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@who said that. You're spot on about the respect which creates the close racing between these 3. They know that as much as they don't want to give up the place, they can lean on each other rather than know they're in for a punt to the gravel trap for the trouble of DARING to race with each other. Some like a certain riders 'style' of 'prison rules racing' as their hero was usually the missile that forced the other rider off. I'm HAPPY that we don't get the racing SPOILED by the punt master.


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Can somebody lay out a list of the recruits we have for next year along with some guys we are pretty damn close to getting. With all this new coaching hires and people expressing all the opinions I've kinda got lost in confusion
At least I know we got Ejim! I like that start
Phillips, McKnight, Godfrey, Colvin(re-recruit), Cook(2011)
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Railey and Phillips already signed LOI and I'm sure you know them.
Eric McKnight and Calvin Godfrey are unsigned commits.
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Alright cool, I left for a little while and I haven't really heard about McKnight or Godfrey so good stuff!
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Thanks for your ongoing interest.
Last weekend I had a bit of time and I
1) completely removed Java for Lion, cleaned and rebooted my machine.
2) completely removed ZD, Prism and anything related to ZD, even including the History of updates in the library. Cleaned the machine again. Rebooted.
3) used Applejack again. Rebooted.
4) repaired all permissions using Disk Utility. Rebooted.
5) reinstalled Java for Lion - though I was unable to do this through Java preferences (which claimed I was not connected to the internet, although I was). So I did it from the official mac site.
6) completely reinstalled ZD 7.1.2 build 10978
Zimbra desktop is nevertheless unable to contact the server and the warning message is :
"A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.
Script: file:///Applications/Zimbra%20Desktop/macos/prism/Prism.app/Contents/Resources/modules/WebAppProperties.jsm -> file:///Users/~/Library/Zimbra%20Desktop/zdesktop.webapp/webapp.js:116"
There is still only what there has always been : one large grey clock like daisy wheel which turns red as it spins.
I am still able to use Zimbra via Prism.
Does anyone have any further ideas before I completely give up?
Thanks for the idea.
I ran OnyX but no luck.
The error message, accompanying the grey-red spinning clock wheel is
A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, or you can continue to see if the script will complete.
Script: file:///Applications/Zimbra%20Desktop/macos/prism/Prism.app/Contents/Resources/modules/WebAppProperties.jsm:190
Any more ideas anyone??
Do you have any cleaners installed? If so let me know what you have installed.
Try running Zimbra again. Go to your activity monitor and under CPU Column, have a look to see what is eating up your memory.
Iz Teremka Kennel
Last edited by Iz Teremka Kennel; 10-18-2011 at 07:00 AM.
Thanks for your ongoing interest.
The cleaners I have are Applejack (as you suggested) and also OnyX (as suggested by another user).
I tried Zimbra Desktop again.
The warning message today is
Script: file:///Applications/Zimbra%20Desktop/macos/prism/Prism.app/Contents/Resources/modules/WebAppProperties.jsm -> file:///Users/~/Library/Zimbra%20Desktop/zdesktop.webapp/webapp.js:116
I looked at Activity Monitor. CPU is coreaudiod at 7,4% followed by Zimbra itself at 5%.
Does this help?
Best wishes.
Can you disable and or uninstall Onyx completely and try running Zimbra?
Again look at your activity monitor for software that is eating up your memory.
Iz Teremka Kennel
Now zimbra is at about 6% and Safari at about 5%.
The ZD warning message now is :
Script: file:///Applications/Zimbra%20Desktop/macos/prism/Prism.app/Contents/Resources/modules/WebAppProperties.jsm -> file:///Users/~/Library/Zimbra%20Desktop/zdesktop.webapp/webapp.js:140
Followed by :
Java Script Application :
Couldn't access Zimbra Desktop server. If issue persists after reinstall, please check logs for errors and report to Zimbra Desktop - Zimbra :: Forums.
Other than the Zimbra and Safari, are there any other applications that are showing a high percentage of CPU activity?
Iz Teremka Kennel
No, Iz, none whatsoever......
Is 6% a high rate?
To answer your question 6% is nothing, I am looking for something that is running about 60% and above.
Go to the link below and read and try to eliminate the ones that does not apply to you. Try the solutions and see what happens.
Unresponsive Scripts
If that fails, then I going to ask you to do a clean install. It means completely removing Zimbra Desktop and ZCS. I want you to remove it by using the software "CleanMyMac".
If you don't have the software send me a pm.
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"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed."
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Beautiful Children Goes Free
Random House has decided to take a bold move this week, making one of its hottest titles available for free download for a limited time. Charles Bock's debut effort Beautiful Children has set the literary world aflame, attracting glowing notices from the New York Times, Washington Post, and elsewhere, and nosing onto the NYT Bestseller List.
The download went live last night at midnight and is up until Friday night at midnight. The pdf of the book is also being hosted at Amazon for a limited time. (more: interview with publisher)
Happy Reading!
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Have you ever been in the following situation: you are browsing someone's shelf, you see a book that looks interesting, but you would like to get a little bit more information about it? If yes we have something that you should like; we just released a new feature called "Should I read this". Every time you see a book you can ask for more details about it. You can ask your friends, the owner of the shelf and/or the Shelfari community. Just hover over a book that you haven't read (either one that you see in the friend's feed or on a member's shelf) and select the "Should I read this" button in the popup. You can also type an optional question or provide more details about what you are looking for in the book.
I personally love the community side of "Should I read this." It allows you to tap the knowledge of the whole Shelfari community and receive personal feedback about books with almost no effort.
Happy reading!
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Yesterday I received the bi-annual newsletter from Seattle's popular Pagliacci Pizza voted Best Pizza in Seattle for the past 21 years. Ah, the Chicken Primo pizza: chicken marinated in a balsamic vinaigrette, artichoke hearts, red onion, imported peppers, mozzarella, ricotta and parsley on an olive oil sauce (Yum!). I have to quickly wipe up the drool that is gathering on my keyboard. I'm delighted to see Pagliacci's newsletter is devoted to books (with a small shout-out to their seasonal pizzas...yes, they sound fantastic too). I've included a visual aid (just for fun).
+ =A little slice of heaven! (bad pun, well intended)
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From Pagliacci Pizza Newsletter, Edition XLII, Winter/Spring 2008:
Just can't get enough published text? Spend all day thinking about that book you are reading? Here are ten signs that you are a bookworm:
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Come and check out Amanda's Reading Challenge. Shelfari's Community Manager, Amanda, is always on the look out for a great book. This group will vote on one book a month she will have to read. You have until February 28th to make suggestions for which book she will read in March. The list of suggestions will be narrowed down to 3 titles that you get to vote on. Amanda will be posting her review of each month's book in the group discussion and on this blog. You decide what Amanda reads next!
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Bethanee Patrick interviews Steve Berry on his latest book, The Venetian Betrayal. Berry, a New York Times bestselling author explores historic figures and topics in his international suspense thrillers. His latest offering, The Venetian Betrayal:
In 323 B.C.E, having conquered Persia, Alexander the Great set his sights on Arabia, then suddenly succumbed to a strange fever. Locating his final resting place–unknown to this day–remains a tantalizing goal for both archaeologists and treasure hunters. Now the quest for this coveted prize is about to heat up. And Cotton Malone–former U.S. Justice Department agent turned rare-book dealer–will be drawn into an intense geopolitical chess game. (more)
Happy Reading,
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Twit Lit? For some reason (likely coffee overindulgence coming back to haunt me) I find this list of new "literary" genres quite amusing. Who could resist:
Hick Lit - The fiction of Richard Ford (See A Multitude of Sins)
Sick Lit - Novels calculated to shock or revolt. (See Fight Club)
Thick Lit - Tales of the weight-challenged. (See She's Come Undone.)
Quick Lit - Novels turned out with alarming frequency. (See His Illegal Self, and Oates, Joyce Carol.)
Enjoy J
Ps. Don't miss the post comments (see "Twit Lit" further defined).
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By Robin Palmer (author, Cindy Ella)
As a (sometimes) wise and mature woman of thirty-nine, it's easy for me to wax poetically about how the prom has devolved from a meaningful rite of passage to a sad display of blatant consumerism. In fact, the heroine in my novel Cindy Ella commits social suicide by writing a scathing letter to the editor of her school paper about that very issue. But back when I was a senior in 1986 (and saw nothing wrong with blatant consumerism) there was no way I was going to miss mine... (more)
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Robert Dallek, author of "An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963" and "Flawed Giant: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1960-1973", reviews top five presidential biographies.
1. "The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It" by Richard Hofstadter (Knopf, 1948).
Almost 60 years after it was published, Richard Hofstadter's "The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It" remains a compelling introduction to seven presidents--Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The book has educated several generations of Americans about the men, their administrations, and the nature of 19th- and 20th-century American politics. Hofstadter's sense of the ironic, along with his insights into the country's affinity for consensus, helps make the book an American classic. Four chapter titles are illustrative--Jefferson: "The Aristocrat as Democrat"; TR: "The Conservative as Progressive"; Wilson: "The Conservative as Liberal"; and FDR: "The Patrician as Opportunist."
2. "George Washington: Man and Monument" by Marcus Cunliffe (Little, Brown, 1958).
3. "Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation" by Merrill D. Peterson (Oxford, 1970).
4. "Lincoln" by David Herbert Donald (Simon & Schuster, 1995).
5. "Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox" by James MacGregor Burns (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1956).
Happy President's Day!
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Few fun facts:
· The oldest surviving valentine dates from 1415. It is a poem written by Charles, Duke of Orleans to his wife. At the time, the duke was being held in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt.
· The Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day.
· In Medieval times, girls ate unusual foods on St Valentine's Day to make them dream of their future husband.
· During the late 1800s, postage rates around the world dropped, and the obscene St. Valentine's Day card became popular, despite the Victorian era being otherwise very prudish. As the numbers of racy valentines grew, several countries banned the practice of exchanging Valentine's Days cards. During this period, Chicago's post office rejected more than 25,000 cards on the grounds that they were so indecent, they were not fit to be carried through the U.S. mail.
· In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. To wear your heart on your sleeve now means that it is easy for other people to know how you are feeling.
Happy Valentine's Day!
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Zimbra is very slow today and keeps giving me the server is slow to respond errors in the GUI. I know this is a very general question but what can I do to troubleshoot. I have checked the zimbra.log and everything there seems fine what are the other logs i can check? Are there some test i can run? Is there a good bandwidth monitoring tool for fedora mabey someone one the server is hogging all the bandwidth? Not sure what to do just some pointers would be appriciated
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Before the practice was banned by British colonials in 1829, millions of Indian widows burned themselves alive at their husbands' funeral pyres, a practice called Sati. Thousands continued to do so in secret for decades after the ban was enacted, leading prominent Western scholars to condemn the male-dominated society as oppressive and inhumane.
Spivak pointed the finger back at Western scholars, saying that they had failed to put the self-immolation into historical context. In an acclaimed 1988 essay, she suggested that the Indian widows might not have felt very terrorized at all. She drew on cultural artifacts -- books, paintings, transcripts of speeches -- from precolonial times to make the argument that many victims of Sati may have accepted the self-immolation as a natural end to their lives.
Spivak has spent much of her life throwing up a hand, asking people to stop and look past generalizations and stereotypes about ordinary people, including working-class immigrants and the poor. She is deeply suspicious of the continuing influence of colonialism on Asian and African people. She has encouraged and inspired thousands of activists to fight against what she calls the injustices of the capitalist state. Spivak has written that her goal is to resurrect lost folk wisdom, and to correct the false assumptions that she believes Western intellectuals make about Eastern cultures. For example, she is criticial of the belief that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were simply an act of religious fanaticism. Spivak argues that suicide is, in reality, almost always an act of desperation.
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In more recent years, she has moved away from criticims and toward philanthropy. In 1997, she founded the Memorial Literacy Project, an educational non-profit organization for children in rural West Bengal. She now describes her life's work as the pursuit of empathy — to "use literary analysis to understand human beings as they really are."


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OKC Thunder's 'Hollywood script' gets another chapter after win over San Antonio
With 30 seconds left, the noise level, long past loud, also left roar in its wake. Jet engines just wish they could crescendo like this.
The NBA Finals are coming to Oklahoma City, and Chesapeake Energy Arena, which has busted its share of eardrums, thundered.
Pun intended.
Down 2-0 in the series, down 18 points in the first quarter, down 15 points at halftime, the Thunder continued to write a remarkable story. The Thunder rallied to beat the San Antonio Spurs 107-99 Wednesday night to win the Western Conference Finals.
A city that seven years ago didn't even have a pipedream of being an NBA port now is on the league's grandest stage.
With streamers falling and the crowd still yelling, Thunder chairman Clay Bennett told the fans and a national television audience, "All I can think of is how this incredible group of young men has unified this city and this state."
And even the Spurs took notice.
The Spurs' Gregg Popovich, with four championships one of the most successful coaches in NBA history, didn't lament missed opportunity. He lauded what the Thunder has done in four short seasons in OKC.
"Great, great stuff," Popovich said. "As sad and disappointed as we are, you really have to think about it's almost like a Hollywood script for OKC in a sense."
The Thunder, which arrived from Seattle in July 2008 and got off to a 3-29 start that ensuing season, now not only will play in the NBA Finals, but will have homecourt advantage. The Thunder hosts the Boston Celtics or the Miami Heat in Game 1 Tuesday night.
Thunder coach Scott Brooks thanked ownership. "When we were 3-29, they still treated us like champions," Brooks said.
General manager Sam Presti, who put together this team through draft picks and trades, said, "We've got a special group of people." And he didn't mean just the people drawing a Thunder paycheck. "The fans in this arena represent an entire state."
And the fans helped in this one.
The Thunder, which lost the first two games of the series, won three straight and returned to OKC with a chance to close out the Spurs.
But San Antonio made 14 of its first 20 shots and took a 34-16 lead. The Thunder was within 63-48 at halftime only because Kevin Durant muscled in a well-guarded 3-pointer just before the second-quarter buzzer.
Then came a third quarter that will be long remembered in OKC. The Thunder made 12 of its first 17 shots after halftime and caught the Spurs before quarter's end, fittingly on Durant's 3-pointer with 1:40 left in the period.
"Toughest game we've played since I've been here," Durant said. "I'm glad we got this one for Oklahoma City."


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A pair of fresh trailers for The Last of Us have surfaced courtesy of developer Naughty Dog.
The first footage comes from a TV spot that aired during the season 3 finale of The Walking Dead; the second, meatier trailer, offers a heap of new gameplay footage and is significantly longer, too.
Tuck into both trailers below. The Last of Us is scheduled for release exclusively on PlayStation 3 in June.


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After reading Mr. Dellorfano's letter on Sept. 21 proposing the idea that if more of us good guys were packing heat, we could have prevented a mass shooting at the Naval Shipyard and just had a normal shooting. What a stroke of genius and I think he's on to something big. Imagine if Congress would mandate that everyone over the age of 18 must holster a weapon at all times? Problem solved. Oh, and I can just hear all those tree-hugging, latte-drinking, Birkenstock wearing, pot smoking hippie Liberals screaming how they refuse to carry a sidearm. Fine, Congress should also mandate if you won't carry a weapon you must wear full body armor when you leave the house.
Just think about it, next time someone attempts a mass shooting, no dead Liberals to whine about gun control and the only victims would be the gun-toting NRA enthusiasts. And let's be truthful, it would kind of be their own fault, not quick enough on the draw per se. Should have worn the full body armor like your Liberal friends.
So come on Congress, get on it immediately because we know you're already concerned. You've held more than 12 congressional hearings on the deaths of four innocent American lives at a government installation half way around the world trying to figure out how could this possibly happen and what can we do to prevent it from happening in the future. Wouldn't the deaths of twelve innocent Americans on a government installation garner a minimum of 48 congressional hearings? Were still talking about innocent Americans dying, aren't we?
My only concern is for the children K-12. We surely don't want another Columbine or Sandy Hook, but I have a solution. Pink body armor for the girls and blue body armor for the boys. Again, problem solved.
If we follow through on this, the rest of the world will no longer look at the U.S. as the mass shooting capital on planet Earth and they'll probably say, �there goes that American ingenuity again.�
Another thought, as a very small step in the right direction to combat this problem, we could try generating a national database with input from law enforcement and medical personal to create some type of background check system to curtail at least some of the wackos from obtaining weapons. But as I re-read what I've just typed, it hit's me ... that last idea sounds just plain Crazy. Nevermind.
Daniel McCauley, Trent Woods
Location, ST | website.com


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The goal of the SAF Forest Policy Department is to provide relevant science-based information to policy makers at the national and local level.
The SAF national office established a formal natural resource policy program in 1971. Subsequent appointment of a full-time policy director reflected the profession's commitment to actively participate in developing policies regarding the country's renewable natural resources.
SAF does not make natural resource policy. Instead, the Society participates in the political and administrative processes that generate policy by presenting our views to policymakers. These views — SAF position statements — are developed using a position taking process that is detailed in the SAF Bylaws.
SAF influences policy through the consistent development of high quality, science based positions on issues affecting renewable natural resources and their management. SAF's position is the professional view.
A major task of the Forest Policy Department is to manage SAF's forest policy and position taking process (Bylaws, Section II), and within this process to guide SAF policy activities in four areas:
Our policy work provides several products and services to the membership, and under some circumstances also to the publics we serve. They are:
Because SAF is a scientific based organization rather than an advocacy group, we give the media unbiased and impartial information so they can present all the facts to their readership. We have quick access to a wide range of current, sound scientific and policy information addressing a variety of natural resource issues. We can also connect media representatives with top leaders in the field of forestry and allied disciplines such as watershed management, soil science, fisheries and wildlife, policy, entomology, landscape ecology, and others.
Forest Policy Activities
According to Bylaw II-C, a forestry issue is "a matter relating to forestry, the resolution of which is of public importance." The forest policy department at the national office works closely with members in the formulation of both national and local position statements and in other resource policy activities regarding forestry issues.
The SAF Constitution (Article II, Section 2) provides for a general statement on forest policy: "The Society shall adopt a statement on forest policy which shall be implemented in accordance with Bylaws established by the Council." In June 2002, the SAF Council voted to change the title of the "statement on forest policy" document from Forest Policies to Forest Policy Principles to ensure the title was descriptive of the content of the document. The actual content of this document was not changed. Forest Policy Principles is a generalized document that guides all of SAF's natural resource policy activities. All positions the Society takes must be consistent with Forest Policy Principles.
The SAF Committee on Forest Policy has developed guidelines explaining what forest policy is, and how SAF members can develop effective position statements on forest policies.
Bylaws II-D and E (1996) are very explicit about position-taking procedures on both the national and local unit levels. An issue may become the subject of a position statement if it is of major importance to the public, covered by Forest Policy Principles, within the knowledge and skills of the forestry profession, or of general interest within the Society. Furthermore, there must be time and resources for SAF to act responsibly on the issue. Proposed national issues are screened by the House of Society Delegates, the Forest Science and Technology Board, and the Committee on Forest Policy for recommendation to Council for study and review. Unit-level policy and executive committees follow similar procedures.
National Positions provide society with the professional view on a specific natural resource issue, and must be approved by at least two-thirds of the SAF Council (normally for a five-year period).
Unit Positions are formulated by state societies, divisions, or chapters, and are adopted by at least two-thirds of the unit's executive committee. The national office reviews all draft position statements to ensure their consistency with national position statements and Forest Policy Principles.
Emergency Procedures
The Bylaws provide for an emergency procedure for taking a position on an issue the Society should address, but which has a timeline inconsistent with the process for adoption described above. This process can be used to adopt one-year position statements when appropriate (See Bylaws II-D, Part 4d; members only page).
Forests affect nearly every aspect of our lives. 1 The benefits forests can provide now and in the future are affected by human actions. 2 Forestry is guided by practical experience and applied knowledge, in addition to public policies and laws. Foresters contribute to the formulation of forest policies with professional position statements on forestry issues. 3 Position statement development is guided by the same responsibilities to society and principles of professional conduct found in the forester's Code of Ethics: promoting and practicing stewardship that sustains and protects a variety of forest uses and attributes, 4 helping shape public policy by identifying relevant scientific knowledge and social values, 5 and communicating with honesty and fairness. 6
The Forestry Profession's View on Forest PoliciesWhat is Forest Policy? SAF's Role in Forest Policy SAF Position Statements Guiding Principles for SAF Position Statements Who Develops SAF Position Statements When are SAF Position Statements Needed? Content of SAF Position Statements Identifying the Issue Separating Facts and Values: Information Positions and Advocacy Positions Commenting on Existing Forest Policies Conclusion: Building Trust with SAF Position Statements Checklist: Does the Position Statement Conform to SAF's Guidelines? Endnotes
The Society of American Foresters (SAF) is the national organization representing the forestry profession in the United States. 7 Forestry is the profession embracing the science, art, and practice of creating, managing, using, and conserving forests and associated resources for human benefit and in a sustainable manner to meet desired goals, needs, and values. 8 Foresters develop, use, and communicate their knowledge for one purpose: to sustain and enhance forest resources for diverse benefits in perpetuity. 9
Through the SAF Code of Ethics, members pledge to use their knowledge and skills to help formulate sound forest policies and laws. 10 Among other things, forest policies address forestry issues and identify courses of action. A forestry issue is "a matter relating to forestry, the resolution of which is of public importance." 11
Forest policies are formulated and evaluated in public processes. The SAF contributes its professional knowledge to public deliberation on forestry issues through formal position statements. 12 The SAF's position on an issue represents the view of the forestry profession. 13
Policies are purposive courses of action (or inaction) that governments, businesses, groups, or individuals take to deal with a particular situation or problem.14 Policy is not simply a set of prescriptions offered by government; rather, policy evolves over time as participants interact.15 Policy emerges out of series of negotiated settlements involving interaction among competing interest groups, competing regions, and organizations and agencies competing for the attention and support of the public. 16
Different policy options arise from the multiple and diverse perspectives of Americans and our pluralistic approach to policy development.17 To reconcile inconsistencies and differences among policy options, natural resource policy must be pragmatic. 18 As a practical matter,policy focuses on a particular objective or end result. 19
Forest oolicy has been defined as:
The SAF defines policy as "a definite course or method of action to guide present and future decisions or to specify in detail the ways and means to achieve goals and objectives."23Americans, however, are not at all clear about many of our objectives, the order in which we should rank them, and the choices we should make if conflicting objectives prove to be mutually exclusive.24 Forest policy objectives or ends therefore may be ill-defined, obscure, vague, and ambiguous for several reasons, including the following: 1) the technical nature of forestry issues and the variability of forest conditions preclude precise definition of ends; 2) clear objectives can point out winners and losers, leading to divisiveness; and 3) implementation specifics may be purposely left to the discretion of executive agencies; the gain in managerial flexibility from lack of specificity is traded against difficulty in setting priorities or evaluating programs.25
What objectives should we seek in the use of our forests? What policies should we follow in order to achieve those objectives?26 Pragmatic approaches to policy focus attention on problems, rather than projects, practices, or principles.27 A problem is an unsatisfactory situation, and often becomes an issue, which can be defined as a matter in dispute between two or more parties.28
Issue recognition is the beginning of the forest policy formulation process. Forest policies affect the use and management of forest resources and address a variety of issues, including those arising from conflicts over governance of public lands and the potential effects of forest management on the environment.
Over time, the diversity of forests and other conditions in the United States has led to a complex set of American forest policies.29 Existing forest policies may, from time to time, need revision or termination. As new forestry problems and issues emerge, new policies may be needed. During deliberation on forest policies, the SAF may be called upon to express the profession's viewpoint.
The SAF does not make natural resource policy, but participates in the political and administrative processes that generate policy by presenting the SAF's professional view to policymakers through SAF position statements.30 These position statements expire after a designated period of time,31 and may need revision or termination. As new issues emerge, new position statements may be needed.
An SAF position statement is a carefully prepared expression on an issue that represents the SAF's view.32 It is the result of thorough study of the issue.33 Position statements advocate particular actions and/or provide information about the consequences of public forest policies.34 Positions may take the form of written statements, resolutions, written or oral testimony, letters, and audiovisual or electronic messages.35
SAF positions serve a variety of purposes.36 They reflect the aspirations and responsibilities of the profession. By focusing on public policies that affect forests, SAF positions transform ideas into action. Positions are a communication tool for informing landowners and the public about technically and socially complex forestry issues. SAF members might want to periodically check the Internet for national and unit-level SAF position statements on forestry problems and issues confronting them.37
The process for developing SAF position statements is defined in the SAF Bylaws.38 The content or substance of SAF position statements is driven by issues and guided by principles derived from the SAF Code of Ethics.
Guiding Principles for SAF Position Statements
Forest policies reflect the principles governing the actions of people with respect to forest resources.39 A principle is a general statement, adherence to which determines the way we think about things.40 The SAF Code of Ethics lists six statements of "Principles and Pledges" that provide guidance for all professional endeavors, including SAF forest policy activities. These principles may be characterized by a single word, as follows:
Whether revising an existing SAF position statement or creating a new one, these principles can be used to ensure that the position statement is consistent with the ethical stance of the forestry profession.
SAF position statements may be developed at the national, regional, and unit level. The Forest Policy Department at the SAF national office works closely with members in the formulation of position statements and in other resource policy activities regarding forestry issues.42
National positions provide society with the professional view on a specific natural resource issue.43 They are drafted by the executive vice-president, task forces, the Committee on Forest Policy, or by individual members of the Society.44 Adoption requires at least a two-thirds vote of the SAF Council. 45 The Committee on Forest Policy provides advice to the Council,46 including review of position statements before making a recommendation to the Council.47 When urgency precludes following the normal drafting and adoption process, emergency position statements can be adopted by the affirmative vote of the Council Executive Committee or a minimum of two national officers, providing they believe the position reflects general agreement of the members of the Society nationally.48
Unit positions are formulated by state societies, divisions, or chapters, and are adopted by at least two-thirds of the unit's executive committee.49 The Forest Policy Department at the SAF national office reviews all unit draft position statements to ensure their appropriate format and consistency with national position statements as well as SAF Forest Policy Principles.50
Regional position statements are prepared by two or more adjacent units of the Society and subsequently adopted by each of the participating units.51 They are subject to approval by the Forest Policy Department at the SAF national office. Multi-unit position statement preparation and adoption is encouraged where issues may be more regional than local in scope.52 An example is forestry's role in the recovery of particular species protected by the Endangered Species Act.
There is no requirement that SAF take a position on any particular issue.53 An issue may become the subject of a position statement if it is of major importance to the public, within the knowledge and skills of the forestry profession, or of general interest within the Society.54 Furthermore, there must be time and resources for SAF to act responsibly on the issue.55
When an issue arises, SAF leaders may decide that the views of the forestry profession should be heard. Additional criteria for deciding whether a position statement is needed to address an issue include the following:
Because a position statement may involve public advocacy of controversial policies, as well as substantial work load consequences for SAF members, position statement development needs due deliberation by the appropriate SAF leaders. Position statement development should generally not be undertaken unless the SAF is committed to thorough study of the issue, and willing to support the adoption and effective implementation of forest policy recommendations.
The required component parts of a position statement are a concise summary of the Position, a brief description of the Issue, relevant factual Background, and an expiration date.56 Additional information could include a section with detailed recommendations, a list of references cited, additional reading, and a glossary.
Position. The first part of an SAF position statement summarizes actions the SAF believes are needed to improve the problem situation or resolve the issue. This usually consists of only a few sentences clearly stating what the SAF is supporting, promoting, or advocating (see Separating Facts and Values). If the position is lengthy, it may be appropriate to include a recommendations section after the Background is presented.
Issue. A short paragraph describing the controversy or problem addressed by the position is the key to an effective statement (see Identifying the Issue). If existing forest policies are involved, identify them (see Commenting on Existing Forest Policy).
For effective communication, the Position and Issue paragraphs should not be too lengthy. Periodically the SAF national office condenses position statements into one-page statements and compiles them in a document distributed to policymakers and media representatives. 57 Members who prepare the position statement are better able to do the condensing than anyone else.
Background. Presentation of background information is generally the lengthiest portion of the position statement. Identification of relevant scientific knowledge and social values are two principles guiding SAF policy activities.58 Brief reviews of the scientific knowledge supporting the position and the pertinent social values at stake, with references to the literature, add credibility to the position statement.
Expiration Date. Positions generally expire after five years, thus allowing reconsideration based on new scientific knowledge or shifts in social values. Emergency positions generally expire after one year.
The first task in creating a position statement is to clearly identify the Issue or problem addressed by the position statement. Everything else stems from that. The Position portion of the statement communicates the actions the SAF believes should be taken to improve the problem situation associated with the issue. The Background portion reviews the consequences associated with the problem and proposed actions.
Concise issue statements are most effective. Try capturing the essence of the situation with a one-sentence statement of the issue, followed by a sentence or two explaining why the issue is a problem. If existing forest policies are at the core of the issue, as will often be the case, the relevant policies should be identified in the Issue portion of the statement. For example, if the position is intended to address the issue of maintaining biological diversity in national forests, the appropriate federal statutes and regulations should be identified and connections to the issue stated briefly.
Following the drafting of an issue statement, it could save time and effort to locate other SAF position statements that may cover the same issue or parts of the same problem. Look first to the national SAF Internet site and determine if there is a national position statement that could be adapted. 59 A search of other SAF unit Internet sites, most of which are accessible through the national site, may reveal a relevant unit position statement.
Separating Facts and Values: Information Positions and Advocacy Positions
What is the purpose of the position statement? Is it to inform members and the public about the issue, or to persuade decision makers to adopt or implement specific policy options? SAF position statements usually combine both purposes to some extent, although one of them typically predominates. If the position statement advocates a particular course of action, identify a specific policy and explain the recommendations for improving the problem.
Policy problems are more than just objective conditions described by the "facts" in a given situation; various stakeholders interpret facts differently because they hold competing assumptions about human nature, the government, and opportunities for change through collective action.60A role for foresters as issue educators has emerged.61 The policy educator's role is different than advocating a particular policy choice, or providing analysis designed to support a particular policy option.62
All position statements should address what is known and unknown about the actual or potential consequences of the problem being addressed. A leading reason why resources are mismanaged is that the scientific community often fails to differentiate science from policy, that is, to separate facts from values.63 In order to clearly distinguish between facts and values, policy advocacy is confined to the Position portion of the statement, or in a recommendations section following the Background portion. If the primary intent is to communicate information, value-driven comments on existing policies and recommended actions would be minimized.
If the position addresses existing forest policies, state the objective or purpose of the policy, and the means identified in the policy for attaining the ends. This may be done in the Issue portion of the statement, in the Background, or both. Suggestions for addressing policy objectives and means of attaining them are as follows:
First, is the purpose or objective of the policy clearly stated?
Second, does the policy provide a mechanism for choosing among options when different choice criteria suggest different courses of action? For example, if economic criteria point to one choice and ecological criteria another,64 and the policy does not specify a means for resolving this dilemma, it would be useful for the position statement to illustrate how policy modifications could help reconcile such differences.
Conclusion: Building Trust with SAF Position Statements
The communication principles of fairness and honesty, the use of relevant scientific knowledge and identification of appropriate social values, and a focus on stewardship of forest conditions that meet human needs sustainably, now and in the future, are required by the SAF Code of Ethics. These principles can be the basis for position statements on issues affecting the use and management of forest resources. Professional positions can help shape forest policies, but only to the extent people trust the forestry profession.
Today's forest policies were developed in the 1960s and 1970s, and grew out of public distrust for the way public lands were being managed.65 Some people continue to distrust natural resource managers; and if foresters are to retain any semblance of their historic management prerogatives, distrust must be allayed.66 Position statements built upon the principles in the SAF Code of Ethics perhaps can help restore trust in the profession.
Forestry involves many high-profile issues of concern to society at large.67 Reduced public trust in the profession is evident in the rise of regulation, litigation, public initiatives, licensing, and certification of practices and products. Demonstrating that all professional forestry actions, including policy communications, have a basis in science is one way the profession can retain credibility and public trust. 68 However, inappropriate advocacy and value judgments by scientists can diminish attempts to integrate science with policy.69 Nevertheless the policy process needs substantive knowledge about natural resources.70 The basis for developing successful conservation policies is a combination of ecological knowledge and society's value judgments.71
Sustainable development raises many issues requiring judgments and decisions from multiple perspectives, and provides foresters with opportunities to be issue educators as well as advocates. Principled SAF position statements can be an effective communication tool for demonstrating the profession's commitment to sustainable forest resource use and management. Ultimately foresters will be judged by the actions we take, including our public statements on forestry issues and forest policies.
This document was designed to guide the development of SAF position statements on forest policy issues. First of all, the position statement must conform to the required format, which includes the following items:
To assure consistency with SAF norms of professional conduct, it may be helpful for foresters developing position statements, as well as those making decisions to adopt them, to consider the relationship of SAF "Principles and Pledges" in the Code of Ethics with the position statement draft. The following sections explain that relationship and provide checklists for ensuring consistency with the SAF Code of Ethics.
Sustainability. Sustainability is "the capacity of forests, ranging from stands to ecoregions, to maintain their health, productivity, diversity, and overall integrity, in the long run, in the context of human activity and use."72 Appropriate forest uses are identified in the SAF Code of Ethics: "Foresters seek to sustain and protect a variety of forest uses and attributes, such as aesthetic values, air and water quality, biodiversity, recreation, timber production, and wildlife habitat."73
People expect resources to be managed sustainably,74 and public consent is necessary for resource management.75 Public acceptance of forestry practice is the greatest challenge foresters face.76 Sustainable forestry involves three dimensions: ecological soundness, economic viability, and social desirability.77 Judgments of sustainability require, at a minimum, consideration of ecological/environmental, economic, and social/community factors.78 Managing for multiple objectives requires selecting an appropriate set of criteria and indicators, and paying attention to all of them.79
Sustainability asks for consideration of what is known (and unknown) about:
If the position statement is addressing a forest policy, does the policy encourage sustainability; that is, does the policy move toward sustainable patterns of resource use? Sustainability evokes the need to reply to several questions:80
Stewardship. The profession of forestry serves society by fostering stewardship of the world's forests82 Stewardship is "the administration of land and associated resources in a manner that enables their passing on to future generations in a healthy condition."83 The concern for future generations links stewardship with sustainability. Stewardship, however, emphasizes ecological/environmental considerations related to human perceptions of a "healthy condition." Forest health is "the perceived condition of a forest derived from concerns about such factors as its age, structure, composition, function, vigor, presence of unusual levels of insects or disease, and resilience to disturbance."84
To evoke management strategies that would maintain or restore desirable forest conditions in the context of human use, the position statement should address the following:
Science. The SAF Code of Ethics states that "sound science is the foundation of the forestry profession."85 The scientific process is the pursuit of knowledge about how the world works; it has an established process for inquiry, logic, and validation.86 Sustainable forest management requires planning and planning requires prediction; the science underlying prediction is thus the cornerstone on which professional forestry is built.87
Position statements are based on thorough study of an issue.88 That must include a review of the scientific knowledge associated with the consequences of the problem situation being addressed. Therefore,
The best assurance of good public policy is not only scientific knowledge, but also open debate, caution, and a regulatory system capable of self-correction.89 It seems appropriate to "rely on scientists to recognize problems, but not to remedy them."90 Traditional scientists engaged in policy analysis often misperceive how public policy is developed, and attempt to replace political decisions with rational, objective decisions based on their disciplinary knowledge and models.91 In the future science must be more directed to the needs of resource managers, and to the society around them.92 Science applied to environmental and conservation issues requires both empirical science and value clarification.93
Values. To be relevant, the forestry profession must be both science-based and value-driven.94 The combination of science and values is emphasized in the SAF Code of Ethics principle regarding forest policy: "Public policy related to forests must be based on both scientific principles and societal values."95 Foresters have a responsibility to help the American people create forest policies that serve human values.96 Two overarching American values are individualism, expressed through individual, market, and political freedom concepts; and community, including the related concepts of democracy, justice, and fairness or equity. Although there is some tension between individualism and community in our society, both sets of values seem to be necessary.97
American values that have endured for more than a century include a belief in abundance and progress, devotion to growth and prosperity, faith in science and technology, commitment to a laissez-faire economy and limited government planning, and private property rights.98 In contrast are values often identified with the American environmental movement that began in the 1960s. Environmental values have evolved to include three core items: 1) protecting biodiversity, ecological systems, and wilderness; 2) minimizing negative impacts on human health; and 3) establishing patterns of sustainable resource use.99 As per the sustainability principle above, foresters have a responsibility to society in helping establish sustainable patterns of forest use.
Forest policies are a subset of environmental policies. Environmental policy is always informed by scientific judgment.100 Deciding what to do about environmental problems is a value judgment, not a scientific judgment, and a scientist is no more qualified to make such judgments than any other citizen.101 Decisions on environmental issues must begin with an examination of the relevant scientific evidence; however, environmental decisions also require careful analysis of the economic, social, and political consequences, and solutions to environmental problems will also reflect religious, aesthetic, and ethical values.102
For position statements addressing forest policy issues,
It may be appropriate to include social values in a position statement, especially one that advocates or recommends a particular forest policy option. However, the honesty principle would have values clearly identified as such and kept separate from facts and/or scientific knowledge related to the issue or problem.
Honesty. Foresters are obliged to communicate accurate information honestly and openly, stating on whose behalf public statements are made.103 SAF position statements are made on behalf of the diverse membership of the SAF, and therefore consider differences in regional conditions and landowner objectives. To communicate with honesty, pertinent facts and applicable knowledge are included and clearly separated from value-based judgments:
Fairness. Foresters are required to behave in a civil and dignified manner, respecting the viewpoints of others.105 Because SAF position statements are the profession's view on forestry issues and problems, it is not necessary to identify other viewpoints. However, issues by definition involve conflicting views, and in some cases it may be useful to identify them. To communicate with fairness, the viewpoints of diverse groups are treated respectfully:
Forests affect nearly every aspect of our lives. Forest resources provide the raw materials for our homes, our workplaces, the books and newspapers we read, and the packaging that contains our food and other products of our labor. Forest ecosystems supply our water, maintain our climate, help purify the air, protect soils, and provide for wilderness experiences. Forests provide habitat for wildlife, and serve as preserves of biological diversity and as sources of food, fuel, and medicine for people throughout the world. They shape the recreational landscape, help stabilize our farms, and enhance our cities.
The actions of humans affect the benefits forests can provide. If forest resources are to be sustained and enhanced, these actions must be directed at achieving desired outcomes in diverse ecosystems, environmental conditions, and social regimes; they must anticipate the effects of population growth and social change on future human needs. The present and future benefits from forests of the world depend upon careful use of the knowledge that guides the actions we take.
Forestry is the science and art of attaining desired forest conditions and benefits. As professionals, foresters develop, use, and communicate their knowledge for one purpose: to sustain and enhance forest resources for diverse benefits in perpetuity. To fulfill this purpose, foresters need to understand the many demands that forests must satisfy and the potential for forest ecosystems to satisfy these demands now and in the future.
The Society of American Foresters is the national organization representing the forestry profession in the United States. The Society's forest policy principles, approved by referendum, guide the positions the Society takes in contributing its professional knowledge to public deliberation on forestry issues.
Expanding Knowledge
The Society of American Foresters promotes public policies that advance knowledge about the capabilities of forest resources and responses of forest ecosystems to specific actions and policies. The Society has a responsibility to ensure that knowledge about forests grows vigorously to serve society's needs, thereby improving decisions affecting forests and resolving uncertainty about the future consequences of forest activities.
Resource Inventory—The Society promotes policies and programs that improve knowledge about the extent, quality, distribution, potential, and values of forest resources. The world's forests are complex and diverse. The variability of soils, climates, topographies, and gene pools, of access to urban areas and markets, and of human population and use, create marked differences in biological and social potentials, even over short distances and times. New technologies, institutions, and economic conditions may create even greater differences and possibilities. Such variations determine the impacts of policies and activities on the benefits that forest resources can sustain. The Society promotes the advance of forest assessments and the improved interpretation and use of the information they provide.
Research—The Society advocates policies that strengthen forestry research. Research improves and develops new knowledge about the effects of different activities, social and biological conditions, and policies on forest quality and productivity. Such knowledge is vital for sustaining and enhancing the benefits that forests provide and for resolving conflicts about forest policy and management on scientific grounds.
SAF also advocates the growth of knowledge about forest ecosystems and their management. Through journals, conferences, special committees, and task forces, the Society sponsors the evaluation and dissemination of research results, applies the results to contemporary policy issues, and assesses the priorities of forestry research agendas. In addition, it advocates cost-effective funding for research activities and for the development of scientists in areas of social priority.
Planning—SAF supports long-term planning of forest activities. These activities can have enduring effects. They must be chosen and implemented with the best available understanding of their future impacts on forest ecosystems, resources, and people. Planning provides the means for using scientific knowledge and methods systematically to choose, implement, evaluate, and improve forestland allocations and practices.
The Society advocates resource planning and evaluation to help foresters, landowners, and the public understand the reasons for and the effects of specific decisions. It supports organizations that plan effectively and remain responsive to new knowledge and societal needs. It encourages its members to participate in public discussions of forest plans, their basis, and their implications.
Transforming Knowledge into
The Society of American Foresters has a responsibility to improve the education of forestry professionals and to strengthen communications between them and the people they serve.
Education—SAF promotes policies that will improve the quality and effectiveness of professional and technical education throughout the world. Such education is the best way to develop the skills of resource professionals and to improve their responsiveness to the future complexities of the world's forest ecosystems. The Society helps to recruit promising men and women of all backgrounds into forestry education programs. Through its accreditation and recognition process, it regularly evaluates these programs and recommends improvements. It also provides continuing education opportunities for individuals to learn about new scientific and technical advances, to understand the social context in which they are applied, and to improve their managerial skills.
Public Deliberation—SAF advocates policies that strengthen informed interaction and discussion between resource professionals and the public. Forest plans and policies combine public perspectives, landowner interests, and professional advice. Their value depends upon the nature of the dialogue from which they arise. The Society also promotes the quality of, and mutual access to, information that productive discussion requires. It advocates improved opportunities for cooperation between resource professionals and the public.
Applying Abilities
The Society of American Foresters supports policies that increase the effectiveness of resource professionals in applying their knowledge to the beneficial protection and management of forest resources.
Protection—The Society advocates policies that strengthen the protection of forests against the threats of unprescribed fire, pests and diseases, atmospheric pollution, and abusive treatment. The Society encourages wide dissemination of information about the extent and variety of forest resources destroyed by fire and other agents, the costs, both monetary and social, of forest loss, and the means to avoid them. It is committed to protecting forest resources consistent with public and landowner interests. It supports the development of model protection policies and programs. The Society also encourages coordination among protection agencies, between landowners and protection agencies, and at all levels of local, state, and federal government charged with establishing protective controls.
Management—The Society promotes professional ethics and public policies that ensure skillful management for all forest ecosystems, types of ownership, and desired uses. Forest ecosystems can be managed to produce timber, water, forage, energy, and minerals; they can be protected to maintain landscapes for watershed, recreation, and esthetic values, and to maintain wilderness, fish and wildlife populations, and species diversity. They are managed to achieve any and all mixes of these values. Applying forestry practices in such complex ecosystems requires professional judgment that combines the biophysical possibilities of a specific site, the objectives of the landowner—private or public—and the interests of the public at large. The Society endorses ethical standards of performance to which its members are held accountable. It advocates policies that (1) respect these standards, (2) recognize the need for professional judgment, and (3) support its effective exercise.
Shaping Policy
The Society of American Foresters has a responsibility to shape policies that affect sustainable forest resources and the future benefits they will provide. It promotes policies that:
Investment in Forest Resources—The Society promotes policies that encourage investment in forests for the future. The benefits that forests provide depend upon the resources that the landowner and the public commit to sustain and enhance future forest capabilities. A number of factors—uncertainty about the future, weak returns to landowners who are environmentally responsible, limited funds, population pressures and forest fragmentation, competitive governmental jurisdictions—discourage the types and levels of private investment the public may want. Budgetary and other financial policies can have similar effects on public lands. Unfulfilled expectations become sources of conflicts that further weaken investment.
SAF advocates tax policies that respect the long-term nature of forestry investments. It also promotes programs for forestlands that reflect the material, environmental, and social benefits these resources create for present and future generations. It supports property rights and regulations that encourage investment and deter resource degradation as well as policies that limit the negative effects of population growth on the integrity of the forestland base, forest habitats, and forested landscapes. It also encourages cooperation—among governmental and private owners of forestland, between landowners and those their activities affect, and among diverse governments and agencies—to increase investment in forest resources in mutually advantageous ways.
Conflict Resolution—The Society supports policies that help to resolve conflicts among diverse interests in the world's forest resources. Both the public and the landowner have come to expect greater opportunities for use and development than these forest resources can sustain. Conflicts become costly for all involved because they discourage investments in resource-enhancing activities that would better satisfy everyone's expectations.
Forums to resolve differences among competing interests for the management, use, and allocation of forest resources are promoted. It encourages the involvement of forestry professionals and the application of their knowledge in conflict resolution as well as policies that remove the technical, financial, and institutional constraints that prevent forests from realizing their full potential.
Equity—The equitable distribution of forest opportunities and benefits is important. Forests must be protected from uses they cannot sustain and nurtured by activities that enhance their capabilities. Throughout the world, people who in different circumstances might conserve forest resources lack the opportunities that would allow them to do so. Poverty erodes people's will and ability to conserve the forest. Groups who are not represented in public decisions about forest resources have little reason to support policies they cannot influence.
The Society promotes policies that secure people's support in sustaining and enhancing forest resources. It also supports policies that increase job opportunities in forest regions, particularly in the area of forest improvements, and that strengthen the viability and the diversity of forest enterprises so as to prevent forest fragmentation and conversion. SAF advocates public decision-making processes that adequately represent the full range of the racial, gender, class, and ethnic diversity of those with potential interests in forests and forest resources.
International Cooperation
The Society is committed to constructive international efforts to address problems of forest degradation and its local and global impacts. Many local forestry issues have become international concerns because of the growing interdependence of environmental conditions and trade among nations, the global pressures and opportunities related to population and economic growth, and expanding knowledge about mutual forestry problems that all nations face. The Society encourages cooperation—in education, research, planning, development, and policymaking—between the foresters and forestry institutions of the United States and nations abroad. It promotes increased financing of such collaborations in the common search for means to achieve sustainable rural, regional, national, and international development and to strengthen strategies for the conservation of forest ecosystems throughout the world.
These forest policy principles must be flexible and responsive to changing public interests. The Society encourages forestry professionals to discuss these policy principles with interested groups and with one another and to suggest changes that may better reflect public needs and professional knowledge. To improve the responsiveness and effectiveness of the profession itself, the Society is committed to achieving a social diversity among forestry professionals that represents the diversity of American society as a whole.
Adopted by membership December 1967
Revised by membership December 1973
Revised by membership December 1975
Edited by Council 1976
Revised by membership December 1977
Revised by membership November 1989
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"Securing our elections is not a Republican issue. It's not a Democrat issue. It's an American issue," said Secretary of State Kris Kobach, one of the proponents of the measure. "This bill ensures that in Kansas it's easy to vote, but hard to cheat." (HT: Kansas City Star) Voter ID should be an absolute no-brainer. It should be a no-brainer for the government; it should | Read More »


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Dan Lett came to Winnipeg in 1986, less than a year out of journalism school.
Despite the fact that he's originally from Toronto and has a fatal attraction to the Maple Leafs, Winnipeggers let him stay.
In the following years, he has worked at bureaus covering every level of government – from city hall to the national bureau in Ottawa.
He has had bricks thrown at him in riots following the 1995 Quebec referendum, wrote stories that helped in part to free three wrongly convicted men, met Fidel Castro, interviewed three Philippine presidents, crossed several borders in Africa illegally, chased Somali pirates in a Canadian warship and had several guns pointed at him.
In other words, he's had every experience a journalist could even hope for. He has also been fortunate enough to be a two-time nominee for a National Newspaper Award, winning in 2003 for investigations.
Other awards include the B'Nai Brith National Human Rights Media Award and nominee for the Michener Award for Meritorious Public Service in Journalism.
Now firmly rooted in Winnipeg, Dan visits Toronto often but no longer pines to live there.
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The blend of Monastrell and Syrah gives richness and structure to this fresh, fruity rosé.
Current vintage.- 2015
Blend.- 70% Monastrell, 30% Syrah
Harvest & Elaboration.- Harvested during second half of September. Extraction of the must and fermentation in stainless steel tanks.
Wood aging.- no wood aging
Tasting note.- We find floral and red fruits on the nose and, in the mouth.It is fruity, fresh and balanced.
Food pairing.- appetizers, grilled vegetables, fish, soups, pasta and salads.
- Alcohol content: 13% alc/vol
- Total acidity: 5,8 gr/lt (in tartaric acid)
- Volatile acidity: 0,40 gr/lt (in acetic acid)
- Residual sugar: 3 gr/lt


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Dancing With The Stars on ABC is in it's second week of season 13, and only a week into the season Nancy Grace admitted to losing 10 lbs already. Now, we have learned that Nancy Grace has been stuffing her bra! But, it's not what you think! Read on for more..
Dancing With The Stars contestant, Nancy Grace recently admitted to losing 10 lbs from all her hard work on the show, but why would she stuff her bra? It's not what you think. Nancy Grace actually stuffs her bra with good luck charms from her kids. According to TMZ, Nancy Grace's 3-year-old twins love watching their mother dance on the show, and they have been giving her little good luck charms, including a barrette and a little stone.
The good luck charms end up being stuffed inside Nancy Grace's bra, simply because she has no where else to hide them! In her skimpy outfits, it is hard to find somewhere to put the good luck charms, so a girl's got to do what a girl's got to do – right? This also keeps the charms close to her heart, just like she keeps her twins. We'll have to tune in tonight to find out if the good luck charms actually brought Nancy Grace good luck with the voters!
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Things to avoidWe have three things to avoid:
- Avoid laptops without a removable battery! - If you (or someone else) spills a liquid on your laptop, you need to remove ALL sources of power immediately to lessen the potential damage to your computer. If your laptop does not have a removable battery, this is not possible. Check it before you buy it.
- Avoid Netbooks/ultraportables/tablets (as your primary computer) - these are great supplemental computers. The iPad is a great little device for reading, casual browsing and so forth; Netbooks are great for taking notes or doing light computing. However, they are too small and not powerful enough for doing serious work so we strongly recommend using them as a secondary device.
- Avoid Microsoft Works or Apple iWork. - Microsoft Works (not to be confused with Microsoft Office or Microsoft Word) is not really compatible with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) so any documents you turn in to your professors will not be compatible with what they have - they won't be able to read your paper! Apple's iWork can export documents in Word or Excel format, but they aren't 100% compatible so there may be strange changes (especially in footnotes/endnotes and some formatting) and if you forget, your professors won't be able to read your documents and you will end up late. Get Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) either through "The Ultimate Steal" (Windows only - www.microsoft.com/student/discounts/theultimatesteal-us) through regular channels (for Mac Office 2008 - Amazon.com is a good place).
- Avoid ChromeOS. - While we don't say that ChromeOS is bad - in fact, it's fairly nifty and innovative - it does have a very nasty Catch-22. On CMC's wireless network, you cannot get a network connection without being logged on to your computer so you can sign on to the network via a web browser (FireFox, Safari, Internet Explorer, etc.) - but with ChromeOS, you cannot log on to the computer without a network connection . . . so you have a nasty and often endless loop. . . So, for now, avoid ChromeOS - it works great at home; not so good here.
- Avoid WIRELESS Printers. - Wireless printers are amazingly handy at home where only a few people will be contacting them and using them. In a large environment where there are a lot of people who can contact your printer, they are not secure and not very robust. They can cost you a lot of aggravation and money - if you have a wireless printer, turn off the wireless features and use the USB connection instead.


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I don't know if anyone else here watched the excellent "Black Magic" documentary ESPN showed Sunday and Monday nights about the earliest black college and pro basketball players, but it got me to wondering; does anyone know who ISU's first black basketball player was?
After watching the show, I'm really curious about it.
He is mentioned in the 100 years of basketball DVD but I can't remember his name.
John Neal?
Brian Peterson?
Originally Posted by snowcraig2.0
Brian Peterson?
aka The Professor
Originally Posted by khaal53
He is mentioned in the 100 years of basketball DVD but I can't remember his name.
I believe he was mentioned on the DVD and that he played with Gary Thompson.
The show on ESPN was great. I enjoyed watching Earl "the Pearl" Monroe again.
John Crawford.
Originally Posted by theshadow
John Crawford.
Joan Crawford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
doesn't mention his basketball days ...
Originally Posted by clones_jer
Joan Crawford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
doesn't mention his basketball days ...
I believe Julius Mikalik was the name Joan played under...
John Crawford played in the 1953 to 1956 years. John had to stay in the Black Hotel when they traveled to Columbia, MO. He was a major player in the 39 to 38 victory over Kansas when
chamberlain was the Kansas Star. That is the only time I was in a locker room after a IS game. He picked me up on his shouldersand took me in for the celebration. That is something I will never forget.
Another thing I want to say is this Cyclone Fanatic is a great piece of work. Living in Baton Rouge it is a real treat to read this everyday.
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isucyc - are you certain of the years 53-56? I was a freshman in 57 and it seems to me that I watched John Crawford play. Yep, just checked my 1958 "Bomb" and there is a picture of John taking a rebound away from Drake's Red Murrell in the Cyclones 63-42 victory over the Bulldogs. We beat Kansas and Wilt 48-42 in the Armory that year (57-58). Remember standing in the snow in the front yard of the Knoll yelling for a "holiday" after the game. We didn't get it. God those guys were skinny! Would scan in a picture, but my scanner isn't compatible with this laptop, and the modems crapped out on my old Mac.
You are right. My memory loss is getting more frequent. That 57 team were pretty good with Strannigan as coach. That was a great shot by Medsker to win that Jayhawks game.
Glad you "old timers" are around here. :) I feel old around here with all the college kids on, but I love getting a perspective from before the 70's.
Gary Thompson was great against Wilt With his dipsy doodle shot.
Man, I wish I could have seen some of those teams.
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When you want to effect change in the workplace, what do you do? Some peoplecraft vision and mission statements. Others set measurable goals. Still othershead to a retreat site for fresh thinking.
Then there are the people who tell stories.
Storytelling has been around for thousands of years, and it's arguably yourmost powerful (and least used) tool for sharing information, building community,capturing the imagination, and exerting influence. By telling the right kinds ofstories, we can bring about profound change, says Annette Simmons, author of TheStory Factor: Secrets of Influence from the Art of Storytelling.
Simmons hadn't thought much about stories until 1991, when she attended herfirst storytelling festival. Sitting in a big tent among 400 people, she kepther eyes, ears, and mind wide open. An African-American storyteller took to thestage -- and that's when Simmons heard a man seated behind her mutter then-word. She looked at him, and his arms were tightly crossed, his face hard withprejudice.
The storyteller recalled the 1960s, when he and his friends were activists inthe struggle for freedom. He told about being terrified to march in Mississippi,and about one late evening when he was sitting around a campfire with severalfellow civil-rights marchers. As darkness crept in, so did fear. Would someonecome after them? Then one of the men began singing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot."A second man joined in, then another.
"As he told his story, we felt like we were at that campfire," Simmonsrelates. "There was something soothing and touching in what he was saying. Hestarted singing, and pretty soon we in the audience were singing. I turnedaround, and that man who had so much hate just moments before had uncrossed hisarms. He was singing too, and his face was soft, and I felt a connection withhim."
This is the stuff that stirs our emotions. And that's why stories are sopowerful. Think about it. Would a logical, reasoned argument against racialhatred have moved this person? When it comes to changing age-old beliefs, canfactual information make a difference?
What about the workplace? Can stories wield influence in an environment wherefactual information often reigns supreme? Let me answer by way of a story.
Ten years ago, the newly elected governor of Ohio vowed to improve stategovernment services. He promised shorter waits in licensing lines, greateraccuracy in requested information, more bang for the taxpayer buck. And hepromised that this would not be another management-driven program. Theinitiative would be created and guided by a partnership involving union leadersand managers, and employees would get the training and authority needed toeffect their own changes in the workplace.
Partnership. Empowerment. Training. You'd expect real enthusiasm from thestate's 63,000 employees. But most just yawned or rolled their eyes. Challengethe culture? Change the system? Do it with employees instead of to them?
Then came the governor's fateful trip to Rochester, New York, just a fewmonths into his new administration. He joined 10 agency directors and key unionleaders at Xerox headquarters for a firsthand look at quality improvement andunion-management partnership.
The Ohio delegation expected a just-the-facts presentation from managementand a separate presentation from the unions, perhaps followed by acobbled-together vision of how the two sides were teaming up. Instead, inmeetings and informal conversations throughout the day, the visitors heard asingle message of people working together as true partners. There was so muchunity that the Ohioans even had trouble distinguishing managers from unionleaders.
Late that evening, as they talked on the plane heading back to Columbus, thegovernor and others experienced a classic aha moment. They all agreed that theoriginal name for their effort -- total quality management -- now seemedflat-out wrong. If a union/management partnership was central to everything, thename had to say so. And so at 30,000 feet they made their first decision as asingle team. The effort would be called "Quality Services Through Partnership."
Thus was born The Story. In many of his future speeches on the workings ofstate government, then-Gov. George V. Voinovich would tell about the visit toXerox, the airborne name change, and what it all meant. The union leaders begantelling it, too. So did managers and front-line workers. The Story is stillbeing told, and it continues to win over skeptics who think that qualityimprovement in state government is just another management program.
Anyone can use stories to exert influence in the workplace. Unfortunately,Simmons says, most stories accentuate the negative. She notices a glut of "griping,groaning stories about how ignorant senior leadership is, how useless it is totry to do a really good job, and how you just can't win.
"Pay attention to the stories you're telling," Simmons says. "Askyourself, Are these stories meaningful to me? Are they creating the sort ofworkplace I want to be in? And are they making me feel better?"
If you're tired of internal competition, for instance, and you hear a storyabout people from different departments who left their silos to team up on aproject, start telling it and retelling it. If you want to nurture greaterrisk-taking, tell a story about an employee who tried a new approach to an oldprocess, failed, tried again, failed again, then finally succeeded. If you wantpeople to be more open with each other, get things started by telling a storyabout yourself -- like that saga from your teen years, when your first boss atyour first job had to leave for an afternoon and put you in charge of the wholeoperation.
"When you begin to talk in stories," Simmons says, "yourblack-and-white words turn into color. Your drab requests turn into a mission.People find you to be more compelling. And once that happens, others will seethat stories work, and they'll start telling stories, too."
So what are you waiting for? Start telling.
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