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DETROIT — Torii Hunter hit a three-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning, lifting Detroit over the Oakland Athletics 7-6 Thursday and saving the Tigers after Max Scherzer was denied his 20th win and Miguel Cabrera limped off with an injury.
The Tigers scored four times in the ninth off Grant Balfour (0-3). A two-out walk set up Victor Martinez' RBI single, then Hunter homered as the Tigers avoided a sweep.
Scherzer gave up six runs in five innings. The no-decision left him with a 19-1 record.
Cabrera hurt his abdomen making an awkward slide trying to stretch a single into a double. He was listed as day to day with discomfort.
The reigning Triple Crown winner has been hobbled this month with a strain in his groin, abdominal and hip area. He's also had a banged-up left leg.


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March 27, 1947 - February 25, 2013
Newburgh, NY
Mary Ellen McCartney, a lifelong Newburgh resident, was peacefully called home after a short illness on Monday, February 25, 2013, at St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital, Newburgh, NY. She was 65.
Mary Ellen was born on March 27, 1947, the eldest daughter of William J. and Mary Fitzpatrick McCartney. She was a beloved daughter, sister, aunt to all, and was greatly loved for her thoughtfulness, kindness, and generosity. She will be missed.
Mary Ellen graduated from Mount Saint Mary Academy in 1965. She also graduated from Queen of the Apostles College in Harriman, NY, and received her Bachelor's Degree from Albert Lea College in Albert Lea, MN.
Se worked for more than 20 years as a Therapy Aide at the Middletown Psychiatric Center until her retirement. Mary Ellen was an avid reader, a student of history, and a movie buff with an incredible memory for details. She spent many an hour discussing film nuances and the latest biography or novel with friends and family. She had a love of history, especially how it affected the Irish in America, as she was fiercely proud of her Irish heritage and wasn't shy about sharing her opinions.
Survivors include her brothers: William J. McCartney Jr., Mark A. McCartney, Michael B. McCartney (Karin) of Newburgh, Daniel T. McCartney (Johnine) of East Fishkill, NY, Robert F. McCartney of Tonawanda, NY; and a sister, Margaret Sklarz (Robert) of Newburgh. She is also survived by her maternal aunt, Ann Gekakis of Newburgh, as well as numerous cousins, nieces, nephews and grand-nieces and grand-nephews. Besides her parents, she was predeceased by her sister-in-law, Sharon McCartney.
Visitation will be on Friday, March 1st from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Doulin Newburgh Funeral Home, Inc. A Funeral Mass will be held Saturday, March 2nd at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's Church in Newburgh. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, New Windsor, NY.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations in her memory be made to St. Mary's Church, 180 South Street, Newburgh, NY.
Funeral arrangements are under the care of Christian D. Garrison of the Doulin Newburgh Funeral Home Inc. 845-562-0068.

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After knocking down a report from earlier this month that he had to be backed off his offseason throwing program because of shoulder soreness, Cole Hamels addressed the on-the-field hurdle he and the Phils will have to face in 2013.
For the first time since he was a young, unproven major leaguer, Hamels and the Phils aren't the favorites in the National League East.
Your thoughts, Cole?
"Honestly… We didn't win," Hamels said before the annual Philadelphia Sportswriters Banquet in Cherry Hill on Monday night. "The other teams were ahead of us. We have a lot to improve on and we have a lot that we have to do to get back to being a winning team. And that's up to the players. Ultimately we have to stay healthy and play the game we know we're capable of doing. We have (other) teams now that have the confidence, that have the accolades to show they did their job and they did it well. So we have to come in there and just try to play the game the right way."
And some can say that since the season ended, both of those teams, Washington and Atlanta, did more to improve than the Phillies this winter.
"We just have a lot to prove," Hamels said. "I think ultimately we can't take the back seat and hope that we can coast through. We really have to go after it from the very beginning and not really hope we can play catch up. These teams now, they're a lot better, the players are a lot better in the league, and they're not going to allow you to really catch up. They're not going to fail. That's ultimately where… sometimes pressure gets to young guys and they're not young anymore. They have talent. So they can carry themselves better. So we just have to fight from the very beginning to the end."
Earlier this month, a CSNPhilly.com reported that Hamels had been experiencing shoulder soreness earlier this offseason and that he had to back off his routine. But Hamels answered those questions Monday as if it was news to him.
Hamels is headed to Clearwater next week and has already thrown three bullpen sessions in preparation. His fourth is tomorrow morning.
"I feel good," Hamels said, "and I'm ready to go."


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Royals Add Former Player Sweeney to Front Office
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Royals have added former first baseman Mike Sweeney to their front office, giving him the title of special assistant to baseball operations.
Sweeney was a five-time All-Star for the Royals, and arguably their most popular player from 1995-2007. He was a career .297 hitter who finished with 215 homers and 909 RBIs, even though he dealt with persistent back trouble that caused him to miss long stretches of time.
It wasn't immediately clear what Sweeney's duties will be, though general manager Dayton Moore said in a statement that he will work closely with the baseball operations department.
Sweeney said Friday that he hopes to help Kansas City return to the playoffs, something he was unable to accomplish as a player.


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Former Eagles coach Andy Reid has canceled trips to interview in other cities and is hashing out the final details of a deal with the Kansas City Chiefs, a source involved in the talks told your Eagletarian Thursday.
Chiefs officials met with Reid for more than 8 hours Wednesday and apparently agreed on issues like control and structure.
Today's details apparently include which coaches Reid will bring with him from the Eagles' staff. Scuttlebutt holds that Reid and Eagles offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg might not be joined at the hip after all, that Mornhinweg, who traveled to New Orleans this week to watch son Skyler's Florida team play in the Sugar Bowl, might not be Reid's OC in Kansas City.
Also available is another former Eagles offensive coordinator under Reid, Brad Childress, fired this week in Cleveland. It seems Reid might bring both Childress and former Eagles and Browns GM Tom Heckert with him to Kansas City.
The Chiefs went 2-14 this past season and fired coach Romeo Crennel. They hold the No. 1 overall selection in the April draft. The Chiefs are scheduled to visit the Eagles this coming season at Lincoln Financial Field, the date as yet is undetermined.


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I-Pod, Gold win FIS World Champs Pipe
Russian-turned-Swiss shred Iouri Podladtchikov -- better known as I-Pod -- is one of the only snowboarders on the planet with enough pipe prowess to give Shaun White a run for his money. I-Pod's definitive win in the halfpipe finals of theFIS Snowboard World Championships showed that he's a serious contender for gold at Sochi 2014.
Heavy snow continued to hammer down on Stoneham, Quebec, nearly closing roads into the resort and filling up the FIS halfpipe at an exponential rate. The snowy conditions seemed to work for I-Pod, though, who snapped up the day's high of 94.25 on his second run. He gave the crowd all of the elements that make a pipe event fun to watch: huge amplitude and technical trickery.
Podladtchikov was the last rider to drop in during the final, and winning combo came in the form of a cab 1080 nose to frontside 900 tail, backside 540 mute, frontside 1080 tail and a cab 1080 double cork mute finished the contest off nicely. It was enough to take top spot from Japan's Taku Hiraoka, who ended his day just 0.50 points behind I-Pod with a total of 93.75. Markus Malin of Finland took the bronze trailing behind with 86.75 points.
"The conditions got a little bit worse but I was on fire to give it all in in my second run and make it," said Podladtchikov. "It's unbelievable. First, it seemed that nothing would work out throughout the whole day. It started with heavy snowfall, and then I broke my board crashing on my first training run -- and now gold. That it all worked out in the very last run is amazing." On the women's side, teenage pipe phenom Arielle Gold honored her name as she clinched gold in her first run amongst a strong showing of ladies. Watch out for this one in years to come. At just 16, she showed she's got the skills to be part of the next wave in women's snowboarding.
Gold's effort through the pipe -- a backside air to frontside 540 lien, backside 540 mute, frontside 720 indy, cab 720 indy and a final frontside air -- was enough to take the victory with 79.00 points.
"We were all kind of struggling to stay smooth and keep our amplitude up," Gold said. "I tried a cab 900 in my second run to see if I could up my score, but I couldn't put it together. I'm just so happy that I was able to put down a run and it turned out in my favor."
Australia's Holly Crawford and Sophie Rodriguez of France came in second and third with scores of 77.25 and 72.50 respectively.
Men's pipe results
1. Iouri Podladtchikov (SUI) 94.25
2. Taku Hiraoka (JAP) 93.75
3. Markus Malin (FIN) 86.75
4. Christian Haller (SUI) 85.75
5. Ryo Aono (Jap) 85.50
Women's pipe results
1. Arielle Gold (USA) 79.00
2. Holly Crawford (AUS) 77.25
3. Sophie Rodriguez (FRA) 72.50
4. Kaitlyn Farrington (USA) 70.25
5. Queralt Castellet (SPA) 58.75
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Retail stocks were among the biggest gainers on Wednesday with Lowe's Cos., Target Corp., and Dollar Tree Inc. dominating the S&P 500 leaderboard while Tesla Motors Inc. extended its winning streak to a new all-time high.
Lowe's LOW, -1.20% added 4.9%. The home-improvement retailer on Wednesday reported its fourth-quarter profit grew on the back of higher sales. It also authorized an additional $5 billion in share buybacks.
Target TGT, +1.48% shares climbed 6.3%. The company said Wednesday its fourth-quarter adjusted profit fell to $1.30 a share, at the top end of its previous guidance. The retailer also said it incurred $61 million in expenses in the fourth quarter because of its credit-card data breach.
Dollar Tree Inc. DLTR, -1.17% reversed earlier losses to gain 4.8%. The discount retailer on Wednesday forecast full-year results, including expectations of per-share earnings of $2.91 to $3.13, that fell short of analyst estimates. Dollar Tree also said its fourth-quarter profit declined to $213 million from $228.6 million in the year-ago period. Shares of competitor Dollar General Corp. DG, +0.43% rose 3.6%.
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. ANF, +2.95% shares climbed 11%. The teen retailer said its fourth-quarter profit fell to $66.1 million, or 85 cents a share, from $157.2 million, or $1.95 a share in the year-ago period. The company said adjusted per-share earnings were $1.34, higher than analyst expectations of $1.03 a share, according to FactSet. Total sales fell 12% to $1.30 billion. Abercrombie also announced a $150 million accelerated share buyback in the first quarter.
Newfield Exploration Co. NFX, -3.01% shares rose 7.4%. The energy company on Tuesday reported fourth-quarter earnings of 48 cents a share, ahead of the 45-cent forecast from analysts.
Shares of First Solar FSLR, -2.66% dropped 9.5%. The maker of solar-power systems reported fourth-quarter adjusted earnings of 89 cents a share on sales of $768.4 million, with both numbers coming in below analyst estimates. The company also predicted current-quarter results that missed expectations.
QEP Resources Inc. QEP, -2.38% shares tanked 11%. The oil and gas company late Tuesday reported fourth-quarter earnings of 17 cents a share, significantly below the 40 cents a share forecast by analysts.
Chesapeake Energy Corp. CHK, -3.20% shares tumbled 4.6%. The second-largest producer of natural gas in the U.S. said Monday it is looking into strategic alternatives for Chesapeake Oilfield Services, including a potential spin-off to Chesapeake shareholders or a sale.
Tickers to Watch
TSLA: Tesla TSLA, +0.37% shares rose 1.1%, at one point touching an all-time high of $265. Shares of the electric-car company have jumped about 18% this week through Tuesday's close. Tesla's main battery supplier, Panasonic Corp. 6752, -1.95% is considering investing in a U.S. battery factory, according to a report. Tesla is expected to soon disclose plans for a "gigafactory" battery plant. Read: Why Tesla may want to sell you more than an electric car
EBAY: EBay Inc. EBAY, -0.90% shares climbed 2.2%. In response to Carl Icahn's earlier criticism of lapses in corporate governance, eBay accused the activist investor of lies and distorting facts. "Carl Icahn doesn't let the truth get in the way of a good story," said eBay in a statement released Wednesday. "In fact, Mr. Icahn seems to be deliberately disseminating claims that are dead wrong."
SPLS: Staples Inc. US:SPLS recovered from losses in the previous session to gain 4.6%. The stock was weighed down by weak quarterly results at Office Depot Inc. ODP, +1.51% which reported Tuesday that its fourth-quarter losses widened.
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Problems with Templates and Image Maps
Hi Steve, I am currently involved with an ongoing Massachusetts Wiki Project. David Dilts suggested that I contact you. Lately I have been working on creating some clickable maps. I recently added a clickable map for Plymouth County, Massachusetts (See Template:PlyCoMAmap). In the past when I created a clickable map we added the information to a template page because there is so much wiki code associated with the image map. I added the Plymouth County map the same way I have in the past but ran into some unexpected results. I was able to finagle the template page so that it will show the map when users go to the template page. However, if they try to edit the template page, instead of seeing all the wiki code, they see a message "Error: image is invalid or non-existent." If a person was to make any modification to the page and then save, the map will disappear and it is no longer functionable. Can you tell me why we get an error message when we click on edit? Where is all the wiki data used to make the map clickable going? The map continues to works just fine. Should I be doing something different as I add more clickable maps?
In addition to what I mentioned above, when I go to the template pages we created for putting our map images on (see Template:MAPlyAbiMap), all I see is the name of the image, orientation details, and picture description. Where did our image go? The image no longer shows. The map displays on the Wiki pages we insert the template code on, but the template itself is confusing to me. Any thoughts? I will be adding roughly 300 clickable maps over the next month and want to make sure that I do it the right way. Any help you can give would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. HarrisonJB 17:33, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Jason, the problem with the imagemaps is a known issue. The workaround is to add the Magic word __NORICHEDITOR__ to the template (within noinclude tags), so that the Rich Text Editor is disabled when you edit the imagemap. I have edited {{PlyCoMAmap}} so that this is now in place. The other template was set-up by David as a way to add a caption to the image that is displayed on the page Abington, Massachusetts without subsequent edits removing it. This is another workaround to a problem caused by the Rich Text Editor. If you want to change this into an imagemap, you will also need to edit the code on the Abington, Massachusetts so that it just calls the template, stripping away the [[Image: and ]] parts of the code. --Steve (talk| contribs) 12:32, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
England Gazetteers
There still seems to be FHL contributors working on alphabetical listings from a single source conflicting with contributors who have contributed local knowledge of parishes and the record sources - Downe, Kent - Keston, Kent - Cudham, Kent as well as neighbouring parishes all have Online Parish Clerks. Some colleagues are unwilling to take the time and effort to create FamilySearch Wiki content to have gazetteer material entered and conflicting. In some counties large slabs of material exist as parish history which are in fact text from other web sites (including copyright). I have made the point in forum post that an 1848 gazetteer entry may not be useful, a later gazetter may be more informative and the Kent Online Parish Clerk site has even more information including a satellite image and might be a more informative link to include under the "maps and gazetteer" heading rather than dropping gazetteer entries for an entire county into parish history pages. This seems to be a recipe for needless discussion and conflict in every English county. Many English contributors have ceased contributing citing lack of communication from FHL contributors. We do not seem to be any "further forrarder" on this issue than earlier this year or in any of the previous years it has arisen! I think it sad that we are alienating English genealogists and AGRA members through unresolved organisational problems arising from America.If possible could you convey that it might be better to work with an Online Parish Clerk who has invested huge effort in a parish history and records rather than drop in gazetteer material as part of a mechanical process in alphabetical order; the heading gazetteer is also a clue to where such entries should be placed. DowneOPC 06:37, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Henry, this issue was discussed during the weekly Wiki Contributors Meeting on November 8, as a result of your forum post on the issue. Those attending the meeting agreed to the points that you raised. Some wondered why the change was not just made and explain in the edit summary or on the article talk page. I sence that UK based contributors are trying to engage with FHL staff about developing pages/edits, but do not receive replies to their questions. Anyhow following the meeting I moved the gazetter text from the history section to the gazetter section of the Downe, Kent article and left a message on the user talk page of the contributor. Hopefully the message will get back to the staff at the FHL to be more considerate of the information already developed on a page, before adding additional information. I agree that a multi sourced parish history is preferable to a single source gazetteer extract. Would you and other OPC/AGRA members be willing to help develop the instructions for developing English Parish articles in the WikiProject English parishes? --Steve (talk| contribs) 13:05, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
Thanks, in answer to your final question I can only speak personally and will try to contribute wherever possible. I lead a group of transcribers. We have 3 parish Cooperative Indexing agreements in place with FamilySearch which await a response from them and we hope to obtain Diocesan permission to add a further parish for agreement to transcribe in 2014. The agreements are taking more than 6 months for FamilySearch to respond to once submitted with both archive and Diocesan approval and support. Wherever possible I try to describe the surviving record which I am permitted to handle in order that the viewer of a microfilm or digitised image can make sense of the images, duplicates and why entries appear out of sequence, gaps and other unique aspects of an individual register.(One Downe register has been bound in a deed which bears no relationship to the parish) As volunteers our priority is to transcribe so that writing parish histories is the latter stage of OPC page development of our site and involves a different type of research in many source materials which we include in our page creation. Any contribution to other media (print and electronic) is a lower priority. FamilySearch material forms a small part of the total parish material; the larger part is on average spread in up to 14 archives for a typical Kent parish. Another high priority is to respond to email requests for assistance in researching within a local district including the parish concerned.
I am afraid that in the professional community in England that many contributors have reported negative experiences of trying to contribute and the Americanised format (and language) of the FamilySearch wiki derivative of Wikipedia. Sadly each contributor lost is influential in influencing others. There is an effort in Wikipedia to cover all civil parishes in England and local county initiatives to list places of worship. I would comment that Wikipedia went through this process early in its development; there was an American perception that English contributors were "difficult" to involve or retain. There was likewise an English perception that if contributing became a negative experience it was better not to invest time and effort to see content removed or "put down" by a small clique appearing to dominate. Here the FHL contributors need not to alienate or appear to be more influential but to enter into discussion about use of a source to complement the existing contributions. Gazetteers (plural) are cited on all Kent Online Parish Clerk page creations which begs the question why not link in the relevant heading to that available online source rather than paste material for one gazetteer only?
Template on a non-activated category.
The template page Template:Xyzy is on a non-activated Category page: Category:Script templates. Do we need it? Or do you want this category activitied. Sandralpond 15:28, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks Sandra, the template is needed/used and the category is appropriate. I have today set it up. --Steve (talk| contribs) 14:06, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
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Steve thanks so much for the FA change. Dawne 14:41, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
Hi, Steve. Is there an FHL template where a search can be done by name of the author? I want to be able to search for ward records, all of which have the beginning of "Church of Jesus Christ..." and end with the specific ward. That would make it easy to change ward by ward. Any ideas? AdkinsWH 02:59, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
- Hi Wilma, I have briefly looked at this issue.It may be possible to add the functionality to the {{FHL}} template, but more investigation needs to be undertaken done before I can answer and hopefully implement your request. --Steve (talk| contribs) 13:49, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks, Steve! AdkinsWH 21:03, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
England Parish Histories
2012 was a good year for the Suffolk Parish pages. There have been a few instances where volunteers have sought to tear down what I have built rather than improve it. What volunteers I have come across have no interest in collaborating, rather they have an agenda of copying and pasting similar dialogue on every page. What they are copying and pasting is rather weak material. Parish History Section - I cannot accept that a short one or two sentences with a link to a gazetteer should be in anyway be considered a parish history. The approach to the Parish History Section is very simple. Enter websites, links and references in the body of the page and once a sufficient amount of material has been found, then a history can be written based on those sources from a genealogist perspective. A new wiki article should be created, England - Writing a Parish History. This short gazetteer entry currently being introduced should be moved or put in the Maps and Gazetteers Section. Pertaining to Suffolk pages I noticed recently that someone is entering those gazetteer entries again and at the same time removing the link to the Suffolk Gazetteer page. Could you use the text replace function to place a link to the Suffolk Gazetteer page in the Maps and Gazetteer section for every parish in Suffolk? Donjgen 18:36, 26 December 2012 (UTC) I'll also place a copy of this over on User talk:MannAE page.
- Hi Don, I agree that there is room for improvement in the way that contributors work together and not at cross purposes to each other. I'm sure that the majority of wiki contributor have the same goal to improve the content of the wiki and I really feel that WikiProject pages can help with this by setting out long term vision for a collection of similar pages, for example Suffolk Parishes. Contributors by reviewing the project page information can then be directed to articles, like the one you suggested, so that a consistent approach is taken with developing similar pages. The Parish History section and what kind of content should be placed here is a good example of where this collaboration could achieve much good. I will look into restoring the links to the Suffolk Gazetteers page. Before I take action I will investigate how best to do this. --Steve (talk| contribs) 13:58, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi Steve: I could take the time to create a WikiProject - Suffolk Parishes but I have seen such anemic participation. Since I am focusing on Suffolk, I would expect participation from people in East Anglia. There needs to be a person in East Anglia that would promote participation.
What are the goals? I haven't seen clear goals. I see some people have a goal of putting a short snippet of a gazetteer in the parish history section with a link for every parish in England. I see that some have a goal of putting the same template in the census section of every parish in England. I see some people have a goal of recording all the possible online church records for parishes in specific counties in England. There are only a few that have focused on a single parish or parishes. The goals for the FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject English parishes need to be specific. This idea of going from parish to parish putting the same snippet of information is a poor goal. Any body can goggle any parish in England and get all the information they need. How are the England parish pages going to be different? How is it going to be different from genuki? After years of slow growth it should become apparent that a different approach should be taken. This lack of England participation has to tell us that FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject English parishes needs to have specific goals that will lead to more participation. WikiProject_English_parishes pages needs to be rewritten and redeveloped. People should put there focus on a specific county or district. Thats my take on what I see Donjgen 20:48, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
Steve, I'm trying to update the status of wiki projects. I'm assuming that the England and English Parishes projects are ongoing. Is that correct? Percent complete? averyld 16:26, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
Also, Wales and New Common Taxonomies averyld 23:10, 2 January 2013 (UTC)
- Hi Lynda, yes these projects are all ongoing. The England, English parishes and Wales WikiProjects are all similar in that the purpose of these projects is to improve the articles about these localities. They are very hard therefore to say how complete they are. Tasks within a project can more easily be stated as x% complete.
- The WikiProject New Common Taxonomy is in my mind, more of a foundational document, setting out the top-level categories to be used for research topics. It was renamed as a WikiProject by Fran Jensen and although I agree it belongs in the FamilySearch Wiki namespace, I think it falls more into the realm of policy - meaning that it defines how the taxonomy is organised/to be used in the wiki rather than being a project in which a goal is to be achieved.
- Further to our discussion yesterday, I have created the {{WikiProject status}} template. There are still some tidying up to do around this template, but you can start using them if you like. --Steve (talk| contribs) 14:12, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Steve, thanks so much for this information and the templates look great! I hope you have a small idea of how much you are appreciated! averyld 18:36, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
- For the inactive template, the page is FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProjects Seeking Contributors/Inactive. I'm not sure if doing it as a sub page is the best way to go, but that's how it is for now. averyld 18:39, 17 January 2013 (UTC) Also, I put the template on the Alabama page and it looks like it didn't add it to the Inactive category.
- Hi Lynda, the categories associated with the template {{WikiProject status}} are now being added when the template is used. I think setting up the list of inactive projects as a sub-page is the way to go. --Steve (talk| contribs) 22:04, 17 January 2013 (UTC)Thank you! Thank you averyld 22:27, 17 January 2013 (UTC)Thank you Steve I did not understand, thank you for your helpThank you Steve, I did not understand, thank you for your help


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I think that I may have found a bug that will kick you out of a battle without respawning the pet. I'm hoping that one or two of you might be able to replicate the situation and see if the outcome is the same.
My Tale of Lament (i.e. The Situation): I was in Mt. Hyjal, running around Nordrassil trying to find the rare Grotto Vole (the last rare pet I was missing in the zone) when I started a battle against a Silky Moth. The moment the battle started I had a massive heart attack (it's a figure of speech). There it was - the rare Grotto Vole. So I downed the moth, captured the vole, and was just about to finish off the last pet when I was suddenly (and violently) kicked out of the battle and put in combat. I was greeted by a hordie (I'm alliance) who was fighting a cultist. When the cultist was dead, I was out of combat. (Note: my server is PvE and I wasn't tagged for PvP at the time).
What I think happened is that the hordie was doing the quest where you feed the faerie dragons berries and they expose cultists for you to kill. I think that the cultist was spawned either on top of me or very close by and somehow it aggroed on me for a second, which kicked me out of the battle. (It didn't actually attack me - or at least my combat log was blank when I checked it). The odd part of the whole thing is that the moth didn't respawn like it should've - which caused my 2nd heart attack (again, just a figure of speech).
In summation (i.e. TL,DR) - Can one of you start a battle anywhere around Nordrassil and have another person work on the Inciting the Elements quest nearby you and see if you get kicked out of the battle?
Now to go back and try to find another rare Grotto Vole...


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Architecture Council/Meetings/March 22 F2F EclipseCon 2009
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Revision as of 11:35, 18 February 2009 by Gunnar.wagenknecht.org (Talk | contribs) (new poposed discussion topic: DVCS)
Tentative Agenda for an AC Face-to-face meeting at EclipseCon 2009
- Participants
- Martin Oberhuber, Wind River
- Darin Swanson, IBM
- Gunnar Wagenknecht, AGETO
- Tentative
- Richard Gronback, Borland
- Regrets
- Oisin Hurley, IONA -- flights booked already, and can't find the $1000 down the back of the couch to change them.
Date, Time and Location
- Sunday March 22, 5pm - 6pm at a meeting room at the Hyatt (after the StAC all-council meeting from 3pm-5pm)
Open discussion here. Feel free to add anything (this is not yet an agenda), prefix with your name.
- (Martin) Mentor Experience roundup: Each Mentor to talk 1-5 minutes about how it's been going with their projects
- (Martin) Improvements Brainstorming: 15 minutes uncommented brainstorming of ideas what could be improved if there were no limitations
- (Martin, Rich) How can the AC do more Architecture? - Today we're doing Community Escalations mostly, can we do more actual architecture?
- (Gunnar) DVCS: How can we move the DVCS discussion forward?


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Course Catalog
INFS3230 - Networks/Data/Computer Comm
Spring 2014
This course provides the student with terminology and concepts related to data communications. Modes of data transmission and transmission media are discussed. Emphasis is placed on the integration of electronic principles with systems analysis and design for computer networks. The role of telecommunications in systems design for networking and distributed processing is presented, along with the architecture of data communication systems ranging from local area networks to international wide area networks. Also discussed are common data communication error detection and correction techniques, available communications software, common carrier services, and prevailing relative costs for those services.
Prerequisites: INFS3210 or INFS3211
3 Credits
Schedule Book for All Active and Available Future Terms, Course starting with INFS3230
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NowGamer writes: Skyrim Dawnguard's troublesome journey to PS3 is well-documented, but Bethesda's issues with the DLC won't be solved via any sort of eureka moment overnight according to marketing and PR boss Pete Hines.
Bethesda should just go 360/PC exclusive with the next game they clearly don't care for the Playstation crowd and I doubt they will miss them.
Finish it then sell it while its hot, then pirate it on PC. My laptop can handle the game with the enb series mods and all that quite well.
The game isn't worth all the trouble its causing people
I have the game on PC, it's overhyped.
Oblborin was crap as well.
Most open world games are boring, no decent direction, same old boring gameplay. Kill dragon, move on. Kill dragon move on.


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I took my rugged XO Laptop along with us on our family camping trip this year so I could continue working on my latest book, Dance With Me. We went to three campgrounds on Vancouver Island, the furthest one away being French Beach, on the west side. My kids are both teens, who sleep in until almost noontime, so most mornings I had to myself. On Hornby Island, our first destination, I went to a nearby cafe for a morning Cappuccino and sat on a bench with my XO Laptop tapping away as some of the locals came to get their morning kick-start. The XO battery held up well, helped by the fact that it has no moving parts. It uses Abiword as its word processor (a Linux based freeware program). I had to convert it back to Word for windows from the Kingston 2 GB flashdrive when I got home. Because the computer is sealed, sand and dirt can easily by brushed away from the keyboard and screen. Part of my story takes place on Hornby Island, so it definitely helped to be on location, and got the creative juices flowing. French Beach, our next stop, was much cooler. The morning spent there, I sat at a picnic table with a view of the ocean, trying to spot whales as I worked on the laptop. I wrote a couple of clever paragraphs about a chase scene and saved it (I thought) before powering down the XO. I didn't get to work on it again at our last camping location, Goldstream Provincial Park, because that morning I was shuttling my wife to the Victoria train station, and breaking camp by myself, while the teens went to jump off a water fall. I've got one more outing left before my leave ends, a two-day solo kayaking trip around some Gulf Islands. I'll see how well the XO Laptop holds up while I'm on that. I hope I don't capsize. Not to worry, the XO Laptop is water resistant. Shouldn't be a problem.
Here's a link to some video of my solo kayaking trip:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrHyyN32_8A
I brought the XO Laptop along on the kayaking adventure and managed to get some writing done before the bugs got me.


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West Texas Intermediate crude was little changed after the first drop in four days as industry data showed U.S. stockpiles climbed for a second week.
Futures traded near the lowest closing price in two days in New York after declining 0.6 percent yesterday. U.S. crude inventories increased by 680,000 barrels last week, figures from the American Petroleum Institute show. A report by the Energy Information Administration today may indicate supplies gained 2 million barrels from the most in more than 82 years, according to a Bloomberg News survey. The EIA cut its WTI and Brent forecasts on rising supplies and lower global consumption.
"The outlook is going to remain muted for the U.S. for consumption of oil," said David Lennox, an analyst at Fat Prophets in Sydney. "There is also U.S. domestic supply, which continues to grow."
WTI for June delivery was at $95.48 a barrel, down 14 cents, in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange at 11:38 a.m. Sydney time. The volume of all contracts traded was 60 percent below the 100-day average. Futures slid 54 cents to $95.62 yesterday, the lowest close since May 3.
Brent for June settlement dropped 23 cents to $104.17 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange. The front-month European benchmark was at a premium of $8.69 to WTI futures, compared with $8.78 yesterday. It ended the session at $8.58 on May 3, the narrowest gap based on closing prices since December 2011.
Crude Output
WTI will average $93.17 a barrel this year, down 75 cents from the April projection of $93.92, the EIA, the Energy Department's statistical arm, said yesterday in its monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook. Brent will average $105.89 a barrel in 2013, down $2.07 from last month's prediction.
Oil production outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will rise 2.1 percent to 53.85 million barrels a day in 2013, led by gains in the U.S. and Canada, the EIA said. The output projection was increased by 80,000 barrels from April's report. U.S. production is projected to climb 14 percent to 7.42 million barrels a day.
OPEC members will produce 35.88 million barrels a day this year, the EIA said. Last month's forecast was 35.98 million.
The administration lowered its outlook for global oil consumption to 89.93 million barrels a day from 90 million estimated last month.
U.S. Stockpiles
U.S. gasoline supplies fell by 186,000 barrels last week, the API data showed. They are projected to decline by 475,000 barrels in the EIA report, according to the median estimate of 12 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Distillate inventories, a category that includes heating oil and diesel, rose 1.1 million barrels. They are forecast to gain 500,000 barrels in the survey.
The API collects stockpile information on a voluntary basis from operators of refineries, bulk terminals and pipelines. The government requires that reports be filed with the EIA for its weekly survey.
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Are you one of those people who can't bear to take down your Christmas lights at the end of the holiday season? I can tell you that I definitely am! The house always feels so cozy and festive through the holiday season that it feels, well, rather cold and boring once all the decorations are packed away for the following year. So this year, I vote we all keep that festive spirit alive by giving classic Christmas twinkle lights new life! From adding ambiance to your bedroom to bringing a big dose of glamour to parties, here are 10 ways to rock your Christmas lights all year!
Twinkly Vanity 1 of 10A huge oversized mirror makes an instantly glam dressing room with the addition of a string of basic white twinkle lights!
Photo from Design*Sponge.
Jar Lanterns 2 of 10These lanterns are a simple combination of vintage mason jars and strands of Christmas lights. They'd look perfect on a patio or on an end table!
Photo from Chiot's Run.
Light Up Headboard 3 of 10A basic headboard made from pine planks gets a really cool upgrade with the addition of white Christmas lights and a bit of paint!
Get the how-to from A Beautiful Mess.
Picture Perfect Window 4 of 10This pretty cottage kitchen gets a fresh vibe with a string of lights draped around the window. I love this look!
Photo from me & alice.
Lighted Mirror Garland 5 of 10This incredible mirrored garland uses twinkle lights for a dramatically glamorous look, perfect for celebrations of all varieties!
Get the how-to from Apartment Therapy.
Cozy Hideaway 6 of 10I love the idea of a cozy little nook or hideaway for day dreaming and reading books. With strands of lights and a mountain of pillows, any little corner can be instantly transformed!
Photo from Examiner.
Stunning Party Decor 7 of 10In the past twinkle lights got a bit of a bad reputation as cliché at weddings. But these long strands swooping across a dramatic barn ceiling are absolutely stunning!
Photo from Apple Brides.
Fairy Lights Canopy 8 of 10Deck out a little girls room with a sprinkle of fairy lights over or around the bed to create a true princess room!
Photo from Sarah Gordon Home.
Outdoor Ambiance 9 of 10I love this look! White twinkle lights wrapped around the trunk of trees add instant ambiance to a backyard or patio!
Photo from Ruffled.
Twinkly Canvas Art 10 of 10Using blank artist's canvases, create an amazingly cool twinkly art installation!
Get the how-to from Apartment Therapy.
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Anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, essayist and luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston dazzled her peers and patrons almost immediately upon her arrival in New York City in 1925, when she made a show-stopping grand entrance at a formal literary affair, flinging a red scarf around her neck and stopping all conversation with her animated storytelling and antics. "I would like to know her," declared Langston Hughes. She had a "blazing zest for life," opined celebrity writer Fannie Hurst. Annie Nathan Meyer, a founder of Barnard College, did them one better: She promptly offered Hurston entrance into Columbia University's sister college, making her the first black student to attend Barnard.
Over the course of her life, Hurston would publish several dozen essays, short stories and poems, and seven books, including her notoriously deceptive (some would say ingeniously "dissembling") autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road. Nine more books–essays, folklore, short stories and a play–would appear in print posthumously, following Alice Walker's "rediscovery" of Hurston in the 1970s. According to Carla Kaplan, editor of Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters and a professor at the University of Southern California, this resurrection of the long-forgotten writer has yielded over 800 more books (including sixteen for children), articles, chapters, dissertations, reference guides and biographical essays about Hurston over the past three decades. That some 2,000 spectators showed up at Central Park last summer for a reading of her work is further evidence that Zora mania continues to be in full swing.
Yet, even with Kaplan's 880-page tome (complete with exhaustive introductory essays, annotations, footnotes and glossary), and Valerie Boyd's gracefully penned biography, Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (the first since Robert Hemenway's landmark 1977 effort, Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography), we're left with the same dogged question: Who was Hurston, really? What makes such a dreamer dream? What fuels the inner life and spirit that it may reach beyond its present circumstances? We've heard much about Hurston the enigma; the Zora of contradictions and paradox and light. And by all accounts, including the two latest contributions, Hurston was indeed a bold and iconoclastic force.
Picture Zora: flagrantly smoking Pall Malls in public with an openly gay male friend; measuring the heads of strangers on Harlem street corners in famously brazen anthropometry experiments; driving a car (alone, female, along backwoods Southern roads in the 1920s, packing a chrome-plated pistol); marrying men decades her junior and promptly leaving them, while habitually lopping ten years or more off her own age.
We're intrigued by this Hurston: the Harlemite partygoer who loved music and dance, the folk, "lying sessions" and home-cooked pots of fried shrimp and okra served with "gingerbread and a jug of buttermilk." This was Zora "with her harmonica and head full of stories…all greased curls, bangles, and slashes of red."


text: Adventure: Story Story Posted 06-06-2014 Destination Alaska Part I: A 66-Day Trek to the Last Frontier The beginning of an RVing adventure The trailer was ready, the truck fueled up and our expectations high. Our adventure was about to begin. By: Sheryl Gallup April 2013 No one would ever label me the adventurous type. I have never wanted to climb a mountain, ski down a snowy slope, jump out of an airplane, or even endure the terror of whitewater rafting. Surprising to most people, I actually do enjoy hunting, fishing and remote camping. As long as I know that something resembling civilization is within 30 minutes, I'm cool with it. Call it a character flaw; I just really need a cell phone tower, flushable plumbing and a burger joint. Two years ago when my boyfriend approached me about the idea of a road trip from Minnesota to Alaska, I was hesitant but willing to consider it. What I wasn't prepared for was that he wanted to do the 10,000-mile roundtrip over three months while camping along the way … in a tent! I begged him to consider a 10- to 14-day Alaskan cruise. He sweetly smiled in the way that always gets to the very core of me and said, "But, honey, it's all about the adventure and seeing America from the road." He won that round. But, oh how things changed. Click the image for photos of the adventure I wanted to stay in hotels along the way. He wanted to camp in a tent. I wanted a one-month road trip. He wanted a three-month trip. In the end, and after a year-long search for a shelter with wheels that we both could agree upon, we finally purchased a 23-foot travel trailer with all the amenities. Not as large as I wanted, not as small as he wanted. That was the compromise. It took a year of planning before we were actually ready to embark on our monumental trip to Alaska.We were excited about the idea of being first-time RVers. As we began preparing and planning for our trip, we had no idea what a costly adventure this was turning out to be. Just to get the RV ready, there were parts to replace, a generator to buy, trailer hitch to purchase and install, license tabs, insurance, furnishings and an almost endless list of other things. I kept asking him if he wanted to change his mind and the answer was always the same, "It's an adventure!" When our "adventure" was just days away, admittedly, I became excited. I packed and unpacked for weeks. For someone who always over packs, it is a daunting task to find that happy medium between what I feel I can't live without and what are actually essentials for a 3-month trip. First thing out of the trailer was the TV. That horrific decision was not mine, and I seriously question how I will be able to survive for 3 months without Duck Dynasty, Sons of Guns and following the lives of the Kardashians. I hoped that I would be able to view my TV families by way of my laptop. Since I am a business owner, I had to carefully plan how to work from a small mobile office. I didn't mind having a mobile office, especially since it provided a convincing argument about why a travel trailer was more conducive to a mobile office than a tent. It also gave me an excuse to bring my laptop, tablet and cell phone so I can stay in touch with clients … and watch TV. As we neared our June 2 departure date, I still had three fears that I couldn't seem to shake. The first is the terrifying idea of hauling a 23-foot travel trailer through the mountains (remember, we are flatlanders here in Minnesota). The second is bears – black bears, brown bears, grizzly bears, polar bears, any bears – the idea of encountering one was frightening. Lastly, and probably my biggest fear, was that my 18-year relationship with my boyfriend won't make it to 19 years after this adventure. I invite you to follow Woodzjoe and myself through our travel blog as we make our way to the great Northwest last year. I hope you enjoy the tale and gain some travel insight from our adventure. Happy trails, Woodchick Bound and Determined Sunday, June 2, 2013 It was 6:30 a.m. when we hit the road for the first leg of our trip. The trailer was ready, the truck fueled up and our expectations high. It had finally arrived. Our adventure was about to begin. Our destination for our first day was Bismarck, N.D. The first leg of the journey from Minneapolis to North Dakota is not exactly what one would call scenic. The flat, open, plowed fields along I-94 for hundreds of miles grew wearisome and we found it necessary to entertain ourselves with road games. You know the kind, where you count road kill and keep a tally of the numbers and species of animals that were not wise enough to look both ways before crossing the road. Desperate for entertainment, I guess. We pulled into our day's end destination of Bismarck at 5:00 p.m. We had spent 10 1/2 hours on the road. A trip that should have taken eight hours took us much longer. We stopped many times along the way to stretch our legs and check on the trailer. But mostly, it was fuel stops. It took three tanks of gas at seven miles per gallon to get through the plains. We knew right away that the most expensive part of our trip was going to be fuel. We are staying in Bismarck for a couple days. A friend of Woodzjoe offered to let us use their electric hookups at their home while they are away. It is a gorgeous view in the rolling hills of the Missouri River Valley. As we pulled into this rural area yesterday, four rooster pheasants took off in a magnificent flash of color and we watched them soar towards the river. Within minutes, a huge jack rabbit bolted from his resting place and headed for the hills. Monday, June 3, 2013 We are still in Bismarck and plan to spend one more day here with friends. Winds are strong, sky is full of rain clouds and we are not sure what type of day we are in for. When we began planning this trip a year ago, we were trying to decide what type of trip this was going to be. Yes, it is a working one, but also it seemed to need a goal, something that made it more significant than just playing tourist. Admittedly, I have not seen much of the U.S. This opportunity lends itself well to learning the history of the land that lies between Minnesota to Canada and on into Alaska. I want to learn about the people, the land, and the motivation that our predecessors had to have had to settle here. Every town has a story to tell. And every town has locals that will want to share those tales. I want to listen and learn. From this, I hope to gain an experience that will stay with me forever. Tuesday, June 4, 2013 Our alarm clock this morning was the sound of pheasants cackling from every direction around our trailer. I have always loved that sound and it was a gentle reminder that our adventure will be full of wildlife as we travel the country. We pulled out of camp early and headed west on I-94. Our first stop was New Salem, N.D., to visit New Salem Sue. As the world's tallest and heaviest Holstein, at 38 feetin height and 12,000 pounds, she proudly stands high atop a hill. Unfortunately, the length of our truck and trailer prevented us from climbing up the hill so we stood at the bottom and photographed the cow in all her glory. New Salem Sue From New Salem, we stopped in Dickinson, N.D., to visit the Dinosaur Museum, Joachim Museum and the Pioneer Machinery Museum. Each was impressive in their own way and worth visiting if ever you travel there. I was particularly impressed with the mineral and rock display which is one of the largest I have ever seen. I am a self-professed Rock Hound, to the point of addiction, and seeing all these rocks from around the world made my heart skip a beat. Our last stop for the day was the Painted Canyon Visitor Center on I-94 very near Theodore Roosevelt National Park. It is really the beginning of the North Dakota Badlands and offers a fantastic view of the overwhelmingly beautiful rock formations. Absolutely a must-see! We are camped for the night in Medora and plan to visit some of the town tomorrow and then head into the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Animal observation for the day: buffalo, deer, antelope, prairie dogs, turkey, pheasant and ducks. Wednesday, June 5, 2013 We spent the day at the Theodore Roosevelt National Park in Medora, ND. I was blown away by everything I saw at the national park today. We took the 20-plus mile loop drive through the park and every turn in the road was more beautiful than the previous. We took a couple short hikes which gave us an even more personal experience with the buttes and valleys that surrounded us. This national park encompasses 110 square miles and is divided into three land sections – the North Unit, the South Unit and Elkhorn Ranch Unit. I wish we had time to see it all. Theodore Roosevelt National Park We also went to the Visitor Center at the park which shares the history of Theodore Roosevelt's passion for the Badlands and explains why he settled here for a number of years. He loved the land and it helped heal his pain after the death of his wife and mother. President Roosevelt's conservation efforts were very advanced and it took the country decades to truly appreciate them. I like the fact that his respect for the land and his determination to make a difference made the entire country look at the land differently. His concern for conserving our natural resources was best described when he said, "That while we get rich off our natural resources like oil, coal, ore and wood, and our soil has eroded and our streams are gone, what will be left?" Yes, I wish that I could have told Teddy Roosevelt how grateful I am for his unwavering determination to set aside more than 150 million acres of land to be protected and enjoyed forever. Theodore Roosevelt National Park Thursday, June 6, 2013 Today is what we affectionately call our "Road Warrior" day, which means, that we really didn't do any sight-seeing except what we could see from the interstate and from roadside rests. But, what we did see was awe-inspiring scenery as we traveled along the Lewis & Clark Trail alongside the Yellowstone River. The route did produce some amusing dialogue between us though as we thought about what Lewis & Clark and Sacagawea must have thought as they traveled through the North Dakota Badlands through the mountains of Montana and on toward the West. I am not sure if they were cursing types, but I can almost hear them saying, "Are you kidding me, MORE stupid Buttes to go around?" We started the day from Medora, North Dakota and ended our day at a pretty little town called Big Timber, Montana, just off of I-90. The day was long, our bodies road-weary and we couldn't seem to find a campground, so we decided to "treat" ourselves to a Super 8 for the night. Nothing fancy, but far more inviting than our small trailer. Crazy Mountains, Big Timber, MT At the restaurant in Big Timber, we had a nice view of the Crazy Mountains and found out that there is a legend or two about this mountain range. It is a rugged and jagged range of rock more than 11,000 feet high. Folk lore offers several versions of how the mountains were so named. The first version is that the mountains are haunted by a crazy Native American woman, but no one seems to know why she was crazy. It was the second version that intrigued me. Apparently, hundreds of years ago, there was a woman named Jane Morgan who was traveling with her husband John from Independence, Missouri, headed for the Oregon Trail across the plains with a wagon train of settlers. After being separated from the wagon train, they were attacked by Blackfoot Indians. John Morgan and their three children were killed. Jane Morgan was overcome with grief and insanely charged after the Blackfoot with an axe, killing four of them. At the end of the day, a young Rocky Mountain trapper named John Johnson came upon the "crazy" woman. He stayed for a number of days to help bury the dead and to build a small cabin for Jane Morgan. The "Crazy Woman" refused to leave the cabin because she wanted to stay with the graves, so John Johnson moved on. The woman lived in the mountains and they were named the Crazy Mountains. If this legend sounds familiar to you, it is because this bit of folk lore was the basis for one of the best movies ever made…Jeremiah Johnson. Animal observation for the day: A disappointing one! We saw lots of domestic horses, cattle and sheep, and one lousy turkey vulture. Friday, June 7, 2013 Today was mostly a travel day as we had to get from Big Timber, Mont., to Missoula to spend some time visiting with my friend Jon. The drive to Missoula was absolutely beautiful. We drove through a gorgeous mountain pass near Butte and we were fortunate enough to see three elk grazing on the mountainside and shortly thereafter, we also saw some mule deer. We reached Missoula late in the afternoon and decided to make our first stop the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Their new location has a small museum, and we enjoyed seeing all the mounts they had of North American animals – including elk of course. There was an interesting display that discussed how when the Europeans first arrived here, that North America had about 10 million elk. But, over-hunting and loss of habitat nearly completely wiped out the Eastern Elk and by the early 1900s, less than 90,000 elk roamed the lands west of the Mississippi. Fortunately, conservation groups, like RMEF, have enhanced and conserved nearly six million acres of elk country, bringing elk populations to about 1.1 million today. Jon's Grand Slam of Sheep From the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, we finished up our travels for the day at my friend Jon's place located in the foothills of the Missoula Valley. Woodzjoe had never met Jon, but I knew right away the two guys would hit off. Like us, Jon also is a hunter and fisherman, and is a passionate conservationist. Over cocktails, Jon shared tales of his hunts to South Africa, Canada, Alaska and other parts of the world. Jon has had so many successful hunts, that he found it necessary to add an enormous addition to his home to showcase all the species he has hunted. He has about 37 different African species and 15 North American species – with no repeats. His trophy room contains his grand slam of North American Sheep that he got in just two years. He also has a hand-painted diorama that spans an enormous wall in the trophy room. His taxidermist did an amazing job not only with the mounts, but also with the realistic placement of them in front of the diorama. This room almost makes you feel like you walked into a museum of natural history. Saturday, June 8, 2013 Our destination today was Glacier National Park, and we are not sure how it happened, but we actually made the trip on just ONE tank of gas. Normally, that GMC gray beast has to be fed three meals a day! Before we left, Jon had given us some tips on what route to take and we were glad that we heeded that advice as we drove along the east side of Flathead Lake. What an amazing view of that huge body of water. Coming from the Land of 10,000 Lakes our expectations were high, and fortunately, Flathead Lake actually over-delivered. Glacier National Park Jon's other piece of advice was to be sure and stop just before we enter Glacier National Park and try the huckleberry ice cream. To be honest, I thought he was trying to play a joke on us when he suggested this because I thought that huckleberries were fictional. I am so glad that we decided to take a chance, because we stopped at a great little place and had an amazing piece of huckleberry pie with a scoop of huckleberry ice cream. I'm in love! After dinner, we decided to take the Going to the Sun Road for some site-seeing. It is still closed due to snow at the higher altitudes, but we were able to drive 14 miles before we came to the road-closed sign. It offers a spectacular view of all the streams that feed into Lake MacDonald and we took a lot of pictures. Fort Steele, British Columbia Implements Tomorrow we head north to Canada as the adventure continues. Animal observation for the day: Some mule deer and some song birds. But, I have also been seeing quite a few Magpies and I find delight in each one. Sunday, June 9, 2013 Oh Canada! We crossed over the border with no problems and now were officially referred to as Americans. On our way north, we traveled along the east shore of the enormous Flathead Lake. The water was incredibly blue and the shoreline was dotted with one cherry orchard after another. A very beautiful drive and one in which we took our time (as if we even had a choice hauling a trailer around the winding road). In Fort Steele, British Columbia, we stopped at an old frontier town called, ironically, Fort Steele. The attraction was established as it was in the 1800s during the gold rush and as the settlers' pockets got bigger, so did the town. Some of the buildings were the existing ones from around 1860, but others were replicas of buildings that had stood there. It appeared to have been a bustling town in its day, for it had a schoolhouse, three churches, dentist, surgeon, hotel, miners' quarters, tailor shop, bakery, restaurant, some very nice homes, and many more buildings as well. Fort Steele Schoolhouse We got an opportunity to try gold panning here, and Woodzjoe and I found ourselves in competition to see who would have the most gold in their pay dirt. I won! I had one small flake more than him. We celebrated our new found talents at panning by actually buying a gold pan. This will come in handy once we hit Alaska. We need to pan enough gold to pay off this trip! From Fort Steele, we headed north in hopes of finding a campground. We thought about stopping in Radium Hot Springs, but it was so filled with tourists that we decided to continue on our journey. I am new to the Rocky Mountains, but Woodzjoe actually lived for a number of years in Colorado. As beautiful as they are, nothing prepared me for what I would see when we got to Kootenay National Park, B.C. Without a doubt, this is my favorite place on the planet … so far. The mountains of Montana paled in comparison to what British Columbia had to offer. As we entered the national park, we both were overwhelmed by the beauty. The mountains were snow-capped, the park carpeted with lush green trees and grass, and wildflowers had sprung up here and there. We hadn't been in the park long when a flashing road sign warned of "Bears on the Road." Our anticipation was high, but we both doubted that the bear would still be there. Much to our delight, there he was, in all his golden fur, a big ol' grizzly bear. He strolled along the shoulder of the road like a hiker out for a nice evening walk. Elk, Kootenay National Park It wasn't long before brake lights up ahead told us that something else was meandering along the road. Another bear, this one was a chubby black bear alongside the road eating grass. We saw our third black bear just minutes after that. As we winded our way through the mountain passes of the park, we saw some elk and a rather impressive herd of mule deer. What a way to end the travel day. We pulled into Banff, Alberta, late, primarily because all the campgrounds in Kootenay National Park were closed. Apparently, we are ahead of the busy season. It was almost dark when we found an RV park in Banff and rushed to get set up and get some sleep. Click here to read "Part Two: Oh, Canada! 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Canucks' new president has memories to build on
Trevor Linden watches Vancouver Canucks in action his first night on the new job.
Photograph by: Mark van Manen, PNG
VANCOUVER - To reach his office inside Rogers Arena, Trevor Linden can enter through Gate 16, which not only bears his old number but also his name and image. And when he looks out from the management box above the ice, he sees his retired number hanging from the ceiling.
He is risking a lot to return to the Vancouver Canucks as their new president of hockey operations. But he's also giving up a lot. Linden's life was pretty much fabulous the last six years.
To find out how fabulous, Sun columnist Iain MacIntyre, who first interviewed Linden in 1988 while covering junior hockey in Kamloops as Linden was playing for the Medicine Hat Tigers, spoke with the Canucks' new president after the initial media frenzy that followed his return last week to the National Hockey League team.
Q: What will you miss most about civilian life?
A: I'll miss making my own schedule. I will miss planning adventure trips and vacation stuff that I did a lot of. I'll probably miss not being on the front line on radio and in the newspaper.
Q: Yeah, that media stuff sucks. How does your wife, Cristina, feel about losing her husband to hockey again?
A: That was a very big consideration. This decision impacts many people, and her the most. That was my No. 1 biggest consideration, the impact this has on her.
Q: Does taking this job mean you're selling your skis and bikes and laying off Sherpas?
A: Part of me staying sane is getting some activity in because I'm a more productive person when I'm happy. I fully expect to get some miles on my bike, but probably a lot less. I even hope to get in a day or two of skiing next year.
Q: How many days of skiing did you get in this year?
A: Probably 50.
Q: That's called the World Cup season. Where did you ski?
A: I skied in Wengen and St. Moritz in Switzerland, St. Anton and Kitzbũhel in Austria. I skied in Sun Valley, Idaho, I skied in Revelstoke and I skied in Whistler. It was quite a winter. If it's the last one I have (skiing) for a while, it was a good one.
Q: I'm scared to ask where you skied last winter. Where else have you been, what else have you done the last six years?
A: Boy, other than skiing? Let me think. I did the Masters in 2009, some spring classic (bike) races like the Liege-Bastonge-Liege, which is a famous race in Europe. I saw the Tour de France. I rode my bike from Germany to Italy in a seven-day race. Did that twice. I rode my bike across Portugal. I rode my mountain bike in Utah, Idaho, parts of Oregon. I climbed mountains on my skis. I hiked from Chamonix to Zermatt last April — seven days on skis and hut-to-hut, just with a backpack. It was amazing. I spent time in the South of France, spent time with the gorillas in Uganda. I was in Zambia.
Q: I went to Disneyland a couple of years ago. It was wild. You leaving anything off your list?
A: Well, a couple of other things that were cool: I hiked the West Coast Trail, which was an amazing experience, and I (canoed) the Bowron Lakes. That was one of the most incredible things I've ever done. Right in our backyard in B.C.
Q: No wonder your dad, Lane, describes your lifestyle the last six years as 'gallivanting around.'
A: I think everyone makes allowances for parents. Sometimes they say things they probably shouldn't.
Q: Your dad also said he thinks all that adrenalin travel allowed you to channel the energy you poured into hockey before you retired in 2008.
A: I think that's partly true. I've always been driven athletically. Growing up in Medicine Hat, no one ever told me I had to practise. I was the one riding a bike when I was 14, trying to get into shape. Had no idea what I was doing. I was the one going to the YMCA when I was 12, lifting weights. Again, no idea what I was doing. So I was always very committed and goal-oriented. Something like cycling, going from point-to-point is amazing. You start in one town, finish the day in another, do that for seven days and you wind up in Italy. Up mountains and down mountains, through rainstorms — it was the journey that was the attractive thing. I love having a goal there, then working toward it. As a hockey player, I did that my whole life. So when I quit, there was a void.
Q: Sounds like your trips involved a bike if they didn't involve skis. What's your road bike and how much is it worth?
A: It's eight years old, called a Look. It weighs 16 pounds and back in the day was about a $10,000 bike.
Q: Did it come with a domestique or at least an odometer?
A: It has easily got — I'm guessing — 50,000 or 60,000 kilometres on it, for sure. I'd ride it three or four times a week, sometimes more. When we trained for bike races, I'd be out the door at five o'clock and off the bike at nine, and then still have a lot of time left in the day.
Q: Sorry, did you say 'left in the day?' You mean you were riding at 5 a.m.?
A: Oh, yeah. Midsummer, the sun comes up and it's amazing. You get on the bike and it's fantastic.
Q: There aren't many 6-foot-4 cyclists. But you've got that lean, wiry look of a rider. You played at about 220 pounds. How much do you weigh now?
A: I've definitely lost weight in the last while. I'm probably under 200 pounds right now."
Q: You're 44 years old. When was the last time you were that light?
A: When I was drafted — 17 or 18.
Q: You seem to have packed an awful lot of dream trips into the last six years.
A: Yeah, I did a lot of things and enjoyed myself. I saw the world. I also had a good business thing going on.
Q: Apart from travel, aren't you going to miss whatever measure of anonymity you enjoyed after retiring?
A: Occasionally, yeah. But for 26 years I haven't really had anonymity in Vancouver. And you know what? That's never been an issue. That's part of the deal. I chose to live my life in Vancouver because why would you want to live anywhere else? People want to talk to you. That's the way it was when I played and that's the way it's going to be now. It's something I fully accept and embrace.
Q: I won't tell anyone if you don't want to answer this, but would you trade all those travel experiences for one Stanley Cup win?
A: In this city? To be in my position and win a Stanley Cup with the Canucks? Absolutely.
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