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20 reasons to love Ashland, cultural capital of southern Oregon
By Jamie Hale | The Oregonian/OregonLive
Photo courtesy of Jenny Graham/Oregon Shakespeare Festival
By Jamie Hale | The Oregonian, OregonLive
In 1935, the city of Ashland loaned a local teacher $400 to stage two of Shakespeare's plays inside a dilapidated theater in town. By the end of the decade, the new Oregon Shakespeare Festival was nationally known, and the southern Oregon town had found itself a niche.
Today, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the city of Ashland are inseparable. The presence of The Bard – and all the people who gather to stage his works – has made Ashland the cultural capital of southern Oregon, and perhaps the most vibrant small town in the state.
Because of the festival, Ashland has become a dinner-and-a-show kind of town. Before show time, the many good restaurants and bars will fill up, emptying like clockwork once seating begins. After the ovations, bars fill up once more, mixing craft cocktails and pouring mugs of mead. While nightlife is the highlight, by day Ashland is a place surrounded by natural beauty, from local Lithia Park to the stunning Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument nearby.
It's an interesting culture for the region – especially in contrast to other southern Oregon locales, like Klamath Falls and Medford – but it's one that has allowed Ashland to become not just another local destination, but one recognized the world over. Shakespeare might have lived in England, but he would have felt right at home in Ashland.
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1. Oregon Shakespeare Festival
The focal point of Ashland, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival isn't a one-off event, but a nearly-year-round production of plays – many penned by The Bard, with original works mixed in for good measure. It runs from February through October, and while tickets can get pricey, there's always the free Green Show that starts in June.
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2. Lithia Park
One of the most beautiful urban parks in Oregon, Lithia Park is nearly 100 acres of paved pathways, trails and green space that run alongside Ashland Creek. Several small bridges cross the trickling creek, leading to tucked away alcoves of picnic tables, shelters, an amphitheater and an ice skating rink. The park was designed by John McLaren, the landscape architect responsible for Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
3. Lithia Water
Ashland's famous Lithia Water – natural spring water with trace amounts of lithium salts – was once thought to be a healing tonic, leading city officials to pipe it into drinking fountains downtown. Today, the water is best known for its terrible taste, though the fountains remain a local attraction.
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4. Ashland Springs Hotel
The historic hotel originally opened in 1925 as the Lithia Springs Hotel, but after a major renovation, it re-opened in 2000 as the Ashland Springs Hotel. It's one of the most prominent buildings downtown, and in 1978 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Rooms run from about $89 to $329, depending on season and accommodations.
5. Schneider Museum of Art
Gallery space might be limited, but Southern Oregon University's own Schneider Museum of Art fills it well with socially-conscious work from a diverse set of artists. This winter, the museum showcased internationally-recognized local Betty LaDuke, Mexican immigrant Maria de Los Angeles and Portland artist Storm Tharp. Admission is a suggested donation of $5.
6. New Sammy's Cowboy Bistro
There are few restaurants in Oregon as storied as New Sammy's Cowboy Bistro. The "slow food" establishment is helmed by chef Charlene Rollins, who owned a critically-acclaimed restaurant in Northern California before fleeing to France when the creditors came calling. She and her family returned stateside to Ashland, where they set up New Sammy's in a rundown roadside shack. Today it serves a phenomenal $15 prix fixe lunch, alongside a fresh dinner menu and expansive wine list.
7. Hither
Married couple Wesley Reimer and Corrie Robinson-Reimer have spent their careers in restaurants in Portland, San Francisco and New York, and last year they brought that experience to a new venture in Ashland: Hither Coffee & Goods. The small, simple space serves up fresh-baked pastries, good coffee, and small breakfast and lunch menus. The creamy herbed eggs on toast are a nice way to start the day.
8. Morning Glory
You might have a long wait at Morning Glory, but at least it will be cozy. The popular breakfast spot is built into a house and comes with some appropriate amenities: a fireplace and comfortable chairs in the waiting area, with funky décor and a variety of seating options, including garden tables outside. A lot of people come for the lemon ricotta stuffed French toast, but the scrambles and omelets are a solid bet as well. Just be sure to get the fresh-baked muffin in lieu of toast.
9. Smithfield's
Smithfield's proudly proclaims itself as a "meat-centric," "nose-to-tail" restaurant, with a dinner menu that goes from bacon-wrapped shrimp to a 12 oz. rib eye. As advertised, the meat here is exceptional, made all the better with rich béarnaise and green peppercorn sauces. Their affordable "happy hour & a half" is also a great way to nibble through all the meaty offerings.
10. Brickroom
With a prominent spot overlooking The Plaza, Brickroom is one of Ashland's newest go-to spots, drawing crowds with a hip aesthetic and modern design.The menu is weirdly heavy on sandwiches and salads, so stick with something simple, like the Brickroom Burger, and spend your money on a cocktail instead – an area where the restaurant excels.
11. Alchemy
Set inside a glass-walled addition to the homey Winchester Inn, the bar at Alchemy is a terrific spot for cocktails. The drink menu is as creative as it is extensive – with drinks like I'm Not Really a Blonde and My Dad Made Me Wear This Stupid Sweater – and the atmosphere is surprisingly laid-back given the imposing look of the back-lit wall of libations.
12. Oberon's
Dubbed "Ashland's Most Ashlandiest Spot," Oberon's is a perfect accompaniment to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Here, they pour mead from taps built into wooden casks, offer several kinds of hot toddy, and occasionally host patrons in Medieval garb. Yes, there's food and live music, too, but the real draw is the pure Ashland atmosphere.
13. Caldera Brewing
Every small town in Oregon needs a brewery, and in Ashland the beloved beer comes from Caldera (with a nod to Standing Stone Brewery). There are two places in town to try the brewery's extensive offerings: the small tap house just off The Plaza, or the larger brewery and restaurant across town.
14. Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
Put the recent politics aside for a moment and just enjoy the beautiful scenery at the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Set at the confluence of three mountain ranges and the Great Basin desert, the monument is considered an "ecological wonderland," accessible via day hikes and long stretches of wilderness.
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15. Mt. Ashland Ski Area
The southern Oregon ski area tops out at 7,533 feet, and operates five lifts and 23 runs on 220 acres of skiable terrain. Mt. Ashland was originally popular among local backcountry skiers in the 1950s, who built a lodge and one lift there in 1963. The ski area is typically open late January through mid-April.
16. Alice in Wonderland trail network
It's officially named the Ashland Watershed Trail system, but you might as well call it Alice's Hiking Trails in Wonderland. Connecting Lithia Park to the Oredson-Todd Woods and several scenic segments of the Siskiyou mountains just south of town, the trail network is a nod to Lewis Carrol, with the White Rabbit Trail, Queen of Hearts Loop, Jabberwocky mountain bike trail and others.
17. Oredson-Todd Woods
Since the Oredson-Todd Woods connect with Siskiyou Mountain Park and the aforementioned Alice in Wonderland trail network, it's easy to consider it just one part of a much larger whole. But the three miles of forested trails in the small park are among the loveliest in the area, and are perfectly suitable for a simple wooded stroll close to town.
18. Emigrant Lake
A Jackson County park just outside of town, Emigrant Lake is a great summer destination, with a campground, RV park and a twin-flume 280-foot water slide. The lake itself – a reservoir created by the Emigrant Lake Dam – is open to boating, fishing and swimming.
19. Mount McLoughlin
Portland has Hood, Bend has the Three Sisters, and Ashland has Mount McLoughlin. The 9,500-foot-tall mountain lords over the northeast horizon, and features one of the prettiest peaks in the Cascades. You can hike to the summit via the Mount McLoughlin Trail, or enjoy it from afar at places like Hyatt Lake or Lake of the Woods.
20. Siskiyou Mountains
Ashland is located at the northeast tip of the Siskiyou Mountains, one of three mountain ranges that converge in the region. The Siskiyous don't have the tallest peaks, but get considerable precipitation, and are therefore lush with vegetation and ecological diversity. Most of the land is managed by the U.S. Forest Service's Siskiyou Mountains Ranger District, where hiking, fishing, mountain biking and skiing opportunities abound.
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Partner Hermès Marangos examines the recent WannaCry global cyber attacks in relation to insurance and corporate liability.
Hermès' articles have been published in the following publications:
Thomson Reuters Accelus – 15 June 2017
Insurance Post – 15 June 2017
Life Insurance International – 28 June 2017
Hermès also had comments published in relation to this in The Times, 18 May 2017, and was interviewed in Insurance Day, 24 May 2017. These pieces can be read here and here.
Cybersecurity is an unwelcome problem that few businesses have ever wanted to discuss. Until now. After severely affecting parts of the NHS and numerous large businesses internationally, the global WannaCry ransomware attack has changed the climate of discussion overnight. According to a recent UK government survey, 81% of big corporations and 60% of small businesses suffer an annual cyber breach: big or small, businesses now have to address an issue which has an impact on various lines of insurance. The Institute of Directors has recently criticised the unpreparedness of most businesses in dealing with such incidents.
Because this was a worldwide attack, questions arise relating to events and aggregation, depending on the line of business and the relevant wording. Reinsurers and retrocessionaires face the immediate issue of accumulations and they are considering protocols for dealing with exposure and claims as they filter through. At an underlying level, insurers will be checking how policies are triggered in different countries.
Cyber cover is not standard. Some covers may theoretically be easier to deal with: loss or damage to digital assets, business interruption, which is often the primary issue, and reputational damage. But ransom payments, which are treated differently by each legal regime, may lead to an absence or disconnect between covers. In reality, most of the losses will probably come from impacted lines of business rather than the cyber covers themselves.
Re-igniting a previous debate, another potential issue relates to the operation of newer versions of terrorism exclusions with extensive cyber-terrorism provisions. Some wordings may exclude losses, "however remote" the connection may be between those losses and "cyber terrorism". In traditional covers, the guiding principle applied by the market to trigger a terrorist exclusion has been that the relevant clause requires a "terrorist act" to have been committed, with violence as a key component. This is distinct from the "act of a terrorist" which may, for example, involve individuals with terrorist links breaking into a bank to raise money to finance their operations.
Accordingly, because cyber-terrorism does not contain the violence component, it becomes more likely that a cyber-attack falls within widely drafted exclusions. In the context of over-restrictive covers and over-extensive exclusions, political extremist links may also be relevant – as can any provable remote connection with activities by the international intelligence communities. An added dimension is the interconnection between cyber-terrorism exclusions, also encompassing losses not involving violence, and the narrow scope of some cyber cover, which envisages that some losses should come under other more specific or specialist covers.
A further concern arises if it is demonstrated that the insureds have inadequate protection in place, or have failed to maintain sufficient protection by regularly updating their systems and security. When it comes to contractual obligations, tribunals tend not to forgive deficient compliance: absence of firewalls, or proper password and software protection. These may be seen as the modern equivalent of leaving a house with unlocked doors or open windows. It also brings directors, officers and consultants into the firing line. Again, there are different legal implications in each scenario. An additional problem relates to the Data Protection Act and in future European regulations, which may still be relevant to the UK.
These diverse issues will require careful examination of the legal language used in every policy, which either directly or indirectly deals with losses arising from cyber incidents. Also to maintain legal privilege when all the relevant work is undertaken. The proper application of wordings dealing with cyber-attacks, where there is a remote connection with terrorism or counter-terrorism activities, will need particularly careful attention. More than anything, the ransomware attack is a sharp reminder to the market that serious legal repercussions can follow if proper protections are not put in place or kept up-to-date.
Hermès Marangos is a Partner at Signature Litigation LLP and has litigated and arbitrated on these commercial disputes in over 60 countries worldwide. He is also a vice president of the insurance institute and author and co-author of books on reinsurance and war risks and terrorism and associated wordings for the international market.
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Modric hits out at Messi & Ronaldo for skipping Ballon d'Or because someone else won
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The Real Madrid midfielder has ended the duopoly of Barcelona and Juventus superstars, but neither of his predecessors showed up to see him crowned
Luka Modric has hit out at Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo for skipping the Ballon d'Or gala, with the 2018 winner suggesting the iconic figures only care about personal recognition.
After a decade of dominance by Argentine and Portuguese superstars, the prestigious Golden Ball is now in new hands.
Real Madrid midfielder Modric has seen his efforts recognised, with a memorable year seeing him reach the World Cup final with Croatia and claim the FIFA Best Award.
The Croatia international has been hailed for ending the duopoly of Messi and Ronaldo, but a former Blancos team-mate and Barcelona rival were not on hand to see his latest coronation.
Pressed by Sportske Novosti for his take on the award snub, Modric said: "I cannot say why someone did not attend – that's their choice.
"That is logical, is it not?
"It turns out these choices and trophies only have value when they get them.
"It is not fair to their playing colleagues, or to the voters who have nominated them for the past 10 years – nor for football or supporters.
"But I repeat, everyone behaves the way they think they need to."
While pleased to have seen his efforts in 2018 acknowledged, Modric concedes that he is not the best player on the planet.
He is, however, eager to point out that prizes such as the Ballon d'Or are distributed to those who have impressed over the course of a 12-month period, not their career as a whole.
The 33-year-old added: "Here we are talking about seasonal performance, and it probably means that all the coaches, players, football legends and journalists have voted the same.
"Or are they all mistaken at the same time?
"If we vote on the quality of the player, then the only thing left is to distribute all the trophies for Messi and Ronaldo as long as they are actively playing and to abandon any vote."
Having already helped himself to an enviable haul of individual honours this year, to go with the Champions League crown he collected with Madrid last season, Modric is now looking to wrap up 2018 by helping the Blancos to a third successive Club World Cup triumph.


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Life In Limbo https://www.tinyflamespress.com/ellen-ricks
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A Post-Apocalyptic Christmas (third place winner in the Benneth The Rainbow Christmas Short Story Contest 2017) http://beneaththerainbow.com/a-post-apocalyptic-christmas/
Icarus the Phoenix https://godsandradicals.org/2017/07/19/icarus-the-phoenix/
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Today's look is from the darling Cameron….she looks so cool and casual.
I would love to look that pulled together….
…but it's hard to pull off while packing 2 kids around & wading through knee deep mud to get to my vehicle….
For fun I'm showing a few looks that I put together on polyvore using items similar to ones in my closet.
This is fun! You should try it!! Check out Polyvore and let me know what you create!!
Ok, I don't have that Indian Chief ring, but I would like to!!
This week it is the newlywed herself…Carrie Underwood.
Love this outfit, again..not so hot for the white pants. I would go with jeans, and with the crazy weather we've been having, I think jeans would work fine!
Navy shirt….short or long sleeved.
This week's look is from Jessica Biel….great for summer, not so great if you have kids.
But a girl can dream….
This GORGEOUS ring…LOVE! It's by Shelagh Blatz, an amazingly talented Alberta woman. Just click on the ring to check out her site, when I win the lottery I'm going to clean her store out!!
And add these fabulous earrings….


Band concerts at Mesa Verde are large affairs, with the four bands (two eighth, two seventh). And everyone of these students is likely to have two parents and maybe a sibling and/or grandparent crammed into the overflowing gym bleachers.
Mr. Posterero conducting the the eighth grade wind ensemble, which he has dressed all in black this year. Brad is in the center of the back row.
A few days later just the combined eighth grade bands had a joint concert with the high school band in the high school's gymnasium, where many of Brad's basketball practices are held.
Mr. Kirby is conducting this evening in Mr. Posterero's stead. Matt and Brad are three rows back, over Mr. Kirby's left shoulder.
Like Middle School and High School, band concerts are held in the largest room on campus, in this case the multi-purpose room. In addition to parents who can make it to concerts held during the school day, students (especially 4th graders) are imported to enjoy the show.
Hurray for the trombones! Besides the one exemplar on stage, the trombones are back row right. There's Doug second trombone fromthe left, standing under the orange banner.


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Q: How to regress on previous time step in R How can I regress on the previous time step in R here? I want to regress deaths at time t based on deaths, guns, and shootings at time t-1.
City    Year  Month Deaths  Guns     Shootings
Miami   2010    1   69      73800       701
Miami   2010    2   99      85050       738
Miami   2010    3   122     92650       784
...
Miami   2013    5   204     99280       800
Miami   2013    6   234     110023      825
Houston 2011    1   98      92100       789
Houston 2011    2   146     103900      799
Houston 2011    3   162     136100      772

Also in R, how do I use ggplot to show the month AND the year on the x-axis? I had a numeric date column in my dataset as well but I couldn't get it to plot by month and year.

A: You can use dplyr::lag to lag the data and then fit the linear model. And, since a dplyr function is being used, I will do it in a pipe.
x <- 'City    Year  Month Deaths  Guns     Shootings
Miami   2010    1   69      73800       701
Miami   2010    2   99      85050       738
Miami   2010    3   122     92650       784
Miami   2013    5   204     99280       800
Miami   2013    6   234     110023      825
Houston 2011    1   98      92100       789
Houston 2011    2   146     103900      799
Houston 2011    3   162     136100      772'
df1 <- read.table(textConnection(x), header = TRUE)

suppressPackageStartupMessages(library(dplyr))

fit <- df1 %>%
  mutate(Guns = lag(Guns), Shootings = lag(Shootings)) %>%
  lm(Deaths ~ lag(Deaths) + Guns + Shootings, .)

summary(fit)
#>
#> Call:
#> lm(formula = Deaths ~ lag(Deaths) + Guns + Shootings, data = .)
#>
#> Residuals:
#>        2        3        4        5        6        7        8
#> -17.2273   0.8505  29.1597  53.4768 -63.1397 -38.9155  35.7956
#>
#> Coefficients:
#>               Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
#> (Intercept) -9.668e+02  9.909e+02  -0.976    0.401
#> lag(Deaths)  2.567e-01  8.452e-01   0.304    0.781
#> Guns        -8.023e-03  8.976e-03  -0.894    0.437
#> Shootings    2.364e+00  2.152e+00   1.099    0.352
#>
#> Residual standard error: 59.97 on 3 degrees of freedom
#>   (1 observation deleted due to missingness)
#> Multiple R-squared:  0.3335, Adjusted R-squared:  -0.333
#> F-statistic: 0.5004 on 3 and 3 DF,  p-value: 0.708

Created on 2022-07-02 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)

A: You could convert the year and month to a date object using clock's date_build to ggplot the Deaths or fitted values etc. against the date.
And if you wanted separate lm models per City you could nest by City and iterate through the models using purrr's map.
library(tidyverse)
library(clock)
library(broom)

# With some further made-up data
df <- tribble(
      ~City, ~Year, ~Month, ~Deaths,   ~Guns, ~Shootings,
    "Miami", 2010L,     1L,     69,  73800,       701,
    "Miami", 2010L,     2L,     99,  85050,       738,
    "Miami", 2010L,     3L,    122,  92650,       784,
    "Miami", 2010L,     4L,    204,  99280,       800,
    "Miami", 2010L,     5L,    234, 110023,       825,
    "Miami", 2010L,     6L,    244, 110500,       830,
  "Houston", 2011L,     1L,     98,  92100,       789,
  "Houston", 2011L,     2L,    146, 103900,       799,
  "Houston", 2011L,     3L,    162, 136100,       772,
  "Houston", 2011L,     4L,    182, 146100,       782,
  "Houston", 2011L,     5L,    192, 156100,       792
  )

df2 <- df |>
  group_by(City) |>
  mutate(date = date_build(Year, Month),
         lead_deaths = lead(Deaths)) |>
  drop_na() |>
  nest() |>
  mutate(model = map(data, ~lm(lead_deaths ~ Deaths + Guns + Shootings, data = .)),
         augmented = map(model, augment),
         fitted = map(augmented, ".fitted")) |>
  unnest(c(data, fitted)) |>
  ungroup()

df2 |>
  ggplot(aes(date, Deaths)) +
  geom_point() +
  scale_x_date(date_labels = "%Y-%b") +
  facet_wrap(~ City, scales = "free_x") +
  labs(x = NULL) +
  theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 45, hjust = 1))

Created on 2022-07-02 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)

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What are the Different Courts in the UK?
Depending on the severity and nature of the crime you have been accused of, you may be referred to a UK court to stand trial or for sentencing purposes. To understand how each court works and what crimes they tend to deal with, we've outlined each one for reference.
The county court deals with civil cases and these are handled by a judge or district judge. A civil case can begin in a county court across the UK but then is usually transferred to the defendant's local county court at their convenience.
A case usually ends up in a county court when it cannot be settled by negotiation, arbitration or mediation.
The Family Court is made up of an array of High Court Judges, (sometimes) circuit judges, recorders, district judges, magistrates and legal advisers.
The Magistrates Court is one of the most common and popular courts within the UK. What is unique about a Magistrates Court is that cases are typically dealt with by 'Justices of the Peace' who are unpaid legal volunteers. In some occasions, cases may be dealt with District Judges (who are paid) but this is less common.
The Crown Court is the other popular court in the UK and those who are tried there will be sat in front of a judge and a jury.
The High Court deals and hears with sensitive cases and cases that have been sent for appeal, they can deal with both criminal and civil cases. This court has the power to review the actions of individuals or organisations and deem whether they have acted legally and justly.
Similarly to the High Court, the Court of Appeal deals with all criminal and civil cases that have been appealed in the UK. Sometimes the Court of Appeal will deal with appeals from tribunals such as the Employment Appeal Tribunal. In some cases, the appeal will go through the High Court before reaching the Court of Appeal, in others it will go straight to the Court of Appeal.
The UK Supreme Court deals with the most serious and sensitive offences in the UK, including terrorism. This court will also deal with appeals that have gone through the High Court and the Court of Appeal, but the most important cases they deal with are those in the public eye and are of general public importance.
If you're due to visit court, get in touch with DPP Law and find out how they can help you moving forward with your case.
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Dummy is the 1994 debut album of the Bristol-based group Portishead. It reached #2 on the UK Album Chart and #79 on the Billboard 200 chart, going gold in 1997. Building on the promise of their earlier EP—"Numb"—it helped to cement the reputation of Bristol as the capital of Trip hop, a nascent genre which was then often referred to simply as "the Bristol sound".The cover is a still of Gibbons from the short film that the band created—To Kill a Dead Man—which originally got them signed due to their self composed soundtrack. In addition to the already released "Numb", the album spawned two further singles: the UK #13 hit (on re-release) "Glory Box" and "Sour Times", which reached the same position, also on re-release. On 3 December 2008, Universal Music Japan released Dummy and Portishead as limited SHM-CD versions.


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Q: Data manipulation using SQL Server Substring so something else I have a table A like this:
ID   Col1
----------------------
1    xyz-abcccc
2    xyz-jkasdasd
3    abcds-asks
4    asdasdasda-as

I want to get output like this:
    ID   Col1
    -------------
    1    abcccc
    2    jkasdasd
    3    asks
    4    as

I want get output where anything before the dash - is ignored.
Thanks

A: charindex() would be a good place to start.   The only trick is add a dash within the charindex function as a fail-safe thus avoids throwing an error.
Example
Select ID
      ,Col1 = substring(Col1,charindex('-',col1+'-')+1,len(Col1))
 from YourTable

Returns
ID  Col1
1   abcccc
2   jkasdasd
3   asks
4   as

A: You can use a combination of RIGHT and CHARINDEX functions as well.
Query
select [ID],
case when [Col1] like '%-%' then right([Col1], charindex('-', reverse([Col1]), 1) - 1)
else [Col1] end as [new_col1]
from [your_table_name];


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Charlie Savage began his reporting career in 1999, covering local and state government for the Miami Herald. In 2003, he joined the Boston Globe's Washington Bureau. Savage lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and son.


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Mrz (qld) Pty Ltd is a limited by shares Australian proprietary company. Located at QLD 4116 since 2014-09-16 the company is, as the updated on 2015-07-02 ABN database shows, registered. The company has been registered for Goods & Services Tax since 2000-07-01. Known company numbers for Mrz (qld) Pty Ltd are as follows: ACN - 079979043, Australian Business Number - 46079979043. Mrz (qld) Pty Ltd has been the company name since 2011-11-07. Ice Mower Hire is an example of a business name Mrz (qld) Pty Ltd used. The complete list includes 1 solitary business name. Ice Mower Hire was the company's business name from 2000-02-11 until 2001-01-30. Their official company name changed on 2001-08-17 to Ice Door Systems (aust) Pty Ltd. The company had used this name up until 2011-11-07. Additionally they had used I C E Door Systems (aust) Pty Ltd from 2001-06-26 to 2001-08-17, Ice Door Systems (aust) Pty Ltd from 2000-05-30 to 2001-06-26. This Australian proprietary company was previously located in QLD 4116 (from 2011-11-26 to 2014-09-16), QLD 4207 (from 2007-05-23 to 2011-11-26), QLD 4207 (from 2000-02-11 to 2007-05-23).


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Why 2016 was such a terrible year for Canadian IPOs
There was just one new initial public offering on the TSX in 2016. IPOs will return eventually—but will it be enough to undo the damage?
Dec 14, 2016 Bryan Borzykowski
(Illustration by Iker Ayestaran)
Hootsuite. Vision Critical. Real Matters. These are just some of the Canadian technology names many people expected to go public this year. A few months into 2016, though, it became apparent that none of these buzz-worthy businesses was going to list and, for that matter, neither was anyone else. Just one corporate initial public offering tested the Toronto Stock Exchange big board—women's clothing chain Aritzia Inc. (TSX: ATZ)—and it waited until October. Unless something surprising happens over the next few weeks, 2016 will go down as one of the worst-ever years for Canadian IPOs.
Can CP Rail still flourish without Bill Ackman or Hunter Harrison?
For portfolio managers, pension fund members and retail stock pickers, the dearth of new companies coming to market is troubling. Fresh listings provide them with more choice. Without new issues, the investable universe shrinks, as listed companies get taken over, taken private or delisted. The current IPO drought isn't going to last forever. But whether it recovers to the level needed to maintain the Canadian market's depth and breadth remains to be seen.
The trend is partly driven by the fact that going public is no longer the only—or even the primary—means for a company to grow. Years ago, listing on a stock exchange was the obvious way for an expanding enterprise to generate cash. Debt was expensive, and the private investment community wasn't nearly as developed as it is today. A public listing brought an air of legitimacy to a business too. Now, ultra-low interest rates have made debt financing cheap; robust venture capital and private equity networks are willing to keep pumping money into a business until it's mature; and companies themselves are increasingly deterred by the heavy administrative and regulatory burden that comes with being publicly traded.
Private companies are staying private for longer, says John Christofilos, vice-president and head trader at AGF Management. In 1999, American companies would list after an average of four years in existence. After the corrective of the dot-com bust, Christofilos says, businesses now typically wait 11 years to go public. "A lot of companies today are started by two guys in a garage somewhere," he says. "They don't have the ability or the aptitude to deal with regulations and compliance, so they remain private."
While these are some of the big reasons IPOs are down worldwide—the U.S. has seen 48% fewer IPOs through the third quarter compared with 2015—for Canada, additional factors are at play. It's no coincidence that Canadian IPOs peaked in 2010, when commodity prices were soaring. Even with our growing tech sector, the majority of domestic IPOs over the past decade have been in energy. With oil now hovering at US$45 a barrel and mining still struggling, there's little appetite for investing in new resource operations. "The demand isn't there for smaller IPOs, so they sit in the pipeline and wait for the market to turn," says Dean Braunsteiner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada's national IPO services leader.
Investor tastes have changed, too, Braunsteiner says. With so much uncertainty in the market this year, thanks to Brexit, the U.S. election and worries about China, people want to own tried-and-true operations, not risky technology and energy firms. Aritzia, a demonstrably profitable 32-year-old company with 75 stores, is the kind of IPO Canadians will get behind right now, says Braunsteiner. Its stock promptly rose about 15% from the offering price and stayed there.
Still, the lack of such new listings is a problem for fund companies like AGF, says Christofilos. Managers are looking for new places to invest, he says, and "these opportunities are very important to us." As well, when a company comes to market, a certain percentage of shares goes toward retail funds, while another portion is allocated to institutional investors. If a hot issue is in high demand, institutions will get a larger chunk of that split. A slowdown in IPOs could, therefore, affect pension and retirement accounts.
Low interest rates are screwing up the way we value companies
Many investors avoid newly listed companies, however. They wait until the stock has a track record before buying. That's the case with Paul Harris, a partner and portfolio manager with Avenue Investment Management. For that reason, he's not overly concerned with what he sees as a cyclical phenomenon. The IPO market will rebound once the broader equity market stabilizes, he says. Venture capital and private equity firms still need to cash out of their investments. If oil rises to US$60 a barrel, Harris expects to see more energy-related IPOs. He also thinks that once American tech companies start listing again, their Canadian counterparts will follow suit. One positive sign was the Nov. 15 announcement that Snap Inc., the developer of the Snapchat app, valued at US$25 billion, plans to go public in 2017.
For all their problems, public markets remain reasonably efficient. It's therefore reasonable to believe the supply of public equities will respond to the demand. Should listings become scarce, their valuations would climb, lowering the cost of capital raised on equity markets and attracting more companies back into the public sphere.
Christofilos is optimistic that the market will bounce back next year. His broker-dealer partners are telling him the IPO pipeline is filled with opportunities. American president-elect Donald Trump's pro-growth policies, if they come to fruition, could buoy the market and encourage more companies to list. "I believe there's a lot of pent-up demand, and it's about getting those companies comfortable enough to say, 'OK, let's pull the trigger,'" Christofilos says. "Maybe 2017 will be a good year."
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2 Local Fire Companies Receive "Hero Fund" Grants
Hero Fund America Fund, a field-of interest fund of The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties, continues to fulfill its mission to increase awareness, advocacy and support for fire, emergency medical services (EMS), and law enforcement agencies.
Since the fund's inception in 2016, Hero Fund America Fund has awarded five grants, totaling more than $2,200, to further the education, training and life-saving equipment needs for first responders.
The fund's 2018 grants include the following recipients:
Niagara Engine Company No. 6 - Schoharie Fire Department
A $500 grant has been awarded to the Schoharie Fire Department in Schoharie, New York, to purchase new vehicle stabilization tools for use when responding to motor vehicle accidents.
Sharon Springs Joint Fire Department
Sharon Springs Joint Fire Department in Sharon Springs, New York, received a $500 grant to provide CPR and first aid training for all members of the fire department. Funding will also be used for the purchase of "Tot Finder" window stickers for families with small children in the fire district and handwarmers for personnel during winter emergency incidents.
Grant applications are reviewed by Community Foundation staff and recipients are selected in accordance with criteria outlined by the Hero Fund America advisory board.
"We are incredibly grateful for Hero Fund America Fund's support of our volunteer training program," said Tom McKellips, chairman of Global Rescue Systems. "This funding will be a big help in promoting the water rescue training for our first responders. With only a few members, our departments cover large areas of land that include several rivers and low water crossings. Our teams will gain the knowledge and tools needed to deploy a rapid rescue with only a handful of people, all the while keeping their crew safe."
Hero Fund America Fund was founded in partnership with Hero Fund America, Inc. by Garth Roberts. Inspired by the selfless and heroic efforts of first responders during the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Roberts initiated the Provincetown First Responders Appreciation Month that honored 45 Boston EMS paramedics, EMTs, dispatchers and their families. The success of this project resulted in the formation of Hero Fund America. Roberts was honored with a special citation from Boston EMS for his efforts in response to the Boston Marathon tragedy.
"There will come a time in everyone's life when they will require the services of a first responder," said Roberts. "Anyone who has ever been involved in an emergency situation knows what it feels like when help finally arrives. There is not a more selfless public service profession than that of a first responder. Hero Fund America Fund recognizes the courageous acts of first responders and will continue to support these everyday heroes with the education, training and life-saving equipment they need, in perpetuity."


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Q: Looping through an object and changing all values I'm having trouble looping through an object and changing all the values to something else, let's say I want to change all the values to the string "redacted". I need to be able to do this in pure JavaScript.
For example I'd have an object like this...
spy = {
id: 007,
name: "James Bond",
age: 31
};

and the object would look like this after...
spy = {
id: "redacted",
name: "redacted",
age: "redacted"
};

Here is what I have to start with
var superSecret = function(spy){
  // Code Here
}

This shouldn't create a new spy object but update it.

A: try
var superSecret = function(spy){
  Object.keys(spy).forEach(function(key){ spy[key] = "redacted" });
  return spy;
}

A: I wrote a little helper function that walks through an object and applies a callback to each entry:
iterateEntries(node, fn) {
    const newNode = {};
    Object.entries(node).forEach(([key, val]) => (newNode[key] = fn(val)));
    return newNode;
}

Usage:
iterateEntries(yourObject, (entry) => {
  return entry; // do something with entry here
});

A: var superSecret = function(spy){
    for(var key in spy){
          if(spy.hasOwnProperty(key)){
               //code here
               spy[key] = "redacted";
            }
     }
   return spy;
}

A: Old question but I see that the checked solution have some "problems", this is the one that should acutally work:
Object.keys(myArray).forEach(i => {myArray[i] = "redacted"})

A: You can also go functional.
Using Object.keys is better as you will only go through the object properties and not it's prototype chain.
Object.keys(spy).reduce((acc, key) => {acc[key] = 'redacted'; return acc; }, {})

A: A nice solution is using a combination of Object.keys and reduce - which doesn't alter the original object;
var superSecret = function(spy){
  return Object.keys(spy).reduce(
    (attrs, key) => ({
      ...attrs,
      [key]: 'redacted',
    }),
    {}
  );
}

A: Here is a more simple version:
  Object.keys(spy).forEach(key => {
    spy[key] = 'redacted';
  });

A: Use a proxy:
function superSecret(spy) {
  return new Proxy(spy, { get() { return "redacted"; } });
}

> superSecret(spy).id
< "redacted"

A:
let dataArray = [
            {
                total: 112,
                tax: 51,
                key:0,
            },
            {
                total: 58,
                tax: 53,
                key:0,
            }
        ];

dataArray.map((data, i) => {
   dataArray[i].key = data.total - data.tax;
});

console.log(dataArray);


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We here at One Green Planet love to celebrate and bring attention to the hundreds of sanctuaries, rescues and shelters all over the world that work tirelessly, and often with little recognition, to rescue and rehabilitate thousands of animals every year. Although we're endlessly thankful to these organizations, it's important we take time to appreciate every individual that saves the life of an innocent animal. That includes the everyday citizens who, at times, risk their lives to save the life of an animal in distress.
In Russia, Rustam Vadim wasted no time saving the life of his family pregnant dog, Squirrel, who had gone missing days earlier. The building that Vadim's family lives in recently underwent construction and it sounded as if Squirrel had gotten trapped underneath the foundation of the building's new pavement. After reaching out the housing authority and being told that they were not in the business of destroying pavement, Rustam took matters into his own hands. With little hesitation, he started chipping away at the stones one by one as an onlooker recorded the emotional incident. Thankfully, Squirrel was saved and gave birth to a litter of healthy puppies a few days later.
On his trip home from the Born Free motorcycle show in California, Pat Doody stopped at a truck stop in Las Vegas to fill up when he came across a badly burned orange kitten. Pat knew he had to help, so he wrapped the young kitten in his vest and kept him fed, hydrated, and warm in the days that followed. Pat began to call the kitten Party Cat, and he became an instant sensation wherever Pat would stop along the way. By the time Pat made it back home to New Jersey, Party Cat was healed and even lucky enough to find his forever home with the man who rescued him.
When Jason Frost and Brandon Key went fishing on the Warrior River in Alabama, the last thing either of them expected to catch were two orange kittens. Swimming towards their boat, Jason positioned himself to grab the kittens while Brandon got the entire incident on video. The fishermen believe someone may have attempted to dispose of the kittens in the water. Thankfully, these two men were there to save them and both kittens have since been adopted into a loving home.
Vero Salgado risked her life running across a busy highway to save an injured dog near Mexico City. The video, recorded by her daughter, shows Vero weaving in and out of traffic to reach the frightened dog. After coaxing the dog towards her, Vero was able to place a leash on the animal and bring it back to safety. Anybody who has ever been on a busy highway knows how dangerous it would be to attempt to cross it on foot, we're so happy that Vero and the dog she saved were both unharmed.
Meagan Penman was traveling in Thailand when she came across a stray dog on the beach in Hua Hin. The dog was barely able to walk and struggled to drag his back legs towards Meagan. Not knowing what was wrong with the dog, she brought the dog back to her hotel and immediately began calling veterinarians in Thailand. Once Meagan discovered the dog had a broken back, she started a fundraiser to have him transported back to Canada where he could undergo more testing. Today, Leo lives with his foster mom, Jamie, in Ontario, and is getting all the love and care he needs!
David Loop was driving in Los Angeles when he passed a lifeless small body in the road. He pulled over and saw it was a dog, so he stepped out to move the dog away from oncoming traffic when he saw the dog blink. Upon realizing the dog was still alive David retrieved a litter pan from his car and scooped the pup up and brought her to a vet clinic. Thanks to his quick response, the dog, which he named Miracle, is expected to make a full recovery now spending much of her time now at home with David.
Richard Christianson rescued an injured cat from the middle of a freeway in Arizona, even after rescue groups told him it was too dangerous to attempt! According to Richard, the cat was dehydrated and injured but didn't resist or attempt to flee when he approached him, and instead went limp in his arms and began to purr. Richard brought the cat to the local Humane Society where the cat underwent two surgeries. After a month of rehabilitation, the cat, dubbed "Freeway," was able to go to his forever home with the man who rescued him.
Clayton Van Wert was walking through a garbage dump in Minnesota when he heard faint whimpers coming from the yard. Following the cries, Clayton came across a metal dumpster on fire in the yard with a puppy inside. Utilizing his gloved hands, Clayton removed the puppy from the dumpster and saw his charred fur. The pup was in serious need of help, so Clayton brought him to a veterinary clinic. Veterinarians believe someone must have disposed of the puppy, now named Phoenix, given the unlikely odds that the puppy would've been able to get inside of a metal dumpster. Thanks to Clayton, Phoenix is recovering and undergoing rehabilitation!
As you can see from these stories, anyone can be a hero for animals in need. A little bit of compassion truly goes a long way! Saving one animal might not change the world, but for that one animal their entire world is changed.
God bless all those people!
Thank God for these people everywhere!


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2016 Census Change: Another Attack on Privacy
25/03/2016 by Ugur Nedim
The 2016 Census is hardly a forum you'd expect to become a battleground for civil liberties, but this is precisely what is occurring due to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) unprecedented plan to retain personal data.
On December 18 last year, the ABS announced that this year's census would, for the first time, retain the names and addresses of everyone that fills it out, ostensibly "to enable a richer and dynamic statistical picture of Australia".
At the time, the announcement seemed to slipped through the cracks, but as the August deadline creeps closer, civil rights and privacy advocates are speaking up. In a recent op-ed for ABC's The Drum, Chris Berg, a Board Member of Digital Rights Watch Australia, warned readers about the dangers of letting Government collect too much personal data:
"As the ABS change shows, the debate over warrantless mandatory data retention was just the tip of the iceberg…. But to the extent we have an interest in protecting ourselves against government excesses, we have an interest in denying governments carte blanche to collect information. We are not just data points in a planner's spreadsheet."
Since 1971, it's been standard practice for the ABS to destroy information that could be used to identify individuals once the other information on the form is transcribed. It wasn't until 2001 that the Government introduced an opt-in system, that gave Australians the choice to allow their name-identified information to be kept. That will change this year – from now on, the ABS will keep those personal details, whether you like it or not.
Why does the ABS want this information?
The ABS says the move will improve data analysis by allowing the organisation to combine census data with other sources.
"The retention of names and addresses would support the integration of census data with other survey and administrative data to provide a richer and dynamic statistical picture of Australia," an ABS representative said.
"Keeping the names and addresses would benefit the ABS and wider community by allowing for higher quality surveys in areas such as small or highly mobile population sub groups of policy interest; providing organisational efficiencies such as through a new address register; and enabling more flexible geospatial outputs."
Examples given included combining ABS data with education records to "provide insight into employment outcomes from the various educational pathways available to Australians", and cross referencing it with health data to "help improve Australia's understanding and support of people who require mental health services".
A recent privacy assessment conducted by the ABS claimed that retaining names and addresses has "very low" risks to privacy, confidentiality and security.
It states: "Under this proposal, names and addresses would be stored separately from other household and person data collected in the Census. Names and addresses would also be stored separately from each other. Addresses and anonymised versions of names would only be used for projects approved by a senior-level committee, and would be subject to strict information security provisions. "
According to the ABS, the assessment process includes consultation with the Australian Privacy Commissioner, as well as state and territory privacy commissioners. Should it decide to keep the data, the ABS promised the information would be made anonymous before it is released.
"Addresses and anonymous versions of names will only be used for approved projects," the statistics agency said.
Why do people think this is a bad idea?
Despite the ABS's best efforts, no data stored digitally is 100% safe – and a database leak that contained the names and addresses of all Australians could put the recent Ashely Madison and Sony hacks to shame.
And privacy risks don't just come from hackers. Government departments have a poor record of protecting information from their own staff. The Department of Human Services admitted there were 63 known episodes of unauthorised access to private files by its staff between July 2012 and March 2013. The South Australian Police Force accuses up to 100 of its own members of unauthorised access to police files every single year.
And of course, what are considered legitimate and illegitimate uses of data can change over time. Rules written in 2016 could be changed in 2026. The data collected now might be used for a very different purpose down the track.
Privacy consultant Nigel Waters, who has previously advised the ABS on these issues, warned that the pool of data could be misused by governments and hackers alike, calling it "the biggest honey pot of information that was ever created in terms of its attractiveness to commercial organisations or to hackers".
"In privacy terms, it's clearly a major intrusion and one that is going to be unwelcomed to a lot of people," Mr Waters said.
"Secondly, it's not worth the risk in terms of the integrity of the census data, which is very important for the nation — because if people really can't trust the information they give is going to be kept confidential … then they're either going to sabotage it by giving the wrong information, or refuse to give the information in the first place."
As more of our lives are uploaded online, the importance of discussing limits on data collection by companies and Governments will only grow in relevance. Last year, there was outrage when it was revealed that Opal card data was being used for surveillance purposes, but as the ABS shows, this was only the tip of the iceberg.
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Rapture in Blue
Pressured to satisfy his girlfriend's desires, an angsty young man begins to struggle with both his sexuality and his sanity after meeting the insidious new boy who has moved into his childhood home in this gothic, neo-noir fever dream.
Genre : Drama, Thriller
Actors : Andrew Guiou, Ariana Kelly, Ashley Crowder, Becca Johnson-Spinos, Brian Craven, Bryce Lederer, Dylan Weand, Eddie Lederer, Linda Angel, Sarah Greenfield, Tanner Garmon
Director : Mandy Lipsey, Ryder Houston
Antapal
Jod is a gangster who has been sent to jail as a result of a military coup that brings a new order to the streets. In the young gangsters' neighbourhood, uniformed officer Neung rules like a dictator and is a frequent thorn in the side of Jod's gang. When he emerges from prison, Jod is a changed man with a determination to set things right.
Distant Voices, Still Lives
The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series (along with "Trilogy" and "The Long Day Closes") is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. Through a series of exquisite tableaux Davies creates a deeply affecting photo album of a troubled family wrestling with the complexity of love.
Country: UK, West Germany
As Batman hunts for the escaped Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime attacks the Gordon family to prove a diabolical point mirroring his own fall into madness. Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland.
Genre: Action, Animation, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Last Vermont Christmas
"Last Vermont Christmas" focuses on three sisters, Megan (Cahill), Bethany, and Mary, who reunite every Christmas in their childhood home. This year, though, their parents have put the house up for sale, and the buyer is… Nash (Bruening), Megan's former childhood sweetheart.
An alcoholic man refocuses himself on putting kids through college via 4H and FFA scholarship donations. Guiding him is a spiritual figure he calls "The Bearded Man".
A doctor desperately tries to save his wife and their 5 year old son after their vacation in the Bahamas takes an unexpected turn.
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Based on a screenplay by the prolific Kim Ki-duk. Two families live next door to each other in identical suburban white houses with green lawns. One family is from South Korea, the other is a fake family assembled from North Korean spies. The North Koreans must strictly obey every order from their regime, who holds their real families hostage. The problem is that the families affect each other and after a while, the political rift in the North Korean house becomes apparent. Naturally, there also occurs cross-border romantic entanglements between old and young alike.
How many working class Balmain boys grow up to be showgirls? Not just any showgirl but a household name, a legend of Kings Cross, a daytime TV star, and a symbol of generational change.
Two filmmakers searching for the perfect documentary subject stumble across a story that even they don't want to believe.
The Final Member
Thirty miles from the Arctic Circle, in the northern Icelandic town of Husavik, stands the Icelandic Phallological Museum – the world's only Penis museum. Over 40 years, the founder and curator has collected every specimen from every mammal except for one elusive penis needed to complete his collection: The Human Specimen. The film follows the curator's incredible, sublimely comic, often shocking quest to complete his eccentric collection, and the two intrepid men who have raised their hands to be the first human
A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A Man for All Seasons is the filmed version of the life of Thomas More. An English man comes to Sir Thomas More to ask if he can divorce his wife since King Henry VIII has made it illegal. Sir Thomas More stands up in opposition to the King even though he knows he's risking his own life. An award winning film from 1966.


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It looked and sounded like business as usual a few days ago at Drakes Bay Oyster Company on Drakes Estero on the Point Reyes Peninsula.
Seventy or more people were crowded around the oyster farm's eight picnic tables, shucking oysters and barbecuing them on portable grills, containers of butter and garlic, pesto sauce and mignonette close at hand.
Carriere and his group of Marin Rotarians were eating their way through 10 dozen oysters partly to show their support for Drakes Bay.
The National Park Service ordered Lunny to close its retail and canning operations by the end of day Thursday. Wholesale operations can continue for a few more months, but the time is clearly running out after years of unsuccessful court battles. Lunny's lease with the Park Service expired in 2012.
The day after Carriere's visit, it was clear that Drakes Bay was shutting down. Workers were stacking mesh oyster grow bags in big piles. Drakes Bay owner Kevin Lunny says the workers would normally have been filling the bags with baby oysters, then mooring them to sand bars in the bay.
"It's so hard to be at the farm now. We watch all these people working themselves out of a job," he said. Lunny is trucking his equipment to a friend's ranch in Petaluma for storage.
The shutdown has begun because Lunny is almost out of legal options. In 2012, then-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar refused to renew Lunny's lease, and earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of a lower court's decision upholding Salazar's ruling.
That frees the Park Service to carry out the mandate of Congress in 1976, when it declared Drakes Estero "potential wilderness." Drake's Estero will join the neighboring and much smaller Limantour Estero as the only American wilderness bays on the West Coast.
Lunny and his family bought the oyster farm in 2004 from the Johnsons, another old Point Reyes family. You can see the Lunny's dairy and cattle ranch on a ridge above the Estero. He's a third generation Point Reyes rancher. So he'll have a home and a job to return to when the oyster farm closes.
His 25 workers aren't so fortunate.
"Well it's very difficult," said Paco Aceves, who has worked at Drakes Bay for four years. He manages the retail shack, and lives in a set of cottages at the farm with his wife, three kids and a few other employees.
An attorney for Marin Legal Aid is negotiating on behalf of Aceves and other workers for up to $20,000 in federal aid for housing and job retraining.
Kevin Lunny says he still hopes, somehow, to keep the farm going, and as he showed me around a few days ago, he seemed in a funny state of mind, somewhere between denial, defiance and resignation.
Earlier this month, the Park Service ordered Lunny to remove his "personal property," the grow bags, the settling trays used to propagate larval oysters, the old shipping container converted into a canning facility, the non-native Pacific oysters that Lunny grows in the Estero and the five miles of creosote-covered oyster racks set decades ago into the muddy floor of the estero.
But Lunny is contesting what he's responsible for.
For instance, he said he'll clean up the plastic debris on the estero floor under the racks. That's mostly old equipment that's sunk to the bottom. But Lunny said the racks themselves don't belong to him.
Lunny argues that the racks and his retail shack, and the cottages where his workers live, are just like the barns and corrals and other buildings belonging to the historic ranches in Point Reyes National Seashore. The Park Service owns all that property, and leases it back to the ranching families.
Point Reyes National Seashore spokesman John Dell'Osso said in an email he couldn't say exactly what the Park Service expects from Lunny, or what its plans are to fulfill the mandate from Congress to make Drake's Estero a wilderness.
"It's too early for us to comment on anything related to the oyster company," Dell'Osso wrote, because of ongoing lawsuits from Lunny and his allies.
Two biologists I talked to suggested that the Park Service should take a very patient approach.
"Because we don't know what things were like before the oyster company came in originally," says Katharyn Boyer, a marine biologist at San Francisco State's Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies.
Boyer has avoided the bitter scientific debates between environmental activists and local food advocates over whether the oyster farm is good or bad for the estero. Ironically, she's used tons of oyster shells from Lunny for her own work restoring native Olympia oysters to San Francisco Bay.
And she says ending the oyster company's thousands of motorboat trips a year "will be good for harbor seals," which raise their pups on sandbars in the bay. The motorboats sometimes cut up the estero's large fields of eel grass, but Boyer says the eel grass beds heal quickly with little intervention. Removing the racks would also provide more growing area for eel grass, which acts a nursery for fish and other sea life.
Another biologist says nature may not need much help.
On a ridge in a wet fog, marine biologist Jon Mueller, a professor at College of Marin, points out a northern harrier, a hawk that hunts, he says, like an owl. We're here to get a view of Home and Schooner Bays, two of the estero's northern fingers. We can see a hundred yards of oyster racks, plus a flock of nesting egrets and some white pelicans.
I asked Mueller for his ideas about turning the estero into wilderness. "Well I don't think anyone really knows the answer to that question," he said.
But Mueller joins Boyer in recommending a thorough study, an inventory of the estero's natural resources after the oyster farm shuts down -- from eelgrass to egrets, herons and the black brant that winter here, to bat rays and fish and the harbor seals that raise their pups here.


January 11, 2019 at 12:08a.m.
The goal of every USHL player is to secure an opportunity to extend a career. Some turn pro, but for most, a college scholarship is the dream.
Sometimes, those plans don't work out. Two members of the Youngstown Phantoms — forwards Brett Murray and Ethan DeStefani — have left college teams to return to the country's top junior hockey league.
In December 2016, Murray was in his first season with the Phantoms after being drafted in the fourth round of the NHL Draft by the Buffalo Sabres. He scored seven goals and had 13 assists in 20 games.
Then at the Christmas break, the Bolton, Ont., native enrolled at Penn State University.
Joining an already established team proved problematic in regards to ice time. In 12 games with the Nittany Lions, Murray recorded one assist in the 2016-17 season.
Points also were hard to come by the following season. In 21 games, Murray scored one goal and made five assists.
The 6-foot-5, 235-pounder turned 20 last July, meaning he had one year of USHL eligibility remaining. Coming off a season in which the Phantoms qualified for the Clark Cup Finals for the first time and most of the scorers were off to college, Phantoms head coach Brad Patterson didn't hesitate to welcome Murray back.
Heading into tonight's game in Illinois against the Chicago Steel, Murray is tied for the USHL scoring lead with the Waterloo Black Hawks' Matej Blumel. Both have 39 points.
The left winger's 16 goals lead the Phantoms. Center Conner MacEachern, right winger Jack Malone and Murray comprise the team's top line.
DeStefani is the team's newest member, joining the Phantoms on Dec. 26 just in time to get on the bus for three games in Iowa. His linemates are veterans and co-captains Craig Needham (center) and Joey Abate (left wing).
Stefani, a native of Bedford, N.H., attended the Phantoms' tryout camp last spring, then decided to enroll at Merrimack College in Andover, Mass.
Two seasons ago, DeStefani played five games with Waterloo, then suffered a severe leg injury and missed the rest of the seaso.
In 2017-18, he played 53 games with the Minnesota Magicians of the NAHL, a lower tier than the USHL. He scored 31 points (14 goals, 17 assists).
The Phantoms drafted DeStefani last spring in case he decided to remain in junior hockey. DeStefani grew up going to Merrimack and University of New Hampshire hockey games.
"It was kind of a dream come true to commit to Merrimack," he said.
Reality came to life when Mark Dennehy, the coach who recruited DeStefani, was fired last March after 13 seasons.
"That was a little bit of a shock to me," DeStefani said.
In June, DeStefani was set on going to Merrimack, but attended the Phantoms' tryout camp.
The 6-2, 195-pound DeStefani was familiar with Scott Borek, Merrimack's new head coach, from his time leading New Hampshire and Providence. He chose college over the Mahoning Valley.
"I don't necessarily regret [his decision], but I am happy I am here now — great team, great organization," DeStefani said.
After going scoreless in four college games, he decided more time in junior hockey might be best. DeStefani will turn 20 on Feb. 16, so he has this season and one more year of eligibility, if needed, to attract another college offer.
Curtis Carr, the Phantoms head coach from 2010-11, is the associate head coach at Merrimack and helped DeStefani reach his decision to return to juniors.
"It really wasn't working out," DeStefani said, citing a lack of playing time and his desire "to get a year or two older, bigger, stronger — [that] would benefit me.
Murray's decision has paid off. Before summer ended, Miami University offered him a scholarship before he had scored one regular-season point.
He has two years of college eligibility remaining and will be a RedHawk in the fall.
Murray said his scoring success is a little surprising.
Murray has fond memories of his first stint in Youngstown and working with Patterson's staff.
"I like the way they play the game," Murray said. "I really like it here.
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