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Three Sisters Wilderness
IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Three Sisters Wilderness (map) in 1964 and it now has a total of 283,824 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Oregon and is managed by the Forest Service. The Three Sisters Wilderness is bordered by the Mount Washington Wilderness to the north and the Waldo Lake Wilderness to the south.
DescriptionThe high, snowcapped Three Sisters (North Sister at 10,085 feet, Middle Sister at 10,047 feet, and South Sister at 10,358 feet) embellish the eastern side of this Wilderness, the second largest in Oregon. If you include Broken Top at 9,175 feet just to the south, you have 14 glaciers offering perhaps the best example of the effects of glaciation in the Pacific Northwest. Collier Glacier, between North and Middle Sister, is the largest sheet of ice in Oregon. Here is a fabulous volcanically formed landscape of lava fields, waterfalls, alpine meadows, lakes and streams teeming with brook and rainbow trout, and a lush forest of Douglas fir, silver fir, subalpine fir, mountain hemlock, western hemlock, lodgepole pine, ponderosa pine, and true fir. The headwaters of the Wild and Scenic Squaw Creek likewise emerge here. Only State Highway 242 separates Three Sisters Wilderness from Mount Washington Wilderness to the north. Waldo Lake Wilderness shares the southern boundary. You'll find about 260 miles of trails, including 40 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail running north-south, and human traffic in multitudes estimated to exceed every other Wilderness in the state. Green Lakes, Obsidian, Sunshine, Erma Bell Lakes, and the climbing trail to South Sister are especially used and abused. The Chambers Lakes Trail leads 7.1 miles from Pole Creek to Chambers Lakes, all the while encompassed by the dramatic glaciers of South and Middle Sister, where ice can appear year-round, the growth is limited to wind-twisted pines, and the rock-rimmed beauty will take your breath away.
Planning to Visit the Three Sisters Wilderness?
- Print a fact sheet
- General things to consider when visiting any wilderness
- Regulations, Permits
- Contact the Forest Service
- Visit the National Forest wilderness website
Leave No TraceHow to follow the seven standard Leave No Trace principles differs in different parts of the country (desert vs. Rocky Mountains). Click on any of the principles listed below to learn more about how they apply in the Three Sisters Wilderness.
- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave What You Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
- Respect Wildlife
- Be Considerate of Other Visitors


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Why did Curry have to take a dump in Game 3?
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One of the most enduring misconceptions against us—and our "lady brains"—is that we're just too delicate to hang with the boys when it comes to math and science. (Duh! Our minds are filled with much more important things like shopping, shoes, and glitter!)
Well, those who think guys are "just better" at those subjects are just plain old wrong: Science says that men and women are totally equal when it comes to kicking ass in math and science. So. There.
New research funded by the National Science Foundation studied 367 10th grade male and female students in math and science and found that both genders earned similar grades in math and science. Booya.
But the issue of girls feeling not as good as the guys remains—and researchers say that this self-perception could play a huge role in future success.
"Despite gender similarities in math and science achievement, female adolescents tend to believe their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) abilities are just not as strong as those of their male classmates," said Professor Else-Quest, a lead author of the study. "We believe these attitudes are important in students' choices about persevering in math and science and pursuing STEM careers."
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A "silent auction" coordinated by Dance Marathon of Hope College has been scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 4, as part of the student organization's effort to raise support for Helen DeVos Children's Hospital.
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The Hope College Dance Marathon, which will be held in March, is a philanthropic event that benefits the Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids.
Helen DeVos Children's Hospital is West Michigan's largest children's hospital, and is located in a new 212-bed, 440,000-square-foot facility that opened in January 2011. Serving children and families throughout a 37-county region, the hospital includes nearly 200 pediatric specialty physicians uniquely skilled in providing medical and surgical care to children in more than 50 pediatric specialties. The hospital cares for more than 7,600 inpatients and 190,000 outpatients annually.
In order to help support the vast number of ailing children that visit the hospital each year, all proceeds from the marathon will go directly towards the funding of special programs that are designed to make the young patients' visits to the hospital more bearable while also helping the families of the children to deal with their illnesses.
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"New Jerusalem" is an ultimate WordPress theme suitable for Synagogue website. Clean modern design with slight traditional touch. Multiple page templates allow to create the extended website with all necessary sections like prayer and holiday calendars, educational programs, staff profiles, photo galleries, video, audio and written sermons.
Developed after proper study of various Synagogue websites like Central Synagogue (New York), Beth Jaacov (Hamilton), Choral Synagogue (Saint-Petersburg) + more, in desire and attempt to satisfy the needs of Synagogue website.
- Clean and elegant design
- Hebrew date (day, month, year)
- Shabbos candle-lightening times (according time zone) and weekly Torah portion
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Review from article "10 Best WordPress Themes not to be missed!" published on WPThemes:
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There are many other "religious" themes on ThemeForest website, and of those, only a very few are specific to a certain denomination, however, I am pretty certain there has never been a theme like this one and while I am not Jewish myself, I am certain if you are, you can appreciate the time and effort that has gone into making this theme. For that reason alone, it is definitely worth of mention.
That being said, this theme is very well done and comes with an amazing amount of features and options such as Hebrew Dating, Shabbos Candle lighting times and a weekly Torah portion, Jewish holidays, donation options, an event calendar, 5 custom post types for events, staff, galleries, education, sermons, 5 widgets, 3 Navigation areas, blog page, one page photo gallery and multiple image galleries.
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Update! 27.04.2014.1) Holiday calendar based on hebcal.com mysteriously disappeared, hence now I replaced it with public Google Calendar 2) Released some room for statement under main image on Home page 3) candle light time and parashat Torah are now in sliding panel 4) tested on WP 3.9
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- Due to recent changes in Hebcal script I have to fix Candle Light Time
- Added Social Links Widget (was not available in previous version)
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When the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture recently asked a panel of Southeastern farmers where they might suggest making program cuts in the next farm bill, there were no takers.
"In our area, agriculture is on the verge of not existing anymore. We've become as efficient as we can be, but we still depend on the government's help to make a profit and to produce the food and fiber that our people depend on," said Walt Corcoran, Jr., an east Alabama cotton and peanut producer.
Corcoran was one of several farmers from Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee testifying at the House Committee on Agriculture's second field hearing to review the 2002 farm bill, held on the campus of Auburn University in Auburn, Ala. It is part of a series of hearings the committee plans to conduct around the country.
Fifteen members of the committee attended the hearing and heard from two panels of witnesses about a variety of farm policy issues including specialty crops, peanuts, incentives for young farmers, payments, forestry, and crop insurance.
"These hearings are designed to give producers an opportunity to share their thoughts about what aspects of the current farm bill are working and which ones need to be modified," said Bob Goodlatte, the Virginia Republican who serves as chairman of the committee. "Our producers are working on the frontlines. Their daily lives are driven by the farm bill. What improvements can be made given the financial constraints we face? A strong agricultural policy is vital to our farmers and ranchers to insure that American agriculture remains competitive, and that our producers continue to provide their fellow Americans with a safe food supply."
Later in the hearing, Goodlatte told the farmer panel that federal budget constraints could be a limiting factor in the next farm bill. "As we approach the 2007 farm bill, we're facing a large federal deficit. This situation may call for Congress to make very difficult spending decisions, and I wonder how we might prioritize the programs of the current farm bill, in general, and the commodity titles, specifically, including direct payments, marketing loans and counter-cyclical payments," he said.
No one on the panel, however, was willing to concede any of the current programs. "We like all of them — they're all different and we'd like to keep them all," said Jerry Newby, a central Alabama farmer and president of the Alabama Farmers Federation. "We'd like for you to continue to support agriculture in this country so we don't have to depend on others for our food and fiber. We feel there should be across-the-board cuts in all programs, not just in agriculture."
USDA, said Newby, has stated that net farm income has fallen from $82.5 billion in 2004 to $71.5 billion in 2005. "Total cash crop revenues and government payments to producers have risen from $128 billion in 2003 to $138.6 billion in 2005. This shows that while farm income is down due to increased inputs and lower market prices, farmers are getting more of their income from the farm bill. This proves that without the safety net of the farm bill, our agricultural economy would collapse," he said.
Farmers are told every year that budget cuts require reopening the farm bill, said Newby, and this causes a great hardship to farmers and their lenders.
"We in agriculture understand about budgeting and have always been willing to accept our fair cuts," he said. "But, we think agriculture has paid more than its fair share in these budget cuts, especially the commodity, conservation and research programs. We just ask that cuts in the federal budget be done across the board equally. This farm bill has cost less than was originally projected by the Congressional Budget Office when it was enacted in 2002. We feel agriculture should get credit for these savings as well as preserving commodity baseline funding."
East Alabama's Corcoran told the committee that payment limitations were important to his operation. "I farm in a family partnership. We raise about 4,500 acres of row crops which is mostly cotton and peanuts. A significant majority of farmers oppose all forms of payment limitations, and I ask that you at least maintain current payment limits and eligibility requirements. Also, I ask you to realize the significant differences that exist in the size and structure of farming operations from one region of the country to another, and from one cropping system to another," he said.
Corcoran said farming input costs had risen by at least 50 percent in the past two to three years. "Income has remained stable because we have had three pretty good years. But if we have another drought, as we did in the late 1990s, I'd hate to see what it would do to us."
Except for setting the loan rate too high, farmers like the new peanut program, said Carl Sanders, president of the Alabama Peanut Producers Association. "The Southern Peanut Farmers Federation has met with other segments of the industry, including buying points, shellers and manufacturers, and each has indicated they are pleased with the 2002 farm bill. Each segment of the industry supported the peanut title of the 2002 farm fill."
Sanders said the program also allowed producers to more readily enter peanut production. In Alabama alone, peanut production has expanded from 15 counties in 2002 to 32 counties in 2005.
But, he added, administration of the peanut program by USDA has not been as successful. He said domestic demand is healthy, but USDA has set the loan repayment too high, using data unrelated to the price for which other export nations are marketing peanuts.
"Our present export situation is directly related to the high loan repayment rate set by USDA. Although peanut state members of Congress have tried to assist growers in meetings with USDA, letter and inquiries in formal hearings, the rate has remained artificially high. This lack of response to competition from other origins has critically wounded our export programs," said Sanders, who also farms in south Alabama.
Michael Hively, a Vidalia onion producer from Glennville, Ga., said that if the subsidies that are available to a "select few" crops extended to farm products that are heavily imported, there would be a shift from traditional row crops to a more diverse agricultural base that would be profitable and would balance import needs.
"In this day of bio-terrorism, we must strive to create this balance and break any dependency on importing our food before it starts," said Hively.
Alabama Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks told the committee that creating a better environment for farmers to do business might entice younger generations to get involved in agriculture. "The perception right now is that if you go into farming, you might end up barely getting by from year to year. Too many times, that is the reality for Alabama farmers, especially after the last two hurricane seasons. I think we can help change that," said Sparks.
Collin Peterson, ranking minority member of the House Committee on Agriculture, said Congress needs to come up with a farm bill that is good for all parts of the country. "We are still trying to deal with issues that haven't been resolved. Some of us have been trying to get a disaster bill this year. We should have done it before we left for Christmas. I would like to see us put in a permanent disaster program as part of the farm bill," said the Minnesota Democrat.


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Iowa City High quarterback A.J. Derby compiles football scholarship offers like others his age collect football cards.
Derby, a 6-foot-5, 220-pound senior, has scholarship offers from Florida, Louisiana State, Alabama, Florida State, Michigan, Miami, Nebraska and several others — "I can't list them all off but it's a lot," he said. Iowa also feverishly has targeted him.
"It's just kind of wide open right now," Derby said. "I plan on taking all of my official visits. So I'm going to wait until the school year, then narrow it down to five and decide where I'm going to take my officials.
"It's wide open. I'm still talking to everyone."
Derby hopes to take a few of his visits on Saturdays following Thursday night high school games. Iowa City High plays Thursday night games on Sept. 17, Sept. 24 and Oct. 22.
Derby played wide receiver and defensive back for Iowa City High as a sophomore before moving to quarterback last year. He completed 77 of 136 passes for 1,197 yards and 11 touchdowns while throwing four interceptions. Derby also led Iowa City High in rushing with 1,064 yards on 168 attempts and scored 13 touchdowns.
With Derby's frame and versatility, many wonder if colleges are recruiting Derby as a quarterback then switch him to tight end, linebacker or safety. Other speculation involves whether Derby could play the role of a running quarterback, like Florida's Tim Tebow.
"Everyone is recruiting me for quarterback," Derby said. "Some (schools want him as a running quarterback), and some don't. Some want me to be a pocket passer. It's kind of a little of both."
Derby also faces outside pressure to remain with the hometown school, Iowa. His father, John, was an all-Big Ten linebacker at Iowa. His older brother, Zach, plays tight end at Iowa.
"They tell me to go Iowa all the time," Derby said of his friends. "These coaches (baseball coaches from Cedar Rapids Kennedy) were trying to tell me to go to Iowa after the game. I'm kind of used to it.
"My dad just said do what you think is right for yourself and don't just do what he wants, but do what I want."
"I just try not to think about it too much and try to be a normal kid."


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The Anti-aesthetic: essays on postmodern culture
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A continuing best-seller -- with more than 60,000 copies sold -- The Anti-Aesthetic is a touchstone volume for postmodern debate and theory. Though the cultural stakes and terms have changed over the last decade, this collection still illuminates -- perhaps now even more lucidly -- a vital current in contemporary criticism.
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'People's Judge' McMahon retiring but not quite leaving
The most oft-repeated joke at Judge Kevin P. McMahon's retirement party Friday - and there were many jokes at his honor's expense - was that he was retiring, but would be back on the bench come Monday morning.
And it's true.
"The People's Judge," as he is known, is taking senior status in December at age 63, mostly, he says, to appease his wife, Patti, who wants to spend two months in Florida during the winter. He's not hanging up his robe any time soon.
McMahon was appointed to the bench in 1993 after serving about 20 years in other state positions. Senior status is eligible to judges who have reached age 65 or have served 20 years. Senior judges enjoy a more flexible schedule. They collect their pension and earn a per diem fee, if they continue working, not to exceed the amount paid to other Superior Court judges.
If the powers-that-be in the Judicial Branch allow him to continue doing what he likes to do, which is working at the Geographical Area courts, particularly GA10 on Broad Street in New London, McMahon said he will continue to hear cases up to 10 months a year.
"If they don't, the debate between Mrs. McMahon and Judge McMahon will end sooner than they think," he said. "Otherwise, it could go on for years."
The occasion of his psuedo-retirement afforded his friends a long-awaited opportunity to roast him, and nearly 300 people turned out at the Great Neck Country Club in Waterford for the event. The quick-witted Judge Patrick J. Clifford, a close friend, served as the master of ceremonies, and the entire room roared with laughter as speaker after speaker serenaded McMahon with insults and praise.
Thrilled with the turnout, which he said he saw as a vindication of his not-always-orthodox style on the bench, McMahon walked around to each table to greet his guests and vowed to have at least four retirement parties in the coming years.
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People tell him he has a tough job, but McMahon said "it comes easy" to him, that he has a gift for analyzing things and making decisions.
"I look at things and go, boom," he said.
He attributes his comfort on the bench, in part, to his many years of experience in criminal law. He's not afraid to take a stand when he doesn't agree with something, such as a new law that allows Department of Correction officials to override judges' sentences in drunken driving cases.
"If I become afraid, I don't belong here," he said. "I've heard judges say, 'I don't want to do that this term, I'm up for reappointment.' I say, 'bull****. You're a judge. Do your job."
The funny stories about McMahon, are endless. As a prosecutor in Hartford Superior Court, he showed up one morning wearing one black shoe and one brown.
"He explained to the jury that he had the same pair at home and he hoped they liked them," said Judge Joan A. Alexander, who worked with him in the state's attorney's office. She said McMahon was good at sizing up cases and witnesses and could "think on his feet."
"The jurors loved him, as you could imagine," Alexander said. "The older ladies thought he was their son. The younger ones thought he was their brother."
Another co-worker from his prosecutor days, Barbara Struzenski, tells the story of McMahon's rescue dog, Brophy, which suffered separation anxiety so severe that McMahon brought it to work. The dog "went crazy" when McMahon left the office to go into court, Struzenski said, so McMahon put it into a small room off the main courtroom.
"When Kevin walked out the door into the courtroom, the dog went nuts," she said. "You could hear Kevin talking to the judge or presenting a file and there's the dog crying in the background. Finally, someone opened the door by accident and the damn dog ran into the courtroom. It was the funniest thing."
Reminded of the incident during an interview at GA10 last week, McMahon laughed and called it "a setup." The presiding judge, Richard A. Damiani, had some strong words for him that day, McMahon said. But the two of them remained good friends until Damiani died suddenly in July 2012.
McMahon said he's always had rescue dogs. These days he and Patti own Friar, a 140-pound Malamute.
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Court officials bear the brunt of McMahon's bark once in a while - "Get your act together!" he bellows from his chambers when he's ready to hear cases and the staff is scurrying to get files together. In his zeal for moving cases off the docket, he occasionally overrides the plea deals discussed by prosecutors and defense attorneys. Michael E. Kennedy, the supervisory prosecutor at GA10, has affectionately dubbed the court, "McMahonistan."
McMahon can grouse about something for weeks or months - such as the five-year drought in pay raises for state judges that ended earlier this year - but his coworkers say he doesn't hold a grudge and is generous to a fault. He volunteered to officiate at the marriage of a court employee and her long-time partner as soon as gay marriage became legal in Connecticut. He offers staff the use of his Florida vacation home when it is vacant. His coworkers say that if somebody goes into his chambers with a problem, he immediately picks up the phone to see if he can help. And he was among the first judges to welcome newspaper and television photographers into his court a few years ago when judges instituted a new camera rule.
"I've got nothing to hide," he said.
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McMahon grew up in New Britain, "right in the middle of the industrial area," with three sisters and two brothers. He can still slip easily into the "New Breh-nn" accent.
His father, a doctor, died of cancer when McMahon was 11. He says the "good sisters" of St. Joseph's parish thought he needed "a little guidance," so he attended St. John's Prep school in Danvers, Mass. He went on to Providence College, and his friends joked Friday that if a defendant wears a Friars shirt to court, he gets a break. Upon graduating, he went directly to Western New England College School of Law.
He started working for the state as a temporary assistant clerk - "the lowest position there is" - in Hartford Superior Court while attending law classes at night. He worked his way up to chief clerk by the time he graduated from law school.
McMahon says the late Judge John Brennan helped him get his prosecutor's job, which he had for 13 years before Gov. Lowell Weicker nominated him to the bench in 1993.
McMahon says his family was not politically connected, even though his sister, Faith McMahon, became Bloomfield's first female mayor and served as a state representative before dying in 2009. Still, he did have the good fortune of meeting fellow New Britain native Jay F. Malcynsky early in life. Malcynsky, one of the state's most powerful lobbyists, helped McMahon get nominated as a judge.
Niantic attorney Ronald F. Stevens said he met McMahon when he was in law school.
"He called me and said, 'Could I open an office in Niantic and make a living?' I was a young lawyer here and didn't have much competition. I said, 'Kevin, I don't think you could make a living here.' ''
Stevens likes to tell McMahon that he wouldn't have gone into state service and become a judge if not for that advice.
"He has this great Irish heart and he's willing to listen to arguments," Stevens said. "He can quickly look at a case and determine where the bull**** is. If the state's attorney has overcharged he says, 'That's bull****.' If the defense attorney is asking for too much, he says "the pig factor" is at use.
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Waterford Police Chief Murray Pendleton, who with his wife and others joins the McMahons for Wednesday night dinner at various restaurants in the area, says McMahon is "a get in your face kind of guy."
"He's a little bit outside of the norm of what we might envision today's politically correct judicial person to be," Pendleton said. While a sergeant, Pendleton said, he tried one of his first cases before McMahon and lost because of a procedure McMahon didn't think was appropriate. McMahon was 'probably correct,' '' Pendleton said.
The Waterford Police Department, which takes in a lot of evidence from shoplifters during the holiday season, appreciates McMahon's ability to dispose of cases quickly.
"The Constitution guarantees you the right to a speedy trial, and this guy can move cases," Pendleton said. "He knows how to clear out an evidence room."
Pendleton thinks McMahon will be around for a long time.
"He may take his trips and vacations but I still think he's going to be in your face," Pendleton said.
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Many of the jokes Friday centered around McMahon's former addiction to cigarettes. He would rush to light up as soon as he got off the bench and would stand outside and smoke with other staff during breaks. He stopped smoking six years ago after he suffered a heart attack at Superior Court in Norwich.
"I imagine I'm the only judge who got taken out of a courtroom into an ambulance to a waiting helicopter," he said.
Doctors told him he had plaque buildup, he said, but no problems with his heart valves.
"It was a wakeup call," he said. "I started taking care of myself."
Not surprisingly, McMahon stirred things up during his stints at the Norwich courthouse, known as GA21. The Norwich staff does things their own way, and the ladies in the prosecutor's office jokingly erected a sign that says, "This is not GA10."
In April of this year, McMahon brought a teddy bear with a Red Sox shirt to work in Norwich, placed it on the bench and called it "Tom Tom" in honor of the supervisory prosecutor, Thomas M. Griffin. McMahon said it would remain there as long as the Boston team was in first place. The bear stayed there for most of the season, according to Griffin, who said it only came off for a few weeks when the team slipped out of first place or when another judge was on the bench. Griffin, who is organized and orderly while McMahon can sometimes be, in his own words, "loosey goosey," tolerated McMahon remarkably well, according to their coworkers.
Chief Probation officer Vickie Lathrop and others have suggested that McMahon, being such a character, should have his own television show. McMahon laughs at the idea and says he would do it for a fraction of the money that some of the big-time TV judges get paid.
Mostly, though, he just wants to keep presiding over the daily crush of cases at the local courthouses, vacationing in Florida and going sailing in Niantic Bay in his 25-foot Grady White motorboat.
And there's nothing he likes more than sitting around with his friends and talking, McMahon said.
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