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Saturday, April 18, 2009
House hunting today has limited my ability to follow the Astros today. Will resume tonight.
4 comments:
- Jason Cardwell said...
Missed a good one today. Hope the house hunting went well.
Wandy was the man tonight!
- April 18, 2009 at 9:06 PM
The whole team played well and glad to see them FINALLY take advantage of opportunities.
With the Rockets blow out, it made for a nice night to be a Houston fan. Not to often you can say that.
- April 19, 2009 at 12:11 AM
- The Constable. said...
It's because I wasn't watching. Or at least hitting "refresh" on my phone every 20 seconds.
- April 19, 2009 at 12:22 AM
- Seth said...
Good luck on the house hunting. I closed three weeks ago.
- April 19, 2009 at 12:26 AM
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Would anyone have any insight on how to utilize matched pairs of spherical's to do photogrammetric measurements from said pairs?
I'm keenly interested in learning, but no real "clue" where to start looking.
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Thanks Mark,
I am planning to put a post on the LinkedIn Photogrammetry group in the hope that we can find some talented people willing to take up the challenge of creating the software tools to make quantitative data extraction from spherical panoramas an automated process.
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Hugh ... all I can say is "WOW!" ... and I need to talk to my Engineering friends again.
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For those interested in this topic, and its potential, I have add some more information to my web site page:
including some related trigonometry and notes on the vertical separation of the panoramas as well as horizontal.
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Hugh - I can't help but chuckle to myself a bit.
After reading thru most of your published material ... I actually think it's a bit 'scary' to think there are folks out there this 'smart'.
With deep respect,
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Gentlemen, and I do mean everyone ... I can't thank you all enough for your responses!
So very much to wrap my head around ... I'm trying but LOL, I have a hard time spelling "Engineer" ... :-)
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Originally posted by Bill Bailey View PostHi Hugh,
... Not only have we had other Nodal Ninja users asking us about this but also iStar users as well. The applications are broad and those in the know certainly have expanded skill sets. ...
Having done this I am really surprised that the developers of photogrammetric software have not included the ability to measure points from Spherical Panoramas because the mathematics is so simple compared with that needed to extract measurements from photographs, particularly if Equirectangular projections are used where simple arithmetic only is required to extract the Horizontal and Vertical angles to the points of interest.
Unfortunately I have not written any software for over a decade and never ventured into manipulating digital images. I have however written a program to automatically computed co-ordinates from theodolite angular measurements from different locations taking into account and weighting for the angles of cut and rejecting observations not within a specified tolerance, so do have a fair idea of what is involved.
What is required is a program to extract the pixel co-ordinates from Equirectangular projections, allowing zooming in and panning around the images, then using the overall pixel dimension of the Equirectangular projections to calculate the Horizontal and Vertical angles by simple arithmetic as shown on:
then use trigonometry to compute the co-ordinates.
Anybody out there willing to take on this challenge?
I am willing to make my source code for computing the intersections available, or providing a pseudo-code program.
Originally posted by MikeInBaltimore View PostHugh,
THANKS! ... and what a mouthful. I'm thinking this may be far, far over my head ... but I will investigate!
I've talked to Bill at NN and he was truthful in telling me he has no experience with this issue. They are however beginning to represent another product, the iStar ... that I am told will in the future have this capability.
So ... I'm trying to start "wrapping my head around" this ... from a humble photographer's perspective. Or ... decide to hand this issue off to our Engineering Staff :-).
is really very straight forward and this data is exactly the same as an Engineer/Surveyor would get from observing with a theodolite on site for theodolite intersection with the added benefit that little time is need to make the panoramas, especially with an iSTAR, compared with the much greater time need for the theodolite observations, even with a modern instrument and that unlike with theodolite measurements only you have the imagery to refer back to in the office.
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I have now heard from Elcovision that they currently support the Spheron panoramas but do not generic spherical panoramas and that although they will probably develop in this direction at some stage in the future they are not planning to in the immediate future.
I would suggest that it may be worth people contacting Mark @ Photomodeler and/or Harald @ Elcovision directly if they see a need for this functionality as my experience is that if feedback comes from a variety of sources it has more impact than if it is channeled through a single source.
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Thanks Bill,
I have been involved with photogrammetry for more decades than I care to rember and am always interested in methods of using photographs for measurement so am happy to help if I can.
With respect to the iSTAR, I know that Neil and Cameron plan to develope software for measurement using the panoramic image and now that the camera is finally in the market place after all the setbacks they have encountered that perhaps we will soon see something in this direction.
Personally I would really like to see a solution for getting measurement data from spherical panoramas and think that if there is sufficient interest that it may be possible to persaude the guys at Photomodeler to look at this sooner rather than later.
Another possibility is Elcovision 10 from St Margarethen in Switzerland who's authors may consider providing this functionality - I am waiting to hear their comments.
Best regards, Hugh.
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Originally posted by Hugh View PostHello Mike,
As you are probably aware, the accuracy of the measured points is determined by the angle the rays from the images intersect at and if you are using just two spherical panoramas then only a "donut" in the plane perpendicular to the axis between the two panos will have any reasonable accuracy.
The diagram towards the bottom of
gives a graphic for his although it is only 2D, but I am sure that you can visualise this on 3D.
There are companies that provide a photogrammetric solution from spherical panoramas, but they also provide the hardware and are very expensive, but as this is a NN forum I will not mention their names, but there are papers and the like that deal with this subject.
Presumably you are wanting to measure 3D points, but if you wish to use your spherical panoramas to measure in a plane, such as say a floor plan, then creating a Mirror Ball or Hemisphere from your panorama with the centre at the nadir will give you an image in which all the angles from the centre to the points of interest correct.
This is good feedback. Not only have we had other Nodal Ninja users asking us about this but also iStar users as well. The applications are broad and those in the know certainly have expanded skill sets. For those that are not familiar with photogrammetry the break down of the word itself explains it:
photo = light
gram = drawing
metry = measurement
The applications are very broad - forensics (big market), architectural, surveying, archaeology, military, and the like. Here is an interesting article on photogrammetry versus lidar:
It's all interesting stuff.
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Hello Mike,
There are other methods of measuring points for things like crime scene investigations which are definitely off topic in this forum so if you wish to contact me by email I will respond.
I am now retired so don't have any vested interest, but am happy to discuss the topic.
Regarding photogrammetry, a package that is a good photogrammetric solution using "conventional" images and stereo photographs is Photomodeler.
I know that they have talked about rectification from spherical panoramas and will probably provide a solution at some stage in the future, but they are not planning to do this at the moment.
Best regards, Hugh.
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Hello Nick,
Thanks for giving Mike the Spheron link.
I did not actually mention this as it is surly a competitor product to your Nodal Ninjas even though it is in a different price bracket at something like �20K.
Their solution uses a rotating camera with a very narrow exposure slit (I think perhaps only one pixel wide) but is perhaps the ultimate in HDR with something like a 24 stop range.
There is another company that is a direct competitor to Spheron and in the same price bracket using a similar solution (i.e. rotating camera), but I cannot remember its name at the moment.
I'll look it up if anyone is interested.
Best regards, Hugh.
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Between your comments, and Hugh's - I'd like to say "the Light at the End of the Tunnel" is beginning to get a bit brighter to this "Engineering/3D Illiterate One".
I've read about the Spheron, and a few other units which candidly ... at a starting price of ~$40K, probably WAY out of my price range.
Thank you both, and any others who might want to chime in to help this "clueless one" ...
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3D modeling is just one extra step than what you needed. Basically you need to identify points in the images and use photogrammetry to solve the co-ordinates in 3D.
Here is one more estabilished solution
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THANKS! ... and what a mouthfull. I'm thinking this may be far, far over my head ... but I will investigate!
I've talked to Bill at NN and he was truthful in telling me he has no experience with this issue. They are however beginning to represent another product, the iStar ... that I am told will in the future have this capability.
So ... I'm trying to start "wrapping my head around" this ... from a humble photographer's perspective. Or ... decide to hand this issue off to our Engineering Staff :-).
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Hoover's 21-game win streak was snapped in the 6A title game as Daphne upset the Buccaneers 7-6 Friday night.
Auburn commit and Hoover tight end Jaylon Denson was shocked that Hoover managed just six points in the loss.
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Hoover had two opportunities to score with field goals. The first, a 36-yard attempt, busted because of a high snap and resulted in a 14-yard loss. The second could have been a 22-yard game-winner as it occurred with just 3:34 remaining in the game with the Bucs down 7-6, but it sailed wide left.
"I hate it obviously for that child," Vickery said. "But I know coach (Josh) Neblett and his spirit, he'll get that kid back."
Denson is four-star receiver recruit and has been committed to Auburn since September. He said he felt like he played a good game, but didn't feel that he played to his full potential especially toward the end of the game.
"I tried to come through for my team, but we came up short," Denson said.
He said playing at Jordan-Hare Stadium, his future stadium, was a good experience, but didn't end how he hoped it would.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A battle among rival gangs in a prison in Bolivia's eastern lowlands Friday left 30 people dead, many burned to death, as witnesses said inmates used propane gas tanks as flamethrowers. Among the dead was an 18-month-old infant.
The carnage in Palmasola maximum-security prison outside the regional capital of Santa Cruz also left 60 people injured, as inmates in one cell block attacked a neighboring cell block with knives, machetes and canisters of gas, said Interior Minister Carlos Romero.
Romero said the fight was over leadership and space in the prison. Inmates in one cell block knocked a hole in the wall separating the two groups, and opened the valves on the gas tanks, using them as flamethrowers, he said. The straw mattresses used by the inmates caught fire and the flames spread.
"The victims were trapped in the fire," Romero said. Palmasola is Bolivia's largest prison and officials are calling it the country's worst episode of prison violence.
Police and guards took several hours to put out the flames and control the violence, which took place in the prison wing that holds some of the prison's most dangerous prisoners. Most of the dead were on the second floor of the two-story block, Romero said.
Among the dead was a one-and-a-half year-old child, authorities said. The United Nations complained to Bolivia's government two months ago about its policy of allowing children through age 6 to live with parents in prisons.
By midday about a dozen children had been evacuated from the prison.
The local representative of Bolivia's independent Permanent Assembly for Human Rights, Maria Inez Galvez, told The Associated Press that she and other members of her group who were allowed to enter the prison saw "bodies of burned men, some of the wounded with burned hands, others with burned faces."
"We didn't know how to begin to help," she said, her voice cracking with emotion. She said that when she arrived at 8 a.m. the worst of the wounded had been evacuated. Hospital officials said many had second- and third-degree burns.
"We also saw a man who had burns and got up and grabbed a police officer's weapon in order to get taken to the hospital," said Galvez.
She said there were not enough police available to escort wounded prisoners to hospitals to get medical attention.
Galvez said she was told the fight was over the refusal of the gang in one cell block to pay extortion fees to its rivals in the other cell block, who attacked around dawn while most inmates were sleeping.
Some inmates jumped off a second-story roof to save themselves. TV images showed naked inmates stretched out on the floor of a prison block, many complaining of burns, after police regained control of the prison.
Although no guns were seized, officials said they found bullet casings and witnesses reported hearing shots.
As in many Latin American prisons, inmates largely control the inside of Palmasola, which teems with some 3,500 inmates, more than four in five still awaiting trial.
Outside the prison, relatives of inmates wept and shouted demands for a list of victims. Some angrily complained to journalists that police did nothing to try to save the lives of burn victims.
Romero, the interior minister, presented to the media five alleged leaders of the riot and said that another 50 inmates are in isolation for their role in the violence.
He acknowledged that the inmates ran the prison internally and called for a reform to the penitentiary system to "recover state control."
President Evo Morales expressed "consternation" over the deaths in a statement carried by the state news agency ABI, and said he was ordering a thorough investigation.
Weapons and drugs are typically available and businesses operate under the protection of gang leaders. Almost anything can be obtained in a prison like Palmasola for a fee, former inmates say, including cellphones and larger living spaces.
Associated Press writers Paola Flores in La Paz and Frank Bajak in Lima, Peru, contributed to this report.


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MID Cheshire is gearing up for National Bike Week with a number of events planned between June 14 and 22.
The week is all about celebrating everyday cycling, something that the Guardian's long-running Pedal Power campaign has championed since it began in November 2012.
Bike Week also includes Bike to Work Day, which a Northwich business park is embracing wholeheartedly.
• Cyclists taking part in the day at Gadbrook Park will receive novel medallions to mark their participation.
It takes place on Tuesday, June 17, from 6am to 9.30am, and Roberts Bakery is donating gingerbread medallions to those taking part.
Everyone who cycles to work on the day will be entered in a prize draw worth up to £500, and on arrival at the park vouchers will be distributed for a breakfast deal provided by Caffe Arabica.
The main sponsor of the event will be Stephen Hall, the managing director of H and M Disinfection Systems, which is based on the park.
"I am delighted to welcome all the riders to the park, and look forward to my annual chat with the unicycle rider from the Hut Group," said Mr Hall.
"I would encourage everyone to join in, and will be on hand to provide cycling advice throughout the morning."
The Bike to Work day is supported and financed by the Gadbrook Park Business Improvement District.
• The Pedal Power campaign has two events planned to get mid Cheshire's cyclists together.
The first is a lunch hour ride at 1pm on Thursday, June 19.
Cyclists should meet at the entrance to Carey Park, in Cumberland car park, for a five mile ride around Northwich Woodlands.
A social event has been planned for Saturday, June 21, in the form of a Pedal Power Picnic.
The idea of this is for cyclists to bring a picnic to Marbury Park any time from 12.30pm and either travel there by bike or link the picnic in with a bike ride.
The picnic will take place by the rangers' cabins at the park.
• The Breeze network is also marking Bike Week with a number of rides for women and children.
The five-mile 'Dutton Doddle' meets by the Leigh Arms pub, by Acton swing bridge, at 11am on June 15.
A 30-mile 'Breeze do Bike Week: Peckforton Pedal' meets at Hartford train station at 10am on June 17.
A 12-mile 'Breeze do Bike Week: Whitegate Way' meets at Hartford train station at 10am on June 18.
A six-mile ride for beginners starts at Northwich Library at 2.30pm on June 19 and heads out to Marbury Park.
A five-mile 'Big Breeze Bike Ride - Summer Ride and Read' meeets at Sandiway Library at 10am on June 21, men are also welcome on this family ride.
For more information visit breezebikerides.com.
- TWO friends (pictured) are embarking on a cycling mission for National Bike Week.
Community fitness instructor Theresa Bateman, founder of Fabb Fitness, hopes to raise funds for Northwich children's chairty The Joshua Tree with a 60-mile London to Brighton bike ride on June 15.
She is completing the bike ride with her friend Pam Ford who is raising funds for the British Heart Foundation.
Theresa's next gruelling event will be the Tough Mudder challenge with other Fabb Fitness enthusiasts in August and Pam will be taking part in the new 'Run or Dye' 5K run for St Luke's Hospice.
The latest kids' craze Loom Bands are also being used to raise funds and 10-year-old Eve Bateman is selling them at the Fabb Fitness community sessions.
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Tom Brady helps kick off rededicated TYP
QB celebrates Myra Kraft '64 legacy with Transitional Year Program students and alumni
A special guest joined the party to celebrate Brandeis' newly renamed Myra Kraft '64 Transitional Year Program.
New England Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady, who grew close to the beloved Brandeis alumna during his long tenure with the National Football League team, made a surprise appearance at team owner Robert Kraft's home on Tuesday to meet the TYP students and alumni.
"I wish you the best of luck," Brady, who was accompanied by his 3-year-old son, Benjamin, said in addressing the TYP students. "You guys are the leaders of tomorrow. You are going to be leading little boys like this and little girls like my little girl (Vivian)."
Kraft, a prominent Boston businessman, and his family made a $5 million gift earlier this year to rename the pioneering college-access program for his wife Myra, a dedicated Brandeis trustee and supporter who died in 2011.
"She loved the school as a student. She loved the school as an alumna. She loved the school as a trustee," Brandeis President Frederick Lawrence said. "We talked about the right way to memorialize her and remember her at Brandeis." Lawrence also unveiled a portrait of Myra that will hang in the Irving Enclave at Brandeis.
Through her work with the Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation and as president of the New England Patriots Charitable Foundation, Myra sought to improve the lives of people at Brandeis, in Boston, Israel and around the world. She had a particular interest in helping children.
"She was a wonderful woman," Brady told the TYP students. "You guys didn't get to know her like I did. She was an incredible woman, and you should be really proud to be associated with her name."
Kraft spoke lovingly of his wife and offered words of encouragement to the students.
"All of you are embarking on a very special program," he said. "You're in a great environment and you will have a great opportunity to succeed. I'm so proud that all of you will bear my sweetheart's name as Myra Kraft Scholars. You couldn't find a better brand to be associated with."
Since its founding at Brandeis 45 years ago, TYP has helped more than 1,000 young people earn college diplomas. The one-year academic program prepares students who have not had access to the necessary resources either at home or in school to handle a rigorous four-year undergraduate experience.
By the time Myra arrived at Brandeis as a freshman, in the fall of 1960, she was already familiar with the university. Her father, Worcester, Mass., businessman Jacob Hiatt, was a visionary early Brandeis leader and she often accompanied him on visits to campus.
She became a Brandeis trustee in 1986 and served as vice chair of the board for 10 years. Myra also served on the presidential search committee that brought Lawrence to Brandeis.
Over the years, the Krafts have supported a number of initiatives at Brandeis, including student scholarships and a chair in Arab politics. Consistent with their commitment to fostering interreligious dialogue, the family also established the Myra and Robert Kraft and Jacob Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies at Brandeis, and a similar chair in Judaic studies at Holy Cross, a Jesuit institution in Worcester.
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) C.J. McCollum scored 21 points and Gabe Knutson finished with 18 points and 10 rebounds to lead Lehigh past Pennsylvania 73-66 Tuesday night in nonconference action.
Mackey McKnight added 15 points, and Holden Greiner chipped in with 13 points and four blocks for Lehigh (3-2).
Trailing 33-32 early in the second half following a Fran Dougherty dunk, Lehigh would go on a 19-8 run to take the lead and control of the game.
After outshooting the Mountain Hawks in the first half, Penn (1-5) shot just 34.4 percent (11 for 32) in the second half, compared to Lehigh's 50 percent (11 for 22).
Lehigh also improved its inside scoring in the second half. While being outscored in the paint by Penn in the first half, the Mountain Hawks held a 20-14 advantage inside in the second half.
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MMGN: No matter which way you look at it, Sony is undoubtedly gearing up to unveil its plans for the successor to the PlayStation 3, starting with its February 20 "meeting".
Here are five things it needs to be successful.
A timely launch date for this year.
15 to 20 games at launch across multiple genres.
Price of console should be no higher than $499.
Games to remain at $60 or lower.
Aggressive marketing both online and televised.
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The only thing they need to do is continue the momentum they build with the PS3 just now, and work from there.
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Microsoft wasn't able to put anything against Killzone's GFX GOW brutality or Uncharted's quality, nor PS+.


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Clinton's '08 slaps still sting Obama
"Friendship" was the main course during Hillary Clinton's lunch with President Barack Obama this week, according to an Obama spokesman, but no one could have blamed Clinton for ordering a small side of I-told-you-so.
Much of the bombastic campaign rhetoric from 2008 — think "3 a.m. call" — proved as ephemeral as the thousands of half-melted "Hillary" candy bars Clinton's staff handed out on Super Tuesday five years ago.
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But some of Clinton's most memorable '08 shots at Obama have had resonance far beyond the short shelf life of the standard campaign hit parade: her mockery of his vow to transform Washington in his own image, her cry of "elitism" and her skepticism about his managerial chops echo today in the form of GOP attacks and the lingering doubts of some in his own party.
( PHOTOS: The Clinton-Obama relationship)
Clinton's campaign attacks on Obama may have been an exaggerated version of reality, but in retrospect they were illuminating, in the way a hand grenade provides a flash of light before going boom.
Former Clinton staffers didn't want to be within a mile of this story. ("I'm hanging up now," said one top '08 campaign aide cheerfully before the line went dead.) But several more intrepid ex-aides pointed to one quote in particular: a Clinton broadside delivered in Toledo, Ohio, on Feb. 24, 2008, that represented her most stinging attack on Obama's core hope-and-change message.
"I could stand up here and say: let's just get everybody together, let's get unified," Clinton said, voice dripping with contempt long since discarded.
"The sky will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing, and everyone will know that we should do the right thing, and the world would be perfect," Clinton added. "Maybe I've just lived a little long, but I have no illusions about how hard this will be. You are not going to wave a magic wand…"
( PHOTOS: Who's talking about Hillary 2016?)
It was caricature — but a little prescient too. In 2012, Obama downplayed his soaring change-Washington mantra, replacing it with a very Hillary '08 focus on the economy, competence and rationality – the stuff of incumbents and battle-scarred DC veterans. Exactly what Clinton had been four years earlier.
Longtime Clinton adviser James Carville, who was in close touch with the Clinton family during the rocky '08 primaries, says Obama has come to recognize what Hillary Clinton had already learned during her eight tough years in the White House: Transcendental politics works on a campaign, but not so much when it comes to governing.
"His message was "I can transcend Washington' — her message was 'I can bend it, I can cut through it.' Guess which one turned out to be right?" Carville said.
"I got nothing against the president and his people. Hell, when [Bill] Clinton came to Washington, he believed that stuff too. … But the system in Washington devours everything. It always wins. The power of it is awesome to watch. Hillary understood that [in 2008], and he gets it now."
( PHOTOS: 2008 RNC and DNC speakers)
Obama's aides say he was never as clueless as Clinton — or any of his subsequent critics — portrayed him. Voters need inspiration, not just perspiration, and he was hoping his message would spur the GOP to compromise, they say.
"You don't go out in a campaign and sell a B-plus, you go out and give people an ideal," said Tommy Vietor, a former National Security Council spokesman who was a mainstay of Obama's 2008 campaign press operation. "I think that was — and is — a key part of what made the president so successful. … And he didn't know that the GOP leadership would make derailing progress their one and only priority."
( Also on POLITICO: Obama enters Hill health care dispute)
Many of Clinton's claims have turned out to be total duds — especially on foreign policy, where Obama has proven to be less the doe-eyed naif than the cautious caretaker who signed off on Afghanistan troop withdrawals only after approving one final military surge.
But comments about his overall approach to governing have been more durable, and frequently re-purposed by Republicans.
"There's a big difference between us — speeches versus solutions, talk versus action," Clinton said, also in the make-or-break month of February 2008. "Speeches don't put food on the table. Speeches don't fill up your tank, or fill your prescription, or do anything about that stack of bills that keeps you up at night."
A more pointed, and more controversial, statement came in late January 2008, when Clinton questioned Obama's ability to control Congress — with a comparison of Martin Luther King and President Johnson, which many Obama backers took to be a veiled racial swipe.
"Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act," Clinton told Fox News on the eve of Obama's blowout win in the African-American-dominated South Carolina primary.
"It took a president to get it done," she added.
In the short term, Clinton's quip was a classic rhetorical boomerang, cleverly stoked by Obama's staff and surrogates who did little to discourage the implication that it revealed the candidate's hidden feelings on race. But the negative comparisons to LBJ have intensified over the years, much to the chagrin of Obama's staff.


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Nor'easter is expected to blanket the regionBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
December 13. 2013 10:43PM
A nor'easter could dump more than a foot of snow on parts of southern New Hampshire tonight and Sunday as the storm intensifies and barrels up the New England coast.
The first major storm of the season is expected to bring 8 to 12 inches of snow to central and southern areas, but localized spots could see up to 14 inches in Rockingham and Strafford counties, said Tom Hawley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine.
"It will be a nor'easter, but it's not a blockbuster. It's a moderate event and people are going to have to take care on the roads," he said.
Winter storm warnings were posted for all of the state for tonight and Sunday, with the snow expected to arrive early this evening and pick up in intensity during the overnight hours.
Hawley said the heaviest will likely fall between about 10 p.m. today and 8 a.m. Sunday.
The snow should end by early Sunday afternoon, he said.
Winds are also expected to pick up in southeastern New Hampshire.
"We will see stronger winds than previously thought, especially in Rockingham and Strafford counties," Hawley said.
Northeast winds could gust up to 30 mph beginning around 6 a.m. Sunday and lasting through about noon.
"There will be plenty of blowing and drifting of the snow with reduced visibilities," Hawley said.
The good news is that the snow will be light and fluffy. Hawley said it won't be the kind of snow that sticks to trees and causes power outages in a coastal storm.
New Hampshire will also remain on the chilly side over the weekend and into the first part of next week. Hawley said highs today will be in the upper teens and drop to the low to mid-teens during the night. Highs on Sunday will climb into the mid-20s.
Temperatures have been running about 10 degrees below normal for this time of year, but Hawley said temperatures may begin to warm up a bit by later next week.
Will the snow from this weekend's storm stick around to give New Hampshire a white Christmas? That's the question many people are asking, but Hawley made no guarantees.
While New Hampshire has experienced a cold snap in recent days, forecasters eyeing a chance for some rain by next weekend.


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Mark Dutro has been going to cross country races for more than two decades.
Saturday, however, marked a new start for the veteran running coach.
Dutro, the longtime track and cross country coach at Durango High School, moved up to take over the Fort Lewis College cross country program this season.
His runners took to the starting line for the first time Saturday at the Joe I. Vigil Invitational, hosted by Adams State College in Alamosa.
To be honest, I was nervous (Saturday). This is a whole new experience for me, and it turned out really well, Dutro said after his first meet with the Skyhawks.
It was really good, especially for our girls ... women, actually. Ive got to get used to that, the former prep coach said.
With the women, I didnt know what to expect. I had an idea of how they had trained. But to get four girls under 20 minutes, I mean four women under 20 minutes ... that was super, Dutro said.
Of the four, two are incoming freshmen.
Maddie Kruger of the Skyhawks finished 24th individually in 19 minutes, 31 seconds. Kruger, a former prep standout at Lewis-Palmer, transferred back to FLC this season after a year away.
Alexis Work, another Colorado Springs-area prep standout, finished 31st for FLC in 19:40. Teammate Alyssa Carman (Discovery Canyon) was 32nd (19:42).
Kat Medici, a former Pagosa Springs runner, was 34th in 19:44.
Our mentality was to pack, Dutro said. We started out slow. But it worked out well. And all four of those girls are Colorado girls.
He said the FLC coaches knew they had a solid womens group.
We just didnt know it would happen this fast, Dutro said of the fast FLC times.
Tara Richardson of Western State won the womens race in 17:41, just ahead of Alicia Nelson of Adams State (17:41).
Western State won the womens team title with 29 points. Adams State was second at 31. West Texas A&M finished third (87). Regis was fourth (122) and FLC fifth (128).
Kenyan Kip Mutai from FLC finished 22nd in the mens 8K. He ran 26:47.
Kevin Batt of Adams State won (25:34). Teammate Tabor Stevens was second (25:37).
Jimmy Mohrbacker of FLC, a former Dakota Ridge prep runner, was 29th (26:53).
Garrett Sapakoff (Littleton) was 39th (27:12), and Joey Brenner (Minnesota) was 41st (27:19) for the Skyhawks, who were third in mens team scoring.
Adams State won with 19 points. Western State was second with 42. FLC was third (100).
Kips had such bad luck ... three years of injuries, Dutro said. Running like this will help build his confidence. (Saturday) was a step in the right direction.
Dutro said a couple of the Skyhawks were under the weather but competed Saturday.
Derek Laue ...hes been sick. But for him to run through that is a positive, Dutro said of the former Bayfield High School distance ace.
Laue was 54th (27:37) in the field of 114 runners in the mens field.
FLC will host the annual Tom Strandt Memorial Run on campus Friday afternoon.


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For months now, rumors have percolated about exactly which Star Trek villain Benedict Cumberbatch will be bringing to live in the second J.J. Abrams-directed Trek movie. And now, it seems as though Karl Urban, who plays Dr. McCoy, has casually let the answer slip in the middle of a Dredd junket. But is Urban telling the truth?
According to SFX, Urban was asked about the Sherlock star, and he told reporters: "He's awesome, he's a great addition, and I think his Gary Mitchell is going to be exemplary."
Gary Mitchell, for those who missed it, was the quasi-villain of the first episode of Star Trek that William Shatner filmed (although not the first aired episode.) Mitchell, an old friend of Kirk's from the Academy, gets hit with strange energy when the Enterprise passes through the barrier at the edge of the galaxy, and develops godlike powers... which in turn make him into a psychopath. The emphasis on someone who is becoming something not quite human is very Trek, and also might provide a good counterweight to the story of Kirk learning to be a real captain.
There are just a few reasons to be leery of this story, however: 1) This would mean Old Spock really hasn't given the crew any advice about avoiding the most obvious mistakes his Enterprise made. 2) Roberto Orci already said Cumberbatch is not playing Mitchell. 3) The officially sanctioned tie-in comic already told a Gary Mitchell story, which this would presumably contradict.
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Greif Inc., a manufacturer of industrial packaging located in Tonawanda, recently made a timely donation to Niagara Hospice. Having multiple facilities needing their parking lots free of ice and snow for visitors, volunteers and staff, Niagara Hospice was given a low-mileage, beautiful condition Chevy pickup truck that will be used to help keep facility parking clear.
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The City of San Diego City Planning & Community Investment Department is embarking on a comprehensive update of the San Ysidro community plan; and corresponding amendments to the San Ysidro Redevelopment Project Area Plan, existing zoning program, and City San Diego Local Coastal Program.
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Company CEO and Co-founder honored at 2012 awards ceremony as Most-admired CEO in the Emerging Growth category
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Nov. 20, 2012 10:07 AM
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The San Francisco Business Times has named Plum Organics CEO and Co-founder, Neil Grimmer, Most-admired CEO of the Year in the Emerging Growth category. Plum Organics is a leading kids nutrition company with a comprehensive offering of organic products for babies, toddlers and school-aged children. Grimmer, an Oakland resident and father of two daughters, received this award alongside 14 other Bay Area industry leaders at an awards reception on November 13th, 2012 in San Francisco.
"It has been a tremendous honor to be recognized as one of the Most-admired CEOs in the Bay Area," said Neil Grimmer CEO and Co-founder of Plum Organics. "I am proud to lead such a passionate group of people, many of which are also parents, who are equally dedicated to nourishing this next generation of children with nutritious food. Together we have been able to accomplish incredible growth in just a few short years and I know it's only the beginning."
Plum Organics has experienced tremendous growth in the organic food industry, leading category innovation in the baby food segment with the 2009 introduction of a squeezable spouted-pouch format. To date, the company has launched over 100 organic products designed for on-the–go nutrition, with its meal and snack products distributed in over 10,000 stores nationwide. The company produces a diverse line of squeezable purees as well as whole grain, fruit, veggie and dairy based snacks that span the breakfast, lunch, and anytime snacking occasion. With this broad assortment, Plum Organics is the first organic brand to comprehensively address the nutritional needs of babies, toddlers and kids.
The Most-admired CEO recognition comes on the heels of a number of other industry accolades for the young company. This summer, Inc. Magazine ranked Plum Organics, which had a 3-year growth rate of 4,056%, #63 on their Inc. 500 list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America, and #2 within the Fastest-Growing Food & Beverage category. In addition, the San Francisco Business Times honored Plum Organics as the Fastest-Growing Private Company in the Bay Area for 2011.
In conjunction with the award, a full profile on Neil Grimmer for the Most-admired CEO ran in the November 19th print edition of the San Francisco Business Times. It can also be found online at: Neil Grimmer, Most-admired CEO, Emerging Growth
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"For the past two years I've been fortunate enough to be employed as a storyboard artist in the south of France. While learning and growing professionally on a great project I also wanted to use my free time to discover a new country and culture through my sketchbook.
I went out as often as possible to record the sights and people that I encountered on my travels in and around the French Riviera and also Paris, Annecy and Northern Italy.
In those two years I've drawn more than ever before but still don't think it's enough! I'm sure you'll all feel the same way — that drawing is a life-long struggle but therein lies the challenge and the fun."
• Matt's blog.
• Matt's art on Flickr.
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- "She cleaned the cut with a dab of some purple liquid that smoked and stung, but then poked his shoulder with her wand, and he felt it heal instantly."
- —Madam Pomfrey attending to Harry Potter's wounds[src]
The wound-cleaning potion is a purple liquid that is used to sterilise wounds as a powerful antiseptic. It smokes and stings when applied. Madam Pomfrey used it on Harry Potter when he was injured during the first task of the Triwizard Tournament in 1994.[1]
- 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (First appearance)
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- ↑ Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 20 (The First Task)


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Do you, gentle readers, understand that events like this and much worse happen every day in places similar to where these kids came from; places where our government has chosen, for whatever reason, to intervene with overwhelming and unnecessary force? Do you understand that people under America's thumb might want to retaliate?
OK. These kids needed to be caught and dealt with. Thanks to ubiquitous surveillance and technology, the authorities knew very quickly who was behind the bombings. Did we really need to turn Boston, a great American city, into a war zone? Did we really need thousands upon thousands of law enforcement of every description, with every conceivable weapon and contrivance to track down two idiots who had no chance of getting away? What do you imagine the public tab was for that TSA (thousands standing around) training?
To me, it looked like practice for what it might be like in a military-police state, which we are sadly and rapidly approaching.
Two very bad things have been heaped upon the tragic injuries and deaths of innocents in Boston. First, the two idiots have been glorified. How many jihadists do you think have been watching the ridiculously over-the-top coverage of this incident, and cheering for the bad guys? How many jihadists living a less than marginal existence in pathetic, war torn, economically decimated places do you think decided this week that – "yeah, that would be pretty cool – instant fame, martyrdom, 21 virgins and all that crap – I think I'll try something like that."
Second, domestic terrorists have been empowered. The argument of the gun nuts is that they have to be armed to the teeth in case marauding jihadists – or our own government – come after them. Here they have both. A couple of kids able to shut down a major American city, and a military-law enforcement response so insanely hysterical that every tinfoil-hat patriot amassing an arsenal will conclude, "that could be me."
We're in the midst of dark and stupid times. So I'm very glad to be in Moab. It's gloriously ambivalent and smack dab in the middle of nowhere. Come and get us. Just try it. We'll stuff you so full of organic food that you can't move, then tickle you to death.
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Jack Ryan, 4 1/2, didn't know yet what he was going to be. Lindsey Broomhead, 7, is going to be a piece of bubble gum, Anaya Celrosa, 3, a cat, and Ryan Barrett, 3, a storm trooper. Rian Hines, 5, will turn out as an astronaut, Christopher Head, 4, a Transformer, and Gracie Kaufman, 4, a fairy. Callie Bush, 4, will visit our homes as a snow fairy, Malia Schuler, 5, will be Darth Vader and Nora Fitzgerald, 3, a bunny rabbit.
No trends there, just a lot of smart kids. So, we stopped at the library and found Melissa Bershad, 13, who will be a Twister and her brother Danny, 9, who'll cut short our futures as Lord High Executioner. Twins Sam and Avery Grelle, 2 1/2, will be Tigger and a princess, respectively, and older sister Alyssa, 4, a skeleton. James Lawless, 11, plans on being a terrorist, and his brother David, 9, didn't know yet. "I have to check the stores," he said.
At McQuade's, Colette Fortenberry, 5, told us she is going to be a dog (she said she loves dogs), Kathryn Borges, 21 mos., will be Robin to her 3-year-old brother Maxwell's Batman and Ethan Roach, 7, will be Michael Meyers.
So, we saw no costume trends, just a lot of happy and excited kids.
Have fun! BOO!
If you're still up in the air about what you'll wear Saturday, go to the meeting hall in the Jamestown Philomenian Library tomorrow from 3 to 4 p.m. Make your own scary creation of masks, hats and decorations from paper, fabric scraps and other found materials. Prizes will be awarded for the costumes costing the least to make out of recycled materials and thrift shop items. Registration is not necessary, just show up and enjoy.
Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic tells us Halloween is a great holiday for kids, but isn't always full of treats for pets. "Make sure to keep candies and wrappers out of Fido's reach. Milk chocolate isn't good for dogs, but worse can be the plastic wrappers all those treats come in if the dog swallows them. If your pet is going out with you for trick or treating, make sure the puppy is plenty visible with a reflective leash, collar, vest or costume so passing cars see you and your furry family members easily. And, finally, if your pet is not a fan of all the strange little monsters coming to the front door, then make your pet comfortable in a back room or basement. Turn on some music or TV to drown out the noises, and give him a nice chew toy to work on during the evening so he isn't barking at all the kids or trying to bolt through the front door every time the doorbell rings."
*** Speaking of pets, Allie, a 15-week-old female tiger kitten with a white belly has been adopted from the Potter League for Animals by Nancy Cloud. She was brought her into the home as a companion for Kukla, a 2-year-old cat and also an alumnus of the Potter League. Nancy said that Kukla just hasn't been himself since the passing in August of his roommate and good friend Ollie, a 14-yearold brown Lab. Nancy added that Allie and Kukla have become "the very best of friends and sleep together."
Welcome, Allie!
Following are lyrics from a song that will be on the program at the Jamestown Community Chorus' 60th anniversary concert in December: "Clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety, clippety cloppin' along." What's the song?
From Stephanie Gilman Paradis: "I hate to admit that I do not remember the Spa at all...After reading Nancy Richardson's comments (and she is the same age I am), I called my cousin, John Woodhead, who grew up on Green Lane, to see if he remembered the Spa ...his description matched that of Nancy's. The only soda fountain I remember was the one at Hunt's Drug Store by the ferry."
A poser from John Woodhead: Was there a Western Auto on the island and, if so, where was it located?
*** Well, there goes our heliport!
"We try to understand the New York Times' effect on man" was correctly identified by Barbara- Ann MacIntosh and Peter C. Pemantell as from the Bee Gees' "Stayin'Alive !"
Laura Smith auditioned for the part of Mrs. Beauregard in the Jamestown Community Theatre's production of "Willy Wonka" in the parking lot of the Cathyrn Jamieson Salon. Mary Wright, the play's artistic director, was in the salon when she asked Laura, who is a stylist there, if she can sing. Replying that she thought so, the two adjourned to the parking lot where Laura belted out her rendition of "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow." Mary handed her a copy of the script. Mrs. Beauregard, a geography teacher and the wife of Luvvy, has two daughters, Violet, her favorite, with whom she goes through the factory, and Daffodil. This is Laura's first play ever and she thinks it's "neat." "I'm having fun, and I'm going with it." It's the first play also for her 14-year-old son, Alex Burke, who is a video cameraman who interviews the people going into the factory.
Also in the production is Steve Heath, a veteran of Jamestown Community Theatre presentations who told us that the beauty of participating in a Jamestown Community Theatre production is that you get to meet a whole different group of people. Steve plays Mr. Salt, Veruca's father. This is his fourth play with the island group, but his first musical. "I play an ignorant, loud-mouth nut salesman, nuts about nuts. I'd read the book but I had never seen the show before this."
"Willy Wonka" will be staged the weekends of Nov. 13 and 20.
We sadly report the passing of Pepper in September. He lived with the Ouellette family on Pemberton Avenue. Tracy Ouellette said, "We miss him a great deal and everyone in the senior complex does, too."
A Snapple cap moment: The lollipop was named after one of the most famous racehorses in the early 1900s, Lolly Pop.
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September 9, 1942 - January 6, 2013
Wallkill, NY
Frank D. Jones of Wallkill, NY, a lifelong resident of the area, died Sunday, January 6, 2013, in Poughkeepsie. He was 70.
The son of the late Ellis and Florence Swingle Jones, he was born September 9, 1942 in South Canaan, PA.
He retired after 45 years with IBM, Fishkill, NY.
Survivors include his wife, Catherine R. Jones, at home; son, Keith F. Jones and his wife, Amy of Arizona; daughter, Denise F. Jones of Lexington, KY; son, William J. Jones and his wife, Melanie of Middletown; four grandchildren: Dane, Cori, Frankie, Keffier; five great-grandchildren; sister, Debbie Woerderman of Tennessee; three nephews.
Visitation will be Friday, January 11, 2013 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Wallkill Funeral Home, 12 Bonaventura Ave., Wallkill, NY. Funeral services will follow at 9 p.m. at the funeral home. Reverend Toni Macon will officiate. Cremation will be in Cedar Hill Crematory in Newburgh, NY.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-1942.
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I've said this before, but I really admire the way the Securities and Exchange Commission has responded to the recent uproar about high-frequency trading. A lesser regulator would have jumped on the bandwagon of HFT bashing, or even tried to get out ahead of it with its own anti-HFT branding.
The SEC, on the other hand, basically thinks high-frequency trading is fine, but it knows you don't think that, and it wants to be tactful. It could just explain that markets aren't rigged, but "markets are rigged" is sort of unfalsifiable. If the SEC says that the stock market is not a giant conspiracy to steal your money, that just means that it's in on the conspiracy.
So the SEC instead talks a lot about how it's going to fix the bits of markets that don't work quite right, and it does targeted enforcement against all the buzzwordy nemeses of fair markets. And it stage manages all of it carefully: After Mary Jo White's big market structure speech yesterday, the SEC today announced two market-structure enforcement actions, one against a dark pool and the other against a company that gave high-frequency traders access to the markets. The boxes, they are checked.
The dark pool, Liquidnet, agreed to pay a $2 million dollar fine for illicitly sharing its customer order data. That's bad! One of the main market-structure conspiracy theories is that dark pools -- which are supposed to be places where institutions can go and post big orders without anyone ever seeing them -- are actually secretly selling institutional order flow to high-frequency traders. So catching a dark pool in the act is a pretty big story for the SEC.
Except that that's not what Liquidnet did. Liquidnet did share order data, but not with high-frequency traders who then traded against it. Instead, Liquidnet shared order data with issuers. So if you were a company interested in doing a follow-on stock offering, Liquidnet would tell you, roughly speaking, how much unmet institutional demand there was for your stock. (That is, how many buy orders that it had that weren't matched by sell orders.) This could give you some idea of when to do an offering. And vice versa if you wanted to buy back stock: Liquidnet would tell you how much selling interest there was.
Liquidnet advertised, and told its customers, that it provided this "equity capital markets" function, in an aggregated way ("there is X times more selling interest than buying interest," etc.). What it didn't tell them was that its equity capital markets salespeople could see individual order data, and, being salespeople, they took advantage of it:
As part of their marketing efforts, ECM employees also frequently reached out to issuers with ad-hoc reports about recent activity in the issuers' stocks, and some of these reports included descriptive characteristics of the members whose information was discussed. For example, on April 26, 2011, an ECM employee contacted an issuer with an update about two block executions on Liquidnet ATS in the issuer's stock that very morning. The ECM employee included the time, quantity and price of each of the two trades; informed the issuer that both trades involved the same seller; and noted that neither the seller nor one of the two buyers involved in the trades were among the issuer's 13F holders, but the second buyer was one of the issuer's 13F holders. The ECM employee further informed the issuer that the "seller still has considerable quantity on the books to offload" and that "[o]ne of the buyers has some residual interest to buy today.
Now, you can see why this would be objectionable. Big shareholders of Company X might not want Company X to know that they're offloading shares, since that might cause them to lose management access. And activists accumulating a position -- or even a merger toehold -- in a company might not want the company to rush to put in a poison pill after being tipped off by some dark pool trolling for business.2
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Opinion: Pressure needs to be ratcheted up in order to make Kim Jong Un back down
EDITOR'S NOTE: Boris Epshteyn formerly served as a Senior Advisor to the Trump Campaign and served in the White House as Special Assistant to The President and Assistant Communications Director for Surrogate Operations.
WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) - North Korea tested another ballistic missile this week. They claim that the missile could carry a "super large heavy warhead" and that North Korea has now completed development of its nuclear program.
Experts are not so sure. This latest provocation appears to be more of a message by Kim Jong Un to his people than a flexing of muscles to the world.
The missile was not fired over Japan, as had been done previously. Moreover, the test did not target the U.S. territory of Guam or include any other overtly offensive military action.
The United States, its allies and even China have condemned the latest belligerent action by North Korea. China could still be stronger as they also called on other countries to not escalate tensions with North Korea.
Where do we go from here?
The administration, as well Democrats and Republicans on the hill are promising further sanctions against North Korea. Part of those sanctions would punish the financial institutions which facilitate the flow of money to the rogue state. The goal is to cut North Korea off from the rest of the world and, frankly, squeeze the regime into backing down.
I don't see Kim Jong Un bending to these sanctions because those hurt his people, they don't hurt him.
Here is the bottom line, what's likely to happen is North Korea will continue to develop nuclear and ballistic technology. Kim Jong Un will keep feeding his starving people with boasts about military might. The situation will deescalate when North Korea is either cut off completely by China, the sanctions become truly crippling or a military option is exercised.


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SAN ANDREAS - Stanislaus National Forest officials failed to comply with a federal rule that requires them to minimize damage caused by dirt bikers and other off-highway-vehicle recreationists, a federal judge ruled last week.
SAN ANDREAS - Stanislaus National Forest officials failed to comply with a federal rule that requires them to minimize damage caused by dirt bikers and other off-highway-vehicle recreationists, a federal judge ruled last week.
The ruling by U.S. Eastern District California Judge Kimberly J. Mueller will force the Forest Service to reconsider its 2009 plan for managing forest roads and trails and possibly reduce the number of trails available for motorized recreation.
Tuolumne County-based Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center and other conservation groups sued the Forest Service in 2010, arguing that the forest plan failed in a number of ways to comply with environmental law.
Particularly controversial was the decision by forest officials to legalize the use of 137 miles of so-called "unauthorized" trails that had been created over the years by motorized vehicles.
The way the conservationists see it, the decision rewarded the same off-road-vehicle users who had been illegally causing damage and allowed the damage and erosion to continue.
"The court ruling is very clear. It describes the approval as arbitrary and capricious, which is exactly what our center had asserted," said John Buckley, executive director of CSERC.
Jerry Snyder, a spokesman for the Stanislaus National Forest, said Monday that forest officials heard that morning about the ruling handed down Friday but were not yet able to comment on it.
"No one here has yet reviewed that," Snyder said.
The 2009 Stanislaus National Forest Travel Management Plan was the result of years of often contentious public hearings and research. Both the hikers and environmentalists who had objections to legalizing the unauthorized trails and the motorized recreationists who use them are well organized, and hundreds of individuals and multiple organizations weighed in.
John Stewart, a natural resource consultant who works for the California Association of Four Wheel Drive Clubs, said the Stanislaus suit is just one of many legal battles over motorized recreation in national forests either under way or pending across the western United States.
Stewart disagrees with the idea that the trails in question are unauthorized.
"A lot of those routes in question pre-existed any management efforts. They go back 40, 50 years to when logging and grazing were big operations in the area," Stewart said.
"We believe the forest service complied with all aspects of the law ... in coming up with the travel management plan," Stewart said.
The District Court ruling says that the Forest Service did comply with National Environmental Policy Act rules on how it has to study and justify projects such as the travel management plan. The judge denied several motions by conservationists to have that aspect of the forest's work overturned.
Instead it is a subsection of the federal government's travel management rule that forest officials violated, the judge said. That rule requires national forests to have the objective of "minimizing" several types of damage caused by motorized recreation, including soil erosion, harassment of wildlife, and conflicts with users such as hikers and bird watchers who prefer a quieter experience.
Buckley said that before filing suit, representatives of CSERC and other environmental groups offered to settle the dispute if Stanislaus officials had been willing to close to motorized use just the most damaged 20 miles out of the 137 miles of unauthorized trails.
"The forest service simply resisted any compromise. That left no other option but going to court," Buckley said.
Although Friday's decision does not immediately close any trails, it does require both the plaintiffs and forest officials to return to court in a little over a month with proposals for remedying the situation.
"The specifics of what our side will ask for in February is still not developed and agreed upon by those of us who are plaintiffs," Buckley said.
But Buckley said environmentalists are seeking to limit damage to the forest and its soils and waterways, not to shut out motorized recreationists. He said that he and other plaintiffs will seek a "balanced" solution.
Contact reporter Dana M. Nichols at (209) 607-1361 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/calaverasblog.


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Blitzaholic wrote:team 1, blitz, osu, eye, dbz
Gilligan wrote:I'd like to join but am teamless.
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i will add you and see if 3 others post in here, maybe we can match you with them
Gilligan wrote:Sure, I accept
killmanic wrote:Me and team to be named later
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me, lt.pie, Velvecarrots and waseemalim (they haven't agreed yet - but I'm sure they will )
By "spacey dark" I assume you mean that fog is on?? - if so how are you going to determine who joins the games second (as they could have a significant advantage).
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Just a few random thoughts for a Monday.
Just a few random thoughts for a Monday.
� It was interesting to hear Gov. Jerry Brown's State of the State address Thursday and his comments about water and the Delta.
The following is taken from a transcript of his speech:
"Water. Central to the life of our state is water and one-sixth of that water flows through the San Joaquin Delta.
Silicon Valley, the Livermore Valley, farmers on the East side of the San Joaquin Valley between Fresno and Kern County and farmers on the West side between Tracy and Los Banos, urban Southern California and Northern Contra Costa, all are critically dependent on the Delta for water.
If because of an earthquake, a hundred-year storm or sea level rise, the Delta fails, the disaster would be comparable to Hurricane Katrina or superstorm Sandy: losses of at least $100 billion and 40,000 jobs. I am going to do whatever I can to make sure that does not happen. My proposed plan is two tunnels 30 miles long and 40 feet wide, designed to improve the ecology of the Delta, with almost 100 square miles of habitat restoration. Yes, that is big but so is the problem.
The London Olympics lasted a short while and cost $14 billion, about the same cost as this project. But this project will serve California for hundreds of years."
Let's see, two 40-foot-wide, 30-mile-long tunnels removing water from the Delta to ship elsewhere is supposed to help the habitat? I presume Brown also meant to mention that San Joaquin County farmers would be helped by this measure too.
If an earthquake, storm or rising sea levels are truly the threat to the Delta, as Brown said, wouldn't a primary part of the solution be to improve the levee system?
I didn't hear any mention of that, unless of course that is the code for "habitat restoration."
It has been said many times, folks, but get ready to be INSERT YOUR OWN VERB HERE. Those folks south of us want water, without regard to how it affects our area. Maybe we'll get another prison facility instead of water for agricultural use.
� I want Anthony Silva to be successful as Stockton's mayor for a number of reasons. After all, I do live and work here. If Silva succeeds, then the city must be doing better and we all benefit. But sometimes his actions cause me to shake my head. Last week, he assigned council members' seating for meetings in City Hall. It is the mayor's job to do so. Silva placed the only two women on the council - former Vice Mayor Kathy Miller and newly appointed Councilwoman Dyane Burgos - at opposite ends of the dais. At the very end of the dais.
So they will sit from left to right: Miller, Michael Tubbs, Moses Zapien, Silva, Vice Mayor Paul Canepa, Elbert Holman and Burgos.
Maybe I am being petty, but it just looks bad and creates an "all-boys club" atmosphere. Sometimes it is the subtle things that make all the difference.
� And lastly, it was pointed out recently that very few areas are enjoying what Bay Area sports fans are nowadays. The San Francisco Giants are coming off their second World Series title in three years. The 49ers are in the Super Bowl. The Warriors are resurgent and David Lee is the team's first NBA all-star selection since 1997. The Oakland A's made a surprise run to the playoffs last season too. And the San Jose Sharks are off to a fast start. Even the Raiders are making news - whoops. Two former players, Tim Brown and Jerry Rice, have accused former coach Bill Callahan of deliberately sabotaging the Raiders' chance of winning Super Bowl XXXVII 10 years ago. Callahan called the allegations "ludicrous" and "defamatory."
Contact Donald W. Blount at (209) 546-8251 or firstname.lastname@example.com. The Record senior editors' blog is available at recordnet.com/editorblog.