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It�s been nearly a month since East Carolina last played a game, yet the sour taste remains in the players� mouths.
It�s been nearly a month since East Carolina last played a game, yet the sour taste remains in the players� mouths.
That Nov. 29 defeat at Marshall pushed the Pirates in the direction of the Beef �O� Brady�s Bowl in St. Petersburg, Fla.
ECU will look to finish its season on a positive note on Monday against Ohio University, a 7-5 team from the Mid-American Conference.
�That�s another reason we want to play well. The last time we were out, that was not the team we are. That is not a good representation of what we can do,� said Pirates� junior quarterback Shane Carden.
�We want to go out and show what this team is all about.�
The Pirates (9-3) are in search of their first 10-win season win 1991, and looking to stop a four-game bowl losing streak. Their last postseason win was a 41-38 victory over Boise State in the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl in 2007.
Despite playing in a bowl game in seven of the last eight seasons, ECU has just two bowl victories since 2000.
�This game is very important,� Carden said. �We haven�t won a bowl game in a while. We also want to end this season with 10 wins and send these seniors out with a win.
�We are playing for a lot. We are looking forward to going down to St. Petersburg and playing our best.�
The Pirates� opponent � Ohio � is playing in its fifth straight bowl game. The Bobcats are winners of two in a row.
They are led by senior quarterback Tyler Tettleton, who has 2,623 passing yards with 20 touchdowns.
�I think the coaches have allowed me to progress over the past three years,� Tettleton said. �I think mentally I�ve grown a lot in understanding defenses a lot more and being able to know where I am able to go with the ball, and just be a better leader.�
The Bobcats are averaging 28 points per game, while the defense is giving up nearly 27 points.
Carden, and the Pirates� top-15 ranked offense will attempt to capitalize.
Carden has completed 71 percent of his passes and thrown for 3,866 yards and 32 touchdowns with 10 interceptions.
He enjoys looking for junior Justin Hardy (105 catches, 1,218 yards, 8 TDs) and freshman Isaiah Jones (54 catches, 556 yards, 5 TDs).
Jones said he is thrilled about playing in his first bowl game.
�I think it is every players dream to want to play in a bowl game,� he said. �It�s going to be an amazing experience with the crowd, the atmosphere, just being able to keep playing football.�
The last time the Pirates finished with at least 10 wins was in 1991 � the year they went 11-1 and beat N.C. State in the Peach Bowl.
�The 10 wins are what we are striving for,� Jones said. �It�s that goal we are setting. I think everybody is all in with it, and has the mindset that we can accomplish it.
�It would be great, not only for this team, but for program and this city.�
The only common opponent on the teams schedule is Marshall. While ECU lost 59-28 to the Thundering Herd, Ohio beat them 34-31.
Ohio began the season with wins in four of their first five, but lost three of their final four.
�Ohio is a great team, a great program, but our main focus is us and just getting better,� Jones said. �We are coming off that tough loss, so we are using whatever we can to be effective.�
The Bobcats have offensive weapons in Donte Foster (63 catches, 858 yards), Chase Cochran (32 catches, 656 yards), Matt Waters (32 catches, 446 yards) and Beau Blankenship (183 carries, 844 yards), Ryan Boykin (103 carries, 399 yards, 7 TDs).
�On the offensive side, people should expect a fast-paced game, a high-tempo offense and a team that can execute in all phases. And everyone expects to win,� Foster said.
The Pirates are putting up more than 40 points per game, while the defense is allowing a tad more than 25 points.
Safety Damon Magazu leads the team with four interceptions and linebacker Derrell Johnson has a team-gest 7.5 sacks.
The Pirates have 35 sacks and have forced 21 turnovers.
�They remind me a lot of that Utah State team we played two years ago in Idaho,� Tettleton said. �They are very physical, tough group.
�Majority of their starters are juniors or seniors, so they have been in their system for a while now. It�s going to be a tough challenge, but we are looking forward to it.�
Kickoff is slated for 2 p.m. on Monday at will be televised on ESPN.
East Carolina Pirates (9-3) vs. Ohio Bobcats (7-5)
Beef �O� Brady�s Bowl
Where: St. Petersburg, Fla.
When: Monday, 2 p.m.
Televised: ESPN
Coaches: East Carolina: Ruffin McNeill (29-22, fourth season). Ohio: Frank Solich (66-49, ninth season).
Key players: East Carolina: QB Shane Carden, RB Vintavious Cooper, WR Justin Hardy, WR Isaiah Jones, LB Derrell Johnson, S Damon Magazu. Ohio: QB Tyler Tettleton, WR Donte Foster, WR Chase Cochran, RB Beau Blankenship, DB Travis Carrie, DB Xavier Hughes, LB Ben Russell, ST Devin Bass.
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CEO Joe Sanderson Jr. anticipates announcement soon
WILSON � Joe Sanderson Jr., chief executive officer of Sanderson Farms, told investors this week during a quarterly report that company leaders anticipate being able to announce a new plant location soon.
The company�s fourth quarter report follows a November announcement that company leaders decided to abandon plans to build a poultry processing plant in Nash County after considering a 145-acre site on N.C. 97 for two years.
�Despite the headwinds we have faced this year, I remain optimistic for the long term,� Sanderson said. �Our balance sheet is strong, we have significantly reduced our debt and the company is in a position to continue our growth strategy when market conditions allow.
�We hope to be in a position to announce the location of the next plant soon.�
Sanderson did not say where the company�s next plant would be but company leaders, in October, made an amendment to financial statements that lifted a geographical limitation on where Sanderson Farms could build its next plant.
Previously, Sanderson Farms was limited to building its next processing facility in North Carolina or Georgia. The amendment allows the company to locate anywhere in the United States, Sanderson said.
The company�s newest plant in Kinston reached near full production capacity in the spring of 2012 and helped Sanderson Farms return to profitability for the year, Sanderson reported.
�While poultry markets improved compared to 2011, grain prices surged to record levels during August as a result of drought conditions across much of the Corn Belt,� Sanderson said Tuesday. �Our increased sales and return to profitability during the year reflect higher production as we completed the ramp-up to near full production at our Kinston, North Carolina, facility.�
The Kinston plant�s production also helped to offset the company�s 4 percent production cut at its other plants and the move helped to better balance production with customer demands.
Net income for the year ending on Oct. 31, totaled $53.9 million compared with a net loss of $127.1 million in 2011. Net sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 were $648.4 million compared with $559.8 million for the same period a year ago.
Net sales for fiscal 2012 were about $2.39 billion compared to $1.98 billion a year ago.
The company faced many of the same challenges in 2012 as it did in 2011, with reduced demand in the food service industry and more positive sales at the grocery store. Grain prices also remained high and are expected to remain volatile in the future. Sanderson said the company�s overall financial strength, with reducing its debt in 2012, will help it continue toward future growth with the addition of another processing plant.
At the end of the 2012 fiscal year, Sanderson Farms had a balance sheet reflecting $896.5 million in assets, stockholders� equity of $550.1 million and net working capital of $262.2 million. The company�s long-term debt stands at $150.2 million. Sanderson Farms will continue to keep production cuts in place during 2013.
The nation�s fourth largest poultry producer was interested in building a large-scale production plant in Nash County, but the project was challenged by the city of Wilson, which launched lawsuits alleging rezoning flaws by county officials. Even though Nash County prevailed in Superior Court and the N.C. Court of Appeals, Sanderson officials were concerned that the legal battles would continue.
Sanderson officials weren�t able to determine when the legal battles would end and decided to abandon plans to construct a 185,000-square-foot facility and employ 1,100 workers. Wilson leaders were concerned about any potential threat to its water resources.

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VMG Partnership necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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VMG Strategic Consulting
High-end strategic business and IT consulting
VMG means "Velocity Made Good" - a nautical term - the shortest and/or fastest distance between two points - we pride ourselves on "talking straight" - no BS - provide maximum help to our clients with the best possible result
Our business has strong personal relationships with the key business leaders from each of our clients
We help clients solve business problems by applying technology or by providing business strategy
We help our clients succeed and acheive their goals
We consider that we have only succeeded when our clients have succeeded in meeting or exceeding their objectives
"C" level business executives
Business owners
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Visual - represents our "brand"
Some graphical representation or stylization of letters in VMG might be good
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Should translate well from color to black and white (so the logo can be used in eitehr scenario)
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File format - eps or ai
Names of any fonts (if used) should be provided
CMYK information should be provided for all colors
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|The Bismarck Daily Tribune, 10NOV1897
"Murder Revealed
Discovery of a Skeleton in Stutsman Supposed to Be That of August Tromer
Latter Disappeared Several Years Ago, and M. J. Villers, Now in the Pen, Suspected.
L. E. Booker Fails to Appear in United States Court to Answer the Charges Against Him. (This is not a part of the Villers article and was just in the subheading.)
Found a Body
A murder mystery has been cleared up by the finding of a body in the southern part of Stutsman county supposed to be that of August Tromer. This is the man whom it is believed M. J. Villers now serving a term in the state penitentiary at this place for the attempted murder of Mrs Tromer, killed some time previous to his attempted murder of the wife. The body was plowed up in a field where it had been burried underneath a straw stack which later had been fired destroying all traces of excavations in the earth.
August Tromer, with his wife, were simple minded German folks living in LaMoure county. several years ago Tromer disappeared and his whereabouts could not be discovered. There were rumors of foul play and Villers, who had had dealings with Tromer was believed to have been connected with his disappearance but there was no proof. Not long after this, Villers was arrested on a charge of murderously assaulting Mrs Tromer, the wife of the man who had disappeared, and was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary where he now is.
At the time of the disappearance of Tromer, Villers occupied a thirty acre piece of land which he had rented from one Talley. After Viller's incarceration in the pen, Talley took back the land, and "not long ago, while at work the plow suddenly dropped into soft ground near a badger hole and the plow, catching on something, was thrown out of the soil. A piece of cloth was hanging from the share and as Mr Talley had lost a coat on the land the previous season he paid little attention to the matter except to think that he had discovered a portion of his old coat. The next time around the field, however, in passing the same badger hole he discovered a (nub?) of preculiar shape, and near it pieces of a human skull. It immediately suggested itself to him that he had discovered the long sought body of August Tromer. Scraping away some of the soil he discovered that the body of a human being was interred there. A pocket knife and a portion of a jacket were picked up together with a portion of the skull which showed evidences of being crushed in a some previous date.
It is believed that the body which has been thus discovered is that of Tromer, and there is also a belief and some evidence that Villers was the man responsible for his death. Attorneys in Stutsman county and citizens interested are speculating whether if this can be shown to be the body of Tromer, Villers can be taken from the pen before the expuation of his present sentence tried for murder."
I find it interesting to say that "a murder mystery has been cleared up" when they found the body. Perhaps the mystery of what happened to Mr. Tromer, but hardly the murder itself. Makes me wonder how fair the trial was!
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Dollar sinks, gold hits new high after Bernanke speaks
The dollar sank further Wednesday and gold and silver prices surged as Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke signaled the Fed was in no hurry to tighten credit.
The DXY index of the dollar's value against six other major currencies (charted below) fell to 73.29 at about 1:05 p.m. PDT, down nearly 0.8% from Tuesday and its lowest level since Aug. 2008. The index now is down 7.3% year to date.
Gold has soared to $1,530 an ounce in electronic trading, a new record nominal high and up $27, or 1.8%, from Tuesday's futures-market close.
Silver was at $48.13 an ounce, up $3.07, or 6.8%, after falling $2.09 on Tuesday.
In his first-ever post-Fed-meeting news conference, Bernanke acknowledged higher inflation pressures but reiterated the Fed's view that those pressures "appear to be transitory."
As for the sliding dollar, which many Fed critics blame on the central bank's easy-money policy, Bernanke said the Fed believes that "a strong and stable dollar is in the interests of the U.S. and the global economy," and that the best way to lift the dollar was to boost the U.S. economy -- which is what the Fed is trying to do with monetary policy, he said.
Although Bernanke confirmed that the Fed on June 30 would end, as scheduled, its controversial economic-stimulus program of buying Treasury bonds, he said the Fed had no plans to begin selling those securities. Policymakers also are sticking with their commitment to keep short-term rates near zero for an "extended period."
Overall, Bernanke's comments are "not going to change perceptions of a dovish Fed, or dent the positive global risk appetite view that has also translated into a softer dollar," said Alan Ruskin, a currency strategist at Deutsche Bank Securities.
In other words, with U.S. credit still easy, some investors and speculators are borrowing in dollars to pour into commodities, emerging market stocks and other relatively high-risk markets.
Gold and silver have surged since August in part on fears that the dollar would continue to slide, eroding Americans' purchasing power. The metals are many investors' favorite way to hedge against declining paper currencies and higher inflation.
The stock market remains unruffled by the action in the dollar and the precious metals and continues to bet on economic expansion underpinned by the Fed: The Dow Jones industrial average closed with a gain of 95.59 points, or 0.8%, to 12,690.96, its highest level since May 2008. It's up 9.6% this year.
Treasury bond yields rose modestly. The 10-year T-note yield ended at 3.35%, up from 3.31% on Tuesday.
-- Tom Petruno
Investors stampede into modern-day silver rush
For the dollar, a "crisis" is relative


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My name is Brian Conroy. I live in Tigard, a suburb of Portland Oregon.
When I was a teenager I used to splice my photos together and make ultrawide panoramas. Once I discovered 360 panoramas in 2006 I was so excited I spent $2,000 on all the equipment I needed on line the next day and I never looked back. I love taking these photos. They do so much more to capture the spirit and time of place. I am very lucky to have been raised in one of the most beautiful states in the country. My dad grew up in very rural central Oregon. Fortunately he took me out there to fish whenever he could. I hope you enjoy these Panoramas as much as I do. I wish I could add sound to them to really put you there. Don't miss my panoramas on the top of the Mt. St. Helens volcano in Washington State and Zion National Park in Utah and Jefferson Park, Oregon. For a fun one see my family panorama in Tigard, Oregon.
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Backplane accessories are all the component and additional parts used to make up a backplane. Backplanes are devices composed of a group of backplane connectors lined up in parallel to form a computer bus. Each connector pin is linked to the relevant pin of all the other connectors. They are usually used to connect together a number of printed circuit boards.
What are backplane accessories used for?
The function of backplane accessories depends on the type of accessory it is, and what they are designed to be used with. They may help to protect, install, guide or connect the backplane.
Types of backplane accessories
There are a wide range of backplane accessories available, but some common types include:
- guiding accessories, used to make installation easier by providing a frame for the backplane
- protective accessories, such as a cover for the top entry, preventing dust and debris from getting into the backplane
- replacement accessories, such as the pins, which make up a key component part of the backplane


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Drew & Christine May necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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Seeking a LOGO design to capture attention with a professional image that carries the service message of this company. We are about high quality and Pro-Active managed IT and network solutions for small to medium sized business clients
ProActive Network Services, LLC.
We are seeking a design for a powerful logo!
I am launching a new managed services company with an experienced IT business partner.
The services of the company specifically include monitoring the network status 24/7 for business and providing proactive support. All servers and devices are tracked and status documented with monthly reports.
When a device or backup fails or needs software updates these are completed via remote access to the device or client. Onsite service from our engineering team is also available as needed.
In addition, we will be offering 24/7 technical phone support to all clients for a flat monthly fee on a contract basis.
Typical businesses will have 1-15 servers and multiple PC work stations. We will also sell server, PC and networking hardware and support same.
- Company NameProActive Network Services, LLC.
- Colors preferred include fiery orange, reds, black, copper, silver.
- The color of the lettes to have a "texture" like liquid, flowing, glass kind like "quick silver".
- Design dimension is open but must be suitable for use on business cards, web site, stationary, etc.
- Logo design to be in a vector format for use with Adobe products..
- Avoid blue colors due to two local competitors using shades of blue. I do like rich Cobalt Blue if used as an accent color (but not a dominant color in the design)
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Just wondering if anyone has hammered out any good solutions to presenting PNG screen comps to clients, especially if there are more than a dozen screens. Adobe Bridge has some half decent HTML gallery output options, but I was wondering what other tools and techniques people use to remotely and reliably present full-quality comps.
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Nurses: Champions of Care
Nurses launch provincial public awareness campaign for Nursing Week May 10-16
TORONTO, May 7, 2004 – As National Nursing Week nears, the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO), in collaboration with the Registered Practical Nurses Association of Ontario (RPNAO), will launch a public awareness campaign to highlight the urgent need to improve elder health and elder care in our communities.
Transit and newspaper advertising will begin this weekend featuring real-life photographs of healthy, active and independent seniors who enjoy such things as gardening, cycling, teaching Tai Chi and shopping at the market. The photographs also depict nurses caring for these seniors in times of need. RNAO president Joan Lesmond said, "The theme of the campaign, Nurses: Champions of Care, builds on the associations' policy work and aims to recruit nurses to work with seniors."
"While most seniors live healthy, active and independent lives," said RPNAO president Mona Black, "Others look ahead to the day when programs that support seniors in the community are the norm, not just institutionalization."
Lesmond said nurses are advocating for solutions to create solid and seamless community programs seniors can access and trust. "We must move forward with the development of a coherent framework and elder-care programs that the rest of Canada can look to for guidance," she added.
"We want to refocus the debate away from how the aging population will bankrupt the health-care system and direct it to designing better ways to connect with, and care for, seniors in communities across Ontario," said Black.
With more than 3.5 million people over the age of 65 in Canada, the need to build strong community-based programs that are responsive to the needs of older persons and that help them remain vibrant participants in our society has never been so pressing. According to RNAO and RPNAO, nurses have a vital role to play in shaping public policy and delivering services to best serve seniors.
The campaign, funded by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC), is part of the associations' recruitment and retention strategy. Components of the campaign include:
Transit advertising
More than 3,300 posters in TTC subway cars, buses, LRT, GO Trains, and in transit shelters across Ontario, reaching an audience of at least 65,824,000 over four weeks.
Four separate posters featuring real-life photographs of healthy, active and independent seniors – gardening, cycling, teaching Tai Chi and shopping at the market – accompanied by photographs of nurses caring for these seniors in times of need. (Visit www.rnao.ca or www.rpnao.org to view the posters.)
Newspaper advertising
Half-page advertisements in 52 community newspapers (47 English, 5 French). Combined circulation: 597,685.
Advertisements in The Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail in their special health-care/nursing sections (May 8 and May 10, respectively). Combined circulation: 1,611,785
For more information, please contact:
Marion Zych, Director of Communications, RNAO
Phone: 416-408-5605
Toll free: 1-800-268-7199 ext.209
Cell: 647-406-5605


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I have been to Nepal. There I have seen Mt. Everest.
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This one is a good video.It makes me hungry.but sometimes this video doesn't make sense.Well at least I don't get it.
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In this video, Kitty and Gran are using the present perfect to talk about experiences. For example, Gran has seen the Eiffel Tower, but she hasn't been to Tokyo.
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I have been in Greece,Bulgaria,England,Austria,Serbia,
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1st band in space? (Credit: NASA/STS-110).
What did you want to be when you grew up? Of course, this tired old saw of a question assumes that youre already a mortgage-paying, car-pooling adult who has had those childhood dreams tempered by reality. Hey, we all know that one guy or gal in our home town that got exactly what they wished for. For example, I knew a friend in high school that spent every waking hour drawing, designing and talking about car stereo boxes and guess what? Thats what he does to this day. (Hopefully, the whole Ipod thing didnt ruin his grandiose business schemes). [Read more...]


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Having lost the popular vote in five of the last six presidential elections, Republicans plunged Wednesday into an intense period of self-examination, blame-setting and testy debate over whether their party needs serious change or just some minor tweaks…
"The Republican Party is exactly right on the issues," said Terry Holt, a veteran GOP strategist with close ties to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. The party mainly needs to nominate candidates who can relate to average Americans better than multimillionaire Mitt Romney did, Holt said.
Some other Republicans, however, see bigger problems. The party must shed its "absolutism on issues like tax increases," which congressional lawmakers oppose at virtually every level, said John Ullyot, a former Republican Senate aide.
"The only way the party is going to move more to the middle is when we get sick of losing," he said.
Despite spending a billion dollars on the presidential contest, despite unprecedented "ground game" efforts by more outside conservative groups than ever, despite having a president with a horrid record to run against, the Republican presidential ticket looks like it garnered even fewer votes than G. W. Bush did in 2004, when something like 15 million more people now call the United States home than just eight years ago. The wonderful Bush effort then should have been a floor, not a ceiling.
Plus, the Senate results were atrocious. Bright new conservatives lost. Foot-in-mouth conservatives lost. Establishment retreads lost. Moderates lost. Way too many people lost, even in solidly "red" states. Republicans obviously are missing something.
The whole country is in for a rough, rocky, even frightening four years. Conservatives and Republicans must refuse to break key principles — but other than that, politically speaking, we need to take a little time to reassess. We're doing something very, very wrong, or maybe many "somethings."
After supporting Mitt Romney in 2008, some of you may recall, I ran off with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie midway through Obama's first term for precisely that reason: The near-impossibility of beating an incumbent president. Christie seemed like the kind of once-in-a-lifetime star who could pull a Reagan upset against an incumbent president.
But I was wrong. Romney was the perfect candidate, and he was the president this country needed right now. It's less disheartening that a president who wrecked American health care, quadrupled gas prices, added $6 trillion to the national debt and gave us an 8 percent unemployment rate can squeak out re-election than that America will never have Romney as our president.
Indeed, Romney is one of the best presidential candidates the Republicans have ever fielded. Blaming the candidate may be fun, but it's delusional and won't help us avoid making the same mistakes in the future.
Jenny Beth Martin of Tea Party Patriots said Romney failed to make the kind of strong case for conservatism that would have won the election.
She described Romney as a "weak, moderate candidate hand-picked by the country club elite Republican establishment."
"They didn't see a clear distinction so they went with what they know," she said of voters.
"It should have been a landslide if Romney had run as a true conservative," said Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center.
Blame for this debacle is widely shared. Mitt Romney made many mistakes in this campaign. Yet with the exception of his failure to press the case against Obamacare — a failure partly explained but not excused by his own record on health care — those mistakes reflected party-wide decisions. The party hasn't kept up with the political technologies Democrats are using. More important, Republicans from the top to the bottom of the ticket did little to make the case that conservative policies would make the broad mass of the public better off. It wasn't a theme of the convention in Tampa, for example, or a consistent theme in Republican ads.
Most of the post-election discussion, we can predict, will dwell on the predictable demographic divides of sex, race, and age. Most of this conversation will be unproductive. Until conservatives devise a domestic agenda, and a way to sell it, that links small-government principles to attractive results, they are going to have a hard time improving their standing with women, Latinos, white men, or young people. And conservatives would be deeply unwise to count on the mere availability of charismatic young conservative officials to make up for that problem.
I've been saying for years that the GOP has run tax cuts out as a campaign plank–indeed, they're now over the cliff and about to plunge while Roadrunner chortles. They've lost on gay marriage, and they seem to have a penchant for running their mouth about rape. The decline in the proportion of married women in the electorate hurts, since single women are much more supportive of a large welfare state than are their married sisters. So does the growth of the latino vote. They're going to eventually face defense cuts which will make the hawks madder than hell. And they've now nominated two candidates who have put forward almost nothing that couldn't be found in Reagan's 1980 platform. The party desperately needs some new ideas to sell to the American public.
But I am highly skeptical that last night means they've gone into some sort of permanent decline. It was a close election in which Obama lost states that he carried in 2012. The Democratic bench is very weak–the current leading candidates to succeed Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, will be 69 and 74 in 2016. And Obama is going to have to preside over some very, very tough choices. We can't borrow a trillion dollars a year for another four years. Nor can we get all the money from Republican constituencies; they just don't have enough of the stuff. Whoever's ox Obama chooses to gore will probably be a considerably less enthusiastic coalition member come 2016.
The morning after, everybody was saying that the Republican Party was in deep trouble: too much Tea Party; too few minorities, young people, and women. Don't be so sure. In 2016, the Republican nominee will almost certainly be more dynamic and charming onstage than Romney, and the Democratic nominee will almost certainly be less inspiring than Obama. The economy, one hopes, will be better than it is now, and that will mean that voters' natural impulse to look for government's help during times of trouble will be reduced. The country won't be mired in an unpopular Republican-originated war. In this campaign, Obama devoted most of his energies to making a case against Romney, not to building public support for his and his party's agenda, and now a closely divided Washington will almost certainly deny him the chance to build a policy case for the next Democratic nominee. The Republicans will take every opportunity to build an argument that the Democrats are wild over-taxers and over-spenders, without letting them tax for and spend on programs that would obviously build gratitude and loyalty among middle-class voters.
Romney's performance shows us the baseline level of what the national Republican apparatus, when fully funded and motivated, can achieve—and, compared to 2008, that level is rising.
"We need a third party to save this country," Cain told American Family Radio host Bryan Fischer. "This country is in trouble and it is clear that neither party — is going to fix the problems we face."
Cain agreed with Fischer's assessment that conservatives are growing tired of being ignored by Republican party leadership — and that many believe the GOP no longer speaks for them…
He said the new party could be made up of not only disenfranchised Republicans — but also Democrats.
"He had a serious plan for fixing real problems. He concentrated on jobs, that was the important issue. He concentrated on the economy, we have more than 8% unemployment. People are suffering, the country is in disarray. If Mitt Romney cannot win in this economy, then the tipping point has been reached. We have more takers than makers and it's over. There is no hope."
"I went to bed last night thinking we are outnumbered," Limbaugh concluded. "I went to bed last night thinking we've lost the country. I don't know how else you look at this."


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I went to my friend's house to do a scarf photoshoot, and I ended up taking an obscene amount of pictures of her cat. Meet Mr. Bigfoot.
He's a happy boy who likes to sleep all day. Kind of sounds like some other cats I know...
Can you guess why he is named Mr. Bigfoot?
My extra time is happily spent reading Haruki Murakami's 1Q84. After reading 5 fantasy fiction novels in a row, I had to take a break from dragons and plagues and move on to parallel universes. If you haven't read anything by Murakami, I recommend starting with The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.


text: Despite fewer flights and sneaky fees (a super bowl surcharge!), you can still land a cheap airfare. By Stacy Rapacon, Online Editor January 14, 2010 The airline industry is in a bind, and it's putting the squeeze on you. But the squeeze isn't coming from higher ticket prices -- lower demand caused by the recession has actually prompted airlines to cut fares 13% over the past year. (At last report, the average domestic fare was $301, compared with $346 a year earlier.) To boost bottom lines, airlines are levying extra fees, cutting routes and getting downright stingy with trips granted in their frequent-flier programs. And the current low-fare window of opportunity could close quickly, says George Hobica, founder of Airfarewatchdog.com. Four factors could trigger price hikes, he says: An improving economy that spurs people to beef up their travel budgets, a spike in oil prices, the failure of a big airline or a step-up in airline mergers. This last scenario seems most likely. "As airlines continue to shrink, they'll combine much more quickly," Hobica predicts. Sponsored Content Regardless of airfares, extra fees and surcharges will surely rise. In the first six months of 2009, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. airlines collected $3.8 billion in fees, a sneaky way of raising revenues without scaring off customers with fare hikes. Expect airlines to get even more creative in the coming year, charging for such "perks" as contact with a human being. U.S. airlines could take a page from the playbook of Ireland's Ryan-air, which until recently charged passengers extra to check in with a live person at the airport, instead of online at home, at a hotel or at an airport kiosk. (In November, Ryanair stopped offering airport check-in altogether.) Also being considered: fees for flying with an infant -- currently, children under 2 fly free on domestic flights if they share your seat -- and fees for making reservations using a credit card other than the airline's own. Advertisement The latest galling add-on is the holiday surcharge. Such fees first appeared in September, when some major airlines applied an extra $10 charge each way to fares on three of the busiest travel days for the 2009 winter holidays. A couple of weeks later, the charge bumped up to $20 each way and spread to another ten popular travel dates between the 2009 winter holidays and Memorial Day 2010. But that's not all. The surcharge now applies to nearly 100 dates from December 18, 2009, through October 17, 2010. The highest fee will be $50 for flights from three Florida cities -- Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach -- on February 8, the day after the Super Bowl in Miami. Perfect Timing Avoiding those peak travel days will save you more than just a surcharge. Less-traveled days, times and routes will also get you a lower fare. For example, the cheapest flights of the week are typically on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturday afternoons. Early-morning flights will save you money, and they're also less likely to be delayed. And flying into smaller airports -- for instance, heading to Manchester, N.H., or Providence, R.I., instead of Boston's Logan Airport -- can cut your costs, too. Advertisement The timing of your purchase can be just as important when it comes to saving. Some fares fluctuate rapidly, so use the Web to help you catch them when they're low. Alerts from Airfarewatchdog.com will notify you of low fares for your selected route, but not for specific dates. Alerts from Bing Travel (www.bing.com/travel) work well if you're looking for flights on certain dates. At Kayak.com, you can set up alerts using either method. Neither Bing nor Kayak tracks Southwest Airlines; download its deal alerts at www.southwest.com/ding. Where the Wild Deals Are If you're looking for a low-cost vacation, here's a tip: Check regions of the world where local competition makes air travel particularly inexpensive. Tim Leffel, author of The World's Cheapest Destinations, identifies Latin America (especially Central America) and Southeast Asia as the top two low-cost areas. Leffel recommends Latin America first because it's less expensive to get to hub cities and you won't face any major problems with jet lag. To fly there on the cheap, try using lesser-known airlines. "People assume international trips have to be on some big airline," says Leffel. "But these scrappy guys are doing the flights for less." Advertisement Spirit Air, for example, flies out of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to 14 destinations in Central and South America, often for under $250 round-trip. If you join the airline's Fare Club for $40 a year, you'll get offers for round-trip fares as low as $18, excluding taxes and fees. Little-known Copa Airlines flies from several U.S. cities to a number of South American countries through Panama City, a regional hub. Airfare to Southeast Asia costs more, but once there you can fly throughout the region at bargain prices. Plus, prices for food, lodging and entertainment are also low. Leffel recommends starting in Thailand. From the U.S., flying to Bangkok is usually more affordable than to other Asian destinations, he says. For example, using Kayak.com, we found mid-April flights between Los Angeles and the Thai capital for $761 round-trip. And Bangkok offers a good base from which to hopscotch through the region aboard budget airlines. The same strategy applies when you're traveling in Europe. For instance, Hamburg is an affordable hub from which you can fly inexpensively to other cities. Dublin, home of Ryan-air, also works well as a European hub. But watch out for extra fees that are even more outrageous than what you may be charged at home. For example, says Leffel, instead of charging a single fee for an overweight bag, some airlines impose a fee for each kilo (2.2 pounds) over the limit. For help finding a budget airline, go to www.whichbudget.com. Select your overseas starting point, end point or both, and the site will list airlines you've probably never heard of that service each route. For example, if you search for flights from Bangkok to other Asian destinations, you'll get options on AirAsia, Jetstar and Nok Air. Click on an airline's link and you will be redirected to its home page to book a flight. "It takes more homework," says Leffel, "but it costs a whole lot less than flying on a major carrier directly to where you're going." Advertisement Frequent-Flier Programs What's Changed. Loyalty has never been less rewarding. Airlines are modifying their programs to require many more miles in trade for a ticket. Plus, many programs charge extra fees for issuing or changing tickets, or for booking -- then canceling -- a flight. And using your miles for an upgrade could mean some crazy fees -- up to a whopping $1,000 for the cushy seats on international flights on Continental and United airlines, for example. Best Deals. Southwest's Rapid Rewards program currently offers a simple system: Fly eight round-trips within two years and you get a free round-trip ticket -- with just one possible extra fee ($50 to reactivate expired miles). The program is slated for a makeover in mid 2010, and details of Rapid Rewards 2.0 are as yet unknown. Bob Jones, travel expert with BookingWiz.com, touts Alaska Airlines' program, even if you never plan to set foot on an Alaska Airlines plane. The program allows you to earn elite status, which lands you ad-vantages such as bonus miles and preferred seating, by flying any of more than a dozen air carriers that partner with Alaska, including American and Delta, which are members of the OneWorld and SkyTeam global alliances, respectively. And you can redeem your miles for flights on any of those partners. What to Skip. Leaving your accounts inactive. An estimated ten trillion unused miles are currently in circulation, worth about $165 billion in tickets. A good portion of those will expire unused because airlines often close inactive accounts with little warning. You can keep your accounts active by earning and redeeming miles in several ways: flying on the appropriate airlines, using your rewards credit card or shopping at participating retailers. Last-Minute Travel What's Changed. We had become accustomed to holding out for the big 11th-hour sales airlines would often offer to fill flights. But because many airlines are eliminating less-profitable flights, fewer tickets are available for discounts. Best Deals. Airlines are keeping their best last-minute fares from the aggregators and online travel agencies and offering them on their own sites. Get those bargains by signing up for airlines' free rewards programs to receive e-mails with promotional codes and special offers. JetBlue, for example, e-mailed subscribers about a one-day sale on November 30 offering one-way fares as low as $39 for trips taken in December. What to Skip. LastMinute.com. Over the past year, as airlines have increasingly highlighted last-minute deals on their own sites, LastMinute.com has often come up empty. Time and again we've tried booking an advertised rate on the site, only to be told that the fare is no longer available (at which point a higher fare would be offered).


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The Central Connecticut women's track and field meet completed the second competition of its outdoor season on Saturday at the Monmouth Season Opener hosted by Monmouth University. In addition to first-place finishes by senior Shelby Tuttle and junior Ronea Saunders, sophomore Alyssa Gonzalez demonstrated a strong performance registering a new career-best time in the 400m hurdles.
Gonzalez finished second overall in the 400m hurdles with her time of 1:04.06. Her time Saturday surpasses her previous career best of 1:08.01 by nearly four seconds which she set at the CCSU Track Meet last weekend in New Britain, CT.
Gonzalez was joined in the field by Tuttle who finished third with her time of 1:05.25. Tuttle also earned an individual victory, one of just two for CCSU on the day, in the 100m hurdles. She claimed the gold with her time of 15.02 seconds, crossing the finish line before freshman Melissa Wolliston (16.07) and Gonzalez (16.10).
Saunders also earned a gold medal for CCSU, clearing a height of 1.75m in the high jump, tying her own CCSU outdoor record. She also clocked a new career-best time in the 200m dash, placing second overall with her time of 26.44 seconds.
Sophomore Ally Gates earned a silver medal for Central in the 3,000m steeplechase race. She crossed the finish line in 11:32.89, setting a new career-best time in the event.
In the 800m run, junior Taylor LePage finished first in her heat, claiming fourth overall, with her time of 2:22.32. She was followed by freshman Jazmin Booker who finished second in her heat with a time of 2:29.25.
Sophomore Chelse Terry represented Central in the field events, placing third overall in the discus throw with her distance of 36.0 meters.
The Blue Devils are scheduled to return to the track this Friday, April 4, when they travel to Stanford.


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DENVER (AP) — A magnitude-5.3 earthquake has hit the Japanese prefecture that is home to the nuclear power plant crippled in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck early Friday at a depth of about 13 miles under Fukushima Prefecture and about 110 miles northeast of Tokyo.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue an alert.
The Japanese news agency Kyodo News reported that the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., observed no abnormality in radiation or equipment after the quake.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday ordered TEPCO to scrap all six reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant and concentrate on tackling pressing issues like leaks of radioactive water.
The 2011 disaster caused three reactors to melt and damaged a fuel cooling pool at another. Officials have acknowledged that radiation-contaminated groundwater has been seeping into the Pacific Ocean since soon after the meltdowns.
The region lies on the "Ring of Fire" — an arc of earthquake and volcanic zones that stretches around the Pacific Rim. About 90% of the world's quakes occur in the region.
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As recently noted, there are a number of people who firmly believe we have just over a week until they will (they hope) be raptured. As a public service to those individuals, I am reposting an older verse and story, so that they might put their minds at ease with regard to their animal companions. (Note–because of increased demand, prices have gone up since I wrote this.)
The day the rapture sweeps the land,
And plucks up true believers,
Among those heathens Left Behind
Are Labrador Retrievers
No Saint Bernard will make the trip
Nor Cockapoo, nor Hound;
The Lord may be my shepherd,
But my Shepherd stays aground.
No Poodles, Pugs, or Pekingese;
No ifs or ands or buts—
The rapture takes God's faithful,
But it doesn't take the mutts.
Believers who are worried for
The welfare of their pets
Are offered, now, an answer
If they'd like to place their bets.
"Eternal Earthbound Pets" exists
To serve those Left Behind;
It's rapture pet insurance, if
Believers are inclined.
Of course, not all believers think
Their pets will all be lost;
Their pets may go to Heaven, too
(Thus saving them the cost)
And Fido sits beside them, cos
In Heaven, all is well;
Together, they can laugh and spit
At sufferers in Hell.
From The Union Leader (Manchester, NH) comes the last pet-sitting service you will ever need. Well, assuming that you are going to heaven. If you're with me, plan on needing to buy kibble for a long, long time.
As those Christians who believe in the Rapture get taken up into eternity, the pet-lovers among them will have one less thing to worry about if a Langdon atheist has anything to say about it.
Bart Centre, 61, a retired vice president of an international retail firm and current co-owner of Eternal Earthbound Pets, is offering a $110 post-Rapture pet care service. The way Centre sees it, he makes a little money in his retirement, and should Jesus Christ return and the Rapture occur, those snatched up into heaven will have their pets cared for, he said.
Of course, to me, the most interesting thing was the reaction from the editor for Rapture Ready:
One Christian who is having a bit of a chuckle over it is Terry James, general editor for the popular Christian Web site Rapture Ready based out of Arkansas.
"He's giving somebody the business," James said. "It's a scam. . . . Anyone who would take that offer seriously, well, how would you even follow up?"
James said what is true is that Christians who believe in the Rapture do wonder about what will happen to their pets. So many, that James wrote a pamphlet about it. He said though pets will be left behind, if the people in Heaven decide that they miss their pets, they can decide to have them brought up later. He acknowledged that sounded a little screwy, but, he said, it's what he believes.
"I find it kind of amusing to tell you the truth," he said of Centre's business venture. "I don't begrudge him and I don't hate him for it. And if anyone is actually foolish enough to buy the service and don't think to follow up, well, then they are foolish."
Leaving aside the irony of a biblical literalist making up non-biblical pamphlets telling feel-good stories about pets in heaven, and leaving aside the irony of someone with his beliefs calling any other beliefs foolish, there is a further, less evident (or maybe that's the H1N1 talking) irony.
I have, in arguments with Rapture Ready believers and their ilk (not using my Cuttlefish handle), been told that they are happy I am going to hell, and that they will greatly enjoy looking down from heaven and watching me suffer in a lake of fire. I have been told that they will laugh, and if they are feeling particularly charitable, they will spit on me, just to watch me welcome this relief from the searing heat. Seriously.
And these people (or, most probably, others who share portions of their world view) are going to miss their dogs in heaven? Terry James makes up a story about bringing up Fido later, but gee, it's too bad about grandma. If you love her, maybe you can convince more of your heavenly friends to spit on her.
(edited to add: predictably, the commentary on the story is every bit as interesting as the story itself, which will surprise no one familiar with the Union [mis]Leader.)


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Busy times at the library and the usual end-of-the-year flurry of tax-related reporting at the Observer left me searching for an old column to re-run this week. Usually there's a rhyme or reason for choosing a particular column to run again. This time, I asked David to give me a word to search. He said, "beans" and this is one of the columns that popped up.
I find it incredibly hard to believe that this was written nearly four years ago (from February 29, 2012) and Caroline will be going to kindergarten next fall. Time flies when you're eating beans.
By COLLEEN LEDDY
I'm just back from a week in the Red Stick, or Baton Rouge if you prefer the French version of the capitol of Louisiana.
My flight arrived a little early, and Rosie, running on "Caroline time," was going to be a little late picking me up. It's a long hour drive from Baton Rouge to the New Orleans airport when there's a screaming baby in the back seat of your car.
Rosie called to warn me they'd be late because she'd had to stop a few times along the way to calm my lovely little granddaughter, Caroline. But, once released from her car seat, Caroline wouldn't nurse; she just wanted to play.
Putting her back in the car seat resulted in cries of bloody murder. Several episodes of "cry and release" later, Rosie decided to just carry on with the remaining leg of the journey. She called me on speakerphone when she thought she was about 20 minutes away, and Caroline was still wailing away. It was painful to listen.
I suggested Rosie give Caroline the phone and that maybe my voice would distract her. And, she did start to calm down as long as I was singing. I'd walked to the far end of the baggage claim area and launched into several choruses of "Rock-A-Bye Baby," followed by "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," "Pattycake Pattycake," and "Oh, My Darling Clementine" (substituting Caroline for Clementine).
For what ended up being more than half an hour, I kept up a steady stream of singing actual songs and nursery rhymes with a healthy dose of nonsense thrown in for good measure. I was pretty amazed that it seemed to be working, especially since Caroline seems to have an appreciation for music. Whenever I sang to Rosie when she was a baby, she used to put her hand over my mouth to make me stop. Maybe my voice has improved over the years?
Still singing, I walked to the pickup area outside thinking Rosie would be arriving soon. When I noticed several guys carrying guitars, I laughed into the phone. Here I was in the very musical town of New Orleans, singing in public with my terrible tuneless voice. The irony was not lost on me, but I kept on singing.
Later, Rosie told me that most of that time, the phone had been wedged between Caroline's leg and the car seat; she probably didn't hear much of anything.
Besides playing with Caroline, I have no idea where the week went nor what the heck we did—except for a visit to an amazingly beautiful library and to New Roads, Louisiana, where we ate boiled shrimp (gigantic shrimps looking up at me with eyes and exoskeletons and everything) at one restaurant while we killed time waiting for five o'clock to arrive so we could eat crawfish at another—Hot Tails Louisiana Crawfish House.
Hot Tails is the kind of place where you walk in and you're immediately in and everyone looks at you and you know they're all thinking, "They aren't from around here," and they're not looking like that's a good thing. And there's no sign telling you to seat yourself or please wait for the hostess.
It's the kind of place where even the young gal wiping down tables looks you over and says, "Is this y'alls first time here?"
We've come for the crawfish, but we're transfixed by the enormous chalkboard menu. The first thing I read is Red Beans and I start to miss David because he would surely be happy to find some Red Beans and Rice on this menu…at least I thought it was going to say "Rice." But instead the offering is Red Beans and Rabbit...make that Fried Rabbit.
We're all curious about the Shut-Up Dawgs which turn out to be the most delicious Hush Puppies known to mankind. We order a pound of crawfish to start and a sandwich each. I take a chance and order a Crab Cake Croissant. I'm notorious for choosing the most disappointing items on a menu, but it's just about one of the best things I've ever eaten. It's so good I could cry.
Sing to me, Caroline.


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How to Install the JLT Cold Air Kit - Doing It Right
Installing the right parts on the right car in a quest to make power
If there's one thing the readers of this magazine want, it's more power under the hood of their car. No matter how it's achieved, the quest for more power has taken many daily drivers and relegated them to only making the occasional trip around the fair grounds. A worst case scenario sees the quest leading to the eventual sale of a person's hot rod, because the "fun" inevitably goes away.
So, in order for us to help you guys stay on track with making more power, and not getting in over your heads with big modifications that get costly and become daunting tasks, every now and then we need to slow down, and show you guys a simple but effective way to increase power.
To keep it simple, an engine is nothing more than an elaborate air pump. The more air that goes in, the more air that will get pushed out. For that reason, "cold air" kits for late-model Mopars have really been a popular upgrade for many enthusiasts.
Cold air kits come in many shapes and sizes, but they all market themselves as getting cooler and denser air into your engine. When your car was built, it was designed with sufficient airflow for the stock application, but how many of us leave things "stock"? Most will want to increase the performance of their vehicle, and installing a cold air intake is one way to do it. Simply by name, a "cold air" kit should lower the temperature of the incoming air, thereby increasing power. For that reason, a cold air kit should rely on an air supply that is taken from somewhere outside of the engine compartment. Let's face it, is just having an open-element air cleaner near the engine really getting cooler air into the engine? Although the factory air cleaner assembly does actually get air from outside of the engine compartment via ducting, the efficiency of the incoming air is severely hampered by the design of the assembly.
Ideally, cold air intakes should also reduce fuel consumption, since they introduce a higher amount of "cooler" air into the engine. This means that burning of fuel is more efficient. Finally, a cold air intake will usually cause your car to be louder, as the new incoming air is not restricted or run through a factory silencer. This new sound causes most people to push the gas to the floor as they enjoy listening to the sound, and that can affect gas mileage.
When we decided to try a cold air intake, and see how it affects a real world, daily driven car, we found that some do simply have an open element air cleaner positioned in the engine compartment. Not feeling that was a truly beneficial way to do it, we found JLT True Cold Air. The first thing we noticed about the JLT kit is the housing that surrounds the air filter. The factory air cleaner assembly got its incoming air from an opening that fed the air from outside the engine compartment into the air cleaner, and the JLT kit uses that opening to also get air to its air filter. But, the kicker is, the JLT kit has a "surround" around the air filter that keeps the engine heat from entering the air filter. That seemed like a great idea, so we ordered one.
When we placed our order, JLT wanted know what color the car was, because they are capable of color-matching the intake tube to your factory color. That was an added bonus that we really liked. Anyway, we ordered the air cleaner assembly, and decided to add one more item to our shopping list, an oil separator.
With late-model vehicles, the process of venting crankcase pressure sends that pressure back through your intake. If that pressure is going back into your intake, this also means that oil vapors can also be brought into the intake. If you're running a blower, this can coat your blower rotors, intercooler fins and even dilute your gas, lowering its octane level. This happens on all engines, and is even worse when that engine is supercharged, as crankcase pressures are increased.
To combat this, JLT has developed an oil separator that is milled from billet aluminum. It has a knurled tank-base for easy removal, so draining the spent oil is easy. Inside is a metal-mesh filter element. This element collects the vapors allowing them to drop into the tank. This keeps the oil vapors out of your engine.
OK, so let's get to it. The install of both parts took less than an hour, and is accomplished with a few simple hand tools.


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May 20, 2013 (Reminder, we visited last spring, almost 8 months ago).
It was suggested we have a lunch at the Somoa Cook House. Suggestions for lunch are hard to ignore.
Somoa Cookhouse Circa 1893
This is the last lumber camp style cookhouse in operation in North America. This cookhouse was originally opened as part of Somoa, one of the last company owned towns in the Untied States, established by the Vance Lumber Company. The original building is the four left-most windows. The major additions were made to house the kitchen staff. Meals have been served here continuously for over 105 years. Only employees were served here until the late 1960's when it was opened to the public by Johnny Fillman
Febraury 13, 1999
The Native Sons of the Golden West
Richard A Hoffmann, Grand President.
Lunch PLUS history, how's that for a win, win?
Meals served family style. Man enjoyed his meal. The food was good and he enjoyed the thought of sitting where many working men had before him. If the food we had was anything akin to what the lumbermen were eating, they were eating some good meals.
Outside the main dining rooms there is a collection of artifacts. How many saws can you find? There is at least one in each photo.
A nice meal was had, we thank those that suggested the Somoa Cook House. Next we will go find some sand dunes and the west coast.


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Crawford Williamson (1815– 1878). American physician, born at Danielsville, Georgia, who in 1842 administered ether to a patient before removing a neck tumor, the first recorded use of an anesthetic in surgery.
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Daniel (Byantoro)
Archimandrite Daniel (Bambang Dwi) Byantoro (Chinese name "Chao Heung Jin (Cáo Héngjìn 曹衡进)") is an Indonesian Muslim convert to Orthodoxy, to whom the rebirth of Orthodoxy in Indonesia is widely attributed.
Fr. Daniel was born into a middle-class family in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world. He was raised primarily by his maternal grandparents, who took great care to make sure that he received a complete religious education. Devout by nature, he studied the Qur'an, and accepted with great piety the teachings of Islam as they were passed on to him. As a Muslim, he opposed the teaching of Christianity, and was proud of his ability to win debates with Christians. He was nevertheless intrigued by the passages in the Qur'an that referred to Jesus, the son of Mary. One day during his evening Islamic prayers, Christ appeared to him in a miraculous and life-changing vision, similar to the experience St. Paul had on the road to Damascus. From that moment, Fr. Daniel's life was radically and permanently altered.[1][2]
In 1978, he went to study in the Protestant Theological Seminary, the Asian Center for Theological Studies and Mission, (ACTS) in Seoul, Korea, without finding the answer to his quest. In 1982 he found the book The Orthodox Church by Timothy (Kallistos) Ware in a book shop in Seoul, which helped him to discover the Church for which he had been looking. Finally on September 6th, 1983, he converted to Orthodoxy with the blessing of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Patriarch Demetrios, and of His Eminence Metropolitan Dionysios of New Zealand, and was chrismated by the hand of Archmandrite Sotirios Trambas (Bishop of Zelon, stationed in Korea).[3]
Having graduated from Korea, he went to Greece, where he stayed on Mount Athos. During this time he began to translate liturgical books into Indonesian, and struggled with terminology suitable to express the faith. By the end of 1984 he went to study in the U.S., at the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Boston. Having finished his study in Boston and in two other schools in the U.S., he was ordained by His Grace Bishop Maximos of Pittsburgh to the Diaconate in the Holy Cross Church (pastored by Fr. John Chakos), and to the priesthood in the St. Paul Orthodox Church in Cleveland, Ohio, (pastored by Fr. James Symeonides).[4]
Mission In Indonesia
The Mission in Indonesia was started on June 8th 1988, as Fr. Daniel left the United States for Indonesia. The first convert to the Orthodox faith was a Muslim young man named Muhhamed Sugi Bassari, who was baptized by the name of Photios, on April 1989.[5]
Fr. Byantoro has said that the mission is a completely new phase of the modern mission movement within Orthodoxy, in that it is being done by a local son of the Indonesian soil rather than by the missionary efforts of a foreign mission body; it is the Church for the Indonesians started by an Indonesian. His missionary effort eventually brought official government recognition of the Orthodox Church in Indonesia in 1996, with a legal act of Government: "SK Dirjen Bimas Kristen Depag R.I. no.: F/Kep/Hk.00.5/19/637/1996".[6]
Theologically speaking, Archimandrite Daniel Byantoro has used the existing thought patterns of Indonesian culture to package Orthodox teaching within the Indonesian mental set up. Just as the Church Fathers had to face Greek paganism, Judaism, and Gnosticism in order to present the Gospel intelligibly to ancient peoples, Orthodox theology faces similar challenges in the context of the Indonesian mission. Those challenges are:
- The Islamic strand that has similarities with Judaism.
- The Hindu-Buddhistic strand that has similarities with Greek paganism.
- The Javanese-mystical strand called "Kebatinan" (the "Esoteric Belief") that has similarities to Gnosticism. (It is a blend of ancient shamanistic-animism on the one hand and Hindu-Buddhistic mysticism and Islamic Sufism on the other, and is divided into many mystical denominations and groups, just like Gnosticism was.)
- The secularistic-materialistic strand of the modern world.[7]
During his service in Indonesia, Fr. Daniel has been able to convert over 2000 people to Orthodoxy using principles and practices tried and tested throughout the Church's evangelistic experience.[8] Under his leadership, the Indonesian Orthodox Church has grown to its present size of over 20 clergy, approximately 30 local parishes and missions, and several thousand Orthodox Christians.[9] For this his life has been threatened more than once.
Jurisdictional Change
Although ordained in the Ecumenical Patriarchate, serious conflict arose among the ecclesiastical leadership in Indonesia in 2001, and Fr. Daniel returned to America for several years. In 2004 he began a dialogue with Archbishop (now Metropolitan) Hilarion of Australia, and in 2005 the Synod of ROCOR (the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia) accepted him as a Priest, as well as the clergy and parishioners of the Indonesian Orthodox Church that were formerly under the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia (Ecumenical Patriarchate). Under Metropolitan Hilarion's oversight, Fr. Daniel has been appointed Dean of the Mission for the Indonesian Orthodox Church under ROCOR, and continues to split his time between Indonesia, supervising the work of church planting, and evangelism, and raising up additional clergy for ordination, and the US, where he raises support for the Indonesian Orthodox Church.[10]
Curriculum Vitae[11]
Archimandrite Father Daniel B. D. Byantoro
Address: P.O. Box 9484, Baltimore, MD 21228
Phone: 410-864-8007
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- 2001 - 2005 Instructor: World Religions. Ohio State University.
- 1990 – 1995 Guest Lecturer, Theology & Church History. Trinity Theological Seminary, Singapore.
- 1988 Ph.D. in Religion, Bethany Theological Seminary, Dothan, Alabama.
- 1987-88 Ph.D. Candidate (Comparative Studies, on Islamic Studies), Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
- 1984-87 Master of Theological Studies, Holy Cross School of Theology, Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1983-84 Study in Greece: (Apostoliki Diakonia) Non-Degree.
- 1978-83 Master of Divinity (Theology), Asian Center for Theological Studies and Mission, Seoul, South Korea.
- 2007 Elevated to Mitred Archimandrite by His Grace Archbishop (now Metropolitan) Hilarion
- 1991 Founded Orthodox Church in Indonesia ("GOI" Gereja Orthodox Indonesia), and achieved legal recognition of the Orthodox Church by the Government of Indonesia
- 1988 Organized the first Orthodox Mission in Indonesia
- Jun 3, 1988 Ordained as an Orthodox Priest by His Grace Bishop (now Metropolitan) Maximos in Cleveland, Ohio
- Jan 16, 1988 Ordained as an Orthodox Deacon by His Grace Bishop (now Metropolitan) Maximos in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- 1985 Began evangelism in Indonesia as an Orthodox layman.
- Sep 6, 1983 Chrismated into the Orthodox Church, Seoul, South Korea by the then Archimandrite, and later Bishop (now Metropolitan) Soterios
- Allah Tritunggal (The Holy Trinity)
- Dogma Keselamatan dalam Gereja Orthodox (The Dogma of Salvation in the Orthodox Church)
- Perjamuan Kudus (The Holy Communion)
- Kontroversi Maria (Mariological Controversy)
- Translation into Indonesian of The Orthodox Church by Bishop Kallistos Ware
- Translation of most of the liturgical books now used by the Indonesian Orthodox for worship
- Several articles and short writings in Indonesian and foreign publications
- 2007 Melbourne, Australia (Missions Center of Melbourne; Orthodox Youth Conference; Ordination Services)
- 2007 Manilla, Philippines (National Council of Churches)
- 2007 Thailand (Evangelical Association of Thailand)
- 2007 Led Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
- 2006 Malaysia (Preliminary Discussions on Orthodox Missions in Malaysia)
- 2006 Myanmar (Presentation on the Early Church, sponsored by local Methodist Churches)
- 2006 Led Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
- 2006 Led Pilgrimage to Orthodox sites in Russia
- 2005 Japan (Missions Conference with Korea Seminary Alumni)
- 2004 South Korea (Asian Center for Theological Studies Alumni)
- 2004 Toronto, Canada (Presentation on Missions in Indonesia sponsored by the Orthodox Churches of Toronto Area)
- 2002 Malaysia (Invited by Charismatic Groups to talk about the Early Church)
- 2002 Led Pilgrimage to Orthodox Sites in Russia
- 2001 Greece (Doctors Without Borders Conference, Sponsored by the Diocese of Volos, Greece)
- 2001 Egypt (Audience with Pope Shenouda)
- 2001 Cyprus (Presentation on Missions, Sponsored by the Church of Aghia Napa)
- 2001 India (Joint Conference on the Environment, attended by H.H. Bartholomew).
- 2000 Malaysia (The Billy Graham Evangelism Conference)
- 1999 World Council of Churches: Brazil, the Netherlands, France, England, Switzerland
- 1997 Led pilgrimage to the Holy Land
- 1996 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (Faith and Order Conference of the WCC)
See also
- Orthodoxy in Indonesia
- Metropolis of Singapore (Church of Constantinople)
- Diocese of Australia and New Zealand (ROCOR)
- Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia (Church of Constantinople)
- A History of Orthodox Missions Among the Muslims
External Links
- Friends of Indonesia: Supporting the Indonesian Orthodox Church (Fr. Daniel's Website).
- Fr Daniel's Podcast: Christ the Eternal Kalimat: An Indonesian Perspective on the Person and Identity of Jesus Christ, at Ancient Faith Radio.
- ↑ Fr. Daniel Byantoro: Biography, at Orthodox Speakers Bureau.
- ↑ Biography: Archimandrite Daniel Byantoro: Conversion. Friends of Indonesia (Fr. Daniel's Website).
- ↑ Archmandrite Daniel B.D. Byantoro. History: The Birth of the Orthodox Church in Indonesia. October 29, 1997.
- ↑ Archmandrite Daniel B.D. Byantoro. History: The Birth of the Orthodox Church in Indonesia. October 29, 1997.
- ↑ Archmandrite Daniel B.D. Byantoro. History: The Birth of the Orthodox Church in Indonesia. October 29, 1997.
- ↑ Incarnational Approach to Orthodoxy in Indonesia: An Interview with Fr.Dionysios (Rm.Dionisius Surya Halim) and his presbytera Artemia Rita. Orthodoxy in China. March 31, 2005.
- ↑ Incarnational Approach to Orthodoxy in Indonesia: An Interview with Fr.Dionysios (Rm.Dionisius Surya Halim) and his presbytera Artemia Rita. Orthodoxy in China. March 31, 2005.
- ↑ Current Mission in Indonesia, at Friends of Indonesia: Supporting the Indonesian Orthodox Church (Fr. Daniel's Website).
- ↑ Fr. Daniel Byantoro: Biography, at Orthodox Speakers Bureau.
- ↑ Fr. Daniel Byantoro: Biography, at Orthodox Speakers Bureau.
- ↑ CURRICULUM VITAE of Archimandrite Father Daniel B.D. Byantoro, at Orthodox Speakers Bureau.
- Archmandrite Daniel B.D. Byantoro. History: The Birth of the Orthodox Church in Indonesia. October 29, 1997.
- Biography: Archimandrite Daniel Byantoro: Conversion. Friends of Indonesia (Fr. Daniel's Website).
- Fr. Daniel Byantoro: Biography, at Orthodox Speakers Bureau.
- CURRICULUM VITAE of Archimandrite Father Daniel B.D. Byantoro, at Orthodox Speakers Bureau.
- Incarnational Approach to Orthodoxy in Indonesia: An Interview with Fr.Dionysios (Rm.Dionisius Surya Halim) and his presbytera Artemia Rita. Orthodoxy in China. March 31, 2005. (An interview conducted by orthodox.cn with Fr.Dionysios (and his wife Presbytera Artemia Rita), one of the six newly ordained priests in Indonesia).
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SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday said a state law ensuring collection of the state sales tax on some Internet sales is unconstitutional.
The court ruled 6-1 in a case involving the state's so-called "Amazon tax" that was intended to equalize sales tax collections on purchases made from out-of-state companies on the Internet with those made at brick-and-mortar stores.
Justice Lloyd Karmeier filed a dissenting opinion.
The court's majority said the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act pre-empted the state's Main Street Fairness Act, which was passed by the Legislature in 2011.
"The relevant provisions of the act therefore impose a discriminatory tax on electronic commerce within the meaning of the (federal law)," the court concluded.
Illinois residents are required to pay the state sales tax on Internet purchases, but the money usually goes uncollected unless a retailer charges the tax at the time of the purchase. Taxpayers can also voluntarily pay the sales tax they owe when they file their state income tax returns, but few do.
Many retailers do not charge the sales tax at the time of the purchase, which critics say allows them to sell products for less than brick-and-mortar stores can sell the identical items.
Lawmakers attempted to address this in 2011 with the state law that changed the definition of what it meant to have a physical presence in the state and thus be required to collect sales tax at the time of a purchase. The bill passed the House and Senate by wide margins and was signed by Gov. Pat Quinn. Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, predicted the new law would bring an additional $150 million into state coffers.
Performance Marketing Association Inc., one of the companies affected by the law, sued. A Cook County judge sided with the company, and the state Supreme Court upheld that decision Friday.
The state Department of Revenue issued a statement that it is reviewing the decision and is "considering several options, including further court review of this law and whether amending the law could address the court's concerns. We will also explore other options to create a level playing field for all local businesses, whether they are physically located here or on the Internet."
Revenue spokeswoman Sue Hofer said the department does not know how much revenue the law produced, because sales tax collections are not segregated between Internet and other sales.
"We do know that several dozen companies have filed to collect the sales tax from their online sales who were not doing it before," Hofer said.
Cullerton's office said the ruling "highlights the need for federal action to level the playing field for traditional retailers. We will review the decision and consult with the Illinois Attorney General's Office on state legislative remedies that may be available to the General Assembly."
The Illinois Retail Merchants Association, which represents brick-and-mortar retailers in the state, pushed for passage of the law. IRMA president David Vite said he hopes the state will appeal the ruling.
"This underscores the need for action in Washington to quickly pass the Marketplace Fairness Act," Vite said. "Working with a hodgepodge of laws around the country is intolerable, and brick-and-mortar retailers continue to be at a substantial disadvantage to their online competitors."


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Facing the nation's No. 2-ranked team for scoring defense, No. 2 seed Liberty gave No. 7 seed Presbyterian College a taste of its own medicine, Thursday evening inside The HTC Center. The Lady Flames held the Blue Hose to 14 first-half points on their way to a comfortable 67-42 victory in the quarterfinal round of the 2014 VisitMyrtleBeach.com Big South Women's Basketball Championship. The Lady Flames held the Blue Hose to 29.8 percent (14-of-47) field goal shooting on the night while avenging a 46-43 setback from Feb. 13. Since then, Liberty (20-10) has won a season-best six consecutive games and now finds itself in the Big South Championship semifinals for the 18th straight season. Liberty will match up against either No. 3 seed Winthrop or host team No. 6 seed Coastal Carolina Saturday at 8 p.m. Presbyterian College, which never led in the game, ends its 2013-14 season with a 12-19 record. Liberty held PC scoreless for the first 7:40, opening the game with an 11-0 lead. Back-to-back triples by Jaymee Fisher-Davis and Mickayla Sanders capped off the Lady Flames' game-opening surge. The Lady Flames made only one field goal during the next 4:40, during which time the Blue Hose cut the deficit to 13-6. Six different Liberty players scored points during the Lady Flames' ensuing 13-3 run. Sadalia Ellis' driving layup at 3:22 bolstered the Liberty advantage to 26-9. The white-clad Lady Flames made all seven of their free throw attempts during the final 1:46 of the half, while Emily Frazier's contested layup at the halftime buzzer extended the Liberty lead to 35-14. Liberty shot 42.9 percent (12-of-28) from the field before halftime, while limiting the Blue Hose to 20.8 percent (5-of-24). Eight different Lady Flames scored points in the first half, helping Liberty enjoy a 16-4 edge in bench points. Reserve Fisher-Davis topped all scorers with eight points during the first 20 minutes, while teammate Katelyn Adams collected eight first-half boards. PC scored the first five points of the second half, pulling to within 35-19 on Karlee Taylor's trifecta from the left wing with 18:12 left. The Lady Flames then sealed their victory with a 20-0 run. Ashley Rininger and Reagan Miller each scored six points during the surge, and a perimeter jumper by Fisher-Davis closed it out with Liberty on top, 55-19, with 12:06 on the clock. The Blue Hose got no closer than 23 points the rest of the way, as Liberty held its third straight opponent below the 50-point mark. The Lady Flames' 25-point victory wraps up the team's seventh straight 20-win season and 16th 20-win campaign in the last 18 years. Liberty finished the game at 42.6 percent (23-of-54) from the field and 26.3 percent (5-of-19) from three-point range. The Lady Flames had struggled to a 1-of-17 night from three-point distance during their loss in Clinton three weeks earlier. Liberty was also efficient at the foul line, making 16 of 21 attempts for 76.2 percent. PC connected on only 50 percent of its free throws, going 9-of-18. After being outrebounded at Presbyterian College, Liberty owned a 42-30 edge on the glass on Thursday and scored 30 points in the paint to six for the Blue Hose. Rininger, who was limited to a season-low four points during her last meeting with PC, tied for game-high honors with 12 points during Thursday's victory. The first team All-Big South selection added eight rebounds. Sanders chipped in a dozen points off of head coach Carey Green's bench, contributing to Liberty's 31-12 advantage in bench points. Fisher-Davis added 10 markers on the evening, while Adams pulled down a team-high nine caroms. Taylor, a second team All-Big South member, finished her career with a team-high 12-point effort for the Blue Hose. Teammate Keyonna Allen grabbed nine rebounds. Postgame Quotes:
Liberty Head Coach Carey Green "It's an exciting time, March Madness. I'm excited about the intensity and level of effort defensively and offensively by the Lady Flames tonight. We had good balance, which is what I think you have as you continue to advance throughout the tournament.
"The (19-0) run (in the second half) gave us some separation and we were able to relax a bit and get a lot of people involved.
"It's a good time to be putting things together. We respected (Presbyterian) because they've beaten us. With respect, that gives us clarity and focus. We learned some lessons throughout the regular season, and now hope to apply those in this tournament."
Presbyterian College Head Coach Ronny Fisher "This is a tough way to end the season because we were playing really well. We won eight of our last 11 and you hate having that taste in your mouth after such a good season, but everyone ends with a loss except one.
"We played a very good Liberty team. They're clicking on all cylinders right now. We got beat by a very good team tonight, and I'm proud of our effort.
"About midway through the first half, we couldn't stop them. I know the shots weren't going in for us, but it was more disappointing that we weren't able to stop them tonight. They're really tough when they make the three. They're obviously big inside, and we're not. They're really athletic, and we're not, and when they hit the three, they're a complete team. It's very difficult to defend everything."


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I have a couple books, but there not that great. Im looking for something to give me a overview thats actually usefull(like basic redirected or how to drop a port...).
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I knew dried fruit had an image problem, but I had no idea how bad it had gotten.
Sure, I can kind of understand how prunes, er, "dried plums," might have an issue — let's face it, any time your marketing solution involves changing your product's name entirely, well, things are tough.
But the other day, I was talking to Cooks County's Roxana Jullapat, and she told me that in her restaurant, merely putting the word "raisin" on the menu was enough to kill sales for a dish completely. Interestingly, actually adding the raisins had no effect whatsoever. People seem to like them, just so long as they're added on the down-low.
Truly, dried fruit has become the ingredient that dare not speak its name.
What's weirdest about that is all the really good cooks I know love dried fruit. On Facebook recently, cookbook author Maria Speck (her "Ancient Grains" is terrific) polled colleagues about which dried fruits they had in their pantries. I was feeling pretty proud: dark and golden raisins, currants, apricots, cranberries, sour cherries, figs and prunes (yes, I call them prunes, and proudly!).
But when other cooks chimed in, there were so many others mentioned that I felt like a piker. How could I have overlooked apples, mangoes, bananas, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, barberries … ? The list goes on and on.
So why do others hate them?
It wasn't so very long ago that even raisins were regarded as exotic ingredients, reserved for special occasions only. Until the 1870s, almost all raisins had to be imported from Europe. It wasn't until the birth of the gigantic vineyards of the Central Valley (located smack in the middle of one of the finest natural dehydrators known to man) that they began to become commonplace.
The Santa Clara Valley south of San Francisco proved to be just as hospitable for prunes. In the 1850s, a visitor brought over cuttings of the famed Agen prune trees from southwestern France; 50 years later there were more than 90,000 acres, almost all of them of that variety.
Indeed, before the Napa Valley became vinified, it was far better known for its prune orchards, and that's much more recent history. In 1960, Napa's prunes were more valuable than Napa's grapes.
Do we take raisins, prunes and their like for granted today because they've become so familiar?
I certainly don't. Dried fruit tastes too good to ignore just because of some silly fashion. Particularly at this time of year when there's not a lot of sweetness to be had (produce-wise), dried fruit can come to the rescue in both savory dishes and desserts.
Think like a Sicilian and combine raisins with salty or pungent flavors. I made a pasta the other day with broccoli, salted anchovies, raisins and pine nuts. Or toss a handful of raisins into a kale and wild rice salad to offset the dark greens' slight bitterness. (Steep them in warm water or brandy to soften a little before cooking.) Raisins or prunes are great with braised meats; just add them close to the end so they soften but don't fall apart.
Sweets? Besides the obvious — scattering raisins in just about anything possible: cookies, cakes, puddings and even pie fillings — I always have a jar of prune compote in the refrigerator during the winter. Make a strong brew by cooking black tea in a simple syrup with spices and orange zest, and poach the prunes just long enough to soften them slightly. The slight bitterness of the tea and the perfume of orange balances the sweetness and warm spice.
Serve the prunes and their syrup with a spoonful of yogurt and you've got a terrific dessert that's always on hand.
And if you love dried fruit as much as I do, you might even have them for breakfast.


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Yacolt Burn: DNR Releases Draft Recreation Plan for Western Yacolt Burn
DNR Releases Draft Recreation Plan for Western Yacolt Burn
We're almost there . . .
Thank you to everyone who helped to make this recreation plan a reality. The phenomenal efforts put forth by the Pacific Cascade Region DNR Staff and the Recreation Planning Committee are finally coming to fruition.
Special thanks to everyone in the off-road recreation community who stayed with us and supported us through this long and tedious process of acquiring OHV trails in the Yacolt Burn State Forest. Everyone's contributions, large or small, all played a part in the successful results of this planning process.
This press release kicks off the 21 day public comment period on the recreation plan that will end on June 1st at 5:00pm. If everything goes as planned, DNR will respond to comments immediately following and we should be breaking ground on building trails in mid-late June 2010.
Happy Trails!
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DNR releases draft recreation plan for Western Yacolt Burn
For Immediate Release
May 10, 2010
A map with the location of the Western Yacolt Burn Forest is inserted in this news release.
State DNR releases draft recreation plan for Western Yacolt Burn Forest
Public asked to comment on plan for area in southwest Washington
OLYMPIA – The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today released a draft plan that will guide the sustainable management of recreation in the western portion of the Yacolt Burn State Forest. The public may comment on the draft recreation plan as well as review the plan through the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) process. The comment and review period ends at 5 p.m., June 1, 2010.
The draft plan addresses recreation in the western 40,000 acres of the Yacolt Burn State Forest, which totals 90,000 acres.
"The Western Yacolt Burn Forest Recreation Plan will help guide recreation opportunities in areas of the forest that are best suited for safe, fun, and sustainable activities," said Commissioner of Public Lands Peter Goldmark.
The need for recreation planning in Yacolt
The demand for recreation access continues to grow in southwest Washington. As the population expands in nearby urban areas such as Vancouver and Portland, demand for outdoor recreation opportunities is also on the rise. This demand, if not addressed, will continue to put tremendous pressure on existing trails and facilities in the Western Yacolt Burn Forest. These pressures have impacted the area's environment and natural resources. In addition, many of the unauthorized trails cross streams and sensitive wetlands, and threaten water quality in the area.
In 2007, DNR applied for and received two grants for nearly $140,000 from the Non-highway and Off-road Vehicle Activities (NOVA) program to develop a comprehensive recreation plan for non-motorized and motorized recreation use.
To develop the draft plan, DNR worked with a citizen planning group with representatives from diverse recreation uses and interest groups, including motorcycle and quad riding, horseback riding, hiking, biking, fishing, hunting, and camping, along with neighboring landowners and conservation/preservation communities.
As a working forest, Yacolt Burn State Forest provides revenue to state trust beneficiaries, including public schools. The recreation plan will help guide how best to balance the need to provide healthy forests for the trusts while allowing for a variety of recreation opportunities.
How to comment on the draft recreation plan and the SEPA material
Go to the Western Yacolt Burn Forest Recreation Plan SEPA web page:
Provide all written comments to:
Department of Natural Resources
SEPA Center
PO Box 47105
Olympia, WA 98504
The direct link to the Western Yacolt Burn Forest Recreation Plan is at: http://www.dnr.wa.gov/Publications/a...t_rec_plan.pdf
For more information, contact Jessica Kimmick, 360-852-3390 (cell), 360-577-2025 (work), or email@example.com.
More information and background about recreation planning in the Western Yacolt Burn Forest is at:
Recreation on DNR-managed lands
DNR manages more than 5 million acres of state-owned forest, aquatic, agricultural, conservation and urban lands. Most recreation on these lands takes place in the 2.2 million acres of forests that DNR manages as state trust lands. By law, state trust lands are managed to produce income for schools, universities, prisons, state mental hospitals, community colleges, local services in many counties, and the state's General Fund. State trust lands are also managed to provide fish and wildlife habitat and educational and recreational opportunities.
DNR-managed lands provide 1,100 miles of trails, 143 recreation sites, and a variety of landscapes throughout Washington State. Recreational opportunities include hiking, hunting, fishing, horseback riding, camping, motorized vehicle riding, mountain biking, and boating.
DNR's main recreation focus is to provide trails, trailhead facilities, and a primitive experience in a natural setting.
Media Contact: Toni Droscher, Recreation Program Communications Manager, 360-902-1523, and email@example.com .
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Who is your favorite news anchor/reporter? Why?
Brian Williams. I've liked him ever since he had his own news show on MSNBC. I watch his Nightly News every night and read his blog. He's the only anchor/reporter I can watch and feel like he/she knows what he/she is talking about. (Katie Couric I'm looking at you.)
Name 3 foods that are currently in your freezer.
Chicken, strawberries and peroigoes.
If you were to have the opportunity to name a new town or city, what would you call it?
Ack. I don't like these silly questions.
Main Course
What will most likely be the next book you read?
1776. I'm going to start it tonight.
What's the first thing you notice about the opposite gender?
If I'm close to him, the eyes. If it's from a distance, the chest and arms.
Another scarf flew on and off the needles in less than 24 hours:
Green and Blue Scarf
What: Green and Blue Scarf
Yarn: Bernat Softee Chunky: One full skein of Circus
Needles: size 10, Knit Picks Options
Pattern: Diagon-alley Scarf
Date started: 3/22/07
Date finished: 3/22/07
Dimensions: 3.75″ x 44″, including fringe
Lesson Learned: None. I still love this yarn.
Destination: Warm The World
I knit a bit more on the Pastel Rainbow socks:
I like how this pattern looks, but knitting it is boring me out of my skull.
So, I knit a little on the Berry Pink socks:
Parker likes to strike a pose on the back of the couch:
While Romeo prefers to curl up in his blanket:
Samantha's love affair with the pink bunny continues:
Kishka finally got a chance to play with the bunny while Samantha was sleeping:
Kishka also kept a close eye on me:
The girls practiced synchronized sleeping:
A gorgeous afternoon:
morphed into another sensational sunset: