tractor's whereabouts is strongly encouraged to contact Newland Police Department at (828)733-2024.
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Next-generation combat aircraft tap embedded computing innovations for increased data fusion and mission effectiveness.
Current and future military missions require modern aircraft equipped with high-performance avionics from tip to tail. Militaries worldwide are growing increasingly reliant on manned and unmanned military aircraft for the performance of myriad functions-from intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) to precision weapons delivery on a specific target. Avionics and electronics technology firms are answering the call for compact, airborne systems capable of delivering robust processing power, mission-critical communications, high-resolution targeting imagery, and situational awareness.
Sensor syndrome
Sensors dominate not only the digital battlefield, but also manned and unmanned military airframes. Engineers are installing "more and more sensors around the airframe," affirms Doug Patterson, vice president, military and aerospace sector, Aitech Defense Systems in Chatsworth, Calif. Manned and unmanned military aircraft employ Aitech's rugged interface/data concentrator units, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) computers, and Remote IO-Next Generation common digital processing platform.
The prevalent and ever-increasing use of airborne sensors is driving the need for more capable and compact military electronics with which to process, share, and exploit the data acquired. Just as militaries are employing more sensors than ever before, military aircraft are donning more advanced sensors capable of capturing high-resolution images and full-motion video; as a result, warfighters and avionics are often inundated with information and in need of more robust processing and data handling systems.
The military community's demand for streaming high-quality data presents a serious bandwidth issue, VITA Executive Director Ray Alderman explained during the organization's Embedded Tech Trends conference last month. He issued a call to military systems designers to solve the current bandwidth challenges by innovating in the area of sensor/processing systems.
Sensor technology is advancing rapidly and driving aerospace and defense electronics design, Alderman describes. "We've got to kill the bandwidth problem, particularly on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). There's a need to move the processor to the sensor, providing both in a single package," he explained, for radar, sonar, electronic warfare (EW), signals intelligence (SIGINT), and communications intelligence (COMINT) applications.
Mission management & payload
"UAVs have a data bottleneck issue that needs to be solved with onboard processing and data fusion," admits Curtis Reichenfeld, chief technology officer for Integrated Systems at Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions in Ashburn, Va. "Mission computer systems and network-centric payload processing units enable onboard data fusion prior to sending to digital uplinks/downlinks and recording systems."
Engineers at Northrop Grumman Corp. needed advanced computer subsystems for work on the U.S. Navy Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS), a persistent maritime ISR system able to detect, track, classify, and identify maritime and littoral targets. They chose Curtiss-Wright Controls' Advanced Mission Management System (AMMS).
Northrop Grumman's RQ-4N, a maritime derivative of the RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV, carries the BAMS UAS suite of maritime surveillance sensors, communications, and processing systems. Curtiss-Wright personnel designed, developed, and manufactured the BAMS UAS AMMS units at the company's Motion Control facility in Santa Clarita, Calif.
Data fusion demand
"One of the biggest enhancements happening now and going forward is that avionics are doing a better job of providing an integrated situational awareness picture for the pilot," explains Reichenfeld. "Instead of the pilot having to look at data from the radar and infrared or EW sensors and then put all the data together, the processing capability now going on military aircraft enables that whole process to be done automatically so that the pilot is seeing the complete situational awareness picture without having to fuse the data himself."
"Platforms are much more highly integrated and have much higher levels of data fusion-all for the purpose of reducing pilot workload so they can better focus on the mission at hand and reduce the need to do the data analysis by checking three or four different sensors or instruments," Reichenfeld enthuses.
"Older avionics architectures had independent systems, each with its own displays; now, we are seeing integrated and network-centric systems fusing data and presenting the combined data on a single display for the pilot to access more quickly and efficiently," Reichenfeld adds. "All the formerly separate data is now presented as a single resource."
This capability is a game-changer for military pilots, lending to faster, better informed decisions.
|The P-8A Poseidon is Boeing's first military derivative aircraft to incorporate structural modifications to the aircraft as it moves through the commercial line. (Boeing photo.)
Facilitating decision-makers
For EW and electronics support measures, the ability to fuse data into a cohesive combat picture provides pilots with a better understanding of what the threats are and how to overcome them, explains Mark Grovak, avionics business development manager at Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions.
"What makes this possible is putting more processing onboard the aircraft, and that's where companies like Curtiss-Wright play a key role in getting extremely high-performance electronics onboard in a way that is still supported by the existing cooling systems on the aircraft," Grovak continues. "The more processing you do, the more power [and heat are] generated-and you have to be able to cool it." Thermally efficient, high-performance computing onboard the aircraft is essential; a robust processing infrastructure is needed to handle the large data sets and run the advanced algorithms that provide the pilot with the desired situational awareness, he says.
Functional flexibility
In the face of asymmetric warfare, flexibility is key. This is true not only of military personnel, but also of military avionics. For this reason, a team of engineers designed, developed, and manufactured the P-8A Poseidon to be a true multi-mission airborne platform for the U.S. Navy.
The P-8A Poseidon long-range aircraft sports an advanced mission system designed for interoperability in the network-centric battle space. "All sensors contribute to a single fused tactical situation display, which is shared over both military standard and Internet Protocol (IP) data links, allowing for seamless delivery of information amongst U.S. and coalition forces," says a Boeing spokesperson. "The P-8A is the latest military derivative aircraft to benefit from a culture of technical innovation."
The anti-submarine warfare and anti-surface warfare P-8A is an arm-ed and ISR platform, sporting both weapons and sensors payloads, able to deploy weaponry and deliver data on a network simultaneously. The P-8A is a derivative of the Next-Generation 737, has the fuselage of a 737-800 and the wings of a 737-900, and is Boeing's first military derivative aircraft to incorporate structural modifications to the aircraft as it moves through the commercial line.
CFM International supplies the CFM56-7 engine that powers the P-8A; Northrop Grumman provides the directional infrared countermeasures system and electronic support measures system; Raytheon provides the upgraded AN/APY-10 maritime surveillance radar and signals intelligence solutions; GE Aviation supplies flight-management and stores-management systems; and Spirit AeroSystems builds the 737 aircraft's fuselage and airframe tail sections and struts.
Situational awareness & sensors
Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), a stealth combat aircraft replete with advanced avionics, integrated sensors, and weaponry, continues to gain considerable attention on the world stage. In fact, the F-35 Lightning II is reportedly the only international 5th Generation multirole fighter to date.
"The tri-variant F-35 represents the pinnacle of more than 50 years of fighter development technology," admits Laura Siebert in the F-35 Communications Office at Lockheed Martin. "The F-35 combines the 5th Generation characteristics of radar-evading stealth, supersonic speed, and agility with the most powerful and comprehensive integrated sensor package of any fighter aircraft."
The F-35 Lightning II employs a novel cockpit display and sensor implementation and placement. Advanced avionics provide the pilot "real-time access to battle space information with spherical coverage and an unparalleled ability to dominate the tactical environment," Siebert says, whereas sensor data can immediately be shared, "providing an instantaneous, high-fidelity view of ongoing operations."
Enabling technology behind the F-35's advanced avionics hails from a Lockheed Martin-led team that includes Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon, and various other technology partners. Among them is Mercury Computer Systems Inc. in Chelmsford, Mass.
Engineers at Raytheon Company's Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) segment in El Segundo, Calif., licensed Mercury Systems' RACE++ Series multicomputers for the F-35 JSF's Integrated Core Processing (ICP) system. The ICP is the sensor processing system with an open-system architecture designed to maximize the use of standards-based, commercially available products.
"Incorporating COTS technology into an open system architecture throughout the F-35 will enable frequent technology updates at low cost," says Bob Coultas, hardware program manager for the ICP for Lockheed Martin. "Open system architecture is based on the use of commercial, standard interfaces that enable the program to take advantage of commercial technologies for more supportable, lower-cost designs."
"Raytheon is continuing to innovate in the adaptation of COTS products for advanced multi-mission computing," says Erv Grau, vice president of Air Combat Avionics, Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems.
The onboard system incorporates a liquid-cooled, ruggedized multicomputer capable of performing 40 billion sustained operations per second; it enables multi-mission computing to process EW, electro-optical, infrared, and radar data. Mercury's multiprocessor technology is used in the signal processor (SP) and signal processor input/output (SPIO) modules of the ICP. Mercury's signal processing systems were used in the Concept Demonstration Phase (CDP) of the JSF, and its RACE++ Series PowerStream systems were selected for the System Development and Demonstration (SDD) phase.
|Advanced avionics on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II provide multi-mission capabilities, such as electronic attack and ISR.
Data links & bottlenecks
All the older aircraft are scheduled to be replaced by aircraft like the JSF, Reichenfeld admits. "They are going into a 'sundown' and one of their big limitations is that they lack a high-speed network onboard."
With the amount of sensors on each aircraft and the amount of resolution that these sensors have, a single aircraft is generating more data than it and today's data links can handle, acknowledges Reichenfeld. "Efficiencies come from using existing data pipes to do onboard processing so that you are only sending relevant or pre-processed information across the limited data links."
The big bottleneck is getting data off the aircraft, Grovak adds. "Even though the data links are getting better, they are still very poor in comparison to what they are tasked to do. It puts pressure on the ability to do more things on the aircraft and to pass information between airplanes. The bandwidth needed to pass all the data is just not available; more processing has to be done onboard the aircraft."
"Onboard the aircraft, they have enough high-speed networks; it's when you are sending the data off of the aircraft that the bottleneck becomes a problem," Reichenfeld agrees.
The need for data security can further exacerbate data challenges. "If a low probability of intercept or encrypted data (during transit and at rest) is required, more processing has to be done on board. Avionics require more classified fusion algorithms that can combine, or fuse, all the data. Also, if aircraft are sold overseas, you have to have a way to protect the technology and data onboard, making it even more important to have some kind of trusted COTS solution on the aircraft," Reichenfeld explains. "As we are developing more powerful, integrated systems, a lot more security has to be taken into account. We handle that with trusted COTS and with encryption and anti-tamper techniques embedded into our systems."
Retrofitting legacy aircraft
"The new-generation Super Hornets and advanced F-15 and F-16 aircraft are starting to get high-speed 1-gigabit-per-second (1Gb/s) capability, which makes it a lot easier to do all the necessary onboard processing required to provide situational awareness," Reichenfeld says. Older aircraft have a "Link 16 data stream at 1 megabit per second (1Mb/s). The legacy F18 and F16 are still pretty much stuck with 1553." Yet, avionics technology exists to bridge the gap in communications between legacy and next-generation combat aircraft.
Stauder Technologies engineers needed an avionics chassis and electronic components for its AVT StrikeLink Airborne (StrikeLink/A) solution. They found their solution at Curtiss-Wright Controls Inc.
Strikelink/A is designed to provide "turnkey" interoperability with StrikeLink, the material ground solution for the U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command's Target Location, Designation, and Hand-off System (TLHDS) by re-hosting digital communications technologies in legacy aircraft.
The avionics system harnesses Curtiss-Wright's integrated subsystems, including avionics chassis, computer boards, backplane, and power supply, to help enable digital interoperability between ground forces and close air support aircraft. The embedded computer runs Stauder's digital communications software, which is currently fielded in StrikeLink and serves as the core of StrikeLink/A. Able to acquire targets during day, night, and nearly all-weather visibility conditions, StrikeLink can precisely determine operator location as well as that of their targets, and then digitally transmit secure data, using Variable Message Format (VMF) protocols, to multiple supporting arms elements. With StrikeLink/A installed on close air support aircraft, initially the AV-8B Harrier, digital communication interoperability is guaranteed and sustainable without modifying the aircraft's operational flight program or hardware installation provisions, according to a spokesperson.
Curtiss-Wright Controls provided Stauder Technologies with integrated subsystems designed, developed, and manufactured at the Curtiss Wright Controls Integrated Systems facility in Santa Clarita, Calif.
Precision weaponry
The Royal Air Force (RAF), the aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces, sought to outfit the Eurofighter Typhoon multi-role combat aircraft with advanced avionics, including a forward-looking infrared (FLIR) system, enhanced air-to-air capability, an air-to-surface capability, and the ability to use the laser designator pod for precision weapon delivery. For the task, RAF officials turned to BAE Systems in London.
BAE Systems engineers upgraded RAF Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft to the Tranche 1 Block 5 standard; completion of this work, which falls under the Retrofit 2 program, was announced in late Nov. 2012.
"This upgrade program gives the Royal Air Force Typhoon fleet an improved baseline capability, making it better than it has ever been before," says Martin Taylor, BAE Systems' combat air support director. "This improved capability will also allow the Royal Air Force greater scope for how they manage the Typhoon fleet."
|BAE Systems engineers have upgraded the Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon multi-role combat aircraft fleet with advanced avionics.
Future avionics advances
Advanced avionics are in demand. Regardless of budget pressures, militaries worldwide need modern avionics technologies in new manned and unmanned aerial platforms and with which to retrofit existing and aging combat aircraft fleets. In fact, the success of future missions may call for "cognitive avionics."
"One big trend that we're seeing emerge is cognizance, more machine intelligence for the ultimate goal of relieving the pilot workload to get the mission accomplished, and cognizance in EW, the ability to detect and adapt as threats change, situations change, and missions change," Reichenfeld affirms. "Giving the avionics more cognitive intelligence is one of the growing trends for future avionics systems."
It will take at least 20 years before all the aircraft currently flying will be replaced, Grovak predicts. Military, government, and industry will need to work together to enable old and new military aircraft to share air space and communications safely, reliably, and efficiently.
"There is going to be a large mixed fleet," Grovak explains. "How do you share data from modern aircraft with advanced high-speed sensors with older aircraft whose sensors and situational awareness are not as good? If you've got aircraft with great situational-awareness capabilities how do you share it?
"A big part is having the number-crunching power to blend different protocols into something older avionics can understand, utilize, and display," Grovak continues. "This type of processing is collaborative rather than cognitive."
Grovak also expects the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) Consortium to play a key role. "Standard, open middleware software is a way to get more of these capabilities on more of these aircrafts by making applications portable." In the end, he insists, opportunity lies in supporting "the technology upgrades that enable information sharing between heterogeneous avionics platforms so that different generation aircraft can share a Common Operational Picture (COP) and perform missions together more effectively."


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Photos: More trail cam pics of elk and deer
NEAR ROSEBURG, Ore. -- Doug and Jennifer Singleton put out a trail cam on their property east of Roseburg to try to see some big bucks.
Back in September, they captured some great shots of bears, cougar and deer. Jennifer told KPIC News at the time, that they put out the motion sensor camera to try to see the deer coming through their property. They did get several great pictures of some good size bucks with what she says is a top of the line camera.
When the picture of the bear popped up, she says they were pretty shocked.
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Now the Singletons have more pictures taken between last Tuesday and today, this time of some really nice looking elk and white-tail deer.


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Front Range (CO) > Goat Mountain > Climber's Log
Goat Mountain Climber's Log
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|Great Mountain
Date Climbed: Mar 4, 2012
|Great mountain right in my hood. With Tracy. Will do again this fall.
|Posted Nov 4, 2012 12:59 am
|Foxy Long Bottoms
Date Climbed: Mar 4, 2012
|Another fun local hike that I can do from my front door. Next time I'm bringing a rack and a rope to climb some of those formations close to the summit. I was pretty excited to see all of that rock. Upon the descent, we ended up following the road down until we saw "no trespassing" signs. To avoid trespassing we went down through a little ravine that was full of mountain loin poop, dead deer parts and hair. It's an obvious mountain lion hangout. They drag their kill up there and feed off it for a while. I've never seen so much lion sign from so many different lions as I did on this day.
|Posted Mar 5, 2012 10:57 am
|Jeremy Hakes
Date Climbed: Jan 24, 2009
|Fantastic hike, great peak!
|Posted Jan 2, 2011 11:50 pm
|Sarah Simon
|East Ridge
Date Climbed: Jan 2, 2011
|This is a great conditioner hike for higher / more challenging peaks. A lot of ups and downs, plenty of scrambling, steep tugs up false summits... Going it solo in snow, breaking my own trail - I was good and tired by the end of the outting!
|Posted Jan 2, 2011 10:01 pm
|with FPA
Date Climbed: May 3, 2009
|Did it as a warm-up for the summer season. I remember that it was a HOT day. This was a surprisingly fun mountain with a bit of scrambling opportunities.
|Posted Sep 29, 2010 10:07 am
|Favorite Local Mountain
|I climb Goat several times a year. Always a good day. Everything from quiet scenic trails to some class 3/4 scrambling. My office is on the east side of Goat, so every day I look at it out my window. I love bringing friends up there to show them the Goat...it is so close yet no one knows about it.
|Posted Sep 22, 2008 4:43 pm
|nice hike
Date Climbed: Oct 11, 2007
|still incredibly hot on the ridge - despite mid october, but nice to be so quickly in an isolated area so close to Denver
|Posted Sep 3, 2008 9:16 am


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Learn more about Feet First—our accomplishments, our history, our strategic plan that guides our work, who we are as people, and what our policies are on the different issues that affect walkability.
Feet First inspires, connects and informs wide-ranging discussions with government agencies, developers and community groups to promote walkable communities. We regularly meet with community members to discuss options for improving walking conditions in their neighborhoods. We serve as a partner in important research projects related to planning, public health and policy.
Feet First began in 1995 as a group of citizens and professionals interested in promoting walkable communities. In 2001, we became an official 501(c)(3) nonprofit. A grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation allowed us to hire our first staff person at the end of 2003. Today we're a fast-growing organization with passionate board members, staff, and volunteers supporting our vision of people walking every day for their health, transportation, environment, community, and pleasure.
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Check out Feet First's vision for the future—our Strategic plan defines our major goals and the routes we plan to achieve them. We review and revise this plan every three years with input from Board, Staff, and Committee Members.
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Advocacy is a major component of the work Feet First does. These policy papers, prepared by our Policy Committee, convey Feet First's position on key issues of interest to increase safe and easy ways for people to choose to go by foot.