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I hope you all have enjoyed the holidays so far. Our family has agreed that this was ones of the best Christmases we've had in a long time. Health-wise, we are in a holding pattern and I'll keep the blog updated if anything changes on that front. In the mean time…
The other night, my Hard-Working Hubster looked at me and said, we need to set some goals for the new year. Yeeah… I'm not so into New Years resolutions, and I sort of figured he was hinting at setting financial goals, which are my least favorite, so I was not really excited about what I figured he was about to say. But, it turns out that's not what he meant at all. He was referring a bit to my 101 in 1001 list and some other personal goals, as well as to some things we'd like to do together.
Something that I've been working on in 2011 and really want to continue to work on in 2012 is building community. I loved that last year our next-door neighbor enlisted our help to put in a garden and then shared his harvest with us. He's up for round two this year and I want to keep the momentum going on things like that. I'd really like to strengthen the community between our neighbors on our block. I also want to increase community between other friends that live nearby but are further out than our immediate neighborhood.
One thing I really want is to increase our self-sufficiency on the homestead. I want to grow more food and process our own chickens for meat. But by "self-sufficiency" I don't mean by ourselves. I mean, "not relying on the grocery store." And, I really want to make a fun special place for the kids in the garden… something they can look forward to, play in or around, and take care of.
So with those things in mind, here are my top five goals for the Schell Urban Homestead for 2012.
- Grow a giant pumpkin. The neighbor has already volunteered a spot in his yard for this. We're scouring seed catalogs for the biggest one we can find. It'll be a pet project, but out in his front yard for the whole neighborhood to see and monitor. And the kids can really get in on this one (I'm hoping). Maybe in the fall, when it's time to harvest we can do something cool with the results!
- Grow enough in our own neighborhood gardens to feed ourselves for the summer. I'd like it to be our own garden in our own yard, but I've realized this just isn't realistic. We eat a lot of veggies and have a lot of people to feed and not much garden space. So instead of setting our sights on the impossible, I'm hoping to make it possible between our place, the next-door neighbors and the neighbors across the street. I think they are all open to this.
- Process chickens. We wanted to do this last year – order meat birds or a straight run of chicks and then process them for the table. It didn't work out in 2011, but I'm hoping we can work it out for 2012. This will include culling any hens that are eating eggs and getting egg production numbers to where they should be. Yay homegrown protein!
- Harvest Honey. Our bees are still here, doing well, and we're hoping to get a good harvest this coming year. We even have a neighborhood contact to help us with the first go-round.
- Start a monthly potluck circle involving neighbors and homegrown or locally raised foods. I really, really want to do this. I've mentioned it to a few friends here and there, but gotten no real commitments. I might just have to jump in for it to take off. ??
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British actress Kate O'Mara, best known for her roles on Dynasty and Doctor Who, has died, according to The Associated Press. She was 74.
O'Mara died in a nursing home in England after fighting a short illness, her agent told the AP.
Born Frances M. Carroll in Leicester, O'Mara made her stage debut in a production of The Merchant of Venice in 1963. She went on to appear in numerous British television shows, including the BBC drama The Brothers from 1975-1976.
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O'Mara became best known for playing the scheming sister of Joan Collins' character on the American soap Dynasty. She also starred on Doctor Who in 1985 and 1987, and reprised her role for the 30th anniversary in 1993. Just prior to the show's recent 50th anniversary, she told Digital Spy that she'd love to return. "I have white hair now, but a lot of it, and I'm still very glamorous and so I won't disappoint, I hope!" she said. "I'll still be wearing the tight leather trousers and high-heel boots, regardless of what age! That's what the fans are expecting, so that's what you've got to give them."
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O'Mara also starred in the '90s comedy series Absolutely Fabulous and more recently appeared in the 2012 stage adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile.
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'A shopper's personal cell phone should not be used by a third party as a tracking device by retailers. Personal cell phones are just that — personal' — Sen. Chuck SchumerAs Ars Technica previously reported, Forest City, the mall developer that owns and operates the Promenade Temecula in Temecula, California and Short Pump Town Center in Richmond, Virginia had announced it would test technology in those two malls from Path Intelligence. Called Footpath, the system uses a series of cellular signal detectors to triangulate the movement of customers' phones — and by extension, the customers themselves — through the mall's stores and other spaces. While the technology doesn't eavesdrop on cell phone users' calls or record information about their phone numbers, it does use their cellular device's digital signature to track individuals.
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Forest City had planned to conduct the trial until the end of December. However, just a day after the trial began, Sen. Schumer contacted Forest City to raise his concerns. In a press conference on Sunday, Schumer said that the malls should have allowed customers to opt into the survey, rather than having to "opt out" by turning off their cell phones. "A shopper's personal cell phone should not be used by a third party as a tracking device by retailers," Schumer said in a press conference on Sunday. "Personal cell phones are just that — personal. If retailers want to tap into your phone to see what your shopping patterns are, they can ask you for your permission to do so."
Schumer also sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission chairman Jon Leibowitz asking the FTC to look into whether Path's technology was legal in the U.S.
Forest City has not abandoned plans for the survey, however. In a statement, a Forest City spokesperson said that the company was suspending the trial until it came up with a way for customers to opt out easily. Path Intelligence CEO Sharon Biggar told CNNMoney that she hopes to discuss her company's technology with Schumer directly, and that it was fundamentally no different from the type of tracking that online retailers do with "cookies" and other behavioral marketing tools. "We are simply seeking to level the playing field for offline retailers," she said.


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For Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, we greet each other with "Shana Tovah Umetukah" – wishes for a happy and sweet new year. To symbolize sweetness, many families serve honey cake, a traditional Rosh Hashanah dessert. Which, as usual, leaves me searching for a great-tasting gluten-free alternative.
Fortunately, this year I made a moist gluten-free, dairy-free honey cake spiced with cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg for my honey-child. (Cue Martha & The Vandellas' "Honey Chile" and Van Morrison's "Tupelo Honey.")
For inspiration, I started with Marcy Goldman's vaunted "Majestic and Moist New Year's Honey Cake" from "A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking." I used gluten-free flour, subbed some applesauce and increased the orange juice to keep the cake moist and sweet. Buckwheat flour — a dark, strong gluten-free flour that's high in protein, fiber and magnesium — works well here, complementing the complex flavors in the cake. Interestingly, buckwheat is not related to wheat but is a member of the rhubarb family.
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Gluten-Free Honey Cake
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By Gluten-Free Nosh
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- 3½ cups gluten-free flour:
1 cup brown rice flour
3/4 cup sorghum flour
3/4 cup potato starch
½ cup buckwheat flour
½ cup tapioca starch
- 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1-1/4 cups granulated sugar
- ½ cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- ½ cup applesauce
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup honey
- 1 cup black tea, slightly cooled
- ¾ cup fresh orange juice
- 1 teaspoon grated orange zest
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease pan well and coat it well with flour, so all surfaces are well coated. Use either a 10-inch tube or bundt pan, or three 8 by 4½-inch loaf pans.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the gluten-free flours, xanthan gum, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and salt. Mix in the granulated sugar and brown sugar. Set aside.
- In a mixer, beat the eggs. On low speed, beat in applesauce, vegetable oil, honey, tea, orange juice, orange zest and vanilla extract. Slowly mix in the dry ingredients until incorporated. The batter will be liquidy.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan(s). Bake until cake tester inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean and the cake springs back when you touch it. For tube and bundt pans, bake for 50 to 60 minutes; loaf cakes, about 45 minutes.
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I've been a bit behind this week, so here's my attempt at catching the blog up to our lives! The hens were not laying in the new nest box, so on Friday I reused some pieces of the old nest box and some left over plywood to modify the new box and make it bigger. It's now 11×17 and the hens are much happier. We've been collecting eggs left and right again, which makes us all glad. We do still suspect an egg eater – I'm pretty sure it's one of the red heads, so we're working out a way to figure out who is the culprit. You may see a post about our first-ever adventure into home chicken processing soon.
Saturday we finally planted the spuds that we ordered in the neighbor's garden.
We're all excited about this gardening thing this year – you know the thing where our neighbor is working together with us to grow this (in his newly made bed) and where we plan to share our crops. He's been getting as excited as me, and every time someone comes to our house, Rick jokes about me showing off my new vegetable bed as he motions over the fence. 😉
This is our first time with potatoes and we planted two varieties – La Ratte fingerlings and Dessire red potatoes. There were some extras that didn't fit into his bed, so I might try another potato growing system in our back yard as well.
We've been enjoying our spinach and I'm so happy about those volunteers that came up early, since we've been able to eat from the garden so much earlier this year. I need to make sure to let the spinach go to seed from now on before we pull it for later crops! Woohoo!
Sunday's forecast last weekend was for snow, but there wasn't any. In fact it was pretty nice out. Rick's been chipping away at the tree project, hacking a limb off here, cutting a branch there. We're about to the point where we can no longer go at it alone and we're going to have to bring in extra help to finish.
Our neighbor did get a chipper for us. It wasn't in working order, but he and Rick think they can fix it with just an inexpensive part. It won't do the bigger stuff, but most of the smaller branches can go through and it'll be nice to have around to put the yard waste through before sending it to the compost bins. And bonus, it was free!
We also visited two garden centers on Sunday. We picked up seeds for the things we plan on direct seeding (the ones we didn't order), got some onion sets, and I was a sucker for some savory and basil plants (three varieties!) that I plan on sneaking into our flower beds this year.
I was really tempted to pick up some tomato seedlings, but Rick convinced me to hold off a few weeks more. I think he knows how good I am not at keeping plants alive indoors. It's so close to "when the danger of frost is past" planting, I can almost taste it. We're on our last bag of frozen tomatoes from last summer's garden. It can't get here quick enough!
What have you been up to in these last few rainy April days?On a side note, this here blog was just entered into the Circle of Moms Top 25 Eco-Friendly Mommy Blog contest. There are only three days left to vote but you can vote everyday. I'd love a vote from you! CLICK HERE to vote!


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The Causey Way is not a cult. They wish they were, but they're not. Sure, they're building a compound in a remote and undisclosed place, outside of Gainsville, Florida.(oops) Sure they offer Causey Blood (vegan) in communion cups before their services. And sure, of course, concert goers are encouraged to fill out membership name tags at at the show and it goes without saying that they're more than merely terrified about Y2K.
Causey formed the band in 1997 with his requisites stringent in recruiting his flock. The future parishioners were not allowed to have been in a band – not in their current life nor in prior lives. They made one exception though, they allowed Boy Causey to join the band. Boy, aka "Brian", you see, is currently in a ROCK N ROLL band called Man Or Astroman? as well as serving in Servotron. Causey, believe it or not, used to be a professional skateboarder using the phony last name "Stanton". He used to defy gravity with corporate sponsorship emblazoned upon his bosom (in interviews he would explain "it was the closest feeling approximating that of walking on water") when one day he landed on his nose and finally saw the light. This revelation changed Causey. He wanted to start anew, he suddenly felt a greater purpose. He needed to remain true to his new self while at the same time start something new & exciting and not merely regurgitate putrid bile like some old Linda Blair movie. He dreamed that his followers would release doves in asking for an encore, rather than lighting lighters. He had a mission, and the mission was The Causey Way.
Shortly after this period Jello Causey received a care-package from The Causey Way. It contained a digital testament of their musical sacrifices, and some thoughtful Y2K preparedness items such as generic bleach, generic toothpaste, and enough cotton swabs to clean out an entire chapel-full of ears. Shortly after receiving the package, he quickly filled out his membership nametag, and the rest is history. (Jello has adamantly denied journalists' claims that he was 'brainwashed'.) It was exactly the type of new 'testament' wave, and pulpit punk that was missing in his life. (Some heathen have made references to Devo due to the presence of keyboards.)
Jello wasn't the only soul converted. Rain Phoenix (sister of late River Phoenix) quickly signed up and did penance by singing background vocals on With Open and Loving Arms. One openly famous musical celebrity superstar, Michael Stipe of the rock quartet REM, was so healed upon experiencing The Causey Way service, that he invited the pulpit back to his house for a serving of grits to show his gratitude. The band declined.
Prior to their debut full-length sermon With Open and Loving Arms, The Causey Way released an ep by the name of WWCD (that rose to #30 on CMJ's charts) and released an ep called Testimony for the skankedly trendy label Fueled By Ramen.(Less Than Jake's label) before releasing their latest one Causey vs. Everything on Alternative Tentacles in January 2001.


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Report: Matt Lauer Nearly Moved to ABC Last Year
The behind-the-scenes drama at the Today show surrounding Ann Curry's departure is the story that keeps on giving. Now, a new report in New York magazine claims Matt Lauer nearly moved to ABC last year, amid a leak that Ryan Seacrest had been approached to replace him on Today.
Though NBC executives assured Lauer they didn't want him to leave the show and that they viewed Seacrest as merely an "insurance policy" in case Lauer chose to explore other options, Lauer reportedly became angry upon learning that the talks with Seacrest had been leaked to the media. At the same time, he and his former Today co-anchor Katie Couric had approached Jeff Zucker at ABC with an idea for a daytime talk show they would host together, according to the report. As part of the deal, Lauer would have had a role on ABC News. (Couric went on to sign a deal with the network for her own daytime talk show, Katie.)
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According to New York, ABC executives believed they had been given a verbal agreement from Lauer that he would be leaving NBC to join their network. But within a week (during which time Lauer negotiated his new $25 million contract with NBC), he backed out of the deal.
By this time, it had become clear to everyone involved with Today that either Curry or Lauer would have to leave the show. (In viewer surveys, Curry was fairly popular while Lauer came off as "unlikeable," New York reports.)
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"At the moment when he had maximum leverage with NBC, Lauer, as the multimillion-dollar megastar, could easily have saved her-but he didn't," the New York article says. "To the contrary, in signing a new contract to remain at the show for at least two more years, he tacitly ratified the plan to remove her."
Lauer tells New York that he and Curry have not spoken about her departure from Today since her tearful last day on the air in June 2012.
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Suspect's 11-page manifesto: 'There is no negotiation'
- A former police officer is a suspect in the killing of Monica Quan and Keith Lawrence
- Christopher Dorner implicated himself in a multipage manifesto obtained by authorities
- Dorner is believed to be armed and dangerous
- 1 officer dead as massive manhunt stretches across Southern California
IRVINE, Calif. — Police across Southern California waged a massive manhunt for a former cop accused of going on a revenge killing spree targeting other officers and their families and posting an online message saying "I do not fear death.''
Overnight shootings in Riverside County that left one officer dead and two wounded have been linked to the former Los Angeles officer, Christopher Dorner, who police named as a suspect in the slaying of a young couple here Sunday.
His pickup truck, the object of a regionwide search, was found burned off a forestry road in a remote area of the San Bernardino mountains east of Los Angeles, San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon said. Dorner was not found, he said, and local law enforcement officers were searching the Big Bear mountain ski resort area, including homes in the resort area.
Schools in the area were closed earlier in the day, and the Bear Mountain ski resort halted afternoon skiing. As darkness fell and temperatures dropped in the area, with an altitude approaching 7,000 feet, McMahon said the search would continue as long as weather permitted. He said officers using dogs followed tracks through snow from the truck, but they did not lead to the suspect.
"We're doing everything we can to search the area and try to find him,'' McMahon said.
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck called on Dorner to turn himself in: "This has gone far enough. Nobody else needs to die."
He said Dorner "has multiple weapons at his disposal, including assault rifles,'' and has police and military training.
A profanity-laced 11-page note addressed to "America" was written and posted online by Dorner, police chiefs in Irvine and Los Angeles said. In them, he laid out his grievances against the Los Angeles Police Department and various officers he claims wronged him, ruined his law enforcement career and ultimately destroyed his reputation. He says he'll stop the killing when the LAPD publicly proclaims his innocence and restores his reputation.
"I have exhausted all available means at obtaining my name back," the manifesto says. "This is my last resort. The LAPD has suppressed the truth and it has now lead to deadly consequences.''
"Self-preservation is no longer important to me. I do not fear death as I died long ago on 1/2/09," he wrote, referring to the date he was fired.
Beck said Los Angeles police have launched more than 40 security details to protect law enforcement personnel and others they believe are Dorner's targets, based on the Internet posting.
Across Southern California, digital traffic signs had carried alerts urging motorists to report any sighting of Dorner.
"I don't think there's anybody in law enforcement who isn't looking for him, along with about half the commuters in Southern California,'' said San Diego police Detective Gary Hassen.
Beck said Dorner was threatening law enforcement officers specifically and in general.
"LAPD is a specific target, but all law enforcement is targeted,'' Beck said, because Dorner had "a vendetta against all Southern California law enforcement.''
Police in San Diego early Thursday recovered a badge and ID bearing Dorner's photograph, Hassen said. The items were found by someone near the San Diego airport, he said.
Hassen said a man matching Dorner's description tried to steal a boat from a San Diego marina Wednesday night but gave up after he was unable to get the engine started and the boat unmoored. "We're waiting for forensic evidence to see if it was Dorner,'' Hassen said.
Police across the region were responding to reported sightings, and some proved to be mistaken. Beck attributed a pair of shootings by police officers in Torrance, south of Los Angeles, to mistaken identity. In one of the instances, officers fired on two women who were in a blue pickup delivering newspapers. One was hospitalized, the other treated for minor injuries.
Riverside Police Chief Sergio Diaz said his two officers were stopped at a traffic light when they were hit with several gunshots fired from a rifle by someone in a truck that pulled up next to them. A 34-year-old officer with 11 years on the force was killed. Another officer, 27, is expected to recover from his injuries, Diaz said.
Irvine Police Chief David Maggard named Dorner Wednesday night as the suspect in the slayings of Monica Quan, 28, an assistant basketball coach at California State University-Fullerton, and her fiance, Keith Lawrence, a University of Southern California campus security officer.
Quan was the daughter of Randy Quan, a retired LAPD captain who represented Dorner in the review process that led to his dismissal from the force for making false statements.
The couple were found dead of multiple gunshot wounds in their car outside their Irvine condominium Sunday night.
Maggard said Dorner implicated himself in the killings in the "manifesto" that included threats against several people, including members of the LAPD.
Beck, at a news conference, said he would not respond to the contents of the manifesto and dismissed it as self-serving "ramblings on the Internet.''
"When the truth comes out, the killing stops," the letter reads. "The attacks will stop when the department states the truth about my innocence. PUBLICLY!!! I will not accept any type of currency/goods in exchange for the attacks to stop, no do I want it. I want my name back, period. There is no negotiation."
The letter accuses the LAPD of corruption, racism and covering up for and promoting officers who steal and use excessive force. He identifies groups, including white, Asian, lesbian, black and Hispanic officers, who have acted in what he calls immoral ways as "high-value targets." The letter cites as one example of "high-value targets" black officers who belittle white officers under their command, perpetuating the cycle of racism" in the LAPD.
"I am here to change and make policy," the letter reads. "The culture of LAPD versus the community and honest/good officers needs to and will change. I am here to correct and calibrate your morale compasses to true north."
"Dorner is to be considered armed and extremely dangerous, and we ask that anyone who sees Dorner, to not approach or attempt contacting him, but to immediately call 911 and notify law enforcement authorities,'' the LAPD statement said.
The slayings of Monica Quan and Lawrence shocked this suburban city, which prides itself on having one of the lowest crime rates in the nation.
Randy Quan was the first Chinese-American to attain the rank of captain on the LAPD force, the department has said. He later served as chief of police at Cal Poly-Pomona, part of the California State University system.
Contributing: Donna Leinwand Leger in Washington


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Free Climbing Tips: Why Get Stronger When You Can Get Better?
Being good at rock climbing is all about learning proper technique and then ingraining it so it becomes second nature. In the long run, technique will take you much further than a strong back and a vice grip. Here are some basic tips for learning how to get better at climbing.
Being good at rock climbing is all about learning proper technique and then ingraining it so it becomes second nature.
In the long run, technique will take you much further than a strong back and a vice grip. Yet most climbers are hyper-focused on trying to get stronger
oftentimes at the expense of learning good technique.
Emily Harrington, who has climbed multiple 5.14's in various stages of personal fitness, recognizes the superlative of proper technique. Emily has been climbing
for 13 years, putting in well over the requisite 10,000 hours one supposedly needs to master any craft. As a result, she believes that no matter what
shape she's in, she will always be able to climb at a baseline of 5.12a throughout life.
If you know how to move your body, you should be able to climb 5.12a, Emily says, no matter how strong you are.
This may seem surprising to the climbers out there for whom 5.12a is a lifetime goal, yet the point is not that 5.12 is easy, but rather that proper technique
honed over many hours of practice is more enduring than one's momentary form strength and fitness. The problem is, it's easier to get stronger than
it is to get better.
Anyone can go to the gym and rip off a bunch of reps or climb a bunch of boulder problems and feel as though they have accomplished something. Training
with the goal of improving technique is more cerebral, requiring a certain degree of consciousness about what you're doing. This is because good technique
is all about ingraining movements, coordinating the upper and lower body and maintaining awareness of how much effort you're expending to the point
that it becomes second nature. Great climbers aren't thinking about what they need to do — they just do the exact right thing. This is the art of
free climbing.
Improvements in one's technique are much less tangible—harder to measure or gauge. Thus, it can be difficult to know how to approach the gym with
the goal of becoming a better free climber. Here are a few tips that you may find useful:
First, be good: Many beginner and intermediate climbers have approached me wanting to know how to get strong,
but I've never heard anyone ask how to get good. The two are undoubtedly related. But instead of jumping on the hardest route or boulder problem you
think you can do, focus on making perfect ascents of easier routes and problems. Try to be good before you try to be strong. How perfectly can you
climb something?
Bad feet: Problems in the gym typically get harder as the hand holds become worse and farther apart, while usually
the foot jibs remain pretty good. But if you have the ability to help set some problems wherever you climb indoors, I recommend setting decent hand
holds and the worst, most polished, difficult-to-stand-on footholds you can find. You want them to be bad, but not so bad that you just force a campus
move. You want the focus to be on using your feet properly—the first and most lastingly important step in becoming good. As a double benefit,
nothing will get you stronger than climbing problems with bad feet.
Master the back-step: One of the most useful maneuvers in climbing is the back-step, where you stand on the outside
edge of your right foot and rotate your lower body so that your right hip is against the wall (or vice versa). Most people climb straight on, with
their hands and feet set as if they were climbing up a ladder. If you watch great climbers, they are rarely so squared up; one hip or another is always
twisted toward the wall, with a foot back-stepping. Also, focus on getting into back-steps quicker. Many climbers put, say, their left foot on a hold,
then match their right foot on the hold in the back-step position. Instead of messing around with matching feet, many times it's better to cross the
right leg over and get into the back-step right away.
Stand Up: You've undoubtedly heard the advice, Keep your arms straight! But, of course, if your arms were straight
the whole time, you wouldn't be able to flex them to pull yourself upward. When you're hanging on holds, indeed, it's a good idea to keep your arms
straight. But the second part of this advice that's left out is how to begin initiating your upward movement. Typically, beginners will initiate the
move with their arms: pulling themselves up, locking off like on a pull-up bar, with their feet way low. Instead, try to always initiate your upward
movement with your legs. Keep your arms straight and lever yourself upward by pressing with your feet. Eventually, you'll have to flex your arms, but
try to do so only after you've initiated the upward movement with the legs–even if it's just a little bit. Teach yourself what this feels like by
climbing easy (5.6) routes in the gym. Hang from straight arms and try to drive yourself upward as far as you can by high-stepping your feet and using
only your leg muscles to stand up on every hold.
Wear better shoes: Beginners typically choose loose-fitting comfortable shoes. But no matter what grade you climb,
I recommend you get a high-end pair of shoes that are snug (not tight!). Higher end shoes give you much more precision, and do a better job of allowing
you to use all parts of your foot. This is the one and only piece of gear that can actually make a difference in your climbing! Get the best fitting
pair of high-end shoes you can find.
Develop your own style: Something that often gets lost when "experts" try to teach beginners how to climb/what
to do is that there is no such thing as one perfect way to climb a route or problem. There are no hard and fast rules. For some climbers, the best
solution to a problem will be to climb fast and very dynamically—it's possible that this will be more efficient for them. Others may find it
works better for them to climb at a slower pace, more statically and with greater control. This is where free climbing becomes an art of self-expression.
Cherish this. For example, in his clinics, Dave Graham spends a lot of time helping people develop their own styles by having a group of people figure
out two or three different beta sequences that work on a given problem. Try to climb a problem two or three different ways. See what works for you.
Don't be afraid to experiment. Perhaps it's easiest to just dyno! Ultimately, the best style is the one that gets you to the top most efficiently.
Avoid finger injuries: Have you ever noticed that climbers typically blow a tendon within their first three years
of climbing? Beginner climbers tend to race through the grades relying on rapid strength gains, not technique, which creates a false sense of ability
that encourages them to get on hard, crimpy routes before their tendons are ready for them. While the musculature may be there, building up the tendon
resilience to withstand the stress of hanging from small holds takes a long time—sometimes three years or more. Avoid finger injuries by using
the open-hand grip indoors whenever you can. Also, STOP crimping before your fingers feel sore! Admittedly, this is easier said than done.
Build a base: Dani Andrada, one of the best climbers in the world, was rumored to have redpointed 50 5.13b's
before he even considered getting on a 5.13c. While those grades are admittedly elite, the lesson still applies: Take the time needed to master the
easier grades before moving on. Did you redpoint 50 5.11d's before even trying a 5.12a?
Make climbing a practice: We try to perform our best every single time we enter the gym or a crag. Instead, start
thinking of your climbing sessions as a practice. If you climb two or three times per week—don't worry, the strength will come. But for right
now, focus on mastering good technique.
What do you think? I'd love to hear your ideas for what works. Please share your own tips for improvement in the comments.
Andrew Bisharat's book Sport Climbing: From Top Rope to Redpoint, Techniques for Climbing Success recently won the National Outdoor Book Award for Best Instructional.


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The executive director of the Black Coaches Association said today he is disappointed by the University of Colorado's decision Sunday to fire football coach Jon Embree after only two seasons on the job.
Embree was fired by athletic director Mike Bohn late Sunday afternoon following a 1-11 season that marked the first time in history a CU team went winless at Folsom Field. The Buffs were 4-21 under Embree in two seasons and lost 15 games by 20 or more points in those two seasons.
Embree was the first black head football coach in CU history.
"I'm disappointed for Jon because I thought he might get another year," Floyd Keith said. "I would have been pleased if he had gotten another year, but I'm also not blind. I think the thing that did him in was the loss to the FCS team (Sacramento State). What can you say about that?
"As far as what I think it should be, yeah, I think you need three (years) to at least get the vehicle around the curve. In no way can I say that I'm happy or that I'm neutral about it because I would have liked to have seen Jon have one more year and then if the progress didn't show, I'd totally understand it."
Keith served as an assistant coach at Colorado under former coach Bill Mallory in the 1970s. He coached CU running backs and quarterbacks. He was part of the staff that led the Buffs to the 1977 Orange Bowl only to be fired two years later. He has been with the BCA for 12 years.
Keith said he spoke with Embree about the firing early this morning and wished the coach well. He said he had not heard from CU officials yet but he expects to in the coming days. Contacting the BCA for input is standard practice with any hire for football and basketball programs these days.
CU has worked with the BCA that last two times it hired a coach: in 2005, when it hired Dan Hawkins, and when it chose Embree in 2010.
Embree was asked what message his firing sends to future minority coaching candidates at CU and future minority recruits.
"They just got to be better than I was," Embree said. "That's disappointing. You know a lot of guys took some awful jobs before I did so I could have this opportunity. I just hope guys like (Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin) and (Stanford coach David Shaw) keep having success and guys get more opportunity.
"I made that comment to Mike (Sunday) night about, you know, we don't get second chances. That's OK. You know that going into it."
Embree said the only minority coach he could think of who has received more than one opportunity to lead a major college program is former Notre Dame, Stanford and Washington coach Tyrone Willingham.
CU chancellor Phil DiStefano said diversity is an ongoing challenge and priority at the school.
"We didn't hire Jon because he's an African-American, and we didn't fire Jon because he's an African-American," DiStefano said. "I would hope that as we move forward, we continue to have diversity as one of our top priorities, not only for the campus but as well for the athletic department."While progress has been made in recent years with more schools such as CU being willing to at least hire a black head coach for the first time, Keith said there is still a long way to go. He said the numbers are still heavily skewed toward white coaches even though college rosters have included high percentages of black players for decades.
"We aren't there yet," Keith said.
Keith said there appears to be less patience these days for coaches in general to turn programs around regardless of color.
He said that lack of patience also applies to programs going through downturns.
He pointed to Auburn firing coach Gene Chizik this week two years after winning a national title.
"In the landscape of college football today, I think it's totally changed," Keith said. "You used to get five years to build a program. Now I think it's three if you're in the BCS. I just wish (Embree) would have gotten three, but you have to have some rays of hope that show up through there.
"I don't think people really realize how far down the program really was. So you're asking Jon to come in there and build it with freshmen, redshirt freshmen and sophomores."
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If you've been reading Ars for awhile, you know how trivially easy it is for government agencies to access your e-mail. Thankfully, there's been a modest amount of pressure in Washington, DC to change that.
The 1986-era Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) requires a warrant to obtain newly sent e-mail before it's been opened by the recipient. But once an e-mail has been opened, or once it's been sitting in the recipient's e-mail box for 180 days, a lower standard applies. (Of course in practice, that's not how anyone's e-mail works anymore.)
The latest iteration of possible reforms came last month when a new bill was re-introduced in the House of Representatives. The Obama Administration has indicated in a Congressional hearing that it would support changes to ditch that time-dependency.
So it probably shouldn't come as a surprise that the Internal Revenue Service's Criminal Tax Division, as part of its job of tracking down and prosecuting tax dodgers, believes it has the authority to read your e-mails without obtaining a warrant under ECPA.
According to newly published documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the IRS seems to indicate that it's definitely following the letter of the much-maligned federal law.
As the ACLU wrote on Wednesday:
A 2009 "Search Warrant Handbook" from the IRS Criminal Tax Division's Office of Chief Counsel baldly asserts that "the Fourth Amendment does not protect communications held in electronic storage, such as e-mail messages stored on a server, because Internet users do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in such communications." Again in 2010, a presentation by the IRS Office of Chief Counsel asserts that the "[Fourth] Amendment Does Not Protect E-mails Stored on Server" and there is "No Privacy Expectation" in those e-mails.
Other older documents corroborate that the IRS did not get warrants across the board. For example, the 2009 edition of the Internal Revenue Manual (the official compilation of IRS policies and procedures) explains that "the government may obtain the contents of electronic communication that has been in storage for more than 180 days" without a warrant.
The ACLU notes that the IRS' policies have not changed even in the wake of Warshak. The famous 2010 Sixth Circuit decision found that federal authorities do need a warrant before they can access e-mail.


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An exploit that fetched a teenage hacker a $60,000 bounty targeted six different security bugs to break out of the security sandbox fortifying Google's Chrome browser.
The extreme lengths taken in March by a hacker identified only as Pinkie Pie underscore the difficulty of piercing this safety perimeter. Google developers have erected their sandbox to separate Web content from sensitive operating-system functions, such as the ability to read and write files to a hard drive. Such sandboxes are designed to minimize the damage that can be done when attackers identify and exploit buffer overflows and other types of software bugs that inevitably find their way into complex bodies of code.
Pinkie Pie's attack came during Pwnium, a contest that awarded $60,000 prizes to hackers who successfully broke out of the protective barrier by exploiting only vulnerabilities residing in code that is native to the Google browser. The teenager was one of only two contestants to win the top prize. He did it after executing a custom-written Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface directly on a Dell Inspiron laptop that ran a fully patched version of Chrome on a fully patched version of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system. Google patched the severest of the vulnerabilities within 24 hours of them being exploited.
According to technical details Google published Tuesday, Pinkie Pie's odyssey began by exploiting a bug in a prerendering engine that helps Chrome work faster by gathering clues about webpages before they're loaded. By combining the attack with a second one that exploited a separate bug, he was able to inject a tiny, eight-byte address into a highly restricted section of the browser that processes commands sent to graphics cards.
By guessing some predictable addresses allocated by Windows, he was able to execute the snippet using a technique known as return-oriented programming, which extracts pieces of code present in executable memory areas and rearranges them to form a malicious payload. Although graphics processes are sandboxed, their restrictions are more permissive than the parts of Chrome that render HTML and Native Client processes. That allowed the hacker to tap Chrome's inter-process communications channel—which allows different parts of the browser to work together—and exploit two additional bugs described here and here. They allowed his code to gain additional privileges so it could access the part of Chrome that runs NPAPI plugins. (Note: To keep similar bugs from being exploited in other programs, Google is delaying the disclosure of some details. Some of these links may not work immediately.)
By exploiting two more bugs here and here, he was finally able to break out of the sandbox. The Dell Inspiron responded by displaying an image of a pink pony wielding a medieval axe, but it could just as easily have loaded a backdoor trojan that gave Pinkie Pie complete control over the machine.
Pinkie Pie speaks
In an e-mail that arrived after this article was published, Pinkie Pie said Google's deep-dive analysis varied widely from the way he thought about the attack when he was fashioning it.
"It's interesting to see the bugs listed this way because when writing the exploit I only counted three bugs, not six," he wrote. "117417, 117715, and 117736 are all hardening measures that enforce security boundaries that don't strictly need to exist, which I guess is a good thing."
He went on to say he wasn't sure if he could break out of Chrome's sandbox a second time.
"Finding vulnerabilities is very luck based, and a new exploit would likely use a totally different code path," he explained. "But keep in mind that to be eligible for the $60,000, I had to use only bugs in Chrome itself, not the operating system, which is a fairly severe restriction compared to a real attack."
He also noted that the successful attack of Sergey Glazunov, the other Pwnium contestant to take home a $60,000 prize, "relied on roughly 10 distinct bugs," according to the Google blog post. An upcoming post will contain the details, Google promised.
The exploit underscores the hacking truism that it can take a single teenager days to break what hundreds of highly paid professionals have spent years to build. While Pinkie Pie's journey was painstaking, he said at the time that it took him only about 10 days to plan and execute it. The episode also explains why Google to date has awarded more than $500,000 to hackers who privately report vulnerabilities in its software and services. Sometimes, the only way to erect an impenetrable castle is to occasionally watch it come crashing down.
Updated to add comments from Pinkie Pie.
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Upcoming volunteer days will be posted on John Bird's website, the Mile High Disc Golf Club, at mhdgc.org.
T he chill on the afternoon air aside, competitive disc golfer Jimmie Solis was glad to be out playing 18 holes in Boulder last week, now that the Valmont Disc Golf Course is open.
Solis has played at South Boulder's Harlow Platts Park, the city's sole disc golf option until recently, and in Longmont, where he lives. But when the 18-hole Valmont course opened in mid-December, Solis suddenly had a new, bigger and more technical option for disc golf in the community.
But Solis, like other disc golfers, isn't going to get too comfortable with the layout. Plans for the south side of Valmont City Park are still up in the air, so the city hasn't developed the entire course — which is across the road from the bike park — yet, said Mike Lamb, parks project manager for City of Boulder's Parks and Recreation department. But the demand for a disc golf course was overwhelming, he said, and community members were urging the city to expedite the development of an interim course to meet the growing demand for disc golf — so they did.
Once the south section of the park is developed, the course will look more like a finished product, Lamb said, but for now the 18-hole course is a work in progress.
Residents have been petitioning to include a disc golf course since the city bought the 132 acres for Valmont City Park in 1996, said disc-golf pioneer John Bird. Bird, who began playing in 1976 and has consulted in the development of nearly a dozen disc golf courses in Colorado, got involved in the design process for the Valmont course in 1996.
Many helped develop the course throughout the years, said Lamb, but "without John this wouldn't have happened — he spearheaded this thing."
"I had a long-term investment in this and I wanted to see it done," Bird said. "This isn't the final product that will be out there. It'll be good to see what we can make it, and if we can make it a nice recreational course, but also a course worthy of doing tournaments."
So far the city has spent about $20,000 on the course, according to Lamb, and about $70,000 has been put toward the park's south side for building a 12-foot wide multi-use path and a fence to keep out prairie dogs and relocate them.
Bird and Lamb both said volunteers have been essential for bringing the cost of the course down — and getting the course opened.
"These guys show up first thing in the morning and don't leave till dark…and it was hard, hard work," Lamb said.
Bird agreed. "Boulder has a pretty good nucleus of players who are willing to give up a Saturday morning or their day shift to go out and get things done. They worked hard."
According to Lamb, the course currently plays like an executive course — a smaller course with a faster pace of play. "They're shorter holes than you'd want (for the final product), but that's the area we could use right now."
Solis agreed and added that the course is beginner-friendly as a result.
"It's a good place for beginners and for anyone to learn…or work on your upshot game for people who are a little more seasoned," he said, adding that this is good for the growth of the game, and that he's seen both college students and families out playing since the park opened.
Bird has also noticed this change. "Now what we're seeing is the demographic is going pretty much across the board…you'll see somebody coming through pushing strollers…mom and dad and maybe a couple of friends."


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Cepeda: Immigrant children need more protection
Even though our maddening and broken immigration system probably won't be reformed for at least another few years, there are small pockets of common sense to be found in the midst of it all.
Take a recent decision in a New York state appellate court clarifying a 1990 statute — called Special Immigration Juvenile Status — which allows abused, neglected or abandoned undocumented immigrant children to apply for asylum in the United States.
The ruling in Marcelina M.-G. v. Israel S. is precedent-setting because immigration laws are not uniform across the states, nor are each state's immigration laws always in agreement with federal statutes. This makes for lots of cracks for potentially eligible people to fall through.
The case, involving a then-10-year-old girl from Honduras who fled an abusive home in a violence-scarred country, makes clear that immigrant children who have been abandoned, neglected or abused by one parent — as opposed to by both parents — are eligible for special juvenile status, which affords them greater protections and the opportunity to legalize their status in the United States.
The legal complexity of this case illustrates its significance. The appellate-court decision overturned a lower court's decision that rested on the idea that a child petitioner for legal status under SIJS would have to conclusively prove that he or she had been abandoned by both parents to be eligible for the protected status.
It also clarifies the interpretation of the special juvenile status statute for all New York courts. (The case was decided in the state court because, while SIJS was created by Congress, determination of a petitioner's status must be made through a state, and usually a juvenile, court.)
As far as Paul Hastings LLP — the pro bono law firm working on this case — knows, it's the first appellate-court decision in New York to squarely address this issue (lower courts had previously reached conflicting decisions) and an important national precedent in efforts to secure special juvenile status for children.
Kevin Broughel, the attorney representing the young Honduran girl, told me that this one clarification will have a tremendous ripple effect on the thousands of children who, every year, face the U.S. immigration court system without parents or family — and often without any legal assistance.
"This affirms that the purpose of the (special juvenile status) statute is to protect vulnerable immigrant children who (in their native countries) were facing serious abuse, neglect or abandonment and now can apply for legal status to stay in the U.S.," Broughel told me.
Two important and not well-understood points must be emphasized here:
First, children as young as 2 are expected to speak for themselves in immigration court — such as in cases where their parents have already been deported, or as in the case of the girl from Honduras, when children flee to the U.S. with the help of "coyotes."
Kids in Need of Defense, a legal advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C., estimates that each year, more than 8,000 children come to the U.S. unaccompanied. They are provided no legal counsel because no law requires it, which frustrates judges and makes the courts even less efficient than they would be with intervention for the kids, most of whom don't speak English.
Second, the crisis these kids face is difficult to overstate.
Wendy Young, the organization's president, emphasized that unaccompanied children's circumstances are almost always dramatic or life-threatening.
"Generally they are finding themselves here in the U.S. alone after fleeing war, violence, gang recruitment, gender-related discrimination or danger, or being a victim of child trafficking," Young told me. "We're really talking about a forced-displacement refugee situation as opposed to a voluntary migration or an immigration movement."
Though precedent-setting, the ruling regarding the Honduran child isn't a proper replacement for reforms to current immigration law that would, for a very low cost, codify an ongoing public-private partnership between government authorities and organizations such as KIND that can marshal the resources of lawyers willing to work on a pro bono basis.
"We were very pleased that the Senate version (of the most recent immigration reform bill) included a number of provisions to increase protections for unaccompanied minors — including mandating that children be represented by counsel," Young said. "If that ever became law, we could really help these children."
No one knows what the future holds for any immigration reforms. But if a piecemeal approach is attempted, as is being discussed in the House of Representatives, this highly vulnerable group of children must not be forgotten.


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By Clarence E. Hill
July 31, 2010
While the great scientist was himself a legal immigrant to, and later a citizen of, the United States, it doesn't take a genius of Einstein's intellect to know that America's immigration policy over the last several decades has been broken and the federal government has been derelict in its responsibility to fix it.
While the Obama administration says it's committed to "immigration reform," Americans are rightly concerned that this reform is merely a euphemism for amnesty. When President Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., said, "This amnesty will give citizenship to only 1.3 million illegal aliens. We will secure the borders henceforth. We will never again bring forth an amnesty bill like this."
The senator was right. Today's amnesty proposals are even worse. They are worse because the population of illegal aliens has skyrocketed to between 10 million and 20 million, depending on whose figures you choose to believe. Moreover, America has since been struck by a major terrorist attack inflicted by illegal aliens, not to mention numerous failed attacks by those who managed to flout our immigration or entry laws.
The American Legion offers a common-sense strategy to address illegal immigration without offering amnesty or other loopholes that endanger America's national security and threaten our economic well-being.
First, America needs to secure its borders and other points of entry. That means complete the fence, beef up border patrol and deport those who have already been identified as illegal aliens. Deportation does not require a mass round-up as the open-borders lobby would have you believe, but simply processing those who already enter our legal system through other violations.
Additionally, we need to eliminate the jobs magnet by enforcing no-nonsense penalties on employers who hire illegal workers. Likewise, all taxpayer-funded social service benefits - with the exception of emergency medical care must also be denied.
Finally, and most importantly for our national security, we must effectively screen and track all foreign visitors to the United States. Three of the convicted terrorists who plotted to kill innocent soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J., were illegal aliens. A man accused of assisting the would-be Times Square bomber was also here illegally. Americans have grown accustomed to increased security measures when boarding airplanes. We should expect the increased scrutiny to continue for foreign nationals staying in the United States.
The Obama administration has given strong indications that it does not grasp the problem. While Phoenix is second only to Mexico City in kidnappings and the Mexican border has seen a recent rise in violence by drug cartels, the Justice Department succeeded in getting a court to temporarily hinder Arizona's attempts to deal with an issue that the federal government has neglected for years.
Moreover, the U.S. Department of Labor produced a video in which its secretary incredibly states, "Every worker in America has a right to be paid fairly whether documented or not."
The Obama administration is not alone in its misguided approach to this issue. Democratic and Republican administrations have allowed the problem to fester for decades. The issue will not be solved until leaders from all political parties put electoral considerations aside and start putting America's interests first.
Clarence E. Hill
About: Clarence E. Hill, of Jacksonville, Fl., is national commander of the 2.5 million-member American Legion, the nation's largest wartime veterans organization.
The American Legion's "Strategy to Address Illegal Immigration in the United States" may be downloaded at http://www.legion.org/publications.
Received July 28, 2010 - Published July 31, 2010
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Driver in crash that killed Medford, Methuen men arraigned
A Somerville man has been arraigned on two counts of manslaughter in connection with the May 27 automobile crash that killed Paul V. Farris, 23, of Medford, and Walid Chahine, 45, of Methuen, and seriously injured Katelyn Hoyt, 21, of Medford.
Javier Morales, 29, of Somerville, was arraigned Monday in Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge on two counts of manslaughter, two counts of motor vehicle homicide, and failure to stop for a police officer. Judge Wendie Gershengorn ordered Morales held on $500,000 cash bail.
"We allege that this defendant had numerous opportunities to stop, yet continued to make decisions to drive unsafely at high rates of speed through densely-populated areas," said District Attorney Gerald Leone. "By ignoring the simplest of traffic rules designed to avoid this type of tragedy, his reckless actions resulted in the tragic deaths of two innocent victims and caused serious injuries to another."
On May 27, Morales allegedly led a State Police Trooper on a three-city chase after failing to stop in Everett. The chase ended when the vehicle Morales was driving hit a taxi being driven by Chahine. According to authorities, at approximately 1:20 a.m. Morales was driving a Mercury Mountaineer SUV in Everett and did not pull over for State Trooper Joseph Kalil. In his report, Kalil said Morales had made a left turn from the center lane of traffic, cutting off other vehicles. Morale's pregnant, 20-year old girlfriend Jessica LeBlanc was in the vehicle with him.
The chase briefly went into Medford and then into Somerville. As Morales entered into Somerville, he allegedly continued to speed through several stop signs, drove through the Powder House Rotary going in the wrong direction, and avoided collision with a stopped car waiting to enter the rotary by driving on the sidewalk.
After slowing to make his way through the rotary and permitting the stopped vehicle at the rotary to move out of his way, Kalil observed the black SUV take a left turn onto Kidder Avenue. The trooper observed the SUV from a distance allegedly travel through several stop signs posted at intersections and continue to drive with its headlights off. When Kalil reached the SUV, it had already collided with Chahine's cab.
Farris was transported to Somerville Hospital and pronounced dead that morning. Chahine and Hoyt were transported to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston to be treated for their injuries. Chahine died of his injuries suffered in the crash on June 3.
Preliminary analysis by the State Police Collision Analysis Reconstruction Section determined that the speed of the black SUV driven by Morales at point of impact was approximately 60 to 70 miles per hour. The analysis also determined that the taxi was moving at approximately 20 miles per hour. All of the cab's occupants were wearing seat belts at the time. The violent impact of the collision ejected Farris from the cab and tore his seatbelt.
Morales was arraigned on district court charges on May 29 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Somerville District Court Judge Maurice Flynn ordered him held on $100,000 cash bail.
A Middlesex Superior Court Grand Jury indicted him on June 28 on two counts of manslaughter, two counts of motor vehicle homicide, and failure to stop for a police officer.
Morales' next court date will be on August 29 at 2 p.m. for a pretrial hearing in courtroom 8B of Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge.
The prosecutor assigned to the case is Assistant District Attorney Joseph Gentile. The victim witness advocate is Daniela Bianco.


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MCMINNVILLE — Young Kim is a former U.S. Air Force pilot and familiar with the "outcome oriented" use of drone aircraft by the military. Get them over a target, conduct the surveillance or fire the missile – that's how success is gauged.
Putting drone technology to work in agriculture, as he does now as general manager of Bosh Precision Agriculture in Virginia, requires an entrepreneurial mind-set.
"Do not waste growers' time," he said at drone technology forum in the heart of Oregon's wine country this week. "You've got to deliver value very, very quickly. Show them how it will increase yield and lower inputs costs."
Kim believes unmanned planes, equipped with sensors and cameras, will rapidly transform agriculture by providing quick, detailed information on plant health, soil and water conditions, disease or pest outbreaks and more. He said it's a change similar to moving from analog to digital technology.
Agriculture is in the midst of a significant transformation, he said. The "biggest ag boom since the 1980s" is accompanied by a trend in which the number of farmers is declining but the acreage farmed by each is increasing, Kim said. At the same time, those farmers working large plots of land want the intimate knowledge they used to have of smaller acreage. Drones can provide that, but Kim said people shouldn't get hung up on the "sexiness" of the technology.
"The real value is the data," he said. "Focus on the problem of the grower and work backward from there."
Kim was among a series of experts speaking at a day-long precision agriculture forum held in McMinnville, at the Yamhill County Fairgrounds. The county's part-time economic developer, Jeff Lorton, believes the area's renowned vineyards will benefit from the technology and hopes the county can attract drone makers and the legions of engineers and programmers who will follow the industry.
The forum included a brief outdoor demonstration of a small, four-bladed helicopter equipped with a video camera, which zipped about 50 feet in the air and hovered above the crowd. Images captured by the video camera were displayed on screens mounted on a control truck. About 100 people attended the forum, including vineyard owners, researchers and students.
John Parmigiani, an OSU mechanical engineering professor, displayed a fixed-wing drone painted to resemble a predatory hawk and programmed to mimic its flight patterns.
A student team under his direction built it as a project in 2012. The team wanted to find out if the "Mock Hawk" would scare damaging robins, starlings and cedar waxwings from vineyards, but the birds didn't show in numbers enough to make the tests conclusive, Parmigiani said. The university is eager to test the drone again, he said.
"You can tell this thing what to do and it will go out and do it," he said. "This really looks promising, the technology is there."
Researchers with the University of California-Davis have test-sprayed vineyards and nut orchards with a 200-pound, unmanned helicopter made by Yamaha Motor Co. About 2,000 of the devices are in use in Japan, said Ken Giles, a UC-Davis agricultural engineering professor. Regulations have limited the researchers to spraying only water so far, not actual pesticides, but application coverage, speed and cost considerations appear favorable, Giles said. The ability to spot spray crops could be a significant advantage, he said.
To reassure potential critics, university researchers opened flight demonstrations to the public.
"You want to talk about a couple things people get jumpy about, it's pesticides and drones," Giles said.
Eric Folkestad, president of the Cascade chapter of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International said groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union are worried police agencies will use drones to peek into people's backyards without a search warrant. Agriculture has no such interest, he said.
"We don't use these systems to spy on people," he said. "We're the good guy drones."
In farming, the technology can mitigate risks, Folkestad said. He predicted drone use will become like other specialized crop services offered by companies or co-ops, rather than taken up by individual farmers.
Ryan Jenson, chief executive of the Portland-based HoneyComb Corp., said his company will begin selling its fixed-wing Ag Drone in January 2014. The drone, "ready to go out of the box," costs $14,995, can be launched by hand and comes in a case that can be thrown into the back of pickup for transport to fields. "It's a flying robot," he said.
The drone's cameras, including infrared sensors, will provide early detection of disease or pest outbreaks, irrigation problems, plant stress or other issues, Jenson said. His company will process the data at a per acre charge to be determined later, with the first month free.
A key point in the forum discussion came when an audience member asked Jenson if his "drone in a suitcase" is legal for farmers or service companies to fly. The short answer is "not yet," but the Federal Aviation Administration is working to establish drone guidelines by 2015. For now, unmanned aerial systems may be flown for pleasure or in conjunction with university research, but advocates are optimistic the FAA will recognize the value of agricultural applications.
When the FAA integrates commercial drone use into the national airspace, backers expect an industrial boom. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International projects the idustry will produce an $82 billion economic impact and create more than 100,000 jobs by 2025.
Agriculture is likely to be an early adapter of the technology, speakers at the McMinnville forum said.
Michael Wing, an OSU forestry professor who will test drones over three Yamhill County vineyards in the coming year, said the industry is just getting started.
"It's a revolution in the application of remote sensing, and it's happening right in front of us," he said.
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