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Why Trump’s Bribery Scandal Isn’t Hurting Him

It seems almost beyond doubt that Donald Trump directly paid off Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to stop investigating his Trump University scam with a $25,000 “donation.” No criminal charges will come of it absent a special prosecutor because the person who would be in charge of prosecuting the case would be…the Attorney General who took the “donation.”

That isn’t stopping independent attorneys from filing their own complaints, however, with criminal penalties added. That could get interesting, and is helping to keep the story in the public eye.

The larger question many are asking is why this isn’t doing more damage to Trump. Even as Clinton gets tarred with innuendos about the Clinton Foundation that turn out to be a little bit of smoke with no pay-to-play fire, Trump appears to have been caught making direct bribes but little comes of it.

The first instinct on the left is usually to blame the media for covering Clinton too harshly and letting Trump off too lightly, and there’s some truth to this. But it goes far deeper than that.

Trump reeks of aggressive corruption in all his ways. I don’t think even Trump voters would say they think his business practices were entirely legal or ethical. It’s not that voters don’t know this. It’s that a large percentage of them don’t care.

Also keep in mind the difference between being a businessman doing the bribing, and the politician being bribed. The former are seen as go-getters, and the latter are seen as toadies. Trump has already admitted to bribing politicians to do what he wants–he made it part of his primary campaign platform! The people inclined to vote for Trump aren’t going to be scared off because he gave some cash to a Florida AG to protect his businesses. It wouldn’t surprise me if many of them will see it as a positive.

This is very frustrating to many liberals, because they want presidential politics to be about facts and truth and not about emotions and archetypes. But the few persuadable voters out there by definition tend to be the most ignorant, and the least likely to fall in line with partisan coalition-based thinking. Their attitude is, “I don’t know much about politics, but which person do I think would be likeliest to make the sort of decisions I would if I cared about politics?” That’s where the “person I’d like to have a beer with” phenomenon comes from.

So what would each candidate do, in terms of decision making? Well, with Trump it’s obvious: Trump will do what’s best for Trump, and he’ll bribe, haggle, negotiate, bully, intimidate and coerce anyone he has to to get it. Trump’s big challenge is convincing voters that “what’s good for Trump” can be extrapolated to “what’s good for America” or at least the white middle/working class part of it. Attacking Trump effectively would involve separating what’s good for Trump from what’s good for the country. The bribery scandal glances off him like Teflon because protecting his business interests by manipulating politicians is right in line with what we all expect from Trump. No one cares except for those who were already going to vote against him.

Clinton’s problem is that her decision calculus is far more inscrutable. Those of us who obsess over politics know her wonkish passion for the sorts of issues that she will try to advance with a pragmatic, center-left approach. But most people don’t know that. Most people see Clinton as the sort of person who doesn’t seem to have an intense personal conviction about things, but rather the sort of person who brings in dozens of experts and rich, influential people and listens to them, then tries to chart the most responsible course based on all the input.

The problem with that is that 1) generally speaking, people think the experts have screwed things up really badly, and rich people get their way too often; and 2) there are a lot of people looking for someone not to manage the bureaucracy and listen to it effectively, but to cut the Gordian knot and plow through it.

Allegations of corruption hurt Clinton worse than they hurt Trump, because if your persona is to be the listener who gets along with the bureaucracy and hobnobs to get things done, being the sort of person whose loyalty can be bought turns you into a sinister agent. If you’re a disruptive braggart like Mark Cuban who doesn’t give a shit what anyone thinks, allegations of corruption don’t hurt you as much because you simply look more effective.

So Clinton and Trump each play to their archetype. If you’re a college-educated liberal who works as a manager in an organization, chances are you’ll be really attracted to Clinton. If you’ve faced discrimination you will appreciate her approach and be disgusted by Trump’s abrasiveness. But others will find Trump’s persona much more appealing.

Presidential candidates aren’t so much people asactors on a stage. They have personas and they play certain roles, within defined archetypes that everyone already knows and associates with them. In the 2000 presidential race, Gore was the nerd and Bush was the jock. To win, Gore needed to become the hip nerd and expose Bush as the selfish jock, but Gore’s team never got that memo because they never accepted the inevitable narrative in the first place. The key to victory is adjusting the script to fit your narrative and not the opponent’s.

It’s likely that complaining about insufficient coverage of Trump’s bribery scandal does nothing to change the script, because the script wouldn’t change even if the story received more coverage.

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The purchase will be funded through ICF’s existing bank credit line, the Dec. 12 ICF announcement said.

Ironworks, of Glen Allen, Va., provides customer engagement solutions across web, mobile and social media platforms to the health, energy and financial services industries, as well as to federal government agencies and nonprofit organizations.

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Northrop Grumman Corp. will de-emphasize its technology services, including military base operations support, to focus on higher-margin opportunities, according to today’s Washington Business Journal.

"We decided to focus less on top line a few years ago when we saw the market turning, and shrunk the company to one that is highly focused in core areas, from about $35 billion to $25 billion at midpoint this year," Steve Movius, vice president of investor relations, told a June 13 investors conference, according to the WBJ report.

Areas that will continue to be top priorities include C4ISR, which accounts for about 40 percent of Northrop’s annual sales. Unmanned systems make up another 10 percent and cybersecurity accounts for most of the other 50 percent, according to Movius.

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Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders. After his bizarre behavior results in rejection from countless women, Warren Stacy begins murdering women, always while he is naked, which minimizes any physical evidence left behind. Detective Leo Kessler is convinced of Stacy’s guilt and, over the objections of his partner, plants evidence to get him behind bars. When Stacy is released on a technicality, he threatens to go after Kessler and his family, leaving Kessler to defend himself with little help from the police.

Release Date:1983-03-11
Runtime:101 minutes
Genres:Crime, Drama, Thriller
Casts:Charles Bronson, Lisa Eilbacher, Andrew Stevens, Geoffrey Lewis, Gene Davis, Wilford Brimley, Robert F. Lyons, Sydna Scott, Bert Williams, Iva Lane

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Why We Can Trust the New Testament

The best sources for knowing Jesus are the twenty-seven books of the New Testament. It would be a mistake to say that the New Testament is one witness to Jesus’ resurrection. Rather, the New Testament consists of twenty-seven separate documents, written by nine different authors (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, the unknown author of Hebrews, James, Peter, and Jude). These authors did not sit down together and decide what they were going to write about. In other words, they didn’t conspire to write a myth or a legend, something they knew to be false. Rather, each one wrote, independently of the others, about what they had seen and heard, and what God revealed to them. We know that they didn’t write together because sometimes they had significant disagreements, as can be seen in Galatians 2:11.

The amazing thing is that these authors produced a very cohesive, unified document. And they did this while writing at different times, from different places, to different locations. This is what James White calls “multifocality.”[1] If the authors of these books were not inspired by God to write these books, they would not be so unified in thought. To understand the importance of having multiple witnesses writing in multiple locations, to multiple destinations, at various times, we can compare the origin of the New Testament to the origin of the Qur’an or the Book of Mormon and other works that Joseph Smith wrote. The story of the Qur’an is that the angel Gabriel supposedly appeared to Muhammad and revealed certain teachings, which he recited to his community. These teachings were memorized and written down after Muhammad’s death. Similarly, Joseph Smith claimed to receive a message from an angel, who revealed to him golden plates that only he could read, through the assistance of “seer stones.” He then translated the “Reformed Egyptian” of those plates into English. These stories are rather suspicious because they both involve one man and an angel. By contrast, the New Testament was written by several men, who saw God in the flesh. Jesus had a public ministry, died in public, and appeared to many individuals after his resurrection.

I should also add that we are quite certain that all of the books of the New Testament were written in the first century AD.[2] Most of the New Testament was likely written before the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.[3] It is also important to know that various other “gospels” such as the Gospel of Thomas or the Gospel of Judas come from the second century or later. Additionally, we should observe that the authors of the New Testament were some of the original twelve disciples (Matthew, John, Peter), two of Jesus’ brothers (James, Jude), an apostle to whom the risen Jesus appeared (Paul), and those closely related to the apostles. Mark was closely related to Peter (1 Peter 5:13) and tradition states that his Gospel is based on Peter’s recollections. Mark also travelled with Paul (Acts 12:25; 13:5). Luke was another of Paul’s travel companions (see the “we” passages in Acts, which was written by Luke, beginning with Acts 16:10). Both Mark and Luke are mentioned by name in Colossians 4 (verses 10 and 14, respectively) and 2 Timothy 4:11. We don’t know who the author of Hebrews is, but he surely had access to the apostles, for he mentions Timothy, who was the disciple of Paul (Hebrews 13:23).

In addition to the above observations, we can test the historical reliability of the New Testament using three criteria.[4] The first is bibliographical test, which seeks to confirm whether the text we now have is an accurate representation of the original New Testament books. (Bear in mind that these books were written by hand, and copied by hand, until the advent of the printing press in the fifteenth century. We don’t have the original copies—the autographs—of these books, but that is no cause for concern, since we don’t have the original copy of any book from the ancient world.) The more manuscripts we have, and the closer they are in time to the original documents, the greater our confidence is that we have an accurate representation of the originals. We now have over 5,700 Greek manuscripts of parts or all of the New Testament, more than 10,000 Latin Vulgate manuscripts, and more than 9,300 other early translations. The earliest manuscript evidence we have comes thirty to fifty years after the original writing, and the earliest complete manuscript, the Codex Sinaiticus, was written around A.D. 350, less than three hundred years after the last book of the New Testament was written.[5]

Now, that may not seem very impressive, but let us compare these figures to other historical works of the same era. The Roman historian Tacitus’s two major works, the Histories and the Annals were written around AD 100, and they exist in incomplete form in only two manuscripts from the ninth and the eleventh centuries. We have only eight manuscripts of History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, written in the fifth century BC, and the oldest manuscript is dated around AD 900, some thirteen hundred years later. Julius Caesar’s Gallic War was written around 50 BC, and we have only ten manuscripts, the oldest of which dates around nine hundred years later.[6] The New Testament is the best-attested collection of documents from antiquity. This fact doesn’t prove that the content of these books is historically accurate, but it does give us confidence that we have access to the content of the original New Testament documents. These thousands of manuscripts assist those in textual criticism, the practice of removing transcription errors from manuscripts until the original content is restored.

The second test is the internal test: do the documents claim to be history? Luke claims that his Gospel was written on the basis of eyewitness testimony (Luke 1:1-4), and the sequel to this book, Acts, picks up where the first book left off. Peter and John also claim to report what they have personally witnessed (2 Peter 1:16-18; 1 John 1:1-3) and Paul states that the gospel he taught was received through a revelation by Jesus and confirmed by visiting Peter and James in Jerusalem (Galatians 1:11-19).

The third test is external: are the contents of the New Testament verified through other writings and through archaeological evidence? The writings of the early Church Fathers, as well as non-Christian historians such as Josephus and Tacitus, confirm some of the details of the New Testament. While we do not have archaeological evidence for every event in the New Testament, there is no such evidence that refutes what we read in its pages. Many of the historical details recorded by Luke in his Gospel and in Acts, such as the names of political leaders and the titles used for those leaders in various places, are accurate. That may not seem impressive until we understand that in different localities, leaders had different titles, and Luke had no access to extensive reference works, much less the Internet.[7] New Testament scholar Colin Hemer has identified eighty-four facts in Acts 13-28 that have been confirmed by historical and archaeological evidence, showing that Luke was a very careful historian.[8] Additionally, precise locations in Jerusalem mentioned in John’s Gospel, such as the pool of Bethesda (John 5:2) and the pool of Siloam (John 9:7) have been discovered, revealing that John had a very accurate knowledge of Jerusalem.

Two more observations about Scripture: The Bible stands up to the criterion of embarrassment, a test that is used to determine whether a document is reliable. If a text has potentially embarrassing details, it is assumed that they are reported because the author is committed to telling the truth and is not concerned with how the truth might appear. Many of the great figures in the Bible, from Moses to David to disciples like Peter, are depicted as very flawed individuals. This is particularly true of the disciples, who are shown to be dim-witted (Mark 9:32; Luke 18:34; John 12:16), not concerned about Jesus (they fall asleep while he is praying to God the Father—Mark 14:32-41), wrong in their theology (Jesus rebukes Peter, calling him “Satan”—Mark 8:33), and cowardly, fleeing from Jesus when he is arrested (Matt. 26:56) and denying knowing him (Matt. 26:69-75). The way Jesus is depicted could be construed as embarrassing, for he is called “out of his mind” (Mark 3:21), a “drunkard” (Matt. 11:19), demon-possessed (John 7:20; 8:48), and “insane” (John 10:20). (To be clear, Jesus was none of these things, but he was—and is—often misunderstood.) Add to these potentially embarrassing some very difficult teachings of Jesus, and it is very hard to imagine anyone fabricating this story.

The second additional observation about Scripture is that the Gospels and Acts seem to be historical reporting. It is true that these books contain amazing details, such as Jesus supernaturally multiplying food, raising people from the dead, casting out demons, and so forth. Yet the Gospels and Acts show amazing restraint, even as they report such details. One only need compare these books to later works like the Gospel of Peter to see the difference between historical reporting and fantastical legend. Those who have studied the Gospels and Greco-Roman biographies (bioi) have recognized similarities between the two.[9] C. S. Lewis put it this way: “All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that’s my job. And I’m prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I’ve read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.”[10]

So, the New Testament claims to be history, has external evidence to support its claims, is the best-attested collection of documents in ancient history, has details no one would make up, and appears to be historical reporting.

  1. James R. White, The King James Only Controversy, 2nd ed. (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 2009), 307.
  2. For information on the dates of the books of the New Testament, see D. A. Carson and Douglas J. Moo, An Introduction to the New Testament, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2005).
  3. It is difficult to date most of the books with precision, but analysis of internal and external evidence assists those who try to determine when they were written. Matthew, Mark, Luke, Acts, Paul’s letter, Peter’s letters, and Hebrews were surely written before this time. James seems to have been written as early as the middle or late 40s. Jude was probably written around the 50s or 60s. All of John’s writings (John, 1-3 John, Revelation) were likely written in the 80s and 90s.
  4. J. P. Moreland, Scaling the Secular City (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1987), 134.
  5. Andreas J. Köstenberger, L. Scott Kellum, and Charles L. Quarles, The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown (Nashville: B&H Academic, 2009), 33.
  6. Ibid., 34; Moreland, Scaling the Secular City, 135; Paul D. Wegner, The Journey from Texts to Translations (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 1999), 235.
  7. On the historical accuracy of Luke, see F. F. Bruce, The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable? 6th ed. (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 1981), 80-93.
  8. Colin J. Hemer, The Book of Acts in the Setting of Hellenistic History (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1990). These facts are listed in Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2004), 256-59.
  9. Michael R. Licona, The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2010), 202-04.
  10. C. S. Lewis, Christian Reflections (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1967, 209, quoted in Geisler and Turek, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, 311.

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CWOP Information for FW5467 (F5467) in Monticello, NY, US

The following information is known about FW5467. If you think that any information is incorrect, then please follow the instructions for correcting that data item.

It is possible that this page will report a problem where no problem exists. If you believe that this has happened, then please contact me (address at the bottom of this page) and explain clearly why you think this page is in error. Note that any changes that you make may take a few days to show up here, so please give it a week before commenting.

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Registered Location

Latitude: 41° 39' 27" N (deg min sec), 41.6575° (decimal), 4139.45N (LORAN)
Longitude: 74° 44' 20" W (deg min sec), -74.7388° (decimal), 07444.33W (LORAN)
Elevation: 411 metres (1349 feet) -- validated against 410 metres (1345 feet) from Geonames
Location: Monticello, NY, US
County: Sullivan, NY
Forecast Office: Binghamton (BGM)
Weather station Manager/Operator: Dan
Station type/software: Meteobridge 3.2

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'FW5467' marker) will display the latitude/longitude of that point.

If the displayed location (or elevation) of the weather observing location is incorrect, please drag the marker to the right location (or click in the right location), and then send the updated information. Please note that we are trying to spot either the Stevenson Screen (or equivalent) or the location where the barometric readings are taken.

NOTE: The Registered Location is the location that the station owner provided when they signed up with CWOP.

There are no photographs of the station. If you are the site operator and have pictures of this location, then please email them to

You can try to find photographs from the area surrounding the site marker by clicking on Find nearby photographs.

Data Status

Data has been seen on each of the last 26 analyzed days.

The last 24 hours of weather data can be viewed at Findu. This page also provides access to the raw APRS packets and various other APRS related tools.

Recent observations from this weather station can be downloaded as a CSV file suitable for importing into various spreadsheet programs: last 7 days, last 14 days, last 28 days, last 56 days. This data can also be linked directly from Excel using a Web Query. The main link goes to the page with the data on it, and the IQY link is the Web Query that will access it: last 7 days (IQY: last 7 days), last 14 days (IQY: last 14 days), last 28 days (IQY: last 28 days), last 56 days (IQY: last 56 days).

All the means and standard deviations shown below are from the last 28 days. Change analysis period to Last 3 days  Last 7 days  Last 14 days  Last 8 weeks  Last 13 weeks  Last 26 weeks  Last 39 weeks  Last 52 weeks

By default, the longer analysis periods display graphs that show the long term performance of this station. The graphs show the mean error over time, and include error bars which are one standard deviation long. This provides an easy way to see if there are any underlying trends in the data. Note that a 'step' in your data does not (necessarily) mean that something happened to your station. It could mean that another station came online in the local area, and they are changing the analysis.

The analysis is performed by MADIS. This web page just provides visualization of the data that MADIS produces. There are a number of very knowledgeable people who participate on the WXQC Mailing List who do understand exactly how MADIS works and can resolve issues when the analysis seems to be broken. However, in most cases, the station readings are at fault, or the software that is transmitting the data to CWOP. Please check those paths first.

You can also see how this station compares with other stations.

A recently received weather report from this station was

Average barometer error: -0.8 milliBars
Error standard deviation: 3.2 milliBars
Worst daily average barometer error: -4.5 milliBars
Worst daily standard deviation: 5.3 milliBars
Standard deviation value of 3.2 exceeds limit of 2.0
MADIS rating 93% QC OK

Latest daily graph:

Latest daily graph

The standard deviation of your readings is higher than expected. This can be caused by a broken sensor that always reports the same value. It can be caused by a faulty sensor that sometimes reports values way out of range (such as 0). Check that your sensor is operating correctly.

  24 hours  Day time  Night time
Average temperature error-0.2 °F-1.8 °F0.2 °F
Error standard deviation1.7 °F2.4 °F1.3 °F

NOTE: If the error above is POSITIVE, then it means that the analysis temperature is HIGHER than the reported temperature. This means that your sensor is reading COLDER than expected.

MADIS rating 99% QC OK

Latest daily graph:

Latest daily graph

These values are within the acceptable range. This probably means that your sensor is sited correctly and is calibrated correctly.

Dewpoint -- or switch to Relative Humidity

  24 hours  Day time  Night time
Average dewpoint error-0.0 °F-1.2 °F0.3 °F
Error standard deviation2.0 °F1.9 °F2.0 °F

NOTE: If the error above is POSITIVE, then it means that the analysis temperature is HIGHER than the reported temperature. This means that your sensor is reading COLDER than expected.

MADIS rating 100% QC OK

Latest daily graph:

Latest daily graph

These values are within the acceptable range. This probably means that your sensor is sited correctly and is calibrated correctly.

Wind Vector

The wind vector is the average wind over the relevant period. Note that if the wind blows North for half the time at 2 knots, and then blows South for the other half of the time at 2 knots, then the result is zero -- i.e. North wind and South wind will cancel out. Over time, the direction of the wind and of the analysis should match pretty well. If the lengths of the vector are different, then it could mean either that your anemometer reads high or low, or that you are in a more shielded or more open space.
MADIS rating 0% QC OK
Sensor fails following checks:
L3 Spatial Consistency
TodayLast 7 days
Wind vector chartWind vector chart for last 7 days

Sometimes, larger than expected values of the standard deviation can be caused by the analysis process itself. If there is a stuck sensor on a neighboring station, this can cause a 'sawtooth' or 'jaggy' analysis. This will cause the standard deviation to be higher than it ought to be. If this happens to your station, then please ignore the warnings above. The analysis process is being upgraded to try and eliminate these problems.

Neighboring Stations

This is a list of stations that are close to this station. Note that this is not the list of stations that are used in the data analysis. That list of stations is known only to MADIS. You can see all the stations at MADIS Data Display. Your station should be in the middle of the display. If you think that the analysis is incorrect, then maybe one of the close stations has failed.

You can look at those for comparison purposes. The average difference between your station and each station below is listed as well. This may allow you to detect local stations which are erroneous. You can also use these numbers to adjust your instruments -- especially if a number of ASOS stations have similar differences to your station. Also, try increasing the analysis period to more than the default 28 days. The difference is only given if both stations report reasonably often during each day. Some stations only report every 6 hours, and this makes the average of less interest. In this case, the average is not displayed. The values reported are the differences between this station and the neighboring station. I.e. if the difference is positive, then this station is reading higher than the neighboring station.

You can also subscribe to an RSS feed to tell you when new stations come online in this area. Choose either within 100 miles or 250 miles . For stations covered by your Forecast Office: Binghamton (BGM) .

KMSV4.2 milesNorthwest Monticello, Sullivan County International Airport, NY, United States (lat 41.7016°, long -74.7950°, altitude 428 metres) -1.3mb-0.5°F0.0°F
FW76137.0 milesNorth Liberty, NY, US (lat 41.7538°, long -74.7777°, altitude 419 metres) 45.1mb-0.3°F-0.6°F
EW612625.5 milesSouthwest Hawley, PA, US (lat 41.4305°, long -75.1277°, altitude 399 metres) 1.0mb-0.8°F-0.6°F
FW178425.6 milesNortheast Kerhonkson, NY, US (lat 41.8320°, long -74.3015°, altitude 273 metres) 1.9mb0.1°F-2.4°F
FW698727.6 milesEast Gardiner, NY, US (lat 41.6592°, long -74.2057°, altitude 97 metres) 0.6mb2.8°F-2.4°F
K2BIG30.4 milesEast Montgomery, NY, US (lat 41.5200°, long -74.1810°, altitude 125 metres) 1.2mb2.4°F-2.8°F
FW229430.5 milesSouth Sussex, NJ, US (lat 41.2285°, long -74.6035°, altitude 168 metres) 1.3mb0.7°F-2.2°F
0811W30.5 milesEast Rondout Valley Central School Di, NY, United States Of America (lat 41.8159°, long -74.1864°, altitude 110 metres)
DW466931.0 milesSoutheast Chester, NY, US (lat 41.3703°, long -74.2803°, altitude 133 metres) 0.9mb1.2°F-3.2°F
KFWN32.2 milesSouth SUSSEX AIRPORT, NJ, United States (lat 41.1992°, long -74.6259°, altitude 128 metres) 0.4mb1.1°F-2.8°F

Quality Control Notes

This page reports on the quality control checks performed by MADIS. The green check mark and red cross are chosen based on the average performance during the analysis period (which is selectable above). The red cross can appear even if MADIS reports that all observations pass the MADIS QC checks.

The 'MADIS rating' reports on the percentage of observations that pass the MADIS checks. You should aim for two thumbs up!

Location Formats

The location is shown in three different formats. Each of these is used in some software, and is shown on some websites.

Degrees Minutes Seconds: VWS/VWSAPRS, WeatherLink 5.5, WeatherLink (5.2-5.4), WeatherView (Linux)

Decimal degrees: FreeWX, WeatherView32 (PC application)

LORAN: WeatherDisplay, WUHU, Henriksen WServer

CWOP Home: This describes the whole CWOP program and has a large amount of useful information.

CWOP Siting Guide (PDF): This is a guide to siting and operating a CWOP station. This is a must-read document.

Another CWOP Guide (PDF): This is another guide to siting and operating a CWOP station. This is a must-read document.

Urban Siting and Operations (PDF): This is a guide to siting and operating a CWOP station in an urban environment.

APRS WX Message format: This describes the actual format of the messages transmitted that carry WX information.

WXQC Mailing List: This is a mailing list where data quality issues are discussed. Assistance with software configuration can often be found here.

Topo Map Reading Guide: How to read USGS topographic maps, with a good section on reading contours.

Geographically nearby web pages: Use Geourl to find web pages that deal with locations geographically close to this site.

Overall website comments, problems etc to Philip Gladstone
Page layout last modified Sunday, 28 February 2016
Questions for this weather station owner/operator to Dan
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Summary for 2648 Cascadia AVE / Parcel ID 5700003645 / Inv #

Historic Name: Common Name:
Style: Colonial - Colonial Revival Neighborhood: Mount Baker
Built By: Year Built: 1920
Built in 1920 at a cost of $20,000, this building was designed by Seattle architect, Frank H. Fowler and owned by W. F. Duthie. Mr. Fowler also designed a $4000 garage which was built in 1920. Mr. Fowler’s office was at 2006 L. C. Smith Building. In 1922, Mr. Duthie added an 8’ by 14’ sun porch to the residence. Ben B. and Genevieve G. Ehrlichman purchased the building in December of 1925. Mr. Ehrlichman was president of Drumheller Ehrlichman White, and United Pacific Corporations, an investment bonds and stocks company affiliated with Murphy Favre and Company of Spokane, Ferris and Hardgrove of Spokane and Seattle, United Oregon Corporation and American Founders Group in New York. In 1935, Mr. Ehrlichman hired Seattle architect, David J. Myers, to design an addition and alter the residence. In 1937, he hired an architect to again alter the residence. Sidney C. Anschell purchased the building in December of 1943 for $28,000. Robert H. Leach bought the building in September of 1948 for $30,000. Then in September of 1965, the building was sold to A. L. Nagels for $32,500, and in July of 1970 to W. W. Eyro for $38,500. The Mount Baker neighborhood comprises two north-south tending ridges located southeast of downtown Seattle along Lake Washington. Initial development of the area occurred relatively late, post-1900, following the construction of the Rainier Avenue Electric Street Railway in the 1890s. York Station on Rainier Avenue and the Dose Addition were developed earlier than the Mount Baker Park Addition, platted in 1907 by the Hunter Tract Improvement Company. The Mount Baker Park Addition represents the core of the neighborhood and is its primary character-defining feature. Mount Baker Park is one of Seattle’s earliest planned residential communities that successfully integrated the natural environment and a relatively exclusive residential neighborhood in its layout of lots, streets, boulevards, and parks. The houses, primarily built between 1905 and 1929, reflect a variety of eclectic and Northwest-based architectural styles, and include designs by many prominent local architects. Other important influences were the streetcar connection with downtown Seattle, the integration of local parks and boulevards into the Olmsted system, the construction of Franklin High School in 1912, and the building of the Mount Baker tunnel and Lacey V. Murrow Floating Bridge to Mercer Island in 1940. Today this middle-to-upper income neighborhood remains predominantly residential, is home to an ethnically diverse population, and retains much of its planned character.
Built in 1920, this substantial, Colonial Revival style, single-family dwelling stands on a rectangular lot. The building is oriented to Cascadia Avenue South on a sloped site at street level. This 1410 square foot, two-story house with a full daylight basement features a rectangular plan, measuring approximately 48’ by 34’, with a 9’ by 4’ front stoop. A poured concrete foundation supports the wood frame, brick veneer- (first story) and clapboard- (second story) clad superstructure. Asphalt composition roofing covers the side gable roof. Moderate eave and gable overhangs with exposed rafters and cornice returns define the roofline. Unique wood sash 4:1 vertical lite double hung windows provide day lighting. Windows feature painted wood casings. A bowed sunroom extends off the building’s south end. A short walkway leads to the main entrance. Classically-influenced pillars support the gable roof with cornice returns. A brick chimney services the building.

Detail for 2648 Cascadia AVE / Parcel ID 5700003645 / Inv #

Status: Yes - Inventory
Classication: Building District Status:
Cladding(s): Brick, Wood - Clapboard Foundation(s): Concrete - Poured
Roof Type(s): Gable Roof Material(s): Wood - Shake
Building Type: Domestic - Single Family Plan: Rectangular
Structural System: Balloon Frame/Platform Frame No. of Stories: two
Unit Theme(s):
Changes to Original Cladding: Intact
Changes to Windows: Intact
Changes to Plan: Intact
Major Bibliographic References
City of Seattle DCLU Microfilm Records.
King County Property Record Card (c. 1938-1972), Washington State Archives.
Polk's Seattle Directories, 1890-1996.
City of Seattle. Survey of City-Owned Historic Resources. Prepared by Cathy Wickwire, Seattle, 2001. Forms for Ravenna Park structures.
Historic Seattle Preservation and Development Authority. "Mount Baker: An Inventory of Buildings and Urban Design Resources."
Mount Baker Community Club. Flowers We All Love Best in Mount Baker Park, (reprint of 1915 ed.)
Tobin, Caroline. (2004) "Mount Baker Historic Context Statement."
Architects Reference Files, Special Collections and Preservation Division, University of Washington Libraries.
Dietz, Duane, “Architects and Landscape Architects of Seattle, 1876 to 1959 and Beyond,” unpublished paper. University of Washington Libraries, July 1993.

Photo collection for 2648 Cascadia AVE / Parcel ID 5700003645 / Inv #

Photo taken Nov 06, 2003

Photo taken Nov 06, 2003

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Filling the Void

With arch-rivals Audi and Peugeot battling tooth and nail at Le Mans from 2007 to 2011, interest in a global sportscar championship returned. Launched in 2010, the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup was a “toe in the water” for the Automobile Club d’Ouest and the FIA and represented a successful attempt to bring together LMP1’s top two manufacturers, Audi and Peugeot, in a full-year sportscar series rather than just once a year at Le Mans. The result was a slightly convoluted three-round championship combining the ALMS race Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta with new destinations of Zhuhai in China and Silverstone.

The second season of the ILMC saw a much beefed-up calendar with seven rounds across the world, from the 12-hour race at Sebring in March (in conjunction with the ALMS) to a 6-hour finale at Zhuhai in November. Crucially, the 24 Hours of Le Mans became a championship race for the first time since 1992, with double championship points on offer for the victors.


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Sober 37 years since 6/2/1967, Bill made his living for over 25 years in the field of alcoholism and other addictions.

He was the Friday night speaker at this event.

Bill has a strong focus on the solution in this talk.

A more complete bio of Bill is on WeJoy from a talk in 2009:

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Rohu Fish Curry

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West Coast Sailing is your source for I14 sailboat parts and accessories. The I14 is one of the oldest active dinghy classes, evolving into its present form over the last century. Reaching speeds up to 25 knots, recent I14s feature an ultra-light hull, an asymmetrical spinnaker, and trapezes for both skipper and crew. Carbon gust-response rigs are less prone to damage and foiling rudders combine upwind performance with downwind stability.

Rigging Diagram

Use the diagram below to reference Harken part numbers to appropriate application on your I14 sailboat. Parts recommendations are offered as a guide for common applications.

The strut allows the vang to be mounted further forward on the boom, giving the crew more room and reducing forward gooseneck compression. It also partially isolates the mast from vang loads so the mast can remain straight even at full power.

Shroud Tension Adjusters

Mast rake and rig tension are fully adjustable from the trapeze. Two 3:1 cascades, led belowdeck from each shroud, are multiplied by an 8:1 purchase for a brawny 72:1 system.

Self-Tracking Jib

The self-tacking jib track is W-shaped to curve around the mast, allowing a jib that is larger than the forward triangle. With more sail area and overlapping sails, this system is great for light air and for powering up. Similar to the 49er, the main and jib sheet use a single line for easy access.

Diagram provided by Harken. West Coast Sailing is an approved seller of Harken sailboat hardware.

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MBC Dilute Plumage Bald profile photo.

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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Lynch Canyon Tower Trail. Raptor Tour 11-20-2009.

Golden Eagle wonderland...Solano Land Trust (SLT) Lynch Canyon Open Space. Teri Enbring, here photographed above second from the left. Teri was able to see the vision of bringing wilderness, wildlife and people together. Lynch Canyon Raptor Hikes. Once a vision of Jesse House and Larry Broderick to find high density hawk locations and share them and explain their importance to both thriving eco-systems and the greater public. That vision became closer when Jesse and Larry met Ken Poerner a SLT Land Steward, Ken was manning a Solano Land Trust kiosk at the Pacific Flyway Festival and we were discussing Ferruginous and Rough-legged Hawks in Solano County. We had seen them in good numbers along Flannery/Creed and Robinson/McCormack Rds, near the "Solano 113/12 grid". Ken mentioned Rush Ranch and Jepson Prairie and possibly doing a hike or walk, while we spotted and identified hawks. Eventually Ken got Larry to Teri Enbring and she explained Lynch Canyon has been a bustling bevy of hawk activity and the table was set. Teri and Larry set up a couple trial tours in 2007 or 2008? (need to verify) and the table was set. Since then we have done close to 50 events. Averaging eight a year. LB 2013

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Garbanzo Beans and Lemon Vinaigrette with Ground Flax Seeds

19 Jul

Garbanzo Beans and Lemon Vinaigrette with Ground Flax Seeds

I’ve been revising my salad dressings to be more nutritious and making the dressing stick to the salad ingredients instead of sinking to the bottom of the bowl after tossing the salad. The addition of the ground flax seeds thickens the dressing which helps to keep on the salad ingredients coated with the dressing.

As a relatively new vegan (almost 3 years) I’m always trying to include more plant protein in my food. Garbanzo beans and flax seeds both have more protein than other kinds of beans and seeds.

I prepared the salad dressing first and let it sit in the bowl while I prepared the following salad ingredients in a bowl. Following this order allows the flax seed to thicken the dressing.

Vegan Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette with Flax Seeds    ©2015 Afroditi Katsikiis

Vegan Salad ©2015 Afroditi Katsikis

Vegan Lemon Vinaigrette with Ground Flax seeds

½     cup olive oil

3      Tbsp. fresh squeezed lemon juice

1       Tbsp. red wine vinegar

3      garlic cloves, finely diced

1      tsp. dried oregano

¼    tsp. fresh ground pepper

1.5  Tbsp. ground flax seeds

Put all the ingredients in a bowl and whip them up using a whisk. Let sit for 5 minutes before using it. Give it a few whisks just before putting on the salad. I used less than 1/8 cup dressing on this salad.

3  large leaves of romaine lettuce leaves torn into bite sized pieces, do NOT cut with a knife

1  large tomato cut into bite–sized pieces

3  thin slices of sweet onion, cut in half

1  cup of home cooked garbanzo beans

2  tablespoons of chopped parsley

Place all the ingredients in a bowl large enough to toss the salad with dressing. Two to three tablespoons was enough for me. The salad recipe makes enough for one person as a main dish but probably enough for two or three people as a side dish.

Half way through eating this salad I remembered half an avocado left in the fridge from yesterday. Too late to take another photo and if it’s not in the photo how can I put it in the salad recipe? These are other ingredients I wished I had available today: roasted sweet peppers, kalamata olives, sliced almonds, or possibly some fire roasted eggplant.

 ©2015 afroditi katsikis

In the Memetime • If you want Bernie Sanders to get elected in 2016

12 Jun

Bernie Sanders is the candidate I want to vote for in 2016 … no one else has a record that fits my criteria of who should be our next president. His record is an open book and consistent from the beginning of his career fighting for Campaign Finance, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Dairy & Agriculture, Dental Care, Economy, Education, Energy & Environment, Financial Reform, War and Peace, Media Ownership Telecommunications, Prescription Drugs, Primary Health Care, Seniors, Trade, Transportation & Infrastructure, Veterans, Women’s Rights!

Liam Miller in his article today 5 Things Bernie Sanders Has Said or Done That Should Have Been Political Suicide, But Weren’t” Posted: 06/11/2015 1:30 pm EDT includes a brief history of Bernie’s positions and history on issues that are very important to We the People!

We are getting screwed by the very people we elected to office, but Bernie is not like any one of THEM – he’s fought hard for ‘We the People’ and is not a millionaire like many of the congressional members who get rich in office or upon retiring.

Let’s help get Senator Bernie Sanders in the Whitehouse before the USA is no longer the land of the free and the name changed to: CORPORATE STATES OF NORTH AMERICA.

Do what Luciferandphilosopher says if you want Bernie Sanders to be our next president:

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WestDeltaGirl’s Art and Photography

12 May
Spring Bouquet  ©2013 afroditi katsikis

Spring Bouquet ©2013 afroditi katsikis

I’ve always been fascinated with birds and now that I live in the Sacramento / San Joaquin Delta, I finally became a birder. The winged visitors and permanent residents of the west delta are my inspiration!

Even though I earned a BFA in Photography at ASU studying with Jack Stuler, Eric Kronengold and Bill Jay; and studied with Les Krimms and Paul Diamond at State University College NY at Buffalo, my career path abruptly changed course and I pursued a career as a litigation paralegal with very little time to live my life or take many photographs.

I have always had a camera but haven’t always used it due to time constraints and in fact had not used digital until 2006 when a friend gave me a Lumix digital camera. Don’t know why I waited so long to convert to digital – but I’m still not ready to give up my Nikon F3! My life changed drastically after a car accident that didn’t seriously injure me but it woke me up to what I was letting pass me by and I started photographing Sherman Island.

Spring in the Delta ©2008 afroditi katsikis

Spring in the Delta ©2008 afroditi katsikis

Shortly after that, I became unemployed and had more time for photography here in the west delta. The Sacramento River Delta is a major stopover and destination for migrating birds, ducks and geese. It is not far from Sacramento or San Francisco yet isolated enough to be considered country living.

Egret flying over the river ©2008 afroditi katsikis

Egret flying over the river ©2008 afroditi katsikis

My first intimate knowledge of the delta was as a windsurfer during spring and summer months. After purchasing my home and spending the first winter here I came to appreciate its beauty year round. To the casual observer, it may appear as though the seasons do not change very much here, but the birds know and keep coming back when it’s their time to be here.

Winter on the Sacramento River ©2008As I got more involved in environmental issues plaguing our environment I began modifying photographs in order to express my fears of the future. These heavily photoshopped images are on my Fine Art America gallery: Altered Landscapes And Riverscapes. I feel as an artist/photographer I could help create some awareness about the problems plaguing earth, our home: air pollution, GMO agriculture, fracking and climate change.

View from Sherman Island ©2011 afroditi katsikis

View from Sherman Island ©2011 afroditi katsikis

Artists create art for many reasons and they have, throughout the ages expressed their concerns through their art by sharing the beauty of our planet, expressing their feelings about politics and current events. Writers write about they see and feel, while artists show their feelings and views through their art.

I hope you enjoy my photographs because I sure do enjoy making them.

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The Cancer Industry Does NOT want a cure for Cancer

14 Mar

Another instance in which the government answers to large corporations and not the voters. If the “cancer industry” can’t file a money making patent for a medicine, they want no part of it. Watch the very short video and then read Research Proving Cannabis Kills Cancer Cells Safely Has Been Suppressed Since 1974.

Published on Jul 24, 2012

Watch as the active ingredient in marijuana, THC, kills cancer cells.

Since 1974 studies have shown that cannabis has anti-tumor effects. The results of the 1974 study, reported in an Aug. 18, 1974, Washington Post newspaper feature, were that cannabis’s component, THC, “slowed the growth of lung cancers, breast cancers and a virus-induced leukemia in laboratory mice, and prolonged their lives by as much as 36 percent.” In 1975 an article in the Journal of the National cancer institute titled “Antineoplastic Activity of Cannabinoids,” they reported that “Lewis lung adenocarcinoma growth was retarded by the oral administration of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabinol (CBD). Mice treated for 20 consecutive days with THC and CBD had reduced primary tumor size.”

In 1998, a research team at Madrid’s Complutense University Led by Dr. Manuel Guzman discovered that THC can selectively induce programmed cell death in brain tumor cells without negatively impacting surrounding healthy cells. They reported in the March 2002 issue of “Nature Medicine” they had destroyed incurable brain cancer tumors in rats by injecting them with THC. And in 2007 even Harvard Researchers found that compounds in cannabis cut the growth of lung cancer. There is also an organization called The SETH Group that showed compounds in cannabis can stop the growth of human glioblastoma multiforma (GBM) brain cancer cells. The SETH Group says “No chemotherapy can match this nontoxic anti-cancer action.” Even last year in 2012 a pair of scientists at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco found THC stops metastasis in many kinds of aggressive cancer.

– See more at: Cure Your Own Cancer

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Twenty Genetically Modified Foods Coming to Your Plate | Wake Up World

24 Nov
GloFish fluorescent fish. Genetically modified...

GloFish fluorescent fish. Genetically modified. Danio rerio. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It’s a scary world that mega corporations are creating! Frankenfoods are already on the supermarket shelves and not many are labeled GMO free. Monsanto and the other companies genetically engineering our food, are on a mission to control our food supply – not only vegetables and fruit but also meat and fish! Continue reading

A Storm Gathers for North American Birds | The Audubon Birds & Climate Change Report

25 Sep

I love to watch and photograph birds – the more I watch and photograph the more fascinated I become. Last summer a family of five kestrels (2 adults and three babies) spent a few weeks in my backyard. I watched the adults teach the youngsters how to fly and forage for food. They grew accustomed to me with my camera as the days went by. ( see Kestrels Came to visit here)

 © 2013 afroditi katsikis

©2013 afroditi katsikis … Click the photo to see my gallery of the kestrels

Not all the photos were beautiful photographs but still the ones I did not publish taught me more about them. I watched the fledglings climb up the shed walls to reach the rooftop to eat the insects (mostly spiders) that they found. Watching the youngsters play and practice quick turns and dives, was fascinating!

One day I heard the parents chattering  in the cottonwood tree. They were hard to see even with my long lens since the tree was leafed out wand, leaves and branches were in the way.  I had no idea what they were doing until I was previewing images on my computer. They were mating and were interrupted by another kestrel that  they shooed away!

After reading this article by Audubon (link to full article below) I was upset and depressed at the same time.  Why is this happening? Why has our government turned a blind eye to the devastation by the oil industry? They are partially to blame but we, as consumers of petroleum products, are also at fault. Please tread lightly on mother earth, share rides, ride a bike to the store, stop buying throw away plastic products, and recycle everything are just a few of the things we can do.

It’s also very important to tell our elected officials how we feel. The two best actions we can take is write a handwritten letter and call their offices. These days handwritten letters stand out amongst the typed letters and emails and add a personal touch while emails and typed letters could be produced in mass and may be difficult to ascertain if they are sent by the signers or not, while handwriting is unique to all of us.

You can find contact information for federal, state, local, or tribal governments and elected officials at:

Government Agencies and Elected Officials. You can contact  federal government agencies here  (ie., Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Council of Environmental Quality, Environmental Management (Energy Department), Environmental Protection Agency, Fish and Wildlife Service, etc.)

If you want to contact a Member of Congress Who Does Not Represent You,  you can:

  • Send a message to the Representative or Senator that represents you, and ask his or her office to forward it for you.
  • Go to the website for the member of Congress you wish to contact to find a postal address and mail a letter.
  • Call the United States Capitol switchboard at 1-202-224-3121.  The switchboard operator will connect you with the office you request.

This is an excerpt of the article A Storm Gathers for North American Birds by Audubon:

“Western North Dakota is famous for its birds. The land here is checkered with neat squares of farm fields and native prairie overlying a scatter of pothole lakes, their curving shorelines shaped tens of thousands of years ago by chunks of melting glaciers. This rich landscape provides critical breeding grounds for millions of birds, from the that pour out of the so-called “duck factory” to the Bobolinks of the tallgrass prairie.

But the region is changing fast. Even as birds continue to flock here every summer, expanding agriculture has eaten away at their habitat, and since 2008 the area has witnessed an energy boom of global proportions. Today the fields, prairies, and badlands are punctuated with hundreds of rectangles of raw, orange dirt, each studded with its own set of trailers, storage tanks, and nodding pumpjacks. Every day, companies use hydraulic fracturing to extract nearly a million barrels of oil from the Bakken formation, a layer of shale that lies about two miles beneath the prairie. Roughly 8,000 wells are operating already, and an additional 40,000 could be drilled and fracked in the next 20 to 30 years. In line at one brand-new convenience store, a woman carrying a hardhat sums up the prevailing attitude: “Patience are for doctors.” In the Bakken, the time is now, and the future is a long way off.

Yet the Audubon Report, a groundbreaking new study by Audubon scientists, suggests that this place will become even more important for birds as the planet warms. For the 26 grassland bird species whose breeding ranges are projected to decrease dramatically by 2050, North Dakota will become an increasingly rare island of viable habitat and suitable climate conditions, one of their few remaining refuges. Protecting a portion of the region for birds could mean the difference between survival and extinction for some species.

That’s just one of the critical findings from Audubon’s seven-year investigation into the expected effects of climate change on North American bird populations. And taken together, the news is grim indeed. By 2080, the climate model projects, dozens of avian species across the country could be hurtling toward extinction—and not just birds that are already in trouble. Both the American Avocet and the Yellow-headed Blackbird, familiar sights in western North America, may be under threat before the end of the century. In the Great Plains, the Chestnut-collared Longspurs range could shrink by 70 percent, while suitable breeding grounds for the Baird’s Sparrow could disappear entirely. The Piping Plover, an icon of the Atlantic Flyway, may vanish from many eastern shores.”

Read the entire article here: A Storm Gathers for North American Birds | The Audubon Birds & Climate Change Report.

Lawsuit Launched to Stop Out-of-control Wildlife Killing by Secretive Federal Agency in Idaho

9 Sep

For Immediate Release, September 8, 2014

Travis Bruner, Western Watersheds Project, (208) 720-5595
Andrea Santarsiere, Center for Biological Diversity, (303) 854-7748
Drew Kerr, WildEarth Guardians, (312) 375-6104
Gary Macfarlane, Friends of the Clearwater, (208) 882-9755
Kristin Ruether, Advocates for the West, (208) 342-7024, ext. 208

“It’s long overdue for Wildlife Services to be held accountable for killing wildlife and releasing pollutants into our environment,” said Travis Bruner, executive director of Western Watersheds Project. “We want an explanation for this deplorable expenditure of public funds.”Lawsuit Launched to Stop Out-of-control Wildlife Killing by Secretive Federal Agency in IdahoBOISE, Idaho— Four conservation organizations today filed a notice of intent to sue

English: Canada lynx by Michael Zahra.

English: Canada lynx by Michael Zahra. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program over its large-scale, often secretive killing of wild animals in Idaho. The program kills millions of animals nationwide every year, and in 2013 killed more than 3,000 mammals in Idaho alone via aerial gunning, neck snares, foothold traps, and toxic devices known as M-44s that spray sodium cyanide into the victim’s mouth, causing tremendous suffering and releasing toxic chemicals into the environment.

The lawsuit will challenge Wildlife Services’ renewal of its efforts in Idaho to eradicate coyotes, black bears, mountain lions, bobcats, foxes and other important carnivores from the landscape for the benefit of private livestock and agricultural interests. Wildlife Services also plans to remove dozens of beaver dams using explosives that will harm bull trout, a protected species. The program admits that its trapping activities will harm threatened grizzly bears and Canada lynx. Trapping also targets fishers, which are in rapid decline in the Northern Rocky Mountains due to a vast increase in trapping activities in Idaho. Conservation groups have petitioned to protect the fisher under the Endangered Species Act.

“One of the many problems with this program is the many unintended victims left in its wake, including endangered species,” said Andrea Santarsiere, staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Grizzly bears, lynx and bull trout are all suffering at the hands of Wildlife Services, and that needs to stop.”

Wildlife Services has come under increasing criticism for the sheer number of animals that it kills and injures, (including many nontarget animals), the ineffectiveness of its methods, its cruel and inhumane tactics, and its antiquated attitude about carnivores, which scientists demonstrate are critically important to maintaining intact ecosystems in the western United States. Beavers similarly play a key role in healthy ecosystems and are critical to successful climate adaptation. New research demonstrates the essential role beavers play by stabilizing streams, slowing snowmelt runoff, and improving fish habitat, among other benefits.

“Native carnivores and beavers are key parts of healthy, thriving ecosystems,” said Drew Kerr, carnivore advocate for WildEarth Guardians. “Wildlife Services needs to join the 21st century and follow the best available science to ensure its activities don’t further damage Idaho’s ecosystems.”

After members of Congress demanded an investigation of the program’s practices earlier this year, the Agriculture Department commenced an audit of its wildlife control activities. Due to the lack of any regulatory framework to govern the program, the Center for Biological Diversity and allies filed a comprehensive petition for reform in December 2013.

Wildlife Services has never conducted either an analysis of the statewide environmental impacts of its activities or of the impact of beaver dam destruction.

“Wildlife Services–what a euphemism–has never shown itself to be biologically or fiscally sound,” said Gary Macfarlane of Friends of the Clearwater. “In fact, in the case of coyotes, the killing program seems to be a never-ending bloodbath that harms other species as well.”

Western Watersheds Project, the Center for Biological Diversity, WildEarth Guardians, and Friends of the Clearwater are represented by Boise-based law firm Advocates for the West.

Western Watersheds Project is a nonprofit conservation group founded in 1993 with 1,400 members whose mission is to protect and restore western watersheds and wildlife through education, public policy initiatives and litigation.

The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 775,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.

WildEarth Guardians is a nonprofit conservation organization working to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers and health of the American West.

Friends of the Clearwater is an Idaho-based nonprofit conservation organization that works to protect the wildness and biodiversity of the public wildlands, wildlife, and waters of Idaho’s Clearwater Basin.

Advocates for the West uses law and science to restore streams and watersheds, protect public lands and wildlife, and ensure sustainable communities in Idaho and throughout the West.

Source: Lawsuit Launched to Stop Out-of-control Wildlife Killing by Secretive Federal Agency in Idaho.

Know Your Rights: Demonstrations and Protests | American Civil Liberties Union

17 Aug
Local issues are often the subject of free speech.

Local issues are often the subject of free speech. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

If you are going to take to the streets to protest, read this article first. All you need to know about your civil rights when attending a protest: Know Your Rights: Demonstrations and Protests | American Civil Liberties Union.

Since 1920, the ACLU has been protecting the civil liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The resources below were created by ACLU staff as handy guidelines to your rights in various situations. read more at Know Your Rights – Essential Resources From the ACLU

Cast Iron Skillet Vegan Muffin Cake

21 Jun
Vegan Applesauce Skillet Muffin-Cake

Vegan Applesauce Skillet Muffin-Cake ©2014 afroditi katsikis

Why bake muffins in a cast iron skillet?  When I get hungry for something baked, I figure out how to get around the obstacles that prevents me from baking! The obstacle: no working oven at my house and my barbecue is out of propane.

Several days ago, in my never-ending quest to not waste any food, I steamed some organic apples because they were no longer crisp and I was too lazy to make applesauce.  I also had some frozen bananas that had been ripening faster that I could eat;  I freeze them when they are full of brown spots.  I usually use them in pancakes, fruit smoothies or banana bread and needed to use them up before they became freeze-dried.

For the past several days I have been opening the fridge to see these steamed apples and wondering what was I thinking when I steamed these apples? I was craving something sweet and warm to eat – like a warm freshly baked nutritious applesauce muffin.

Just how was I going to do that on my electric stove top? I have made pan breads like pita bread, biscuits and pancakes in my fry pan. I like the idea of using less energy; cooking on top of a stove must be more efficient than using an oven.  During summer months, it’s too hot to bake inside but using a hooded propane barbecue outside will keep the added heat out of your house.

So I thought back to the early days of camping. If you’ve ever camped without a camp oven stove, then pancakes will be the closest you can get to a baked dessert. Experienced campers and hikers understand that you must make do with what you have and make what you have more than a one purpose item – who brings a muffin pan to make muffins once or twice on a camping trip? However, I can’t imagine going camping without a fry pan! So how was I going to make a coffee cake in a fry pan on top of stove? I put my campers thinking cap on!

As my craving for a muffin increased, I searched the web for and compared recipes for: cakes, biscuits, muffins, cupcakes, griddle cakes, brownies, coffee cakes, fry bread and pancake recipes. Even though some of these recipes used a fry pan, they all used an oven to bake the finished product.  I wanted a recipe that was more like a coffee cake, brownie or muffin cooked on top of the stove, not in an oven.

Naturally, I started experimenting and looked closely at the vegan pancake, muffin and biscuit recipes. I wanted a thick batter, one that would not burn on the bottom and leave the top ‘half-baked’ so I focused more on muffin recipes and decided to make big muffin in a fry pan.

Lately I’ve been lightly steaming veggies so decided I was going to turn my cast-iron fry pan into a steamer for my muffin-cake. I placed a short steamer rack that my slow cooker came with into clean cast-iron 9″ skillet.  Skillet must have a snug fitting lid and should not be flat; a flat lid will not allow the muffin cake to rise and will drip moisture on the muffin cake while it’s cooking.

Slice of Vegan Applesauce Muffin-Cake ©2014 afroditi katsikis

After assembling all the ingredients and needed utensils , the first thing to do is put the skillet on the stove with the short steamer rack in the bottom and grease the 8″ Pyrex pie dish.  It’s always best to make sure the skillet is heated before placing the Pyrex dish in the skillet. Heating the skillet is akin to pre-heating your oven. Heat about 1.5 cups of water in a sauce pan and NOT your skillet. The amount of water varies if you are using a skillet that is larger than the one I used.

While the water is heating up, mix all the dry ingredients together in a large bowl.

Dry Ingredients

2 cups flour

1/4 cup flax-seed meal

1 & 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon of cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon cloves

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

Put the skillet on the stove and set the burner to medium. Mix all the wet ingredients into a medium-sized bowl.

Wet Ingredients

3/4 cup cooked apples or applesauce

1/2 cup thawed frozen bananas, mashed

1/4 cup olive oil (and 1/2 teaspoon olive oil to grease the pie pan)

1/2 cup coconut milk, unsweetened

1/8 cup unsulphered molasses

~ optional ingredients ~
1/2 cup: raisins, or craisins (to add to the wet mixture)
1/4 cup granola as a topping before cooking
1/4 cup sliced almonds as a topping before cooking

By now the skillet should be adequately heated; turn it down to medium low heat (the settings you use for pancakes – level 2 or 3 depending on your stove). The skillet must be hot, after all, no one puts a cake into an oven that is not pre-heated.

Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix until the dry ingredients are fully incorporated – Do NOT use a mixer; use a wooden spoon or spatula.

Place the batter into a greased Pyrex 8″ pie dish and add your selected topping(s).  Place it on the rack in the skillet with room to pour the water.  Pour the heated water into the skillet careful not to drip onto the batter.  Make sure not to put too much water in the skillet – it should be just slightly above the rack so when the water bubbles, it won’t bubble over into the batter. A lot of steam will rise and as soon as it subsides, center the Pyrex dish in the skillet using some long handled wooden spoons and put the lid on.

Cook/steam for about 30 minutes, until the Muffin Cake is browned; lightly tapping the center to see if it’s firm; if not, give it another 5 minutes. An inserted wooden toothpick in the center should come out clean.

Before you start making this recipe, determine how much water to pre-heat by assembling the fry pan, steamer rack and Pyrex pie dish.  Poor some water in the fry pan until it reaches just slightly above the bottom of the Pyrex dish. Pour the water into a measuring cup – so you know how much water to add to the skillet before cooking or just pre-heat the water as noted above.

If you don’t have applesauce, add 3/4 more coconut milk.

Blueberry Skillet Muffin-Cake

If you are going to use berries, put half of the batter into the Pyrex dish and spread it evenly. Add most of the berries evenly – I usually drop them one by one and slightly press them into the batter. Add the rest of the batter using spoonfuls and spread that evenly – do not leave a dome in the middle. Now add the rest of the berries over the top before you add another topping such as granola or sliced almonds.

The first time you make this, keep watch over it while it’s cooking – your stove may be hotter than mine. If you want to make this when camping, mix up all the dry ingredients and store it in a container. Regarding the molasses, pre-measure it and bring it along in a suitable container.

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Little has changed 1 year after slaying of Costa Rica conservationist Jairo Mora — The Tico Times

1 Jun

Little has changed 1 year after slaying of Costa Rica conservationist Jairo Mora — The Tico Times.

Jairo Mora Sandoval’s murder  got a lot of people riled up last year.  I’m a bit disappointed that  the criminals on the beach have  taken over the beach, turtles nest are still being robbed and the local police aren’t really helping very much. The police have arrested 7 people but their trial is still pending.

Read about the current situation on Moin Beach in Costa Rica:

Little has changed 1 year after slaying of Costa Rica conservationist Jairo Mora — The Tico Times

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20 Sports Persuasive Essay Topics on the Social Aspect

It doesn’t matter how good you write, if you choose a bad topic you will find it difficult to leave a mark.
Without an appropriate topic, it’s very difficult to even start writing. We already provided you with valuable information in our 10 facts for a persuasive essay on sports as a social institution guide. In this second guide, we’ve collected 20 sports persuasive essay topics so you can start writing them right away.

Furthermore, we’ve also included a persuasive sample essay on one of the 20 topics, which will serve well to assist you.
We highly recommend that you thoroughly read our third guide which is the perfect manual for writing a persuasive essay. It eases you into writing a better and more precise persuasive essay that is not only compelling to the eyes of the reader, but also a piece that comes off as professional and elegant too.

With that said, here are 20 sports topics on social aspect:

  1. How Sports is Reshaping Global Politics
  2. Effects of Sports on Global Culture
  3. Sports’ Role as a Social Institution
  4. How Sports is Making a Difference in Intercultural Relations
  5. Sports as an Instrument to Unite People Around the World
  6. Sports – A Powerful Tool to Foster Peace and Mutual Understanding
  7. How Sport is Used as Means of Power and Development
  8. Influence of Sports on People’s Lives
  9. How Sports Have Changed Our Culture
  10. Role of Sports in Ancient Civilizations
  11. Correlation of Sports with Culture and Religion
  12. Why Sports is a Necessity for People
  13. Reasons Behind the Creation of Sports
  14. Relation of Sports with Other Social Institutions
  15. How Sports Influence Social and Economic Status of an Individual
  16. Sports’ Influence on Political Identities
  17. How Sports have Promoted Thousands of Players Worldwide
  18. Sports and The Reason it Is a Part of Everyone’s Lives
  19. Global Revenue of Sports and How it Affects Economic Systems
  20. Sports and its Influence on Media and Television

You’ll find plenty of information on these topics, but still, we’ve included 7 references from where we collected the topics, just so you know. To make things easier, we’ve written a sample persuasive essay on one of the topics above.

Sample Persuasive Essay: Sports and Its Influence on Media and Television

Ever since sports became a part of media and television series, it’s become very close to a convergence. Through new digital technologies, sports and entertainment industries have risen to a challenge where they are able to change and shape the way we spend our leisure time and entertain ourselves.

Even though economic times have recently been troubled, sports continued to thrive and become more popular than ever. However, lower tier events find it difficult to get the attention they need – they have to work a lot harder than major events to achieve their desired viewership. Since we are seeing a major breakthrough in media and a remarkable competition between entertainment industries, sports have focused more on providing value for money by delivering added entertainment segments and more.

Sports have also been used to attract viewers into watching lead-out programs that are not as popular as they aim to be. For example, one of the most watched programs in American television history was the 2011 Super Bowl; it gave 27 million viewers to Glee, the lead-out program had almost doubled its usual view score.

Through social media channels, sports have continued to offer entertaining and personalized opportunities to their fans by creating a two-way communication. It allows fans to get personal with sports protagonists, personalities and athletes and on the other hand, enables sponsors to embed their brand and have an understanding of how fans perceive their brand. It’s a great way to provide and manage the quality and value of convergence between sports and entertainment industries.

Through the use of internet media, television advertising and improved economic conditions, entertainment industries have increased the global revenue of sports in 2015 and in the future, pay-TV penetration will be the leading driver to boost revenue as most of the sports programs are migrating to pay-TV platforms.

The convergence of sports and media has attracted more viewers than they ever did alone. Sports have been a dominant social institution to influence, inspire and attract different aspect of identities and individuals. This convergence has not only led to billions of revenue in the United States alone, but it has also brought different nations and cultures to a big intercultural unification. Through the media, sports have become a leading social institution and serve as a platform for debate, gossip, reviews, scandals, feats and more.
This covers it!

You are on your way to writing a compelling and ideal persuasive essay on sports as a social institution. Be sure to follow our third and final writer’s guide for a persuasive essay on sports as a social institution, which will greatly help in writing a clear and concise essay that persuades your audience to agree with your point of view.

  1. Hardin, M., & Greer, J. D. (2009). The influence of gender-role socialization, media use and sports participation on perceptions of gender-appropriate sports. Journal of Sport Behavior, 32(2), 207.
  2. Horne, J. (2006). Sport in consumer culture.Sport in consumer culture. Palgrave Macmillan.
  3. Jhally, S. (1989). Cultural studies and the sports/media complex. Media, sports, and society, 70-93.
  4. Coakley, J. J. (1997). Sport in society: issues & controversies.Sport in society: issues & controversies.. McGraw-Hill Inc.
  5. FREY, JH; EITZEN, DS; 1991 “Sport and Society – Annual Review of Sociology” Volume 17, Pages 503-522 Annual Reviews Inc.
  6. Coakley, J. J. (1997). Sport in society: issues & controversies.Sport in society: issues & controversies.. McGraw-Hill Inc.
  7.  Yılmaz Kaplan, Demet Tekinay, Dr. Alkan Ugurlu; 2013 “Social Status of Sport: Sport as a Social Event, Phenomenon and Institution” International Journal of Science, Culture and Sports. http://www.iscsjournal.com/Makaleler/588422276_8ugurlu.pdf
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