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It's been nearly a year now, but when Kevin Rose boldly announced that "you've made it clear" and "If we lose, then what the hell, at least we died trying," in regards to the the HD-DVD key that was published everywhere, Digg was on top of the social media world with a true opportunity to be the site "for the people." While the move to ignore a cease and desist declaration was a bit less bold than most understood at the time (it was everywhere at that point), it was still a public relations goldmine that Digg could have very easily parlayed into perpetual success. They just had to do one thing…
Listen to your people and deliver what they want.
Over the last year, Digg has focused on several issues. While all of these have importance, Digg has paid these issues more than enough attention. In most cases, they've paid too much attention them.
Gaming of the System
One thing is clear. Digg gets spammed. With the search engine optimization benefits, the potential traffic explosion, and the somewhat addictive lure of front page submitting, Digg is hammered more than any other site on the Internet by spammers and self-promoters. Still, there seems to be a sense of desperation coming from the Digg camp — they protect their algorithm better than Google and change it more often than Yahoo. Most of the "improvements" are designed to keep people trying too hard to get to the front page from getting to the front page.
While nobody wants a system that is gamed, their focus should be more on quality and less on the "you can't beat us, damn it" attitude. The algorithm as of today is more difficult to game for most, but the quality of the front page has gone down tremendously month after month and duplicate stories are gaining traction over the originals. Recently, stories from the exact same source with the exact same headline are popping up with the second or third resubmission hitting the front page before the first:
http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Rick_Rolled_to_child_porn_you_re_a_pedophile_says_FBI — 50 Diggs
http://digg.com/world_news/Rick_Rolled_to_child_porn_you_re_a_pedophile_says_FBI_2 — 3040 diggs, submitted afterwards and pushed to Upcoming in All section with 32 diggs (while the original submission had 44)
The reason for this is what brings us to the second issue…
WHO submitted is more important than WHAT is submitted
Quality is not nearly as important as it used to be. Need proof? Check out the Digg "coverage" of the last Super Bowl. What hit the front page first? An ESPN story? Perhaps FoxSports or TheSportingNews? Nope, Digg promoted Thomas L. Shaffer's blog coverage. While I would love to pull it up and show some of the issues with this, the link now yields a 404 error. BTW — this is nothing against this guy's blog, but it shouldn't have been the story about arguably the greatest upset in Super Bowl history.
Currently, there are two Tina Fey stories on the front page. Funny gal, yes, but not worth a double dip an hour and a half apart. Still, this kind of "quality" is running rampant on the front page. As one top 5 Digger told me the other night…
"Upcoming sorted by most is where the real stories are. I'd rather read something that gets 150 Diggs from a good source than some of the s__t that's hitting the front page at 29 Diggs lately."
When Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson said on The Drill Down that they were planning on some way for Diggers to interact with them, they referred to Town Hall Meetings that would happen "every couple of weeks, maybe every month." When the announcement came down 3 weeks later, it was declared as "once every 3 or 4 months".
To make it worse, it wasn't a Town Hall Meeting. They took 20 questions accumulated through comments on a digg post about the issue. This could have been handled via a recorded video or a podcast — no reason to have a set time and place for the "event". Then, they took the opportunity to take live questions emailed to them. This was good, except for the fact that they answered 4. Four questions, 2 of which were not very interesting, and then they appeared to be in a rush to get off the air. All together, it lasted a little over an hour before they had to rush off to more important business than addressing their users' concerns.
I was floored. I could write so much more on this single issue of the so-called Digg Town Hall, but I just can't without shaking. It angers me that we were finally given some form of communication that was (A) a scam, and (B) cut very, very short.
There are other issues, many of which are more important than the ones discussed here. Shout spam, comment suckage, transparency issues, autobury (sshhhhh)… the list is large, but definitely not the content for one post.
With changes coming to Propeller, Reddit, Mixx, and StumbleUpon, and with upcoming social media sites currently in development, Digg needs to either address their issues or sell while they're still hot. Their value is dwindling in many people's eyes.
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text: Shuttle and fast exhaust valves A shuttle valve, also known as a double check valve, allows pressure in a line to be obtained from alternative sources. It is primarily a pneumatic device and is rarely found in hydraulic circuits. Construction is very simple and consists of a ball inside a cylinder, as shown in Figure 4.25a. If pressure is applied to port X, the ball is blown to the fight blocking port Y and linking ports X and A. Similarly, pressure to port Y alone connects ports Y and A and blocks port X. The symbol of a shuttle valve is given in Figure 4.25b. A typical application is given in Figure 4.25c, where a spring return cylinder is operated from either of two manual stations. Isolation between the two stations is provided by the shuttle valve. Note a simple T-connection cannot be used as each valve has its A port vented to the exhaust port. A fast exhaust valve (Figure 4.26) is used to vent cylinders quickly. It is primarily used with spring return (single-acting) pneumatic cylinders. The device shown in Figure 4.26a consists of a movable disc which allows port A to be connected to pressure port P or large exhaust port R. It acts like, and has the same symbol as, a shuttle valve. A typical application is shown in Figure 4.26b. Fast exhaust valves are usually mounted local to, or directly onto, cylinders and speed up response by avoiding any delay from return pipes and control valves. They also permit simpler control valves to be used. Sequence valves The sequence valve is a close relative of the pressure relief valve and is used where a set of operations are to be controlled in a pressure related sequence. Figure 4.27 shows a typical example where a workpiece is pushed into position by cylinder 1 and clamped by cylinder 2. Sequence valve V 2 is connected to the extend line of cylinder 1. When this cylinder is moving the workpiece, the line pressure is low, but rises once the workpiece hits the end stop. The sequence valve opens once its inlet pressure rises above a preset level. Cylinder 2 then operates to clamp the workpiece. A check valve across V 2 allows both cylinders to retract together. Time delay valves Pneumatic time delay valves (Figure 4.28) are used to delay operations where time-based sequences are required. Figure 4.28a shows construction of a typical valve. This is similar in construction to a 3/2 way pilot-operated valve, but the space above the main valve is comparatively large and pilot air is only allowed in via a flow reducing needle valve. There is thus a time delay between application of pilot pressure to port Z and the valve operation, as shown by the timing diagram in Figure 4.28b. The time delay is adjusted by the needle valve setting. The built-in check valve causes the reservoir space above the valve to vent quickly when pressure at Z is removed to give no delay off. The valve shown in Figure 4.28 is a normally-closed delay-on valve. Many other time delay valves (delay-off, delay on/off, normally- open) can be obtained. All use the basic principle of the air reservoir and needle valve. The symbol of a normally-dosed time delay valve is shown in Figure 4.28c. Proportional Valves The solenoid valves described so far act, to some extent, like an electrical switch, i.e. they can be On or Off. In many applications it is required to remotely control speed, pressure or force via an electrical signal. This function is provided by proportional valves. A typical two position solenoid is only required to move the spool between 0 and 100% stroke against the restoring force of a spring. To ensure predictable movement between the end positions the solenoid must also increase its force as the spool moves to ensure the solenoid force is larger than the increasing opposing spring force at all positions. A proportional valve has a different design requirement. The spool position can be set anywhere between 0% and 100% stroke by varying the solenoid current. To give a predictable response the solenoid must produce a force which is dependent solely on the current and not on the spool position, i.e. the force for a given current must be constant over the full stroke range. Furthermore, the force must be proportional to the current. Figure 4.29 shows a typical response. The force from the solenoid is opposed by the force from a restoring spring, and the spool will move to a position where the two forces are equal. With a current of 0.75 A, for example, the spool will move to 75% of its stroke. The spool movement in a proportional valve is small; a few mm stroke is typical. The valves are therefore very vulnerable to stiction, and this is reduced by using a 'wet' design which immerses the solenoid and its core in hydraulic fluid. A proportional valve should produce a fluid flow which is proportional to the spool displacement. The spools therefore use four triangular metering notches in the spool lands as shown on Figure 4.30. As the spool is moved to the right, port A will progressively link to the tank and port B to the pressure line. The symbol for this valve is also shown. Proportional valves are drawn with parallel lines on the connection sides of the valve block on circuit diagrams. Figure 4.30 gives equal flow rates to both A and B ports.Cylinders have different areas on the full bore and annulus sides (see Figure 5.4). To achieve equal speeds in both directions, the notches on the lands must have different areas. With a 2:1 cylinder ratio, half the number of notches are used on one side. Figure 4.31 shows the construction and symbol for a restricted centre position valve. Here the extended notches provide a restricted (typically 3%) flow to tank from the A and B ports when the valve is in the centre position.

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Stage: The Mystery of Irma Vep is a quick-change Gothic spoof of everything from Hitchcock's Rebecca to The Mummy's Curse. Opens 8 p.m. Friday at American Stage in St. Petersburg. $29-$50. (727) 823-7529. Or explore the theory or relativity through dreamlike sequences in Einstein's Dreams at the Straz Center in Tampa. Opens at 8 p.m. Thursday. $24.50 and up. (813) 229-7827.
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Music: Florida's own Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers team up with ZZ Top for a night of heartland hits at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa. $29.50 and up. (813) 301-2500. The hot Kings of Leon (Use Somebody) hit 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheatre in Tampa at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. $49.35-$71. (813) 740-2446. And Adam Lambert will glam up the Trop after the Rays play the Los Angeles Angels on Saturday. Game starts at 7:10 p.m. Concert included with game ticket. (888) 326-7297.
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Josh Blue: Yes, he has cerebral palsy and, no, he's not afraid to use it to make you laugh — and to change your notion of disabilities. Shows start at 8 p.m. Thursday and run through the weekend at Improv Comedy Theater in Tampa. $20. (813) 864-4000.
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Fisher-Price Play Weekend: Turn kids 5 and younger loose on a supersized play area filled with the newest toys. It's 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday at Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa. Free with zoo admission: $20.95, $18.95 seniors, $15.95 ages 3-11, 2 and younger free.
Pitch In For Pets: Get a photo of your pooch with Rays pitcher Grant Balfour at 11 a.m. Saturday at the SPCA, 9099 130th Ave. N, Largo. $5, free if you adopt a pet. (727) 586-3591.
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Stoltz Plateau, a region in Brazil where a number of Mennonite families from Russia settled in 1930. In 1934, however, settlement began to dissolve because of economic difficulties. By 1951 the last Mennonites had left the Stoltz Plateau.
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London - Nicole Scherzinger has flown to Los Angeles to attend her grandmother's funeral.
The 'Poison' singer - who is currently residing in London while she is a judge on the UK's 'X Factor' - found out her grandma had died on Saturday morning (10.11.12), and has gone to California with her boyfriend Lewis Hamilton to say her last goodbyes.
A source told The Sun newspaper: "She was devastated over her gran. Her first instinct was to rush home, but she made a commitment to those boys and her family assured her she could fly on Monday."
Lewis will be staying in the US as he is due to drive in the country's Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, this weekend.
Nicole was seen crying during some of the performances on 'X Factor' on Saturday evening, and her representative said she found some of the songs particularly touching.
The spokesperson told MailOnline: "Nicole had to return to the US to attend her grandmother's funeral. Sadly, she passed away on Saturday morning.
"She did mention on the show that a couple of the songs were particularly poignant for her." - Bang Showbiz


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Google is already known for its Instant Previews within its search results, but the company announced a new kind of Instant Previews this past Friday. The new previews are designed just for video results.
How many times have you been searching for a video online and have had to visit three different sites and watch part of three different videos before finding the right one? Google's new previews will show you four frames from a video when you click on the little magnifying glass icon. The sound option is automatically switched to off, but you can click it to hear the clips' accompanying audio. Each clip plays for about five seconds in different parts of the video. Clicking on one of the clips will take you to the full video.
For the most part, you can usually find the video you're looking for right away through just regular search, but Instant Previews can be really handy when the video results are more diverse and you can't tell them apart unless you click through the results.
Instant previews show up in universal search results, as well as under Google Videos. Not all videos will have this option immediately. Video providers have to opt in to make previews available.
Instant Previews for mobile are also available now. Similar to the desktop version, Instant Previews for mobile shows search results in the form of web page snapshots. This way, you can visually compare results without having to go back and forth between sites and search results, and wait for the pages to load each time you do so. To use Instant Previews, visit Google on your Android (2.2 or higher) or iOS (4.0 or higher) device and tap on the magnifying glass next to your search result. Then quickly scroll across previews by swiping with your finger, and then tap the preview to go straight to the page.
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By Daniel Trugman
From: La Jolla, CA
Apr 2, 2009
One of my history teachers was very emphatic that the term was "champing at the bit" rather than "chomping at the bit". Some research has confirmed this assertion: langston.com/English/
Not that it actually matters, and it is entirely possible this is an intentional mistake.
Anywho, thanks for putting up these awesome routes. Definitely putting this one my list for the next time I head up to UV.
By Mike Howard
Apr 3, 2009
Oh, Please...I quote:
"The earlier verb was champ, making its written debut in the 14th century and meaning "to bite, to gnash, to grind with one's teeth." It's still in use, though nowadays it appears almost exclusively in the phrase "champ at the bit." The verb chomp made its appearance in the late 16th century, and was clearly an alteration of "champ," sharing almost all of champ's meanings.
"Champ at the bit" was used before "chomp at the bit" and it has enjoyed a nice, long reign. However, popular usage has been swinging towards "chomp at the bit" since it first began being used in the phrase, sometime around the beginning of the 20th century. In fact, our evidence indicates that "chomping at the bit" is used in recent print sources more frequently than "champ at the bit," so we can't possibly ignore it."
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By Jason Hundhausen
From: Bozeman, MT
Apr 4, 2009
|Sounds like the Trugster got SERVED! =)
By Daniel Trugman
From: La Jolla, CA
Apr 4, 2009
Yep. The average American thinks it's "chomping at the bit". And the average American is always right.
In all seriousness, it was not my intention in posting this to be a smart ass; I was simply attempting to provoke some interesting etymological discussion while bored out of my mind on spring break. Sorry to offend. Keep up the good work in the Taos Gorge - it's a great area! I look forward to finally getting on this route!
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May 18, 2014
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I'm neither an early adopter nor an early adapter, but barefoot running is, after all, 200,000 years old — much older than the domestication of dogs. I don't care for fads or trends, particularly fitness- related ones. I haven't read Chris McDougall's book, Born to Run, about Mexico's Tarahumara Indians who run as much as 50 miles a day barefoot or in crude sandals. What snared me were the myriad magazine articles about the wonders of running sans sneakers (and the skeptical stories in magazines that have a vested interest in running-shoe sales), and the fact that if I didn't try something different, I'd have to give up running altogether. Which would play hell on Daisy, my dog.
Running is Daisy's favorite activity. That's not much of a surprise to active dog owners, but she just turned 14 on Valentine's Day — the day we chose to celebrate her birthday when we brought her home from the pound. She went through a Frisbee period, then a Chuckit stage, but running is something we've always had together. She's a cow dog, a Kelpie some rancher had abandoned on the Wyoming/Utah border. She came pre-programmed to run and follow some basic voice commands while doing it. I'd start the day off with four miles of carless country roads. Daisy, of course, would put in closer to five or six miles by chasing squirrels and sprinting past me before shooting back and sprinting behind again. Her vet, Dr. Maria, claims she's the fittest 14-year-old she's ever seen. It's the running, I told her. Though Daisy is slowly going blind, she's farsighted; she routinely bumps into the coffee table, but can still target a squirrel at 100 yards.
Then the saddest thing that could happen to a running dog happened: I turned to cycling with a passion. Bicycles and dogs don't mix very well; the speeds and distances are too taxing, and routes interface with dangerous traffic. I trained for and rode in a couple of mountain-bike races from Canada to Mexico. They kept me away for a month at a time, and the thousands of training miles were enough to burn me out on bicycling. I hankered for something different, something I could do with Daisy again besides downward dog poses in the living room and walks to the mailbox. Barefoot running seemed custom-fit.
Barefoot aficionados recommend that you start slowly — very slowly. I found out why. I'd run just five minutes and my calves would be sore the next day. After all, I was using muscles and tendons and ligaments that I hadn't properly utilized since I was a toddler. Daisy didn't understand why we'd turn back after barely getting warmed up. I added five or 10 minutes at a time and gradually, over some months, built up to five kilometers. My shoes had become vestigial, as useless as Daisy's dewclaws.
I was a handler on a racing sled-dog team, and one of my jobs was to outfit the huskies with little red pack-cloth racing booties. The dogs hated them and kept kicking them off. The dogs craved the feeling of the trail and I did, too, though at first I felt the trail too much. The blisters on my soles wouldn't heal. Daisy and I wanted to run longer, but my feet wouldn't let us. While I was padding along, defying logic, the tarmac heated to egg-frying temps. I found myself on a firewalk with no choice but to hotfoot it back to the trailhead. "You need some shoes," remarked an old lady with a Schnauzer. My feet, heat- and friction-blistered, resembled jerkied buffalo tongue for three days. Then, I bought a pair of Vibram FiveFingers, the glovelike minimalist footies with separate toe compartments that make human feet look like gorilla feet. I haven't looked back.
Barefoot running, like wine, is all about terroir. You feel the earth, even when it's paved, in a different way. Like a dog's, your feet and legs are your highly advanced suspension system, and with each step, the ground sends signals through your limbs to your brain for processing. You, in turn, finetune your footfalls to meet the ground; there is no padded, canted running shoe between you and the experience.
Ankle-deep mud. My family and I were visiting my parents in rural southeastern Iowa over Christmas vacation. There's a 1,600-acre refuge nearby, Geode State Park, that is seldom visited, especially in bad weather — we had all seven miles of muddy trail to ourselves. A mile down the trail and the dry creek bed that we usually cross in two strides was running five feet deep with snowmelt. A hard rain pelted down on us.
Daisy had tangled with a wild turkey hen the last time we were here (the turkey, protecting her nest, won) and dog paddled across the creek to seek a rematch, allowing for current and playing the angle like a Labrador Retriever — I'd catch up to her when I got across. I began bushwhacking upstream through multif lora rose to find a way to cross without subjecting myself to a hypothermic ford. I found an 18-inch oak log stripped of bark but coated with fine moss, slick as snot on a doorknob. The oak bridged the ad hoc river five feet above its surface — if I fell, there were limbs to hit before I found myself in the drink. I inched gangplank-style to test the log, adjusting my trim with arms outstretched like wings. My feet contoured to the tree like an ape's. But it was taking longer than I expected. Halfway through the tightrope act, I remembered Daisy, and called to remind her that we were out here together and not to get too attached to tracking the turkey.
Nothing. Just the "whoosh" sound of the swift creek.
I crept out a little farther and tried not to look at the coffee-colored torrent below. "Daisy!" No dog. Then I felt something, a different kind of wet, on the back of my calf. Daisy's nose. My half-blind running buddy had circled back, recrossed the creek, followed my scent upstream and followed me onto the slick log. Now I worried more about her — if she fell, her 69-in-human-years body would hit a lot of wood before landing in the fast water, and there was a possibility she'd get tangled in the brush being carried along by the current.
She couldn't turn around. At least, I didn't think she should. But her claws gave her the advantage of all-paw-drive. Could she trace the log without close-range eyesight? She had to — I couldn't step over her. We were both committed to the log walk. I don't like these situations, am not fond of sketchy heights. But there was nothing to do but inch onward. Daisy followed, and we made it to the muddy bank.
We went back the next day and did it again. Then the day after that. The water had receded, but that didn't matter. What did matter was that I'd found serious joy in running again. With my favorite running partner. And Daisy's hardly missed a step in her old age, or maybe it just seems she hasn't since I've gone barefoot.
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My cow dog Daisy and I are going to work. We're eating goldfish crackers—two for me, one for you—in my pickup truck and howling Buck Owens and Merle Haggard ballads off the tape deck, when we come across a broken pickup 39 miles down 40 miles of bad road. Old blue-and-rust Chevy. Open hood, pair of boots sticking out from underneath. Four tires bald as apples, three with air. I roll the window down and I can smell that they haven't had a shower for weeks.
South Dakota plates, they may be horse thieves, but friendly enough. The guy under the truck doesn't say much while the upright waddie speaks through the two front teeth he has left. "We've got 120 head a beef up Crystal Creek. Forty horses. Some not worth a bullet, but some's ok. Most ain't broke." He leans over to inspect for progress. "Been out for a month. Going into town for a shower and a couple beers."
"Got what you need?" I say.
"We ain't got nothing but a screw jack and no handle."
This waddie regards me as a yuppie and not to be relied on. I'm wearing a sun visor, the kind an amateur tennis player might wear. Hiking shorts, and some après-ski slip-ons popular with the lodge set, which isn't very smart considering the air force of mosquitoes and rocky tire-changing terrain. Sporting a coffee-stained T-shirt that reads something about a ski company. These punchers take me for the tourist I am, but this tourist has a jack. "I've got a bottle jack," I tell him. I pull over and rustle for the jack under the jump seat. Then I piece the handle together and reach it to the one under the truck. The jack is, embarrassingly, almost brand-new, though I have replaced a few tires on this very road. My tires happen to be brand-new as well, compliments of the Firestone recall. My truck is a little Japanese outfit that is never asked to haul anything more than a mountain bike or a canoe. These hands know my income doesn't come from cows and they may suspect a trust fund, which isn't accurate.
Daisy stays in the safety of the truck cab. A guy on horseback gaits by, checking cattle, two rangy Border Collies tailing behind, running in and out of the sagebrush. Daisy barks at them through the window. What a sissy, the ranch dogs must think. She can't even ride in the back of a truck, has to stay up front with the organic dog cookies and air conditioning. Cow dogs, I think, have the most expressive eyes of any breed, and I see it in her brown pair—she hankers for the working cow-dog life.
Make it me, Daisy's whines say. Her bat ears perk up, those eyes go wide. I want to be a cowgirl, I want to cut calves and keep coyotes at bay. I was wired to be in the front row at brandings and sheep dockings. I can surf a two-story rick of hay. For her it is an atavistic need. I had unrequited dreams, too: I always wanted to be a pro ball player but wasn't nearly good enough. So I try to explain to Daisy that she is with me, and a play dog, because she wasn't very good at working cows. They docked her tail, turned her out, and didn't perform up to snuff, flunked the tryout, was cut from the squad. I'm pretty sure she'd been abused; she still doesn't like tall men in cowboy hats. Most of the ranchers I know don't keep pets.
Dogs and wolves, researchers believe, diverged from a common ancestor around 135,000 years ago, domesticated 100,000 years ago. For the past thousand years, breeding has focused canines to perform specific work. In Wyoming, where we live, work means working cattle. Ain't much use for a dog who don't work cattle. (As I write this, a pickup truck with hay stacked two stories high rolls by, a pair of Blue Heelers surfing on top, guarding the stuff that's worth more than gold in this, the third year of severe drought.) Daisy, and a passel of doggies just like her, doesn't work cattle. She's a dog of the New West, accustomed to mountain bike trail drives instead of cattle drives, wool ski hats instead of herds of sheep. She's at home with her canine friends on the deck at the brew pub, or with me, angling for trout.
But that makes me wonder—what happens to a Cattle Dog that doesn't work cattle? How does such a dog evolve?
Will this branch of Kelpie evolve into the Rocky Mountain Trout Dog? She'd need a Labrador's fat for that, perhaps. Might Border Collies turn into North American Mountain Bike Dogs? Too long-haired I think. Best to go with the cur that does it all, I think. Spring that pup from the pound and grab your skis.
Ranch dogs can smell a city mouse a country mile away; real ranch dogs would love to kick Daisy's ass. You see it when we drive by and they notice her, Little Miss Gourmet Kibble in her sissy Japanese truck. You there, with your Day-Glo yuppie bird-dog collar. Is that a Frisbee your owner has? What a sissy. Where you from—Pennsylvania? You going home to get your teeth brushed?
In fact, she is.
Bet you live in town, too.
We do.
I knew what it would mean when we picked her up at the pound. On trail runs above Kemmerer, she would run herd on pronghorn antelope, which is something like trying to herd those proverbial cats, though she would at least get them headed in any direction they wanted to go. I know she was thinking that this is why we were up there—why would anyone run all the way up Oyster Ridge just to unwind and think good thoughts?
Two years ago in Sublette County I had a working cowboy compliment my dog. "That's a good looking Kelpie," he said. Thanks. "She work cattle?" Naw. "Break out the Frisbee, eh."
How did he know?
Real cow dogs are one-person animals and will go to most lengths to guard the truck and the string, including taking a hunk out of your calf if need be. They have a vital job to do and they're going to do it, Mister, so don't give them headaches. Real cow dogs don't get to play; they go to work 24/7 so others can play.
With people Daisy will act demure, blink her eyes, roll on her back, jump on you inappropriately, lick your face. With other dogs, females, Daisy is a punk. Our ski friends won't let her play with Addie, their babied Border Collie, nor Sadie, another Border Collie who downright hates Daisy and would like to kill her and has tried. More than once her owner, Marcia, and I have had to dive into the middle of a dogfight, skis still on our feet, then head back home and patch up our respective dogs over beers.
Daisy heels our neighbor's big yellow snow blower, snapping at the chain-wrapped tires. She runs herd on mountain bikers, but males only, which, I think, most closely resemble slow-moving beeves.
She tried herding Shriners in the Jackson Hole July Fourth parade, but my wife, Hilary, put the kibosh on this in short order.
Daisy doesn't truck with most men under cowboy hats, a handicap for canines in the cattle industry, but it works for her new career as "ski dog." Last spring Daisy and I were skiing Beaver Mountain and came upon two snowmobiles, yellow and black, beastly colors, nature's danger flag. Daisy heeled them—yip, yip, getalong you beasts! The riders, overweight folk, as snowmobilers often are, lifted their face shields and laughed, though sheepishly, like, that's real cute, but what's wrong with your dog, mister? Her vet Dr. Bob called her a ski dog on her first checkup when his assistant asked what kind of dog she was. Dr. Bob is a cowboy and was tickled that this fine specimen landed on her feet, but a bit disappointed, I think, that she'd be frittering away her days running through nose-deep powder, eating dust behind the mountain bike, and swimming through holes in the river that moments before housed fine trout. In another four hundred years, will cur genes program dogs to instinctively make dollar signs in the snow, dissecting my S turns with a straight line down the fall line? New breeds may even emerge—the Tetonic Telemarking dog—with genomes far more diverse than the inbred purebred pedigreed glamour dogs we have today.
Back to work. Today Daisy and I are headed to a couple of line cabins up the Gros Ventre River and the end of the line. My friend Tim Sandlin rents these cabins from a former governor of Wyoming. Tim is a fine novelist and I remember when I was just a kid, admiring the hell out of Tim's books and the fact that his author photo showed him in front of such a rustic, romantic cabin. His outhouse here has cult status in the world of contemporary letters.
Tim paid his dues in order to live here; he lived in a teepee and washed dishes at the Lame Duck for years until he could finally afford to buy a place. Tim's is the biggest heart in all of Teton County and he allows us—me, Daisy, Hilary—to use these cabins whenever we please (just be sure to close the gate). This week, however, many people with the dubious occupation title of "writer" will show up.
Daisy and I will commute the hour each way into town in the morning for the dreaded writer's conference, and back each afternoon to watch the stars, contemplate our place in the world, and listen to the coyotes. Tim, the founder of this conference, is in charge, and he allows his B-team writers to stay out here while everyone else, the A-team, is off wining and dining. There are writers who have been on Oprah. I have never seen the Oprah show, so I was banished to the line shacks. Fine by me and Daisy. These conferences are exhausting and don't pay squat unless you're a "star," but we do them because Tim asked and we get to stay in this amazing place and there are good bars and restaurants in town and we can catch up with our drinking and eating. Daisy's main job here at the conference is to not, under any circumstances, heel any Pulitzer Prize winners.
Daisy loves this place. Last time we were here—last fall—there was a wonderful dead cow, bloated to twice normal size, in the front "yard" of the cabins, mostly bunchgrass and rabbitbrush, so close I could spit and bounce a sunflower seed hull off its belly. Daisy went straight for the hocks. The smell was insufferable for us, divine to Daisy. She barked, Git up cow, you're hitting the trail—git up! Remember, a thousand years of genetic programming informs her it's her job.
One morning some hands rumbled up in an old four-wheel-drive pickup. They chained the dead cow's legs to the bumper of the truck and drove off. Opposing wheels dug into the dirt and then—pop—off came the beef's front legs. Dead cow juice flew into the air. Daisy was beside herself, inside the cabin, trying to shoot through the fly screen using her head as a battering ram. All her circuits were telling her to go, full throttle, that there was bovine business being done, carnivorous possibilities, and she was part of the larger plan, if only to cover herself in dead cow and take some of it back to town to share the tale with buddies.
The temperature rose and the cow bloated even more. Or seemed to anyway if you count the smell's effects on my imagination. The hands came back in the afternoon, full-on sun, with a come-along and winched the carcass into the back of a truck. Took it down toward the river and dumped it for the coyotes and buzzards.
I let Daisy out of the truck and she makes a beeline to the grave, which is a stone's throw from the Gros Ventres River. Daisy rolls on her back, trying to absorb any dead-cow scent that might still be there. Then we fish.
Later Daisy and I eat chicken. It's our meal together. Hilary is not here—we have grease up to our elbows. We giggle and chew, belch and fart. I even give the love of my life a thimbleful of beer to wash down the bird. Hilary calls these trips "stealing away with my girlfriend." And in a way, it's true, given the way Daisy first flirted with me at the pound. We named her Daisy after Daisy Fuentes. But I tell everyone at these writers' conferences that she's named after Daisy Buchanan, the great love of Jay Gatsby. We leave the bones for the magpies. Daisy has chicken farts. Tomorrow there will be a party of writers here. And dogs.
Todd, a geriatric Corgi, got his collar hung in the willows of the creek we named Daisy Creek because no one else had taken the initiative to name it something else. Steve, local seller of fine books, jumped in like a Marine—"Semper Fi!"—and untangled the old dog very shortly before he would have drowned. A toast to Steve! Roxy is here, Tim and Carol's Australian who doesn't give eight eggs for Daisy's juvenile antics. Bluebell the cowpie-eating Poodle. Oakley, the rich-kid papered Golden Retriever puppy named after the expensive sunglasses; Daisy would periodically roll Oakley for measure, letting him know who was in charge of this camp. And Daisy's favorite, Abbey, a cow dog/Labrador puppy that could be Daisy's sister, only with her long black tail intact. She is a ski/trail running dog from the Driggs, Idaho, pound. The two of them, a brace of bat-eared hellcat, ripped through the crowd and barbecued beans, upending bottles of beer and knocking over children in a less-graceful canine impression of a Shriner's circus. As I watched this posse of New West dogs I realized that these nonworking "working dogs" (as they are called at Westminster) did not lose their sand after we stole them away from the ranches that are becoming fewer by the year; they very easily turned into "play dogs," a class not yet recognized by the kennel clubs. Perhaps I'm biased, but I'll argue that play dogs with cow dog blood in them—Heelers, Shepherds, Kelpies, Collies—play harder than the ubiquitous Huskies, Labs and lap dogs.
This lasted three beers long, when the dogs both collapsed, Abbey having to be carried to the car by her owner, Carrie, a Jackson Hole outdoor athlete and purveyor of bagels. None of the dogs harassed the Pulitzer Prize winner. Count it a good night and a job well done.
Daisy and I don't use the outhouse to whiz. I pee in the weeds. Beside me, Daisy pees in the weeds. Peeing, we look at each other in the light of the quarter moon. There is an understanding: We are lucky to be here, under the stars, at elevation, with the birds and bats and mosquitoes. I am not a baseball player. You are not sorting cattle on a working ranch. We are lucky just to be here, peeing in the weeds. Tomorrow we'll go fishing.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug. 3 (JTA) The Jewish year 5759 reversed, at least temporarily, the inward-looking trend of American Jewry.
American Jews still focused on the reshuffling of Jewish organizational life, Jewish education and identity, but the relative insularity of recent years retreated in the face of such international events as the crisis in Kosovo, the defeat of Israel's incumbent prime minister, the stepped-up efforts to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel and the arrest of 13 Iranian Jews for "espionage."
Despite the decreasing interest in Israel among American Jews in general, many are hopeful that the election of Israel's new prime minister, Ehud Barak, will renew the momentum in peace negotiations, said Martin Raffel, associate executive vice chair of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.
On the other hand, programs to encourage youth travel to Israel, such as the newly conceived Birthright Israel, which seeks to provide a free first visit to every young Jew, are attempting to use the Jewish state as a vehicle to encourage Jewish identity and commitment.
In other international developments, efforts to seek material restitution for the Holocaust were intensified. A Swiss humanitarian fund made payments to 60,000 survivors in the United States, and a toll-free number for claimants to file applications for a separate $1.25 billion bank settlement has been set up.
Commissions have been established in 18 countries, including the United States, to explore Holocaust-era assets, and an international commission headed by former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger is to launch a claims-resolution process for formerly unpaid insurance policies.
And, in what Elan Steinberg, executive director of the World Jewish Congress, called "the most symbolic development," the funds derived from the remaining six tons of Nazi gold held by the Tripartite Gold Commission and left in New York and London those not already returned to Europe's central banks are being distributed to survivors worldwide for medical and other assistance.
"We'll fail more than we will succeed," Steinberg said of all the efforts under way. "We won't get close to total material restitution. But we're determined the truth will come out. We're morally recapturing our history."
Echoes of the Holocaust resonated this past year as well during the forced expulsions and mass murders perpetrated by Serbs against the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
American Jews reacted strongly to the crisis.
"Except for crises concerning Soviet Jewry or Israel, there has never been such a response, by organizations and personally, people asking what they can do," said Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel, who visited refugee camps at the request of President Clinton.
"Although we kept saying not to compare the events to the Holocaust, in part people responded to the imagery on television, of train loads, of almost a million people being uprooted," he said.
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee formed a coalition of 42 different organizations to help fulfill the humanitarian needs of the Kosovars.
More than $4 million raised in an open mailbox was used for immediate emergency assistance such as blankets, food and clothing. The JDC also set up a refugee center in Albania for those unwilling or unable to return to Kosovo and, with the World ORT Union, is training those who do return in construction skills so they can rebuild their homes.
The JDC also helped bring a few hundred Jews from Belgrade to Budapest, where they found refuge from the bombs. Some went on to Israel; others returned after the war.
This year also saw an increased commitment by Israel to the aliyah of Ethiopian Jews who were left behind in previous mass emigrations.
More than 1,300 Jews from the remote region of Kwara, whose Jewishness had not been questioned, arrived in Israel in June and July. Another 500 are expected to be evacuated in the fall.
The fate of the thousands of Falash Mura, whose ancestors converted to Christianity but claim eligibility under Israel's Law of Return, is under discussion.
"The American Jewish community took up the cause of the Kwara Jews, and many people are equally concerned about the Falash Mura," said Barbara Ribakove Gordon, executive director of the North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry.
Will Recant, director of special projects for the JDC, said, "American Jewish advocacy has been instrumental in prodding the process and asking the Israeli government to focus on the issue. We believe the pressure needs to remain till the job is done."
Elsewhere in the world, American Jews were stunned by the arrests in March of 13 Iranian Jews rabbis, religious teachers and community activists.
It was only in June that the prisoners were formally charged with spying for the United States and Israel. Espionage is a crime punishable by death in Iran, and since the start of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, 17 Jews have been put to death.
An effort spearheaded by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the Anti-Defamation League and Iranian Jewish groups in the United States helped secure visitations by some family members and some kosher food for the prisoners. But thus far both public and private diplomacy has failed to free them.
Closer to home, Jews were shocked by the Jewish background of one of the killers in the Columbine High School shootings in April as well as by the burning of synagogues in Sacramento, Calif., in June and the drive-by shootings of Orthodox Jews and other minorities in Chicago in July by a white supremacist who later committed suicide.
Although such attacks against Jews seem to confirm deep-seated fears of anti-Semitism among American Jews, experts who monitor hate crimes say they do not signal an alarming trend in increased anti-Semitic activity.
Another insidious threat to American Jews that of missionary groups is on the rise, according to Mark Powers, executive director of Jews for Judaism.
The attempt by a couple from a Hebrew-Christian congregation near Denver to "infiltrate" the Jewish community and make aliyah to further their missionizing and the Summer Witnessing Campaign sponsored by Jews for Jesus in New York and other cities are two examples of a trend that is "increasing and likely to get worse as the millennium approaches," he said.
In the Jewish organizational world, consolidation continued on the Jewish philanthropic scene as the Council of Jewish Federations, the United Jewish Appeal and the United Israel Appeal merged in April to create the United Jewish Communities.
One major change as a result of the merger will be that the local federations "will own the national system and will have the opportunity to shape its agenda," said Stephen Solender, interim president of the UJC and executive vice president of New York's UJA-Federation.
That the national system will try to influence local federations in return was reflected in a June report issued by the UJC and its educational arm, the Jewish Education Service of North America, which urged federations to enhance their support Jewish education, especially day schools.
Other dramatic changes are taking place within American Jewry's religious streams.
The myth of a monolithic Orthodoxy was shattered once more when Edah, a 2-year-old modern Orthodox organization, attracted double the number of participants expected to its conference in New York despite the indifference and even hostility of prominent rabbis and other leaders in the broader Orthodox community.
"The haredi model has been successful, but has minimized contact" with the outside world, said Rabbi Saul Berman, Edah's executive director.
"Edah entered the scene to renew the modern Orthodox approach not as an antagonist to the haredim, but as an alternative that's also committed to halachah."
In the Reform movement, the physical move of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations from its headquarters of nearly 50 years to another Manhattan location could be seen as symbolic of ideological shifts.
The movement launched a "literacy initiative" to promote adult Jewish text study among synagogue lay leaders. And more than a century after Reform Jewry distanced itself from Jewish rituals and tradition in its Pittsburgh Platform, Reform rabbis reconvened in the same Pennsylvania city to adopt a Statement of Principles that emphasized greater adherence to mitzvot.
"The principles," said Rabbi Daniel Freelander, director of programs for the UAHC, "were the first to say today's Reform Judaism is not your grandmother's or 'classic' Reform Judaism."


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DENVER — A fast-moving storm is bringing up to four inches of snow to Colorado.
The Colorado Avalanche Information Center said some areas are reporting periods of heavy snow that is expected to lighten on Friday. The largest amount is expected in the northern San Juan Forest, where four inches of snow is expected. Most areas can expect one to three inches.
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OSU Students Continue to Push for Diversity One Year After Racist Graffiti
When OSU Junior Suparna Reddy says she saw racial graffiti sprayed on the side of Hale Black Cultural Center last April, she wasn't sure what to should do.
"I knew something had gone wrong but I wasn't really sure what was expected of me," says Suparna Reddy.
But this year, Reddy says her inaction has turned into action.
"There were coalitions forming but it was only in the activist community," says Reddy.
She joined the university's No Place for Hate Task Force which was instructed to come up with ways to ensure incidents like last year don't happen again. So far, the university has implemented a hate crime alert and made changes to how students identify themselves in the student databases.
New this year is the No Place for Hate Week which ends Sunday. Seventy-five student organizations partnered to encourage students to reflect on themselves.
Reddy says one of their goals is to get students to sign a no hate pledge.
"It's basically just a commitment to yourself that you are going to fight hate and discrimination," Reddy told another student.
So far, the group has collected 900 signatures.
Students from various groups also gathered for a human rights concert near Buckeye Lake Friday night. Their goal was to inspire others to continue to work together.
Dr. Javaune Adams-Gaston, one of the task force chairs says the group will ask the university to include more diverse class and recruit professors that teach them.
"We don't have numbers. We are really thinking in terms of how inclusive and we how we invite excellence in across the board," says Adams-Gaston


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Joining the M3 Coupe, the saloon version of BMW's fourth-generation midsized M car is ideal for those who held off buying one because of the impracticality of a two-door car. The only differences between the two machines are that the Saloon doesn't have a carbon-fibre roof and its 0-62mph time is 0.1 seconds slower. However, extra doors, more room in the back and a bigger boot mean it's easier to share the experience of travelling in a car powered by BMW's fantastic 4.0-litre V8. It's also a great-looking car: when testing, the M3 Saloon drew admiring glances wherever we went.
The M3 Saloon is hugely impressive on the road. The 4.0-litre V8 sounds incredible, making progress rapid and allowing the car to just soak up the miles. There's always plenty of power on tap – 420bhp of it, available as far up the rev range as 8,300rpm, with 295lb-ft of torque on tap down at 3,900rpm – so there should be enough to keep everyone happy. Then there's the magic M button on the steering wheel. Unlike the M5 and M6, you don't get any more power, but you do get a keener throttle response and you can program the car to make the suspension and steering adjust to your personal taste and driving style. So the M3 Saloon is very accomplished and very fast. However, it does lack something in excitement– which could prove to be a disappointment if you're a fan of the M car heritage.
The M3 has a reputation for being one of BMW's sweetest handling cars, but the current generation has been something of a disappointment for aficionados, with the steering coming in for criticism for not being quite as focused as previous iterations. The hydraulically assisted set-up lacks some of the feedback that drivers of performance cars regard as necessary in order to have total confidence in what exactly the tyres are doing, plus special Michelin-developed rubber that can result in a bit of understeer. The upside of the handling's drawbacks is that the ride is more compliant than on previous versions of the M3, especially if you opt for the Electronic Damper Control (EDC). This system allows you to choose between Comfort, Normal or Sport settings at the touch of a button: if you don't opt for EDC, the standard M damper setting gives you something between Sport and Normal.
The current generation of the 3-Series has been around in non-M form since 2005 (with some mid-life revisions at the end of 2008). It has proved to be a solid, dependable car, so there's no reason to expect any problems with the M3. Obviously, with the extra power on offer, the clutch and brakes may not last as long in the M3 as they do in, say, 3-Series Coupes, but as long as you don't drive like a lunatic all the time, they'll stand up well to daily use. Fit and finish inside and out of the M3 Saloon is impeccable, as you'd expect from a premium performance car, with glossy paintwork outside and sumptuous leather throughout the cabin. There are a lot of electronics in the M3, but as there haven't been any issues reported with the more complex M5 or M6, the M3 should be equally trouble-free.
The 3-Series Saloon received an excellent five-star rating for adult occupant protection in the Euro NCAP crash test, so there's no reason to suspect the M3 version won't perform just as well. Naturally, there's lots of electronic safety equipment to keep the M3 driver out of trouble, with the stability control capable of being disengaged by a quick tap of a button on the centre console. In normal setting or in M Dynamic mode it only reacts when you really need it. Six airbags are provided to protect all four occupants and sensors dotted around the cabin ensure that the right safety equipment is deployed to suit the circumstances. There's also a stiffened boot floor and rear structure that protect the occupants in the event of a rear end impact, two-stage adaptive brake lights and extra brake lights to warn drivers behind when the M3 is braking hard.
The M3 Saloon is very spacious and practical, with a superb driving position that will suit drivers of all dimensions, thanks to electrically adjustable seats in the front and a steering wheel that adjusts for rake and reach. There's also a fair bit of room in the back, with enough head and leg room for most adults, and a 450-litre boot that should prove large enough to handle the luggage of four occupants for most journeys. There are also plenty of gadgets and BMW's iDrive infotainment system, which has loads of options, but lacks an intuitiveness found on those in cars from some rival manufacturers. It just takes too many jogs and clicks to get to where you want to go in each menu: you get used to it, but a truly useful system should work without you having to resort to the manual for even the most basic of functions.
The M3 is expensive to buy and run. Officially, its fuel economy returns 22.8mpg on the combined cycle, but if you drive it anywhere near its full potential, that figure will easily drop into the low teens. CO2 emissions are 295g/km, putting the M3 firmly in the top road tax bracket. Insurance costs will also be high as the M3 is in the top group 20. The M3 is fitted with BMW's Efficient Dynamics brake energy regeneration system that tops up the battery's charge levels at any time the engine is not under load. There's also a shift indicator on the instrument display that tells you which gear you should be in for the best economy. The M3 should hold its value well and still be in demand a few years down the line on the used market. Based on demand for older generations, M3s are generally a safe bet.
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In 2008, political violence erupted throughout Zimbabwe as a result of the contested national elections. Zimbabwean women of all ages, targeted for their political affiliations, were abducted from their workplaces and homes, raped, tortured, and beaten in secret torture centers. It is estimated that from May to July, state-sanctioned groups raped over 2,000 women and girls. The local police have ignored these women's pleas for protection and justice, and national leaders have been equally unresponsive to local and international demands for an end to the violence.
Hear Us features four of these women, who have come forward to demand justice from the Zimbabwean government and the Southern African Development Community. Women like Memory and Abigail, who struggle daily with the physical and psychological scars of their abuse, tell their stories to uncover the enduring effects of this violence on the women of Zimbabwe and their families.
violence against women period is completly unexceptable..................why is it men think that women are there play toys we bring you in this world we nuture you and hold you in our womb , it is we that carry you until your ready for the world so respect the women in your life for with out them you willl cease to exsist
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Constantly at fear of interest groups and Governments. I have noticed, that women are much more nature related than men. Wherever I go destruction is mostly done by men . Thailand , the country I live in in the moment, is no exception. Violence against women is normal here. Unfortunately
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Wilmington, N.C. — Love the Iron Man series? Then take a trip down to the coast and discover locations where the third film was made.
While some of the movie was filmed in Cary at Epic Games and SAS, those locations are not open to the public, and most filming was done at the beach. Besides, it's summer – the perfect time for a road trip!
There are a couple tour companies that offer specific Hollywood-based tours designed to show guests locations around Wilmington that have been featured in movies, such as Iron Man 3, and TV shows like One Tree Hill.
- Cape Fear Segway: Hollywood Segway Tour, $45 (1.5 hours). Film and TV buffs alike will find this tour interesting...and if you can stump the tour guide, a free Italian ice is in your future.
- Hollywood Location Walk, $13 (1.5 hours). Explore some sets and real locations of many TV series and movies filmed in Wilmington.
With A-listers loose in Wilmington during the filming of Iron Man 3, you can bet that everyone took note of where the stars ate, toured and shopped. Now, thanks to meticulous paparazzi work, you can visit those same locations.
- Sir Ben Kingsley, who plays the Mandarin in the movie, took a private tour of the USS North Carolina during filming. It's one of the best-preserved ships from WWII. (Visit: 1 Battleship Rd., Wilmington, NC 28401)
- Both Kingsley and Gwyneth Paltrow (Pepper Potts) ate at Roko Italian Restaurant, which offers delicious Italian cuisine and also has a gluten-free menu. (Visit: 6801-105 Parker Farm Dr., Wilmington, NC 28405)
- Several cast members, including Paltrow, Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark), and Jon Favreau (Happy Hogan) ate at Catch, a modern seafood restaurant in Wilmington. They loved it so much that Paltrow asked the chef for a private lesson! (Visit: 6623 Market St., Wilmington, NC, 28405)
- Downey also shopped at Edge of Urge, a boutique in Wilmington, during his stay. The store sells edgy fashions from independent designers. (Visit: 18 Market St., Wilmington, NC 28401)
Some other filming sites include Port City Marina and the State Port shipping yard. These locations have limited public access.
For more information, check out Visit NC's Iron Man 3 page for some useful tips!


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It's been more than three decades since the Almaden Air Force Station atop Mount Umunhum closed, and few remember when it was active.
Anyone with memories or just curious about the five-story concrete box that remains there may find Basim Jaber's upcoming talk of interest.
Jaber's presentation on "The History of the Almaden Air Force Station atop Historic Umunhum" is on Jan. 13 from 2 to 4 p.m. upstairs in the Fire House at History San Jose Park.
Jaber took an interest in the station several years ago, starting a website for former 682nd Radar Squadron members and families to share their stories.
He also started collecting images and artifacts from the station and is now a volunteer archivist at History San Jose.
During the Cold War, the station was manned around the clock to protect Central California from a Soviet threat that never materialized. The concrete box that remains served as the base for the station's large antenna.
Due to its remoteness, the facility was a little community of its own with 86 structures, including homes, stores and even a bowling alley. It closed on March 29, 1980.
At his presentation Jaber will have artifacts from the station that are in the permanent collection of History San Jose.
History Park is at 635 Phelan Ave., off Senter Road. Park admission is free, but city parking is $6 per car. For more information, visit historysanjose.org.


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Ex-Blizzard Employee Does a Reddit AMA
Recently, Blizzard had to make a pretty large cutback on employees. One such employee that was let go did an AMA on Reddit yesterday. Said Redditor worked on World of Warcraft, Starcraft II, and Diablo 3 in Quality Assurance and as a Game Master, two of the most notoriously thankless jobs in the gaming industry. Surprisingly, though, s/he had some positive things to say about the company.
One contributor had asked her/him if they had gotten back into the gaming industry and inquired about the difficulty of doing so. The former Blizzard employee responded that they had not tried and were not sure if they wanted to even try due because "I know I'm not going to find another gaming company like Blizzard."
The ex-employee seemed to like a lot of aspects about her/his former job, but were pretty critical of many of the devs. At one point, they said that the majority of the developers for Starcraft II were dicks.
When asked why Ghostcrawler is such an "unrepentent [sic] shitheel" the ex-GM replied with a laugh and said "welcome to the majority of devs at Blizzard." However, s/he said that "the WoW team is [way] nicer than the SC2 team [and] actually listen to other people's ideas about how to improve things."
There were some other pretty interesting bits in the AMA session. Some of the best parts were stories that other Redditors told.
One was about a player's experience with a GM turning into a slime in the middle of a dungeon without tipping the players running said dungeon off. After the players started complaining about the slime taking forever, the GM revealed his/herself. Makes me wish we would see more GM interaction with players in current WoW.
Some of the stuff was a bit of a bummer to read about certain developers being kind of asshole-ish, but nonetheless, it made me pretty happy to hear that the former employee had had an overall positive experience. That AMA is definitely worth a read if you're a WoW player or just overall Blizzard fan.
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Dave_1042June 21, 2013, 10:52 pmThe answers are all gone... What happened?
GermaximusJune 6, 2013, 1:40 pmCorrespondentNice write up. I don't like Reddit, the format is ugly and horrible and makes me wanna slap someone. lol I might check that out tho, I'm trying to be more active on the site just to join in on the gaming community but I really just don't like its format.
That part about the GM being a slime is great! And it sure would be awesome if they did more stuff like that.


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text: "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." Yep! You've guessed it. "Forrest Gump" must be on the TV schedule. Yep! It is… at 7 tonight on AMC. Tom Hanks plays a man who stumbles through the most historic moments of our time.Hanks won an Oscar for that role, and, yep, here is a quiz to honor him and his career.View Survey


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The Children's Center was originally housed in a ranch style home on Lake Michigan Drive near the entrance to Grand Valley State University. The original Center was comprised of two houses with younger students in the main building and the older students in the Friendship House, a small building next to the main building. The Children's Center was established in the early 1970s shortly after Grand Valley College was started. Marge Morgan was the first director of the Children's Center and of the Early Childhood Program at GVSU. The Center was operated by undergraduate students enrolled in the Early Childhood Education program at Grand Valley College. The capacity of the center then was 20 children. The Early Childhood Program was discontinued to begin the Police Academy.
In 1987 the Children's Center had its first full time on-site director; Mary Ann Krause was the director until 2007. During her term as director the Childrens Center was moved onto campus. Construction on the new building at its present location was completed in 1995. The capacity for the new building was 64 children and the building was designed with an open floor plan. The center operated as a drop in center, in that children could be dropped off and picked up at varying times during the day. At its busiest time the center would have 62 children at one time. The center employed about 25 staff, most being undergraduate students at Grand Valley State University. In 2002 the Children's Center included a Head Start component which ended in 2005 due to lack of funding.
During this time the main mission of the Childrens Center was to provide childcare services for families and students and to offer hands on educational experiences for GVSUs students. In 2005, the Childrens Center became the first childcare center in Ottawa County to become accredited through the National Association for Young Children (NAEYC). During this time the center became an auxiliary under Housing, previously it had been under the department of Dean of Students.
In the fall of 2008 the Childrens Center underwent some major structural and programmatic changes. After a year as interim director Sharalle Arnold became the 3rd director and the Center was now known as the Childrens Enrichment Center (CEC). After being an open floor plan center the Center now had 2 classrooms: Beginner Preschool and Preschool. The Center no longer operated as a drop in center. Average enrollment during this time was over 40 families served.
Under the new administration there was a desire to align the CEC program with GVSU's mission and values. The program at the CEC was changing and expanding thereby adding another layer to the services provided for families, children, and students. These changes made it necessary to introduce value statements to the program thereby redefining what the CECs role on campus would be. Shortly after a new philosophy statement was written to align with programmatic changes. Increased awareness of the CEC on campus enabled a third classroom to be added; Beginner Preschool 2 in 2009. Enrollment at this time was over 50 families, serving mostly faculty/staff and student families.
Currently the CEC operates with 3 classrooms. Each classroom has a full-time lead teacher with a BA/BS in education or education related fields. Support staff are all undergraduate students pursuing education or child related fields. The CEC runs a preschool program with enrichment opportunities offered throughout the day. Enrollment currently is 56 families.
In 2011 the CEC was chosen to participate in the Ottawa County Great Start Child Preschool Scholarship program. This program has enabled 2 student families to have their children enrolled at the CEC at no cost to them for the 2011-2012 academic school year. Future endeavors include possible facilities expansions and the activation of a Student Parent Endowment fund that would enable more GVSU students to have their children attend the CEC at low or no cost.
The CEC is on the cusp of redefining what role it can play on the campus of GVSU by providing quality care and education. Not only is the CEC enriching children's lives it is contributing to student success.


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2012 in Review
I made my own Touch Screen Gloves. (and posted a tutorial for it!)
I started Project 366. I've almost finished it too!
I did some Zentangles.
I upgraded my camera to a DSLR and posted a tutorial for a Lens Cap Pouch.
Natt guest posted a tutorial for these Glitter Flower Pots. Aren't they gorgeous?
I was published in Creating Keepsakes Magazine.
I announced a new online class, Art Journaling Adventure. Check out my other online classes here.
I've started doing Product Reviews.
I posted a tutorial for this adorable embroidered Pumpkin Recipe Pouch.
Taylor and I released this Fabulous Fall free download full of Autumn crafts and recipes.
I've started a blog design business!
and I joined the Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft Design Team! You will start seeing my Design Memory Crafts projects soon!
I love looking back through my archives and seeing what all I've done in 2012. I forgot some of it! ;)
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Flight planning Web site FltPlan.com is now offering runway analysis services by Aircraft Performance Group (APG) integrated with flight planning. Runway analysis may allow departures at heavier maximum takeoff weights, according to FltPlan.com, thanks to APG's Airport Analyzer. "This product is a GIS [geographic information system] application that performs terrain and obstacle analysis along a specific ground track based upon a defined set of operational rules." Performance data meets AFM limitations and complies with applicable regulations, according to FltPlan.com. To employ the new service, FltPlan.com users must call the Runway Analysis Desk at (731) 855-8000. Cost is $900 per tail number per year.
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Use DashClock widget to empower the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean lockscreen
One of the least impressive features added by Google in Android 4.2 is the ability to use lockscreen widgets. By default the second Jelly Bean iteration comes with a limited number of options, none of which is capable of delivering enough glanceable information without swiping left and right to find emails or calendar entries. With DashClock Widget the true potential of lockscreen widgets is unleashed by displaying relevant "status items" right after unlocking the device, all in one go.
DashClock Widget can be used as a Digital clock widget replacement, further building on the stock functionality by introducing support for next scheduled alarm, upcoming calendar appointments, missed calls and unread texts, unread Gmail inbox or Priority inbox count as well as local weather data. Straight off the bat it puts the stock lockscreen widgets to shame by combining sufficient relevant information, all in one place.
In order to take advantage of DashClock Widget users have to unlock the device and navigate to the furthest lockscreen page on the right, tap the "+" sign and select the item named "DashClock" from the provided list. Afterwards a new window will appear, allowing users to enrich the default functionality by adding extensions. The available extensions are the above-mentioned supporting features. Extensions can be removed by swiping items to the left or to the right.
At this point the only extensions that are user-customizable include Weather and Gmail unread count. For the former, users can choose between Imperial and Metric weather units (Fahrenheit and Celsius, respectively). There is one caveat though -- users cannot choose a different weather provider, which may be an inconvenience for users outside of supported locations. The latter, Gmail unread count, can be used to display unread counts for either inbox and supports multiple Gmail accounts as well.
Another caveat comes from the calendar functionality, which is limited to appointments. Users like me that sync multiple calendars for upcomings birthdays or events will find the lack of support for basic calendar entries rather disappointing.
Users can also customize the appearance by choosing between multiple clock and date styles with bold numbers and letters or smaller characters, among others. The design can be altered by selecting "Appearance" in the dropdown menu on the top-left side of DashClock Widget's interface. Compared to the CyanogenMod 10.1 "Chronus" lockscreen widget DashClock Widget ups the ante by providing the above mentioned Gmail, call and text functionality.
DashClock Widget is available to download from Google's Play Store. The app is only compatible with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.


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Police blunder unmasks secret files
A police blunder in a major drugs investigation has revealed the identity of confidential informants and undercover officers and their secret intelligence-gathering techniques.
A Southland Times investigation has discovered that the serious breach occurred after police handed over heavily censored electronic documents to those charged in the investigation.
But, as one of the defendants quickly discovered, the blacked-out sections of the documents can easily be restored to view, revealing the highly sensitive material.
Hundreds of heavily censored files relating to Operation Canary have been given to the seven people charged after a long police investigation into commercial cannabis growing in southern New Zealand, but the blacked-out sections in many of the electronic files are easily unmasked.
Police have now applied to the Invercargill District Court for an urgent order that the faulty files be handed back and a tentative hearing time has been set for tomorrow morning.
Legal sources say the police blunder is extremely serious and has the potential to put the lives of informants at risk.
One document, an affidavit supporting a High Court application for search, seizure and surveillance warrants, records the details of an informant considered particularly reliable because of his role in an earlier case that led to the conviction of a senior gang member for violent crimes.
Those details are blacked out in the pdf file the police provided, but text under the black screen placed over it is revealed by the simple process of copying the file into another document.
Lawyers say the Operation Canary security breach is not the first by police and points to widespread sloppy and incompetent electronic file-sharing processes. The files in which the confidential sections can be revealed have been provided from three separate police districts, even though some police have known about their insecure electronic masking systems for several years and in at least one other instance two years ago were also forced to go to court to recover faulty files.
One Invercargill lawyer said the security breach with the Operation Canary files would have caused consternation within the police when they found out what had happened. The lawyer, a former Crown solicitor, said the names of confidential police informants and sensitive investigative techniques were so closely guarded by police that even Crown lawyers were not given access to the information.
"I have stood in the Appeal Court arguing the Crown case for a warrant that had large sections of the police affidavit blacked out without knowing what those redacted [blacked out] sections contained."
The faulty Operation Canary files were handed over by police under the evidence discovery process, whereby a defendant can request police evidence through his lawyer. One of the accused took a copy of the disk supplied by police so he could review the evidence and found some files would reveal all the blacked-out sections when copied into a word document.
"It took about three mouse clicks to get through some of the blacked-out stuff - even a kid could do it," he said.
"In about 430 documents a lot could be copied so that all the blacked out text could be reinstated. That's a major security breach by the police IT department, who have basically given out information about informants, police techniques and all sorts of stuff. "They've got major egg on their face and have gone to my lawyer with cap in hand asking for everything back."
Once police found out about the gaffe, two detectives visited the man's lawyer to ask for the return of the documents and when that was refused police lodged an application to the court.
The man said he believed he had good reason not to hand the documents back without a fight.
"I'm not interested in revenge on any of these informants or anything, but this information can definitely be used in my defence. Information was provided by police informants in 2004 and 2005, which was then used to get search warrants in 2011, and that information is not even accurate. It says 'This guy might be involved' or "This guy maybe done this,' so doesn't even stand up. So we'll definitely be challenging the search warrants that were issued based on that information."
The correct way to black out sensitive information in electronic documents is a simple process and some government departments have learnt from earlier mistakes. ACC board minutes supplied under the Official Information Act two years ago are heavily censored but can be unmasked to show, among other things, then chief executive Jan White's report on an ongoing investigation by the Serious Fraud Office. Recent documents from ACC do not show such electronic sloppiness.
The Education Ministry though, embroiled in the Novopay scandal, only three weeks ago responded to accusations of secrecy in its dealings with Australian software provider Talent2 by loading detailed meetings minutes on to its website.
The files had been censored extensively to conceal names and other confidential information, but as soon as those files were copied into another document everything was revealed. That blunder brought a firestorm of ridicule on the ministry by Twitter users and the files were removed, processed properly and reloaded on the ministry website - though not before many of the files had been copied in uncensored form into publicly accessible internet dropboxes.
Police say correct procedures not followed
Police last night acknowledged they appeared not to have followed correct procedures when releasing the redacted documents to defence lawyers in the Operation Canary court cases but said they believed it to be an isolated case.
A statement by southern district commander Lane Todd said the incident was being taken ''very seriously'' and was the subject of an ongoing investigation. Police would act on any ''learnings'' from that investigation. However he did not believe the privacy or safety of any individual has been compromised.
''Security of information is central to every aspect of police work and there are robust processes in place for protecting information held by police,'' Inspector Todd said. ''In disclosures of this kind a paper hard copy should be provided instead of an electronic copy. This did not happen in this instance.''
He refused to comment further as the matter was still before the court.
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Captain D's Upgrades its Kitchens
Captain D's, operator of more than 580 seafood restaurants is installing QSR Automations (qsrautomations.com) ePic Kitchen Management Solution, with 30 stores planned for completion by the end of 2004 and continued implementation efforts to occur throughout 2005. Captain D's has also made QSR's ePic solution available to its franchisees.
"Our goal at Captain D's is to provide an exceptional dining experience with fresh, quality seafood in a quick and casual setting, and QSR's kitchen solution is helping us enhance our customer interactions and serving times," says Chris Crabtree, senior director of information services.
A pioneer in quick-casual dining, the first Captain D's Seafood restaurant launched in 1969 with the goal of providing high quality seafood at reasonable prices in a relaxed atmosphere.
"QSR's design philosophy-matched only by the company's responsiveness to its clients-ensures our technology is out of mind, allowing us to focus on our guests and operations," adds Crabtree. Today, recent record store revenues are propelling the company's newest initiatives to expand and further evolve as a fast casual restaurant concept, including a new store design that features an open kitchen where customers can feel they are a part of the fresh, made-to-order preparation process. With ePic Kitchen Display Software, dine-in and drive-thru orders are routed immediately upon entry into any point-of-sale terminal to the appropriate kitchen preparation stations. Customer interaction and serving times are enhanced because servers are no longer required to turn away from the customer to hang a ticket for the kitchen.


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Final CCU "On Being American" event to address the arts
-"The American Experience in Art and Music" is an interactive multimedia presentation which will explore how the ongoing struggle for freedom and democracy has shaped America's unique and vibrant heritage in music and the arts.
The discussion will be led by David Bankston, a composer and musician who is an associate professor of music at Coastal, and Jo-Ann Morgan, a visual artist and assistant professor of art at Coastal.
The On Being American series, sponsored by the Board of Visitors of the Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts, is designed to involve area citizens and Coastal faculty in discussions about the basic tenets of American life and culture.
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